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Kaleidoscope® is another novelty of the turn of the century. It drags attention thanks to its multicoloured foliage, but not only that. This abelia was found as a naturally occurring mutation of abelia x grandiflora “Little Richard” by nurseryman Randall Dale Lindsey in North Caroli ...

One of the most popular conifers for small and mid-sized gardens is this Korean fir. It has short, glossy, dark green needles that are silver on the reverse. Already as a young plant it produces very attractive bluish-purple cones. It is slow growing, the tree shape is very regular, pyramidal, no ...

Bear�s breeches variety Whitewater is a true tour de force by Janet N. Egger of Terra Nova� Nurseries in Oregon, USA. At first glance, it captivates with its boldly variegated leaves, whose pattern resembles an irregular wash of white paint � without symmetry or repetition, and with a softly patinat ...

Some trees are admired for other features than just flowers or foliage. There are many of us who easily fall head over heels in love with a picturesque bark like that on paperbark maple from China. It peels off in thin, almost paper-like shavings even on young plants which makes it one of the most s ...

Montpellier maple is a typical Mediterranean tree commonly found in dry, coastal or mountainous landscapes of Portugal, France, and Italy. It makes small, three-lobed, leathery but deciduous leaves, which are medium green in summer, and turn yellow, amber orange or scarlet red in autumn. Its flowers ...

Jerre Schwartz Japanese maple was bred by one of the prominent American lovers and growers of Japanese maples, Billy Schwartz of the Green Mansions Nursery in Pennsylvania, and it was introduced to the market in 2005. It belongs to the dwarf varieties, as at the age of 15 years, it is no m ...

Red Emperor is another red-leaved Japanese maple, this time from the USA, where it was introduced in 1976 by Dick Wolff from Red Maple Nursery in Pennsylvania. He was an enthusiastic lover of the vibrant shades of red and maroon leaves on Japanese maples, and he was especially proud of his ...

If you google red-leaved Japanese maples I am sure that, amongst the oldest varieties, you will find this nice piece: Shaina. Unlike other cultivars Shaina is everyone�s love as it offers advantages that come in handy for gardeners-beginners. Shaina has deeply lobed palmate leaves with 5 elo ...

MORGAN is a beautifully coloured variety of scarlet maple, which was discovered in 2002 by Ray Tate from the Angel Creek Nursery in Bishop, Georgia, USA. It was a single mutation among a number of October Glory seedlings planted at a nearby nursery in Morgan County. Among the 58 existing varieties o ...

Pyramidale is a silver maple variety with attractive, deeply cut foliage with prominent red veins. The leaves are deciduous, rich green in summer, turning yellow, golden and orange-red in autumn. The tree forms a widely columnar canopy and is fast growing. Its branches may have a tendency to break, ...

�Aureum� is variety of Shirasawa maple that differs from others by its more or less erect growth with horizontal lateral branches. The fan-shaped leaves are fresh yellow-green to golden yellow, sometimes with pinkish margins. The other difference is fruit: Acer shirasawanum holds its samaras above t ...

MILLY ROCK™ RED yarrow makes warm red flowers with yellow centres composed in almost flat corymbs atop about 30-40 cm tall stems. Flowering begins in June and continues until late August. Fern-like leaves are finely cut and rich grass green, basal leaves are larger than stem leaves. Removing s ...

Metallica Crispa is a striking cultivar of pyramidal bugleweed, a species native to alpine regions of Europe. Unlike the more vigorous A. reptans, this form grows in compact rosettes and spreads slowly. Its foliage is highly ornamental and semi-evergreen in mild climates. The leaves have a metallic ...

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 come ...

WINKY series of columbine comprises of strong varieties of several colors. They form compact and symmetrical clumps which look like precisely hand-tied bouquets. WINKY Red White produces unique, glossy flowers of rich burgundy red colour with white margins. They are borne atop about 60 cm tall stems ...

Powis Castle is an English variety of wormwood that is also called Brass Band. It is most likely a spontaneous hybrid between the species a. arborescens and a. absinthium from the Middle East where wormwoods willingly hybridize among themselves. One plant was found growing in a garden in Yorkshire b ...

Hart’s tongue fern is an attractive species with large, evergreen leaves. It was widespread in Europe, West Asia, and North America but in some locations including Czech Republic it is already listed among endangered species. Hart’s tongue fern is the only hardy fern with entire foliag ...

Crispum is a hart’s tongue fern variety from the undulatum group. Its narrow leaves are similar to Angustatum variety but exhibit gently crested margins. They are deep green, 30-40 cm long, dark green, highly glossy, and withstand deep frost without damage, only during very cold spells they ma ...

Fanal astilbe is one of the earliest varieties with red flowers. It begins to bloom in mid June and forms rich raspberry red flowers atop 30-50 cm tall stems. Leaves are divided, healthy, glossy, mahogany red as they emerge and turning dark green before flowering starts. It was awarded AGM (Award of ...

Mainz is a japonica hybrid astilbe from 1952. Its flowers are cotton-candy-like pink plumes atop almost 50 cm tall stems and bloom from late June. Leaves are dark green, divided, heavily serrated at margins, healthy, and glossy. Grow astilbe in humus-rich soil. If planted in boggy or regularly wat ...

Washington astilbe is as iconic as the White House in the US capital of the same name (plus the D.C., obviously). Elegant yet ostentatious, tall enough not to be overlooked but not so much to overshadow its surroundings, and pure in colour like the endeavour of anyone who swears an oath to his count ...

YOUNIQUE� is a trade name of a new astilbe series from the Netherlands. Plants from this series excel in abundant flowering and healthy foliage. They are a cross between a.arendsii and a.japonica, bred by Jan Verschoor. YOUNIQUE� Pink is variety with dense, bright bright pink plumes. They bloom on 2 ...

Another red flowering Japanese azalea from Hans Hachmann was bred in 1987 and was named Fridoline. It has medium-sized flowers: 4-4,5 cm wide of bright red colour. It blooms in late spring, from end May until mid June. Slow grower, mound-forming. Leaves are mid to dark green, ovate ...

When Carolina azalea comes into bloom, it is as if the shrub has dressed itself in a ceremonial kimono � large, widely opened flowers with a rosy to salmon pink center, white edging, and purple speckling resemble painted plates overlapping in the tiered structure of the plant. Its habit is dense but ...

The hybrid azalea Carolina Salmon derives from the variegated cultivar Carolina, but here the difference is striking: Carolina Salmon is entirely single‑coloured. If just for a split second the word dull came up, think again, or even better � look again! The combination of rich salmon‑pi ...

If you are fond of summer-flowering hybrid azaleas then this variety can easily become a jewel in your garden. Its name is Summer Sun and it is another Satsuki azalea. Soft red flowers look very attractive on the background of deep green foliage. They open in late June or early July and continue blo ...

European white birch is an attractive tree which, however, in its basic form is not suitable for small-sized gardens. However, this selection is excellent for every garden or even a tiny spot at your doorway. It is a weeping white birch, called Youngii. It is commonly 2-3m tall, and in our climat ...

Lochinch is a hybrid butterfly bush which originated as a natural mutation in the gardens of the Lochinch Castle in Scotland around 1940. It is possibly a hybrid between the most utilized b.davidii and its Chinese relative, more tender sister b.fallowiana. Lochinch buddleja produces about 25 cm l ...

