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Pink Spike is a dark-leaved variety of bugbane with deep maroon to almost black, large leaves. They are 3-ternate-pinnate, with palmate, lobed, sharply toothed basal leaves. It is very attractive when new, bright green leaves emerge amongst intensely dark foliage. In late summer rise slender, dark s ...
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0,4 - 0,6m
semi-shade to shade
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Agapanthus Lapis Lazuli is not only a beautifully blue cultivar of this South African gem, but also one of the hardiest agapanthus varieties suited to Central European climates. From early summer, it produces 40–60 cm tall stems topped with clusters of buds arranged in terminal umbels, reminiscent o ...
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0,3 - 0,5m
full sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Unlike most of other African blue lilies which are blue this gem shows off with its pure white flowers. They are trumpet-shaped, composed in rich umbels and appear at the tips of about 60-80 cm long, sturdy stems. Strap-like leaves are about 2-3 cm wide, mid green. Blooming time begins with hot and ...
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0,3 - 0,8m
full sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Agapanthus EVER SAPPHIRE is like a blue flame rising from a tuft of fresh green leaves, bursting into full splendour in the height of summer. Its flowers display a deep, velvety blue with a hint of violet, reminiscent of the evening sky just after sunset. They are arranged in tight umbels atop slend ...
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0,4 - 0,5m
full sun
8 (down to -18°C)
for zone 5+6
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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full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
MILLY ROCK™ YELLOW TERRACOTTA yarrow makes attractive flowers combining brick orange-red and pastel yellow colours. They are 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 ...
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0,3 - 0,4m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Prinz Heinrich is a Japanese anemone bred by Lindner already in 1902. It produces large, single flowers with long and narrow petals which can be visibly separated from one another or they may overlap. Centres are decorated with a small crown or rich yellow stamens. Flowers are borne freely on usuall ...
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0,5 - 0,8m
0,3 - 0,5m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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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0,3 - 0,5m
semi-shade to shade
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Washington astilbe is as iconic as the White House in the US capital of the same name (plus the D.C., obviously). Elegant yet ostentatious, tall enough not to be overlooked but not so much to overshadow its surroundings, and pure in colour like the endeavour of anyone who swears an oath to his count ...
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semi-shade to shade
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Spotlight astilbe does deserve its name. It is a spectacular variety with soft pink flowers that stand proudly above handsome, dark green, maroon-flushed leaves. They are deciduous, glossy, distinctly serrated at margins, and are usually unpalatable to any pests – especially slugs, making this ...
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0,3 - 0,4m
full sun to shade
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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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0,3 - 0,5m
semi-shade to shade
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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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0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,5m
semi-shade to shade
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Lemon Meringue is a baptisia hybrid bred by Hans Andrew Hansen from Walters Gardens Inc., Michigan, USA. Its lemon-yellow, pea-like flowers are composed in about 45 cm long, erect racemes and attract butterflies. It is a hybrid between b. sphareocarpa with yellow flowers and b. alba with glaucous fo ...
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0,6 - 0,8m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Baptisia australis is one of the most important false indigo species used for further hybridizing. It produces rich blue or violet blue pea-like flowers which form 45-50 cm long, erect racemes, and bloom for 2-3 weeks atop 80-100 cm tall stems usually in late June in C.E. climate. It forms a dense c ...
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1 - 1,3m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Sarastro is a perennial bellflower of compact habit and with huge flowers which can measure up to 8 cm. They are rich violet-blue, opening from stiff, pending, dark violet flower buds from mid June for at least 2 months. If pruned by a half or two thirds after the main flowering it produces shorter ...
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0,3 - 0,5m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Pendulous sedge is another beauty in this large sedge family. It is an evergreen grass whose native habitat covers almost all parts of Europe from Portugal to Sweden and can also be found in hot areas such as the Azores, northwest Africa, and even the near Middle East. Nowadays, you can also find th ...
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0,4 - 1m
full sun to shade
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Golden Stardust tickseed was bred by Blair Winner from Santa Paula in California, USA, i.e. the same breeder who introduced the UPTICK™ series. It produces rather large, 5-6 cm across, daisy-like flowers combining golden yellow and mahogany colour around a small, yellow centre. They come out i ...
