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Skysail Yellow is a yarrow variety from the Skysail series brought by the Dutch company Dümmen Orange. It makes bright yellow flowers that turn beige to pale orange as they mature while the centres remain deep yellow. It begins to bloom in June atop short and firm stems only 30-40 cm in height, and ...
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full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Ostara is a unique variety of ornamental onion. It is an interspecific hybrid between the low-growing species a. karataviense and purple-flowered species a. atropurpureum. The result is a beautiful variety with large, broad leaves and stems that are shorter than usual: only some 30-40 cm high. They ...
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full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Japanese fan columbine is an Asian species producing strong, erect plants with large flowers. They open from mid to late spring and have different colours of their centres and petals. The flower buds are nodding, just like freshly opened flowers. Only after a few days, when they have matured, they r ...
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semi-shade / partial sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
ROSE DELIGHT™ is a rose rock cress variety from North American Syngenta Flowers introduced in 2003. It makes a stunning display of small, 4-petalled, rich purple pink flowers atop only about 10 cm tall stems. Narrowly obovate leaves are formed in a flat rosette just above the ground. It is a p ...
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full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Sweet Dreams armeria bears clear pink flowers composed in 3-4 cm wide, spherical flowerheads atop sturdy, 15-20 cm tall, leafless stems. The inflorescence resembles ornamental onion flowers but without any scent. They bloom incredibly long time: from late April until early autumn. Evergreen leaves a ...
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full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Lords-and-ladies is an old favourite among tuberous plants. And as you can tell by the Latin name, it does not come from Bangladesh though it looks rather exotic.
The arrow-shaped leaves are very attractive, marbled green with conspicuous creamy white or yellowish veins. They are popular for flower ...
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full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Hart’s tongue fern is an attractive species with large, evergreen leaves. It was widespread in Europe, West Asia, and North America but in some locations including Czech Republic it is already listed among endangered species.
Hart’s tongue fern is the only hardy fern with entire foliag ...
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0,4 - 0,5m
semi-shade to shade
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Crispum is a hart’s tongue fern variety from the undulatum group. Its narrow leaves are similar to Angustatum variety but exhibit gently crested margins. They are deep green, 30-40 cm long, dark green, highly glossy, and withstand deep frost without damage, only during very cold spells they ma ...
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0,4 - 0,5m
semi-shade to shade
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
White Beauty is a recently introduced new trade name for what was formerly botanically described as Albus. It is a spring flowering variety of Alpine aster with plenty of pure white ray florets and yellow discs. Stems are 20-25 cm tall and each one holds only one flower but as the plant ages there a ...
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0,2 - 0,4m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Darwin’s Snow Sprite is a dwarf astilbe from the simplicifolia group. It makes delicate, almost fern-like, elegantly incised at margins, deep green and highly glossy leaves. They are deciduous and emerge bronze tinged. Snow white flowers are formed in loose plumes atop only some 20 cm tall, sl ...
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semi-shade / partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Little Vision In Pink is a dwarf astilbe with dense and congested inflorescence of clear pink colour. Its strong stems grow only some 30 cm tall which is unusual for a Chinese astilbe hybrid. It forms compact tufts with lots of healthy, dark green and glossy leaves. Blooming begins in late June and ...
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semi-shade to shade
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
If you love astilbe there is a variety you should not miss. It is called Sprite and belongs to simplicifolia group with dissected leaves. Sprite is a dwarf perennial with medium pink flowers on slightly pendent, burgundy red stems. The leaves are deeply cut, dark green, glossy, and very decorative w ...
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0,3 - 0,5m
semi-shade to shade
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
YOUNIQUE™ is a trade name of a new astilbe series from the Netherlands. Plants from this series excel in abundant flowering and healthy foliage. YOUNIQUE™ CERISE is a variety from 2008, bred by Jan Verschoor, with rich cerise pink flowers that look like candy floss. They appear from earl ...
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semi-shade to shade
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Rosi Klose is an early bergenia variety with soft pink flowers. The evergreen leaves are medium green with some wine red shades in autumn and winter. Blooming begins in early April and continues for 4-6 weeks. Flower buds are born atop 30-40 cm tall, crimson red stems, they are campanulate and noddi ...
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full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Eroica is a bergenia variety with rich purple pink flowers. They are campanulate, born in clusters, and open atop red flushed, 35-40 cm tall stems. The evergreen leaves are broadly heart-shaped, almost rounded, medium green with bronze and red shades in autumn and winter. Blooming begins in mid Apri ...
