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Turkey olive comes from Asia Minor where it was first found in the region of Lazistan (Turkey and partly Georgia) at the Black Sea coast. It is a warm and humid subtropical climate without winter frosts, but with enough precipitation during autumn and winter, i.e., large-leaved evergreen trees thrive there as they do not need to be waterwise. The plant was discovered and described for the first time by the French botanist Édouard Louis François Balansa (1821-1891), who was famous for his research and collection of new plant species in North Africa, the Middle ...entire article
MINER’S MERLOT is undoubtedly an exquisite wood spurge variety, discovered by Keith and Jennifer Miner in California in 2015. It was a spontaneous mutation, a single seedling whose parents are probably the well-known dark-leaved form of euphorbia amygdaloides ‚Purpurea‘ (fully hardy) and euphorbia (characias x martinii) BLACKBIRD (Albanian spurge hybrid – slightly tender) that grew nearby. Since the latter ...entire article
San Jose is a Fortune's osmanthus variety developed by an influential American breeder Walter Bosworth Clarke in his nursery in San Jose, California, and introduced in 1941. It is a mid-sized shrub or a small multistemmed tree with leathery, deep green, and glossy leaves with serrated rather than spiny margins. From mid-autumn open tiny but very fragrant, pale beige flowers whose strong and sweet scent recalls apricots and tangerines. The fragrance is released mostly in the afternoon and in warm and sunny days of late ...entire article
BIG LOVE weigela is big. And loveable. It belongs to the ALL SUMMER™ series which comprises of those varieties that have the ability to bloom all summer long. Not massively but truly continuously throughout the season. It was bred by Gijsbertus Verhoef and received patent No. PP33977 in 2022, when it was first introduced to the public. This is a medium-tall but nicely compact green-leaved variety with red flowers. The strongest wave of flowering occurs from mid-to-late May to mid-June, and then blooms sporadical ...entire article
Japanese breeder Seiju Yamaguchi from Mizunami-shi in Prefecture Gigu has been working with mahonias for some time now. In 2023, he comes with a completely unique product – a hybrid of threadleaf mahonia which is the world's first registered variety with golden yellow flowers and orange buds. Its name is VOLCANO and the inflorescence resembles that of mahonia Cabaret® variety, but the foliage is entirely different.
Volcano mahonia bears evergre ...entire article
Here it comes – another coneflower variety with a tasty name: BUBBLELICIOUS. It is from the SUNSEEKERS series and has a unique shade of pink with lilac hues. The flowers are single, 6-8 cm across, strongly scented like bubble-gum and their uneven ray florets length looks frisky. Central discs are bright green and flat first, evolving to convex and rich mahogany orange. They hide plenty of nectar for butterflies, bumble bees as well as bees. Flowering begins in July and lasts until the last sunny and warm days of ...entire article
Rotundifolia is a rare form of strawberry tree with foliage that is way different. Unlike the species of arbutus unedo with lance-shaped leaves, Rotundifolia has short, oval to rounded leaves without a conspicuous tip. They are evergreen, leathery, irregularly notched along the entire margins, about 4 cm long, deep green and partially glossy. It has not been registered as a separate variety, it is still referred to as a selection with a provisional varietal name.
The twigs are mahogany brown during the growing sea ...entire article
If you are a fruit lover, you must know the tempting sound when cutting into a fully ripe watermelon. The way it is cracking under your knife and the sweet smell whip up your senses so much that once it splits in half you can’t to bite the largest chunk of its bright pink flesh. Hybridizer Glenn Spil must have felt the same way when she first spotted her creation among many other testing plants. No wonder it was later aptly named SUNSEEKERS WATERMELON. It is a modern coneflower hybrid with flowers so full that s ...entire article
VIV® Elsa is a Lenten rose from the VIV® series producing attractive flowers combining white background and deep maroon marbling. They come out early in the season – if forced, they can bloom atop 30-40 cm tall, strong, upright stems from October, otherwise from mid-winter. New flower buds are formed continuously until late winter and thanks to flowers' longevity they remain nice for about 6-8 weeks even after the stamens have fallen down. Evergreen leaves are leathery, palmate, and deep green and form ...entire article
Not even a year after the introduction of SUNSEEKERS MINEOLA in 2023, the very first semi-double coneflower with orange flowers from the SUNSEEKERS series, Innoflora launches its new and truly breathtaking orange variety whose name refers to another tasty treat: PUMPKIN PIE.
