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The name of this magnolia hybrid has nothing to do with the British queen. Obviously, it does not come from the UK but the USA. And story tells the following. Quite a few decades ago – in 1957 – Evamaria Sperber planted a newly hybridized seed in the Brooklyn ...
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Betty’s flowers are deep purple outside and almost white inside, there are up to 19 narrow, long petals which in full bloom open like a star as much as 20 cm wide with strong citrus scent. It has attractive bright green foliage, some of which often turns coppery red in the summer ...
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This star magnolia has much bigger flowers than stellata, not so much in diameter but in thickness. This variety has 25-35 petals which make the bloom look larger. They are snow white, opening from pinkish buds and have a light fragrance. It flowers on bare branches one or two weeks later that stell ...
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This is one of the latest varieties of spring magnolias opening its flowers in May, thus avoiding late frosts that may damage flower petals or entire buds. Nigra’s petals are dark burgundy-purple on the outside and very light purple or nearly white on the inside. The goble ...
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Susan magnolia has narrow, goblet-shaped flowers of deep pink, nearly red colour outside and slightly lighter red inside. This is the reddest coloured variety among spring magnolias. It flowers reliably already when young. It does not require pruning at all. As it has flower buds at the ends ...
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Ostfriesland (East Friesland) is a flat lowland in North Germany, renowned for fertile soil and mild, humid climate which is why there are a lot of nurseries. No wonder that this wood sage received the same name, rememberin ...
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SENSATION® is a superb new wood sage series. All of its varieties are truly sensational offering low, very dense and compact habit with profuse flowering. Sensation® Compact Deep Blue
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This very hardy shrub is a commonly known sumac. Laciniata, however, means lace-leaf and that makes this variety an exclusive specimen. Fern-like leaves are long, deeply cut, bright grass green with pinkish-purple new twigs and stalks. In the autumn they turn to orange-gold. Due to its unique shape ...
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If you like sweetgum and you are afraid of its size in maturity try this one. Gum Ball is a great variety with dwarf growth and reduced size. After 10 years it can grow to some 2.5m with a total of 3m in maturity. Its crown is quite regular even without pruning.
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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 w ...
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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 ver ...
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Crotonifolia Gold is a spotted laurel variety selected from Crotonifolia. Its leaves are distinctly yellow spotted, new and top leaves are yellower than bottom and older leaves. They are extremely large for a hardy everg ...
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Gibraltar is undoubtedly the bestseller among orange varieties as this orange is deep and glowing. It has frilled margins and blooms reliably every year. Bred by Rotschild in 1947, GB.
Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous plants, loving insulate position with constantly moist soil. Duri ...
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Golden Eagle blooms from mid May till early June with vivid, deep orange flowers with a golden throat. Very striking. It has dense foliage turning bronzy red in autumn.
Deciduous azaleas are ericaceous plants, loving insulate position with constantly moist soil. During temporary sum ...
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Homebush forms rounded, almost spherical trusses of bright pink to salmon pink, semi-double flowers in late spring. The truss shape resembles flowering snowball viburnum. The tepals are distinctly pointed. Bred by Waterer in 1925, GB.
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Girard’s Fuchsia is an eye-catching Japanese azalea with vivid magenta-pink flowers. They appear quite large – 4-4,5 cm on the background of small leaves. The evergreen foliage is mid green, turning deep burgundy red in autumn and winter, changing back to green with ...
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Hot Shot Variegated is a Japanese azalea with small, elliptic, dark green leaves with white margins. They are evergreen in zone 7 and semi-evergreen in zone 6 when temperature drops below -18°C. The plant will always make new leaves in spring again even it loses foliage complete ...
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Schneeperle® is a gorgeous, pure white Japanese azalea from Hans Hachmann. Its double flowers are snow white and abundant. Individual flowers are abou 4-5 cm wide and come out from mid May until early June. It grows slowly, 10-year old plant is about 35 cm high and 55 cm wi ...
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Ima-Shojo is a Japanese azalea whose alternative name is ‚Christmas Cheer‘. Wonder why if the Japanese original says ‘virgin’ … Anyway. This variety ha ...
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Swamp azaleas are a unique species of deciduous azalea of North American origin. These azaleas offer later flowering and extremely fragrant flowers. Juniduft is my favourite variety of swamp azalea. It produces medium sized ...
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Periwinkle is a European native plant growing wild in the woods from Central Europe to Caucasus. It is a prostrate, evergreen groundcover offering a long flowering period.
Periwinkle flowers are pinwheel-shaped with 5 divided petals, 2-2.5 cm across, pastel viol ...
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Laciniata is an expression used in dendrology for foliage that is deeply and finely lobed, just like Dissectum for Japanese maples. This variety of European elder offers the same foliage quality: finely lobed leaves of mid green colour. Panicles of white flowers appear in May. Its vigo ...
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BLACK TOWER is another child from the nursery breeding programme of popular Black Beauty and Black Lace®. It was awarded a prize for ...
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Black Lace is a variety of European elder that has lace-like, deep burgundy leaves that look like those of dissectum Japanese maples. Flowers are striking pink panicles that appear in May. Its vigorous growth helps this shrub soon make a dense cover of leaves that are vivid purp ...
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GOLDEN TOWER is a slender growing variety of European elder, a sister variety of BLACK TOWER, but this time with golden foliage. Its deciduous leaves emerge bright l ...
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Fraser’s photinia is a popular shrub in countries and regions with milder winters. It is a hybrid between photinia glabra and photinia serratifolia. Red Robin is a variety with larger and glossier leaves producing a fantastic coppery and red colour when they ...
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Chinese photinia is a vigorous evergreen shrub reaching anything from 3 to 6 meters in its natural habitat. In continental climate of Central Europe it will mature at 4-4.5m. Its leathery leaves are elongated, glossy, partially undulated, and very finely serrated a ...
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Chinese photinia is a species which is less common in trade and almost nonexistent in European nurseries. Reason being that all European encyclopedias rate it much less winter hardy than David’s or Fraser’s photinia which are very popular evergreen shru ...
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Carré Rouge is a French selection of Fraser's photinia from Red Robin variety. It originated in Nantes and produces smaller leaves of intensely red colour when youn ...
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This photinia was given a nice name Cassini, but is marketed as PINK MARBLE®. That name tells the truth, though. PINK MARBLE® is an evergreen shrub producing dark green le ...
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Herbergii is another cherry laurel favourite. It is a dense shrub with elongated, deep green, and glossy leaves. It grows medium fast and unlike another hedging variety Caucasica this one forms a compact pyramidal shape with plenty of bottom branches from young age. This makes i ...
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Novita is a new sensation among cherry laurels. Eventually there is a hardy variety which has benefits of the formerly more tender ones: it grows fast and big, has large leaves of a nice colour, and is surprisingly hardy fo ...
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Otto Luyken is probably the best known and the hardiest selection among cherry laurels. It is a small, healthy shrub, which predominantly spreads to sides. It reaches no more than 1,5m in many years, therefore can be used be used for planting under trees or as a ground cover.
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Renault Ace® (Renlo) is a recent introduction among cherry laurels. Its rich green foliage looks similar to Otto Luyken variety i.e. narrow, very glossy leaves with a conspicuous tip, but about twice as large and not so dark green. It has upright habit and makes a great hedg ...
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Etna® is the queen of laurels. Its bright emerald green leaves are glossy and healthy, slightly curved at the ends and edges which gives the whole shrub added plasticity. New leaves emerge coloured in rich bronze. Etna’s foliage is much more tolerant of winter sun scald than ...
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Novita is a new sensation among cherry laurels. Eventually there is a hardy variety which has benefits of the formerly more tender ones: it grows fast and big, has large leaves of a nice colour, and is surprisingly hardy fo ...
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Etna® is the queen of laurels. Its bright emerald green leaves are glossy and healthy, slightly curved at the ends and edges which add plasticity to the overall appearance of the plant. New leaves emerge copper orange ...
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Bosnian pine is one of the posh pines with a typical, almost perfect conical shape. Compact Gem is an excellent choice for even the smallest of gardens as it grows slowly and does not exceed 3m when fully mature.
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Austrian pine “Pyramidalis” is an excellent choice if you like compact growing conifers. It has a conical growth without a need for trimming. Needles are dark green, long, growing upright. A mature tree can grow to 12m, however, it does not hurry as its parent Austrian pine. As every pin ...
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Austrian pine was first classified by Austrian botanist Johann Arnold in 1785. This very hardy pine has average growth rate, dense habit, dark green needles about 10 cm long. It can stand alone as a superb specimen or use it as a windbreak. Will thrive in any semi-moist soil, always well-drained. ...
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Brepo® is a very decorative dwarf variety of Austrian pine tree (witches broom). It comes from Switzerland, hence its original French name Pierrick Brégeon, which was shortened to Brepo® - a much easier version to remember. Brepo® has bright green, long needles ju ...