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full sun to shade
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Shoeshine™ Rose a bergenia (elephant’s ears) variety from Syngenta breeders. It produces more compact, dense clumps with smaller, broadly oval to almost rounded, thick, evergreen leaves. They are medium green, pink margined in summer, and gain rose shades in autumn and winter. From late ...
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full sun to shade
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Marsh marigold is our native perennial, naturally occurring from Central to North Europe as well as in North America and North Asia. It loves boggy and constantly moist locations in full sun. It is very variable and during a spring walk you can find several plants of slightly different appearance, y ...
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full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Mariël Red Bells is an exquisite nettle-leaved bellflower hybrid producing large, 3-4 cm long, chubby, campanulate flowers. They are rich magenta pink and nodding. Compared to the small leaves they look as if they did not belong there and were glued to the stems. Leaves are deciduous, small, medium ...
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full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
New Zealand sedge is an evergreen perennial grass, usually featuring brownish foliage. Bronze Form is an upright growing variety with thin leaves in pale reddish-brown colour with bronze or orange hues. Only side leaves arch a little. They combine well with broad-leaved perennials with contrasting f ...
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Japanese sedge is a perfect companion plant for evergreen arrangements because this grass-like perennial remains in leaf all year long. The stiff and glossy leaves are dark green with wide, creamy-white margins.
It needs well-drained but constantly moist and humus-rich soil. When established it wi ...
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0,3 - 0,4m
full sun to shade
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Japanese grass sedge is an evergreen species of ornamental grass native to central and southern Japan. Irish Green is a pure green gem among variegated sedges. It makes 1-1.5 cm wide, strap-like leaves that are erect and only slightly arching, leathery but not so sharp, 30-40 cm long, dark green on ...
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0,3 - 0,4m
full sun to shade
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Amethyst in Snow is a unique variety of mountain bluet where blue is truly out of the question. This perennial makes the most amazing flowers with amethyst purple centres and snow white or very pale pink ray florets on 30-40 cm tall stem that do not bend. Flowers are produced from early June, and co ...
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full to partial sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Early Sunrise is a profusely flowering tickseed with an extremely long bloom period. It produces semi-double or double flowers of golden yellow colour from early June until late autumn if the weather is sunny and relatively warm. The stems are a little shorter than other grandiflora tickseeds, only ...
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full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Moonbeam is one of the most reliable and sought-after varieties of thread leaf coreopsis. Its small, daisy-like flowers are light yellow just like moonlight. Its extremely long flowering period begins in early summer and ends in the last warm days of autumn. Deadheading will enhance flowering but is ...
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5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Corydalis calycosa is a beautiful perennial with blue flowers. Its originates in central China, more precisely in the Sichuan province. Although the province's climate mostly belongs to the subtropical monsoon belt, the central and northern parts have snow-capped mountains and even the Dagu Glacier. ...
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5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
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Japanese Rosy Buckler Fern (autumn fern) is an evergreen and very attractive fern species easily distinguished by brightly coloured young leaves and distinctly regular fronds. Brillance is a selection with a richer shade of golden orange to copper-red on newly emerging foliage that turns light green ...
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semi-shade to shade
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Koidzumiana is a Japanese Rosy Buckler fern which stands out for its beautifully coloured young leaves, like all varieties from this group. But koidzumiana has a more prominent rusty red shade, which changes to bronze-golden, and later leaves mature to deep green. The leaves are glossy, bi-pinnate a ...
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0,3 - 0,5m
semi-shade to shade
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Unique and gorgeous. This is another coneflower variety from the SunSeekers series. It is called SUNSEEKERS APPLE GREEN and produces large, 8-10 cm across, single flowers with 2 or even 3 layers of daisy-like, light to medium green ray florets. The discs are massive, flattened, and hide plenty of ne ...
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full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
DELICIOUS NOUGAT® coneflower is a sister variety of DELICIOUS CANDY® bred by Marco van Noort from the Netherlands in 2016. It produces dense, compact clumps of short stems atop which open double flowers from mid July until late summer. They are creamy white with yellow-green centres. Their ...
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full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Shrubby wallflower is a long-flowering perennial, or to be precise a subshrub forming woody stems, exactly like lavender plants do. Fragrant Sunshine is a selection made by David Ralph Tristram in 1994 in West Sussex, UK, patented under PP13,432.
