Milan Havlis - gardening

Cascade Falls is an exciting new variety of bald cypress. It is a novelty from New Zealand, patented in the USA under PP12,296 in 1999. Its eye-catching feature are its pendent branches forming several cascades from the top of the graft. It is a deciduous conifer with bright green, lin ...

Peve Minaret is the one bald cypress perfect for the smallest of gardens. This dwarf plant is a conifer with linear, bright green, deciduous leaves. The branchlets grow only a few centimetres per year forming a neat and beautiful shrub. Though it loves plenty of water you can us ...

Irish yew is a popular evergreen conifer. They are very practical due to many varieties available offering various shapes and sizes. Another advantage is that they grow well in both full sun and in deep shade. Fastigiata Aurea has strictly upright, narrow habit. It grows very ...

Irish yew is a popular evergreen conifer. They are very practical due to many varieties available offering various shapes and sizes. Another advantage is that they grow well in both full sun and in deep shade. Fastigiata Aureomarginata is a very elegant variety of yew with go ...

Irish yew is a popular evergreen conifer. They are very practical due to many varieties available offering various shapes and sizes. Another advantage is that they grow well in both full sun and in deep shade. Fastigiata has strictly upright, narrow habit. It grows very slowl ...

Lustrous dark green needles and red fruits make this yew a very attractive shrub, although quite common in moderate climate. “Hicksii” is a successful cross between the Irish yew tree and the regular yew tree. As a female plant, it produces red berries which are poisonous just like the w ...

Thyme is a low, prostrate shrub of Mediterranean origin that is commonly known as lovely spices in kitchens worldwide. Nevertheless, it is also a pretty plant that evokes the typical coastal atmosphere of Mediterranean gardens if planted in borders with other, alike shrubs. Thyme is a grou ...

Linden trees are usually large plants that can be found in broad avenues, in parks or in old villages. They are beautiful but due to their size only a few gardens can accommodate one. As the demand was so high for smaller-sized plants the breeders came with a few varieties in the last few dec ...

Cedrela = Chinese cedar is a highly decorative small tree or multistemmed shrub whose leaves and young branches when crushed release a garlic-like scent. But no worry, the plant itself has only a light spicy scent and when in bloom in has a pleasant sweet fragrance. Flamingo ...

The hardiest palm tree in the world has identity crisis. This, on the other hand, does not stop us from trying this exotic beauty in our climate. Originally from the Himalayas, it is used to long periods of frost, and sometimes snow. It likes clay soil but the constitution must be permeable. If the ...

This wagnerianus subspecies is a miniature version of the hardiest palm tree in the world – Chusan palm. It has quite stiff, deep green frond leaves with shorter stems that withstand wind better than its parent. Originally from the Himalayas, it is used to long periods of ...

Quite exotic appearance is what this perennial brings to your garden with its late summer flowering. It comes from Taiwan and is hardy in our climate, too. Toad lily it is a rhizomatous plant with erect stems bearing alternate, deep green, semi-glossy, orchid-like leaves and unusual star- ...

Quite exotic appearance is what this perennial brings to your garden with its late summer flowering. It comes from Taiwan and is hardy in our climate, too. Toad lily it is a rhizomatous plant with erect stems bearing alternate, deep green, semi-glossy, orchid-like leaves and unusual star- ...

Quite exotic appearance is what this perennial brings to your garden with its late summer flowering. It comes from Taiwan and is hardy in our climate, too. Toad lily it is a rhizomatous plant with erect stems bearing wide, alternate, light green with a yellow tint, semi-glossy, orchid-lik ...

Wheeltree is an extraordinary evergreen piece from the East (Japan, Korea, Taiwan). It is special for its spirally arranged, gently crenate leaves. They are broadly ovate to elliptic, up to 12 cm long, salmon pink as they emerge, changing through coppery to dark green in summer. They are glos ...