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There are a number of hyssop species found in mostly temperate climate and only a few of them can survive winters of zones 5 or 6. This short-lived perennial is ideal for dry climates which is perhaps why Thompson&Morgan came up with this hardy hybrid called Apricot Sprite. If planted in well-draine ...
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for zone 5+6
for zone 7
I'm not a huge fan of multi-coloured combinations — I admit that. But when I visited the Plantarium trade fair in 2023 and saw the exhibition by the Dutch company Florensis, showcasing their rising star — a modern yarrow series called Milly Rock, planted in mixed containers with three to five shade ...
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for zone 7
Skysail Yellow is a yarrow variety from the Skysail series brought by the Dutch company Dümmen Orange. It makes bright yellow flowers that turn beige to pale orange as they mature while the centres remain deep yellow. It begins to bloom in June atop short and firm stems only 30-40 cm in height, and ...
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MILLY ROCK™ RED yarrow makes warm red flowers with yellow centres composed in almost flat corymbs atop about 30-40 cm tall stems. Flowering begins in June and continues until late August. Fern-like leaves are finely cut and rich grass green, basal leaves are larger than stem leaves. Removing s ...
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Metallica Crispa is a striking cultivar of pyramidal bugleweed, a species native to alpine regions of Europe. Unlike the more vigorous A. reptans, this form grows in compact rosettes and spreads slowly. Its foliage is highly ornamental and semi-evergreen in mild climates. The leaves have a metallic ...
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BLACK SCALLOP bugle boasts extremely glossy and very handsome foliage of near-black colour. The leaves are evergreen, scalloped, and anything from dark wine red or deep maroon to dark brown. In June and early July rise only about 15 cm tall spikes composed of small, two-lipped, deep violet, fragrant ...
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for zone 7
Hart’s tongue fern is an attractive species with large, evergreen leaves. It was widespread in Europe, West Asia, and North America but in some locations including Czech Republic it is already listed among endangered species.
Hart’s tongue fern is the only hardy fern with entire foliag ...
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for zone 7
Darwin’s Snow Sprite is a dwarf astilbe from the simplicifolia group. It makes delicate, almost fern-like, elegantly incised at margins, deep green and highly glossy leaves. They are deciduous and emerge bronze tinged. Snow white flowers are formed in loose plumes atop only some 20 cm tall, sl ...
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for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Little Vision In Pink is a dwarf astilbe with dense and congested inflorescence of clear pink colour. Its strong stems grow only some 30 cm tall which is unusual for a Chinese astilbe hybrid. It forms compact tufts with lots of healthy, dark green and glossy leaves. Blooming begins in late June and ...
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Montgomery is a japonica hybrid astilbe awarded AGM (Award of Garden Merit) by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). It produces rich raspberry red flowers in erect, triangular inflorescence from late June until midsummer. They are held atop almost 50 cm tall, dark stems above dark green leaves whi ...
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for zone 7
YOUNIQUE™ is a trade name of a new astilbe series from the Netherlands. Plants from this series excel in abundant flowering and healthy foliage. YOUNIQUE™ Carmine (‘Verscarmine’) is a variety from 2009, bred by Jan Verschoor, with deep carmine red flowers that look like baroq ...
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Fireberry astilbe was bred by Dutch perennial specialist Jan Verschoor as an a. arendsii x a. japonica hybrid. Patent No. PP20658 was granted in 2010. It is a compact to almost dwarf variety producing short, congested inflorescence composed of vibrant pink flowers. They open from late June atop shor ...
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RASPBERRY is another astilbe variety bred by Dutch perennial specialist Jan Verschoor and belongs to the SHORT N’ SWEET series which comprises of compact, low growing varieties with beautifully coloured, sweetly scented flowers. Patent No. PP27701 was granted in 2017.
RASPBERRY is a hybrid a ...
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Sugarberry is a new astilbe from 2010, bred by a Dutch breeder Jan Verschoor. Astilbe is sometimes wrongly called false spiraea which is a name for sorbaria, however, this variety’s flowers do resemble spiraea x billiardii. They are soft pink, plume-like and fluffy, yet compact and dense unlik ...
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YOUNIQUE™ is a trade name of an attractive astilbe series from the Netherlands. Plants from this series excel in abundant flowering and healthy foliage. They are a cross between a.arendsii and a.japonica, bred by Jan Verschoor. YOUNIQUE™ Ruby Red brings shorter but intensely coloured plu ...