SUNSEEKERS PUMPKIN PIE coneflower bears 8-9 cm wide, semi-double flowers with 2 or 3 rows of ray florets. Upon emerging they are bright oran ...entire article
GHOST is a funny name to be given to a plant but it fits! Its large flowers are pure white and if you wonder how the breeder may have come up with the brand name, picture this: a bunch of school kids on Halloween cover themselves with plain white bedsheets, who are they impersonating? Yes, you got it – ghosts, of course! This hardy hibiscus makes large, 15-18 cm across, pure white flowers that lack a typical maroon eye in the centre which is very unique for any hibiscus species. They come out from about mid Augu ...entire article
Dark Red is a highly attractive variety of mountain fleece and is considered an improved version of Firetail, the original and very successful variety of similar appearance, just shorter flower spikes. It is a reliable perennial with large leaves and an incredibly long flowering period from July till September. The leaves are broadly lanceolate, up to 25 cm long, conspicuously veined, and their ends embrace the stem with flowers so closely making an impression that the stem cuts through the leaf. They are deep green, ...entire article
Rubra is a common name for all forms of strawberry tree with red flowers. Only those plants which also boast other distinct features were selected and registered as individual varieties. It makes evergreen, narrowly oval to obovate, 6-10 cm long, leathery leaves with serrated margins, more conspicuous closer to the tip. They are medium to dark green and glossy. The twigs are orange, reddish when young, and as the bark ages it becomes shredding and changes to a pastel mahogany color, peeling off in small flakes.
The ...entire article
ICE'N ROSES® is an attractive series of early hellebores bred by Josef Heuger from Germany. It is a cross of h. x eriscmithii or h. x ballardiae and h. x hybridus, and Josef Heuger named it in honour of his home town Glandorf: helleborus x glandorfensis. It produces dense tufts with profusion of very large flowers which in warm winters come out in profusion from early December until February. In cold (normal) winters of zones 5-6 blooming starts from late February and lasts almost 3 months. ...entire article
RASPBERRY LEMONADE™ belongs among compact ninebark varieties with a fine texture of small leaves. They are deciduous, about haf the size of the species, conspicuously serrated (notched) at margins, and three-lobed like, for example, fire maple leaves. In early spring they emerge almost yellow and mature to bright chartreuse in summer. In autumn they may gain orange hues but not in all locations. In late spring appears a profusion of small corymbs composed of white, highly melliferous flowers, followed by bright ...entire article
SWEET CHERRY TEA™ belongs among compact to dwarf ninebark varieties with one extra trait: it re-blooms in summer. Its deciduous leaves are small, conspicuously serrated (notched) at margins, and three-lobed like, for example, fire maple leaves. In early spring they emerge bright red with orange hues and mature to a rich maroon purple, while the leaves inside the shrub with limited sunlight are dark green tinged purple-brown. In autumn they turn bright purple red.
