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Marsh marigold is our native perennial, naturally occurring from Central to North Europe as well as in North America and North Asia. It loves boggy and constantly moist locations in full sun. It is very variable and during a spring walk you can find several plants of slightly different appearance, y ...
III - V
0,2 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,6m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
This easy to grow shrub has many names and all of them say something about the beautiful perfume of the flowers: sweetshrub, strawberry shrub, or even pineapple shrub. They really smell like a few types of fruit: strawberry, apple, and even melon. Sweetshrub is native to much of the eastern USA and ...
V - VI
1,5 - 2,5m
1 - 1,5m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Venus is one of the fascinating inventions which followed Richard Hartlage’s breakthrough with hybridizing sweetshrub species in early 1990’s. This variety was bred by Dr. Thomas Ranney of the Mountain Horticultural Crops Research Station in Fletcher, NC, USA, and patented in 2005 under ...
V - VII
1,5 - 2,5m
1 - 1,5m
full to partial sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Blue camas is a delight for lovers of blue colour. This spring‑flowering bulb ranks among the taller perennials, offering a striking structure and intense colour at a time when most herbaceous plants are only beginning to gain substance. Caerulea is a result of long-term selection of forms wit ...
V - VI
0,6 - 1m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Ice Follies is a spring flowering hardy camellia from dr. Ackerman that first flowered in 1984 and was registered in 1992. It is a cross between c. x williamsii ‚November Pink‘ and c. oleifera. It produces large, 10-12 cm across, semi-double flowers. They are soft pink with a bit darker pink veins. ...
IV - V
2 - 3m
1,3 - 1,5m
semi-shade to shade
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Pink Icicle is a showy, large-flowered hybrid camellia bred by dr. Ackermann from the United States National Arboretum. Its semi-double, soft pink flowers are 11 cm across, and open in April for 6-8 weeks. Leaves are evergreen, obovate, gently serrated at margins, deep green, and glossy. It grows fa ...
IV - V
1,8 - 2,5m
1,3 - 1,8m
semi-shade to shade
6b (down to -21°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Spring Frill is a spring flowering hardy camellia from dr. Ackerman that first flowered in 1985 and was registered in 1992. It is a cross between c. oleifera ‚Plain Jane‘ and c. vernalis ‚Egao‘. It produces large, 10-12 cm across, rose-like, double flowers with 34 frilled, rose-pink p ...
IV - V
2 - 3m
1,3 - 1,5m
semi-shade to shade
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Adeyaka means Fascinating in Japanese, and the name was aptly chosen for this special Japanese camellia. It produces uniquely bell-shaped (but not nodding) flowers, 6-8 cm across when fully open, revealing multiple yellow stamens in the centre. The colour is rich velvet red, and flowers ap ...
III - V
1,5 - 3m
1,5 - 2m
semi-shade to shade
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Dr. King is a Japanese camellia cultivar, a spring-flowering one, first introduced in 1944 by the Australian nursery Camellia Grove Nursery. It is a large-flowered cultivar with semi-double, highly decorative blooms measuring approximately 8 to 10 cm in diameter. The flowers display a distinctive sh ...
IV - V
2 - 3,5m
2 - 3m
semi-shade to shade
7 (down to -18°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Fire and Ice, or Fire’n’Ice is a rock’n’roll among hardy Japanese camellias, and possibly the largest flowering double, red, hardy camellia so far. Its flowers are 9-10 cm across, semi-double or fully double with shorter sepals, rich red with yellow stamens in the centre. Flowers appear from ve ...
III - IV
1,5 - 3m
1,5 - 2m
semi-shade to shade
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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Pea tree is a low-maintenance plant which is also often grown in very inhospitable locations because it can take almost anything: hard frost, dry soil, full sun, wind and absolute neglect.
Walker is a variety commonly grafted on short or medium-sized stems with weeping branches. Its deciduous lea ...
V - VI
1 - 2,5m
0,5 - 1,3m
full sun
2 (down to -45°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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Coccineus is perhaps the reddest form of red valerian you can grow. Its rich raspberry‑red flowers recall old Mediterranean façades faded by sun and sea wind, only in reverse: here the colour does not fade but holds with unexpected intensity. Its habit is as light and airy as the species, form ...
V - X
0,3 - 0,8m
0,3 - 1m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Merlot redbud, just the French grapevine variety of the same name, has leaves of the deepest wine red colour. They are deciduous, heart-shaped, and glossy. Compared to Forest Pansy they are a little smaller (abt. 10x13 cm), the plant is not as vigorous, and exhibits a more compact and denser habit. ...