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YOUNIQUE™ is a trade name of an attractive astilbe series from the Netherlands. Plants from this series excel in abundant flowering and healthy foliage. They are a cross between a.arendsii and a.japonica, bred by Jan Verschoor. YOUNIQUE™ White makes large and tall plumes of pure white co ...
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Marsh marigold is our native perennial, naturally occurring from Central to North Europe as well as in North America and North Asia. It loves boggy and constantly moist locations in full sun. It is very variable and during a spring walk you can find several plants of slightly different appearance, y ...
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New Zealand sedge is an evergreen perennial grass, usually featuring brownish foliage. Bronze Form is an upright growing variety with thin leaves in pale reddish-brown colour with bronze or orange hues. Only side leaves arch a little. They combine well with broad-leaved perennials with contrasting f ...
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Japanese grass sedge is an evergreen species of ornamental grass native to central and southern Japan. Irish Green is a pure green gem among variegated sedges. It makes 1-1.5 cm wide, strap-like leaves that are erect and only slightly arching, leathery but not so sharp, 30-40 cm long, dark green on ...
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Amethyst in Snow is a unique variety of mountain bluet where blue is truly out of the question. This perennial makes the most amazing flowers with amethyst purple centres and snow white or very pale pink ray florets on 30-40 cm tall stem that do not bend. Flowers are produced from early June, and co ...
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Early Sunrise is a profusely flowering tickseed with an extremely long bloom period. It produces semi-double or double flowers of golden yellow colour from early June until late autumn if the weather is sunny and relatively warm. The stems are a little shorter than other grandiflora tickseeds, only ...
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Thread leaf coreopsis is a wonderful, maintenance-free perennial which shines its way through any garden with rich-coloured flowers all summer long. You can have a country garden or be a town-garden enthusiast, coreopsis will still have features suitable for your plot.
“Zagreb” is prob ...
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Corydalis calycosa is a beautiful perennial with blue flowers. Its originates in central China, more precisely in the Sichuan province. Although the province's climate mostly belongs to the subtropical monsoon belt, the central and northern parts have snow-capped mountains and even the Dagu Glacier. ...
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This is a charming variety of cheddar pink bred in Holzbecher botanical nursery in Lelekovice (Moravia) and named after the hill of the same name with a lookout tower - Babí lom. It is a small plant for rockeries and border edges with very sweetly scented, pastel pink, melliferous flowers atop short ...
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Sombrero® is an American breeding series of coneflowers developed within the Darwin Perennials program (PanAmerican Seed, Illinois, USA) by plant breeder Jianping Ren, originally from China. It was created to offer compact, well-branched coneflowers with large blooms in vivid colours, notable fo ...
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DELICIOUS NOUGAT® coneflower is a sister variety of DELICIOUS CANDY® bred by Marco van Noort from the Netherlands in 2016. It produces dense, compact clumps of short stems atop which open double flowers from mid July until late summer. They are creamy white with yellow-green centres. Their ...
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Shrubby wallflower is a long-flowering perennial, or to be precise a subshrub forming woody stems, exactly like lavender plants do. Fragrant Sunshine is a selection made by David Ralph Tristram in 1994 in West Sussex, UK, patented under PP13,432.
Fragrant Sunshine is a lovely Shrubby wallflower wit ...
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Bearskin fescue or spiky fescue is a lovely perennial with bright green, narrowly linear, inward inrolled leaves that look spiky but are very soft and nice to touch indeed. The plant naturally forms small mounds and spreads very slowly. Its name bearskin fescue may sound just right if you imagine a ...
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INTENSE BLUE® is a blue fescue of a striking colour. It was bred by Allure Tuinplanten and Amigra from the Netherlands. It was found in 2005 and introduced three years later. The plant makes well-behaved, symmetrical, extremely dense tufts of silvery blue foliage. Their colour literally calls f ...
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SpinTop is a new blanket flower series from Dutch company Dümmen Orange® introduced to market after 2015. SpinTop Orange Halo is a tricky one which some may found expandable now that we have several yellow and red varieties to date. Well, not quite. This one is truly unique. Its flowers are muc ...
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GALLO™ DARK BICOLOR is an exceptionally compact and low blanket flower with large flowers. They are daisy-like, bright golden yellow at petal tips, and rich red towards the burgundy red centre. The leaves are narrow, pale green, pubescent. Blanket flowers are a great food for bees and bumble b ...