In late spring appear small corymbs composed o ...entire article
SUNSEEKERS SWEET FUCHSIA is a fully double flowering coneflower variety from 2022, first on the market in 2023. Its exquisite flowers are large, about 10 cm across, and more than a coneflower they resemble dahlias or gerberas. As the new flowers emerge, their petals are a warmer shade of salmon orange margined light green, but that lasts only a couple of days before they mature to their typical bright magenta purple colour. They release a fantastic, sweet, medium strong scent until around 3pm. The stems are strong and ...entire article
ICE'N ROSES® DARK PICOTEE is another bicoloured snow rose selection, an improvement over PICOTEE hellebore with 4-6 cm wide, snow-white flowers with darker pink to almost maroon margins and more prominent veins. Chartreuse sepals in the centre are paired with creamy white stamens. Evergreen leaves are leathery, palmate, deep green, and serrated at margins and form a compact clump. Stems are 30-40 cm tall. Flowering begins in December and the plant has flowers until April.
Hellebore likes heavy, evenly moist, neutral to alkaline, rich in humus soil in dappled shade or filtered sun. This ...entire article
Atlantic is a French variety of strawberry tree selected and introduced by the Pepinieres Minier in 1993. It boasts a neat and well-behaved habit, dense branching, and improved hardiness. Its evergreen leaves are narrowly obovate, 5-7 cm long, finely serrated at margins, they emerge bronze red and remain soft green for a long time before they mature to deep green. Always very glossy and erect. They are slightly narrower compared to Compacta variety.
Arbutus belongs to heather family (Ericaceae) which is easy to te ...entire article
Brenelia is an elegant novelty variety of Portugal laurel from early 21st century. In appearance and use it is similar to Angustifolia variety but has larger leaves with undulated margins and exhibit faster growth. The stalks and new stems are rich burgundy red not only in winter but most of the growing season. It grows moderately to fast into a broadly pyramidal shrub or tree and in our C.E. climate it reaches between 4 and 6 meters tall.
Blossoms are numerous racemes, compound of white, sweetly scented flowers i ...entire article
ICE N‘ ROSES® is an attractive series of early hellebores bred by Josef Heuger from Germany. It is a cross of h. x eriscmithii and h. x hybrida, and Josef Heuger named it in honour of his home town Glandorf: helleborus x glandorfensis. It produces dense tufts with profusion of very large flowers which in warm winters come out in profusion from early December until February. In cold (normal) winters of zones 5-6 blooming starts from late February and lasts almost 3 months. ICE N ...entire article
Red Sparkle is a cliff stonecrop of neat habit. In spring emerge small, elliptic leaves which later change to broadly oval to almost rounded. They are pale green with dusky red hues. From midsummer are formed wide, flat panicles of dark purple pink flower buds which open into small, star-shaped, coral pink flowers in late August. They provide excellent food for bees which are grateful for any flowers late in the season.
It makes dense and compact cushions, and looks great among rocks, or surrounded by white or ligh ...entire article
White Perfection is a sequel of the new Sunseekers Ipecss- series following the success of Sunseekers Salmon. It produces semi-double flowers with creamy white ray florets with lime green hues, and rather flat central discs whose disc florets are rich green with yellow tips as they mature. They hide plenty of nectar for butterflies, bumble bees as well as bees. Flowering begins later, usually in late July or early August but lasts longer – until ...entire article
Carré Rouge is a selection of Fraser's photinia from Red Robin variety. It is commonly believed to have originated in French Nantes, however, the truth is that the first plants were found in a Tuscan nursery in Pistoia, Italy, and named Mandarino. It produces smaller leaves of intensely red colour when young, maturing to deep green, yet keeping the top leaves crimson or wine red. New leaves with red colour emerge at ...entire article
Red Robin is a New Zealand selection of Fraser's photinia which is considered the first and also possibly the most successful Fraser's photinia variety of 20th century. After 20 years from its introduction it received the Award of Garden Merit (AGM) by the English Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) for great performance, beauty, and durability. It produces larger and glossier leaves with a more striking shade of red when they emerge. They are evergreen, 10-15 cm long, 4-8cm wide, highly glossy, dark green when mature, ...entire article
Scarlet oak comes from eastern parts of USA and is considered one of the toughest and long-lived species. It is quite difficult trying to differentiate it from closely related red oak (q.rubra) or pin oak (q.palustris) looking only at the leaves. Though quite variable, they are 15-20 cm long and deeply lobed just like those of the other species. You have to look up to see the canopy. Older trees of scarlet oak form almost sharply outlined, ...entire article