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0,3 - 0,5m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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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semi-shade / partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Carmine Brilliant is another amazing montbretia with fiery-coloured flowers. They are rich orange red with a striking yellow centre and stamens. They are funnel-shaped or campanulate and appear from mid July for at least a month. The stems are strong and upright, their tops slightly arching, and are ...
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0,5 - 0,6m
full sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
George Davidson montbretia was bred by an English breeder of the same name. It is one of my favourites because it has my colour: golden yellow. The flowers are large, bell-shaped, wide-open, and appear in midseason until late August. It forms a compact, not bending clump about 70 cm tall. Sword-lik ...
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0,5 - 1m
full sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
M.F. Dark Blue White Bee is Magic Fountains larkspur variety with deep indigo blue outer petals decorated with dwarf white petals that look like a bee feasting on its nectar. Basal leaves are mid green, up to 20 cm across, palmate, 3- or 5-lobed. Stems are 90-120 cm tall and from June till July prod ...
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0,3 - 0,5m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
This variety of larkspur has a long and complicated name where M.F. stands for Magic Fountains which is a range of mid-sized larkspur with good stems and large flowers, and Dark Blue/Dark Bee simply describes the flower colours. Outer petals are deep indigo blue and the centre is composed of 8 dwarf ...
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0,3 - 0,5m
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4 (down to -34°C)
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for zone 7
Magic Vita larkspur is a series selected from Magic Fountain™ series. It features plants of shorter habit and excellent health, especially when it comes to powdery mildew in summer. Flowers are semi-double and open from June until July, and if the plant is pruned back after flowering it can p ...
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0,3 - 0,5m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
DELGENIUS BREEZIN larkspur bears large, fully double flowers with narrow, undulated, and spoon-shaped petals. Their colour is a blend of light indigo blue, violet, and pale mauve. Paler flowers often have dark margins. The flowers almost lack a central bee, i.e., a composition of several dwarf sepal ...
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0,4 - 0,6m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Sweet Dreams is a medium tall foxglove variety with large, dark pink, funnel-shaped flowers with purple red dots margined white inside the throat. The flowers are densely clustered along about 1m tall stems. Blooming begins in mid June and continues until late July, or if you cut off the main stem i ...
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0,8 - 1,2m
0,3 - 0,6m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
SunSeekers RAINBOW is a third baby in this breathtaking Sunseekers Ipecss- coneflower family following the success of Sunseekers Salmon and SunSeekers White Perfection. It produces extremely large, up to 12 cm wide, semi-double flowers with several layers of ray florets shaped as a pagoda of saucers ...
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0,3 - 0,5m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
SunSeekers is a coneflower series of several flower colours all of which are stunning, rich, and non-fading. Plants have exceptional vigour and dense habit. SunSeekers Yellow coneflower produces rich yellow flowers atop strong, light green stems which widen at the top. The cone is green first, matur ...
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0,3 - 0,5m
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4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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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4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
SUNSEEKERS CORAL is hybrid coneflower makes flowers of intriguing colour mélange combining rich orange and scarlet red which results in soft and warm coral red tone. Central discs are deep mahogany red, cone-like, and provide plenty of nectar for butterflies, bumble bees as well as bees. Flowering b ...
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4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
White Perfection is a sequel of the new Sunseekers Ipecss- series following the success of Sunseekers Salmon. It produces semi-double flowers with creamy white ray florets with lime green hues, and rather flat central discs whose disc florets are rich green with yellow tips as they mature. They hide ...
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0,3 - 0,5m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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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0,3 - 0,5m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Delicious Candy® is one of the most fantastic purple pink coneflowers bred so far. Its semi-double, fragrant flowers appear atop 30-50 cm tall stems from early July until late September. The flowers are attractive for butterflies, bumble bees, and also bees can find a way to suck some nectar fr ...
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0,3 - 0,5m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Fatal Attraction® is truly a fantastic variety of coneflower bred by Petrus Oudolf from the Netherlands, and patented in 2006. It makes very strong stems which get thicker towards the flower making it look like a microphone. The flowers are large, bright magenta purple, with deep red cones. The ...
