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Prairie Sky is considered the bluest among the very few switch grass varieties offering blue-green colour. Its flat, 1-2 cm wide leaves are upright, only tips are weeping. From late summer appear taller stems with large, sandy beige inflorescences showing off just above the foliage level.
Switch g ...
IX - X
1,3 - 1,8m
1 - 1,5m
full sun
5 (down to -29�C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
David's photinia / Chinese stranvaeasia is an evergreen shrub whose close relative is a garden hybrid photinia Red Robin. It comes from China and Vietnam and has better cold resistance and narrower leaves. They are deep green and glossy but emerge dark burgundy red in the spring. Before autumn some ...
V - VI
1,5 - 4m
1,5 - 3m
full sun
5b (down to -27�C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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 ...
2 - 4m
1,5 - 3m
full to partial sun
6b (down to -21�C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Chinese photinia is a species which is less common in trade and almost nonexistent in European nurseries. Reason being that all European encyclopedias rate it much less winter hardy than David’s or Fraser’s photinia which are very popular evergreen shrubs used for hedges in zones 6 and h ...
1,5 - 2m
1 - 1,3m
full sun to shade
6 (down to -23�C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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.
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8 - 15m
4 - 6m
full sun
5 (down to -29�C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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 ...
4 - 7m
1 - 3m
full sun
3 (down to -40�C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Ammerland is a very decorative, medium-sized western pine. These pines come from western parts of North America but this variety was bred in German Jeddeloh.
Its needles are borne in whorls of 5. They are mostly erect, stiff, blue-green, long. The shape of this pine is rather conical, looking bett ...
3 - 5m
full sun
5 (down to -29�C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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 ...
1 - 2,5m
1 - 2,5m
full to partial sun
3 (down to -40�C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Austrian (black) pine was first classified by Austrian botanist Johann Arnold in 1785. It is a hardy tree which escaped Austria in early 20th century, and can now be found all around Europe, down to Turkey, and in North Africa. Hard to say if Mother Nature needed a stronger substitute for more tende ...
10 - 30m
6 - 8m
full to partial sun
3 (down to -40�C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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 ...
1 - 3m
1 - 1,5m
full sun
3 (down to -40�C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Some trees have identity crisis and scientists are trying to trace up their true origin. As these efforts often end up in argumentative sessions we tend to choose the easiest possible explanation. In the case of this London plane tree we rather believe it comes from Cenozoic platanus aceroides and w ...
5 - 30m
4 - 20m
full sun
4 (down to -34�C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Alphen�s Globe has been a sought after small tree in the last decade or so since it offers beauty of its parent � plane tree - but much smaller dimensions which make it suitable even for small gardens.
Its deciduous leaves are large � 20 cm wide, glossy green, with 5 lobes. Fruits are prickly sph ...
4 - 6m
3 - 4m
full sun
5 (down to -29�C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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 ...
1 - 2m
0,5 - 1m
full to partial sun
5b (down to -27�C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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 ...
IV - V
3 - 5m
2 - 3m
full sun to shade
6 (down to -23�C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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 ...
IV - V
1,5 - 3m
2 - 4m
full sun to shade
5b (down to -27�C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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 ...
1 - 2m
1 - 2m
full sun to shade
5b (down to -27�C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Orange Charmer firethorn produces mid-sized, bright orange, glossy berries maturing to the richest colour from mid to late September. Leaves are narrowly ovate, deep green and glossy, mostly evergreen. Branches have thorns. Berries are not edible but not poisonous and are scab resistant.
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2 - 3m
1 - 3m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29�C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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