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If you like Mediterranean umbrella pines but feel sorry that it is too tender for our climate try to have a look at this selection of dwarf Japanese red pine. It is called Alice Verkade and has bright green, soft needles. It is a slow growing plant making only about 7-10 cm per ...
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Japanese red pine is valued for its soft, long needles of lighter green colour. There are plenty of varieties in the trade, some of which are quite rare such as this Fastigiata variety. As the name suggests it is a columnar ...
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Humpy is a very beautiful variety of dwarf mountain pine introduced in 1979. It grows extremely slowly into a cushion-like, mound-forming shrub that is some 50 cm tall and a little over one meter wide in 15 years. Its everg ...
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Mountain pines and dwarf pines are common conifers of our gardens. Their limited size and dense habit is often welcome in less spacious areas. Laurin is a slow growing variety of such dwarf mountain pine with short, dark green needles and mounding habit. It grows about 50 cm tal ...
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Mops is an elegant and very slow growing variety of dwarf mountain pine. It was bred in 1951 and has been in demand ever since. It has short, deep green needles in whorls of two. Natural habit is mound-forming, cushion-like ...
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Mughus is a subspecies of dwarf mountain pine with even more compact and slower growth. It has very dense habit and dark green, short needles. It looks great in a large rockery as well as in a Japanese-style garden where it creates a perfect cushion image.
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Tiny Curls is a picturesque selection of white pine with twisted needles and straight trunk and branches. The needles are mid green with a silver stripe. It is very similar to another variety with twisted needles called Tortulosa but Tiny Curls show much more symmetrical growth, ...
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Highbush blueberry is native to North America. It is a deciduous shrub 1-2m tall and wide producing edible, sweet berries in summer. Individual varieties differ in habit, fruit size and also slightly the taste. New, modern varieties are bred to eliminate cracking a ...
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Irish ivy has large, upto 15cm long and wide 3- and 5-lobed leaves of deep green colour. It is suitable as a climbing plant for walls and fences as well as a superb groundcover. It prefers alkaline, moist, semi-fertile soil that is well drained. It is hardy to min. -29°C (USDA zone 5), howeve ...
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“Arborescens” is a shrubby ivy that represents an adult stage of common ivy hedera helix. It means that it stopped climbing and started flowering. The leaves are glossy, bright green when young and turning to dark green as they mature. They are diamond-shaped ...
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Redhaven is one of the most successful commercial varieties of peach in the world. It comes from the USA, and was registered in 1973.
It flowers profusely, is self-fertile and very productive. The fruit is mid-sized, with yellow and red hairy skin and yellow flesh and ripens ...
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Emerald Gaiety is a variety with small, evergreen leaves that are mid green with rich creamy white margins that look slightly yellow as new leaves emerge in the spring. Variegation tends to reach into the centre of the leaf. In autumn and winter majority of leaves turn pink or purple r ...
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Emerald'n'Gold spindle has bright green leaves in the centre and vivid yellow edges that often override the green colour giving a golden effect to the whole shrub. In autumn and winter majority of leaves turn pink or purple ...
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An amazing variety of common beech is this narrow-leaved variety called Mercedes. Its leaves are deciduous, deep green, glossy, about 10cm long and max. 1cm wide, and turn yellow in autumn. They look identical to another beech variety Aspleniifolia but Mercedes forms a dense, lo ...
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Culinary herbs have been an important item of almost every garden. Depending on who likes what you can find marjoram, rosemary, thyme or at least parsley in most European gardens. These plants usually come from warmer zones and therefore like plenty of sun and well-drained soil.
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Blue Atlas cedar has distinct silvery-blue persistent larch-like needles born in whorls of 30-45. This gives a much dense appearance compared with other green cedars. Healthy young tree is well branched from the ground and retains its bottom branches. Young plants have conical habit which wit ...
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Deodar – Himalayan cedar is the most graceful of all cedars. It has strictly pyramidal habit when young, spreading branching and weeping ends. The needles are short, mid green, borne in whorls of 20-30. Female cones appear in summer. Older plants form unique shapes.
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Nellie R. Stevens is one of the most widely used hardy hollies worldwide, and at the same time one of the most beautiful. It is a cross between English holly ilex aquifolium and Chinese holly ilex cornuta. It grows relatively fast and can be trained into a gorgeous ...
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Golden King holly is a beautiful and easy to grow shrub with almost spineless leaves. They are oval to rounded, deep green in the centre and richly varigated yellow at the margins. The colder the weather, the deeper yellow margins.
Golden King name, however, is a sort of a screw-up: this p ...
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Chestnut Leaf is probably the most common variety when you happen to come across a Koehne holly in Europe early 21st century. I am giving this date deliberately in case you are reading this article in 2050 or later, laughing how come that we used to be so deprived having just one Koehne holly then. ...
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If you are looking for a hardy holly that will look like the classic hollies found in milder parts of Europe I recon that Siberia will be the right choice for you. It is a chance seedling from the Netherlands that proved hardier than common holly varieties such as “JC van ...
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White Cream is a fantastic new variety of holly. It was bred in Germany by Ingo Stührenberg. White Cream is a natural mutation of another English holly called Myrtifolia, hence its spiny margins. The leaves are bright creamy white in the centres, changing through light green t ...
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Many people mistake Japanese holly for buxus thanks to its small, evergreen leaves. Twiggy is slightly different. Its leaves are lighter green, very soft green as they emerge and mid green in summer along deep burgundy red ...
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Pink Dawn is a name that fits this beauty perfectly. The orchid-like flowers are soft pink as a new dawn promising a lovely day. They have yellow throats with purple-pink veins and frilled margins. They are lightly scented with a sweet perfume that attracts butterflies. They keep comin ...
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Smooth cypress comes from SW of the USA and is probably the only true cypress that can stand winters down to zone 6. Fastigiata varieties are of columnar habit and are a sought after plant for both exotic types of gardens as well as typical Central-European landscapes where it will cre ...
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The Hinoki cypress is both a must-see and a must-have thereafter. Its dark green foliage is tightly congested, forming a tiny mound. It forms twisting fan-shaped branchlets in dense tiered layers.
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Castlewellan Gold is one of the most popular Leyland cypress whose origin is dated in 1962. It produces flattened sprays of deep green, scale-like leaves with golden-yellow new tips which change to lime green in summer. The branches are not pendent, not erect. This shape makes i ...
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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™ LILAC is a variety from 2008, bred by Jan Verscho ...
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Pea tree is a low-maintenance plant which is also often grown in very inhospitable locations because it can take almost anything: hard frost, dry soil, full sun, wind and absolute neglect.
Walker is a variety commonly grafted on short or medium-sized stems with weeping branc ...
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Sunburst is a mid-sized tree grafted at the bottom so the whole plant is thornless. It is usually offered as a feathered tree with branches from the ground level. It can also be trained into a tree form with a thin crown in 2m height. The trunk still keeps producing buds with leaves wh ...
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Rainbow has 4 creamy white bracts on bare branches in the spring and truly rainbow-like leaves.
They are bright green with rich yellow varigation, gaining pink and red shades towards the autumn.
This shrub does not like stress of any kind. Find it a nice spot now so you do not ha ...
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Venus® is a trade name for this lovely plant. It is truly much nicer than the original variety name “KN30-8”. It is as mathematical as the breeding equation: (cornus kousa „Chinensis“ x cornus nuttalli „Goldspot“ ) x cornus kousa „Rosea“. ...
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Chaste tree is a unique plant from the Mediterranean. Thanks to its healing power it is often used in medicine and homeopathy. We will however concentrate on its looks which are definitely worth an article.
Its is an airy, low or mid-sized shrub with leaves that slightly resemble marijuana ...
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We are always utterly happy when we can introduce a plant which in its original form was too tall or wide for a usual-size garden. But thanks to special breeding we can then enjoy dwarf varieties with slower growth which still keep their main features. This pin oak is a perfect example. The thick co ...
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Holm oak is a natural species, not a hybrid in spite of two specific names in its Latin title. Oleifolia is one of its few selections made in order to describe distinctly different seedlings. Its evergreen, leathery leaves ...
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Red oak is also called American oak thanks to its origin in north-eastern USA and Canada, owing to which it is very cold hardy. And just like many other very hardy trees also this one gets considerably tall when adult. Red oak can grow up to 20 m, and even a bit more in large parks where it h ...
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Bur oak is renowned mainly for its furrowed bark of the trunk and ridged twigs with winged look and corky feeling when touched. Both bark and twigs are pale brown to grey. Deciduous leaves are rather large, up to 25 cm long, light to mid green, firm to almost leath ...
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Once upon a time there was a boy named Tom who was so tiny that he got a name Tom Thumb. When he grew older he found himself a girl who was tiny, too, and everyone called her Thumbelina. However, when the two decided to get married the officer at the registry did not like such informality and as she ...