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0,3 - 0,5m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
ROBIN HOOD is a true purple conflower, not a hybrid, producing vibrant purple pink, strongly fragrant flowers with deep orange, flattened central discs. The colour does not bleed when fading out. Flowers appear from early July atop strong, green, well branched stems 50-60 cm tall. Lanceolate leaves ...
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0,4 - 0,5m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
RAINBOW MARCELLA is a coneflower from the BUTTERFLY™ series offering multicoloured flowers. Their ray florets are orange from the middle towards the tips, and vibrant magenta pink towards the ruby red cones. The flowers are 12-13 cm across and appear from early July until late September atop s ...
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full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
MINER’S MERLOT is undoubtedly an exquisite wood spurge variety, discovered by Keith and Jennifer Miner in California in 2015. It was a spontaneous mutation, a single seedling whose parents are probably the well-known dark-leaved form of euphorbia amygdaloides ‚Purpurea‘ (fully hardy) and euphorbia ( ...
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0,5 - 0,8m
full to partial sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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 ...
V - VII
0,4 - 0,6m
0,3 - 0,5m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Aureola is a distinct hakone grass variety with variegated foliage. Its leaves have narrow stripes of banana yellow, pale green, and light butter yellow colour. They are only about one centimeter wide leaves and grow from slender, partly arching, pink flushed stems, reaching 30 to 60 cm height with ...
0,3 - 0,6m
0,3 - 0,5m
semi-shade / partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Helen’s flower (sneezeweed) is an attractive perennial for summer and autumn borders. Newer cultivars are selected for extended blooming time or different colour play.
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0,3 - 0,5m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
El Dorado was a mythical tribal chief of the Muisca people, American Indians from Colombia in Latin America from the 16th century. His ritual was to cover himself with gold dust, showing the richness of the deposits of gold where he lived. His name became a synonym for his town or village and, just ...
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4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Moerheim Beauty is an eye-catching variety of sneezeweed (helenium). It produces large, daisy-like flowers with chocolate brown discs. The ray florets are longer than on other heleniums, and their predominant colour is fiery red, changing to crimson red and coppery orange during their life span. Moe ...
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0,4 - 0,5m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Italian strawflower is an evergreen Mediterranean aromatic semi-woody perennial, sometimes classified as a shrub like lavender, with which it is easily confused before flowers appear. Its common name curry plant, as well as the smell of crushed foliage suggests it has to do something with curry but ...
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0,4 - 0,6m
full sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Burning Hearts is a rough oxeye variety with bright golden flowers. The ray florets are rich golden yellow with mahogany red-brown centers and are composed around small discs in one or two rows. The dramatic appearance of the plant is enhanced by the dark maroon tinge of dark green leaves and almost ...
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Bettylen daylily immediately draws attention with its large, approximately 13 cm wide flowers in a rich purple hue, edged with striking creamy white margins that are delicately ruffled. The throat is yellow-green, creating a vivid contrast that adds depth and luminosity to the bloom. It flowers in e ...
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0,4 - 0,6m
full to partial sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
There are daylilies which deserve to belong to the Hall of Fame. Frans Hals is definitely one of them. Since its introduction in 1955 it has proved its toughness and pleased us with its beauty. Narrow-petalled flowers have rich rust red petals with a golden midrib, smaller sepals are just golden. Ho ...
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full to partial sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Holiday Delight is a large-flowered tetraploid daylily (with 4 sets of chromosomes: total 44 in each cell). The flowers are almost 16 cm across, open wide with not so curved petals, deep amber orange, with a dark red eye around a golden yellow throat. They appear atop 60-70 cm tall stems from mid Ju ...
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full to partial sun
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for zone 7
Siloam David Kirchhoff is a daylily from 1986 with large flowers of very pale salmon pink colour with some beige tones. It has a lavender violet eye with sharply painted purple red margin that separates the petal colour from the yellow-green throat. It blooms early in the season (June) on about 35-4 ...
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full to partial sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
South Seas is a daylily of exotic appearance which, thank God, originated in Ohio (USDA zone 6) so despite its tropical looks it is absolutely hardy. It is a tetraploid (with 4 sets of chromosomes: total 44 in each cell) that begins to flower in mid July, and reblooms again in August. Flowers are la ...