Fragrant Sunshine is a lovely Shrubby wallflower wit ...
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full sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
INTENSE BLUE® is a blue fescue of a striking colour. It was bred by Allure Tuinplanten and Amigra from the Netherlands. It was found in 2005 and introduced three years later. The plant makes well-behaved, symmetrical, extremely dense tufts of silvery blue foliage. Their colour literally calls f ...
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full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
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5 (down to -29°C)
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for zone 7
SpinTop is a new blanket flower series from Dutch company Dümmen Orange® introduced to market after 2015. SpinTop Orange Halo is a tricky one which some may found expandable now that we have several yellow and red varieties to date. Well, not quite. This one is truly unique. Its flowers are muc ...
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full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
SpinTop is a new blanket flower series from Dutch company Dümmen Orange® introduced to market after 2015. SpinTop Yellow Touch left me breathless when I first saw its ingenious flowers. While yellow in many bi-coloured blanket flowers occupies a large enough portion to almost outstrip the overa ...
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full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Avens is a pretty perennial whose wild forms can be found on every continent except Australia. Mrs. J.Bradshaw, formerly known as Feuerball, is a hybrid of geum chiloense with small but attractive, scarlet red, semi-double flowers that come out from early June, and, if regularly dead-headed, strong ...
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full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Flames of Passion® is a 2003 selection of water avens discovered by world famous landscape designer and plant breeder Piet Oudolf from Dutch town Hummelo in 1999. It makes 2-3 cm large, semi-double flowers of pastel red flowers atop about 40 cm tall, dark red stems. They bloom from late May unt ...
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full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
The CENSATION™ series of avens is bred by Armand Kremer from a German perennial nursery Green Globe. Yellow Fluffy is a cheerful variety with banana yellow flowers tinged salmon pink on the reverse. They are 3-4 cm wide, semi-double, and open atop 35-45 cm tall maroon stems. It begins to bloom ...
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full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Anna’s Red is a Lenten rose bred by Rodney Davey in the UK and released after 12 years hard breeding work in 2013. It is a surprise success of crossing h. lividus, h. niger, and h. x hybridus. It was named after Anna Pavord (*20 September 1940), a British correspondent, editor, and contributor ...
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full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
ICE'N ROSES® DARK PICOTEE is another bicoloured snow rose selection, an improvement over PICOTEE hellebore with 4-6 cm wide, snow-white flowers with darker pink to almost maroon margins and more prominent veins. Chartreuse sepals in the centre are paired with creamy white stamens. Evergreen lea ...
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full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
VIV® Elsa is a Lenten rose from the VIV® series producing attractive flowers combining white background and deep maroon marbling. They come out early in the season – if forced, they can bloom atop 30-40 cm tall, strong, upright stems from October, otherwise from mid-winter. New flowe ...
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semi-shade / partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
ICE N‘ ROSES® is an attractive series of early hellebores bred by Josef Heuger from Germany. It is a cross of h. x eriscmithii and h. x hybrida, and Josef Heuger named it in honour of his home town Glandorf helleborus x glandorfensis. It produces dense tufts with profusion of very large f ...
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for zone 5+6
for zone 7
ICE N‘ ROSES® is an attractive series of early hellebores bred by Josef Heuger from Germany. It is a cross of h. x eriscmithii and h. x hybrida, and Josef Heuger named it in honour of his home town Glandorf: helleborus x glandorfensis. It produces dense tufts with profusion of very large ...
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full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
ICE N‘ ROSES® WHITE is a surprisingly snow-white variety of this late flowering Lenten rose. Possibly in order to offer a complete range of colour Heuger launched even two white-flowering varieties within this series despite the fact that white colour is typical for early flowering Christ ...
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for zone 5+6
for zone 7
ICE'N ROSES® is an attractive series of early hellebores bred by Josef Heuger from Germany. It is a cross of h. x eriscmithii or h. x ballardiae and h. x hybridus, and Josef Heuger named it in honour of his home town Glandorf: helleborus x glandorfensis. It produces dense tufts with profusion o ...
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full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Hellebores are variable perennials which can be crossed easily with pollen transfer and new seedlings bear new features. Double Ellen® series comprises of many named and described varieties and since new plants are developed constantly lacking a name yet, we offer them sorted by flower colour a ...
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for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Double Ellen® Picotee is a gentle hellebore variety with pale pink to almost white, semi-double flowers with rich burgundy red margins. Flowers come out according to weather, mostly from February until late April atop 30-35 cm tall, upright stems. Evergreen leaves are leathery, palmate, and dee ...
