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Salix elaeagnos 'ANGUSTIFOLIA'
(hoary willow)

Angustifolia is a subspecies of hoary willow from South and Central Europe. It is a dwarf version growing only 1 or 2 meters tall. It is so different from the species that many gardeners and botanists prefer its classificat ...


	1 - 1.8m	1 - 2m		4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Salix integra 'HAKURO-NISHIKI'
(dappled willow)

Hakuro Nishiki dappled willow is probably the most popular willow in our country. It originated in Japan and was introduced to Europe by a Dutch botanist Harry van den Laar in 1979. Its deciduous leaves are small, elliptic, 3-4 cm long, pea green with rich cream-white variegation. When ...


	1.5 - 3.5m	1 - 3m		4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Salix matsudana 'TORTUOSA'
(dragon's claw willow)

Salix matsudana (s.babylonica var.pekinensis)

Dragon's claw willow called Tortuosa is possibly the most popular variety of this species. It produces upright, twisted branches which become pendent with age, creating a very romantic scenery, especially with an elegant be ...


	4 - 8m	3 - 6m			for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Salvia nemorosa 'CARADONNA'
(wood sage)

Caradonna is a beautiful wood sage which looks like annual salvia farinacea, yet this beauty is a true perennial. Caradonna makes compact clumps with erect stems 40-60 cm tall, very dark purple blue, almost black, be ...


	0.4 - 0.6m	0.4 - 0.5m		4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Salvia nemorosa 'OSTFRIESLAND'
(wood sage)

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 ...


	0.3 - 0.5m	0.4 - 0.5m		4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sambucus nigra 'LACINIATA'
(European elder)

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 ...


	2 - 3m	1 - 2m		5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sambucus nigra 'Eiffel1' BLACK TOWER
(European elder)

BLACK TOWER is another child from the nursery breeding programme of popular Black Beauty and Black Lace®. It was awarded a prize for ...


	1.5 - 3m	0.2 - 1.3m			for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sambucus nigra 'Jdeboer001' GOLDEN TOWER
(European elder)

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 ...


	1 - 3m	0.5 - 1m		5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sambucus nigra 'Sanivalk' INSTANT KARMA
(European elder)

INSTANT KARMA is a unique variety of European elder, found as a natural mutation in England in 2013. It produces variegated leaves with thin, soft yellow margins when young, maturing to almost white in summer. In late sprin ...


	1.5 - 2.5m	1.5 - 2.5m		4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sambucus racemosa 'PLUMOSA AUREA'
(cut leaf red-berried elder)

Plumosa Aurea is an attractive variety of red-berried elder. It has striking foliage that will perfectly contrast with dark green or purple-leaved shrubs. The deciduous, pinnate leaves are finely cut and may look like a short fern frond. Their colour is bright golden yellow with ...


	1 - 3m	1 - 2m		4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sambucus racemosa 'Smnsrd4' LEMONY LACE®
(cut leaf red-berried elder )

LEMONY LACE® is a compact, brightly coloured variety of red-berried elder. It has striking foliage that will perfectly contrast with dark green or purple-leaved shrubs. The deciduous, pinnate leaves are finely cut and ...


	1 - 1.5m	1 - 1.5m		3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Santolina chamaecyparissus
(lavender cotton)

Lavender cotton is a fantastic low, mound-forming shrub with very attractive silvery blue, finely textured foliage. It is evergreen so it decorates your garden all year round. Moreover, in summer in produces masses of small, vivid yellow flowers heads on long stalks. Leaves have an interestin ...


	0.3 - 0.6m	0.5 - 1m		6 (down to -23°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sassafras albidum
(white sassafras)

Sassafras is a beautiful tree, originally from China, Taiwan and North America, with attractive leaves. It has irregular growth making each one a specimen. The leaves are fresh green, mostly 3-lobed with rounded ends, however on one plant you will also find leaves with 2 lobes, and also le ...


	6 - 10m	2 - 3m		4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sciadopitys verticillata
(Japanese umbrella pine)

Japanese umbrella pine is an exquisite-looking conifer with dark green needles. They are glossy, 5-12 cm long and grow in whorls of 15-20. They are borne at the shoot-tips like the spokes of an umbrella, hence it name. In Japan it grows some 10m tall, however, in our climate you can count ...


	1.5 - 4m	1 - 2m		5b (down to -27°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sedum
(groundcovering stonecrops)

Groundcovering stonecrops are alpine perennials which are available in so many species and varieties that everyone can find his favourite. They are native to almost all continents including their coldest parts, except for Australia and Antarctica. They are culti ...