Black Knight is a butterfly bush variety with one of the deepest colours currently available in the market. They are deep purple blue, heavily scented, up to 30 cm long. Individual flowers are small and tubular, formed in dense panicles at the ends of the branches. The inflorescence may look like li ...

If you like pink and butterflies at the same time, Pink Delight is butterfly bush variety ideal for you. Individual flowers are small and tubular, formed in up to 40 cm long, dense panicles at the ends of the branches. The inflorescence may look like lilac hence its other name: summer lilac. However ...

Royal Red is a butterfly bush with deep purple-red flowers that are fragrant and up to 50 cm long. Individual flowers are small and tubular, formed in up to 40 cm long, dense panicles at the ends of the branches. The inflorescence may look like lilac hence its other name: summer lilac. However, it c ...

White Profusion is a white flowering butterfly bush. Individual flowers are small and tubular, formed in up to 40 cm long, dense panicles at the ends of the branches. The inflorescence may look like lilac hence its other name: summer lilac. However, it can get misleading as summer lilac is more ofte ...

Little Ruby is arguably the brightest jewel of the entire BUTTERFLY CANDY� series, a cultivar that immediately draws attention with its vivid raspberry-red colour and unexpectedly profuse flowering on such a small plant. Its habit is exemplary: compact, upright and naturally shaped into a clean, nea ...

BUTTERFLY CANDY� LITTLE PURPLE is a dwarf and compact buddleja producing dark violet blue flowers. The inflorescence is conical, slim, around 10 cm long, and composed of small, funnel-shaped flowers. They are moderately, sweetly fragrant and bloom from late June until late September. Deciduous leave ...

Almost every series of flowering plants includes a white version, and the same is true here, within the BUTTERFLY CANDY� butterfly bush series, where it carries the simple name LITTLE WHITE. This dwarf buddleja forms dense, well‑branched shrubs with smaller, broadly pyramidal flower clusters o ...

BUTTERFLY CANDY� LITTLE PINK is a dwarf and compact buddleja producing enchanting soft pink flowers. The inflorescence is conical, slim, 10-12 cm long, and composed of small, funnel-shaped flowers. They are moderately, sweetly fragrant and bloom from late June until late September. Deciduous leaves ...

BUTTERFLY CANDY� LITTLE CERISE is a dwarf and compact buddleja introduced in 2024, producing vibrant purple-pink flowers � though let�s be honest, they�re quite a stretch from the warm, cherry-red shade that �cerise� was ever meant to represent. The inflorescence is conical, slim, only some 6-8 cm l ...

Marjoram (Origanum majorana) � a low, bushy perennial; after flowering it can be trimmed back, or for the best flavour it is often grown without allowing it to flower at all. Excellent with pulses, potato soups and traditional stuffings. Thyme (Thymus vulgaris) � a low, slow growing woody herb th ...

Marsh marigold is our native perennial, naturally occurring from Central to North Europe as well as in North America and North Asia. It loves boggy and constantly moist locations in full sun. It is very variable and during a spring walk you can find several plants of slightly different appearance, y ...

This easy to grow shrub has many names and all of them say something about the beautiful perfume of the flowers: sweetshrub, strawberry shrub, or even pineapple shrub. They really smell like a few types of fruit: strawberry, apple, and even melon. Sweetshrub is native to much of the eastern USA and ...

Takion Blue is a peach-leaved bellflower from the Takion series offering compact, almost dwarf plants of superb flowering. The flowers are large, light violet blue, open wide and outward facing almost like balloon flowers. They come out on about 40 cm tall, densely branched stems ...

SUMMER JAZZ� Gold is a fascinating new variety of hybrid trumpet creeper. It makes very large flowers whose size is the same as those on Chinese trumpet creeper � 8 cm across. They are rich golden yellow with prominent, vibrant red veins in the throat, and appear from early to mid July. They are com ...

Pea tree is a low-maintenance plant which is also often grown in very inhospitable locations because it can take almost anything: hard frost, dry soil, full sun, wind and absolute neglect. Walker is a variety commonly grafted on short or medium-sized stems with weeping branches. Its deciduous lea ...

Evergold, introduced in 1977, is now regarded as a pioneer among these colourful and evergreen Japanese sedges. It offers a broad, creamy yellow central stripe that runs along the leaf like a ray of light set between deep green margins. It is one of the earliest variegated sedges that gained wider a ...

Blue Balloon bluebeard stands out at first glance. Perfectly round, almost improbably so. It is a deciduous, compact shrub with an almost spherical habit that lights up in late summer with deep blue flowers opening gradually from the bottom upwards, creating the impression of a slow rising wave ...

Golden Horizon is an interesting variety of Himalayan cedar with weeping branches. The needles are evergreen, yellow-green when young and in summer, turning blue-green as they mature and in the shade. The shape of the shrub is irregular, making horizontal branches with weeping ends. It grows slowl ...

Hardy plumbago is a superb substitution for its tender relative common in the Mediterranean. This one has even deeper blue flowers with 5 petals, mid-green, bristly, obovate, deciduous leaves with purple margins and purple stems. The plants itself is very dense and in full sun bears profusion of f ...

Hummingbird is a cute name for a cute and truly dwarf sweet pepper bush variety. From late July it produces a profusion of rather short, spike-like, erect racemes composed of creamy white, sweetly scented flowers. They last for 2-3 weeks but a well-established shrub may produce 2 or 3 flushes of flo ...

Illico� is a compact variety of the tickseed with 20-30 cm long stalks bearing profusion of golden yellow flowers from June till August. Deadheading will enhance the flowering but is not a must. It flowers abundantly every year. Its leaves are blue-green to green, wider than on thread-leaf varieties ...

Empress of China Chinese dogwood stands out above all for its abundant and reliable flowering on a fully leaved, evergreen plant. It produces striking, snow‑white bracts approximately 6�8 cm across, appearing in great numbers and creating an exceptionally clean, almost porcelain‑like eff ...

Milky Way is an old time favourite of the Japanese dogwood. It has snow white to creamy white flowers. Technically, they are not flowers but 4 flower bracts composed around small flower heads. They are 6-10 cm wide and conspicuous as they come out in June when the shrub is in leaf, and the foliage m ...

Corydalis calycosa is a beautiful perennial with blue flowers. Its originates in central China, more precisely in the Sichuan province. Although the province's climate mostly belongs to the subtropical monsoon belt, the central and northern parts have snow-capped mountains and even the Dagu Glacier. ...

Lilla® smoke tree is a novelty that was first introduced at the Plantarium exhibition in Holland in 2011 where it received bronze medal. It is a dwarf version of Royal Purple variety with slower and more compact growth. It has deciduous, deep wine red, rounded leaves that turn scarlet red, oran ...

Carmine Brilliant is another amazing montbretia with fiery-coloured flowers. They are rich orange red with a striking yellow centre and stamens. They are funnel-shaped or campanulate and appear from mid July for at least a month. The stems are strong and upright, their tops slightly arching, and are ...

George Davidson montbretia was bred by an English breeder of the same name. It is one of my favourites because it has my colour: golden yellow. The flowers are large, bell-shaped, wide-open, and appear in midseason until late August. It forms a compact, not bending clump about 70 cm tall. Sword-lik ...