IV - V
2 - 3m
2 - 2,3m
full sun
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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Alley Cat, a variety of Eastern redbud, is a gem, or perhaps even a work of art. Imagine a vibrant green coat worn by an eccentric painter who paints exclusively in white, while listening to the Toreador Song and Habanera from Carmen, splashing white paint all around in ecstasy, including on his own ...
IV - V
3 - 5m
3 - 5m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Eastern redbud is a lovely, deciduous, small tree or a large shrub where the word “love” is the key feature. Why? Because its leaves are in a perfect shape of a heart that we are used to draw as an icon. Moreover, Forest Pansy variety has burgundy red to deep burgundy brown foliage. I ...
IV - V
2 - 4m
2 - 4m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Ruby Falls is undoubtedly one of the darkest coloured little trees that will grab your attention thanks to its dark burgundy red, typically heart-shaped, approximately 8x10 cm large leaves and a weeping habit. Its crown is quite compact and the branches may soon touch the ground unless pruned on reg ...
IV - V
1 - 2m
1 - 2m
full sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Golden Falls® eastern redbud from 2020 simply continues a successful line of these trees with attractive foliage.
It was developed by Werner by crossing the weeping ‘Lavender Twist’® with the golden-leaved ‘Hearts of Gold’. The result is an elegant tree with a narrow, cascading habit and radiant ...
IV - V
1,5 - 2,5m
1 - 1,5m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
LIBERTY clematis looks as if taken straight from a lush, tropical rainforest – the colour and size of its flowers are almost unbelievable. It belongs to the Patens Group and boasts glowing neon‑pink blooms with a darker, clearly defined margin. The flowers measure 10–12 cm across, often more w ...
V - VIII
1,5 - 2m
0,5 - 1m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Clematis PARADISO truly looks like a piece of Paradise. It belongs to the Patens Group and carries large flowers 10–12 cm across. Apart from the colour, it is impossible not to notice that each tepal differs in size and often even in shape. The colouring is fantastic – very pale pink in the centre, ...
V - VIII
1,5 - 2m
0,5 - 1m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
GLORIOUS RED clematis belongs to the viticella type and shows off a rich, velvety red colour. Despite its depth, the flower never feels heavy, because its five or six petals are thinner, fairly luminous, and gently curl downwards when fully open, giving the bloom spatial depth rather than a flat loo ...
V - IX
2 - 2,5m
0,5 - 1m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
GLORIOUS CLOUD clematis, bred by J. van Zoest from the Netherlands, belongs to the viticella group and carries a distinctive, almost ethereal expression: four plump tepals that narrow noticeably towards the tips, gently arched and forming a light, airy star. This four‑tepal structure is unusua ...
V - IX
2,5 - 3m
0,5 - 1m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Norman Hadden is a Japanese dogwood that looks a little like a fashion trend from the 2020s – oversized. When it comes into bloom, it feels as if the tree has slipped into a set of ceremonial robes one size too large. Its bracts are unusually big, reaching 10 to 15 centimetres, placing it among the ...
V - VI
4 - 6m
3 - 5m
full to partial sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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The cultivar Variegata elevates the natural beauty of giant dogwood not by one, but quite possibly by three levels at once. It bears striking green‑and‑white variegated leaves, whose broad creamy margins resemble sugar icing on the tiers of a wedding cake – hence the common name Wedding ...
IV - V
4 - 8m
3 - 6m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Japanese dogwood is a showy, beautifully structured deciduous shrub native to Asia. It most often flowers in June and, like many plant species, it is something of a trickster, because the attractive parts visible at first glance are not the true flowers themselves but the coloured bracts surrounding ...
V - VI
3 - 9m
3 - 9m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Milky Way is an old time favourite of the Japanese dogwood. It has snow white to creamy white flowers. Technically, they are not flowers but 4 flower bracts composed around small flower heads. They are 6-10 cm wide and conspicuous as they come out in June when the shrub is in leaf, and the foliage m ...
V - VI
2 - 4m
2 - 4m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Schmetterling is a European variety of Japanese dogwood. Its main feature that sets it apart from other dogwoods is its vigorous and upright growth. Young plants do not make many lateral branches as much as older, mature trees which produce longer branches in the upper parts of the plant, and tend t ...