	0.1 - 0.2m	0.3 - 0.8m		3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sedum 'RED SPARKLE'
(cliff stonecrop)

Red Sparkle is a cliff stonecrop of neat habit. In spring emerge small, elliptic leaves which later change to broadly oval to almost rounded. They are pale green with dusky red hues. From midsummer are formed wide, flat pan ...


	0.2 - 0.3m	0.3 - 0.5m		4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sedum 'HERBSTFREUDE'
(orpine)

Autumn Joy is a much easier name to pronounce than its German original Herbstferude. This orpine has large, oval, light green, thick leaves. In late August it produces almost flat cymes of deep pink flowers. They continue blooming until mid autumn and even after flowering they ...


	0.3 - 0.4m	0.3 - 0.4m		4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sedum 'CHOCOLATE CHERRY'®
(ice plant)

Chocolate Cherry®, yummy! Though inedible, this ice plant invented by Dutch breeder Marco van Noort was named aptly describing the coloration of flowers and foliage. It makes small, only about 4cm across, dome-like inf ...


	0.2 - 0.3m	0.3 - 0.4m		4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sedum 'MR.GOODBUD'
(orpine)

Mr.Goodbud is an excellent new variety of orpine from TerraNova Nurseries that was patented in 2005. This beauty was bred to achieve the best possible colour and dense habit and the result is amazing. Mr.Goodbud prod ...


	0.3 - 0.4m	0.4 - 0.5m		4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sedum TOUCHDOWN™ 'Teak'
(orpine)

TOUCHDOWN™ Teak orpine will instantly catch your attention when passing by a bed with many orpine varieties. It has such a rich purple brown colour of leaves that remains deep and vibrant from spring till autumn. They ...


	0.3 - 0.4m	0.3 - 0.5m		4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sedum spectabile 'BRILLANT'
(stonecrop)

Brillant is a spectacular stonecrop variety with vivid pink flowers that could only be compared to Neon variety, but with larger flowerheads. Individual flowers are numerous, small, star-shaped, formed in almost flat termin ...


	0.3 - 0.4m	0.4 - 0.5m		4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sedum takesimense 'Nonsitnal' ATLANTIS
(Korean stonecrop)

Korean stonecrop was first described by Japanese botanist Takenoshin Nakain at the beginning of the 20th century. It is a groundcovering species with thick foliage and small flowers. The new variety ATLANTIS was easy to fin ...


	0.1 - 0.1m	0.3 - 0.5m		4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sedum telephium 'MUNSTEAD DARK RED'
(orpine)

Munstead Dark Red is a good old buddy in the world of orpines. We can call it a classic now as it gained so much well-deserved attention and praise, and is still among the top stonecrop varieties. It produces pale but darke ...


	0.4 - 0.6m	0.4 - 0.5m		4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sempervivum CHICK CHARMS®
(houseleek)

CHICK CHARMS® is a fascinating and beautiful series of hens and chicks from 2017 bred by garden Solutions, LLC, from Michigan, USA. 2020 they registered 18 different varieties, all of them beautiful and one of them is ...


	0.1 - 0.1m	0.2 - 0.4m		4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sempervivum, Jovibarba
(houseleek)

Houseleek is in fact a plant of two genus - sempervivum and jovibarba. They are so similar that the trade does not really differentiate them, possibly also because sempervivum is an accepted synonym for jovibarba. Houseleek comes from mountainous regi ...


	0.1 - 0.2m	0.2 - 0.5m		4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sequoiadendron giganteum 'GLAUCUM'
(Giant redwood)

Glaucum giant redwood is a smaller variety of this evergreen conifer with glaucous needles. It was first described by Christoph Friedrich Otto in 1860. Its habit is very narrowly conical even at older age. If sufficiently i ...


	15 - 30m	3 - 5m		5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Silene dioica 'ROLLIES FAVOURITE'
(campion)

Silene dioica (Lychnis hybrida 'Rolly's Favourite')

Rollies Favourite (syn. Rolly's Favourite) is a long flowering, eye-catching campion variety with rich pink flowers composed in terminal panicles atop 35-40 cm tall stems from early May until July. It was bred by Hubertus G ...


	0.3 - 0.4m	0.3 - 0.5m		5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Skimmia japonica 'PABELLA'
(Japanese skimmia)

Pabella is a compact, slow growing, female skimmia variety producing tiny fragrant flowers in early spring, which are followed by small, spherical, red and very glossy fruit if pollinated by a male variety (e.g.