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semi-shade / partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Double Ellen® Picotee Green is an eye-catching hellebore variety with pale green flowers decorated with bright maroon red spots, dots, veins, and margins. They are fully double and petals have acuminate tips. Flowers come out according to weather, mostly from February until late April atop 30-3 ...
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for zone 7
Double Ellen® Pink is a variable beauty among double flowering Lenten roses. The flowers emerge very pale pink or almost white with richer pink marbling, highlights or dotting, and mature to more uniform, darker pastel pink background on which the purple pink freckles are a dominant feature. Fl ...
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Double Ellen® Pink Spotted is another freckled hellebore with pale pink petals and burgundy red dots on semi-double flowers. Flowers come out according to weather, mostly from February until late April atop 30-35 cm tall, upright stems. Evergreen leaves are leathery, palmate, and deep green and ...
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for zone 7
Double Ellen® Purple hellebore has the darkest burgundy purple red flowers we have seen so far. Its flowers are large, semi-double to fully double with numerous white stamens in the centre. Flowers come out according to weather, mostly from February until late April atop 30-35 cm tall, upright ...
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Double Ellen® Red is a double flowering Lenten rose with 3 rows of almost rounded, dark burgundy red petals decorated with white marbling at margins. Flowers come out according to weather, mostly from February until late April atop 30-35 cm tall, upright stems. Evergreen leaves are leathery, pa ...
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for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Double Ellen® White is an exquisite Lenten rose variety with white, double flowers. Their petals are slightly undulated, and the largest ones are decorated with less conspicuous lime green freckles, yet the overall appearance remains pure like fresh snow. Flowers come out according to weather, ...
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for zone 7
Double Ellen® White Spotted is a hellebore for those who prefer calm colour combinations. Its semi-double flowers are snow white with burgundy red dots. Flowers come out according to weather, mostly from February until late April atop 30-35 cm tall, upright stems. Evergreen leaves are leathery, ...
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for zone 7
Pretty Ellen® Pink hellebore makes single, soft pink flowers with gentle maroon dots near the centre. Flowers come out according to weather, mostly from February until late April atop 30-35 cm tall, upright stems. Evergreen leaves are leathery, palmate, and deep green and form a compact clump. ...
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for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Pretty Ellen® White hellebore makes single, white red flowers decorated with a bunch of creamy beige stamens and an a less conspicuous maroon eye right in the centre. Flowers come out according to weather, mostly from February until late April atop 30-35 cm tall, upright stems. Evergreen leaves ...
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5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Pretty Ellen® White Spotted hellebore makes single flowers with 5 to 7 clear white petals with a bright maroon blotch and dotting from the centre outwards leaving the margins white. Flowers come out according to weather, mostly from February until late April atop 30-35 cm tall, upright stems. E ...
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PIPPA’S PURPLE hellebore boasts 6-7 cm wide, single, enchanting flowers composed of 5 rounded, overlapping petals. They are burnt pink with a prominent deep purple pink freckles which disappear towards the margins. Their centres are decorated with a chartreuse crown and a small bunch of creamy ...
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5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Maestro® hellebore is another from the ballardiae hybrids i.e. crossings of h.lividus and h.niger. They usually have marbled foliage and dusky coloured flowers. Maestro® makes 4-5 cm wide flowers which open white and turn dusky pink, and mature to cloudy pink when all stamens have fallen o ...
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5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Black Beauty is an American coral bells variety bred by Daniel M.Heims from Terra Nova Nurseries, USA. It makes large, dark burgundy red, slightly ruffled, semi-evergreen foliage. In May and June it makes dark red stems with small, white flowers, and reblooms in early autumn. The plants looks great ...
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4 (down to -34°C)
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for zone 7
Silver Gumdrop is a yummy (yet inedible) coral bells variety with mid-sized leaves with rounded lobes. They have the most peculiar colour combining silver and rosy pink with gentle burgundy-brown venation and purple red undersides. From July until late summer rise slender, 50 or even 60 cm tall, dar ...
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for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Tapestry® is a beautiful foamy bells bred by Janet Egger from Terra Nova Nurseries, USA, and patented as PP21150 in 2010. It makes large, semi-evergreen, deeply lobed leaves. They are dark burgundy red to almost chocolate brown in the centre, and green at margins. From May until September it pr ...
