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Abelias belong to the most popular flowering shrubs of dwarf to small sizes, mainly thanks to its long flowering period: June-October. Variety Edward Goucher was introduced by a botanist of the same name in the USA in 1911 as a cross between abelia x grandiflora and abelia schum ...
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Kaleidoscope® is another novelty of the turn of the century. It drags attention thanks to its multicoloured foliage, but not only that. This abelia was found as a naturally occurring mutation of abelia x grandiflora “Little Richard” by nurseryman Randall Dale Li ...
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Glossy abelia is a garden hybrid between abelia chinensis and abelia uniflora, and is sometimes also called abelia rupestris. Its dominant feature is profuse flowering from late June until late autumn. Flowers are small, funnel-shaped, pure whi ...
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Balsam fir originates from Canada where it is a source of Canadian balsam, derived from its bark. Nana is a dwarf variety that is cultivated for its beauty, not resin.
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White fir is a popular conifer of Czech and Slovak gardens and parks. It is demanded for its glaucous foliage colour. Nurseries take good care to select only the seedlings that have the most attractive colour because this fir occurs naturally in the range of dark green where only the young sh ...
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Violacea is a selective seedling variety of white fir with long, silvery needles turning pale blue-green when adult. They are soft to touch, borne erect on almost horizontal to slightly ascending branches. The tree shape is ...
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One of the most popular conifers for small and mid-sized gardens is this Korean fir. It has short, glossy, dark green needles that are silver on the reverse. Already as a young plant it produces very attractive bluish-purple cones.
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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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Kohout’s Icebreaker is a witch’s broom of Horstmann’s Silberlocke Korean fir. It was found by Jörg Kohout in his nursery in Elstra, Germany. It is a very dwarf variety producing small, very dense, c ...
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Caucasian fir is perhaps the most beautiful conifer of our climate. No wonder that it is also a commercial bestseller as a Christmas tree. Its short needles densely cover the branches; they are deep green and very glossy, with silvery undersides. Fresh growths are intensely bright green.
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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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Spanish fir is one of the most popular conifers with blue needles. It is also called hedgehog fir as the needles are short and stiff, regularly composed around its branches. The shape is broadly conical, very neat and regular.
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ARCTIC JADE® is a hybrid Korean maple (a. palmatum x a. pseudosieboldianum) from the Jack Frost® series developed by Iseli Nurseries in Oregon, USA. It has large, 7-lobed, deeply cut, deciduous leaves which are gr ...
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Snakebark maple is a distinctive maple species that was discovered in China by Jean Pierre Armand David in 1869. Being quite easy to grow and non-problematic to transplant one wonders why it remains in the group of plants difficult to locate both in garden centres ...
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Some trees are admired for other features than just flowers or foliage. There are many of us who easily fall head over heels in love with a picturesque bark like that on paperbark maple from China. It peels off in thin, almost paper-like shavings even on young plan ...
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Aconitifolium is a Japanese maple with large leaves. They are very attractive, deeply lobed but look entire. The colour is light to mid green, turning bright shades of orange and fiery red in autumn. In spring it bears prof ...
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Shapes and colours are usually the key features of Japanese maples. But there are other maples, too, that can offer other than green colour plus various leaf shapes. And on top of that they grow much faster.
This is ash-leaved maple, also called box elder. Flamingo is so far ...
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Kelly’s Gold is a fantastic box elder variety with striking yellow foliage that does not burn in full sun. It was introduced by Duncan & Davies Nursery in New Zealand in 1989 and quickly became one of the top 5 trees ...
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Atropurpureum is a famous and commonly used variety with deeply lobed, red-purple leaves that turn bright red and orange in autumn. They have 5 tips. It forms a multi-stemmed shrub with widely spread branches. It grows slowly and is suitable as a specimen in any garden, not just a Japa ...
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Bloodgood is an extremely commercially successful variety with deep burgundy leaves. They have 7 lobes and hold the colour reliably. The leaves turn bright scarlet red in the autumn. The bark is blackish-red.
It forms a small tree or a large shrub with compact, rounded crown with p ...
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Butterfly is a variety with 3-coloured foliage. Its deeply cut, palmate leaves are pale green with creamy white margins that turn pink when they emerge and when the weather turns colder. It grows into a V-shaped shrub with dense foliage, especially at the tops of the branches.
