This bubble mint matches colour and scent to a perfect union. The flowers show a merry orange and the foliage is equaly merry mint-scented. Flowers and foliage are edible and make very good infusions. The plant comes from the southwest of the USA and grows on very dry soils. In the garden it prefers a sunny and sheltered spot with sharp ...

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This pure white variety of the Handsome Leek occurs rarely also in the wild. In the garden it can be used to make a planting of `normal` coloured leek more interessting.

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Welsh onions got nothing to do with Wales, but a lot with Asia. Its Asia where this onion commes from, and it is still widely used there. Welsh onions can be regarded as a sort of giant Chives. They form no bulbs. Its their stalks (and sometimes even their flowers) that are used for...

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When horticulturist do not look closely, they often cause a mess. So it happened with this leek, that became better known with the present enthusiasm for herbs and vegetables. Usualy it is sold as Allium odorum, but this name is an invalid synonym for Allium ramosum. Allium ramosum however is not cultivated, nor in its home China nor anywhere else. What we really have here is Allium tuberosum, one of the most important alliums for cooking in China and ...

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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...

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This windflower is one of the last to flower in spring, and in some years it will produce a second flush in autumn. It performs very well in the mixed border, but it develops into a real show stopper if kept in moist soil at the edge of a pond. It is at in the eastern Himalayas, where it can be found along rivers and other wet places.

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Not long ago the Snowdrop Windflower was a very common plant in many regions of Central Europe, but today its populations went down dramatically or disappeared completely. In this case it is not only the destruction of its habitats (semi-arid grassland) that causes the decline of this species, but it also showed that ...

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If you understand German you might be able to tell by the poetic name of this cultivar that it was created by Foerster. Although it is an older variety it is still one of the best in its class. As soon as autumn has arrived for good, it adorns itself with a multitude of little white ...

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In Central Europe Japanese Laurel is often used as a tub plant and only in the milder parts it is planted into the garden. We certainly do not live in one of the milder regions, but our Japanese Laurels grow here for many years without any winter protection (probably we were lucky and got a very frost resistent clone). All we did was choosing a place in light shadow for them, that protects ...

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The Himalayan Fleeceflower is a home in moist meadows from Afghanistan to China. In the garden it can be used in the border (where it will perform as a nice ground cover) or in the moist soil near the pond (wher it will perform even nicer as a ground cover).

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Leichtlin`s Camash grows in moist prairies of the western Northamerica. Usualy its flowers are blue, but this one comes from a population in Oregon that shows creme-coloured flowers. In the garden it is an quite `easy` plant. It emerges every spring from a bulb and disappears again after flowering. It can be kept in moist soil as well as in ordinary soil in the border (provided it is sufficiently watered).

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If you grew up in the countryside you will know the Greater Celandine as a typical plant of neglected spots. When the plant is damaged, an orange sap drips from the wound. When we were children, we used to drop the sap onto our fingernails. That looked liked grandfathers smoker...

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`Black Marble` is a rare Taro, for it is not easy to propagate. It is a sport of `Burgundy Stem` and its olive green leaves bear an unregular pattern in purple. No two leaves are alike and unfortunatelly the pattern isn`t steady. During propagation a certain amount of the young plants drop back to the original variety. As a result most nurseries do not keep this variety. We liked the pattern so much that we decided to propagate the variety anyway.

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 We received this one by the name Scirpus cyperoides, which is just a synonym of Cyperus cyperoides, the Pacific Island Sedge. Can that be this plant? We are very doubtfull. The Pacific Island Sedge occurs only in the South Pacific, in Africa, in tropical Asia and in South America. With ...

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`Misty Mauves` is a seed-propagated strain by New Zealand nursery Dowdeswell. In this case propagation by seed is no disadvantage, for it has been selected on longevity. Being a strain the colour of the flowers does change a bit from mauve to lilac.

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We found this cushion forming pink as a seedling in one of our stock beds. Probably Dianthus deltoides is one of its parents. If develops very nice cushions and bears in summer pink flower with a red eye - that`s the grenadine drop the name refers to.

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This foxglove comes from southern Europe and the Balkans. It is a nice addition to our native foxgloves. It grows to almost mansize and will flower in June and July in yellowish-brown. It is best kept in light shade. In some gardens it is only biennial (but will self-seed) while in others it can peform like a perennial.

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The small-flowered foxglove needs more sun than other foxgloves, for it comes from the north of Spain. Despite its origin it proofed completely hardy with us. It is a rather small foxglove and its small brown-reddish flowers form dense spikes. In full bloom it is an impressive plant, not...

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This foxglove was found in a garden in Lincolnshire in 1993. Flowers of older plant show often more or less deep cuts. This can go to the extreme that the flowers are completely split so that the petal curve back or curl up. This makes a very showy effect and the flower doesn`t look like any other foxglove. In our nursery the effect only shows late in the season on older plants. If you wonder who is Ann Redetzy: she was the grandmother of the lady who discovered this foxglove.

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The spoonleaf sundew can easily be mistaken for Drosera rotundifolia zu verwechseln, it looks much like a smaller version of the latter. Its home are the wet peat bogs in Europa and Northamerica. In the garden you can keep it successfully in an artifical peat bog, where it prefers very wet spots.

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