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Queen Guinevere was the wife of 5th and 6th century British king Artur. She was Welsh, beautiful, and much younger than her husband and legend has it that when she first saw knight Lancelot, she fell in love with him, and since he requited her feelings, they had an affair of which Arthur learnt afte ...
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3 (down to -40°C)
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for zone 7
Hardy gloxinia is a beautiful perennial with eye-catching, almost exotic looking flowers which decorates the garden with showy flowers in early summer and attractive leaves until autumn.
Tubular, widely trumpet-shaped flowers are now white, yellow throated, and are borne on 10-25 cm long, erect ste ...
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for zone 7
Spanish grower Juan Ismael Momparler Albors, who specializes in Mediterranean plants, can be proud of one great discovery. In 2006, he found a natural mutation in a field of common narrow-leaved lavenders, which had variegated leaves and compact habit. There are only a couple of lavender varieties w ...
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for zone 7
Kevin Hurd from Walters Gardens nursery in Michigan, USA, is a perennial breeder and among his targets are e.g., pinks, hardy hibiscus, and daisies. Banana Cream Shasta daisy is his work of art which he created in 2008 by crossing l. ‘Leumayel’ and l. ‘Sunny Side Up’. The res ...
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LaCrosse Wit is an improved version of LaCrosse Shasta daisy making eye-catching flowers with tubular petals, open at the tips into a trumpet. They are snow white and produced around a large, yellow cone in the centre. Flowers appear possibly earliest of all series i.e. already in late June and bloo ...
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0,2 - 0,3m
0,2 - 0,4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Big Blue lily-turf is perhaps one of the most common lily-turf varieties in North America. It is comparable to Royal Purple variety in Europe. From late summer it produces 30-45 cm tall, purple flushed stems, topped with terminal spikes composed of rich lavender violet, spherical buds which burst to ...
VIII - X
0,3 - 0,5m
0,4 - 0,6m
full sun to shade
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Royal Purple lily-turf is like an improved version of an older car type - better in all aspects compared to its predecessor: larger leaves, larger flowers, deeper colour. The foliage is ribbon-like, dark green, very glossy, and are evergreen in mild winters of zone 6, and reliably evergreen in warme ...
VIII - X
0,2 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,5m
full sun to shade
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Cranberry Lace® is another dwarf beebalm variety from bred by Hubertus Gerardus Oudshoorn from the Netherlands as a cross between other dwarf varieties Cranberry Lace® and Pink Lace®. It forms neat and very compact tufts with upright branches holding bright purple flowers that are not ...
VIII - X
0,3 - 0,5m
0,3 - 0,5m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
BALMY™ LILAC is a beebalm from the BALMY™ series developed by Scott Trees for Ball Horticultural Company in the USA in 2012. It makes compact tufts with strong, upright stems holding rich lilac pink flowers from late June until midsummer. Deciduous leaves are widely lance-shaped, deep gr ...
VI - VII
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
BALMY™ PINK is for the time being the last beebalm variety from the BALMY™ series developed by Scott Trees for Ball Horticultural Company in the USA in 2012. It is a mutation of BALMY™ PURPLE variety forming compact tufts with strong, upright stems. Flowers are light pastel pink an ...
VI - VII
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
BALMY™ ROSE is a beebalm from the BALMY™ series developed by Scott Trees for Ball Horticultural Company in the USA in 2012. It makes compact tufts with strong, upright stems holding vibrant pink flowers from late June until midsummer. Deciduous leaves are widely lance-shaped, deep green, ...
VI - VII
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Rigid shield fern is a compact evergreen fern from Japan. Its bipinnate fronds, especially on older plants, are so dissected that they look like 3-pinnate. They are 30-40 cm long and form a dense, slightly upright but mounding habit. Individual leaflets are leathery, rich green, glossy and textured. ...
0,3 - 0,4m
0,4 - 0,6m
semi-shade to shade
5b (down to -27°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Blue Ensign is truly a flagship among blue-flowering lungwort varieties. Its flowers boast a deep gentian blue shade and only some have a magenta purple throat. They are shortly funnel-shaped and come out atop 20-30 tall, fleshy stems from early spring - usually late March till late April.
Another ...
IV
0,2 - 0,3m
0,3 - 0,5m
semi-shade to shade
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
APEX™ is a woodland sage series brought by Israeli breeding company Danziger. All three available colour modifications available so far (blue, pink, and white) boast compact and very dense, almost uniform growth and profuse flowering in their first year. Apex™ Pink sage produces numerous ...
