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Ulmus x hollandica 'Wredei' - golden elm (53 readers)
Contributed by havlis 17.05 2008 on 13:34:38 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs This elm is a slender shrub - a cross between ulmus minor and ulmus glabra from Germany, yet from 1875. It has been a popular small tree or rather a shrub ever since. Its size is suitable for gardens with restricted space as it seldom grows more than 1,5m wide and can be 3-5m tall. ...
Ribes sanguineum 'King Edward VII' - flowering curran (33 readers)
Contributed by havlis 17.05 2008 on 13:26:34 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Flowering currant is one of the most beautiful and easy-to-grow plants with early spring flowering. The flowers are formed in short, pending racemes. Their colour is bright pinkish-red and they come out gradually for about 3 weeks as the racemes grow. Deciduous leaves are palmate, lobed, mid green and turn yellow, orange and pink in autumn. Fruits are small berries that are edible but not very tasteful. ...
Malus 'Evereste' PERPETU® - crab apple (40 readers)
Contributed by havlis 17.05 2008 on 13:20:36 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Malus Perpetu® is another crab apple. This variety offers snow-white flowers, very similar to those you can see on apple trees. They open from pink buds and their number is very high every year. Deciduous leaves are green, ovate, mid-sized. The best attraction is the fruit – many tiny apples of vivid golden yellow colour with orange and red highlights mature in September. ...
Hydrangea quercifolia 'Harmony' - oakleaf hydrangea (36 readers)
Contributed by havlis 17.05 2008 on 13:09:09 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Oakleaf hydrangea comes from southeastern USA. It is an attractive mound-forming shrub with oak-like, deeply cut leaves of bright green colour turning purple-bronze in autumn. The flowers of Harmony variety appear at the beginning of summer. They come out in heavy panicles of pure white, double flowers that get so heavy when mature that they droop. Hydrangeas like moist (not wet), slightly acidic soil. This variety can stand in full sun if enough moisture is provided. ...
Sambucus nigra 'Black Beauty' - European elder (393 readers)
Contributed by havlis 02.05 2008 on 09:19:05 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Aren’t the breeders krafty, I often say to myself. Take European elder, for instance. This omnipresent shrub grows anywhere, without any maintenance and the more you prune it the thicker it gets. Well, what a promising start for cultivation, someone said. And here we are! So forget this common weed of our countryside and dive in the world of SAMBUCUS, the world of colours, shapes and sizes that, with 10 different varieties, could well do for one complete garden. ...
Syringa vulgaris 'Sensation' - lilac (368 readers)
Contributed by havlis 02.05 2008 on 09:15:44 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Lilacs are famous shrubs with showy flowers from May to June. Rich and dense upright panicles of tiny, fragrant flowers last for 3-4 weeks. Sensation is a variety with a perfect name. Its individual flowers are deep purple to violet with rich, white margins = an eye-catcher even for those who consider lilacs far too usual. They are strongly fragrant. ...
Malus 'Royalty' - crab apple (332 readers)
Contributed by havlis 02.05 2008 on 09:07:43 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs This crab apple is a beautiful small tree with excellent flowering in the spring. The flowers are deep pink to bright purple and are followed by non-edible dark purple small fruits. The leaves are small-ish as opposed to real apple, shiny, deep purple throughout the season. ...
Malus COCCINELLA® 'Courtarou' - crab apple (186 readers)
Contributed by havlis 02.05 2008 on 08:54:23 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Coccinella® is a relatively new variety of crab apple. It is protected as a registered trademark and its features speak for itself. The flowers are pale to rich purple, with tints of red rather than pink as on ornamental cherries. Moreover, this selection has burgundy leaves and dark red branches for an exquisite display throughout summer. ...
Aronia melanocarpa 'Viking' - black chokeberry (374 readers)
Contributed by havlis 20.04 2008 on 21:19:05 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Recently, less known fruit trees and shrubs are becoming more and more popular mainly thanks to their original taste as well as positive impact on our health. Black chokeberry is one of them. It is in the same rosaceae family as the service tree and its fruit is similar, too. The lustrous fruits are black, slightly larger than black currant, contain vitamin C and other important microelements such as ferrum and iodine. They can be eaten fresh, in fruit salads or sundaes, or processed as stewed f ...
Syringa vulgaris 'Primrose' - common lilac (335 readers)
Contributed by havlis 20.04 2008 on 21:08:03 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Lilacs are famous shrubs with showy flowers from May to June. Rich and dense upright panicles of tiny fragrant flowers last for 3-4 weeks. Variety Primrose has yellow-green buds and light creamy yellow flowers. Stiff leaves are heart-shaped, upto 10 cm long, mid to dark green. ...