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Cascade Gold Japanese maple is a Dutch introduction from 2015. It is a cross between Orange Dream and Ryusen, offering the best of each – golden orange leaves and weeping habit. Its deciduous leaves are palmate, emerg ...
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Fireglow is a red-leaved Japanese maple variety from Italy. It is similar to Bloodgood with less vigorous growth and brighter red colour, and Atropurupureum with more upright habit and richer leaf colour. Leaves are palmate ...
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Koto-no-ito is a compact growing Japanese maple variety of elegant and fluffy appearance. It has very narrow, strap-like leaves owing to which it was named in Japanese ‘Harp strings’ or ‘Golden old harp ...
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Among Japanese maples next to dissectum group there is another group called linearilobum, which consists of plants with very narrow and long, and sometimes almost thread-like leaves which give the plant almost a bamboo effect. Linearilobum
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The less usual colour the more attractive it is for garden lovers. Orange Dream is a perfect example of Japanese maple to offer an almost exotic colour of spring foliage that is orange and salmon pink at margins with yellowish-green centres. This colouring decorates the plant un ...
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Pixie is a very showy Japanese maple, a dwarf version of very popular Bloodgood. It has the same 5-lobed, deciduous leaves that are rich burgundy red in summer and ...
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Red Pygmy could be a bit misleading name for this unique Japanese maple. Yes, it is a dwarf variety and it does make rich burgundy red leaves but only in spring. When the days get hotter from May or June onwards in most cas ...
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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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Trompenburg Japanese maple was found as a seedling plant in Dutch arboretum of the same name in Rotterdam. Its unique foliage, vigorous growth, and good health are something that makes me wonder why it is not more widesprea ...
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Wilson's Pink Dwarf is a handsome guy in the family of dwarf Japanese maples. It only grows some 2m tall in a dense, vase shaped, bushy habit. Its most prominent feature is the colour of newly emerging leaves - they are a c ...
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Sango-kaku is a Japanese maple that has so many colours that we are lost for words. Its main attraction is the colour of bark which is orangey-red in summer and bright coral red in winter. The palmate leaves have 5 lobes and emerge orangey-yellow with salmon pink shades, changin ...
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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 show begins with vibrant ...
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It is hard to believe that only a few bare branches, which you can see in winter, can develop into such a stunning thing. Foliage of this shrub almost looks like a fluffy hairdo of a red-haired lady. The leaves are deeply cut and when young they are glossy and brownish-red, in summer they turn to de ...
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This maple Shishigashira received a name Lion’s Head. Its leaves are small, deeply cut and curled, forming dense tufts along twisted branches. The foliage is bright green or yellow-green in spring and summer, turning orange and rust-red very late in au ...
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Dissectum Viridis has light green, very soft, deciduous, deeply cut leaves with 7 or 9 lobes. To maintain its colour we recommend growing it in location with filtered sunlight or semi-shade as the leaves may show signs of sunburn in hot sun, or even change i ...
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Norway maple is a native European tree commonly cultivated in countries and regions with harsh winters. It is one of the most common street and park in Czech and Slovak republics. Its tolerance against pollution, low winter temperatures, and vigorous growth made it ...
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Drummondii is a variegated form of Norway maple, only some 100 years old. The decades from its birth proved its popularity which is still very high. The leaves are beautifully creamy white variegated at the margins, with bright green centres.
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Another website I came across calls this Norway maple a meat-ball-on-a-stick. Quite funny, actually, but in fat it truthfully describes the shape of this small tree. Well, that only in case the author meant a good housewife who made proper, perfectly spherical meat balls.
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Golden Globe is a dwarf Norway maple i.e. one of those with large leaves as opposed to Japanese maples with small and dissected foliage. One of the big advantage of Norway maple is its resistance against majority of common ...
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Men usually get mad when women describe colours with expressions like salmon pink, peachy red etc. Well, men, get ready for another hit below the belt: we have a tree whose leaves are SHRIMP pink. Not familiar with that colour? Go to the nearest restaurant and have a prawn-cocktail to see what the f ...
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Esk Sunset is an extraordinary but at the same time elegant sycamore maple. It is a real chameleon changing a range of colour shades during a short period of time. Its deciduous leaves emerge orange-green to yellow-green in spring, quickly change to creamy-beige marbled dark gre ...