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Poetry comes alive when this gaura begins to bloom. Like a flock of tiny white butterflies chasing one another among thin stems when the sun is high and hot. The breeder must have seen the resemblance, too, which is why it was named Whirl ...
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GEYSER, or often also called GEYSER WHITE is a beautiful and compact, white flowering gaura from GEYSER series. It produces wide-open, pure ...
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Monumentalis is a unique version of hornbeam with strictly conical shape and very slow growth rate. Leaves are bright green and cover the whole of the plant. Even after they fall the tree remains very attractive with its regularly growing branches making a bonsai appearance. No pruning ...
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One of the original trees found in natural woodlands of Europe is hornbeam. Varieties of this deciduous tree are becoming more and more popular in gardens, too.
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This evergreen silverthorn is a species of a hybrid from e.macrophylla and e.pungens. It has evergreen broad leaves, which are leathery but thin, dark green with millions of grey dots making it look like stardusted. Thanks to the foliage it is sometimes called Russian olive which is not corre ...
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Evergreen silverthorns are attractive shrubs of mild climates of Europe. They are valued for vigorous growth and coloured leaves.
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Limelight is my personal favourite among evergreen silverthorns. It has ovate, up to 10 cm long, leathery but thin leaves that are bright yellow in the middle and deep green at margins. The area between the centres and margins is light, soft green so the overall effect is 3-colo ...
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Viveleg silverthorn is a bushy, upright growing, evergreen shrub with irregularly variegated leaves. They are leathery, oval to ovate, partially undulated, and glossy. The centres are dark green, the margins are rich yellow ...
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MARYLINE® is a trade name for a striking selection of evergreen silverthorn, found by Albert Breneliére in France. It is a very bushy, upright growing, evergreen shrub with irregularly variegated leaves. They are leath ...
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Firethorns are thorny evergreen shrubs, planted mostly for their abundant fruits, which rippen in the autumn, have amazing colours, pending variety. The hybrids are objectively selected to prevent pests and diseases. Navaho has bright orange fruits and a maintenance-free compact growth. Although not ...
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Scarlet firethorn Orange Glow has profusion of bright red fruits on the background of small, bright to dark green, glossy, evergreen leaves. It likes clay, alkaline soil, and is drought tolerant. ...
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Scarlet firethorn Soleil d´Or has profusion of vivid yellow fruits which beautifully contrast with deep green foliage. To maintain a compact shape we recommend to trim it a few times a year, but only after flowering. It likes clay, alkaline soil, and is drought tolerant. ...
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Hot Chocolate® is a long-awaited novelty in the field of rough-leaved hydrangea. It bears very attractive leaves that are deciduous, felt-like, narrowly ovate, dark green with a notable chocolate-brown overlay when mat ...
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Rough-leaved hydrangea is a less common type from the group. It is an upright shrub, originated in eastern Asia. Large, up to 25 cm long, suede-like, dark green leaves are covered with tiny hairs. Inflorescence are formed in large, flattened corymbs of tiny, violet-pink to purple-mauve fertil ...
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Panicle hydrangea BOBO® is unique for its small and compact growth and incredible amount of flowers. This variety produces numerous panicles, 25-30 cm tall and about 15 cm wide, composed of sterile flowers that emerge ...
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Limelight® is a panicle type hydrangea, not a mop-head one with big leaves and large flowers heads. Well, how to explain then that this new variety has even bigger flowers? Never mind, let’s just call them XXL size. The panicles are upto 30 cm long, fat blossoms of gr ...
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Vanille Fraise® is a breathtaking novelty among panicle hydrangeas. It bears extra large flowers that emerge clear white in midsummer, turning light pink first and deep raspberry pink in late summer. The panicles are up to 30 cm long and 20 cm wide and remain on the plant f ...
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Sundae Fraise® is another new hhydrangea clone from Jean Renault from France. It was derived from the already successful variety Vanille Fraise®, but th ...
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This attractive hydrangea comes from Belgium and was bred by Johan van Huylenbroeck. It was patented only in 2004 and got a peculiar name: Pinky Winky. Allegedly, the breeder was inspired by the children’s programme Teletubbies.
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DIAMANT ROUGE is a new panicle hydrangea from 2012. Bred by Jean Renault from France this hydrangea belongs to those with the richest red late summer and autumn flowers. DIAMANT ROUGE
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HOVARIA HAYES STARBURST is a unique sevenbark (smooth hydrangea), found by Hayes Jackson in Alabama, USA, as a natural mutation of an old and popular Annabelle sevenbark. Hovaria brand is now bringing this specialty to Euro ...
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STRONG ANNABELLE® is a new name for a beautiful sevenbark variety from 2009, PP20571. It was patented as 'Abetwo' and marketed as INCREDIBALL® from the beginning. However, after a few years of continuous misspelli ...
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Invincibelle Spirit® is a fantastic novelty from 2010. This sevenbark hydrangea is historically the first one with pink flowers and extreme hardiness. The flowers are a little smaller than the ones of Annabelle bu ...
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Leuchtfeuer hydrangea is a mop-head hydrangea with large, globular, rosy red flowers. It flowers on old wood so when trimming it in the spring make sure to keep the old framework which will produce new shoots with many flowers. The leaves are deciduous, deep green and very thick. Bela ...
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Blue Heaven® comes from the Netherlands and has the typical mop-head flowers that are heavenly blue if grown in acidic soil with pH 5.2-5.5. If you are unsure about your soil acidity buy a simple testing kit and if needed add some aluminium sulphate to reduce the pH which will inc ...
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PURPLE is an attractive novelty among Forever@Ever® hydrangeas from 2017. It produces large, mop-head inflorescences with indigo blue to purple violet flowers. They open from g ...
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PINK is a FOREVER & EVER® hydrangea with large, clear pink flowers. They open from greenish-yellow buds in early summer and continue blooming in several flushes by early autumn. To achieve pink or red shades your soil ...
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RED is a Forever@Ever® hydrangea with the deepest red possible. To achieve this colour your soil should be alkaline with pH of 6.0-6.2. If you are unsure about your soil pH buy a simple testing kit and if needed add some dolomitic lime to reduce soil acidity.
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Forever&Ever® WHITE is a new mop-head hydrangea from early 2010’s with pure white flowers that open from pale lime green buds. If you ask what kind of soil pH white colour might need, rest assured that it is not ...
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Conference is a famous pear tree from the 19th century. It was first introduced at the National British Pear Conference in 1885, hence its name. It has medium-sized fruit that is pyriform if cross-pollinated, or banana-shaped if self-pollinated.
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Swamp mallow and its hybrids have been sought after plants for the past few years now. They are perennials with sturdy stems that have large, tropically looking flowers. Oak Red is a new variety with deep red, extra large flower. They are up to 20 cm across and appear from midsu ...
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Haru-no-sono is a hybrid Satsuki azalea, a sport of
, a beautiful, large-flowered chameleon. The flowers are a combination of white and a various portions of pink and purple. Even the dots in the throat vary from yellow g ...
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Perla del Verbano is a sensational new variety of evergreen hybrid azalea that originated in Northern Italy. It bears profusion of bright pink, double = hose in hose flowers from end June until late July. They appear continuously so you can enjoy them for as long as a month unde ...
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Shoka (sometimes also misspelled as Sogha) is a hybrid Satsuki azaleawith large flowers. They are predominantly white with bright purple pink blotch, or they can come out lilac-pink with the same blotch, or they can be eith ...
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If you are fond of summer-flowering hybrid azaleas then this variety can easily become a jewel in your garden. Its name is Summer Sun and it is another Satsuki azalea. Soft red flowers look very attractive on the background of deep green foliage. They open in late June or early ...
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Cannes® is another Itoh peony variety from the RICH AND SPARKLING® series, offering semi-double flowers of fantastic salmon colour. They are about 15-20 cm across, with addi ...
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Saint-Tropez® is an Itoh peony variety from the RICH AND SPARKLING® series, offering fully double, rich yellow flowers which are about 15-20 cm across, decorated with red ...
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“Hamabo” will no doubt attract your attention thanks to its rare, pink-red veins on pale pink or almost white flower petals, each of which has its own deep red blotch in the centre. The shrub is always erect and slightly rounded with age.
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Lady Stanley is a gorgeous variety with semi-double to double pinkish white flowers with purple veins which come out every year in July and don’t stop blooming until all buds have gone - sometimes by end September. Towards the end of the flowering season the flowers tend to revea ...
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Purpureus Variegatus is an unusual variety of Rose-of-Sharon. It is commonly demanded for its variegated leaves rather than flower. The leaves are pea-green in the centre and creamy white at margins. They are a little larger than on other hibiscus varieties. The plant produces n ...
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Russian Violet is a popular large-flowered variety of Rose-of-Sharon. Its flowers are purple pink with violet tones and a large burgundy red eye and rays in the centre. Blooming begins in early July and continues until sunn ...