MAGICAL LEMON & LIME nandina comes from American town Locustville in Virgina. It is a chance seedling of open pollinated plants of nandina domestica Aurea. Its most significant features are habit and leaf colour. MAGICAL LEMON & LIME boast very compact, almost congested habit and slow growth. It pinnate leaves are composed of small, lance-shaped leaflets of vibrant chartreuse colour. The plant is evergreen in mild winters and semi-deciduous in colder regions. It was bred by Richard E. Davis for Plants Nouveau LLC and ...entire article
AZURA is undoubtedly the first reliably hardy cider gum variety of European origin. It has typically steel blue-green, rounded, highly aromatic, evergreen foliage along silvery blue stems. It grows moderately to fast and its ultimate height is expected to reach about 4-5m without pruning but it can be clipped in spring to be kept smaller. Its dramatic foliage colour and shape are impossible to imitate, and will bring a subtropical touch to your garden wherever you put it. It looks great among other green shrubs, as a ...entire article
Burkwood's sweet olive is a garden hybrid between Chinese osmanthus delavayi and Turkish osmanthus decorus. It is more beautiful and tougher than either of its parents. It boasts dense habit, profuse flowering, and handsome foliage. Evergreen leaves are leathery, ovate, 3-5 cm long, medium green, glossy, and slightly twisted. In mid spring appear small clusters of snow white, sweetly fragrant flowers in such profusion that the plant looks like covered in snow. Talking of snow - branches are very flexible and even if bent under a load of fresh we ...entire article
TINY WINE® is a dwarf ninebark variety growing only about half the size of the species i.e. about 1.5m. It produces a profusion of small leaves which are deep burgundy red overall, and dark green inside the shrub. They are serrated at margins and turn deep orange and red in autumn. In late spring appear numerous small corymbs of light red buds opening to almost white, melliferous flowers, soon followed by dark red fruit that lasts for several months. In autumn becomes visible another attractive feature which gave ...entire article
DARK DIAMOND® leucothoe is a small evergreen shrub with large, 8-10 cm long and about 4 cm wide, leathery, glossy leaves. They are acuminate and emerge rich carmine red and mature to dark green while tips of the branches keep on producing new, small, red leaves until the autumn. Then the whole shrub slowly turns to deep burgundy red and remains so until hot spring days when the leaves change back to green. In late April and May appear small, urn-shaped, insignificant, white flowers. Twigs with spent flowers shoul ...entire article
This bladdernut species comes from Colchis - nowadays Georgia in Caucasus, and represents one of the oldest melliferous plants of the region. There are records saying that it was also grown in large pots so it could be moved to greenhouses in winter and forced to earlier production of flowers.
Bladdernut is cultivated mainly for its highly decorative and strongly fragrant flowers in mid spring. They are small, white, with narrow, tousled petals, sweetly scented, composed in pendent, up to 12 cm long racemes that resemble fringe tree inflorescence. They are ...entire article
Little Flames® leucothoe is a love at first sight if you like vibrant red colours. It has short, narrowly ovate, evergreen leaves with a conspicuous tip. They emerge rich red in spring, mature to medium green with red margins in summer, and change to vibrant carmine red in autumn, and glossy wine red in winter. In late April and May appear small, urn-shaped, insignificant, white flowers. Twigs with spent flowers should be removed immediately after flowering to prevent the plant from making seeds, and thus exhaust ...entire article
Compacta is a recent selection of Evergreen (Ebbing's) silverthorn, very probably of Italian origin (not confirmed). Unlike its mother plant - the species of Ebbing's silverthorn - it makes a compact and well-behaved shrub without overgrown twigs in one season. In fact, this sport makes quite a handsome shrub. It has more prominent silvery leaves when they emerge, as if covered with stardust, which mature to glossy dark green. They are evergreen, leathery but thinner than those on cherry laurels, and somewhat wavy. An ...entire article
Sunseekers Salmon is truly a unique coneflower. Among the load of colours available today this one stands out like a proud princess who knows that she is being watched. Semi-double, large flowers have frayed ends and appear from July until October atop short and strong stems. Young, emerging flowers are a delicious shade of salmon pink with a few soft yellow petals in the centre, and mature to pale pink around a large, dark crimson red cone hiding plenty of nectar for butterflies, bumble bees as well as bees.