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Red Sunset belongs to the top favourite scarlet maples. It makes eye-catching display of autumn colour. Its deciduous leaves are three-lobed, mid-sized, rich green in summer and bright scarlet red in autumn. It grows fast, ...
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Silver maple is a tall tree from North America. It is valued for its attractive foliage and resistance to most weather whims. Its deciduous leaves are 3 to 5 lobed, deeply cut, bright green above and silvery white beneath. Wait for the wind if you want to see their ...
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This silver maple will draw your attention to the deeply cut leaves which resemble Japanese dissectum maples. The name silver describes the underneath of the leaves which are silvery gray and glitter in the wind.
In too fertile soil the branches can grow as much as 1 meter within one year ...
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Shirasawan’s maple is a sought-after species of Japanese maple valued mostly for its unique leaf shape. To date (July 2020) there are 17 recognized varieties, and MOONRISE is a recent introduction from the USA where i ...
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Amur maple is a subspecies of a less cultivated species called Tatar maple. This one comes from NE Asia, precisely Mongolia, Korea, Japan, and mainly the Amur River valley between Russia and China. It can be variable in habit but usually forms a vase-shaped, ...
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Summerwine is a beautiful yarrow variety from Germany which belongs to the Galaxy Hybrids. They are crosses between a.aegyptiaca and a.millefolium. Plants from this group bear larger flower heads atop stronger and ta ...
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Yarrow is a maintenance-free perennial suitable for standard flower beds as well as dry locations. Fern-like leaves are fine and deep green, basal leaves are larger than stem leaves. Flowers come out in flat corymbs in early summer. They are bright pink with tiny yellowish-white centres. It t ...
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Yarrow is a lovely perennial ideal for dry and neglected locations. Red Velvet is a variety with vibrant red flowers composed in flat corymbs. They come out atop 30-40 cm tall stems in June and July, yet some flowers are ke ...
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Autumn monkshood is a showy perennial flowering for late summer and autumn. It produces erect racemes of large, 6-7 cm tall flowers of deep indigo blue flowers from September till October. They appear along sturdy stems that grow just over a meter tall. The wise th ...
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Autumn monkshood is a showy perennial flowering for late summer and autumn. Cloudy is an unusual variety with almost white flowers decorated with pale lavender violet brim. They appear along sturdy stems that grow just over a meter tall. The wise thing about this m ...
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Monkshood is a showy perennial flowering in summer. The flowers are indigo blue, formed in erect racemes on stems that can be 1.5 tall. Individual flowers open up from July and continue as the stems grow taller until end August. Leaves are deeply lobed, almost dissected, mid green, very ornam ...
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Album is a unique monkshood variety with purely white flowers hiding a whorl of yellow green stamens inside something that does look like a hood of a monk's coat. They are formed in erect racemes on stems that can be 1.5 ta ...
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Issai is a self-fertile variety of the so-called mini-kiwi. This means that unlike the species it does not need a male and a female plant to produce fruit. Apart from tasty fruit it is a nice plant, too, with deep green leaves and scented flowers in June.
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Red horse chestnut is a fantastic tree which is usually planted in large gardens and parks, and as a street tree. Although, this hybrid grows a little slower (30 cm a year) making some 6x4m when 20 years old.
Briotti is a popular variety with big, upright panicles of deep pin ...
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For some reason white blooming varieties of African blue lily are significantly hardier than the blue ones which seem to be in loud demand. Still, these white gems enjoy the same level of success, only silently. Why? Because they are no less beautiful. Fancy ...
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Navy Blue is another hardy variety of African blue lily. This beautiful perennial has umbels of dark blue flowers. They come out on 60 cm long, sturdy stems in mid summer. Individual flowers are trumpet-shaped and have deep blue stripes. When fully opened they look like blue sta ...
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Northern Star is another hardy African blue lily variety from England, bred by Richard J Fulcher. It makes soft ink blue flowers with dark purple blue stripes. They are funnel-shaped, formed in large umbels atop 60-80 cm ta ...