Globosa Nana variety of the Japanese cryptomeria was first discovered in 1923 in Japan, where it is called Mitama-sugi. It is a dense, compact conifer with rounded branches. The needles are curved, inward-pointing, bright green as they emerge and emerald green in all seasons apart from winter when t ...

Following the success Little Champion variety, Little Diamond is another dwarf Japanese cedar variety with a spherical habit. It originated in the Netherlands in 1990, and its beauty inspired the growers to train it into a gorgeous little tree with a single trunk. Since Little Diamond grows slowly, ...

Gold Rider is still quite new in the Leyland cypress family. It produces flattened sprays of bright yellow-green, scale-like leaves. The branches are not pendent, not erect. Something in between and that makes it stand apart from chamaecyparis. The big advantage of Leyland cypress is the fact that i ...

Red Lark delphinium was bred in 2007 by Robert Legro in Enkhuizen, the Netherlands, with the goal of creating the reddest possible cultivar, surpassing all previous varieties with pink flowers. Specifically, it aimed to outshine Princess Caroline, which is the closest in colour but significantly pal ...

M.F. Rose White Bee is Magic Fountain larkspur variety forming dense and extremely pretty inflorescence composed of large, semi-double, lilac rose flowers decorated with dwarf white petals that look like a bee feasting on their nectar. Basal leaves are mid green, up to 20 cm across, palmate, 3- or 5 ...

Magic Vita is a larkspur series selected from Magic Fountain™ series. It features plants of shorter habit and excellent health, especially when it comes to powdery mildew in summer. Flowers are semi-double and open from June until July, and if the plant is pruned back after flowering it can p ...

DELGENIUS BREEZIN larkspur bears large, fully double flowers with narrow, undulated, and spoon-shaped petals. Their colour is a blend of light indigo blue, violet, and pale mauve. Paler flowers often have dark margins. The flowers almost lack a central bee, i.e., a composition of several dwarf sepal ...

In 2020 American company Proven Winners® introduces a stunning compact new deutzia provisionally called Compact Paradise. It is very similar to successful varieties YUKI CHERRY BLOSSOM and YUKI SNOWFLAKE but produces incredible amount of flowers. Compact Paradise is a unique deutzia producing ...

YUKI SNOWFLAKE deutzia overwhelms you with a profusion of small, snowy flowers. They are single and truly cover the plant like a late snowfall, creating almost a waterfall effect on its arching branches. They are non-fragrant and bloom from about mid May for 3-4 weeks. Then it is best to prune the s ...

Mont Rose is a profusely flowering deutzia cultivar with pale pink, star‑shaped flowers arranged in dense panicles. This particular shade, as well as the structure of the flowers, is unmistakable and exceptional within the genus. The colour is not garish, rather a powdery pink; the centre is a ...

Golden male fern is the basic species from which the most beautiful varieties arose. The golden bit in the name is relevant for the midrib which is yellowish-brown but cannot influence the overall appearance of bright green colour. The leaves are very hardy and withstand frosts for a certain period. ...

MOOODZ� COURAGE is another gem from the MOOODZ� coneflower series. It produces 7-8 cm large, single flowers with bright purple pink ray florets and deep maroon discs which mature to deep orange. Stems are rather short, only some 30-40 cm tall, and appear in profusion from July until October. Lanceol ...

SOMBRERO� ADOBE ORANGE is possibly the deepest orange coneflower I have seen so far. Its 9 cm flowers are simply amazing. Like the skin of a blood orange with a deep and warm tone. Flowers are produced atop 40-50 cm tall, sturdy stems from early July until late September. The discs are dark golden a ...

SUNSEEKERS BLUSH is an improved version of SUNSEEKERS PINK coneflower, this time with two rows of ray florets making a semi-double flower. Flowers are 8-10 cm across, soft pink, and bloom atop only about 40 cm high stems from July until September. They do not change the colour significantly like for ...

Bright colour of SUNSEEKERS CITRUS coneflower looks like a cheerful display of spring daffodils. It is another hybrid coneflower from the Sunseekers series which, thanks to its name, made many of us smell its flowers in anticipation of citrus perfume. Wrong. The scent is sweet like honey, it�s the f ...

SUNSEEKERS CLEMENTINE coneflower brings a vividly vibrant orange hue to garden beds � a shade reminiscent of ripe mandarins. Its flowers are exceptionally large: 9-11 cm across, with richly coloured petals that, as the bloom matures, develop a noticeable purplish tint around the centre, eventually f ...

SUNSEEKERS HOT PINK coneflower has made a real rod for its own back stepping into a competitive struggle in the field of pink-flowering coneflowers. To help it in this challenging battle, for its trade name marketing strategists chose the word �hot� hoping that it would attract more attention. And i ...

Flowering plants with fruit-like names sound very tasty and make you want them just because they recall the fruit taste you like. It is a good trick that the SUNSEEKERS coneflower series could not miss. Its 2023 introduction is called SUNSEEKERS MINEOLA and presents a variety whose flowers resemble ...

Flowers with fruit-like variety names sound very tasty and make you want them just because they recall a taste of fruit you like. Exactly as in case of this hybrid coneflower from the SUNSEEKERS series from 2022. Its name is SUNSEEKERS POMEGRANATE and bears 7-8 cm wide, single, fragrant flowers whic ...

Apart from the beauty of the flowers, coneflowers are also sought after for their amazing fragrance. It is mostly described as honey-sweet with varying intensity. However, those of you who are able to differentiate for example various scents of roses, these perennials may challenge you to try and te ...

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 oran ...

You know that moment when you are quietly getting on with something and someone suddenly calls out with urgency in their voice, �come here, hurry, you have to see this�? And not everything they want to show you truly deserves the rush. But this time it does � have a look at this beauty. BOLERO PINK ...

Introduced in 2026, the coneflower MOOODZ� FLIRTY leaves me wondering which of its qualities stands out the most � its colour or its fragrance, because both are remarkably strong. Let us begin with the colour: the deep ruby‑red blooms look as if they were cut from royal velvet, inspiring a sen ...

Marco van Noort is a Dutch lover and breeder of perennials, and he excels in breeding coneflowers. Sensation Coral� belongs to his coneflower series Sensation and boasts strongly scented flowers with attractively changing colours. They open pastel orange and soon turn soft coral red and mature to pa ...

DELICIOUS NOUGAT� coneflower is a sister variety of DELICIOUS CANDY� bred by Marco van Noort from the Netherlands in 2016. It produces dense, compact clumps of short stems atop which open double flowers from mid July until late summer. They are creamy white with yellow-green centres. Their longevity ...

This evergreen silverthorn is a hybrid of e.macrophylla and e.pungens. Its leathery leaves emerge beige-grey and mature to glossy dark green with lots of grey dots making it look like stardusted. Thanks to the foliage it is sometimes called Russian olive which is not correct as this name is already ...

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 ...

MARYLINE� is a trade name for a striking selection of evergreen silverthorn, found by Albert Breneli�re 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 ver ...

MARYLINE� is a trade name for a striking selection of evergreen silverthorn, found by Albert Brenelière 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 ar ...

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 i ...

Viveleg silverthorn is a bushy, upright growing, evergreen shrub or small tree 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 lig ...