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PINK CRISPY photinia is a drama at first glance. Exceedingly showy foliage reveals creamy white variegation on dark green, slightly undulated, gently serrated, and broadly oval to obovate, evergreen leaves. And the real extravaganza show kicks off when new leaves emerge. They are so intensely pink you can hardly believe that this plant is not made of plastic. A true gem that can easily go solo as a stand-alone specimen in the middle of a lawn, or wisely placed among other green plants where it will take no time to pla ...entire article
MARYLINE® is a trade name for a striking selection of evergreen silverthorn, found by Albert Breneliére in France. It is a very bushy, upright growing, evergreen shrub with irregularly variegated leaves. They are leathery, oval to ovate, partially undulated, and glossy. The centres are very pale yellow maturing to deeper yellow, margins dark green, and between margins and centres are some light green highlights which make the leaves look extremely fresh and colourful. Newly emerging leaves are silvery-beige. Twig ...entire article
CAROUSEL® is an attractive series of several swamp mallow cultivars bred by Alain Tan of French Montauban. Pink Passion makes 16-18 cm wide flowers of deep pastel pink colour. They come out from mid August until early autumn atop about 80 cm tall stems. Deciduous leaves are richer red than most other varieties, palmately divided into 3 to 5 leaflets, and turn scarlet red, golden yellow and amber orange with purple pink veins and margins in autumn.
The plant is depende ...entire article
CAROUSEL® is an attractive series of several swamp mallow cultivars bred by Alain Tan of French Montauban. Pink Candy is one of its varieties and is truly as sweet as its name. The flowers are 16-18 cm across, with a deep crimson red eye in the centre producing purple pink rays running throughout the white petals making the flowers look pink-white. They appear early in the season, already from early August until early autumn atop medium short stems reaching some 80 cm tal ...entire article
CAROUSEL® is an attractive series of several swamp mallow cultivars bred by Alain Tan of French Montauban. Géant Red bears large flowers - 15-18 cm across - of deep red colour and come out from midsummer atop well-branched, strong stems reaching about one meter and forming a dense shrub. Deciduous leaves are dark burgundy red, deeply lobed and acuminate.
The plant is dependent on regular water and feed supply. Use fertilizers with enough phosphorus for abundant flower ...entire article
OBSESSED is a patented nandina variety discovered by April Hering and Adeiana Garza from Texas, USA, as a natural mutation of Gulf Stream variety in 2005. It grows slowly and makes a compact shrub with very attractive burgundy red young foliage. The leaves are pinnate, composed of small, lance-shaped leaflets which are green in summer and turn bronze red in autumn and winter. It remains evergreen in mild winters and is semi-deciduous in colder regions. Paten ...entire article
ROCKY DIAMOND BLUE HEART is the autumn gentian with late season flowering. It starts in August, producing large trumpet flowers of rich blue colour with white throat and black dots. Flowers appear continuously until the first frost. Evergreen leaves are dark green and glossy, thick, somewhat ovate to lanceolate, and pointed. This variety was selected for a neat and very compact growth.