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James Grieve Red is a sport of James Grieve apple, found in 1922 with redder fruit. It produces very tasty, sweet and aromatic apples from end August until early October. The fruit is best eaten fresh off the tree. Under usual condition it can be stored for maximum of 2 months, ...
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Reine des Reinettes (King of the Pippins, Goldparmäne) is a mid-season apple with golden-orange skin, with profusion of red stripes. It is medium-sized, rounded, and can be picked from September until October, and stores we ...
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Torulosa Chinese juniper is a unique variety that grabs attention in any garden. Young plants grow strictly upright forming a slender column, and as they age new branches appear at the bottom, swerving a bit from the centra ...
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Blue and Gold is another bi-coloured variety of juniper from the Pfitzer group. Juvenile branches look like cypress branches with fans of small, scale-like needles lying flat on the branch ...
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Purple Splendor is an old favourite with medium-sized, bright purple flowers with burgundy blotching and wavy margins of the petals. It belongs to the Gable hybrid group which means that its flowers appear later than on other Japanese azaleas – from end May until early June. It g ...
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Aladdin Scout is a great Kurume azalea with profusion of soft red, large flowers. It blooms from end May until early June. Evergreen leaves are medium sized, deep green, and narrowly ovate. It grows medium fast in all direction forming a rounded bush.
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Milky Way is an old time favourite. It has snow white to creamy white flowers. Technically, they are not flowers but 4 flower bracts composed around small flower heads. They are 6-10 cm wide and conspicuous as they come out in June when the shrub is in leaf, and the foliage makes a den ...
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“Dissectum Garnet” is one of the top selling Japanese maples ever. It has been popular around the world for many decades. Its filigree leaves are deeply cut = dissected, hence its name. They look like giant snowflakes cut in pieces and densely cover even young plants. The colour s ...
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If you google red-leaved Japanese maples I am sure that, amongst the oldest varieties such as Bloodgood and Atropurpureum, you will find this nice piece: Shaina. Unlike the previously mentioned cultivars Shaina is everyone’s love as it offers advantages that come in handy for gar ...
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Japanese maple Skeeter's Broom is a witch's broom found on an older and popular variety Bloodgood. It differs from the parent plant in more ways - it is smaller, more compact, and has foliage of a richer red.
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Sometimes plants have two names and we tend to choose the easier one to pronounce. That is not the case of this Japanese maple though. Its preferred name is Linearilobum as opposed to another accepted name Scolopendrifolium. Now pick one. On top of that, this variety has the epithet Atropurpu ...
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Algerian fir is a beautiful conifer from North Africa (Algiers, Morocco) and is widely cultivated in South Europe (the Mediterranean). It is very tolerant to drought, heat, and poor soil but very sensitive to pollution and long-lasting frost under -23°C.
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Argentea, formerly 'Candicans', is a superb variety of white fir with almost silver to silvery glaucous foliage and smaller size when adult. Its needles are soft, borne erect on almost horizontal to slightly ascending branches. The tree shap ...
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Lutescens is a whitebeam variety from 1885. It is highly valued for its striking silver foliage in spring. The leaves are deciduous, 10-12 cm long, broadly ovate, deeply veined, and serrated at margins. Their silver colour ...
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Winter Gold Japanese pagoda tree is a novelty brought by the new millennium. It produces vibrant shades of lemon yellow new leaves, and is decorated with rich golden yellow colour or twigs and branches in winter.
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Mariken is a new variety from 1999. It is a dwarf form with short branches, densely covered with foliage. It is usually available as a small shrub suitable for rockeries, or a half-standard for gardens with less space, or a standard tree. Thanks to its dense growth and attractive folia ...
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Yucca is a fantastic plant which does resemble exotic parts of the world but is extremely hardy. It is an evergreen shrub with basal rosettes of erect, inversely lance-shaped, pale green leaves which are rigid but not sharp when touched. In second half of June it produces numerous creamy-whit ...
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Max Frei is a variety of bloody cranesbill which originates from Europe and north Turkey. It produces 3-4 cm large, rich lilac pink flowers above cute, deeply-lobed, partially glossy, deep green foliage that turns various s ...
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Although this incense cedar is one of the most sought after conifers of the south, it seems to perform much better in Czech climate thanks to cold and wet winters. It needs a lot of sun in summer though to keep its varigated leaves golden. Though, if the sun is not as hot as in the Mediterran ...
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Dawn viburnum is a garden hybrid between v.farreri and v.grandiflorum. It is one of winter flowering plants because its flowers come out from end December (in mild winters) until March. If it snows while it blooms it does not matter, snow will do no damage to the flowers. ...
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Burkwood viburnum is a garden hybrid between v.carlesii and v.utile made in England in 1924. It belongs to the most fragrant viburnums whose flowers people can smell from a distance of 7 or even 8 meters. Small, intensely sweetly scented, tubular flow ...
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Leopard’s bane is a slow growing perennial with cheerfully yellow daisy-like flowers. They came out in late spring on 10-20 cm long stems, one by one, and form a heavily blooming mound that keeps flowering for several weeks. Deciduous leaves are light to mid ...
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Japanese tassel fern belongs to the evergreen group. Its leaves are hardy to about -20°C if sheltered from sun and wind. In any case the plant is fully hardy to about -30°C. Upright growing leaves are long fronds made of dark green, glossy, leathery leaflets, often with hairy indumentum on the rever ...
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Do you like a tall tree but are afraid it would be too big for your small garden? Well, if you have enough will to prune it every one or two years you can always control its size provided it is not an ash type tree growing about 1 m every year. Thus you can enhance the look of your garden with somet ...
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Nana variety is a lot different to the species. It can be found under its second Latin name catalpa bungei. It is a small tree that can be considered dwarf as opposed to its parent. It was bred to achieve an attractive tree with exceptional foliage but of reduced size to fit even a sma ...
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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 no ...
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SpinTop is a new blanket flower series from Dutch company Dümmen Orange® introduced to market after 2015. SpinTop Red is a variety with rich red, daisy-like, medium large flowe ...
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SpinTop is a new blanket flower series from Dutch company Dümmen Orange® introduced to market after 2015. SpinTop Yellow Touch left me breathless when I first saw its ingenious ...
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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, ...
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Wheeltree is an extraordinary evergreen piece from the East (Japan, Korea, Taiwan). Its uniqueness is emphasized by the fact that it is the one and only species of its genus. Moreover, it is a very old species, imprint of its leaf was found in a 49 million years ol ...
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BUZZ™ HOT RASPBERRY is a gorgeous addition to the BUZZ™ series of compact butterfly bush. It is an erect shrub with rich magenta purple flowers. The inflorescence is a c ...
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Border Beauty is a another butterfly bush proved by time. It was bred already in 1962, by a Dutch breeder Henry Schiphorst. It produces about 20 cm long, dense panicles of purple violet flowers with orange throat. Individua ...
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Sometimes labeled Dwarf Snow Lady this shasta daisy is a compact and robust perennial which remains small = dwarf. Its flowers are large, about 6 cm wide, pure white with fat yellow centres. The plant is covered with blooms from mid June until mid summer. Deadheading may prolong ...
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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 s ...
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LIL' BANG™ Daybreak is a beautiful tickseed with eye-catching, daisy-like, golden yellow flowers with deep reddish brown eyes. In fact there is more brown than yellow so it would be no lie to say that the flowers are ...
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Beauty berry. Sounds like a beauty salon. The truth is the name is right because this plant, originally from China, is grown for its beautifully coloured berries.
It is a mid-sized shrub with deep green, elliptic to obovate, deciduous leaves that are bronze when young. It flowers in summer ...
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Fine Line® buckthorn is a gorgeous shrub which in its few years on the market has managed to gain attention of many gardeners as well as landscape architects. It is a result of cross-pollination carried out by Ronald Williams in 1989, but only in 1999 he selected plants showing sta ...
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One of the most beautiful conifers of our climate is Japanese cedar. There are many species and varieties. Globosa Nana was first discovered in 1923 in Japan, where it is called Mitama-sugi.
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Scarlet Tempest is a breathtaking avens variety from Scotland. It produces rich clumps of handsome foliage and sturdy stems with numerous, rich scarlet orange-red flowers already from April until early mid to late July, and ...
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Blue Ice is a variety of bog rosemary with bright silvery blue leaves. They are linear-lance-shaped, 2-3 cm long. Urn-shaped flowers appear from mid spring until early summer and are light pink. It is a slow growing, mound-forming or ground-covering.
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Robin loosestrife is a sister (or brother?) variety of Robert loosestrife. It has almost identical colour of its the 5-petalled, star-shaped. They are bougainvill ...
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Scarletta® is probably the top variety of leucothoe with lance-shaped, glossy leaves that emerge bronze or red, change to mid green in summer, and turn red in autumn and deep burgundy red in winter. It dislikes direct sunlight. However, if grown in full sun, it has to be we ...