V - VI
2 - 4m
1 - 3m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Teutonia is another extraordinary Japanese dogwood which, apart from its ornamental features, is valued mostly for its exquisite fruit. It is produced from small spheres, composed of tiny flowers that open from late May or early June. The showy parts are four surrounding bracts. They are broadly lan ...
V - VI
1,5 - 3m
1,5 - 3m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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SCARLET FIRE® is a proper Japanese dogwood, not a hybrid, so a plant which flowers later than American dogwoods, on already leafed-out trees (shrubs). The flowers are in fact bracts. There are 4, rich magenta pink, oval, sharply pointed bracts, composed around a small flower head, about 13 cm across ...
V - VI
3 - 4m
2 - 3m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Japanese fernleaf corydalis is a bit of a soloist among corydalis because unlike its sisters this one does not bloom in blue but yellow. It is a self-seeding biennial or short-lived perennial from the poppy family and it is quite variable in size and habit. Its natural habitat are sandy and coastal ...
V - VII
0,2 - 0,6m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Filbert is a hazelnut species from S.E. Europe and S.W. Asia and exhibits a vigorously growing many-stemmed shrub with deciduous leaves. Purpurea is an old variety with deep maroon to near black leaves. They are 5-12 cm long, 4-10 cm wide, and during summer the colour of maturing leaves changes to d ...
II - III
3 - 6m
3 - 6m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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Granatnaja is a Russian cultivar of crataegosorbus - a medium-sized tree with edible fruit. Its leaves are odd-pinnate, with lanceolate to elliptical, finely serrated leaflets that resemble hawthorn more than rowan, reflecting its hybrid origin. In autumn, the foliage turns vibrant shades of red-ora ...
IV - V
3 - 6m
3 - 4m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Carrièrei hawthorn differs from the original hybrid by a much more profuse blooming and therefore a magnificent display of fruit in autumn. It is a small to mid-sized tree whose leaves, though deciduous, remain on the tree much longer than on other deciduous trees. So no wonder that many garden ...
V - VI
3 - 5m
2 - 4m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Splendens hawthorn is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful trees of northern hemisphere not only among hawthorns. It is valued for its lush, glossy foliage and a profusion of red berries. Leaves are deciduous, broadly elliptic, serrated at margins, dark green in spring and summer, and take on vibra ...
V - VI
4 - 7m
3 - 4m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Crimson and Gold is another hybrid variety of Japanese quince, a cross between ch.japonica and ch.speciosa with large, deep crimson red flowers with superb yellow anthers which dominate the flowers like royal crowns. They commonly open in the first decade of April, howe ...
IV - V
0,5 - 1m
0,5 - 1m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Fringe tree is a very rare and beautiful small shrub or small tree. In early summer it has profusion of upto 20 cm long pendent panicles of fragrant, shiny snow-white, narrow flowers. Female plants produce bluish black berries, however, usually only male plants are sold in nurseries.
Mid to deep g ...
V - VI
1,5 - 3m
1,5 - 3m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
This variety called Aztec Pearl was bred by Peter Moore and introduced in 1989, when Hiller Nurseries celebrated their 125th anniversary. Its name perfectly describes this evergreen plant from the moment it begins to show flower buds. They are pearl-shaped, very light pink, and open into simple, sta ...
V - VI
1 - 2m
1 - 2m
full to partial sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
AZTEC GOLD is a Hillier Nurseries introduction from 2012, bred by Alan Postill. It is a bright golden-yellow-leaved choisya shrub. It produces profusion of simple, star-shaped, pure white, and very fragrant flowers with yellow stamens from late April until early June. Their perfume is very similar t ...
V - VI
0,8 - 1,3m
1 - 1,5m
full to partial sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
GREENFINGERS® is a large-leaved Mexican orange variety from 2019, developed by Peter Catt from Liss Forst Nursery in Liss, Hamshire, England. It bears evergreen, softly leathery, glossy, palmate leaves divided into 7 leaflets, which have a distinct, spicy aroma when crushed, but do not use them for ...
V
1 - 2m
1 - 2m
full to partial sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
WHITE DAZZLER is a follow-up choísie to Aztec Pearl from Peter Moore, introduced in 1991. It produces masses of simple, star-shaped, pure white, and very fragrant flowers with yellow stamens in May and June. Their perfume is very similar to orange flowers hence its name Mexican orange or Mexican blo ...
V - VI
1 - 2m
1 - 1,5m
full sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