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Wassaw Island™ is a midseason daylily named after an uninhabited island close to Geogria, USA, renowned for its natural wildlife and raw beauty. This daylily produces large and robust flowers 12-14 cm across with wide, deep fiery orange petals, and less conspicuous red eye around a golden yell ...
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Citron daylily is a robust, deciduous perennial with narrow, arching leaves that form elegant clumps up to 80 cm tall. Its flower scapes are leafless, branched, and often rise above the foliage, bearing up to 70 buds. The flowers are sulphur yellow, up to 15 cm long, with a long floral tube and dist ...
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0,6 - 0,8m
full to partial sun
3 (down to -40°C)
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for zone 7
FUJIN® is a Japanese variety of hybrid hibiscus bred by Yukio Kurabayashi from Tokyo's Akatsuka Botanical Garden. It is a cross between h. moscheutos and h. coccineus and it was first introduced at the prestigious novelty fair Plantarium in Boskoop, the Netherlands, in 2019. European Patent No. ...
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Imperata is a relatively small genus that includes only 11 recognized and named species (as of 2022). It is a paradox that regardless of the low number of species it has so many common names, in English there are at least 13 of them. Its home is S.E. Asia, Micronesia, Australia, Africa and southern ...
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If you want to stay immortal in the world of botany publish a book, best choice is an encyclopaedia, or name a variety of yours by that name: Immortality. This bearded iris produces large, fragrant, pure white flowers atop 70-80 cm tall stems. First from mid May until early June, and then again in l ...
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3 (down to -40°C)
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This torch lily originates in South Africa (Eastern Cape, KwaZulu Natal, Lesotho) where it grows in moist or even marshy areas because it is quite thirsty. In its home frost-free environment it is an evergreen perennial with semi-woody base (just like yucca), but it can be cultivated down to zone 6 ...
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Red hot poker is an attractive perennial making 60-100 cm long stalks with coral-red funnel-shaped flowers at the top, yellow at the bottom. They come out in June and continue blooming until August. Narrow, linear leaves are deep green and evergreen in temperate climate. It needs deep, humus-rich, w ...
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full to partial sun
5b (down to -27°C)
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for zone 7
Exalting the beauty of lavender is like carrying coals to Newcastle. So let us cut down the story to a few words about its habit and cultivation.
This lavender is the main species from which other varieties come from. It is a fast growing subshrub, sometimes also classified as woody perennial, with ...
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Exalting the beauty of lavender is like carrying coals to Newcastle. So let' concentrate on something special: white varieties.
White flowering varieties of lavender are still a bit unusual yet very handsome. They are fast growing subshrubs, sometimes also classified as woody perennials, with 40-60 ...
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Essence Purple is a compact lavender variety which forms an evenly rounded bush without fallen stems. It is about 40 cm tall and still very compact and very dense. Fragrant flowers are rich lavender violet and appear from June until August. Leaves are evergreen, linear, light green and very slightly ...
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Kevin Hurd from Walters Gardens nursery in Michigan, USA, is a perennial breeder and among his targets are e.g., pinks, hardy hibiscus, and daisies. Banana Cream Shasta daisy is his work of art which he created in 2008 by crossing l. ‘Leumayel’ and l. ‘Sunny Side Up’. The res ...
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Blazing star is a popular perennial in European gardens. It makes 45-70 cm long spikes of pink button-like flowerheads which open from the top of the inflorescence downwards and last for a long time. Linear leaves are mid green leaves are arranged in basal tufts and are very attractive even when the ...
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Blazing star is a popular perennial in European gardens. Floristan White makes spikes of pure white button-like flowerheads which open from the top of the inflorescence downwards and last for a long time. Linear leaves are mid green leaves are arranged in basal tufts and are very attractive even whe ...
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4 (down to -34°C)
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Among the tall varieties Britt-Marie Crawford is possibly the darkest coloured leopard plant when it comes to foliage colour. It makes up to 30 cm wide, rounded to kidney shaped, deep mahogany purple-brown leaves that are serrated at margins and rise atop sturdy stems of the same colour. From midsum ...
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Gallery is a new series of dwarf lupines with shorter flower stems and denser habit. Gallery Red is a variety with deep pink flowers that turn rich raspberry red about a week after opening when mature. They are borne in upright racemes on sturdy stems, 40-50 cm tall, and start blooming in mid June, ...