VI - VIII
0,2 - 0,3m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Caradonna Compact is a subsequent variety derived from the highly successful German variety Caradonna. It boasts the same vividly coloured flowers and a lower, more compact growth. It is a wood sage that, in structure and colour, resembles the annual salvia farinacea, but this one is truly a reliabl ...
V - IX
0,3 - 0,5m
0,3 - 0,5m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Schneehügel means 'A Heap of Snow' and this German wood sage variety is exactly what the name suggests. A small and compact variety of wood sage, whose stems usually do not exceed 40 cm in height and a single plant is about the same width. It truly looks like a small pile of snow slowly thawing in a ...
V - VII
0,2 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Rose Marvel is another unique woodland sage variety from Christa Kievit with extremely large, right purple pink flowers, possibly the largest we’ve seen so far on any woodland sage. They open from deep burgundy red calyxes and are formed in erect, 10-15 cm tall spikes atop 25-30 cm long stems. ...
VI - VIII
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
APRIL NIGHT is a hybrid sage, a cross of salvia nemorosa and salvia pratensis. It is a clump forming perennial with only 25-30 cm tall, upright stems bearing deep indigo blue flowers from as early as mid April. The main flowering season last for about 6 weeks and then sporadically re-blooms until la ...
IV - VI
0,2 - 0,3m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
TILDA is an autumn saxifrage variety from the DANCING PIXIES® series producing gentle, apple-blossom-like, almost white flowers with light pink reverse of the petals and pink buds. The centres are decorated with showy yellow pistils. TILDA makes extremely profuse inflorescence and looks like a ...
IX - X
0,1 - 0,2m
0,3 - 0,4m
semi-shade / partial sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
THEA is a snow-white queen among autumn saxifrage from the DANCING PIXIES® series producing single, 5-petalled, star-shaped, pure white flowers. They come out atop slightly taller stems towering above a handsome clump of attractive foliage. The leaves are deciduous, highly glossy, almost rounde ...
IX - X
0,1 - 0,2m
0,3 - 0,4m
semi-shade / partial sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
TOURAN™ WHITE is a white flowering moss saxifrage variety. From all other whites its differs by larger and well-flat, wide opened flowers atop about 10 cm tall, slender stems
The plant forms a compact clump of evergreen, soft green leaves. Flowers come out in profusion and create a breathtaki ...
IV - V
0,1 - 0,1m
0,3 - 0,5m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Mariposa Blue is a compact and free-flowering variety of scabious with large, pastel lavender violet flowerheads with domed, pincushion-like central florets and larger marginal florets. They appear in profusion atop about 20 cm tall stems and the plant is a true flower factory as it starts blooming ...
VI - X
0,2 - 0,3m
0,3 - 0,4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Groundcovering stonecrops are alpine perennials which are available in so many species and varieties that everyone can find his favourite. They are native to almost all continents including their coldest parts, except for Australia and Antarctica.
They are cultivated for their spreading, low habit, ...
0,1 - 0,2m
0,3 - 0,8m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Coraljade is a deciduous variety of stonecrop developed by American breeder Hans Hansen from Walters Gardens nursery in Michigan who is known in our country as the creator of many beautiful sages. It is a low-growing, compact perennial forming elegantly smooth cushions with grey-green, fleshy leaves ...
VIII - IX
0,3 - 0,4m
0,4 - 0,6m
full sun
3 (down to -40°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Peach Pearls is a deciduous variety of stonecrop introduced by Terra Nova Nursery from Oregon, USA. It is a low-growing, compact perennial forming elegantly smooth cushions with fleshy, ovate, olive-green leaves with rich maroon hues on insolated parts. From mid-summer are formed cymes of dusky pink ...
VIII - IX
0,3 - 0,5m
0,3 - 0,6m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Red Sparkle is a cliff stonecrop of neat habit. In spring emerge small, elliptic leaves which later change to broadly oval to almost rounded. They are pale green with dusky red hues. From midsummer are formed wide, flat panicles of dark purple pink flower buds which open into small, star-shaped, cor ...
VIII - X
0,2 - 0,3m
0,3 - 0,5m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Autumn Joy is a much easier name to pronounce than its German original Herbstferude. This orpine has large, oval, light green, thick leaves. In late August it produces almost flat cymes of deep pink flowers. They continue blooming until mid autumn and even after flowering they remain attractive bri ...