GREEN SPIRE is a Japanese spindle selection introduced to market around 2000. It exhibits a strictly upright habit with neatly erect branches, densely covered with 3 cm long, oval, deep green, highly glossy, evergreen leaves with gently serrated margins. One would even say that one of its parents mu ...

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 ( ...

MAGICAL SPRINGTIME is a breathtaking pearl bush variety from the Netherlands which is noted for its ability to bloom on both young and old wood. It bears profusion of snow white, 2-3 cm large flowers composed in short racemes from about mid April. They have no fragrance but appear in abundance every ...

LOTUS MOON™ is a slow-growing pearl bush variety with a profusion of flowers. They are 2-3 cm across, snow white, composed of 5 petals which are narrower than on other varieties owing to which they look like stars. They are borne in short racemes from late April for 2-3 weeks. They have no fra ...

INTENSE BLUE® is a blue fescue of a striking colour. It was bred by Allure Tuinplanten and Amigra from the Netherlands. It was found in 2005 and introduced three years later. The plant makes well-behaved, symmetrical, extremely dense tufts of silvery blue foliage. Their colour literally calls f ...

One of the hardiest figs for our climate (zone 6) is named Brown Turkey. As the name suggests the fruit is brownish-red or blackish-purple, relatively large and sweet. They do not require pollination. Immature fruit and branches contain sap which can be an eye and lip-irritant. Palmate leaves are ve ...

MIKADOR® is a French introduction of golden bell from 2012. It exhibits compact growth with upright, strong branches, and rich, sulphur yellow flowers. Deciduous leaves are lanceolate, mid-green, serrated. The bark is yellow-green to yellow-brown. It can be pruned almost any time from spring un ...

Variety Fruiting type Ripening period Fruit size Growth type Colour Flavour / quality Karmen June‑bearing June very large ...

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 characteristic ...

Raywood is a very elegant variety of a deciduous tree called Claret ash. Its leaves are pinnate, up to 25 cm long and are composed of narrow, elliptic and very glossy individual leaflets that are deep green in summer and turn breathtaking shades of brilliant carmine red and deep burgundy red in the ...

Summit is a green ash variety sought-after for mostly two features: it is a male tree – not producing seeds and unwanted seedlings, and its vibrant autumn colour. The pinnate leaves are deciduous, composed of 5-9 broadly elliptic to narrowly ovate, deep green, not very glossy leaflets which tu ...

Poetry comes alive when this gaura begins to bloom. Like a flock of tiny white butterflies chasing one another among thin stems when the sun is high and hot. The breeder must have seen the resemblance, too, which is why it was named Whirling Butterflies. Its thin stems seem to be dancing in the slig ...

Max Frei is a variety of bloody cranesbill which originates from Europe and north Turkey. It was introduced by Hans Frei nursery in Germany in 1976 and was found as a natural mutation in Max Frei’s alpine garden in Switzerland. It produces 3-4 cm large, rich lilac pink flowers above cute, de ...

The CENSATION� series of avens is bred by Armand Kremer from a German perennial nursery Green Globe. Yellow Fluffy is a cheerful variety with banana yellow flowers tinged salmon pink on the reverse. They are 3-4 cm wide, semi-double, and open atop 35-45 cm tall maroon stems. It begins to bloom in la ...

FIERY TEMPEST� is the third addition to the Tempest series of avens bred by Elizabeth MacGregor from Scotland in order to achieve vigorous plants with extended flowering season and large flowers. Its flowers are about 4 cm across, semi-double, glowing red with dark orange hues and centres decorated ...

Orange Pumpkin avens belongs among modern cultivars and is characterised by uniquely fully double flowers in the vivid colour of Hokkaido pumpkin. Its greatest strength is its stable, long and repeat flowering from late spring into summer, often with a second flush in the cooler end of the season. T ...

Totally Tangerine is a hybrid Chilean avens from Timothy Crowther from USA who in 1999 crossbred Mrs. Bradshaw avens with rich red flowers and geum rivale. The result is a sterile variety with handsome tangerine orange, single, about 4 cm wide flowers. They come out continuously from late May until ...

TUTTI FRUTTI is a French variety of avens bred by Julien Caillarec. He is a passionate grower, breeder, and plant specialist who, together with his father Daniel, runs P�pinières Caillarec, a nursery specialising in perennials. This nursery, established in 1991, offers more than 2,500 species, ...

Mariken is a new variety from 1999. It is a dwarf form with short branches, densely covered with foliage. It is usually available as a small shrub suitable for rockeries, or a half-standard for gardens with less space, or a standard tree. Thanks to its dense growth and attractive foliage mainly tree ...

The cultivar Troll of maidenhair tree is a true garden gnome. It grows extremely slowly and in maturity barely exceeds one meter in height and width, making it suitable even for the smallest garden. Although botanically classified among conifers, its �needles� are so broad and flattened that everyon ...

When you look at this baby�s breath, it resembles a dainty alpine flower more than its robust florist cousins. Its blooms are perfectly symmetrical, as if cut from paper using the same stencil. They are small, white to pale pink, with fine veining that looks like a watercolour brushstroke. In parts ...

When a shrubby version of ivy was discovered it was a breakthrough. A non-climbing ivy with even more attractive foliage was an entirely different plant that could be used in various ways unlike a climber. Now there is an improvement over this invention – a dwarf version of shrubby ivy, even m ...

Green Ripple is an attractive variety of self-clinging English ivy. It has mid-sized, deep green leaves with 3 or 5 lobes and rippled margins. Another conspicuous feature are creamy veins inside the leaves. Branches produce aerial roots that cling to any surface (support). Young plants grow slower ...

Italian strawflower is an evergreen Mediterranean aromatic semi-woody perennial, sometimes classified as a shrub like lavender, with which it is easily confused before flowers appear. Its common name curry plant, as well as the smell of crushed foliage suggests it has to do something with curry but ...

PENNY�S PINK is another hybrid Lenten rose developed by Rodney Davey and Lynda Windsor from Devon, England. It belongs to the Rodney Davey Marbled Group and is currently sold with a series name Frostkiss. It was launched in 2011 and is protected by US plant patent No. PP24149 from 2013. PENNY�S P ...

CHARMER� is a Lenten rose bred by Rodney Davey from the UK, one of his many beautiful hybrids released after 12 or more years of hard breeding work in 2019. It is a success of crossing h. lividus, h. niger, and h. x sternii for not only a beautiful bloom but also handsome foliage. That is a combinat ...

Seven son flower is a fascinating shrub that was first found in China by Ernest H.Wilson more than a hundred years ago, in 1907. Still, it took almost 80 years before this plant was cultivated commercially. Seven son flower is a large shrub or a small tree with 3 predominant features. Leaves, inflo ...

Lime Marmalade? Wow, that must be something extraordinary, sharp and sweet at the same time. Just this coral bells variety bred by Jane N.Egger from the famous Oregon based Terra Nova Nurseries in the USA. It makes dense tufts or upright growing foliage of striking colour - the ruffled leaves combin ...

EXTREME RED is a swamp mallow variety with very large flowers. They are rich red (not dark purple or magenta, really red), and 16-17 cm across. Flowering begins in August and depending on plant's age and fertilizing new flower buds can be formed till September or October. Deciduous leaves are deep g ...