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Unlike most of other African blue lilies which are blue this gem shows off with its pure white flowers. They are trumpet-shaped, composed in rich umbels and appear at the tips of about 60-80 cm long, sturdy stems. Strap-like leaves are about 2-3 cm wide, mid green. Blooming time begins with h ...
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Chocolate vine is a tasty name for a beautiful climbing plant from Asia called akebia. Its home is in China, Japan, and Korea but being hardy to some -34 °C it is popular in almost all temperate parts of the world. It is cultivate ...
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Mimosaceae plants are common and popular mainly in southern Europe for their high tolerance to drought as well as attractive and long lasting flowering. Even though they come from subtropical parts of the world there is one species hardy enough to be grown in our climate - si ...
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Ombrella® belongs to the hardy group. It was a chance selection from France which was observed and cultivated, and later on patented under the name Boubri. It differs from the species by darker leaves and deeply coloured flowers.
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Gladiator is a hybrid variety of large flowered ornamental onion. It makes up to 15 cm across flowers heads composed of numerous star-shaped, rich violet flowers from early June until early July. They appear atop strong and ...
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Globemaster allium produces possibly the largest flower heads among all ornamental onions registered so far. They are commonly 18-20 cm across, and under ideal growing conditions with plenty of fertilizing they can reach up ...
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Pinball Wizard is a hybrid variety of ornamental onion, a cross between a.macleanii and a.cristophii. It produces extremely large globes of star-shaped, violet flowers from late May until late June. The inflorescence is up ...
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If you know and like large-flowered ornamental onion with blue flowers on tall stems, this little boy will take you by surprise. Turkestan onion is its short growing brother from Karatau (Black Mountain) in southern part of Kazachstan, Central Asia. The species pro ...
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Ornamental onions, too, have their white sheep in the herd. This beauty is called Mount Everest and is a large flowered variety of Persian onion from Central Asia. It makes 12-14 cm across ...
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Common alder is a European native plant. There are varieties, however, that are very uncommon and I am not afraid to say exquisite. Such as this variety: Imperialis.
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Saskatoon is a native Canadian species of juneberry. It is cultivated for very tasty and juicy fruit which are deep purple to blue-purple berries similar to blueberries. They are formed in short clusters and best picked when fully ...
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Juneberry is a large shrub cultivated mostly for its delicious and healthy fruit. It is a large deciduous shrub or a small tree.
Flowers are star-shaped, white and scented and appear in mid spring. Oval leaves are up to 8 cm long, emerge bronze and mature to green colour, turning scarlet r ...
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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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Blue Lagoon is a Bog rosemary with clear blue-grey leaves with silvery hues. They are evergreen, linear-lance-shaped, rosemary-like, 2-3 cm long. Urn-shaped, soft pink flowers appear from mid spring (April/May) and often la ...
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Compacta is a dwarf bog rosemary with green foliage and profusion of light pink flowers. Leaves are rosemary-like, linear-lance-shaped, 2-3 cm long. Urn-shaped flowers are paler than on Nikko variety and appear in abund ...
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Variegata
is one of the first (or possibly the very first) variegated mutation of Japanese angelica tree which probably explains it rather botanical, charmless name. Nonetheless the plant itself is charm impersonified! ...
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Dutchman's pipe is a vigorous climber native to America, found in moist woodlands from N.E.Canada to S.E.USA. It is cultivated for its dramatic large foliage which looks as if just escaped from a rainforest. The deciduous leaves are 10-30 cm across, fresh green, he ...
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Sea thrift is a rock perennial which is at home in almost all parts of northern hemisphere. Splendens is possibly one of the most popular and cultivated variety bearing clear pink flowers on about 15 cm tall leafless stems ...
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Sea thrift is a rock perennial which is at home in almost all parts of northern hemisphere. ARMADA™ is a popular series with bright coloured flowers. ARMADA™ Rose bears ...
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Brilliant is one of the latest varieties of purple chokeberry which is a hybrid between red and black chokeberry. So far you can find it listed under three names: a.melanocarpa, a.arbutifolia, and a. x prunifolia which is probably the most correct name. It is cultivated for seve ...
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Recently, less known fruit trees and shrubs are becoming more and more popular mainly thanks to their original taste as well as positive impact on our health. Black chokeberry is one of them. It is in the same rosaceae family as the service tree and its fruit is similar, too. The lustrous fruits are ...
