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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 'BLACK BEAUTY'
(European elder)

European elder is the father of a very new variety called “Black Beauty”, introduced in 2002 by the Dutch. It has the darkest leaves available – deep burgundy, and with its striking pink panicles of flowers it is undoubtedly the jewel in the group. Its vigorous growth helps this sh ...


	2 - 3m			5 (down to -29°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 '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 '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 '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
(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

Sciadopitys verticillata 'STERNSCHNUPPE'
(dwarf Japanese umbrella pine)

Japanese umbrella pine is an exquisite-looking conifer resembling pine thanks to its needles but botanically it has nothing in common with them. Did you fall in love with this gorgeous conifer but the species is too large for your small garden? Worries gone – ...


	1 - 2.5m	0.5 - 1m		5 (down to -29°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

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 'KEW WHITE'
(Japanese skimmia)

Kew White is a compact, slow growing, female skimmia variety from England. It is a very pretty small shrub with evergreen, leathery, narrowly elongated, deep green, and glossy leaves. In early spring open tiny fragrant flow ...


	0.3 - 0.4m	0.5 - 0.6m		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 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

Sorbus domestica
(service tree)

Service tree is becoming popular in the Czech Republic again. It is believed that hundreds of years ago it was a common fruit tree in warmer parts of the country serving people with delicious and healthy fruit. These days it occurs naturally in České středohoří and south-eastern Moravia. The ...


	8 - 12m			4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Spiraea x billardii 'TRIUMPHANS'
(spiraea)

Spiraea is a common shrub of Central-Europeans parks. This low-maintenance plant is available in many species and varieties each of which offers a different feature. Triumphans is a spiraea variety with pure pink flowers formed in erect, dense panicles. Deciduous leaves are ...


	0.5 - 1m	0.5 - 1m		4 (down to -34°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 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

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 josikaea
(Hungarian lilac)

Hungarian lilac has its origin in Rumania and obviously Hungary. It prefers cooler climates to perform well. Its sweet scented flowers are formed in upright panicles that are not as clustered as on common lilac. Their colour is pink. The individual flowers are longer and tubular and look some ...


	1.5 - 3.5m	1.5 - 3.5m		5 (down to -29°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 '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 '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 ...


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

Syringa x persica 'LACINIATA'
(Persian lilac)

This Persian lilac is a hybrid between syringa afghanica and syringa laciniata, moreover it received a variety name identical with the second parent: Laciniata. It has finely textured foliage – the leave ...