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Grey Pearl is a picturesque dwarf variety of Japanese larch. It is a low growing shrub with soft, deciduous needles that emerge fresh green and soon turn silvery blue green. It makes a fluffy appearance and is almost irresistible not to touch every time you pass by. It grows slowly making tiered bra ...
0,5 - 1m
0,6 - 1,3m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Weeping form of deciduous larch Stiff Weeper is one of the most sought-after conifers in our country. It has strictly pendent branches with no horizontal growth. The crown looks like a head of a long-haired girl. The needles are about 4 cm long, bright green with a silvery blue shade, turning yellow ...
0,5 - 2m
0,5 - 1m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Little Flames® leucothoe is a love at first sight if you like vibrant red colours. It has short, narrowly ovate, evergreen leaves with a conspicuous tip. They emerge rich red in spring, mature to medium green with red margins in summer, and change to vibrant carmine red in autumn, and glossy wi ...
0,3 - 0,4m
0,4 - 0,6m
full sun to shade
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Curly Red® variety comes from Dutch town Boskoop where it was found as a naturally occurring mutation among plants of another variety named SCARLETTA®. It was fits introduced in 2003 and received the award of “most striking plant novelty” at the Aalsmeer flower market in Novemb ...
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,6m
full sun to shade
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Leucothoe species is a relatively new group of plants in Central Europe which gain more and more attention and admirers, including me. They are low or prostrate evergreen shrubs with leathery leaves and sufficient hardiness. Twisting Red® is a Dutch selection by Ron van Opstal, introduced at Pl ...
0,3 - 0,5m
0,4 - 0,6m
full sun to shade
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
DARK DIAMOND® leucothoe is a small evergreen shrub with large, 8-10 cm long and about 4 cm wide, leathery, glossy leaves. They are acuminate and emerge rich carmine red and mature to dark green while tips of the branches keep on producing new, small, red leaves until the autumn. Then the whole ...
0,3 - 0,6m
0,4 - 0,6m
full sun to shade
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Whitewater® leucothoe is a low, mound-forming evergreen shrub with narrowly elliptic leaves that have thin ivory variegation at the margins. In spring new leaves emerge pink, coppery and green, maturing to mid and dark green with creamy or ivory margins. In autumn and winter they turn various p ...
0,3 - 0,8m
0,3 - 1m
semi-shade to shade
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
HALLOWEEN is a compact Japanese leukotoe producing unusually narrow leaves. They are evergreen, leathery, acuminate, narrowly lance-shaped, and very glossy. When they emerge in mid spring and several more times during the season they are deep orange brown, and in autumn they change to deep burgundy ...
0,4 - 0,6m
0,4 - 0,6m
full sun to shade
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
BURNING LOVE® leucothoe is a keiskei species i.e. it makes narrowly lanceolate leaves with a conspicuous tip. They are evergreen, leathery, very glossy, and change colours from crimson red when they emerge to dark green when mature, and dark burgundy red from autumn till spring, when they rever ...
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,6m
full sun to shade
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
LOVITA is a unique variety of leucothoe. Its evergreen leaves are narrowly ovate to short lanceolate with a distinct tip. Their colour is bright burgundy red as they emerge, maturing to dark olive green in summer, and turning crimson red and burgundy red with brown hues in autumn and winter. This co ...
V - V
0,4 - 0,8m
0,5 - 1,3m
full sun to shade
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Privet is the number one popular hedging plant. Golden privet obviously brings extra features: it is evergreen or semi-evergreen, multicoloured and has larger leaves. They are glossy, ovate, 2-3 times bigger than the species (up to 6 cm long), bright golden-yellow margined at the edges grading to de ...
VII - VII
2 - 3m
1 - 2m
full sun to shade
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Lemon and Lime® is a modern variety of privet. It produces semi-deciduous, golden yellow to yellow-green, small leaves which persist on the plant until the first hard frosts (January in zone 6), and are replaced by new foliage in spring.