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Nero is a Slovak variety of purple chokeberry with large fruit and leaves purple tinged on the reverse. The lustrous fruits are black, about twice as big as black currant berries, and are rich in vitamin C and other importa ...
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Recently, less known fruit trees and shrubs are becoming more and more popular mainly thanks to their original taste as well as positive impact on our health. Chokeberry is one of them. It is in the same rosaceae family as the service tree and its fruit is similar, too. The lustrous fruits ar ...
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Lords-and-ladies is an old favourite among tuberous plants. And as you can tell by the Latin name, it does not come from Bangladesh though it looks rather exotic.
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Hart’s tongue fern is the only hardy fern with entire edge. There are not individual leaflets as on other species but one wide, bright green and glossy leaf. They respond well to fertilizing: the more nutrients – the bigger leaves. Though they are very hardy and can withstand heav ...
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Angustifolia is a variety of hart’s tongue fern. It is a hardy fern with entire edge. In fact, the edges on this variety are serrated or curled and the leaves are narrower compared to the species. There are not individual leaflets as on other ferns but one wide, bright gre ...
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Astilbe is a popular perennial with charming, plume-like flowers in summer. Ellie has cream white flowers that fade to green, not brown. Stems are 40-60 cm tall. Leaves are mid green.
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This variety of Japanese painted fern is a spectacular plant. Its leaves are silvery grey, almost metallic. The stems and midribs are dark maroon-purple. Such fantastic combination makes it a must have for every fern collector.
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Angelon is a striking variety of Japanese spotted laurel. It produces very large (up to 20x10 cm), evergreen leaves which are dark green and up to 70% of their surface is covered with rich yellow spots of uneven size and sh ...
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This evergreen shrub of Japanese aucuba is a commonly known favourite especially in Britain and in milder parts of humid regions of Germany and Benelux. The first specimen was brought from Japan to Europe in 1783, and has been sought after ever since for its beautifully varigated/golden-spott ...
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Rozannie is an elegant variety of Japanese aucuba. Some might think that it looks too ordinary compared to the other varieties with coloured leaves but the truth is that not every landscape needs a splash of variegated foliage. Rozannie is a compact aucuba shrub with deep green, ...
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Sulphurea Marginata is a truly unique variety of Japanese spotted laurel. It is not so golden or yellow like most others, and even though its leaves do bear yellow shades in a large portion they look more subtle and elegant ...
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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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Daviesii is a historical azalea variety bred by I. Davies in the U.K. and introduced around 1840. It bears rich trusses of almost white to very pale yellow flowers with a yellow blotch on the upper petal. Buds are orange. I ...
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In 1977 Hans Hachmann introduced a sensational deciduous azalea with the richest merge of red and orange colour. Its name is Feuerwerk (Fireworks) and it does look as if taken from the middle of a blazing fire. The individu ...
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Fireball is one of the most sought-after deciduous azaleas. It has mid-sized, fiery orange-red flowers that have a pleasant sweet scent. Deciduous leaves emerge bronze-red, mature to mid green, and turn burgundy red in autu ...
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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. Flowers lack strong fragrance. Bred by Rotschild in 1947, GB.
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Glowing Embers is my top favourite. It is true to its name: as if you were watching the very centre of fire, the petals are vivid orange with golden flashes. Very fragrant. Mid green leaves have bronze highlight from spring already.
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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.
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Goldtopas is an excellent variety of deciduous azalea with golden yellow flowers. Their colour is like glowing afternoon sun. Flower heads are up to 13 cm large, while individual flowers are 7-9 cm wide. It grows quite compact, forming a shrub 1.1m tall and 1.4m wide when 15 yea ...
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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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“Jolie Madame” has rather distinct tips of tepals making a star-shape look. Flowers are candy pink with orange-apricot flare and a lovely fragrance. This variety grows about 2m tall and wide.
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Josephine Klinger is an old Ghent hybrid of deciduous azalea bred in Belgium around 1800. It produces medium-sized flowers where 4 lower petals are coral to salmon pink and the upper fifth petal is orange. Flowers usually o ...
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Klondyke is a deciduous azalea with charming, deep golden-orange, sweetly scented flowers. Their colour is dark and warm and looks fascinating combined with purple-blue or dark violet. Inflorescence are composed of 7-9 flowers, each is about 7 cm wide. It grows nearly as tall as ...