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4 (down to -34°C)
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Hometown Hero is a great name for a great variety of yellow loosestrife. It sounds so bold and brave, doesn’t it? Well, this tough perennial is surely fearless and bold as it spreads without a prior notice in order to conquer about a square meter around itself. It is an attractive perennial pr ...
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4 (down to -34°C)
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Gold Bar® is a very attractive mutation of popular zebra grass which exhibits a shorter, more compact growth with more profuse yellow variegation. Gold Bar® eulalia has 4 times as many yellow stripes than zebra grass and its tuft is very dense even on young plants. Flowers are not common b ...
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for zone 5+6
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Gracillimus is a maiden grass (eulalia) which is very popular among both interior as well as landscape designers. It offers a lush effect of dense tufts of narrow, rich green leaves, elegantly arching. It is not very tall but can be quite substantial given the space in your garden. Tassel-like flowe ...
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for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Little Zebra® is an eulalia variety which is commonly supposed to be a dwarf version of Zebrinus, an older eulalia variety, however, these two have nothing in common. Little Zebra® originated as a natural sport of green-leaved miscanthus species. It has the same creamy white to pale yellow ...
VIII - IX
0,8 - 1,3m
0,8 - 1,3m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Ferner Osten is a German expression for Far East and a variety name of this maiden grass. It is popular for shorter growth and attractive colours. Its leaves are narrow, medium green in summer, and coppery orange and red in autumn. In late August rise about 1.5m tall stems with almost maroon flowers ...
VIII - IX
1 - 1,5m
1 - 1,5m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Banshee is a fantastic cultivar purple moor grass, deserving attention for its elegance and variability. It forms compact, fresh green clumps of narrow leaves, from which slender, upright stems emerge from June through autumn, topped with abundant, airy panicles of flowers. These begin in a deep pur ...
VI - X
0,7 - 1m
0,5 - 0,7m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Six Hills Giant is a popular catmint variety of vigorous growth. It grows up to 90 cm tall and wide and looks like a small shrub. From June open small, pale violet flowers along and atop slender stems. Mint-scented leaves (and possibly the whole plant) look very similar to perovskia, they are small, ...
VI - X
0,8 - 1m
0,5 - 1m
full to partial sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
NEPTUNE® is an exquisite variety of Cuban catmint. An amateur gardener might say that it looks like a merge between Blue Boa agastache and blue dead nettle, and he can't be blamed. Apart from the main features typical for this Cuban species such as large leaves and large flowers, NEPTUNE® ...
VI - IX
0,4 - 0,6m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Alexander Fleming is a fully double perennial peony variety introduced in 1950 and achieved by crossing Bunker Hill and Sarah Bernhardt. As it was named after a doctor who invented penicillin its variety name often has Dr. at the beginning. The flowers are medium pink, fragrant, large and heavy, and ...
V - VI
0,8 - 1m
0,5 - 1m
full sun
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Bowl of Beauty is a fantastic perennial peony. The name not only says how gorgeous this variety is but also refers to the flower shape which is Japanese anemone-type: rounded at the bottom, not opening too wide, with a rich centre. The lower petals are magenta pink and contrast beautifully with the ...
V - VI
0,8 - 1m
0,5 - 1m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Another coral coloured perennial peony comes from the same breeders as its sister seedling Coral Charm. Its name is Coral Sunset and it fully describes its colour beauty. The flowers are semi or fully double, rich salmon to coral pink with light yellow shades that appear apricot orange in afternoon ...
V - VI
0,6 - 0,8m
0,5 - 1m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Edulis Superba is a perennial peony that could well be a grandma of many modern hybrids. This beauty is more than 100 years old and is still in high demand. It produces large, strongly scented, double flowers of medium to deep pink colour. Its stems are 80-100 cm tall and annually hold a massive num ...
VI - VI
0,8 - 1m
0,5 - 1m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Enchanting Pink Elsa is a perennial peony from a Dutch series Fabulous Flowers®. It produces large, bowl-shaped, semi-double, fragrant flowers with pastel pink petals and numerous creamy white to light butter yellow dwarf sepals in the centre. Flowers appear from late May, atop 70-80 cm tall st ...