Azalea 'Arneson Gem' - deciduous azalea (266 readers)
Contributed by havlis 20.04 2008 on 21:00:07 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Knapp Hill rhododendron | Deciduous azaleas are probably the most striking flowering shrubs. Their colours are vivid and bright, and often have the shades that not many rhododendrons can offer. They need full sun. “Arneson Gem” is a true jewel. Its reddish buds open to soft golden-yellow flowers with apricot orange tips and petal margins. It is fragrant and the leaves are disease resistant. Prolific bloomer. ...
Azalea japonica 'Snow' - Japanese azalea (782 readers)
Contributed by havlis 08.04 2008 on 08:51:37 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Japanese azaleas are very popular features of our gardens. In their home climate they grow to relatively substantial shrubs, as opposed to limited sizes in our continental, dry climate. Azaleas are very floriferous, maintenance-free shrubs that bloom from end April until end May. Snow is a pure white variety with large, scented flowers. It grows moderately fast into an irregular-shaped shrub. ...
Azalea japonica - japanese azalea (739 readers)
Contributed by havlis 08.04 2008 on 08:46:53 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Japanese azaleas enhance every flowering spring garden. They are an ideal choice for evergreen compositions; they can be easily pruned to reach a shape you like. We offer shrubby forms, cones and half standards. There are plenty of colours to choose from – shades of red, pink, purple or violet, and obviously white. ...
Magnolia 'Betty' - girl magnolia (666 readers)
Contributed by havlis 08.04 2008 on 08:40:09 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs In 1955 and 1956 several crosses between m.liliflora and m.stellata were made at the U.S. National Arboretum by William F. Kosar and Dr. Francis de Vos. These selections bloom two-four weeks later than other spring blooming magnolias, reducing the possibility of frost damage to minimum. Betty’s flowers are deep purple outside and almost white inside, there are up to 19 narrow, long petals which in full bloom open like a star as much as 20 cm wide with strong citrus scent. It has attractive brigh ...
Magnolia x soulangeana 'Alexandrina' - saucer magnolia (741 readers)
Contributed by havlis 08.04 2008 on 08:30:10 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Alexandrina is a very popular variety of saucer magnolia. Thanks to the rich colour of outer petals it is rated commercially best-selling saucer magnolia. The flowers are upto 10 cm across, white inside, flushed deep pink and purple outside, with a lovely fragrance. ...
Hibiscus moscheutos 'Scarlet' - swamp mallow (457 readers)
Contributed by havlis 27.03 2008 on 16:54:33 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Swamp mallow has been a sought after plant over the past couple of years and its popularity is rising as new varieties keep coming in the market. Scarlet is a Czech selection with deep red flowers of enormous size: 20-23 cm wide. Fat buds are deep red, too. Deadheading spent flowers will encourage setting new flower buds. ...
Magnolia 'Goldstar' - Goldstar magnolia (633 readers)
Contributed by havlis 27.03 2008 on 16:41:39 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Another rare magnolia is this cross between magnolia acuminata var. subcordata “Miss Honeybee” and magnolia stellata. It gained flower shape fro stellata and colour from acuminate. Goldstar has medium sized flowers with 14 narrow petals, very similar to star-shaped magnolias. The colour is a delicate creamy-yellow and as the shrub flowers abundantly it brings a little bit of spring sunshine to your awakening garden. The flowers come out about a week or two later than stellata types. ...
Calycanthus floridus - sweetshrub,strawberry shrub, pinneapple shrub (546 readers)
Contributed by havlis 22.03 2008 on 17:09:31 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs This easy to grow shrub has many names and all of them say something about the beautiful scent of the flowers: sweetshrub, strawberry shrub, or even pineapple shrub. That’s because of the deliciously scented flowers which smell like a blend of strawberry jam and apple juice. ...
Lonicera kamtschatica 'Modrý triumf' - honeyberry (533 readers)
Contributed by havlis 17.03 2008 on 10:26:35 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Honeyberry is an edible version of honeysuckle with fruit of similar taste and appearance of blueberry. Modrý triumf is a Czech variety selected for the best taste and heavy cropping. 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. ...
Sorbaria sorbifolia 'Sem' - false spirea (1465 readers)
Contributed by havlis 12.03 2008 on 13:21:07 Topic: Plants / Deciduous Shrubs False spirea is a valuable plant for small sized gardens as it quickly fills limited space with mass of beautiful leaves. It is a woody plant spreading with suckers like some perennials. Its leaves are fresh green during summer, pinnate, and look like service-tree leaves but are finer and prettier. When young they are rich pink or purple, slowly changing to yellowish-green. ...
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