There is not much information available on the creeping Chinese windflower, and it is not at all common in our garden. We even don`t know if it is really Anemone altaica we are offering here. We received seed of that name, but the plants do not match the descriptions, for they grow taller than 20 cms and they do not resemble our native windflower (they got a cone in the centre of each flower). Since it is a very pretty and rewarding plant we decided to introduce into our offering - temporarily under the name we received it with. Perhaps you know better and can tell us the correct name?

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Chinese Buck`s Beard became quite rare in cultivation. Today it is easier to get the hybrid `Zweiweltenkind` than the true species. We kept in in our nursery because of its later blooming period. It looks like a smaller edition of the European Buck`s Beard with darker foliage.

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This Buck`s Beard was created by Karl Foerster, and like usual he gave it a name that is suitable and also mysterious: Zweiweltenkind (= child of two worlds). The two worlds are Europe and China, for this hybrid is a cross of the European with the Chinese Buck`s Beard. The result is a little bit smaller than both its parents. It got darker foliage than the European one and it blooms later. Our native Buck`s Beard is often called `the jewel of the woods`, but it becomes to large for small gardens. So this smaller hybrid is a perfect substitute and it is equaly beautiful.

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This small fern won`t stand crowding, so please don`t give it pushy neighbours. In semi-shadow it will perform well and remain even green during winter. We grow it in the gaps on the north side of a dry stone wall.

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An introduction by Ardens from 1950, sometimes sold under the translated name `Evening Glow`. In spring it bears magenta coloured flowers, but more important is the foliage. During summer it is dark green with a light red hue. In winter it changes to a deep chestnut brown which looks really pretty when the plant is sitting in snow.

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Regretably Elephant Ears are somewhat out of fashion. One of the reasons for that is that they were misused in the past as stopgaps for `difficult` spots in the garden where nothing else would grow. It is true they Elephant Ears are easy, frugal and longliving plants, but you can`t expect them to show all their beauty at places where they struggle for survival. Full shade and dry soil is a bad combination for them. They do much better in light shade with a soil that keeps some moisture. Here they will flower abundandly in spring and show their attractively coloured foliage in winter. Once establishes they need little care afterwards. 

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The Golden Drop forms dense carpets of thick, succulent leaves. In early summer yellow bellshaped flowers appear on short stems.

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A rarely used plant from forest in Northern America. It is very good as a ground cover and will be in bloom from spring to autumn. In regions with mild winters it remains evergreen.

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 Probably it is unnecessary to describe the Lily of the Valley. It grows in light shade of forest margins and along hedges and flowers in May. Generations of dance students made their dancing partners a present of a bouquet of Lilies of the Valley at the end of term ball. The lady carried the bouquet during the evening, and the many bouquets filled the room with a discreet fragrance. Alas when I went to the dancing school this tradition was ..

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`Silberrand` means `Silver Margin`, and this name describes the plant well: each leaf carries a white margin. It can be broad or narrow, and in most cases it is rather unregulary. The white margin makes the foliage shine out from shady places and so the plant is attractive also when without flowers. We received the varity with the name `Silverrand`, but we were unable to find it anywhere in the books.

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This crane`s bill was discovered on Shikoku Island in the south of Japan. Later it turned out that it occurs also in other parts of Japan and in Korea. Its home are moist mountain forests. In the garden will soon grown into clump and from early summer on it bears masses of small rose-violet flowers. It the soil is not too moist, it can be planted at the margin of a pond.

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very late in May (around the 32^nd to 33^rd of May) when this `Mayflower` starts to bloom. It makes no odds, for it is such a beauty that you will forgive the little incorrectness in naming. For a crane`s bill it has quite large flowers, that dance gracefully in the wind at the slightest air draught. It is important to cut the plant back after flowering. For one you keep it from going to seed this way (the seedling would be different to the mother plant), and for second you force the plant to a second bloom in late summer.

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This one comes from Russia. It propagates well and can soon form a large colony. Its foliage is slightly hirsute and in autumn it turns into many shades of orange and yellow. The flowers appear from mid summer to early autumn.

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Many varieties of Avens bear double flowers. This one develops single flowers in shining orange. There are few plants that grow in semi-shade and glow that much. Once we used this plant for decoration on a plant market. It was standing on the bed of our tiny 2 CV - pickup, and during one morning it was stolen three times ...

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