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Curly Red® variety comes from Dutch town Boskoop where it was found as a naturally occurring mutation among plants of another variety named SCARLETTA®. It was fits introduced in 2003 and received the award of “most st ...
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Makijaz leucothoe is a small, mound-forming evergreen shrub with narrowly elliptic, mid green leaves that are marbled white. The ratio between white and green is quite irregular making every leaf unique. In spring new folia ...
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BURNING LOVE® leucothoe is a keiskei species i.e. it makes narrowly lanceolate leaves with a conspicuous tip. They are evergreen, leathery, very glossy, and change colours from crimso ...
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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 J ...
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The very first time we saw Felice lavender it was obvious that it would be a bestseller. A compact plant with plenty of flowers and the most important feature above all - so fragrant! It releases its scent without touching ...
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Hidcote is a very popular variety of lavender with the brightest violet-blue flowers. It forms a compact and dense clump, ideal for beds where tall and leggy perennial is not required. Evergreen leaves are narrow, silvery blue-green. You can remove the stalks with spent flowers ...
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Munstead is a name for several plant varieties, all of which are somehow linked with Munstead Heath in southern Surrey, England, where Gertrude Jekyll's house called Munstead Wood was located. The house and garden were designed by Sir Edwin E. Lutyens and bu ...
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Himalayan honeysuckle is a native Asian plant that comes from mountain woodlands of west China and Himalayas. In European gardens it is grown for its ornamental inflorescence composed of claret-red bracts hanging above small, campanulate, almost white blooms.
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Leatherleaf is a small shrub native to most temperate parts of Northern hemisphere. It is a bog plant that can be found growing next to andromedas and other acid-soil-loving plants. If your soil is water-retaining clay, add peat and you can grow this care-free beau ...
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Evergreen - bull bay magnolias are the queens of flowering trees. We choose the most beautiful and at the same time the hardiest varieties. Ever since Little Gem bull ...
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Purpan® is possibly the fastest growing bull bay magnolia in Europe. It makes large, leathery, deep green and glossy leaves with thin rusty brown indumentum on the undersides. Once established it can grow half a meter ...
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Goliath is bushier than the species. As you can tell by its name, something is going to be extraordinary here. True: the flowers are extremely large, often up to 30 cm wide, strongly fragrant and appear on the plant usually from June, often from late May if ...
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Leatherleaf mahonia is an attractive, architectural shrub. It has distinctive and coarse, bold foliage. The evergreen leaves are pinnate, mid green to almost blue-green and only partly glossy. They have sharp spines along the margins. This mahonia is hardier for zone 6 as opposed to hybrid ho ...
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Heart of Fire is a mountain laurel variety which brings the most desired contrast between the colour of buds as opposed to opened flowers. In this case the buds are bright rosy red and flowers only light pink, almost white. It is very similar to Ostbo Red variety. The evergreen ...
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Minuet bears large flowers with cinnamon red corolla and almost white centre and margins. Buds are light pink to pale red. Leathery leaves are narrow, laurel-like, pointed, mid green and partly glossy.
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Olympic Fire has larger flowers of pink colour opening from deep pink or almost red buds. Leathery leaves are narrow, laurel-like, pointed, mid green and partly glossy, with slightly wavy margins.
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Roxy® is a miniature rose from Kordes Lilliputs® collection which comprises of small and healthy, repeat flowering roses. Roxy® produces abundance of small, fully dou ...
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Blue Bunny is a nice newcomer among blue hollies from Canada. It is a brother (male variety) of Golden Girl which is a female version with yellow berries. Blue Bunny is a perfect pollinator for all female varieties of b ...
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Blue Prince® is probably the most popular variety of all so-called blue hollies. It is a male plant that does not produce fruits but is a pollinator for female plants of this group (e.g. Blue Princess). On the other hand, it grows faster than female varieties and has larger ...
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GOLDEN GIRL ® is probably the first ever patented holly with yellow berries in the world, US plant patent 7652 from 1990, as a cross between ilex aquifolium ´Fructa Lutea´and ilex rugosa . Yellow fruits are an awesome feature because it never happened with any other blue ho ...
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Himalayan indigo is an unusual shrub from the mountainous parts of Pakistan, Nepal and India. Its deciduous, compound leaves are soft green and look like miniature locust leaves. Flowers cannot be compared to anything you normally see growing in Central European ga ...
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This mulberry is very special. Deeply cut, dark green, glossy leaves draw your attention as they bear strong resemblance to leaves of plane trees. Many of the largest leaves at the ends of the branches keep their green colour until late in the autumn when they fall down green. The crown is wi ...
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Deciduous leaves of the Chinese species have three narrow lobes out of which the central one is prominently long. Margins are entire and smooth so the leaf looks like 3 fingers. Unlike Tesi Ubaldo variety. This mulberry is very different. Its leaves are also ...
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Black Knight is a butterfly bush variety with one of the deepest colours currently available in the market. They are deep purple blue, heavily scented, up to 30 cm long. Individual flowers are small and tubular, formed in dense panicles at the ends of the branches. The infloresc ...
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Empire Blue is a butterfly bush variety bearing rich violet flowers with an orange eye. The inflorescence may look like lilac hence its other name: summer lilac. However, it can get misleading as summer lilac is more often ...
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If you like pink and butterflies at the same time, Pink Delight is butterfly bush variety ideal for you. Individual flowers are small and tubular, formed in up to 40 cm long, dense panicles at the ends of the branches. The inflorescence may look like lilac hence its other name: ...
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Royal Red is a butterfly bush with deep purple-red flowers that are fragrant and up to 50 cm long. Individual flowers are small and tubular, formed in up to 40 cm long, dense panicles at the ends of the branches. The inflorescence may look like lilac hence its other name: summer ...
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White Profusion is a white flowering butterfly bush. Individual flowers are small and tubular, formed in up to 40 cm long, dense panicles at the ends of the branches. The inflorescence may look like lilac hence its other name: summer lilac. However, it can get misleading as summ ...
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Fuchsias are back in fashion these days, mainly because more and more countries are testing the so-called hardy fuchsias which are aimed to live outdoors, in garden beds and borders. They are usually magellanica hybrids.
Tom Thumb is a dwarf variety with extremely profuse fl ...
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Red Sentinel is a beautiful crabapple variety with scented, white blossoms opening from pink buds. It flowers from early May and in autumn produces profusion of rich red, sometimes yellow flushed fruit that is not edible fo ...
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Scarlet crabapple is a fantastic addition to the collection of spring flowering apples and cherries. This one, however, has more than one feature to look at (just like Scarlett Johansson who may have been a reason for giving this tree its name …)
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Ambassador is a hybrid variety of large flowered ornamental onion. It makes up to 15 cm across flowers heads composed of numerous small, sterile, striking rich purple violet flowers from end May until early July. The inflor ...
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Millenium is a beautiful variety of ornamental onion with about 30 cm tall, strong stems atop which appear 4-5 cm wide flower heads composed of numerous rich lilac pink, slightly fragrant flowers. They open from early July ...
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Hardy plumbago is a superb substitution for its tender relative common in the Mediterranean.
This one has even deeper blue flowers with 5 petals, mid-green, bristly, obovate, deciduous leaves with purple margins and purple stems. The plants itself is very dense and in full sun bears profu ...
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Bravo to French cultivators who come up with this new variety of bluebeard! Want to hear why we are so excited about it? Compared to its parent this one has deep green, larger leaves with silvery underneath; deeper blue and more numerous flowers; its flowering period is rather extended from m ...
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WINKY series of columbine comprises of strong varieties of several colors. They form compact and symmetrical clumps which look like precisely hand-tied bouquets. This variety makes deep purple blue to deep violet blue flowe ...
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Japanese fan columbine is an Asian species producing strong, erect plants with large flowers. They open from mid to late spring and have different colours of their centres and petals. The flower buds are nodding, just like freshly opened flowers. Only after a few d ...
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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 b ...
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Morning Light is an almost silver-leaved variety of eulalia. Its long leaves have white margins but they are so narrow that this colour overtakes the green centre, giving a silvery appearance to the whole clump. In the middle of summer it makes reddish-bronze flowers. It is best grown in sunny and w ...
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Zebra grass, formerly known as Strictus, is an old favourite among eulalias. It has stiff, upright, bright green leaves with horizontal creamy yellow stripes which make it the popular zebr ...
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Japanese umbrella pine is an exquisite-looking conifer resembling pine thanks to its needles but botanically it has nothing in common with them. There are quite a few varieties available in the trade now that will fit even a small garden.
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Compacta is a new and still little known variety of Japanese umbrella pine. It forms an almost spherical shape without a central leader. It grows more slowly than the species and its ultimate height is estimated at about 2m. Though it is called a pine, it does not belong to the ...
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We have another lovely tree for you who have small gardens but love large trees. This is a compact version of Persian ironwood called Vanessa. .