	0.3 - 0.5m	0.5 - 0.6m		5b (down to -27°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Skimmia japonica 'PEROSA'
(Japanese skimmia)

In 2017 Dutch grower T.C. van Eijk comes with a gorgeous new variety of Japanese skimmia with variegated leaves. There have been a few skimmias with variegated foliage already but they are dwarf. Perosa is not and though it ...


	0.3 - 0.5m	0.5 - 1m		6 (down to -23°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Skimmia japonica 'RUBELLA'
(Japanese skimmia)

Skimmia is a very nice small shrub, often used as a groundcover. It comes from Japan and the Himalayas. It needs a shady spot or a semi-shade as it loses leaf colour and suffers from sunburn in full sun. In the spring it has clusters of tiny fragrant flowers. It needs well cultivated, permeable, aci ...


	0.2 - 0.6m	0.3 - 0.8m		5b (down to -27°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Skimmia japonica 'Moerings1' WHITE DWARF®
(Japanese skimmia)

WHITE DWARF® is a dwarf, male Japanese skimmia variety. It has evergreen, leathery, broadly elliptic, deep green, and glossy leaves. In early spring it produces large clusters composed of tiny, creamy white flowers with yellow anthers. They are strongly ...


	0.3 - 0.4m	0.4 - 0.6m		5b (down to -27°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Skimmia japonica 'MARLOT'®
(Japanese skimmia)

Skimmia japonica (syn. 'Godrie's Dwarf')

Marlot® skimmia is the mother variety of the forthcoming mutations Magic Marlot® and Mystic Marl ...


	0.2 - 0.4m	0.3 - 0.6m		5b (down to -27°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sophora japonica 'PENDULA'
(Japanese pagoda tree)

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 ...


	2 - 3.5m	1 - 2m		5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Staphylea colchica
(Colchis bladdernut)

This bladdernut species comes from Colchis - nowadays Georgia in Caucasus, and represents one of the oldest melliferous plants of the region. There are records saying that it was also grown in large pots so it could be moved to greenhouses in winter and forced to e ...


	2 - 3.5m	2 - 3m		5b (down to -27°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Stewartia monadelpha
(tall stewartia)

Tall stewartia comes from Korea and South Japan. It is possibly the tallest of the species, yet quite slender and conical growing, most often multi-stemmed tree. Its trunks are possibly the key feature why collectors and plant lovers seek after this plant. The bark ...


	15 - 25m	4 - 6m		6 (down to -23°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Stewartia rostrata
(fragrant stewartia)

Fragrant stewartia comes from South China (not to be confused with stewartia sinensis) and, as the name suggests, bears profusion of mildly fragrant flowers. Do not expect lilac's strength of perfume, just a faint, rose-like aroma. Flowers open from purple red buds ...


	4 - 6m	3 - 5m		6 (down to -23°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Stipa tenuissima 'PONYTAILS'
(feather grass)

Feather grass comes from a country where it would definitely be called maravilloso as it comes from Mexico, Argentina, and can also be found in New Mexico and Texas in USA. Ponytails is a compact and a little shorter variet ...


	0.3 - 0.4m	0.3 - 0.4m		6 (down to -23°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Stokesia laevis
(Stoke's aster)

Stoke’s aster is a genus of just this one species. I fell in love with this charming perennial the first time I laid my eyes on it when I first saw it at Plantarium exhibition in Boskoop, the Netherlands, where it was presented as a little known, showy perenn ...


	0.4 - 0.6m	0.3 - 0.5m		5b (down to -27°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Stokesia laevis 'MEL'S BLUE'
(Stoke's aster)

Mel's Blue Stoke’s aster is a chance seedling found by Adrianus van Heesbeen from the Netherlands in 2007. Compared to the species Mel's Blue has more rounded habit, more stems that are stronger and produce more flowe ...


	0.3 - 0.5m	0.3 - 0.4m		5b (down to -27°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Styrax japonicus
(Japanese snowbell)

We like offering less usual plants which are beautiful and fully hardy at the same time (we are in zone 6). This Japanese snowbell is one of them. It is a graceful, spreading, deciduous tree with almost horizontal branches that form nearly a flat canopy when mature. Its main attraction ar ...


	3 - 5m	2 - 4m		5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Styrax japonicus 'FRAGRANT FOUNTAIN'
(Japanese snowbell)

Fragrant Fountain is a weeping form of Japanese snowbell with strictly pendent branches, forming a uniform, very compact habit. Flowering begins in late May and continues for 3-4 weeks. Flowers are followed by small, hard, ...