EXTREME HOT PINK is a hot addition to the Extreme series of swamp mallows. It produces striking, neon pink flowers 19-20 cm across. They are produced from August onwards, and depending on plant's age and fertilizing new flower buds can be formed till September or October. Deciduous leaves are deep g ...

EXTREME SPARKLE is a unique swamp mallow variety with medium large flowers - 18-19 cm across. They are not pure white like older varieties, their petals show prominent pink venation towards the pink eye in the centre. Flowering begins in August and depending on plant's age and fertilizing new flower ...

Red Heart Rose-of-Sharon bears snow white flowers with conspicuous burgundy red hearts, hence the name. There are often veins of the same colour running from the inside. The deciduous leaves are 5-7 cm long, three-pointed, not very lobed, medium to dark green and very attractive with their u ...

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. But if ...

Fortunei Aureomarginata belongs among the best-known and most frequently utilized plantain lily varieties. Apart from its beauty, it is renowned for extreme tolerance to direct sunlight as well as to slugs who do not like the taste of its foliage. The leaves are medium large to large, 25-35 cm long ...

Queen Josephine is a large‑leaved hosta cultivar whose foliage looks as if it were cut from thick parchment � firm, weighty and strongly sculpted. The base colour is a deep green, at the beginning of the season often carrying a faint bluish‑grey bloom reminiscent of blueberry skins, w ...

The cultivar Annabelle is one of the best‑known and most influential forms in the history of smooth hydrangea. It is a deciduous shrub with almost pure white flowers arranged in rounded flower heads 20�25 cm in diameter, the size of which is directly influenced by the availability of nutrients ...

Ruby Annabelle is the second sensation among smooth hydrangeas with pink flowers. It produces spherical flower heads 12�17 cm in diameter, composed of rich pink to purplish-pink florets that gradually deepen into richer ruby shades. It usually begins flowering in mid-June and the blooms remain attra ...

Forever&Ever� WHITE is a new mop-head hydrangea from early 2010�s with pure white flowers that open from pale lime green buds. If you ask what kind of soil pH white colour might need, rest assured that it is not important. White colour can take any soil pH and will always be just white. It pr ...

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 greenish-white colour when they co ...

You will fall in love with LIVING LITTLE LOVE, I can guarantee that � after all, the name itself suggests that. It belongs among the compact modern cultivars of panicle hydrangea and wins you over with its colours and the way they shift through the season. The flowers open in July in a very pale, al ...

SKYFALL is a panicle hydrangea of compact habit and small size. From mid July it produces large inflorescence packed with hyacinth-like individual flowers which emerge pale lime green, changing to cream white, and maturing to very pale pink in August and September. The plant forms nice shrubs with e ...

Panicle hydrangea BOBO� is unique for its small and compact growth and incredible amount of flowers. This variety produces numerous panicles, 25-30 cm tall and about 15 cm wide, composed of sterile flowers that emerge creamy white with lime green shades in midsummer, and mature to pale pastel pink i ...

This little apple, more precisely the panicle hydrangea cultivar LIVING LITTLE APPLE, is one of the results of modern breeding aimed at achieving colours beyond the usual pink and white. It forms a compact shrub whose flowers genuinely resemble the skin of certain apple varieties � the young ones ar ...

Vanille Fraise� is a breathtaking novelty among panicle hydrangeas. It bears extra large flowers that emerge clear white in midsummer, turning light pink first and deep raspberry pink in late summer. The panicles are up to 30 cm long and 20 cm wide and remain on the plant for a long period of time. ...

Sundae Fraise� is another new hydrangea clone from Jean Renault from France. It was derived from the already successful variety Vanille Fraise�, but this one is smaller and more compact. The flowers are medium sized panicles that open creamy white in late July and soon gain light pink shades that ge ...

The Quick Fire� series of panicle hydrangeas was launched in 2005 with the goal of extending the flowering season and offering cultivars with exceptionally early blooms. Developed by American breeder Tim Wood of Spring Meadow Nursery, the series aimed to combine sturdy stems, changing flower coloura ...

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 repeats flowering at the e ...

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 growing shrub with erect stem ...

Sunkist is a dwarf, compact Lawson cypress, similar to Mini Globus. It is a slow growing conifer with attractive flat sprays of mid green foliage that is not prickly. Ends of new branches emerge bright yellow or yellow-green and the plant keeps its fresh appeal until autumn when the yellow shades be ...

Filifera Nana is a dwarf cultivar of Sawara cypress with fine, cord‑like foliage of a rich green colour. The branchlets are slender, pendulous and densely arranged, forming a compact, cushion‑shaped to low‑mounded habit. Growth is very slow and regular; at maturity the plant typica ...

Burgundy is a beautiful variety of desert willow of untraceable origin, possibly a selection of Rio Salado with slightly paler flowers. Burgundy desert willow makes deep maroon, velvety flowers with white and yellow stripes in the throat. They are slightly fragrant and formed in narrow, terminal, up ...

Fringe tree is a very rare and beautiful small shrub or small tree. In early summer it has profusion of upto 20 cm long pendent panicles of fragrant, shiny snow-white, narrow flowers. Female plants produce bluish black berries, however, usually only male plants are sold in nurseries. Mid to deep g ...

The cultivar SUMMER BELLS of chitalpa boasts abundant and prolonged flowering throughout summer, from June to August. The inflorescences are upright clusters shaped like slender pyramids, reaching 10 to 20 cm in height, composed of exquisite orchid‑like blossoms that combine light pink to lila ...

WHITE DAZZLER is a follow-up cho�sie to Aztec Pearl from Peter Moore, introduced in 1991. It produces masses of simple, star-shaped, pure white, and very fragrant flowers with yellow stamens in May and June. Their perfume is very similar to orange flowers hence its name Mexican orange or Mexican blo ...

Mary Nell is a hybrid holly from the USA, bred by Joe McDaniels in Tom Dodd Nursery in Alabama in 1962. It is a cross between large-leaved holly ilex latifolia and hybrid holly Red Delight which is a cross between ilex cornuta and ilex pernyi. Joseph C. McDaniels (1912-1982) was a renowned horticult ...

Ingramii is a male English holly variety whose origin I did not manage to find. There are notes about its existence yet before 2000 but it appears to be commercially attractive only from about 2015 or so. It makes heavily toothed, mid-sized leaves or deep green colour with rich silver-white marblin ...

Silver Queen, or also more logically called Silver King, is a male version of English holly. It has deep green, glossy leaves with attractive, creamy-white, spiny margins. Stems of new branches are purple. As a male plant it is an ideal pollinator of female varieties, mostly of aquifolium group, tha ...

White Cream? is a fantastic new variety of holly. It was bred in Germany by Ingo St�hrenberg. White Cream? is a natural mutation of another English holly called Myrtifolia, hence its spiny margins. The leaves are bright creamy white in the centres, changing through light green to deep green at the m ...

This Japanese holly is a popular variety for Japanese bonsai. It has dark green leaves similar to box. Fastigiata has upright habit without pruning and is rather slim. It is very popular for evergreen groups with spreading or groundcovering shrubs, for patios or front gardens. Fruits are small, glos ...

