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This flowering cherry is a cross between prunus sargentii and prunus subhirtella. It has profusion of pale pink, semi-double flowers which open from deep pink buds in mid spring. Leaves are dark green, to 10 cm long. It forms an irregular, wide crown, ideal as a specimen. It does not need much maintenance, …
Contributed by havlis 20.04. 2008 20:50:08 (70297 readers) Match on Title and Article's text |
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This uncommon flowering cherry comes from Taiwan. It is a small tree, well branched even without trimming, with neony pink flowers with yellow stamens. Ideal for japanese style gardens, or anywhere to highlight its surroundings with the splash of early spring colour. …
Contributed by havlis 20.04. 2008 20:54:32 (38382 readers) Match on Title |
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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 (28800 readers) Match on Title |
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Burlat is an early variety of sweet cherries. The fruit is vivid to dark red, mid-sized or large, very sweet and juicy, with medium firm flesh. As it is very precocious it is not vermicular. …
Contributed by havlis 17.03. 2008 10:39:46 (163301 readers) Match on Title |
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Flowering Plum, Prunus cerasifera Nigra is an upright deciduous tree eventually making a ball shaped specimen. It has a rounded to pyramidal habit and dark-red leaves when young in spring and a very attractive deep purple foliage later which is retained throughout the summer. …
Contributed by abies 08.11. 2007 10:20:58 (242254 readers) Match on Title and Article's text |
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Reine Claude Dorée is a French variety of sweet plum with large, round fruit of green to greeny-yellow fruit of delicious, sweet and juicy taste. It ripens at the end of August. …
Contributed by havlis 08.03. 2008 10:54:27 (42260 readers) Match on Title |
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Luizet apricot is one f the most suitable ones from our climate because it blooms late which helps it avoid late spring frost. On the other hand it is an early variety with fruit maturing in mid-summer. Fruit is rounded to oval, deep orange with irregular red flushes, very aromatic. Taste is sweet. It …
Contributed by havlis 08.03. 2008 11:15:12 (29521 readers) Match on Title |
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“Novita” is a new sensation among cherry laurels. Eventually there is a hardy variety which has benefits of the formerly more tender ones: it grows fast and big, has large leaves of a nice colour, and of course if fully hardy! The leaves are 10-15 cm long, obovate, very glossy, soft green when young …
Contributed by havlis 08.11. 2007 10:31:38 (85473 readers) Match on Title |
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Stanley is one of the most tasteful and reliable varieties of plums. The fruit is sweet and juicy, though firm. Flesh is orange-yellow, skin is smooth, deep violet-blue. The fruit is excellent fresh as well as canned, high sugar content makes them ideal for drying. …
Contributed by havlis 05.03. 2008 12:38:40 (86309 readers) Match on Title |
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Luizet apricot is one f the most suitable ones from our climate because it blooms late which helps it avoid late spring frost. On the other hand it is an early variety with fruit maturing in mid-summer. …
Contributed by havlis 12.11. 2014 10:18:01 (15386 readers) Match on Title |
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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 (36231 readers) Match on Title |
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This is one of the most popular and hardiest ornamental cherry trees available. A vigorous deciduous small to medium-sized tree with an upright habit when young and wider canopy when older. In spring the tree is laden with large double, purplish-pink showy flowers shortly before the bronze foliage appears. …
Contributed by abies 01.11. 2007 18:16:14 (57075 readers) Match on Title |
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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 (24518 readers) Match on Title |
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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 (44290 readers) Match on Title |
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Portugal laurel is a great evergreen plant that is surprisingly hardier that some large-leaved cherry laurels. Origin: S.W.Europe. …
Contributed by havlis 17.04. 2014 21:29:38 (19908 readers) Match on Title |
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Rotundifolia is one of the most popular cherry laurels in Great Britain, Belenux, and southern Europe. It has mid green to dark green, widely ovate leaves as opposed to most cherry laurels whose leaves are more narrow and elongated and usually very dark. It makes a neat, compact habit because new shoots …
Contributed by havlis 06.07. 2012 11:06:20 (48101 readers) Match on Title |
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