Milan Havlis - gardening

Castor aralia is a very rare tree from southeastern Asia. It has a dangerously looking spiny trunk with thorns whose number reduces as the plat gets older. Maximowiczii is a variety with exotic looking, extremely deeply lobed, almost dissected leaves that are upto 30 cm long. They are mid ...

Not many trees bloom in mid or even late summer when all the spring flowering beauties have only leaves. Golden-rain tree is one of the few. In late July/early August upto 30 cm long panicles of small, bright yellow flowers appear on this medium sized tree. The flowers can remain on the t ...

Coral Sun® is a fascinating new variety of golden-rain tree. It was found by Henny Kolster as a natural mutation among many seedlings in his Dutch nursery in Boskoop in 1993. For three years he had been grafting it onto the koelreuteria paniculata species rootstock and all n ...

Golden rain tree is one of the few trees blooming in summer. This variety, moreover, is yet somewhat rare. It has strictly upright habit. Flowers appear at the end of branches in late July/early August. They are upto 40 cm long panicles composed of small, bright yellow flowers, and can remain on the ...

Beauty bush is most beautiful when in full bloom. The flowers are bell-shaped, white to pink-tinged, yellow-flushed in the throat, and appear in May and June in profusion. They look like flowers of abelias. They are very fragrant. Deciduous leaves are mid green, broadly ovate. Another inte ...

Pink Cloud is a very beautiful variety of beauty bush with pink flowers. They are bell-shaped, deep pink outside, lighter pink inside with yellow-flushed throat. They come out in profusion from end May to early June. Beauty bush resembles two shrubs: leaves, bark and shape is ve ...