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Although this incense cedar is one of the most sought after conifers of the south, it seems to perform much better in Czech climate thanks to cold and wet winters. It needs a lot of sun in summer though to keep its varigated leaves golden. Though, if the sun is not as hot as in the Mediterranean, fo ...
5 - 10m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Aphrodite is a beautiful, large-flowered sweetshrub hybrid between c.chinensis and c.occidentalis. The flowers are often compared to magnolias - both in shape and size. They are 7-9 cm across, rich crimson to burgundy red, and appear with the first hot days of May, and continue blooming until late J ...
V - VIII
3 - 4m
2 - 3m
full to partial sun
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
Alba Simplex is a spring flowering hardy camellia whose origin, despite the availability of multiple historical sources, is rather uncertain. One source claims that it comes from China but does not support it with any further details. Another source says it comes from Germany, registe ...
III - IV
2 - 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
The cultivar Monumentalis is a true delicacy among hornbeams. It is an extremely slow‑growing variety with a strictly conical habit, resembling a green obelisk. It grows only a few centimetres per year, reaching around 4–5 metres in height and 1–2 metres in width. The leaves are deciduous, bri ...
2 - 4m
1 - 2m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Katsura tree is native to China and Japan, and thanks to its versatility it has found many fans among both professionals and general gardening public. It is a large deciduous shrub or very rarely a tree (uneasy to train it into a tree with one central leader). Its leaves emerge pale bronze and quick ...
10 - 15m
3 - 6m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
THE RISING SUN™ is an American variety of Eastern redbud found by Ray and Cindy Jackson for their Jackson Nursery in Belvidere, Tennessee, as a chance seedling. It boasts large, 10-14 cm long and wide, broadly heart-shaped leaves which emerge bright golden or orange while older leaves are bright yel ...
IV - V
2 - 4m
2 - 4m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Venus® is a trade name for this lovely plant. It is truly much nicer than the original variety name “KN30-8”. It is as mathematical as the breeding equation: (cornus kousa „Chinensis“ x cornus nuttalli „Goldspot“ ) x cornus kousa „Rosea“. The res ...
VI - VI
2 - 4m
3 - 5m
full sun
5 (down to -29°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
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Empress of China Chinese dogwood stands out above all for its abundant and reliable flowering on a fully leaved, evergreen plant. It produces striking, snow‑white bracts approximately 6–8 cm across, appearing in great numbers and creating an exceptionally clean, almost porcelain‑like eff ...
VI - VII
3 - 5m
3 - 4m
full sun
6b (down to -21°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
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
Smoke tree might have a slight problem these days when smoking outside becomes prohibited ... just joking, the alleged smoke is what flowering of this shrub looks like. It blooms from
June to July and from a distance the clusters do look like purple smoke. The leaves of Royal Purple are deep burgund ...
VI - VII
2 - 5m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°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
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
Elegans Viridis is one of those Japanese cedar cultivars that one remembers at first sight. Even as a young plant it looks as if it were wrapped in soft, delicate feathers that ripple lightly with every breath of wind. The needles are soft and threadlike yet structured, held on the branches in dense ...
2 - 6m
2 - 3m
full to partial sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Gold Rider is still quite new in the Leyland cypress family. It produces flattened sprays of bright yellow-green, scale-like leaves. The branches are not pendent, not erect. Something in between and that makes it stand apart from chamaecyparis. The big advantage of Leyland cypress is the fact that i ...
2 - 10m
2 - 4m
full to partial sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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Fastigiata Arizona cypress is a favourite even in gardens where conifers aren’t typically welcome, thanks to its distinctive character, texture, and color. It grows upright and compact, with branches forming a sharper angle with the trunk, emphasizing its columnar habit. The foliage is soft to the t ...
5 - 10m
2 - 5m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
The cultivar Fastigiata Aurea of the Arizona cypress is a true delicacy among conifers. It likely originated as a horticultural selection in France during the second half of the 20th century, although precise details about its development are not documented in the literature. Unlike ‘Fastigiata’, it ...
3 - 6m
1 - 2m
full sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
The cultivar Sulphurea of the Arizona cypress was bred in France in 1963 and stands out like a sunbeam among conifers – its young shoots shine with a bright yellow hue that gradually matures into a warm chartreuse tone but never fades completely. It grows upright, with looser branching than ‘Fastigi ...
3 - 6m
2 - 3m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Now for the cultivar Totem. The name itself suggests a plant with the character of a sculpture – and that is exactly what it is. Totem is an extremely narrow, columnar cultivar of Tuscan cypress, like a green sword thrust into the ground. It grows slowly yet steadily, holding its shape like a soldie ...
4 - 8m
0,5 - 1m
full sun
7 (down to -18°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Drooping Solo is a Lawson cypress variety discovered by a Dutch conifer lover and horticulturist Wiel Linssen from Baexem. It was a seedling mutation of Imbricata Pendula, a similar variety of much taller but narrower habit. Drooping Solo forms dense shrubs of a broadly pyramidal shape with drooping ...
2 - 3m
1,5 - 2m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Ellwood's Empire is a natural mutation of an old and proved Ellwoodii Lawson cypress. Its scale-like needles are medium green with blue-green hues, and in spring its tips emerge bright lime-green or almost yellow-green which makes the whole shrub look very fresh and bright. It grows rather slowly in ...
1,5 - 2,5m
0,5 - 1m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Cypress trees and shrubs are very popular for their variable shapes, leaf types and colours. Variety Columnaris has blue needles and compact shape. It does not grow wider than 1m which makes it ideal for hedges that are only trimmed at the top. Mature plants can reach 6-8m in many decades, they are ...
3 - 6m
1 - 1m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Burgundy is a beautiful variety of desert willow of untraceable origin, possibly a selection of Rio Salado with slightly paler flowers. Burgundy desert willow makes deep maroon, velvety flowers with white and yellow stripes in the throat. They are slightly fragrant and formed in narrow, terminal, up ...
VI - IX
2 - 5m
2 - 4m
full sun
6 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
The cultivar SUMMER BELLS of chitalpa boasts abundant and prolonged flowering throughout summer, from June to August. The inflorescences are upright clusters shaped like slender pyramids, reaching 10 to 20 cm in height, composed of exquisite orchid‑like blossoms that combine light pink to lila ...
VI - VIII
4 - 6m
3 - 4m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