Golden Gem variety is a low, dense shrub with bright golden-yellow top leaves, leaving the bottom ones dark green. This bicolour effect is very elegant. Leaves are gently serrated at margins. Fruits, if any, are small, glossy black berries in autumn. Pruning is possible in April: this will enc ...

One of the most elegant shrubs is undoubtedly this Japanese holly. It has leaves similar to boxwood and is often used as its substitute. Golden Rock? is a recent introduction from German town Wiesmoor, where Uwe Renken found it in 2000 as a natural mutation of another holly variety ca ...

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 shor ...

Germany has another novelty among blue hollies. Its name is Heckenpracht and it is a cross between ilex aquifolium Pyramidalis and ilex x meserveae Blue Prince®. Heckenpracht is a bushy shrub with upright branches and evergreen, medium large, glossy leaves that are dark green and serrated at ...

Heckenstar® is quite a novelty from Germany, bred by Hans Hachmann and patented only in 1998. It is a cross ilex aquifolium „Pyramidalis“ and ilex x meserveae „Blue Prince“® . The result is a strictly upright growing, very hardy, evergreen shrub. Outside Europe it ...

Blue Maid® is a female variety of blue holly. It produces abundance of tiny, white flowers in spring that are followed by attractive berries in autumn. They are bright red and glossy, and remain on the plant until the birds find them in winter. Once they do they will eat them all. In order to p ...

Little Rascal® is a beautiful new variety of blue holly, found in US nursery Monrovia in 1996 as a natural mutation of another blue holly called Blue Boy. The plant exhibits unique features, distinctly different from its parent for which it was patented under PP9,999 as ilex x “Mondo̶ ...

Western Himalayan indigo is a deciduous shrub native to the western Himalayas, where it grows on dry slopes and in open forests with full-day sunlight at elevations of 1500�3000 meters. It was first described in detail by Dietrich Brandis in 1874 in his botanical work Forest Flora of North-West and ...

Henry’s Garnet is a valued variety of sweetspire that received AGM (Award of Garden Merit) from the English Royal Horticultural Society. It is a selection with exceptional autumn colour and was first noticed by the American botanist Michael Dirr when he found it growing in the gardens of the U ...

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 interesting f ...

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 very similar to deutzia ...

Rhapsody in Pink is another crape myrtle novelty bred and introduced by Dr.Carl Whitcomb. It was first introduced in 2006 and has been a sought after crape myrtle since. It bears rich panicles of pure pink flowers on the background of burgundy red foliage. The inflorescence keeps on producing new fl ...

DYNAMITE� is among the reddest crape myrtle cultivars currently available and also one of the hardiest, able to withstand winters of zone 6 (down to about �23 �C). Its name was chosen aptly and with humour, reflecting the explosive red of its flowers. It belongs to the Play It Again� series, which i ...

Pink Velour� is a very attractive crape myrtle with upright panicles of pink-red to purple red flowers with crepe margins and rich yellow stamens in the centre. It starts flowering earlier than the species which makes it suitable for colder regions where the summer begins a little later. The inflore ...

Grey Pearl is a picturesque dwarf variety of Japanese larch. It is a low growing shrub with soft, deciduous needles that emerge fresh green and soon turn silvery blue green. It makes a fluffy appearance and is almost irresistible not to touch every time you pass by. It grows slowly making tiered bra ...

Even in the vast sea of lavender cultivars, where new introductions with glossy patents dominate the market, there are still old treasures you might never have heard of simply because modern varieties overshadow them. One of them is Dwarf Blue, documented as early as 1911, still available today and ...

Hidcote is a very popular variety of lavender with the brightest violet-blue flowers. It forms a compact and dense clump, ideal for beds where tall and leggy perennial is not required. Evergreen leaves are narrow, silvery blue-green. You can remove the stalks with spent flowers after ...

Munstead is a name for several plant varieties, all of which are somehow linked with Munstead Heath in southern Surrey, England, where Gertrude Jekyll's house called Munstead Wood was located. The house and garden were designed by Sir Edwin E. Lutyens and built by Thomas Underwood for Gertrude ...

White is perhaps an unusual colour for lavender, yet when placed among good companions it can beautifully highlight the surrounding shades just as easily as it can draw attention to itself with its purity. Edelweiss is an old lavandin cultivar that brings a gentle, clean presence to the border: its ...

PHENOMENAL� lavandin is a proud introduction by an American lavender specialist Lloyd R. Traven from Peace Tree Farm in Pennsylvania where they perform a different, organic approach to growing of plants. He found it in a field of Grosso lavender as a whole plant mutation in 2007 and its patent PP241 ...

Kevin Hurd from Walters Gardens nursery in Michigan, USA, is a perennial breeder and among his targets are e.g., pinks, hardy hibiscus, and daisies. Banana Cream Shasta daisy is his work of art which he created in 2008 by crossing l. ‘Leumayel’ and l. ‘Sunny Side Up’. The res ...

Curly Red is an exceptional cultivar of leucothoe and is regarded as the first known selection with markedly curly, strongly undulating leaves, giving the impression that the small shrub has just returned from a hairdresser with a perm. The leaves are evergreen, very glossy and, combined with their ...

Korea Dwarf is a neat and compact version of Japanese privet forming congested shrubs with evergreen foliage. The leaves are 2.5-3.5 cm long, ovate to oval, dark green, and glossy. In June appear numerous lilac-like panicles composed of small, creamy white, narrowly funnel-shaped, sweetly fragrant f ...

GREEN SCREEN is a remarkable cultivar of Chinese privet. It is a reliably evergreen shrub with medium-sized, evergreen, ovate leaves of attractive colouring. In spring, new growth emerges in a striking mahogany red, which gradually fades as the leaves mature, turning olive green. Before maturing to ...

Privet is the number one popular hedging plant. Golden privet obviously brings extra features: it is evergreen or semi-evergreen, multicoloured and has larger leaves. They are glossy, ovate, 2-3 times bigger than the species (up to 6 cm long), bright golden-yellow margined at the edges grading to de ...

Lemon and Lime® is a modern variety of privet. It produces semi-deciduous, golden yellow to yellow-green, small leaves which persist on the plant until the first hard frosts (January in zone 6), and are replaced by new foliage in spring. This variety grows slower than common privet, however, i ...

Lindelofia longiflora is a beautiful and distinctive perennial from subalpine to subarctic regions, yet ironically, it is not a rock garden plant. It bears long inflorescences called scorpioid cymes, similar to those found in forget-me-not or lungwort. Lindelofia�s flowers truly resemble a blend of ...

Gum Ball is a dwarf cultivar of sweetgum that has gained popularity for its compact size and attractive appearance without the need for pruning. Its leaves are deeply lobed, with five to seven lobes and prominent veining, turning into a spectacular mix of fiery red, orange, purple, and deep burgundy ...

Royal Purple lily-turf is like an improved version of an older car type - better in all aspects compared to its predecessor: larger leaves, larger flowers, deeper colour. The foliage is ribbon-like, dark green, very glossy, and are evergreen in mild winters of zone 6, and reliably evergreen in warme ...

Golden Glow is a Dutch introduction of box honeysuckle, found by Hendrik Johan Harmen Nijland in his nursery Nijland Siergroen in 2008 as a natural mutation of an older variety Maigr�n. It makes small, 1-2 cm long, broadly ovate, evergreen leaves which are rich golden yellow in winter and spring, an ...