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Northern Hi-Lights is a slow-grower with creamy white flowers that grade to pale or bright yellow on top petals. Buds are light pink. Leaves are dark green and turn brilliant carmine and burgundy red in autumn.
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Parkfeuer is a striking and large deciduous azalea bred by Hans Hachmann from Germany in 1969. It makes large, strongly scented, rich fiery red flowers from mid May for 2-3 weeks. Deciduous leaves are mid green, oval to ell ...
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Persil is a deciduous azalea with large, white flowers that have a light yellow blotch and nice fragrance. Deciduous leaves are mid green. It grows at medium speed, some 20-25 cm per year, forming an airy shrub with almost equal height and spread.
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Sarina is a large-flowered variety of this deciduous azalea, bred by Hans Hachmann already in 1963. Its flowers are rich scarlet red, slightly frilled at margins, and have a large, golden orange blotch on the upper lip. Fra ...
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“Satan” variety definitely sticks to its name. Large trusses of rich red funnel shaped flowers appear in mid May. This shrub is slightly larger than others, growing 2m tall and wide.
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Amoena is a Japanese azalea with small to mid-sized, bright, deep fuchsia pink flowers, hose in hose, that totall cover the plant when in full bloom. They come out in mid May and continue until early June. Thanks to their bright colour it will light up the daker corners of your ...
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Anouk is an extraordinary variety of dwarf habit but with large flowers. It grows slowly into a ground-covering shriu with less conspicuous horizontal layers. The flowers are pink and rather wide, when in full bloom they look as if someone dropped a basket of freshly cut rhododendron f ...
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Arabesk is an attractive variety of Japanese azalea with large, deep red flowers. They come out in profusion from mid until end May. The evergreen foliage is dark green, with some burgundy red shades in autumn and winter, changing back to green before it starts flowering. This a ...
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Blaauw’s Pink has attractive, salmon pink small flowers with slightly darker throat. It has irregular growth and belongs to mid-sized azalea.
Leaves are mid to dark green, ovate, only about 2-3 cm long. In semi-shade and shade they remain on the shrub throughout winter, if pla ...
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Blue Danube is a German variety of Japanese azalea. It is a slow and dense growing plant with profusion of large, 3-4 cm across, widely open, purple-violet flowers with a darker blotch just like rhododendrons have. Leaves are small, almost flat, elliptic to oval, deep green and ...
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Canzonetta is a Japanese azalea bred by Hans Hachmann in 1987, and is still among the most popular varieties until today. The reasons are rich colour, compact shape, and reliable evergreen foliage.
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Elsie Lee is a fantastic Japanese azalea variety bred already in 1960. It produces large, 5-7 cm across, double flowers of pastel pink colour. They come out in profusion usually from mid May for 2-3 weeks. Evergreen leaves ...
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F.C.F. is, so far, a non-registered variety of Japanese azalea from Italy. This small shrub produces abundance of semi-double flowers already in mid May. They are rich pink and completely cover the plant. The evergreen leav ...
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Girard’s Rose is another Girard azalea variety that originated in Girard Nurseries in Ohio, USA. Flowers of this one are bright rosy pink and open up in May. The evergreen foliage is mid green, turning deep burgundy r ...
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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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Hachmann's Rokoko is another beauty from the collection of dwarf or low growing Japanese azaleas bred by German rhodo/azalea guru Hans Hachmann. It produces medium large, about 5 cm across, semi-double flowers of rich pink ...
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Hino Crimson (or Hino-Crimson) is an evergreen azalea with rich red flowers. They are 3-4 cm across and have prominently rounded petal tips. They come out in profusion usually from mid May for 2-3 weeks. Evergreen leaves ar ...
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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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Johanna is extremely popular for its deep red flowers anddark leaves. It flowers so abundantly that leaves almost disappear under the cloud of flowers. It is a slow grower forming a nice, mounding, compact shrub.
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Königstein is an old fortress near Dresden, Germany, as well as a name for this Japanese azalea. It was bred at Pillnitzer castle gardens, close to Königstein fortress. It is a slow and dense growing plant with profusion of large, 3-4 cm across, widely open, purple-violet flowers with ...