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Siskiyou Pink is a uniquely coloured gaura with pink and white flowers. They open from fuschia red buds into white flowers with pink marbling or central stripes. The ratio of pink colour varies flower to flower. Stems are very thin and move in the slightest breeze thanks to which the flowers look li ...
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Gaura is a perennial with extra long blooming season and which requires very little or no care at all. It emerges in late spring with deep burgundy red leaves that turn green in summer. It can multiply previous year's size in no time and become almost three times as large.
We noticed that if the ...
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Following this lineage is the modern cultivar BLOOM ME AWAY, bred in the Netherlands by Garry Grueber. It originated as a selection from open pollination of other hybrid cranesbills in 2012 in the growing area of Warmond. Its flowers are notable for always facing upwards and turning towards the sun ...
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Max Frei is a variety of bloody cranesbill which originates from Europe and north Turkey. It was introduced by Hans Frei nursery in Germany in 1976 and was found as a natural mutation in Max Frei’s alpine garden in Switzerland.
It produces 3-4 cm large, rich lilac pink flowers above cute, de ...
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Striatum is a bloody cranesbill variety of UK origin. It is cultivated for its large, 3-4 cm across, pale pink flowers with conspicuous pink veins. Their colour fades as the flowers mature. They are produced in profusion from late May until early July above cute, deeply-lobed, partially glossy, deep ...
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Lady Stratheden, aka Goldball, is a hybrid Chilean avens with rich golden yellow flowers. They are semi-double, 3-4,5 cm across, and open frm as early as late May atop 40-60 cm tall stems. If regularly dead-headed, strong plants continue producing stems with more flowers until late summer, without d ...
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TUTTI FRUTTI is a French variety of avens bred by Julien Caillarec. He is a passionate grower, breeder, and plant specialist who, together with his father Daniel, runs Pépinières Caillarec, a nursery specialising in perennials. This nursery, established in 1991, offers more than 2,500 species, ...
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PRETTICOATS™ PEACH is a playful clown among avens. It produces masses of multi-coloured flowers for an extended period. They are semi-double, ruffled at margins, pale yellow and salmon pink as they emerge and pale peach pink as they mature. The main blooming season may begin as early as in lat ...
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TEMPO™ ROSE is a fantastic addition to the avens family from the TEMPO™ series bred by Harini Korlipara from Terra Nova Nurseries in Oregon, USA. From about mid May it produces masses of deep maroon stems topped with small flowers which open to rich pink and slowly fade to pale pink as t ...
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The CENSATION™ series of avens is bred by Armand Kremer from a German perennial nursery Green Globe. Yellow Fluffy is a cheerful variety with banana yellow flowers tinged salmon pink on the reverse. They are 3-4 cm wide, semi-double, and open atop 35-45 cm tall maroon stems. It begins to bloom ...
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Hellebores are variable perennials which can be crossed easily with pollen transfer and new seedlings bear new features. Double Ellen® series comprises of many named and described varieties and since new plants are developed constantly lacking a name yet, we offer them sorted by flower colour a ...
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Double Ellen® Pink is a variable beauty among double flowering Lenten roses. The flowers emerge very pale pink or almost white with richer pink marbling, highlights or dotting, and mature to more uniform, darker pastel pink background on which the purple pink freckles are a dominant feature. Fl ...
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Double Ellen® Pink Spotted is another freckled hellebore with pale pink petals and burgundy red dots on semi-double flowers. Flowers come out according to weather, mostly from February until late April atop 30-35 cm tall, upright stems. Evergreen leaves are leathery, palmate, and deep green and ...
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Double Ellen® Red is a double flowering Lenten rose with 3 rows of almost rounded, dark burgundy red petals decorated with white marbling at margins. Flowers come out according to weather, mostly from February until late April atop 30-35 cm tall, upright stems. Evergreen leaves are leathery, pa ...
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Double Ellen® White Spotted is a hellebore for those who prefer calm colour combinations. Its semi-double flowers are snow white with burgundy red dots. Flowers come out according to weather, mostly from February until late April atop 30-35 cm tall, upright stems. Evergreen leaves are leathery, ...
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Pretty Ellen® Pink hellebore makes single, soft pink flowers with gentle maroon dots near the centre. Flowers come out according to weather, mostly from February until late April atop 30-35 cm tall, upright stems. Evergreen leaves are leathery, palmate, and deep green and form a compact clump. ...
