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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
This is one of the first Elephants Ears to flower. In many years we have it in flower in March when late winter turns to early spring. Its flower are magenta pink.
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.
In German Bugbanes are called `Silver Candles` and this one truely deserves this name. Its flower spikes really look like candles, they are long and slender and covered with small creme coloured flowers in September. Its home is Kamchatka (so it should be hardy) but it is used in European gardens ....
Few plants bloom as late as this one. This fact alone would justify a place in your garden, but it makes also a very attractive plant. It is at home in the Far East, where it occurs along the eastern shores of Asia and the islands including Japan. It performs very good in moist soils and so it is a plant for the margins of your pond.
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...
`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...
When nursery people go on vacation they are still on duty. While other take a sun bath at the beach, they crawl through all hedges and gardens always on the search for new and exciting plants. One of those vacations did lead an English nurseryman to the discovery of this plant. He found it in the wild...
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...
Usualy it is already very late in May (around the 32nd to 33rd 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...
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.
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 ...