V - VI
0,7 - 0,8m
0,5 - 1m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Charlie's White is an exceptionally gorgeous herbaceous peony bred by Charles Klehm in 1951. Its flowers are medium sized, fully double and beautifully formed with pure white petals around a compact head of almost linear petaloides which are light yellow as the flower opens up and turn as white as t ...
V - VI
0,6 - 0,8m
0,5 - 1m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
This perennial peony has a name which often gets misspelled with so many h’s and r’s. It is a beautiful variety forming a robust bush, freely flowering from end June until July. The flower heads are extra large, composed of many rosy pink petals with ruffled, silvery margins. It is fragr ...
VI - VII
0,8 - 1m
0,8 - 1m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Shirley Temple (1928-2014) was an American actress and diplomat of great importance to former Czechoslovakia because in the years 1989-1992 she was a US ambassador here. Her name was chosen for a beautiful variety of perennial peony which boasts fully double, white flowers with an occasional purple ...
V - VI
0,6 - 0,8m
0,5 - 1m
full sun
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Sorbet belongs to the most popular of perennial peonies. It produces large, fully double flowers of rich pink colour with creamy beige of very light pinkish-white crinkled sepals in the middle. They come out already in late May on 60-70 cm tall stems. Deciduous leaves are mid green, divided, and eme ...
V - VI
0,6 - 0,8m
0,5 - 1m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Pecher is an alternative and, to be honest, also an easier-to-remember name of a perennial peony Noémi Demay. It was bred by a French painter and botanist Jacques Colt and introduced in 1867. It boasts large, fully double flowers which are like apple blossoms – open pink and mature to almost w ...
V - VI
0,6 - 0,7m
0,6 - 0,8m
full sun
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Bartzella is considered the very first yellow flowering itoh peony. It produces rich, warm yellow flowers whose petals have a scarlet red flame at its base which gives the flower a feeling of a deeper colour. They are fully double and fragrant. They appear later than tree peony flowers but before th ...
V - VI
0,8 - 1m
0,5 - 1m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Heavy Metal is an upright variety of switch grass with pale green leaves with steel blue hues. In late summer appear fine, tan inflorescences which never overgrow the foliage level completely, and dance in the wind with the leaf tips. Young plants are columnar and the older and thicker the clump get ...
VIII - X
1 - 1,5m
0,8 - 1m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Prairie Sky is considered the bluest among the very few switch grass varieties offering blue-green colour. Its flat, 1-2 cm wide leaves are upright, only tips are weeping. From late summer appear taller stems with large, sandy beige inflorescences showing off just above the foliage level.
Switch g ...
IX - X
1,3 - 1,8m
1 - 1,5m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Chinese fountain grass is an elegant feature to every garden. It has mid to dark green linear leaves growing in a thick cluster forming a shape of a fountain. From midsummer it produces yellow-green spike-like flowers which look like bottlebrushes. They are beige with some purple red overlay. Hameln ...
VIII - IX
0,5 - 0,6m
0,6 - 0,8m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Early® White is one of the great EARLY START™ summer phlox. From about mid June appear large panicles of numerous snow white flowers, opening continuously for almost 2 months. Once the main panicle has finished flowering, remove it to encourage formation of smaller ones along the stems. T ...
VI - VII
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
PURPLE EYE FLAME is another perennial phlox from the FLAME series developed by a phlox specialist Gosen Bartels from the Netherlands. It bears bright purple pink flowers with pale to almost white centres. They are about 3 cm across, sweetly and spicy fragrant, composed in rounded to conical terminal ...
VI - VIII
0,5 - 0,6m
0,5 - 1m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Vivid is one of the richest pink obedient plant varieties producing strictly upright, non-falling, square stems with 10-15 cm long spikes of 4 rows of funnel-shaped flowers. They are pure pink with purple pink veins which make them glow like neon. They open from midsummer until about mid September. ...
VIII - IX
0,6 - 0,8m
0,3 - 1,5m
full to partial sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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V - VII
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Braunlaub is an attarctive rodgersia podophylla variety from Germany with bronze-brown hues on large leaves. They are up to 40 cm across, glossy, fresh green as they emerge, and gain various depths of bronze to chocolate brown hues just before flowering. Flowers are creamy white, fragrant, composed ...