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Pretty Ellen® White hellebore makes single, white red flowers decorated with a bunch of creamy beige stamens and an a less conspicuous maroon eye right in the centre. Flowers come out according to weather, mostly from February until late April atop 30-35 cm tall, upright stems. Evergreen leaves ...
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Pretty Ellen® White Spotted hellebore makes single flowers with 5 to 7 clear white petals with a bright maroon blotch and dotting from the centre outwards leaving the margins white. Flowers come out according to weather, mostly from February until late April atop 30-35 cm tall, upright stems. E ...
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PIPPA’S PURPLE hellebore boasts 6-7 cm wide, single, enchanting flowers composed of 5 rounded, overlapping petals. They are burnt pink with a prominent deep purple pink freckles which disappear towards the margins. Their centres are decorated with a chartreuse crown and a small bunch of creamy ...
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Elegant Candy is a daylily with large, open wide, soft salmon pink flowers that have a yellow throat and narrow red corolla in the centre. The stems are medium sized, very strong.
The leaves are deep green, strong and healthy. They appear early in the spring and persist until winter unlike spring b ...
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Striking, provocative, and beautiful. That is another excellent coral bells variety bred by Jane N.Egger from the famous Oregon based Terra Nova Nurseries in the USA. It is called Cherry Cola and has medium-sized, only slightly ruffled leaves with rounded lobes. Their colour is an extraordinary shad ...
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Lime Marmalade? Wow, that must be something extraordinary, sharp and sweet at the same time. Just this coral bells variety bred by Jane N.Egger from the famous Oregon based Terra Nova Nurseries in the USA. It makes dense tufts or upright growing foliage of striking colour - the ruffled leaves combin ...
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Much like the legendary diamond, Pink Panther coral bells is an absolute stunner. This richly coloured perennial boasts leaves in vibrant pink shades, with purple undertones, metallic reflections, and deep burgundy veins. Botanically, its leaves are round, but thanks to their prominent lobed ed ...
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Southern Comfort coral bells is a true gem. It produces multicoloured mounds of rounded, shallowly lobed leaves which are the biggest among all orange-coloured varieties: 16-17 cm across. They are in shades of amber, orange, burnished copper, and cinnamon peach. They are evergreen.
Small, white flo ...
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Marvelous Marble™ Silver is a coral bells variety with shallowly lobed, orbicular leaves which emerge purple red in spring and as the temperature rises, leaf margins reveal green colour while leaf centres remain dark maroon or almost purple red. All year round they are decorated with heavy sil ...
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MULBERRY is a heuchera from the Indian Summer series, and its name refers to the mulberry fruit. Do you know it? It’s deep purple to almost black, but when you crush it, it bursts with a rich purple-red, sweet juice—just like the color of this stunning plant’s leaves. The foliage is intense purple, ...
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Black Pearl coral bells produces very dark burgundy, almost black leaves with rosy purple undersides. Leaves are large and glossy, with rounded and slightly ruffled lobes. From early summer appear 40-50 cm tall stems of dark red colour holding an upright panicle of small, white flowers with pink cal ...
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NORTHERN EXPOSURE™ Silver is a coral bells variety with leaves richly marbled with silvery-grey colour. They are bright burgundy red in spring and turn deep purple red in summer and autumn. They are orbicular (rounded in shape), shallowly lobed, and evergreen. From spring till late summer appe ...
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Tapestry® is a beautiful foamy bells bred by Janet Egger from Terra Nova Nurseries, USA, and patented as PP21150 in 2010. It makes large, semi-evergreen, deeply lobed leaves. They are dark burgundy red to almost chocolate brown in the centre, and green at margins. From May until September it pr ...
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Halcyon is a mythical bird which was supposed to announce the arrival of happiness and serenity after winter solstice. It is also a popular plantain lily variety cultivated for its unique colour and superb garden performance. It makes mid-sized, about 16x10 cm large, thick, heart-shaped, distinctly ...
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Wide Brim is a variegated plantain lily variety with broadly heart-shaped leaves. They are pale green to dark blue-green in the centre and have wide, light yellow (in spring) to creamy white (in summer) brims at margins. In late summer appear thick, 40-50 cm tall stems with numerous, pale lavender v ...
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Shepherd’s scabious is a maintenance-free perennial from South and Western Europe. Blue Beacon is a selection from Blue Light variety with a little taller stems producing more flowers of a deeper indigo blue to violet blue colour. They are almost spherical, and continue coming out until late S ...
