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Salix integra 'FLAMINGO'
(dappled willow)

Flamingo is a newer sport of so popular Hakuro Nishiki dappled willow from 1979. It was found in a Dutch nursery Salixkwekerij Bontekoe, and boasts earlier colouring of new leaves and twigs that are rich pink, just like fla ...


	1.5 - 3.5m	1 - 3m		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 udensis 'GOLDEN SUNSHINE'
(Japanese fantail willow)

Golden Sunshine willow makes very elegant, narrowly lance-shaped, deciduous leaves which emerge bright yellow green, mature golden yellow in summer, and turn chartreuse in late summer and autumn. They are 7-10 cm long and w ...


	2 - 4m	1.5 - 3m		5b (down to -27°C)	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 SENSATION® DEEP BLUE
(wood sage)

SENSATION is a superb new perennial salvia series. All of its varieties are truly sensational offering low, very dense and compact habit with profuse flowering. Sensation Deep Blue


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

Salvia nemorosa SENSATION® DEEP ROSE
(wood sage)

SENSATION® is a superb new perennial salvia series. All of its varieties are truly sensational offering low, very dense and compact habit with profuse flowering. Sensation® Deep Rose


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

Sambucus nigra 'LINEARIS'
(European elder)

Linearis is a beautiful but rare elder variety with exceptionally fine leaves. The foliage is so thin you wonder if it's the fairies and elves who come every night to cut them so delicately. In May open creamy white, fragra ...


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

Sambucus nigra 'Eva' BLACK LACE®
(European elder)

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 ...


	2 - 3m	1.5 - 2.5m		5 (down to -29°C)	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

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

Saponaria 'BRESSINGHAM'
(soapwort)

Soapwort is a herbaceous plant native to Europe and Asia, closely related to lychnis and silene. Its name refers to saponins contained in leaves and stems which were used to produce soap in the past. In horticulture mostly perennial species are cultivated.


	0.1 - 0.2m	0.3 - 0.5m		5b (down to -27°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

Saxifraga 'PETER PAN'
(mossy saxifrage)

Peter Pan is a mossy saxifrage variety with beautiful rich red flowers atop thin, about 10 cm tall stems. It forms a compact clump of evergreen, soft green leaves. Flowers come out in profusion from mid spring and create a ...


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

Scabiosa columbaria 'BLUE NOTE'
(small scabious)

Blue Note is a dwarf variety of scabious with large, rich lavender blue flowerheads with domed, pincushion-like central florets and larger marginal florets. They appear in profusion on about 10 cm tall, slender, well-branch ...


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

Sciadopitys verticillata 'GRÜNE KÜGEL' (GREEN BULLET)
(Japanese umbrella pine)

Green Bullet is an English alternative variety name for a Japanese umbrella pine from Germany where it is sold as Grüne Kügel. It boasts a compact, almost perfectly spherical habit ...


	1 - 1.5m	1 - 1.5m		5 (down to -29°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 '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 'XENOX'
(ice plant)

Xenox is a Dutch ice plant variety bred by a very skillful breeder of perennials Hubertus Gerardus Oudshoorn. It was selected from cross-pollinated seedlings of sedum telephium in 2003. The new plant is notably compact R ...


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

Sedum cauticola 'LIDAKENSE'
(cliff stonecrop)

Cliff stonecrop is Japanese native plant popular for its compact growth and profuse flowering. Lidakense is one of the top varieties producing small, oval, deciduous, silvery blue-green leaves flushed with purple pink, and ...


	0.1 - 0.1m	0.2 - 0.4m		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 spectabile 'CARMEN'
(ice plant)

One might wonder why there are so many pink flowering ice plant varieties, aren’t they all the same? Of course not! Carmen is a great example. It makes dense, dome-like, up to 10 cm large flower heads composed of nume ...


	0.4 - 0.6m	0.4 - 0.6m			for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sedum spectabile 'ICEBERG'
(ice plant)

Iceberg is one of a few ice plant varieties with white flowers. It makes dense, dome-like heads composed of numerous star-shaped flowers that open from late summer till mid autumn. Leaves are rounded to oval, pale green. St ...


	0.3 - 0.4m	0.3 - 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

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 'FRAGRANT CLOUD'
(Japanese skimmia)

If you like the smell of Japanese skimmia in the spring, then this variety is ideal for you. Fragrant Cloud will cover you in lovely, sweet lilac-like perfume. It is a luxurious, evergreen plant with small, white flowers that open from lime green flowers buds formed in fat, upri ...


	0.3 - 0.8m	0.5 - 1.3m		5b (down to -27°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Skimmia japonica 'OLYMPIC FLAME'
(Japanese skimmia)

Japanese skimmia is one gorgeous evergreen plant of low size which does even better with a bit of neglect. Olympic Flame is a female variety which produces number of vivid red spherical fruits from autumn till spring if a male pollinator (e.g. variety


	0.3 - 0.8m	0.5 - 1.3m		5b (down to -27°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 '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 reevesiana
(Chinese skimmia)

Reevesiana is a sought after subspecies of skimmia. It is a hermaphrodite plant that does not need a male pollinator to produce berries. These are vivid red and are follow tiny, white flowers in the autumn and winter. Evergreen leaves are elongated, elliptic, deep green and glo ...


