Aconitum carmichaelii 'Arendsii' - autumn monskhood Plants / Perennials Autumn monkshood is a showy perennial flowering for late summer and autumn. It produces erect racemes of large, 6-7 cm tall flowers of deep indigo blue flowers from September till October. They appear along sturdy stems that grow just over a meter tall. The wise thing about this monkhood is that even … Contributed by havlis 10.09. 2016 09:17:11 (18724 readers) | |
Festuca gautieri - bearskin fescue Plants / Grass, Grasses Bearskin fescue or spiky fescue is a lovely perennial with bright green, narrowly linear, inward inrolled leaves that look spiky but are very soft and nice to touch indeed. The plant naturally forms small mounds and spreads very slowly. Its name bearskin fescue may sound just right if you imagine a bear … Contributed by havlis 03.03. 2015 14:00:40 (44689 readers) | |
Geum coccineum 'Koi Dark Orange' - scarlet avens Plants / Perennials Avens is a pretty perennial whose wild forms can be found on every continent except Australia. Scarlet avens comes from the Balkans and is cultivated for its compact growth and extremely long flowering period. … Contributed by havlis 16.09. 2016 19:38:11 (18820 readers) | |
Prunus serrulata 'Amanogawa' - flowering cherry Plants / Deciduous Trees 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, and … Contributed by havlis 06.07. 2012 11:14:26 (25030 readers) | |
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Fothergilla major - large witch alder Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Synonyms: Fothergilla latifolia, Fothergilla monticola This (large) witch alder is a special plant that originates in the USA. It is popular among collectors as well as garden designers who want to incorporate a nice and interesting shrub that is almost maintenance-free into their projects for beautiful … Contributed by havlis 06.10. 2016 22:09:05 (17946 readers) | |
Amelanchier canadensis 'Glennform' - shedblow servicebe Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Glennform (RAINBOW PILLAR®) is a unique variety of shedblow serviceberry with upright, columnar growth that is suitable for small gardens and hedges. In April it produces numerous star-shaped, white, scented flowers that are followed by small, spherical berries. These are ready to be picked when their … Contributed by havlis 11.04. 2017 11:05:34 (17238 readers) | |
Aesculus x mutabilis - hybrid painted buckeye Plants / Deciduous Trees This buckeye is a garden hybrid between aesculus pavia and aesculus sylvatica, both from S.E. USA. It was described already in early 20th century but in Europe it is still little known since another, very similar tree has been popular here for decades = aesculus pavia “Koehnei”. … Contributed by havlis 22.09. 2016 14:23:16 (11180 readers) | |
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 (43739 readers) | |
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Penstemon barbatus 'Pinacolada™ violet' - beard-tongue Plants / Perennials PIÑACOLADA™ is a fantastic, low and compact growing series of perennial beard-tongue. Violet is a variety with indigo blue and dark violet flowers. The common name refers to the small, tubular-shaped flowers which open from June until August and may resemble a beard’s tongue if you dare to examine … Contributed by havlis 03.03. 2015 14:05:58 (38326 readers) | |
Vinca minor 'Bowles' - periwinkle Plants / Evergreen Shrubs Periwinkle is a European native plant growing wildly in the woods of Central Europe to Caucasus. It is a prostrate, evergreen groundcover offering a long flowering period. … Contributed by havlis 28.06. 2014 11:31:20 (26503 readers) | |
Liquidambar acalycina 'Burgundy Flush' - Chinese sweetgum Plants / Deciduous Trees Sweetgums are very popular trees, some come from the USA, others from Asia. Thanks to the leaf shape they are often mistaken for maples. However, sweetgum leaves are more star-shaped and usually smaller. They fall down late, usually in early winter and the tree is decorated with fruits, which are small, … Contributed by havlis 24.10. 2017 12:30:53 (33556 readers) | |
x Chitalpa tashkentensis 'Pink Dawn' - chitalpa Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Need a tree flowering in summer, ideally with an exotic look? Then chitalpa is the best choice! This beautiful and hardy hybrid was created in 1964 in Uzbekistan. It is a cross between Desert Willow with rather exotic flowers and northern Catalpa. … Contributed by havlis 06.09. 2011 11:41:49 (34299 readers) | |
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Forsythia viridissima 'Bronxensis' - golden bell Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Viridissima species of Golden bell originates in China. Bronxensis is one of its few but truly fantastic varieties valued for very attractive semi-evergreen foliage and primrose yellow, bell-shaped flowers in early spring (April in zone 6). Leaves are soft green, glossy, narrowly lance-shaped, and heavily … Contributed by havlis 11.04. 2017 11:21:31 (13799 readers) | |
Prunus serrulata 'Royal burgundy' - flowering cherry Plants / Deciduous Trees God bless all botanists who restlessly create new and yet more beautiful crosses and hybrids of plants, so we can enjoy splashes of colours and abundant flowering in our gardens. … Contributed by havlis 06.07. 2012 11:26:36 (44783 readers) | |
Campsis radicans 'Flava' - trumpet creeper Plants / Deciduous Trees Tree form This trumpet creeper is really trained into a small tree. 1 or 2 meter tall trunk with a blooming crown gives this exotic looking plant a new glamour. Beautiful, golden-yellow flowers grow at the ends of new branches. They come out in July and don’t stop till the first frosts. … Contributed by havlis 28.08. 2012 12:14:06 (37182 readers) | |
Sedum spectabile 'Neon' - ice plant Plants / Perennials Sedum is a plant which we, when we were kids, called cabbage. Its leaves looks just like the vegetable that hardly any child likes to eat without moaning. However, when it came to flower in late summer it showed such beauty that we willingly forgot about cabbage and ripped off flowering stems for Mum … Contributed by havlis 04.09. 2016 11:52:10 (8548 readers) | |
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