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Spear Blue is a lovely lavender introduction by Kieft Seed from 2018. It is a compact variety with extended flowering period. It produces long, fat spikes of deep violet, fragrant flowers opening from purple blue buds. First flowers appear in June and more and more are produced in several flushes th ...
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for zone 7
Spanish grower Juan Ismael Momparler Albors, who specializes in Mediterranean plants, can be proud of one great discovery. In 2006, he found a natural mutation in a field of common narrow-leaved lavenders, which had variegated leaves and compact habit. There are only a couple of lavender varieties w ...
VI - IX
0,4 - 0,6m
0,4 - 0,6m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
LaCrosse Wit is an improved version of LaCrosse Shasta daisy making eye-catching flowers with tubular petals, open at the tips into a trumpet. They are snow white and produced around a large, yellow cone in the centre. Flowers appear possibly earliest of all series i.e. already in late June and bloo ...
VI - IX
0,2 - 0,3m
0,2 - 0,4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
WESTERN STAR LEO is a Shasta daisy variety introduced by Syngenta Flowers in 2016. It bears beautiful, snow white, uniform flowers with yellow discs from late May until early July, and again from mid August. Leaves are deep green and glossy, narrowly lance-shaped, distinctly serrated. The plant make ...
VI - VIII
0,2 - 0,3m
0,2 - 0,3m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Big Blue lily-turf is perhaps one of the most common lily-turf varieties in North America. It is comparable to Royal Purple variety in Europe. From late summer it produces 30-45 cm tall, purple flushed stems, topped with terminal spikes composed of rich lavender violet, spherical buds which burst to ...
VIII - X
0,3 - 0,5m
0,4 - 0,6m
full sun to shade
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Liriope has dark green, ribbon-like, semi-glossy foliage. The leaves are narrow and evergreen in mild winters of zone 6 and reliably evergreen in warmer areas. In early August are borne spikes of rich lavender violet flowers on strong, dark stems. They usually overgrow the leaves by not more than 10 ...
VIII - IX
0,2 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,5m
full sun to shade
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Moneymaker is a clump forming lily-turf variety with attractive foliage and flowers. Its dark green, ribbon-like, semi-glossy, narrow leaves are evergreen in mild winters of zone 6, and reliably evergreen in warmer areas. In early August are borne spikes of rich lavender violet flowers on strong, da ...
VIII - X
0,2 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,5m
full sun to shade
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Royal Purple lily-turf is like an improved version of an older car type - better in all aspects compared to its predecessor: larger leaves, larger flowers, deeper colour. The foliage is ribbon-like, dark green, very glossy, and are evergreen in mild winters of zone 6, and reliably evergreen in warme ...
VIII - X
0,2 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,5m
full sun to shade
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
BALMY™ LILAC is a beebalm from the BALMY™ series developed by Scott Trees for Ball Horticultural Company in the USA in 2012. It makes compact tufts with strong, upright stems holding rich lilac pink flowers from late June until midsummer. Deciduous leaves are widely lance-shaped, deep gr ...
VI - VII
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
LEMON DROP as an evening primrose variety is the perfect example of a mysterious origin – its narrow leaves, compact growth, and brilliantly coloured flowers have no clear botanical explanation. But who cares? It’s simply irresistible! This low-growing variety has a sprawling habit, similar in ...
VI - IX
0,1 - 0,2m
0,3 - 0,5m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
FABULOUS™ is a moss phlox series bred by Dutch breeders Florensis B.V. FABULOUS™ ROSE is a clear pink flowering variety with distinctly notched flower petals. Blooming begins in late April and continues for an incredible period until late June. Needle-like leaves are short, medium to lig ...
IV - VI
0,1 - 0,1m
0,5 - 1m
full sun
2 (down to -45°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Majesté is a French lungwort hybrid variety producing very large, up to 50 cm long, hairy, and broadly lanceolate leaves. They are almost completely silver, with only a thin, dark green margin. They are produced in profusion from late spring till autumn and the whole plant looks like a fountain of e ...
IV
0,2 - 0,3m
0,5 - 1m
semi-shade to shade
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
This lungwort was discovered by Bob Brown in his nursery in 1995, and named after his wife Diana Clare. It belongs to the large-leaved species and bears about 30 cm long, rather narrow, lanceolate, hairy leaves, whose surface is almost entirely covered with silver colour. Flowers are small, campanul ...