VIII - IX
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Chocolate Cherry®, yummy! Though inedible, this ice plant invented by Dutch breeder Marco van Noort was named aptly describing the coloration of flowers and foliage. It makes small, only about 4cm across, dome-like inflorescence composed of tiny star-shaped flowers. They emerge dark cherry red ...
VIII - X
0,2 - 0,3m
0,3 - 0,4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Iceberg is one of a few ice plant varieties with white flowers. It makes dense, dome-like heads composed of numerous star-shaped flowers that open from late summer till mid autumn. Leaves are rounded to oval, pale green. Stems are pale green, too, and reach 30-35 cm. Powdery mildew may be a problem ...
VIII - IX
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Globe is a stonecrop series characterized by a neat, globular to dome-shaped habit and low growth. Globe Yellow is an innovative variety as it bears yellow flowers, yet it is not a ground-covering species for which yellow flower color is common. This is a hylotelephium with upright, fleshy stems tha ...
VIII - IX
0,2 - 0,3m
0,3 - 0,4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
SEDUCTION® GREEN WHITE is a stonecrop variety from the Seduction® series bred by the Dutch company Florensis. Yet before flowering, you will be impressed by its fabulous foliage. The medium green leaves are conspicuously variegated, bearing a wide white brim at margins. They are deciduous, ...
IX - X
0,2 - 0,3m
0,3 - 0,4m
full sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Rollies Favourite (syn. Rolly's Favourite) is a long flowering, eye-catching campion variety with rich pink flowers composed in terminal panicles atop 35-40 cm tall stems from early May until July. It was bred by Hubertus Gerardus Oudshorn from the Netherlands, and patented as PP17392 in 2007. Its s ...
V - VII
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,5m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Monier’s Alpine betony is an outstanding species of this interesting perennial. Most of other betonies are grown for attractive foliage, however, Hummelo is a special variety that offers not only pretty foliage but also lovely flowers. They are formed in spikes of lilac pink flowers, borne on ...
VI - VIII
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Feather grass comes from a country where it would definitely be called maravilloso as it comes from Mexico, Argentina, and can also be found in New Mexico and Texas in USA. Ponytails is a compact and a little shorter variety with thin, soft green foliage and about 30-40 tall stems with plume-like fl ...
VI - X
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full sun
7 (down to -23°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Eveline is a new variety of speedwell from the Netherlands patented in 2003. It produces attractive, approximately 30 cm tall spikes of rich lilac to violet flowers from early summer. If regularly deadheaded it can continue blooming until late summer. Leaves are long, narrowly lanceolate, serrated a ...
VII - VIII
0,2 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
5 (down to -29°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
ANNIVERSARY BLUE is a winning selection of speedwell bred by German branch of Dutch breeding company Florensis B.V., in Quedlinburg. It boasts rich indigo blue flowers composed in slim, erect spikes from late June until early autumn. Yes, this speedwell continuously produces new flowering spikes whi ...
VI - X
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
ROYAL CANDLES® is a spiked speedwell variety which was found as natural mutation by Heather Philpott among other veronica spicata plants in Detlink, Kent, UK in 1987. It is distinguished by deep violet, dense spikes of flowers and compact habit. Flowers appear in from June until early autumn if ...
VI - IX
0,3 - 0,4m
0,3 - 0,4m
full to partial sun
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Gertrude Jekyll is a superior periwinkle variety over Alba variety. It offers more abundant flowering of slightly larger flowers, or they at least seem larger as the petals are wider and not so detached from each other. They are snow white, pinwheel-shaped, divided into 5 petals, 2-2.5 cm across, an ...
IV - VII
0,1 - 0,1m
full sun to shade
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Illumination is a fascinating periwinkle variety with highly attractive foliage. The leaves are striking yellow in the centre and dark green at margins. Pinwheel-shaped flowers are violet blue, divided into 5 petals, 2-2.5 cm across, and bloom continuously from mid spring until early summer while Ma ...
IV - VII
0,1 - 0,1m
full sun to shade
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
Ralph Shugert is another periwinkle variety for lovers of variegated foliage. It was found by a nurseryman David Mackenzie from Michigan, USA, in 1986, and named after his fellow plantsman. It was a natural mutation of large-flowered Bowles’ Variety periwinkle after which it inherited large fl ...
IV - VII
0,1 - 0,1m
full sun to shade
4 (down to -34°C)
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