	2 - 3.5m	1.5 - 2m		6 (down to -23°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Styrax japonicus 'PINK CHIMES'
(Japanese snowbell)

Pink Chimes is a rare variety of Japanese snowbell with pink, bell-shaped flowers that hang on short stalks underneath the leaved branches. Leaves are glossy, ovate to elliptic, mid to dark green, turning yellow or red in autumn. It can be pruned at the end of winter. Grow it ...


	3 - 5m	2 - 4m		5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Styrax obassia
(fragrant snowbell)

Fragrant snowbell is a large bush or a small tree which, in spite of its name, does not bear highly fragrant flowers. It is closely related to Japanese snowbell and comes from the same regions of Asia: Kor ...


	3 - 8m	2 - 4m		5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Syringa 'RED PIXIE'
(dwarf lilac)

Red Pixie lilac dates back to mid 20th century when Max Peterson of Ogallala Lilacs in Meadowlark Hill, Nebraska (USA) found a uniquely looking plant among other lilacs. He assumed it was a natural hybrid between two lilac ...


	1 - 1.8m	1 - 1.5m		3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Syringa 'ROYALTY'
(Canadian lilac)

Among Canadian lilacs you can also find one whose colour resembles common lilacs – thanks to its lavender or bluish-lilac flowers. Its name is Royalty. They are tubular, sweetly scented, formed in upright panicles and appear in abundance every year. The difference between ...


	1 - 1.5m	1 - 1.5m		2 (down to -45°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Syringa 'SMSJBP7' BLOOMERANG® Dark Purple
(hybrid lilac)

BLOOMERANG® Dark Purple is a hybrid lilac with dark lilac pink to light purple flowers and dark purple buds. They are tubular and composed in lose erect racemes, and open from mid May until early June and re-bloom from ...


	1.5 - 2m	1.5 - 2.3m		3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Syringa meyeri 'PALIBIN'
(Meyer lilac)

Meyer lilac comes from China and is a dwarf plant. Palibin is a variety with flower panicles that are just a little larger as opposed to the species. The colour of the flowers is lavender pink, the buds are burgundy purple. It grows very slowly, forming a dense mound, flowering ...


	0.5 - 1.3m	0.5 - 1.3m		3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Syringa reflexa
(nodding lilac)

Nodding lilac bears pure pink flowers that are formed in hanging panicles. Individual flowers are tubular and open from deep pink buds. They have a sweet scent. Oval leaves are mid green, 15 cm long, deciduous. This lilac grows about 3m tall and has arching branches so give it some space i ...


	1.5 - 3m	1.5 - 3m		3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Syringa vulgaris 'ANDENKEN AN LUDWIG SPÄTH'
(common lilac)

Andenken an Ludwig Späth (syn. Souvenir de Luis Spaeth) is a sought-after lilac variety mainly for its deep purple violet. The inflorescence is longer and narrower than on other commonly known varieties, made up of short, t ...


	2 - 4m	2 - 3m		3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Syringa vulgaris 'CHARLES JOLY'
(common lilac)

Charles Joly and Michel Buchner are probably the most common lilac varieties in the Czech Republic. The flower colour of Charles Joly is rich lilac-pink. The inflorescence is composed of single, very ...


	2 - 4m	2 - 3m		3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Syringa vulgaris 'KATHERINE HAVEMEYER'
(common lilac)

Katherine Havemeyer lilac is another unique double-flowering variety producing much darker coloured buds than opened flowers. Its panicles can be erect or slightly pendent, they are shorter than those on other common lilacs ...


	2.5 - 3.5m	2 - 3m		3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Syringa vulgaris 'PRIMROSE'
(common lilac)

Primrose is a popular lilac variety pruducing creamy white, sometimes almost light yellow flowers formed in upright panicles in mid May. Lilac flowers are very fragrant and open in early May for 3-4 weeks. Pruning is not needed but can be made immediately after flowering. Deadhe ...


	2 - 4m	2 - 3m		3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Syringa vulgaris 'SENSATION'
(lilac)

Sensation is a variety with a perfect name. Its individual flowers are deep purple to violet with rich, white margins = an eye-catcher even for those who consider lilacs far too usual. They are strongly fragrant. Stiff leaves are heart-shaped, upto 10 cm long, mid to dark green. Li ...


	2.5 - 4m			3 (down to -40°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Syringa x chinensis 'SAUGEANA'
(Rouen lilac)

Saugeana is a Rouen lilac variety producing rich lilac red to pale purple violet flowers from mid May, usually filling the gap between common lilac and Preston lilac. Individual flowers are tubular, composed in erect panicl ...