IV
0,2 - 0,3m
0,3 - 0,6m
semi-shade to shade
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
OPAL is an attractive lungwort variety with variegated foliage and delicate, very light pink and mauve to almost white flowers. It was discovered in 1986 by Elisabeth Susan Cupitt of Blooms of Bressingham as a chance seedling among many plants of the species. In C.E. climate flowering begins during ...
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0,2 - 0,3m
0,3 - 0,5m
semi-shade to shade
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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The Rudy series of rudbeckias was developed by the Dutch breeding company Florensis, with the goal of creating early flowering cultivars with good performance even under less-than-ideal care. These varieties offer a profusion of blooms roughly from the same period as echinaceas.
Rudy Mini Y ...
VII - X
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
The Bumble series of woodland sage is bred by Hans A. Hansen from the Walters Gardens nursery in Michigan, USA. Bumblesnow sage produces snow white flowers composed in spike-like, fat spires atop only some 30 cm tall stems. It makes dense tufts which bloom from late May until early July. Late summer ...
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0,2 - 0,3m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Schneehügel means 'A Heap of Snow' and this German wood sage variety is exactly what the name suggests. A small and compact variety of wood sage, whose stems usually do not exceed 40 cm in height and a single plant is about the same width. It truly looks like a small pile of snow slowly thawing in a ...
V - VII
0,2 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
SENSATION® is a superb wood sage series developed by Tobias Braunig from Germany. All of its varieties are truly sensational offering low, very dense and usually compact habit with profuse flowering. SENSATION® COMPACT VIOLET is a perennial herbaceous sage variety producing deep violet flo ...
V - IX
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
BLUE BOUQUETTA® is a fantastic dwarf woodland sage found as a mutation of a salvia bestseller Ostfriesland by Theo Alkemade in their nursery in Dutch town Lisse in 2013. It forms small and neat mounds of only some 20 cm tall, upright stems producing deep violet blue flowers. The plants are dens ...
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0,2 - 0,3m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
SENSATION® is a superb wood sage series developed by Tobias Braunig from Germany. All its varieties are truly sensational offering low, very dense and usually compact habit with profuse flowering. SENSATION® COMPACT BRIGHT ROSE is a perennial herbaceous sage variety producing bright rose f ...
V - IX
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
SENSATION® is a superb new perennial salvia series. All of its varieties are truly sensational offering low, very dense and compact habit with profuse flowering. Sensation® Deep Rose begins its show in mid May when spikes of rich purple red flowers buds appear on about 30 cm tall spikes. T ...
V - IX
0,2 - 0,3m
0,3 - 0,5m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Rose Marvel is another unique woodland sage variety from Christa Kievit with extremely large, right purple pink flowers, possibly the largest we’ve seen so far on any woodland sage. They open from deep burgundy red calyxes and are formed in erect, 10-15 cm tall spikes atop 25-30 cm long stems. ...
VI - VIII
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
APRIL NIGHT is a hybrid sage, a cross of salvia nemorosa and salvia pratensis. It is a clump forming perennial with only 25-30 cm tall, upright stems bearing deep indigo blue flowers from as early as mid April. The main flowering season last for about 6 weeks and then sporadically re-blooms until la ...
IV - VI
0,2 - 0,3m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
THEA is a snow-white queen among autumn saxifrage from the DANCING PIXIES® series producing single, 5-petalled, star-shaped, pure white flowers. They come out atop slightly taller stems towering above a handsome clump of attractive foliage. The leaves are deciduous, highly glossy, almost rounde ...
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0,1 - 0,2m
0,3 - 0,4m
semi-shade / partial sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Groundcovering stonecrops are alpine perennials which are available in so many species and varieties that everyone can find his favourite. They are native to almost all continents including their coldest parts, except for Australia and Antarctica.
They are cultivated for their spreading, low habit, ...
0,1 - 0,2m
0,3 - 0,8m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Red Sparkle is a cliff stonecrop of neat habit. In spring emerge small, elliptic leaves which later change to broadly oval to almost rounded. They are pale green with dusky red hues. From midsummer are formed wide, flat panicles of dark purple pink flower buds which open into small, star-shaped, cor ...
VIII - X
0,2 - 0,3m
0,3 - 0,5m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Autumn Joy is a much easier name to pronounce than its German original Herbstferude. This orpine has large, oval, light green, thick leaves. In late August it produces almost flat cymes of deep pink flowers. They continue blooming until mid autumn and even after flowering they remain attractive bri ...
