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One of the most magnificent trees of our climate comes from East Asia and is called the Princess Tree or Empress Tree or even Foxglove Tree. Its main feature is giant leaves which can be as much as 30 cm long and wide, very hairy, pale to deep green. Thanks to them empress trees are often mistaken f ...
V - VI
5 - 10m
2 - 6m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Amur Cork Tree is a beautiful specimen tree native to a large area around the Amur River in N.E. Asia - Manchuria, the Amur region in Russia, and Mongolia. Since the winter temperatures can drop to -40 °C there, no wonder that it is popular especially in countries with colder climates where it is pl ...
8 - 15m
8 - 15m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Red Robin is a New Zealand selection of Fraser's photinia which is considered the first and also possibly the most successful Fraser's photinia variety of 20th century. After 20 years from its introduction it received the Award of Garden Merit (AGM) by the English Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) f ...
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2 - 4m
1,5 - 3m
full to partial sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Tree form or PINK MARBLE® photinia has evergreen, ovate, and glossy leaves of dark green colour with white margins and silvery-white veins just like marble has, that gain pink shades in autumn and winter. However, the best show happens when new leaves emerge - they are bright pink red and last ...
2 - 4m
1,5 - 2,5m
full to partial sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Carré Rouge is a selection of Fraser's photinia from Red Robin variety. It is commonly believed to have originated in French Nantes, however, the truth is that the first plants were found in a Tuscan nursery in Pistoia, Italy, and named Mandarino. It produces smaller leaves of intensely red colour w ...
2 - 4m
1 - 2m
full to partial sun
7 (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
If you like Mediterranean umbrella pines but feel sorry that it is too tender for our climate try to have a look at this selection of dwarf Japanese red pine. It is called Alice Verkade and has bright green, soft needles. It is a slow growing plant making only about 7-10 cm per year, forming a beaut ...
1 - 2m
0,5 - 1,5m
full sun
5 (down to -29°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
Being a plant lover based in Europe and perhaps a bit of a traveler, too, I suppose you must have been to the Mediterranean at least once in your life, am I right? And there, you must have come across one of the key features of the Mediterranean landscape apart from the Tuscan cypress – the It ...
10 - 20m
8 - 15m
full sun
8 (down to -18°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Scots pine is a European native pine species, and is native in our country, too. Its makes the most beautiful and at the same time the most bizarre specimens in the wild. It bears 5-7 cm long, mid green needles with a slight bluish overlay. They are borne in pairs and remain on the tree for 3 years ...
2 - 15m
2 - 6m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Scots pine is a European native pine species, and is native in our country, too. Its makes the most beautiful and at the same time the most bizarre specimens in the wild. Glauca is a selected variety with blue green needles that are longer compared to those on Watereri variety and not so stiff. In c ...
2 - 10m
2 - 6m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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 ...
10 - 20m
3 - 6m
full sun
2 (down to -45°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Digitata is a naturally occurring form of oriental plane, now considered a variety. It was first described by British botanist George Henry (1806-1879) who also admitted that the tree had been put into commerce some 30 earlier by Loddiges, a significant nursery of 18th and 19th century renowned for ...
15 - 25m
15 - 20m
full sun
7 (down to -23°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
2 - 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 ...
3 - 5m
2 - 3m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Originally named Snofozam after it was put to trade this hybrid weeping cherry received a nicer name Snow Fountains® which tells everything. In the spring it produces masses of lightly scented pure white flowers along plentiful of weeping branches that may run almost to the ground unless pruned ...
IV - V
1,5 - 3m
1 - 3m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Polonais is a late apricot tree variety from Provence in France. It produces rounded to oval fruit of golden yellow skin with orange cheeks and some red freckles. The flesh is sweet and juicy, mildly aromatic and medium firm which makes it ideal for making preserves apart from eating fresh. Maturity ...
3 - 5m
2 - 4m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
San Castrese is an Italian, vigorously growing apricot variety producing fruit from about early August in CE climate. The fruit is golden yellow to pale orange, only slightly red flushed, almost rounded, sweet, aromatic, less intense in flavour, and freestone. Fruit is great for fresh consumption an ...
4 - 6m
2 - 4m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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.
It is partly self-fertile but benefits from being pollinated by another early cherry. It likes slightly acid ...
IV - V
3 - 7m
full sun
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Dönissens Gelbe is a super sweet and aromatic variety of yellow sweet cherries from Germany. It produces masses of medium-sized, juicy fruit in July. Its colour brings one advantage – it is usually untouched by birds who relish on red-coloured cherries.
It is self-sterile and needs a pollina ...