This variety grows slower than common privet, however, i ...
1 - 1,5m
1 - 2m
full sun to shade
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Oriental sweetgum is a beautiful, slow growing shrub or a small tree from SW Asia. It bears attractive, deeply cut leaves that are fresh green from spring until late summer, and turning rich yellow in neutral soil or orange and red in highly acidic soil in autumn. Each lobe is decorated with a pair ...
2 - 4m
1,5 - 2,5m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
This is the species of sweetgum. Its maple-like, star-shaped leaves are medium-deeply or deeply cut and have fresh green colour. As it is reproduced mainly by seeds the plants often vary even if grown from seeds of the same parent. This results in plants having slightly different characteristics suc ...
8 - 15m
3 - 6m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Aurea is a sweetgum variety with varigated leaves showing irregular splashes of yellow. They turn pink and purple in autumn.
In gardens with limited space for roots it seldom grows taller than 10m, however, in parks and in southern countries you may encounter much taller and obviously very old spec ...
8 - 15m
4 - 8m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
A collectors’ item not only for collectors is this sweetgum. An interesting novelty called Golden Sun has quite a unique feature never found on any other sweetgum before: golden yellow branches. The colour is present on new twigs as well as up to about 3 year-old branches. Leaves are usual, 5- ...
4 - 6m
2 - 3m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
If you like sweetgum and you are afraid of its size in maturity try this one. Gum Ball is a great variety with dwarf growth and reduced size. After 10 years it can grow to some 2.5m with a total of 3m in maturity. Its crown is quite regular even without pruning.
The leaves are identical to basic s ...
2 - 3m
1,5 - 2m
full to partial sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
We are happy to introduce one of the most beautiful and very rare variety of sweetgum called Rotundiloba. The Latin name says it all: with rounded lobes. Its leaves show distinctly rounded lobes on 3 segments of a 5-lobed star-shaped leaves. They are deciduous, deep green, glossy, turning various sh ...
6 - 12m
4 - 7m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Théa is an attractive variety of sweetgum selected for its autumn foliage colour and smaller size. Its leaves are large, typically 5-lobed, rich green, turning to long lasting shades of bright red and burgundy purple in autumn. The tree grows slowly or moderately into a narrowly pyramidal shape. Unl ...
5 - 8m
2 - 3m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Worplesdon is a popular sweetgum variety among both growers as well as customers. It is a reliable and hardy selection that grows well without any additional maintenance. It has deep green, deciduous leaves that are star-shaped, deeply lobed, often with a pair of small teeth beneath each tip. The mo ...
6 - 12m
3 - 6m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Manon is a variegated form of sweetgum. It has star-shaped leaves with white margins that may turn pink in autumn. The leaves look very similar to variegated forms of ivy. This tree grows slowly into a narrowly pyramidal form. Highly decorative.
Another nice feature is the fruit. Formed in about 3 ...
5 - 7m
2 - 4m
full to partial sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Stared is one of the most recent varieties of sweetgum with leaves cut so deep like a too low neck on a frock of a lady who forgot she was going to attend a charitable ball “Help Africa” and not a teenager party “Miss Bikini – Monokini”. Liquidambar leaves have a unique ...
5 - 7m
1 - 2m
full sun
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Honeyberry is an edible version of honeysuckle with fruit of similar taste and appearance of blueberry. The fruit is sweet or sweet-and-sour, 25-35 mm long, oval, deep blue. The fruit ripens very early, often already in May, about two weeks before the first strawberries.
Trávníček is a Czech select ...
III - V
1 - 1,8m
1 - 1,5m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Maigrün is a German variety of box honeysuckle valued for its unbeatable bright green, evergreen leaves that are a little larger than those on the species. The plant exhibits a more compact growth with arching branches that may resemble fern fronds. Leaves are very glossy and their colour remains br ...
0,3 - 0,6m
1 - 2m
full to partial sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