VIII - IX
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Chocolate Cherry®, yummy! Though inedible, this ice plant invented by Dutch breeder Marco van Noort was named aptly describing the coloration of flowers and foliage. It makes small, only about 4cm across, dome-like inflorescence composed of tiny star-shaped flowers. They emerge dark cherry red ...
VIII - X
0,2 - 0,3m
0,3 - 0,4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
SEDUCTION® ROSÉ SOIRÉE is a stonecrop variety from the Seduction® series bred by the Dutch company Florensis. All plants from the series boast compact growth, dense habit and large inflorescences. ROSÉ SOIRÉE makes deep raspberry red, star-shaped flowers with pale pink sepals. They are borne atop on ...
VIII - X
0,2 - 0,3m
0,3 - 0,4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
SEDUCTION® ROSE CHARM stonecrop is part of the Seduction® breeding series developed by the Dutch company Florensis. This cultivar quickly gained popularity thanks to its compact growth habit, abundant flowering, and attractive appearance. It produces small, star-shaped flowers composed of soft pink ...
VIII - IX
0,2 - 0,3m
0,3 - 0,4m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Rollies Favourite (syn. Rolly's Favourite) is a long flowering, eye-catching campion variety with rich pink flowers composed in terminal panicles atop 35-40 cm tall stems from early May until July. It was bred by Hubertus Gerardus Oudshorn from the Netherlands, and patented as PP17392 in 2007. Its s ...
V - VII
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,5m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Silver Carpet is a valued selection of lamb’s ears which produces masses of velvety soft foliage on fast-growing plants that will soon form an impenetrable carpet. The leaves are narrowly obovate, pale green covered with a profusion of silvery hairs. They are evergreen in mild winters. Just re ...
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Monier’s Alpine betony is an outstanding species of this interesting perennial. Most of other betonies are grown for attractive foliage, however, Hummelo is a special variety that offers not only pretty foliage but also lovely flowers. They are formed in spikes of lilac pink flowers, borne on ...
VI - VIII
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Feather grass comes from a country where it would definitely be called maravilloso as it comes from Mexico, Argentina, and can also be found in New Mexico and Texas in USA. Ponytails is a compact and a little shorter variety with thin, soft green foliage and about 30-40 tall stems with plume-like fl ...
VI - X
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Toad lily is a rhizomatous plant with orchid-like leaves and unusual star-shaped flowers with 6 heavily spotted petals and stigmas. PINK FRECKLES® is a compact variety producing light lilac pink to pale violet flowers with deep maroon or violet freckles. It blooms profusely on short stems owing ...
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0,2 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
semi-shade to shade
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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The Homestead Purple variety of rose vervain is nothing short of a legend among verbenas. Its story began quite unassumingly: in 1992, two prominent American botanists, Allan Armitage and Michael Dirr, were traveling through the hot state of Georgia, famously nicknamed the “Peach State” for its abun ...
VI - IX
0,2 - 0,3m
0,3 - 0,9m
full sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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Veracity Rose is a low-growing to ground-covering cultivar of rose vervain with a compact, spreading habit and a height of around 15–20 cm — and in exceptional cases, with cautious watering and regular feeding, even up to double that. But the most fantastic thing isn’t its vibrant pink colouring, wh ...
VI - X
0,2 - 0,3m
0,3 - 0,6m
full sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Ulster Blue Dwarf is a compact variety of speedwell. It has fascinating spikes of deep violet to indigo blue flowers on 20-30 cm tall stems. The spikes remain beautiful for a long time without fading leaving the tips green. In humus-rich soil it is well-branched, and if regularly dead-headed it keep ...
VI - VIII
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
ANNIVERSARY BLUE is a winning selection of speedwell bred by German branch of Dutch breeding company Florensis B.V., in Quedlinburg. It boasts rich indigo blue flowers composed in slim, erect spikes from late June until early autumn. Yes, this speedwell continuously produces new flowering spikes whi ...
VI - X
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Waldsteinia geoides is one of the few representatives of its genus, yet at the same time the best known. In the wild it is found mainly in Central Europe, where it inhabits light deciduous forests, stony slopes, and humus-rich, well-drained soils. Unlike some related species, it does not form creepi ...
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0,1 - 0,2m
0,3 - 0,5m
semi-shade to shade
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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