IV - IV
3 - 5m
3 - 4m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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3 - 6m
2 - 4m
full sun
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Hedelfingen is a very good variety of sweet cherry. It bears medium-sized fruit in early summer. Fruit is sweet and crunchy and partly resistant to cracking. It gains its colour about a week before it is truly mature. It needs protection from cherry-worms.
It is not self-fertile and needs a pollina ...
IV - IV
3 - 6m
3 - 4m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Napoleon is a mid-season variety of sweet bigarreau cherry. Its fruit ripens in early July. Fruit is large, heart-shaped, yellow and red, getting deeper red as it matures on the tree. The flesh is aromatic, sweet, and has excellent taste. It needs protection from cherry-worms.
It belongs to the ha ...
IV - V
3 - 6m
full sun
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Stella is one the best modern self-fertile varieties of sweet cherries. It comes from Canada and produces reliable crop of large, sweet, very dark red, juicy fruit from end July. Self-fertile means it does not need a pollinating partner and you can have just one tree in the garden and there will alw ...
IV - IV
2 - 2,5m
1,5 - 2m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Büttners Rote Knorpelkirsche is a great and unique sweet cherry variety from German Halle found already in 1795. In early 2000‘ it was renamed to ALTENBURGER MELONENKIRSCHE which truly does no make its pronunciation any easier.
This cherry produces excellent fruit of unique taste and beautif ...
4 - 6m
3 - 5m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
MAXIMA is a modern, medium early, self-fertile cherry variety from Italy. It starts blooming only about 2 days later than Burlat (another medium-early variety) which helps the flowers escape cherry fruit flies that damage late hard-fleshed cherries by laying eggs inside from which are borne worms. M ...
IV
3 - 5m
2 - 4m
full sun
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Reine Claude d´Oullins is another French variety out of Reine Claude range. It is a greengage with large, spherical fruit of greeny-yellow fruit. It is delicious, sweet and juicy taste, the flesh is attached to the core. It is an early variety that ripens from mid to end of August.
It flowers in Ma ...
V - V
3 - 4m
2 - 4m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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.
It blooms late in the spring and ...
V - V
2,5 - 6m
2 - 4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Quetsche d’Alsace is one of the oldest European plum varieties that was first described in German Alsace in 1914, hence its name. Still, it is so old and of unclear origin that most producing countries gave it its own name in their own language. We call it Švestka domácí (‘house plumR ...
V - V
3 - 5m
2 - 3,5m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Mirabelle de Nancy is a cherry plum which is believed to be present and popular in France since the 15th century. Cherry plum is specific fruit, something between damson and plum. This variety produces rich yellow or golden-flushed, spherical, free-stone fruit that is juicy and sweet, not particular ...
IV - IV
3 - 6m
2 - 4m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
This flowering plum is a popular flowering tree although very few people even know its name. It is a slow to medium fast growing small tree which makes a handsome crown with profusion of flowers early in the spring, sooner than any Japanese flowering cherry. In our garden it is the first heavily blo ...
III - IV
1,5 - 3m
1 - 2m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
This flowering plum is a unique shrub of small-sized gardens. Thanks to its size it is suitable for even the smallest of gardens. The main feature – flowers – appear earliest of all flowering cherries and plums. They are soft pink with yellow stamens and there is always profusion of them ...
III - IV
1,5 - 3m
1 - 1,5m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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IV
2 - 3,5m
1 - 1,5m
full sun to shade
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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 is surprisingly hardy for a large-leaved cherry laurel. It is a selection of Rotundifolia variety hen ...
V
3 - 6m
1 - 3m
full sun to shade
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Otto Luyken is one of the best known as well the most reliable and the hardiest selection among cherry laurels. Its evergreen pointed leaves are glossy and dark green. In April and May appears a profusion of erect racemes compound of small, creamy white, fragrant flowers followed by blue-black fruit ...
IV - V
1,5 - 3m
2 - 3m
full sun to shade
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
KLEOPATRA® is a Hungarian cherry laurel variety bred by Dr. Józsa Miklos and introduced in 2007. It forms a compact, graceful shrub or a small tree with spreading branches and dark green, glossy, leathery, evergreen leaves. They emerge coppery orange just like on Etna® variety and can be d ...
IV - V
2,5 - 3,5m
1 - 2m
full sun to shade
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Angustifolia is a very elegant variety of Portugal laurel. Irrespective of its origin it belongs to the hardiest evergreen plants for our climate and performs better than some large-leaved cherry laurels. It has narrower leaves than the species and brighter red stalks and new twigs. In May and June ...