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Kurume azaleas are supposed to be a species of its own. Still, most of them were hybridized with other species or varieties so now they are all classified as Japanese azaleas, at least in commerce. Lysander is one of those ...
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Maruschka® is a lovely name for a lovely azalea. Who knows which Maruschka made the breeder Hans Hachmann give this gorgeous plant an East-European name in 1988. This Japanese azalea is a low growing plant with profusion of mid-sized bright red flowers in May. Wen in full b ...
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Palestrina is a Japanese azalea with snow white, medium-sized flowers with tiny green dots in the throat. It has irregular growth and belongs to mid-sized azaleas. Flowering begins in early May and continues for about one month.
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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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Radja is an old and reliable hybrid of hardy evergreen azalea. It produces bright, warm red, open wide, single flowers and they come out in profusion from about mid May for 2-3 weeks on the background of small, dark green, ...
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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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After a success of variegated azalea cultivars Silver Sword and Hot Shot Variegated, there is a new one called Silver Qu ...
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Sometimes variety names do tell what the plant looks like. Silver Sword is a Japanese azalea with narrow, elliptic leaves that are green in the cetre and almost white at the margins and with a little bit of imagination they may look like tiny swords. Pink flowers are mid-sized a ...
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Silvester is a Kurume hybrid of Japanese azalea. It has small, pale purple-pink fowers. These hybrids are renowned for their hardines and soil adaptibility. It flowers early, from end April until mid May. Slow grower, mound-forming.
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Stewartstonian is becoming the most sought-after evergreen azalea with red flowers. The red is soft, almost orangey red, as far as we can talk about orange in Japanese azaleas. It grows moderately and forms a fairly compact shrub that does not need to be pruned.
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GEISHA PURPLE is another gem out of the GEISHA series of Japanese azaleas. It produces a profusion of small, hose in hose, semi-double, mauve purple flowers with frilled margins. Th ...
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FLASH DANCE® is a modern series of evergreen azaleas from French nursery Minier from 2017. FLASH DANCE® SALMON produces large, single flowers that are soft salmon pink, an ...
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FLASH DANCE® is a modern series of evergreen azaleas from French nursery Minier from 2017. FLASH DANCE® PINK produces semi-double flowers with two rows of larger petals, ...
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Satschiko azalea is sold under a trade name Geisha Orange and is really very close to orange. It has very soft red flowers with salmon orange tones. They open from late April and bl ...
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WALBERTON’S® MAUVE RUFFLES is an evergreen azalea producing extraordinary flowers. They are large, semi-double or fully double, mauve to lilac pink with ruffles margins. They open in profusion from about late Apr ...
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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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Multiflora (or Multiflorum) is a small and compact Japanese azalea with rich purple red, double flowers. They are small to medium-sized, hose-in-hose, and open in profusion from mid ...
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This is original, non-hybridized species of Turkey origin. Its heavily scented flowers are lemon to bright yellow with narrower tepals. They open fully into a shape of a star. Grows medium fast to 3m tall and wide.
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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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Nuccio’s Lucky Charm is another fascinating Satsuki azalea. This hybrid bears medium-large flowers of dusky pink colour. The first buds begin to open on the first hot days of June (usually mid of the month) and continue blooming for as long as 4 weeks. It was bread by Nucc ...
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Nuccio’s Wild Cherry is one of those great Satsuki azaleas with large flowers. They are cherry red with a light burgundy red blotch. It was bread by Nuccio Nursery of Southern California wich is a leading nursery for Satsuki azaleas and camellias. The flowers appear from e ...
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Orchidea Empress is a gorgeous name for a gorgeous azalea. It is another of late flowering hybrids, this time with bright pink, hose-in-hose flowers that appear from about mid June for 3-4 weeks. It is never the whole shrub blooming, individual buds burst out continuously one by ...
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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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Royal Pink is a great name for a great plant. This Japanese azalea offers very large, double flowers of clear pink colour. They are 8-9 cm across and come out from mid May until early June. In late May the shrub is literally flooded by the profusion of flowers that almost comple ...
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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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Verbania is a medium late hybrid azalea named after a spa town from North Italy, close to a nursery where it originated. It makes medium large, hose in hose, creamy white flowers with a very elegant, thin, salmon pink margi ...
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