Milan Havlis - gardening

Amadeus is a day lily with large, carmine red flowers and a yellow-green throat. It has petals, just like all others, but shows mainly the three large ones which make the blossom look like a coloured triangle. The leaves are deep green, strong and healthy. They appear early i ...

Day lilies are flowering queens for one day. Each bloom lasts a day but there is no need to worry – every stem bears more blooms and as the plants grow older they have numerous stems each. This low-maintenance perennial is a miracle for those who have limited time to spend looking after their ...

Apricot Beauty has large flowers of deep orange colour. The leaves are deep green, strong and healthy. They appear early in the spring and persist until winter unlike spring bulbs whose leaves wither away after flowering. There are no pests or diseases they would suffer from. Even slug ...

Day lilies are flowering queens for one day. Each bloom lasts a day but there is no need to worry – every stem bears more blooms and as the plants grow older they have numerous stems each. This low-maintenance perennial is a miracle for those who have limited time to spend looking after their ...

Black Stockings is more likely a name for a Moulin Rouge dancer rather than a daylily. Its colour is deep burgundy red, almost black, with a greeny-yellow throat. Flower petals are frilled which makes the flowers look very architectural. The leaves are deep green, strong and ...

Day lilies are flowering queens for one day. Each bloom lasts a day but there is no need to worry – every stem bears more blooms and as the plants grow older they have numerous stems each. This low-maintenance perennial is a miracle for those who have limited time to spend looking after their ...

Day lilies are flowering queens for one day. Each bloom lasts a day but there is no need to worry – every stem bears more blooms and as the plants grow older they have numerous stems each. This low-maintenance perennial is a miracle for those who have limited time to spend looking after their ...

Day lilies are flowering queens for one day. Each bloom lasts a day but there is no need to worry – every stem bears more blooms and as the plants grow older they have numerous stems each. This low-maintenance perennial is a miracle for those who have limited time to spend looking after their ...

Christmas Is daylily looks as if it nicked the vivid red colour from Santa Clause’s cap. The flowers are large, with conspicuous yellowish-green throat. The leaves are deep green, strong and healthy. They appear early in the spring and persist until winter unlike sprin ...

Daring Deception is a variety with large flowers that are salmon pink or light pink with a deep carmine pink eye and petal margins. This low-maintenance perennial is a miracle for those who have limited time to spend looking after their gardens because apart from occasional watering on hot and d ...

Darla Anita is an eye-catching variety of daylily with frilled margins. The flowers have a unique combination of yellow and light salmon pink with bright yellow margins. The leaves are deep green, strong and healthy. They appear early in the spring and persist until winter un ...

Day lilies are flowering queens for one day. Each bloom lasts a day but there is no need to worry – every stem bears more blooms and as the plants grow older they have numerous stems each. This low-maintenance perennial is a miracle for those who have limited time to spend looking after their ...

Day lilies are flowering queens for one day. Each bloom lasts a day but there is no need to worry – every stem bears more blooms and as the plants grow older they have numerous stems each. This low-maintenance perennial is a miracle for those who have limited time to spend looking after their ...

Day lilies are flowering queens for one day. Each bloom lasts a day but there is no need to worry – every stem bears more blooms and as the plants grow older they have numerous stems each. This low-maintenance perennial is a miracle for those who have limited time to spend looking after their ...

Day lilies are flowering queens for one day. Each bloom lasts a day but there is no need to worry – every stem bears more blooms and as the plants grow older they have numerous stems each. This low-maintenance perennial is a miracle for those who have limited time to spend looking after their ...

Day lilies are flowering queens for one day. Each bloom lasts a day but there is no need to worry – every stem bears more blooms and as the plants grow older they have numerous stems each. This low-maintenance perennial is a miracle for those who have limited time to spend looking after their ...

Day lilies are flowering queens for one day. Each bloom lasts a day but there is no need to worry – every stem bears more blooms and as the plants grow older they have numerous stems each. This low-maintenance perennial is a miracle for those who have limited time to spend looking after their ...

Day lilies are flowering queens for one day. Each bloom lasts a day but there is no need to worry – every stem bears more blooms and as the plants grow older they have numerous stems each. This low-maintenance perennial is a miracle for those who have limited time to spend looking after their ...

Day lilies are flowering queens for one day. Each bloom lasts a day but there is no need to worry – every stem bears more blooms and as the plants grow older they have numerous stems each. This low-maintenance perennial is a miracle for those who have limited time to spend looking after their ...

Day lilies are flowering queens for one day. Each bloom lasts a day but there is no need to worry – every stem bears more blooms and as the plants grow older they have numerous stems each. This low-maintenance perennial is a miracle for those who have limited time to spend looking after their ...