V - VI
0,5 - 1,3m
0,5 - 1,3m
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
Caradonna is a beautiful wood sage which looks like annual salvia farinacea, yet this beauty is a true perennial. Caradonna makes compact clumps with erect stems 40-60 cm tall, very dark purple blue, almost black, bearing numerous deep violet-blue flowers in spike-like inflorescences. Main flowering ...
V - IX
0,4 - 0,6m
0,4 - 0,5m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
The white-topped pitcher plant is considered a deciduous perennial, although in mild winters it may retain a few pitchers that escape frost damage. Its growth cycle follows a distinct seasonal rhythm: first, in spring, the flowers emerge: tall, slender stalks topped with an umbrella-like structure o ...
IV - V
0,5 - 0,7m
0,3 - 0,4m
full sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Mojave Jewels Ruby is a stonecrop variety from AB Cultivars in the Netherlands from 2018. It makes extremely dark foliage and stems which perfectly contrast with its flowers. Deciduous leaves are broadly elliptic, mildly serrated at margins, and matte. Stems are upright and strong enough not to flop ...
VIII - IX
0,3 - 0,4m
0,4 - 0,5m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Golden Dwarf is a dwarf variety of golden rod valued for its abundant flowering in late summer. It produces fireworks of striking yellow, seedless, tiny flowers composed in terminal racemes on short stems. They are 40-50 cm tall and branched so well that the plant looks like a small shrub. The leave ...
VIII
0,4 - 0,5m
0,4 - 0,5m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Marsh fern is one of the original fern species typical for Czech flora, but its quantity and occurrence has decreased so much in recent decades that it was put on the list of endangered species. Surprisingly, being a very hardy plant, its home is not only in northern countries (the northern shores o ...
0,3 - 1m
0,3 - 1m
full sun to shade
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Brainstorm was aptly chosen for this spiderort’s variety name, though, I suspect someone apparently wanted to be witty, but irony aside – it worked. After its introduction at the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show in England in 2023, its beauty must have burned a hole in the brains of the j ...
VI - X
0,4 - 0,5m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Chinese globe flower is a fantastic perennial, especially this variety: Golden Queen. From mid May until end June it produces 40-80 cm long stems with pumpkin orange or golden yellow flowers that come out from globular buds and when fully opened they show an attractive set of erect stamens that look ...
V - VI
0,4 - 0,8m
0,4 - 0,6m
full to partial sun
2 (down to -45°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Slender vervain is a South American perennial from Brasil and Argentina which is cultivated in temperate parts of the world as a self-seeding annual. It usually germinates only when the weather has turned really hot which is mid to late June in Central Europe and starts to flower within a few weeks ...
VII - IX
0,4 - 0,6m
0,3 - 0,4m
full sun
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Knallblau is a charming variety of Austrian speedwell with rich sky blue to indigo blue flowers attractive especially to bumble bees and butterflies. They are composed in spike-like, erect racemes atop 30-40 cm tall stems. They are produced from late May for 6-10 weeks - the older and more establish ...
V - VII
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
How poetic to call a flower First Love®! This speedwell was named just like that and no wonder. Its neony rich purple pink spikes shine through the garden from early morning until late evening with lasting intensity. It makes a compact clump and is able to produce flowers from late June until e ...
VI - IX
0,4 - 0,6m
0,3 - 0,5m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
J’adore Adoration culver’s root. Sounds cheeky and stolen? No way, it is pure truth. This variety of culver’s root is possibly even more fascinating than Fascination. It produces very large inflorescence of soft pink colour. The small tubular flowers are decorated with long white s ...
VII - VIII
0,8 - 1,3m
1 - 1,3m
full to partial sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Album is a white flowering culver’s root variety boasting compact and dense habit. From midsummer until late summer appear numerous, snow-white flowers formed in spike-like inflorescence well above foliage level. The plant is much denser and compact compared to the species and its stems seldom ...
VII - VIII
1 - 1,3m
0,5 - 1m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Apollo is a variety with pale blue flowers where the inflorescences are produced well above foliage level. The plant has more compact habit compared to the species and it stems seldom exceed 1m tall. Individual
Flowers are tubular and decorated with long white stamens with beige anthers owing to wh ...
VII - VIII
0,8 - 1,3m
0,5 - 1m
full to partial sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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