Deciduous leaves of this rather columnar, tall shrub are smooth and slightly glossy, with prominent veins, light green when they em ...
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Alfred is an old grandpa in the rhododendron family having survived gust of both weather caprice or fashion as it is more than a hundred years old. It was introduced already in 1891. It was bred by T.J.R.Seidel from German ...
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Balalaika is a one of the few sensational varieties which have orange shades in the flower colour. The flower margins are salmon pink, grading through rich orange to deep yellow in the throat. The blooming shrub looks exquisitely but naturally at the same time.
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Belami® is a new variety of popular rhody with very attractive flowers. They are large, with white base and prominent red blotch with dotting extending nearly to the flower petal margins.
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Brasilia is another sensational variety which has the long-desired orange shade in the flower colour. The flowers are a combination of salmon pink and light orange, with slightly frilled margins. The overall colour appearance is a nice and warm shade of orangey-pink.
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Dolcemente is a beautiful rhododendron with Italian name and flowers sweet like Italian ice cream. They are 7-8 cm large, bi-coloured: salmon pink at the margins and golden yellow in the centre. The margins are elegantly frilled. Leaves are deep green and glossy. The shrub is co ...
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The breeder himself, Hans Hachmann, considers this variety Erato the most reliable deep red rhododendron so far produced. The flowers are 7-8 cm wide, deep but bright red. When the shrub is in full bloom it steels all the attention of passers-by. Leaves are deep green, slightly ...
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Hachmann´s Charmant is a charming one with vivid pinky-purple, frilled margins of large flowers. The centres are almost white, the flare is deep red.
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Can you still recall how to dance Macarena? Well, refresh your memory because once you get yourself this gorgeous rhododendron hybrid, you will dance around the bush every other day when it starts blooming. The hose-in-hose flowers are very wide: 9-10 cm, deep golden yellow in t ...
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„Marcel Menard“ is truly a unique looking rhody with deep violet-purple flowers with a golden flare. It grows slower than others and remains compact.
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Midnight Beauty is a masterpiece from Hachmann’s nurseries in Germany. It is the deepest purple red variety bred so far. The flowers are of a stunning colour depth and form – held upright, the upper petal decorated with black blotches. The evergr ...
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“Mrs T.H.Lowinsky” bears gorgeous white flowers with a distinct orange-brown flare. Margins of the petals same as flower buds are lavender pink. Grow in full sun.
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Have you had a penguin in your garden yet? Well, here’s your chance to get one. This rhododendron is called Pinguin not just because it can take the cold but because of its beautifully contrasting flowers. They are only very light violet with conspicuous deep burgundy red, ...
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Tamarindos rhododendron is for lovers of deep violet-blue flowers. An extra feature is the blotch which has unique colour: golden-green which makes a rather unusual contrast with the flower colour. It blooms late in the spring season, starting at the end of May, following by mid June. ...
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Tanaga rhododendron is one of those with an interesting colour contrast between the petal colour and the blotch. This hybrid opens its large, funnel-shaped flowers from pale lavender violet buds into lilac pink flowers with ...
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Tortoiseshell Orange is an awesome rhododendron hybrid from 1954. It combines soft golden yellow and pale salmon pink shades resulting in a beautiful pastel orange colour. Freshly opened flowers and in morning light they ap ...
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Calophytum is an exotic type of rhododendron from Tibet which can grow into a size of a small tree. Its main attraction are extra large leaves: 20-30 cm long. They are dark green and matt, and are composed into a regular rosette around the flower head. Dominik is a variet ...
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Graziella is a unique variety with narrow leaves and deep red buds. Funnel to bell-shaped flowers are lilac pink and appear in early June. Leaves are dark green with deep burgundy tint. Though exotic looking it is hardy to min. -24°C. Sturdy plant.
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This is a lovely varigated form of a ponticum rhododendron. It is mostly grown for its spectacular foliage that is richly varigated with white. Flowers are pale lilac-purple and come out late in the season (early June). Not suitable for frost pockets and dislikes direct winter sun.
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This rhododendron’s name is as mystical as its looks: Midnight Mystique. It offers large, 7-8 cm across, flowers that are almost white in the throat and rich magenta red or purple at the margins. They come out from mid May until early June. Their colour may slightly vary w ...
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April Snow is an American variety of rhododendron dauricum with pure white double flowers. They open early in the season – often in late March. Leaves are semi-evergreen, small, elliptic, mid green. It grows at medium ...
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Caroline Allbrook is a compact yakushimanum rhododendron of attractive habit and possible the most sought-after flower colour among all yakushimanums. It forms a neat evergreen shrub with elongated, leathery foliage, ...
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Kokette is a yakushimanum rhododendron introduction by Hans Hachmann (†2004) from 1988. It is a beautiful variety combining rich pink and white colours. The flowers have frilled margins of deep pink colour, the inner ...
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Do you like warm colours on rhododendrons? Well, hear this Lullaby, or rather look at its beautiful flowers. They are bell-shaped, rich salmon pink near margins and golden yellow in the throat, opening from salmon orange bu ...
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Schneekrone (Crown of Snow) is a white wonder bred by Hans Hachmann in 1968. It produces highly elegant, snow white flowers with burgundy red dots on the upper lip, opening from pink buds from about mid May for 2-3 weeks. The evergreen leaves are leathery, b ...
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Silberwolke is a beautiful yaku hybrid bred by Hans Hachmann in 1963. It bears profusion of bell-shaped flowers opening from abundant trusses consisting of 12-16 buds. Flowers are clear pink first, maturing to snow white. T ...
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Silberglanz is one of the most sought-after almost white flowering yakushimanum hybrids bred by Hans Hachmann in Germany. It was introduced in 1968 and is truly awesome. Its soft pink buds open into pale pink and white flow ...
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Kalinka is a yakushimanum rhododendron bred by Hans Hachmann in 1983. It flowers are a unique combination of light pink, deeper lilac pink at frilled margins, and orange markings in the throat. They open from almost red bud ...
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Blutopia is a lovely rhododendron with large flowers. They are lavender violet with some lilac hues and rich reddish-brown blotch. They open in late May on the background of broad, evergreen leaves with deep red stalks. It ...
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Before bass became the lowest male voice, baritone was supposed to be the one. Just like this rhododendron named Bariton for its colour depth. Bred by Hans Hachmann in 1974 it produces large, beautifully open wide flowers o ...
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Baroness Henry Schröder rhododendron is an old buddy bred in England already in 1896. Its parentage is not documented but it is believed to be a ponticum hybrid. It produces large trusses of foam-like, almost snow white flo ...
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Caruso rhododendron is a pink-flowering hybrid which, thanks to some yaku-blood in its veins, produces profusion of flowers on a compact plant. The flowers are large, borne in erect trusses, bright pink with delicate red st ...
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Rhododendrons with dark flowers are still among the most popular varieties among these evergreen shrubs. No wonder breeders keep coming up with new, improved cultivars like this one called Dramatic Dark®. It looks like ...
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This rhododendron variety is commonly mislabeled as Diadem. It is not correct since the real Diadem originated in England already in 1862 and is white. This one is lilac pink and was bred by Hans Hachmann in Germany more than 100 year later - in 1969. It is a cross ...
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Minas Snow is an excellent white flowering rhododendron variety from Canada from 1966. It makes pure white, gently frilled flowers with inconspicuous pale beige stigma in the throat. Being crossed with a yaku-hybrid it has ...
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Mrs. Anthony Waterer is a rhododendron variety more than 100 years old from USA. It produces large, wide open flowers from rich pink buds. They are soft pink after opening revealing a striking blotch of orange brown colour ...
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Saskia is another beauty in the family of bi-coloured rhododendrons. It was bred by Hans Hachmann from Germany in 1994, and the number of varieties that preceded this one is incredible: seven plants needed to be put togethe ...
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XXL® is a great, yet quite compact or even small rhododendron from Belgium. The extra size refers to its flowers which are incredible - due to its colour and size. Composed in large, not as congested trusses as yaku hy ...
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Herbstzauber (Autumn Magic) is one of those rhododendron hybrids which bloom profusely in spring, and again in autumn. This variety was bred by H.J.A.Guyens in 1994 as a cross between Guyens’s Fashing and Marrakesch. ...
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Beautiful golden yellow colour in a very warm shade is the main feature of this Holger Hachmann rhododendron breeding. Quite similar to an old Nancy Evans variety Golden Everest& ...
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Filigran is a delicate looking variety of mountain rhododendron with narrow leaves. It resembles another successful variety called Graziella but Filigran has narro ...
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Lily-of-the-valley shrubs are very popular ericaceous plants with attractive foliage and abundant flowering. Purity is another dwarf variety. It is similar to Prelude but more rounded and regular in habit. The flower buds a ...
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Etoile Violette (Viticella group) is a popular variety of old man's beard with mid-sized deep violet purple flowers from July until September. They have 6 petals and centres decorated with numerous creamy white stame ...