Sabine Baur is for lovers of multi-coloured daylilies. This one has large flowers with frilled margins, the colours are deep red and something between beige and orange. The leaves are deep green, strong and healthy. They appear early in the spring and persist until winter unl ...

Day lilies are flowering queens for one day. Each bloom lasts a day but there is no need to worry – every stem bears more blooms and as the plants grow older they have numerous stems each. This low-maintenance perennial is a miracle for those who have limited time to spend looking after their ...

Spacecoast Scrambled offers single flowers of pure yellow colour with frilled margins. The leaves are deep green, strong and healthy. They appear early in the spring and persist until winter unlike spring bulbs whose leaves wither away after flowering. There are no pests or diseases ...

Day lilies are flowering queens for one day. Each bloom lasts a day but there is no need to worry – every stem bears more blooms and as the plants grow older they have numerous stems each. This low-maintenance perennial is a miracle for those who have limited time to spend looking after their ...

Stella d´Oro is the top brand among daylilies. It blooms most abundantly and longest of all varieties. Its flowers are bright yellow, open wide, lily-like. This low-maintenance perennial is a miracle for those who have limited time to spend looking after their gardens because apart from occasion ...

Day lilies are flowering queens for one day. Each bloom lasts a day but there is no need to worry – every stem bears more blooms and as the plants grow older they have numerous stems each. This low-maintenance perennial is a miracle for those who have limited time to spend looking after their ...

Day lilies are flowering queens for one day. Each bloom lasts a day but there is no need to worry – every stem bears more blooms and as the plants grow older they have numerous stems each. This low-maintenance perennial is a miracle for those who have limited time to spend looking after their ...

Now, a little bit of Czech film history. There is a comedy movie, very popular and funny in which the leading role belongs to a carnivorous plant with fantastic, huge flowers that ate people. For dinner. The plant had a human name: Adéla. And looking at the extra large flowers of this Czech variety ...

Little Carmine, same as Scarlet, is a Czech variety with compact habit and smaller size – it grows only about 60 cm tall. Flowers are carmine red, up to 20 cm across, very attractive. The plant makes more and more flowering stems every year. Deadheading spent flowers will ...

Luna Blush® is a very attractive Luna® range variety derived from Luna White but in this case the petals are really blushing, showing pink shades. The flowers are large, 20 cm and have a small burgundy red eye. It is a compact, dense growing perennial with sturdy stems and bush ...

Luna Red® bears large, deep red flowers, 20 cm across. It is a compact, dense growing perennial with sturdy stems and bushy growth. Deadheading spent flowers will encourage setting new flower buds. Leaves are smooth or nearly glossy above, and slightly hairy underneath, deep gre ...

Luna White® is a variety from the Luna® range, with large, 20 cm across flowers of pure white colour with a small burgundy red eye. It is a compact, dense growing perennial with sturdy stems and bushy growth. Deadheading spent flowers will encourage setting new flower buds. ...

Swamp mallow has been a sought after plant over the past couple of years and its popularity is rising as new varieties keep coming in the market. Variety name Mauvelous is a play on words, combining mauve and marvellous, both of which are true as descriptions of its flowers. ...

Rosana bears very attractive multi-coloured flowers. They are white with pink blushes at the marging and a conspicuous red eye in the middle. Flowers are 20-23 cm across and the plant grows about 1m tall. Deadheading spent flowers will encourage setting new flower buds. Leaves are s ...

Swamp mallow has been a sought after plant over the past couple of years and its popularity is rising as new varieties keep coming in the market. Scarlet is a Czech selection with deep red flowers of enormous size: 20-23 cm wide. Fat buds are deep red, too. Deadheading spent ...

Aphrodite is for those who love size in hibiscus flower size – these flowers are large, pure pink with a small burgundy red eye. The buds are big, too. It has very decorative leaves that are unique. They are narrowly palmate, 3-lobed, mid to dark green and coarsely toothed. If ...

Ardens is one of the older varieties with beautiful, mauve, double, open flowers. It tends to get harder and harder to get now that new varieties come every year. This one, however, proved to be a winner, blooming profusely and reliably every year, forming a dense shrub. It has very ...

Blue colour of Rose-of-Sharon flowers are the most sought-after. No wonder that breeder Roderick Woods came up with a new addition to his double-flowering hibiscus collection, this time in blue. The same blue as in Blue Bird (Oiseau Bleu) but with fully double blooms. The flower size i ...

CHINA CHIFFON® is another striking new variety from the “chiffon” range of hardy hibiscus. These plants are remarkable for larger flowers that are double or full. China Chiffon has snow-white petals with a small burgundy red eye in the centre with fine lines like ...

Diana has large, pure white blossoms without the purple eye, so typical for hibiscus. This makes it a very elegant flowering shrub that is popular in Californian style where masses of green leaves come first and then attractive flowers, preferable of one colour. And white remains the t ...