Robin loosestrife is a sister (or brother?) variety of Robert loosestrife. It has almost identical colour of its the 5-petalled, star-shaped. They are bougainvillea-like rich purple pink forming, compared to Robert, much narrower spike-like inflorescence with enormous number of flowers that are clos ...

Betty�s flowers are deep purple outside and almost white inside, there are up to 19 narrow, long petals which in full bloom open like a star as much as 20 cm wide with strong citrus scent. The magnolia has attractive bright green foliage, some of which often turns coppery red in the summer. It does ...

Susan magnolia has narrow, goblet-shaped flowers of deep pink, nearly red colour outside and slightly lighter red inside. This is the reddest coloured variety among spring magnolias. It flowers reliably already when young. It does not require pruning at all. As it has flower buds at the ends of last ...

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 ...

ALTA� is a gorgeous southern magnolia of dense habit and narrowly columnar, very elegant shape that looks like a candle flame. From the first hot days of summer large � 20-24 cm across, creamy white, strongly sweet-scented flowers are produced singly and continuously for 2 months or a little longer ...

Star magnolia is a one of the earliest magnolias to flower in March already. It has star-shaped, pure white flowers with a lovely scent. As it blooms on bare branches early in the spring we recommend placing it in front of an evergreen shrub, e.g. cherry laurel, holly, or any bright green conifer, t ...

Superba is a saucer magnolia variety which differs from the original hybrid in slightly paler flowers with longer petals, later onset of flowering and a more subtle habit. The flowers are approx. 10 cm high and up to 20 cm wide when fully opened, and the individual petals are narrower and not as con ...

Scarlet crabapple is a fantastic addition to the collection of spring flowering apples and cherries. This one, however, has more than one feature to look at (just like Scarlett Johansson who may have been a reason for giving this tree its name …) Scarlet is a flowering crabapple tree with pro ...

Red Chief is another red-flowering eulalia variety. In September it produces deep maroon red flowers high above fine foliage. Leaves are rather narrow, elegant, glossy, deep green in summer and gaining red shades in late summer and autumn when the whole clump becomes bronze red. Only about 1.5m tall ...

Yaku Jima, alternatively Yakushima Dwarf, is a dwarf version of a very popular eulalia variety Gracillimus. It also has elegantly narrow, deep green leaves that reach 80-100 cm tall. In midsummer appears a profusion of flowers composed in plume-like inflorescence which is narrower than on most eulal ...

Walker’s Low is an English variety of catmint producing lavender blue-violet flowers atop 50-60 cm long, slender, arching stems in full bloom. Mint-scented leaves (and possibly the whole plant) look very similar to perovskia, they are small, ovate, scalloped, and gently serrated at margins. Th ...

NEPTUNE® is an exquisite variety of Cuban catmint. An amateur gardener might say that it looks like a merge between Blue Boa agastache and blue dead nettle, and he can't be blamed. Apart from the main features typical for this Cuban species such as large leaves and large flowers, NEPTUNE® ...

Sasaba is a cultivar of holly osmanthus that will play with your senses if your visits to a garden centre aim at curiosities and hidden gems. Its leaves are so uniquely shaped that you may wonder for a long time whether you have ever seen anything similar. The only comparison that comes to mind is i ...

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, gl ...

Fortune's osmanthus is a cross between o.heterophyllus (small, very spiny leaves) and o.fragrans (large, entire leaves). It was first brought from Japan to Europe to Holland Philipp Franz von Siebold in 1856. Over the years its name has developed from osmanthus aquifolium to o.aquifolium var.latifo ...

Bowl of Beauty is a fantastic perennial peony. The name not only says how gorgeous this variety is but also refers to the flower shape which is Japanese anemone-type: rounded at the bottom, not opening too wide, with a rich centre. The lower petals are magenta pink and contrast beautifully with the ...

Enchanting Pink Elsa is a perennial peony from a Dutch series Fabulous Flowers®. It produces large, bowl-shaped, semi-double, fragrant flowers with pastel pink petals and numerous creamy white to light butter yellow dwarf sepals in the centre. Flowers appear from late May, atop 70-80 cm tall st ...

Festiva Maxima is an award-winning perennial peony with large, 12-17 cm wide, fully double flowers with snow white petals that exhibit occasional, thin, purple red highlights. Flowers are strongly fragrant and come out for 4-6 weeks in mid June atop about 60-80 cm tall, strong stems which usually do ...

Wonderful Snow White is a perennial peony from a Dutch series Fabulous Flowers®. It produces large, fully double, fragrant flowers with snow white petals, exceptionally with very thin purple pink margins. Flowers appear from mid June, atop 70-80 cm tall stems. Deciduous leaves are rather thick, ...

Rubra Plena is a peony variety frequently encountered in perennial gardens. It produces crimson red flowers formed in large heads with profusion of petals and yellow stamens that are only visible at the end of blooming time when the flowers open up completely. The stems are about 70 cm tall and may ...

The cultivar Hameln of Chinese fountain grass has earned its place among the leading ornamental grasses through several notable qualities. One of them is undoubtedly its ability to maintain a compact, tidy form and an already well‑developed appearance at a time when most grasses are only begin ...

Hameln Gold is an old variety of Chinese fountain grass which draws attention in the very first weeks of spring, when its young leaves unfold in a clean yellow shade that feels like a call to celebration in an otherwise still‑sleepy garden. The clumps are compact, regular and slightly lower th ...

Little Bunny is the smallest and most endearing form of Chinese fountain grass, as if someone had taken the species and shrunk it into a garden bonsai. Its variety name openly admits that this will be a tiny, fluffy and irresistibly charming tuft. Its appeal lies in perfect proportions: fine, narrow ...

Red Head is a Chinese fountain grass cultivar that appeared in gardens at the turn of the new millennium and has been impossible to overlook ever since. This handsome giant looks like a bodybuilder drawing a deep breath to show off his strength. Its greatest asset is the long, fluffy flower heads th ...

FABULOUS� DARK ROSE EYE is quite possibly the most intensely pink‑flowered moss phlox cultivar in the FABULOUS� series. Not only because of its clear pink flowers but also thanks to the vivid purple pink eye, which amplifies the surrounding pink rather than creating contrast � u ...

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 y ...

Red Robin is the very first and, it must be said, still a remarkably successful cultivar of Fraser's photinia. Twenty years after its introduction it received the AGM (Award of Garden Merit) from the Royal Horticultural Society for its resilience, beauty and reliability. It is a New Zealand selecti ...

CHICO is the smallest photina known to trade so far. It is an evergreen shrub with small, glossy, broadly elliptic leaves with conspicuously serrated margins which bear strong resemblance to arbutus unedo foliage. They emerge bronze orange-red and mature to deep green. New leaves emerge at least twi ...

From the very moment CARR� ROUGE photinia hit the market, it became an overnight sensation. It originates from the hugely successful �Red Robin�, but offers a far more compact and denser habit, with smaller leaves that look elegant and completely smother the plant�s coat, turning the photinia into a ...

From the very moment CARR� ROUGE photinia hit the market, it became an overnight sensation. It originates from the hugely successful �Red Robin�, but offers a far more compact and denser habit, with slower growth and smaller leaves that look elegant and completely smother the plant�s coat, turning t ...