Gentian is a slow growing, mat-forming perennial requiring zero maintenance. Plant it in humus-rich, reliably moist but well-drain ...entire article
Nandina species is believed to be the toughest of all nandinas as far as both hardiness and soil adaptability. Gulf Stream is a variety discovered by Hines Nursery from Texas, USA, and exhibits a dwarf version of this beautiful plant. It makes a neat and very dense shrub with pinnate up to 3-pinnate compound leaves. They are lance-shaped, coral pink to bronze when they emerge, changing to deep and olive green in summer, and turning bright red in autumn and winter. It makes an eye-catching display in areas occupied esp ...entire article
Evergreen magnolias are the queens of flowering trees. We choose the most beautiful and at the same time the hardiest varieties. Goliath is a cultivar found by American botanist Albert Charles Smith (1906-1999) in former Caledonian Nurseries on British island Guernsey in 1910. The nursery no longer exists, only tall trees of both historical and botanical value remained on the site and were threatened by development plans in 2004 as the site was chosen for building 8 new apartment houses.
Goliath is bushier and mor ...entire article
Brenelia is an elegant novelty variety of Portugal laurel from early 21st century. In appearance and use it is similar to Angustifolia variety but has larger leaves with undulated margins. The stalks and new stems are rich burgundy red not only in winter but most of the growing season. It grows moderately and very dense into a regular, pyramidal shrub. In our climate it reaches between 3 and 6 m tall. Blossoms are numerous racemes, compound of white, sweetly scented flowers in late May and early June. Fruits are black ...entire article
Mimosaceae plants are common and popular mainly in southern Europe for their high tolerance to drought as well as attractive and long lasting flowering. Even though they come from subtropical parts of the world there is one species hardy enough to be grown in our climate - silk tree.
Silk tree comes from Iran and is typical for its dome-shaped crown and pink flowers over a long period in summer. They are pink, hairy spheres with nearly white centres, 3-5 cm large and with a sweet fragrance. Fern-like leaves are deep green ...entire article
Viveleg silverthorn is a bushy, upright growing, evergreen shrub with irregularly variegated leaves. They are leathery, oval to ovate, partially undulated, and glossy. The centres are dark green, the margins are rich yellow, and the borderline between these two colours is light green but is not present on all leaves. Newly emerging leaves are silvery-beige. Twigs are orange-brown and the colder weather comes in autumn the deeper the colour gets.
Apart from the foliage this plant is also interesting for its almost ...entire article
BURNING LOVE® leucothoe is a keiskei species i.e. it makes narrowly lanceolate leaves with a conspicuous tip. They are evergreen, leathery, very glossy, and change colours from crimson red when they emerge to dark green when mature, and dark burgundy red from autumn till spring, when they revert back to green. The habit is very uniform and compact as opposed to the older keiskei variety Ro ...entire article
Angustifolia is a very elegant variety of Portugal laurel. Irrespective of its origin it belongs to the hardiest evergreen plants for our climate and performs better than some large-leaved cherry laurels. It has narrower leaves than the species and brighter red stalks and new twigs. In May and June appear numerous racemes, compound of white, sweetly scented flowers. Fruits are black berries, and tests proved that they are not poisonous, only seeds from unripe fruit can cause stomach discomfort if eaten in quantity.
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Fine Line® buckthorn is a gorgeous shrub which in its few years on the market has managed to gain attention of many gardeners as well as landscape architects. It is a result of cross-pollination carried out by Ronald Williams in 1989, but only in 1999 he selected plants showing stable characteristics. He had the plant patented under PP 14,791.
Fine Line® buckthorn has identical leaves to one of its parents – a href="http://www.havlis.cz/karta_en.php?kytkaid=451">Aspleniifolia variety. They are deciduous, very narrow, fern-like, linear, 10-12 cm long and so ...entire article
Nandina is an evergreen or semi-evergreen shrub from India, China and Japan. Common name heavenly bamboo refers to its crinkly leaves that really whisper like papery bamboo when touched and in stronger wind.