Rose-of-Sharon deserves more attention for its abundant flowering in mid summer. It comes from east Asia and is absolutely frost hardy. There has been a number of cultivars available since its discovery, they have various bloom colours, shapes and sizes, as well as varigated leaves. Duc de Brabant ...

Freedom is a sought-after variety thanks to the colour of flowers. They are dusky pink to reddish purple which makes this hibiscus a desired companion for other shrubs in summer gardens. It has very decorative leaves that are unique. They are narrowly palmate, 3-lobed, mid to dark ...

“Hamabo” will no doubt attract your attention thanks to its rare, pink-red veins on pale pink or almost white flower petals, each of which has its own deep red blotch in the centre. The shrub is always erect and slightly rounded with age. It has very decorative leaves th ...

Helene has beautiful flowers of 5 pure white petals with conspicuous deep purple blushes at the centre, often with veins of the same colour running from the inside. It has very decorative leaves that are unique. They are narrowly palmate, 3-lobed, mid to dark green and coarsely too ...

Lady Stanley is a gorgeous variety with semi-double to double pinkish white flowers with purple veins which come out every year in July and don’t stop blooming until all buds have gone - sometimes by end September. Towards the end of the flowering season the flowers tend to revea ...

Maike is a new variety with mid-sized or large flowers of pink colour with prominent burgundy red eye in the centre and fine lines across the petals towards the margins. There is a second portion of dwarf petals in the centre making the flower look double. It has very decorative lea ...

Rose-of-Sharon deserves more attention for its abundant flowering in mid summer. It comes from East Asia and is absolutely frost hardy. There have been a number of cultivars available since its discovery; they have various bloom colours, shapes and sizes, as well as varigated leaves. Marina has mau ...

Pink Giant® is the one with truly pink, 10-12 cm large single flowers. It has upright growth. They come out reliably every year in July and don’t stop blooming until all buds have gone - sometimes by end September. It has very decorative leaves that are unique. They are na ...

Name of cultivar Purpureus Variegatus says it all. It has striking variegated leaves. The varigation is creamy white and consistent. Flower buds are deep purple and never open fully. Hibiscus needs a sunny location and though it can withstand temporary droughts it is advisable to keep the soil moist ...

Red Heart bears snow white flowers with conspicuous burgundy red hearts, hence the name. There are often veins of the same colour running from the inside. It has very decorative leaves that are unique. They are narrowly palmate, 3-lobed, mid to dark green and coarsely toothed. If t ...

Totus Albus is a very elegant variety that bears large, 7-9 cm across, flowers of pure white colour, sometimes with dwarf lacy petals in the center. They come out reliably every year in July and don’t stop blooming until all buds have gone - sometimes by end September. Pruning is not needed. B ...

Woodbridge is an ideal choice for everyone who loves shiny-coloured flowers in summer. They are bright pink, sometimes of a faint lavender touch, with a bright red eye in the middle, small enough not to disturb the entire colour of the bloom. They come out every year in July and don’t stop blo ...

LAVENDER CHIFFON® belongs to the Chiffon group hybridized by English botanist Dr.Roderick Woods. Showy flowers are lavender pink, quite big: 7-9 cm across and look double although from the botanical point of view they are single with dwarf lacy petals in the center. They come out r ...

WHITE CHIFFON® belongs to the Chiffon group hybridized by English botanist Dr.Roderick Woods. Showy flowers are pure white and large: 7-9 cm across and look double although from the botanical point of view they are single with dwarf lacy petals in the center. They come out reliably ...

To complement the Chiffon range there is another variety of rose-of-Sharon called PURPLE RUFFLES ® that has large, 7-9 cm across, double (or even triple) purple-red flowers. Leaves are darker green than other varieties with lighter flowers. They come out reliably every year in July and don’ ...

Oiseau Bleu (syn. “Blue Bird”) has the bluest possible flowers so far hybridized. It is always a mixture of blue and violet but still it is a beautiful flower, 6-8 cm across. This variety has a deep burgundy red eye in the centre. They come out reliably every year in July and don’t ...

Swamp mallow and its hybrids have been sought after plants for the past few years now. They are perennials with sturdy stems that have large, tropically looking flowers. Fireball is a unique variety with large, about 15-25 cm across, clear red flowers from midsummer until early ...

Swamp mallow and its hybrids have been sought after plants for the past few years now. They are perennials with sturdy stems that have large, tropically looking flowers. Kopper King is a variety with large, dinner-plate-size flowers that can be anything from 20 up to 30 cm acros ...

Swamp mallow and its hybrids have been sought after plants for the past few years now. They are perennials with sturdy stems that have large, tropically looking flowers. Oak Red is a new variety with deep red, extra large flower. They are up to 20 cm across and appear from midsu ...

