Coronilla varia - Crown Vetch Plants / Perennials Crown Vetch (Coronnilla varia) Great for bare slopes and banks! Covers Ground Quickly and Beautifully! Crown-shaped clusters of tiny pink blooms bloom for months, and the rapidly-spreading foliage prevents soil erosion and smothers weeds! Crownvetch is one of the easiest, fastest, and most beautiful … Contributed by amazon 09.07. 2007 10:37:28 (16098 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Crataegus phaenopyrum - Washington Hawthorn Plants / Deciduous Trees This tree has it all: White spring flowers, brilliant fall foliage and reddish fruits that attract numerous fruit-eating birds. Also provides nesting sites and cover. Spreads to 25 feet; tolerates many soil types. Prefers sun. 4-year-old (18-24 ) transplants shipped at the proper planting time for your … Contributed by amazon 17.05. 2007 21:55:57 (22878 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Prunus incisa 'Kojou No Mai' - Fuji Cherry Plants / Deciduous Trees Kojou is a dainty little shrub with attractive zigzagged stems and pale pink bell-like flowers that grace bare stems in early spring. The leaves turn to glorious shades of red and orange in autumn giving season long appeal. Often used for Bonsai. … Contributed by amazon 15.10. 2007 20:32:54 (28831 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Viburnum prunifolium - Blackhaw Viburnum Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Cedar waxwings, robins, bluebirds, catbirds and many other birds love blackhaw s blue-black fruits, which persist into winter. In spring, the small tree bears white flowers; in fall, its leaves turn red. Tuck blackhaw almost anywhere-it slowly grows to 15-20 ft. tall and 10 wide. Bare-root plant. 3-year-old … Contributed by amazon 30.05. 2007 09:50:54 (15422 readers) Match on Article's text | |
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Achillea millefolium 'Fire King' - Yarrow, Milfoil, Staunchweed Plants / Perennials Get a good view of hummers as they feed from the clusters of rosy-red nectar-rich flowers. This unusual Yarrow is a virtually foolproof perennial. Covered in blooms from late spring to early fall, it provides a long season of color and food. Large clusters of bright blooms atop 15-20 stems with fernlike … Contributed by amazon 02.06. 2007 18:27:32 (22910 readers) Match on Article's text | |
DVD Encyclopedia of Garden Design & Renovation Other / Software, DVD In this informative two-part DVD, hosts Peter Seabrook and Anne Swithinbank demonstrate how to turn a bare-earth plot into a lush, beautiful garden. Includes everything from planning, selecting the right tools, soil preparing, & laying a new lawn. The hosts then offer the best long-term approach … Contributed by amazon 30.06. 2007 11:03:17 (19819 readers) Match on Article's text | |
DVD Encyclopedia of Roses Other / Software, DVD In this fact-filled DVD, hosts Peter Seabrook and Anne Swithinbank show how you can produce more roses and better plants than ever before! You will learn to plant bare root and container grown bushes for long-term flowering, the right timing and correct techniques for pruning, the importance of fertilizers … Contributed by amazon 30.06. 2007 10:52:43 (11065 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Cercis canadensis 'Forest Pansy' - Judas tree, love tree Plants / Deciduous Trees Judas tree is often called The Love Tree because of the unusual shape and colour of its leaves which do look like a heart icon. Their colour is bronze to deep burgundy, sometimes with green shades or veins. This small sized tree has an upright habit with low branches and is attractive all year round … Contributed by havlis 08.04. 2008 09:02:44 (90616 readers) Match on Article's text | |
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Lewisia longipetala 'Little Plum' - Lewisia Plants / Perennials Pinkish-red, striped flowers in late May. Flowers are large for a Lewisia, up to 1 in diameter. Many flowers per plant. Very showy when in bloom. This particular variety is reputed to be hardier than many other Lewisia and we have found this to be the case. They appear to do best if given some shade … Contributed by amazon 02.11. 2007 13:40:49 (20400 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Prunus serrulata 'Kanzan' - flowering cherry Plants / Deciduous Trees Just like many beautifully flowering trees or shrubs, this flowering cherry too comes from China. It even bears a name of an ancient tendai buddhist temple. … Contributed by havlis 06.07. 2012 11:21:03 (36244 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Cercis siliquastrum - Judas tree Plants / Deciduous Trees Judas tree is a rather special plant with profusion of beautiful, bright pink flowers in mid spring. They are small, pea-like, and so special due to their appearance on bare wood and even the main stems, however large and old they are. For prolific flowering the plant needs a hot and sunny summer in … Contributed by havlis 01.02. 2010 14:01:36 (27946 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Steps to rose gardening success Plants / Roses Rose gardening has its own special mystique. Few perennials or flowering shrubs give you so many wonderful blooms soon after planting or have as long a period of bloom. And, best of all, hardy roses will come back year after year. Gardeners the world over are smitten by the allure of roses, but many … Contributed by flower-gardening-m-e 25.09. 2006 08:55:14 (20745 readers) Match on Article's text | |
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Wisteria sinensis 'Alba' - Chinese wisteria Plants / Climber Plants Chinese wisteria is no doubt the queen of flowering climbers. Alba variety bears clusters of very fragrant, pure white flowers that are 25-35 cm long and appear on bare wood earlier than on other wisterias, usually in April. Rather exotic looking pinnate leaves are mid green and densely cover the plant … Contributed by havlis 12.06. 2016 10:31:21 (16172 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Magnolia 'Elizabeth' - Elizabeth magnolia Plants / Deciduous Shrubs The name of this magnolia hybrid has nothing to do with the British queen. Obviously, it does not come from the UK but the USA. And story tells the following. Quite a few decades ago – in 1957 – Evamaria Sperber planted a newly hybridized seed in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. … Contributed by havlis 19.02. 2008 08:23:02 (45975 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Witch Hazels Other / Books Royal Horticultural Society Plant Collector Guide | Once discovered, witch hazels capture the hearts of gardeners who rank them among the best of all winter-flowering shrubs. Shrugging off several degrees of frost and a heavy weight of snow, their distinctive flowers held on bare branches cannot fail … Contributed by amazon 12.04. 2007 10:38:01 (9491 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Viburnum x bodnantense 'Dawn' - dawn viburnum Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Dawn viburnum is a garden hybrid between viburnum farreri and viburnum grandiflorum. It is one of winter flowering plants because its flowers come out from end December (in mild winters) until March. If it snows while it blooms it does not matter, snow will do no damage to the flowers. … Contributed by havlis 21.03. 2015 20:45:27 (43022 readers) Match on Article's text | |
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