V - VI
3 - 6m
2 - 3m
full to partial sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Brenelia is an elegant novelty variety of Portugal laurel from early 21st century. In appearance and use it is similar to Angustifolia variety but has larger leaves with undulated margins and exhibit faster growth. The stalks and new stems are rich burgundy red not only in winter but most of the gro ...
VI
3 - 6m
2 - 4m
full to partial sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
If you like peaches and are looking for a heavy cropper try Fayette. This freestone variety bears large fruit that can be compared to the modern varieties. It has smooth, deep red skin with some yellow-orange shades, yellow flesh, and sweet taste. It matures from end August until mid September. Frui ...
IV - IV
3 - 4m
2 - 3m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Ice Peach is a dwarf peach tree variety and the first white-skin peach in history. It produces medium-sized fruit with very pale yellow to almost white skin as well as the flesh which is sweet, low in acidity, aromatic, and juicy. It matures in first half August and makes small, slightly spreading t ...
1 - 1,5m
1 - 1,5m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Redhaven is one of the most successful commercial varieties of peach in the world. It comes from the USA, and was registered in 1973.
It flowers profusely, is self-fertile and very productive. The fruit is mid-sized, with yellow and red hairy skin and yellow flesh and ripens from mid to end summer. ...
IV - V
3 - 4m
full sun
5a (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
True pink is the colour of this beautiful Cheal´s Weeping Cherry. Either a standard or a half standard tree, this flowering cherry always has rather pendulous branches forming a wide crown.
Double flowers appear on bare branches at the end of April and continue throughout May already with new leav ...
IV - V
2,5 - 3m
1 - 3m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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.
Many of us thought Kanzan to be the best flowering and the most beautiful cherry. Well, get ready for another selection ...
IV - V
6 - 8m
3 - 6m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
The prunus genus contains over 400 species which are useful and beautiful at the same time. There are cherries, plums, peaches or sloes, as well as flowering Japanese cherries, cherry laurels etc. This variety received its name for the season in which it can re-flower if the end of autumn is warm. H ...
III - IV
3 - 4m
1 - 3m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Weeping Higan cherry has rich pink, double flowers in early cherry season. It makes pendent branches that soon reach the ground. It is the right spring-teller as it announces warmer weather as one of the first flowering trees. It seldom grows taller than 3 m which makes it an ideal selection for eve ...
IV - IV
3 - 4m
1 - 3m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Yoshino cherry brings joy to spring gardens with profusion of white flowers borne from deep red calyxes. It is a hybrid cherry that came from crossing prunus sunhirtella and prunus speciosa. The flowers appear on bare branches in early spring – around April and are followed by deciduous, cherr ...
IV - IV
6 - 12m
3 - 7m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Caucasian wing nut is one of my favorite trees. I first saw it growing in the castle garden of Třeboň chateau where it was ingeniously and logically placed as a focal point in the front of the main facade. And despite its size I knew immediately that I wanted to grow this „baby“ in my ga ...
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15 - 20m
10 - 15m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
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 ...
IV - V
8 - 13m
4 - 6m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Clapps Favourite is an early pear tree variety that was first introduced in the USA before 1860. It bears medium-sized pears with greeny-yellow skin, red flushed. The flesh is sweet, soft and juicy, “melt in the mouth”. It is ideal snack fruit eaten just as picked from the tree.
It cro ...
IV - V
3 - 5m
2 - 4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Conference is a famous pear tree from the 19th century. It was first introduced at the National British Pear Conference in 1885, hence its name. It has medium-sized fruit that is pyriform if cross-pollinated, or banana-shaped if self-pollinated.
The fruit is pale green with golden brown russet pat ...
IV - IV
3 - 5m
2 - 4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Williams is probably the most known and spread out pear in the world. Its complete name is Williams bon Chretien and comes from the UK, 18th century.
It is an early variety bearing mid-sized or large fruit with light green or yellow skin. The flesh is very juicy, aromatic, and sweet, it quickly sof ...
IV - V
3 - 5m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Dwarf pears
are short and slender mini trees, usually with erect branches and plenty of fruit on a small tree. They are commonly at least partially or fully self-fertile so that they don’t need a pollinator which might be a problem to find if located on a city balcony. Leaves ma suffer from ...
1 - 1,5m
0,5 - 1m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Among quite a few English names of this species I think that silver pear is best. This deciduous tree really belongs to a pear family and has silvery blue-green, willow-like, narrow leaves. They emerge much greener in mid spring, along with the white, scented, 5-petalled flowers that are followed by ...
IV - V
3 - 5m
2 - 4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