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 orang ...

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 ...

The word that most conifer lovers are likely to think of when they first see Brewer spruce is graceful. No wonder, because its long, frilled streamers of branchlets cascading from the scaffold branches turn the tree into a living waterfall. The habit is narrowly conical to columnar in youth, gradual ...

Caucasian spruce is an attractive conifer with an interesting habit. Lateral branches grow horizontally first, later they rise a bit upwards in an angle of about 45� while new growths are slightly drooping. Aureospicata is a variety with bright yellow new foliage that lasts for as long as 6 weeks. ...

Blue Diamond is a true jewel. This conifer is a variety of Colorado spruce with intensely blue coloured needles with silver overlay. They are quite prickly and evergreen. It grows about 15 cm per year, and only 10 cm upwards making about 1m tall plant in 10 years time. It is well branched from the b ...

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 ...

BAMBINO® is another beautiful dwarf hybrid pine, following success of its forerunners Marie Br�geon and BREPO®. It has medium to dark green, 3-4 cm long needles that recall those of pinus mugo. The plant naturally forms symmetrical, mounding shrubs which need no trimming whatsoever, and gr ...

Carsten’s Wintergold is a selection of very popular Wintergold with stunning winter colour. The needles are deep green from mid spring until early autumn. Then they begin turning yellow and from end autumn until the last cold days of spring they are vivid yellow. This colour is unbeatable so f ...

Would you like a gnom for your garden? Not the one from plaster, a living one – a dwarf pine called the same name = Gnom. This one is very beautiful, slow and dense growing with short to medium sized, dark green needles. It is mound-forming when young, making a shrub about 60 cm tall and almos ...

You don�t need to be an expert or collector to fall in love at first sight with the Negishi cultivar of Japanese White Pine, although it�s true that bonsai enthusiasts seek this one out deliberately � it is a true aristocrat among dwarf forms. It bears silvery blue-green needles in bundles of five, ...

Italian stone pine, often called just umbrella pine, is a long-lived conifer with fresh green, evergreen, and relatively soft needles 10-20 cm long, which grow in pairs and densely cover the branches creating an impenetrable screen. Young plants grown from seeds till the age of about ten years first ...

Tiny Curls is a picturesque selection of white pine with twisted needles and straight trunk and branches. The needles are mid green with a silver stripe. It is very similar to another variety with twisted needles called Torulosa but Tiny Curls show much more symmetrical growth, forming a compact, co ...

Uncinata is a subspecies of mountain pine. Its main difference from dwarf mountain pine is a central leader which helps it make a tree character. Also, this pine is much taller in full maturity as opposed to common mountain pine, forming a widely pyramidal habit, slightly irregular. Uncinata is comm ...

Aurea Nana is a dwarf conifer with golden-yellow, scale-like leaves. It belongs to cypress family and is known under its other name – oriental thuja. It grows slowly, keeps it compact shape and dense habit and is suitable for cultivation on short stems. Platycladus is a trouble-free conifer w ...

Japanese holly fern is a glossy standout among evergreen ferns. It forms regular, dense clumps with a strong architectural presence. The fronds emerge from a short, robust rhizome in a characteristic shuttlecock‑like arrangement and reach approximately 60 to 80 cm in length. They are bipinnate ...

Cherry laurel Novita became a sensation the very moment it hit the market � a true horticultural blockbuster. Its dark, intensely glossy leaves looked luxurious and were impossible not to fall in love with. On top of that, it grew strongly and vigorously, quickly finding its place wherever a den ...

The Northern Irish cherry laurel selection known as �Castlewellan�, marketed elsewhere in Europe as Marbled White, is a true treat for lovers of variegated foliage. And by reliably variegated, we really mean it: the marbled pattern that defines the plant and captivates at first glance is stable and ...

Cherry laurel ETNA� is a small miracle of the early 1990s. It was noticed by grower Adrian Straver because, among countless others, it stood out through the shape and colour of its leaves. The leaves are unusually formed � ovate at the base, widening towards the tip and ending almost flat ...

BONAPARTE� is a beautiful cherry laurel cultivar with striking copper‑coloured new growth, once again personally discovered by nurseryman Adrian Straver as a continuation of his work with cherry laurels. It thus follows the highly successful cultivar ETNA�, his first major discovery from a ...

GENOLIA� cherry laurel originates from Switzerland, where it was selected in 2002 at the nursery P�pinières de Genolier. It is a selection of a chance seedling that not only offered a distinct appearance but also demonstrated high hardiness following an unusually severe winter. The cultivar ...

SOFIA is a Hungarian cherry laurel variety from 2020 and an attractive addition to the family of new and hardy varieties from Hungarian breeders. It was granted an EU patent 53851 in 2020, and a year before it won Gold Medal at a prestigious fair of novelties Plantarium 2019. SOFIA is a dwarf ...

Angustifolia is a popular cultivar of Portuguese laurel, valued for its more compact growth and narrower leaves. The foliage is evergreen, leathery and firmer than that of the species, slightly incurved, narrowly elliptic, 6�10 cm long and 1.5�3 cm wide, with a striking glossy surface. The leaves de ...

Angustifolia is a popular cultivar of Portuguese laurel, valued for its more compact growth and narrower leaves. The foliage is evergreen, leathery and firmer than that of the species, slightly incurved, narrowly elliptic, 6�10 cm long and 1.5�3 cm wide, with a striking glossy surface. The leaves de ...

Brenelia is a modern and attractive cultivar of Portuguese laurel from France, selected by Yves Brenelière in the early 21st century. It is distinguished by its larger, distinctly undulated leaves with a higher gloss. The foliage is evergreen, narrowly elliptic, typically 8�12 cm long and 2�4 c ...

Variegata is a collective name for variegated forms of Portuguese laurel, and it must be acknowledged that, although they remain relatively scarce, they are more than precious collectibles. Their principal ornamental feature lies in the evergreen, leathery leaves with creamy to whitish variegation, ...

Silver Prolific is a dwarf nectarine variety with excellent fruit. It has profusion of usual peach-like, bright pink flowers that are clustered along short branches in a dense plant. The leaves are mid green, semi-glossy, narrowly lanceolate, and not much smaller than those on any other peach tree. ...

Spring in the garden is announced by flowering Japanese cherries. Amanogawa is a fantastic variety with narrowly columnar growth. In early spring it produces masses of double or semi-double, light pink flowers that may turn to clear white later. Young leaves are bronze, changing to green in summer, ...

A beautiful ornamental plum tree with deep purple leaves. Flowers appear in May, after the leaves have started to wrap out, and they are pale, nearly white with light purple tint. They do not flower as richly as the flowering cherries, however, this small tree is exquisite for its foliage. The small ...

Raspberry Splash lungwort stands out with its unique flower colour, which is initially vibrant raspberry pink and later transitions to purple and bluish violet. This change is caused by chemical processes in the flower cells, specifically by changes in pH, which influence pigments called a ...

Callery pear is a flowering (ornamental) pear tree which is cultivated for its profuse flowering in April. The tree produces a huge quantity of snow white flowers followed by small, almost spherical fruit that is edible but not too tasty. Chanticleer is a famous variety of narrowly conical habit. I ...