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Flowers of Candy Stripes phlox look like a fairground lollipop. They are white with central pink stripes and small but distinct purple red eye. They open later than most other varities, usually in mid May, emerging from nee ...
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Purple Beauty is one of the best breedings among moss phlox varieties. Its pastel violet flowers come out in such profusion that the evergreen, needle-like leaves become invisible for a couple of weeks from late April until ...
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Emerald Cushion Blue is a compact moss phlox with lavender violet, small flowers which open on large, emerald green cushions of evergreen leaves from late April. This phlox makes a good groundcover in almost no time, howeve ...
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We are specialists in evergreen plants and offer the widest possible range of hardy, quality plants.
Angustifolia is a very elegant variety of Portugal laurel. Irrespective of its origin it belongs to the hardiest evergreen plants for our climate and performs better than some ...
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Originally named Snofozam after it was put to trade this hybrid weeping cherry received a nicer name Snow Fountains® which tells everything. In the spring it produces masses of lightly scented pure white flowers along plentiful of weeping branches that may run almost ...
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This variety is a weeping form of blue Atlas cedar. It has distinct silvery-blue persistent larch-like needles born in whorls of 30-45. Their striking colour makes the tree a gorgeous lawn specimen same as an ideal feature when combined with other, dark green conifers. Just remember that this ...
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If you went looking for a tree typical for every city you would find jacarandas in Buenos Aires, London planes in London, and in Prague you would be struck by the beauty of Japanese pagoda trees. Numerous specimens were planted there many years ago. Now they have skyscraping trunks and huge c ...
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This false camellia – Korean stewartia is very similar to its Japanese sister stewartii pseudocamellia. It comes from moist woodlands of Korea and it is a tall shrub flowering in summer and has beautiful autumn foliage.
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Saucy Seduction is a not-to-be-missed yarrow with striking purple pink flowers. They are formed in flat corymbs and come out atop 40-50 cm tall stems from late June for an extended period of time, often until early Septembe ...
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Metallica is an awesome variety of rhododendron bred by Holger Hachmann. It produces profusion of pure violet flowers with very dark, almost black blotch from late May until early June when most other rhododendrons have fin ...
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Maskarill is a fabulous achievement bred by Hans Hachmann in 1985. It is a cross of a wild species rhododendron dichroanthum ssp. scyphocalyx and a little known rhodo hybrid called August. The result is a breathtaking combination of brilliant r ...
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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. ...
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Little Goldstar is a perennial black-eyed Susan variety with shining golden yellow flowers. They are daisy-like, almost 7 cm across, with narrow ray florets around a convex, chocolate brown disc. They come out continuously ...
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Black-eyed Susan is a type of coneflower with large, daisy-like flowers. This form originates in North America where its Latin name is shortened to rudbeckia sullivantii. Goldsturm, ...
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Red-leaved rose is a wild species of rose from mountainous regions of Poland, Slovakia, as well as the Alps and Carpathians. It produces numerous, single, 5-petalled flowers in June and July that are followed by vibrant red, glossy hips. They are classified as edib ...
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Pomponella is one of the incredible rose achievements by Kordes introduced in 2005. It is a floribunda shrub rose from the Fairy Tale Roses series. The flowers are dark pink, fully double, and before they open wide they rem ...
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In 1985 The Principality of Monaco asked the Meilland family, one of the world’s leading rose breeders, to create a rose which will represent the national colours of Monaco. Many trials were made and 15 years later, in 2000, Alain Meilland came up with a breathtaking piece which received the n ...
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Chippendale® rose was bred and introduced by Rosen Tantau in 2005, and has been a popular variety ever since, especially among lovers of English roses. This rose has the same type of full, quartered centres. The flower ...
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Papagena® is a modern tea-hybrid rose from New Zealand, bred by Samuel Darragh McGredy IV in 1994. It bears medium-sized, lightly scented flowers that are orange-red with irregular yellow stripes. Each flower is unique. Deciduous leaves are deep green, very glossy and new g ...
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Princess of Wales is a shrub rose with almost white flowers with a very slight pink overlay and repeat flowering from early summer until the last warm and sunny days of autumn. It has a lovely tea rose fragrance. It is reasonably resistant against usual rose diseases, however, in the p ...
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Probably the best known of all the English Roses and one of the most popular roses in the world, Graham Thomas has been voted the World’s Favourite Rose by the World Federation of Rose Societies (WFRS) which represents over 100,000 rose lovers in 41 member countries. The a ...
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It is difficult to tell if breeders from Rosen Tantau expected that their Nostalgie® rose would become such a blockbuster after its release in 1995. This rose has been a top seller ever since irrespective of how many n ...
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Duftzauber can be translated something like the magic of perfume and Kordes knew very well why to name this beauty so. Its delicate sweet fragrance is like a magic enchanting you more and more with every flush of new flowers because it seems that every new f ...
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In 1981 French rose breeder Marie-Louise Meilland od Meilland Rose Nursery introduced another beautiful rose paying tibute to Aachen, a German town on the German-French border, this time its cathedral hence the name Aachener Dom. The preceding rose was called Gruss an Aachen.
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Schloss Ippenburg, or Father of Peace® is a hybrid tea rose bred by Alain Meilland in 1996. It produces large, fully double, highly fragrant flowers that are 13-14 cm across, s ...
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AUGUSTA LUISE® is a stunning hybrid tea rose by Rosen Tantau from 1999. Even the breeder admits that this is one of their best roses of all times. Rich perfume and incredible continuous production of flowers make it a ...
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German polyantha rose Märchenzauber® that was named much more simply BLISS® for the rest of the world is one of them. Its medium sized flowers (8-10 cm across) are a very ...
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RED LEONARDO DA VINCI® is fantastic red polyantha (floribunda) rose from France, bred by Meilland International in 2005. It is a cross between Rote Max Graf, Cassandra, and Bonica. It bears medium-sized, deep red, full ...
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The flowers of Gertrude Jekyll rose start as perfect little scrolled buds and soon open into the most beautiful, large, rosette-shaped flowers of rich glowing pink. The growth is upright and vigorous and in every way reliab ...
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An excellent rose for bedding, although it is equally good for the border. It flowers with exceptional freedom and continuity, has even upright growth and little or no disease. The flowers are of a rich yellow colouring. It has a characteristic Tea Rose fragrance with a musky background. Winner of a ...
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White roses has never been out of fashion. That is why breeders keep coming up with new varieties with improved features. Innocencia® is a popular polyantha rose by Kordes. It bears small, single, moderately fragrant fl ...
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RHAPSODY IN BLUE® rose is considered the bluest rose in the market to date. Obviously, sky blue colour is still something everyone dreams of, but this invention was a real breakthrough as it makes flowers of deep purpl ...
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This rose is probably one of the most popular polyantha rose by Kordes. Its name means gardener´s delight and if you like strong and vibrant colours you will understand. The flowers are fully double, raspberry pink-red, rain-resistant, and appear in profusion from early summer until early autumn. Fo ...
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Aloha is a great climbing rose with large, repeat flowering flowers of apricot orange to salmon pink shades. It is quitre robust and hardy, reasonably disease-resistant.
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VARIETIES
Rovada is a late season variety of red currant. It produces masses of mid-sized racemes of brilliant red fruit in August. It makes a compact shrub about 1.5m tall. Heavy and reliable cropper.
Jonkheer van Tetsis a red currant from the Netherlands. ...
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WILD SWAN™ is a fantastic hybrid anemone producing large, white flowers, decorated with a wide, smoky violet stripe on the sepals reverse. It has a unique flowering time - from late May until autumn, often early Novem ...
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Fuji cherry Kojou-no-mai is a fantastic must have for small gardens and yards. This little shrub or tiny tree (if grafted on a short stem) is an eye-catching jewel with year-round interest. In winter it shows attractive arc ...
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Brewer spruce is an evergreen conifer native to the Siskiyou Mountains of southwestern Oregon and northern California where it is a rare plant owing to its sparse occurrence. It has a beautiful shape. The stem and inner branches are firm and upright whereas new bra ...
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Although Colorado spruce originates in the Rocky Mountains of Canada and the USA, it has been in wide cultivation in Europe and its colder regions. It is used more and more as a replacement of Norway spruce which does not take air pollution and suffers from falling ...
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Bleeding heart is a bit old-fashioned yet beautiful perennial commonly found in European gardens. It comes from Siberia and colder parts of China and Korea. Alba is a form with pure white heart-shaped flowers that bloom a l ...
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Teutonia is another extraordinary Japanese dogwood which, apart from its ornamental features, is valued mostly for its exquisite fruit. It is produced from small spheres, composed of tiny flowers that open from late May or ...
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Creeping dogwood originates in North America (N. USA and Canada), Greenland, and N. Asia. It is a tough, rhizomatous perennial which forms a beautiful carpet of attractive foliage and flowers.