If you like flowers of Mauvelos® variety of swamp mellow this plant is very similar, unpatented. Its flowers are bright red with a conspicuous burgundy red eye in the middle, very large: 20-23 cm across and the plant grows about 1m tall. Deadheading spent flowers will encourage set ...

Very large flowers are synonym for this swamp mallow variety. Its name is Volcano and bears white flowers with red eye, 20-24 cm across. Stems grow about 1m tall and produce abundant quantity of flowers every year in late summer. Deadheading spent flowers will encourage setting ...

Annabelle is a famous and attractive variety of sevenbark, a hydrangea that can take almost anything. Its large flowers appear in mid summer and are lime-green as they emerge, quickly changing to fantastic pure white. They are spherical panicles, often up to 18 cm across. Leave ...

Rough-leaved hydrangea is a less common type from the group. It is an upright shrub, originated in eastern Asia. Large, up to 25 cm long, suede-like, dark green leaves are covered with tiny hairs. Inflorescence are formed in large, flattened corymbs of tiny, violet-pink to purple-mauve fertil ...

Blue Heaven® comes from the Netherlands and has the typical mop-head flowers that are heavenly blue if grown in acidic soil with pH 5.2-5.5. If you are unsure about your soil acidity buy a simple testing kit and if needed add some aluminium sulphate to reduce the pH which will incr ...

Peppermint is a very attractive hydrangea with flowers that are white, brushed pink or blue in the centre for a special bi-coloured effect. To achieve blue shade you need acidic soil with pH of 5.2-5.5, use aluminium sulphate to increase soil acidity. For pink or purple red shad ...

RED is a Forever@Ever® hydrangea with the deepest red possible. To achieve this colour you only need a slightly acidic soil with pH of about 5.5. If you are unsure about your soil acidity buy a simple testing kit and if needed add some aluminium sulphate to reduce the pH whi ...

Attention, hydrangea lovers! Are you sick and tired of never-ending grieving upon your frost-damaged hydrangeas that only make a jungle of leaves but no blossoms? Continue reading as we have a life-altering experience for you! Two decades after its discovery in the USA there is a plant being ...

Limelight® is a panicle type hydrangea, not a mop-head one with big leaves and large flowers heads. Well, how to explain then that this new variety has even bigger flowers? Never mind, let’s just call them XXL size. The panicles are upto 30 cm long, fat blossoms of gre ...

This attractive hydrangea comes from Belgium and was bred by Johan van Huylenbroeck. It was patented only in 2004 and got a peculiar name: Pinky Winky. Allegedly, the breeder was inspired by the children’s programme Teletubbies. Pinky Winky® is a panicle type hydra ...

Pink Diamond is an attractive variety of panicle hydrangea. It bears upto 30 cm large panicles of creamy white flowers that turn pink or bronze in late summer. Ovate, pointed, toothed leaves are mid green, deciduous. This hydrangea type can be pruned from end winter until end ...

Are you looking for an extraordinary climber with attractive foliage and flowers, too? Climbing hydrangea could be your perfect choice. Its natural habitat is the area east of Asia – from Sakhaline, through Japan, Korea to Taiwan. This deciduous climber offers both. The leaves are to ...

This special hydrangea comes from southeastern USA. It is an attractive mound-forming shrub with oak-like, deeply cut leaves of bright green colour turning purple-bronze in autumn. The flowers appear beginning of summer. They come in upright panicles of pure white individual flowers that open one by ...

Oakleaf hydrangea comes from southeastern USA. It is an attractive mound-forming shrub with oak-like, deeply cut leaves of bright green colour turning purple-bronze in autumn. The flowers of Harmony variety appear at the beginning of summer. They come out in heavy panicles of pu ...

Mountain hydrangea is an elegant species of hydrangeas. Preziosa is a variety with pink or red inflorescence composed of sterile flowers. Deciduous leaves are mid green and have serrated margins. They are enriched with red-purple shades same as stems which bring an extra colourf ...

This beautiful hydrangea belongs to Villosa group of rough-leaved hydrangeas. This unique variety is called Anthony Bullivent. Its flowers are composed in flattened corymbs, and consist of both fertile and sterile flowers. Fertile flowers in the middle are deep purple or violet, ...

St. John’s Wort belongs to the group of folk remedy herbs. This variety called Hidcote is grown for its large, showy flowers. They are deep yellow, 6 cm across, with 5 petals. Blooming period is quite long: the main flowering season is June to early July, and then it repea ...

St. John’s Wort is a well know perennial from our meadows and fields. The gardeners, however, selected species which are shrubby and have additional features for common use in gardens. Gemo is a new variety of this group and comes from Denmark. It is a low, dense growin ...