This is the species that is believed to be the toughest of all nandinas as far as both hardiness and soil adaptability. It is a shrub though it forms branchless upright shoots with pinnate up to 3-pinnate compound leaves. They are lance-shaped, coral pink to bronze when they emerge, changing to deep green in summer, and turning bright red in autumn and winter. The whole le ...entire article
Reevesiana is a sought after subspecies of skimmia. It is a hermaphrodite plant that does not need a male pollinator to produce berries. These are vivid red and are follow tiny, white flowers in the autumn and winter. Evergreen leaves are elongated, elliptic, deep green and glossy. The plant grows slowly, making an attractive ground cover. Ideal for Japanese style gardens.
If you plant it well you needn’t look after it any longer except for occasional watering in dry spells. There are a few rules you have to obey if you want your skimmia look perfect: the soil ha ...entire article
Nandina originally comes from India, China and Japan but this variety is a smashing introduction from New Zealand. It is called Firepower and shows various colours of leaves throughout the year. Common name heavenly bamboo refers to its crinkly leaves that really whisper like papery bamboo when touched.
Firepower (syn. Fire Power) is a name that says much. Evergreen leaves are 3-pinnate with lance-shaped or nearly ovate individual leaflets. Their colour is soft or lime green when young, changing to coppery orange and/or scarlet red at the end of sum ...entire article
Beauty berry. Sounds like a beauty salon. The truth is the name is right because this plant, originally from China, is grown for its beautifully coloured berries.
It is a mid-sized shrub with deep green, elliptic to obovate, deciduous leaves that are bronze when young. It flowers in summer with small, pale pink flowers that are followed by fruit which is the key feature of this plant. The bead-like berries are deep violet and glossy, and they look so unusual which makes you think they are an afternoon dessert from Star Trek. Profusion is the name of this variety and pro ...entire article
ELEADOR is a French variety of evergreen silverthorn with almost yellow leaves, margined dark green with light green highlights. They are leathery, but thinner than, for instance, those on cherry laurels which means fewer problems with water evaporation during cold winter months. As the emerge, they are a pale sandy beige and do not show their true colours until they reach a mature size in early summer. The undersides are silvery grey. But in winter, the colder it gets the deeper yellow they become, shining like a beacon in a sleeping garden. Yo ...entire article
Japanese grass sedge is an evergreen species of ornamental grass native to central and southern Japan. Ice Dance is one of its key varieties proved by decades of cultivation. It boasts rather wide (up to 1.5 cm) leaf blades that are erect, stiff, leathery, sharp, 30-40 cm long, deep green in the centre and off-white at margins. From mid to late spring appear inconspicuous flowers on thin stems. Ice Dance forms dense and compact, symmetrical clumps which slowly spread forming a nice ground cover, yet not being invasive ...entire article
It is our utmost pleasure to offer this summer-blooming beauty: false camellia. It comes from moist woodlands of North America and eastern Asia (Japan, China, Vietnam, Nepal). It belongs to the same genus theaceae like camellia and tea.
Its main attraction are the flowers. They are 6-7 cm wide, pure white with a cluster of rich yellow stamens in the centre and appear from the first hot days of June and keep popping up until end July. It has thick, rich green leaves which turn yellow, orange and purple in autumn. False camellia has peeling bark which gives an extra feature especially ...entire article
/b>Elf is a dwarf variety of mountain laurel. It grows slowly but very dense, making almost white flowers with a thin pink circle in the middle. Buds are white or very pale pink. Leathery leaves are small, narrow, laurel-like, pointed, mid green and partly glossy.
There are many cultivars combining all sorts of red, pink and burgundy shades with white, all of them beautiful, all of them very hardy. The best display is when half of the bloom cluster is still in buds which mostly have a different colour than the flowers themselves.
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Another selection of grape holly comes from Irish nursery Slieve Donard. Its name “Winter Sun” is perfect as it really starts flowering well before Christmas if the beginning of winter is mild without substantial frosts. If the frosts come early the buds (unless damaged by extremely harsh weather) wait to flower until the end of winter.