Being a dogwood, its true flowers are inconspicuous, tiny and compos ...
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Golden-rain tree is one of the few trees of our climate blooming in summer. This variety, moreover, is yet somewhat rare which makes it a sought-after item.
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Gold dust is a low growing, mat forming perennial not just for rockeries or dry walls. It produces masses of panicles with rich yellow flowers on thin but sturdy, 20-25 cm tall stems. Flowers come out from mid spring, usually early May and continue flowering for 3- ...
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Dart’s Gold is a variety of common ninebark with bright yellowish-green, 3-lobed leaves, which appear early in the spring, probably at the same time as when magnolias start blooming. Clusters of white flowers are tiny but the shrub is covered with them in May. This shrub is an excellent, fully ...
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Ninebark is a low-maintenance deciduous plant which is available in several varieties offering various leaf colours and shapes. Diabolo® is a variety with deep maroon red 3-lobed leaves, which appear early in the spring. Clusters of pink flowers are tiny but the shrub is co ...
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Ninebark is a low-maintenance deciduous shrub which is available in several varieties offering different leaf colour and shape. Summer Wine® is a patented new variety from 2005. It is a cross between varieties Nana and ...
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Snowmound is an eye-catching spirea with pure white flowers. They are tiny and formed in terminal corymbs, and those cover the branches almost along the whole length as if fresh snow just fell on them. A plant in full bloom ...
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Sensation Pink is another coneflower bred by Dutch lover of perennials Marco van Noort in 2012. It makes rich pink, almost magenta pink flowers from late June until September. They are first borne atop strong, 40-60 cm tall ...
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MOOODZ® JOY is spectacular orange variety of MOOODZ® coneflower. Its rich tangerine orange flowers are very elegant and striking at the same time. They are uniformly flat with an elevated cone hiding sweet nectar ...
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MOOODZ® SATISFY is a unique coneflower variety from the MOOODZ® series. It produces very large, 10 cm across flowers with a gigantic cone which looks like almost half an apple. It is strongly and sweetly fragrant. ...
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MOOODZ® SHINY is another yellow, or almost yellow cconeflower asking your attention. In fact, this one is for the lovers of light, pastel shades, producing only pale yellow but very pretty flowers. They are about 8 cm ...
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Van is a mid-season variety of sweet cherry. Its fruit ripens in early July. Fruits are large, heart-shaped, deep red, almost black. The flesh is aromatic, sweet, and has excellent taste. It needs protection from cherry-worms.
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St. John’s Wort is a well know perennial from our meadows and fields. The gardeners, however, selected species which are shrubby and have additional features for common use in gardens. Gemo is a new variety of this group and comes from Denmark.
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The original name of this shrub is hairy locust because of the twigs that are covered with bristly purplish-brown hairs.
Pea-like, rose-pink flowers are formed in short clusters and come out at the end of spring for 2-4 weeks. In hot and sunny summer it blooms for the second time at the e ...
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This trumpet creeper is really trained into a small tree. 1 or 2 meter tall trunk with a blooming crown gives this exotic looking plant a new glamour. Beautiful, golden-yellow flowers grow at the ends of new branches. They come out in July and don’t stop till the first frosts.
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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. Bowles’ Mauve is a beautiful variety with mauve flowers that open in late May and continue blooming until autumn. They are small, produced at ...
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Weigelas are valuable garden shrubs that grow freely in almost any soil and require little maintenance. They are deciduous shrubs growing 1.5 – 2.0 tall and just a bit less wide.
Alexandra WINE &ROSES is a fascinating new variety with deep burgundy red, ovate, deciduou ...
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Ever since we saw the very first flowers of this weigela variety it was clear that the world is about to witness a sensation. And there is more to it: this success came from our country – the Czech Republic so a dose of national pride is attached.
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MONET® weigela comes from the Netherlands where it was found in 2001 as a natural mutation of another variety called Tango. MONET® is a dwarf plant, growing into a lovely ...
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Mango is a fantastic new variety of Middendorff weigela, raised by John. G. Hillier in 2011, and patented in 2017 as PP28346. Compared to the species, Mango is a compact and freely branching shrub. From mid spring it makes ...
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Morellenfeuer is one of the top German sour morello cherries. It bears medium-sized, burgundy-black fruit with dark, juicy flesh that is both sour and light sweet, aromatic, freestone. It is ideal eaten fresh as well as processed in jams, preserves, desserts etc. It is a late va ...
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The prunus family contains over 400 species that are useful and beautiful at the same time. There are cherries, plums, peaches or sloes, as well as flowering Japanese cherries, evergreen cherry laurels and many more.
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Diane bears the deepest red flowers, so far cultivated. They are fringe-like and appear on bare wood from the first warmer days of February and keep blooming for 6 to sometimes 8 weeks! Leaves are similar to hazel, but larger and turn bright orange-red in autumn. Witch hazel is a beautiful shrub or ...
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Westerstede is a German variety of witch hazel coming from Friesland. It has fringle-like, beautifully scented, bright yellow flowers that come out usually in the second half of February and continue blooming for as long as 6 weeks if March is not too hot. Leaves are similar to ...
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Wisterias are undoubtedly the queen of flowering climbers. Rosea is a pink flowering variety of Japanese wisteria. Slightly fragrant flowers are formed in 30-70 cm long racemes and appear along with the leaves from early May until early June. Pinnate leaves look rather exotic an ...
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Silky wisteria is one gorgeous flowering plant. What makes it different compared to other wisterias are its silky leaves and stumpy racemes of flowers. Showa Beni ('Aka-kapitan') is a recently introduced variety with pink and white flowers with a conspicuous yellow spot. The ind ...
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If you like the features of hollies such as toothed leaves, dense habit, and the fact that they are in leaf all year, you will love this plant: sometimes called false holly, osmanthus has rather dentate leaves than spiny, although touching it is not the best plan for Sunday afternoon.
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Kilmarnock is a popular weeping willow which owing to its small size is a common feature in small gardens and front yards. It produces profusion of catkins with yellow anthers in early spring that is usually the first important source of food for bees. The height of the plant de ...
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Kleiner Turm (Small Tower) is a German variety of Austrian pine. It is a dwarf plant of widely columnar, compact habit and slow growth. It has long, stiff, deep green needles. Mature size has not been observed yet but is ex ...
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After a huge success with BREPO® variety, a breeder of pines from Switzerland Henri Bregeon comes up with another dwarf pine variety, this time called Marie Bregeon
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Wiethorst is a witch’s broom of Schwerin’s pine, found and named by Johann Wieting in Gieelhorst, Germany. It is dwarf, slow growing version of this pine with symmetrical, pyramidal shape and dense habit. It has ...
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Dwarf subalpine fir is another jewel among silver-blue conifers. It grows slowly and is suitable for even the smallest of gardens, for rockeries or as a complement of any evergreen arrangement. The needles are about 2cm long, stiff, flattened, bright blue with a white stripe on top. The older it get ...
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LO & BEHOLD, what a name! Yes, seeing a butterfly bush so small will leave you staring indeed. This new introduction from the breeders of J.C.Raulston Arboretum in North Carolina, USA, is proud to be the very first dwarf butterfly bush in commerce, patented in 2009 ...
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We always love presenting unusual and rare plants. Among those we only select the ones that are not just rare but also beautiful and can enrich your garden with a new feature. This time we have a real jewel for conifer lovers.
It is a dwarf Korean fir named “Brillant”. It is a compact ...
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KAHORI PINK is a very pretty hybrid pink variety with rich rosy pink flowers from May until midsummer. The main flowering season is June when this mounding perennial is covered with about 2cm wide flowers atop very short st ...
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Alphen’s Globe has been a sought after small tree in the last decade or so since it offers beauty of its parent – plane tree - but much smaller dimensions which make it suitable even for small gardens.
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Hikul is a very attractive variety of sea buckthorn. It is a slow growing, deciduous shrub of very compact and dense habit. It has short, narrowly lanceolate, deciduous leaves that are mid green from spring till autumn, and ...
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European gardens love colours. And the truth is what a tropical garden has to offer in terms of colours of the flowers, our gardens can easily compete beating it with colours and shapes of the leaves. Hence one of our most attractive trees, a jewel among gold-leaved: golden locust. It was fir ...
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Takion Blue is a peach-leaved bellflower from the Takio series offering compact, almost dwarf plants of superb flowering. The flowers are large, light violet blue, open wide and outward facing almost like balloon flowers. They come out on about 40 cm tall, densely ...
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AMBELLA® PURPLE is an evergreen bellflower plant with deep violet blue flowers from early summer until late autumn, or even early winter if its beginning is mild. The colder the weather the darker the flowers. Leaves a ...
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Latin name enkianthus was made up from two Greek words although this deciduous shrub originates in Japan. It belongs to the heath family and also fits in there perfectly. No other rhododendron or azalea has its structure. Its main stems are always fully vertical with tops of small, alternate leaves. ...
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