In the Company of Stone Other / Books “Finding stone, choosing it, and letting go of it are the three things a waller does. I’d miss any one of them too much if I asked someone else to do them for me. I may work by myself, but I’m not alone. I’m in the company of stone.” … Contributed by amazon 15.10. 2007 21:03:09 (11405 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Chionodoxa forbesii - Glory of the Snow Plants / Bulbs Gentian blue flowers with white centers. A super naturalizer. Small starry flowers in a spray per stem; great naturalizers in rock and woodland gardens or in lawns. … Contributed by amazon 09.08. 2007 08:42:06 (18903 readers) Match on Title | |
Viburnum plicatum 'Lanarth' - japanese viburnum Plants / Deciduous Shrubs This majestic looking viburnum is a breathtaking cultivar, commonly grown in royal gardens of mild climate. The shrub forms its branches in cascade or horizontal levels, they bear bright green drooping leaves and in the spring clusters of hydrangea-like snow-white flowers. This variety looks best on … Contributed by havlis 28.10. 2007 10:21:12 (50640 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Azalea japonica 'Snow' - Japanese azalea 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 … Contributed by havlis 08.04. 2008 08:51:37 (33706 readers) Match on Title and Article's text | |
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Chionanthus virginicus - fringe treefringe tree, old man´s beard Plants / Trees and Shrubs Fringe tree is a very rare and beautiful small shrub or small tree. In early summer it has profusion of upto 20 cm long pendent panicles of fragrant, shiny snow-white, narrow flowers, turning to bluish black berries. Mid to deep green opposite leaves are elliptic and glossy. Fringe tree grows slowly, … Contributed by havlis 07.06. 2008 07:08:21 (22679 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Helleborus 'HGC Goldmarie'® - hellebore, Lenten rose Plants / Perennials Hellebore (Lenten rose) is not a new plant to Czech and Slovak gardens. I remember those flowering stems that surprisingly pushed through the snow in late winter and I kept asking grandma how come that a plant can flower while there is still snow on the ground. These evergreen perennials are still very … Contributed by havlis 17.10. 2017 17:05:49 (33246 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Malus 'Evereste' PERPETU® - crab apple 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 … Contributed by havlis 17.05. 2008 13:20:36 (34744 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Anemone 'Andrea Atkinson' - anemone, windflower Plants / Bulbs Andrea Atkinson is a later variety of anemone. It has 60-80 cm long stalks with snow-white camellia-like flowers with distinct yellow stamens. It starts blooming at the end of summer and continues until October. 3-palmate basal leaves are mid to dark green, sharply toothed, sparsely hairy beneath. … Contributed by havlis 22.03. 2008 16:45:21 (30906 readers) Match on Article's text | |
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Philadelphus 'Mont Blanc' - mock orange Plants / Deciduous Shrubs Mock orange is a reliable and absolutely maintenance-free shrub of old European gardens. It is popular for its snow white, scented flowers. They are single on this variety and come out profusely every year in early summer. They release a heavy fragrance that can hardly be mistaken for anything else. … Contributed by havlis 08.03. 2008 11:11:44 (28896 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Helleborus 'SP Martha' - hellebore, Lenten rose Plants / Perennials Hellebore (Lenten rose) is not a new plant to Czech and Slovak gardens. I remember those flowering stems that surprisingly pushed through the snow in late winter and I kept asking grandma how come that a plant can flower while there is still snow on the ground. These evergreen perennials are still very … Contributed by havlis 23.01. 2017 09:09:18 (16472 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Iberis sempervirens - Evergreen Candytuft Plants / Perennials Candytuft White (Iberis sempervirens) | Free-flowering and spreading! Mounds of Snow on Low-Growing, Evergreen Plants! Each 6-inch plant is awash in white blooms all spring! Long-lived and easy to grow! Few evergreen perennials boast the flower power of this vigorous little plant! Every spring, these … Contributed by amazon 14.06. 2007 09:20:12 (26773 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Alpine Plants Other / Books Ecology for Gardeners. Alpine Plants: Ecology for Gardeners explores ecosystems above the treeline on mountains and beyond the treeline in sub-polar regions from a gardener s perspective. It looks at the effects of geology and soils, low temperatures, precipitation, drought, and snow on the morphology … Contributed by amazon 01.04. 2007 10:34:38 (16784 readers) Match on Article's text | |
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Rain Gardens Other / Books Bringing Water to Life in the Designed Landscape | Rain gardens encompass all possible elements that can be used to capture, channel, divert and make the most of the rain and snow that fall on a property. Using the innovative and attractive approaches described here, it is possible to enhance outdoor … Contributed by amazon 23.05. 2007 07:46:55 (14495 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Ceanothus thyrsiflorus var.repens - creeping blueblossom Plants / Evergreen Shrubs Creeping blueblossom (Californian lilac) is a beautiful, true blue flowering mounding shrub. It grows about 0.5m tall and spreads 1-2m wide. New branches are soft and drooping. Flowers are dense panicles of tiny, sky blue blossoms and appear in warmer days of late spring. … Contributed by havlis 08.03. 2008 10:49:46 (65934 readers) Match on Article's text | |
Ensete glaucum - Snow Banana Plants / Tropical and Subtropical Plants Possibly the hardiest Ensete species, this plant originates from high altitude China so is accustomed to cooler regions. The huge, glaucous leaves are architectural and decorative, great for the tropical borders or large containers. … Contributed by amazon 12.09. 2007 10:43:11 (18686 readers) Match on Title | |
Gardening in Eden Other / Books Seasons in a Suburban Garden | Though an old man, Thomas Jefferson wrote at Monticello, I am but a young gardener. Every gardener is. In Gardening in Eden, we enter Arthur Vanderbilt s small enchanted world of the garden, where the old wooden trestle tables of a roadside nursery are covered in crazy … Contributed by amazon 31.08. 2007 10:23:59 (15343 readers) Match on Article's text | |
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Clematis paniculata - Clematis Sweet Autumn Plants / Climber Plants The beautiful sweet autumn clematis is a vigorous semievergreen (or deciduous) vine than can climb up to 30 feet. The compound leaves are glossy and deep green. The star shaped white flowers are about an inch and a quarter across and sweetly fragrant. They are borne in numerous branching panicles from … Contributed by amazon 08.07. 2007 10:18:30 (21069 readers) Match on Article's text | |