Small and very fragrant, deep lemon yellow flowers are bornE on long, upright racemes. Its dramatic foliage makes it as successful in continental climates as palm trees in the coastal areas. The leaves are holly-like but gigantic, arranged in sp ...entire article
Goliath is bushier than the species. As you can tell by its name, something is going to be extraordinary here. True: the flowers are extremely large, often up to 30 cm wide, strongly fragrant and appear on the plant usually from June, often from late May if the end of spring is hot, and continue blooming throughout the summer until the last warm and sunny days of autumn. It starts flowering when only 3 years old.
The leaves are brighter green than other bull bay magnolias with a warmer shade of green. Their rusty pubescence on the undersides is not ...entire article
Dawyckii varieties of common beech are very popular for their habit and leaf colours. Dawyck Purple has upright, columnar habit, its initial slow growth changes after a few years to medium-fast, never really fast. Spring leaves are striking purple, colour slightly deepens throughout the summer. Lack of sunlight changes bottom leaves green. They can be twice as large as opposed to the species, elegantly glossy. New shoots are prone to aphide attacks so if you have a smaller tree check for their ill-come visit in the spring, and randomly during warm and wet weather. This bee ...entire article
Scarletta® is probably the top variety of leucothoe with lance-shaped, glossy leaves that emerge bronze or red, change to mid green in summer, and turn red in autumn and deep burgundy red in winter. It dislikes direct sunlight. However, if grown in full sun, it has to be well mulched and never left dried out. Thus it will show more red and purple even in summer. As a groundcover, it is ideal for planting beneath taller shrubs or trees providing diffused sunshine, or in semi-shade.
It tolerates most soils but will be beautiful and healthiest in slightly acidic, fert ...entire article
Golden King is a High Clare hybrid holly that will win you over with its conspicuously variegated, almost thornless leaves. They are evergreen, leathery, glossy, broadly oval to obovate, dark green in the middle and bright yellow at margins. It was discovered at the Bangholm Nursery in Scotland shortly before 1876 as a spontaneous mutation of and older, green-leaved variety called Hendersonii. In 1888 the nursery owners, the Lawson Company, sold the premises with the entire stock including the mother plant of this gem ...entire article
Forest Flame is a variety that belongs to floribunda group. It has deep green, elliptic, pointed, glossy leaves that emerge orange-bronze to fiery-orange coloured. Flowers are small, vase-shaped, compound in 10-15 cm long, hanging racemes. Buds are orange-red. We recommend dead-heading spent flowers to avoid production of seeds which exhausts the plant. Its grows moderately and forms a compact, upright shru. No pruning required. If you want to trim it do so after flowering which is usually in May.
Ericaceous plants require soil that is light, acidic, and constantly moist (not ...entire article
Limelight is my personal favourite among evergreen silverthorns. It has ovate, up to 10 cm long, leathery but thin leaves that are bright yellow in the middle and deep green at margins. The area between the centres and margins is light, soft green so the overall effect is 3-coloured. Newly emerging leaves and twigs are silvery-beige. Limelight grows fastest among all silverthorns with coloured foliage. New branches that bear only green leaves should be cut off asap.
Apart from the foliage this plant is also interesting for its almost invisible flowers. They are tiny and ...entire article
Gilt Edge is a beautiful variety of this evergreen silverthorn. It has ovate, up to 10 cm long, leathery but thin leaves that are deep green in the middle and bright yellow at margins. Newly emerging leaves and twigs are silvery-beige. Apart from the foliage this plant is also interesting for its almost invisible flowers. They are tiny and appear from late summer to early autumn and are hard to see unless you look up close. But you can definitely smell them. They have a lovely, sweet fragrance, especially in the evening. They are followed by fruit in spring. 1,5cm long, ov ...entire article