	0.3 - 0.8m	0.5 - 1.3m		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

Sophora japonica 'WINTER GOLD'
(Japanese pagoda tree)

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. The pin ...


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

Sorbus 'DODONG'
(whitebeam)

Whitebeams domesticated in our landscape a long time ago and do well. Some are showy, others are more useful than pretty, yet worth growing. Dodong is a variety which originated from seeds that were collected on Korean island Ullung Do in 1976. The tree was named a ...


	6 - 10m	3 - 6m		5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sorbus aria 'LUTESCENS'
(whitebeam)

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 ...


	5 - 9m	2 - 3m		5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sorbus aria 'MAGNIFICA'
(whitebeam)

Whitebeam is a European native from warmer regions of our country. It is a long-lived tree, able to cope with air-pollution and heavy clay soil which most other trees may find difficult to adapt to, which is why it has become common in public landscaping.


	5 - 12m	3 - 4m		5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Sorbus aucuparia 'EDULIS'
(mountain ash)

Mountain ash is a common tree in our country. In the 19th century a variety with edible fruit was found in Moravia, Czech Republic, it is called Edulis. It bears deciduous, pinnate leaves composed of deep green leaflets, serrated at margins. They change to orange, red and ye ...


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

Stewartia pseudocamellia
(Japanese stweartia)

It is our utmost pleasure to offer this summer-blooming beauty: false camellia. It comes from moist woodlands of North America and eastern Asia (Japan, China, Vietnam, Nepal). It belongs to the same genus theaceae like camellia and tea. Its main attraction are the flowers. They are 6-7 cm ...


	4 - 6m	1 - 3m		5 (down to -29°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 'MEGA MELS'
(Stoke's aster)

Mega Mels is a provocative variety of Stoke’s aster producing enormously large flowers that are 10-12 cm across! It was found by Dutch grower Adrianus van Heesbeen from Rijsbergen. The flowers have cornflower-like flo ...


	0.4 - 0.5m	0.3 - 0.4m		6 (down to -23°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 'JUNE SNOW'
(Japanese snowbell)

June Snow is a narrowly columnar variety of Japanese snowbell with strictly upright branches which produce a profusion of small, snow white, sweetly scented flowers in June for a longer period than other varieties. They are ...


	6 - 10m	1 - 1.5m		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 'REDWINE'
(Canadian lilac)

Redwine is a Canadian lilac of so far the deepest burgundy red colour. It sweetly scented flower are tubular, and formed in partially pendent panicles. The difference between these and common lilacs is that panicles of Canadian lilac are not as clustered as on common lilac, flow ...


	1 - 2m	1 - 2m		2 (down to -45°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 Bloomerang® 'PINK PERFUME'
(hybrid lilac)

Pink Perfume is a Dutch addition to the Bloomerang® series of re-blooming lilacs marketed by Proven Winners® in USA. The plant was bred by Andre Franciscus van Nijnatten from Zundert, the Netherlands, in 2003, and ...


	1 - 1.5m	1.3 - 1.8m		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 patula 'MISS KIM'
(lilac)

This variety was first introduced in the UK in 1954. The seeds came from Korea hence its name: Miss Kim, Kim being the most common name in Korea. The scented flowers are pure lavender-lilac colour, opening from darker purplish buds. They are formed in upright panicles that are not as ...


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

Syringa pekinensis 'YELLOW FRAGRANCE'
(Peking lilac)

Peking lilac, also called Chinese tree lilac, is a small, usually multistemmed tree from North China. It is supposed to be a subspecies of Japanese form syringa reticulata. It is cultivated for showy flowers and handsome fo ...


	3 - 6m	1.5 - 2.5m		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 'PRINCE WOLKONSKY'
(common lilac)

Prince Wolkonsky lilac belongs to double flowering lilacs. It produces erect panicles composed of pale purple pink flowers which open from bright purple red buds so the shrub looks best when some flowers are still in buds. ...


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

Syringa vulgaris 'ZHEMCHUZHINA'
(common lilac)

Zhemchuzhina is an extraordinary lilac variety from Russia, bred by V.Bibikova and J.Smolskij in 1964. The Russian name means 'pearl-like' and refers to the beautiful panicles composed of brilliant pink, semi-double flowers ...


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

Syringa x 'MINUET'
(Canadian lilac)

Minuet is a dwarf variety of Canadian lilac. It produces tubular, sweetly scented, light mauve flowers composed in erect panicles, coming out about 2 weeks later than flowers on common lilacs i.e. mid to end May. It grows s ...