Summer blooms

Rotfuchs is a German variety of speedwell which is commonly sold as Red Fox in English speaking countries to avoid the word rot from the name. It is a lovely perennial producing long spikes of vibrant pink flowers from June ...

How poetic to call a flower First Love®! This speedwell was named just like that and no wonder. Its neony rich purple pink spikes shine through the garden from early morning until late evening with lasting intensity. I ...

Apollo is a variety with pale blue flowers where the inflorescences are produced well above foliage level. The plant has more compact habit compared to the species and it stems seldom exceed 1m tall. Individual Flowers are tubular and decorated with long w ...

Virginian culver’s root produces several whorls of chaste-tree-like, narrowly lance-shaped, mid to dark green leaves. They may resemble cannabis. In early summer the tips of the stems begin producing flower buds composed in long spikes, botanically more corre ...

Lavendelturm is a German variety of culver’s root bred and introduced by Ernst Pagels (1913-2007) in 1998. It produces very large (tall) inflorescence of soft lavender pink to pale violet colour. The small tubular flo ...

Vitex is surprisingly a large genus of about 250 species spread almost all around the globe. In our climate we know very little about it because most of its species are subtropical plants but there are not a few that can cope with our zone 6 winters easily and make beautiful flowering shrubs or exce ...

Latifolia is a large-leaved version of chaste tree. Botanically not a variety, just a selection of the species, still, I can see that it is the most sought-after chaste tree today. It is easily distinguished by both larger ...