A small, ornamental tree with striking summer flowersHoheria sextylosa 'Snow White' is a small tree that keeps its ornamental character throughout the year with its elegant and persistant foliage, its glorious summer flowers and its naturally pyramidal habit. The simple, abundant and delicately perfumed, pure white flowers, resemble those of a cherry tree. The long and clearly toothed leaves are a brilliant green inserted in an attractive, black wood.Hoheria sextylosa 'Snow White' can grow to 4 or 5 metres in 20 years but readily accepts pruning. It may therefore also be used in hedges or maintained as a miniature if necessary.Ideally it prefers a mild, oceanic climate but is nevertheless hardy up to -10°. In colder regions, it's recommended to plant it in sheltered spots, away from cold winds.
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An alternative to box in oceanic and continental climatesIlex crenata 'Glorie Dwarf' is a dwarf holly with small dark-green leaves and a naturally ball-shaped habit. Responding well to pruning, it can be used as for all boxwoods: in topiary, as borders or for low hedges. Extremely resistant to cold it favours soils that are rich in humus and which remain cool in summer. It is recommended for use in oceanic and continental climates that remain fresh in summer. For drier climates the compact Pittosporum tenuifolium, « Silver Ball » and « Golden Ball » would be more suitable.
A cute little holly.This holly variety has a dense, well-branched shape and is slow-growing.It is a male forn (no fruit), the white flowers in spring are of no decorative interest but are useful for the pollination of other varieties.The dense, oval, spiky foliage is dark green and sometimes turns purple in winter. It is resistant to the cold.MAGICAL® Little Rascal can be planted in beds or solitary. Its naturally rounded shape is very suitable for contemporary landscaped areas, notably in small gardens to which it adds a permanent plant structure. It can also form a low hedge or a border for beds. It is also suitable for pots.
A fragrant pink cushion that never stops blooming!
MAGICAL® Posy Pink lavender is a very compact variety that forms a round cushion of flowers! It blooms abundantly and remontantly in pink, offering pretty colors from late April to late September.
What's more, its fragrance attracts many insects!
This is a robust variety, selected for its resistance to humidity and heat.
A pretty, fragrant purple cushion that never stops blooming!
MAGICAL® Posy Purple lavender is a very compact variety that forms a round cushion of flowers! In fact, its purplish-blue blooms are very abundant and remontant, offering pretty colors from late April to late September.
What's more, its fragrance attracts many insects!
It's a robust variety, selected for its resistance to humidity and heat.
A real improvement among the French-LavendersTHE PRINCESS® Lavender, a real improvement in the French Lavender family is remarkable for the intensity of its bright pink flowering. Abundant, scented, it starts early in April-May, then continues during the summer with its numerous new flowers, facilitated by pruning.The aromatic evergreen foliage is grey-green.The tight and compact shape of this very attractive selection allows it to be used in beds of reduced dimensions, as a low hedge, planted 50 cm apart, or also grown in a large pot.Trophies: Plant of the year 2014 Nursery & Garden Industry australia awards : national winnerWinner Product innovation 2013 the Australian Business Awards
Luminous shrub, MUSLI® is noticeable from a distance.MUSLI® was discovered and selected as a seedling of Ligustrum ibota in Switzerland.Leaves are opposite, evergreen to semi-evergreen and remarkable for their lasting variegation, highly resistant to the sun. The young shoots are light yellow, turning white with time. The foliage is more or less variegated, light grey-green with creamy white edges, sometimes so wide that they cover the entire width of the leaf.When young, the shrub is of bushy and spreading growth with arching branches. Then MUSLI® forms an even bush with a dense centre. It is of moderate growth.In early summer, the shrub will produce clusters of fragrant white tubular, nectar bearing flowers, turning into blue-black berries, which attract the birds.This shrub tolerates cutting back and is suitable in topiary, in a monospecific or a mixed hedge. Together with other shrubs or in a pot is is very remarkable by its particularoy bright foliage.Trophies: Bronze medal at PLANTARIUM 2011 (Boskoop - NETHERLANDS)
A shrubby honeysuckle with evergreen foliage
GARDEN CLOUDS® Green Breeze is a variety of shrubby honeysuckle more resistant to cold than the typical species (-18° C).
Its dense habit, fine, glossy, light-green leaves and ease of cultivation make it easy to prune and use in topiary.
It adapts to all soils (unlike Ilex crenata) and is faster-growing than boxwood, with no health problems.
Use in the ground, borders, low hedges or pots.
A shrubby evergreen honeysuckle with magnificent purple shoots
GARDEN CLOUDS® Purple Storm is a variety of shrubby honeysuckle more resistant to cold than the typical species (-18° C).
Its dense habit, fine, glossy, light-green leaves with dark purple shoots and ease of cultivation make it easy to prune and use in topiary.
It adapts to all soils (unlike Ilex crenata) and is faster-growing than boxwood, with no health problems.
Use in the ground, borders, low hedges or pots.
Remarkable bright red flowers and beautiful purple foliage all year longThis evergreen Loropetalum is noticeable for its foliage, which stays very deep purple all year long.Its habit is compact, upright and spread, the dimensions are moderate.EVER RED® is particularly spectacular during its flowering period, from the end of February to May, depending on the climate. The beautifully sized flowers are shaped as pompoms of fine straps, caracteristic for the Hamamelidaceae family Their full red colour is highlighted by the dark foliage.Loropetalum like half shade, they tolerate light sun. Once established they suffer draughts.EVER RED® can be planted alone or in numbers, in a distance of 1.00 - 1.20 m, and also in pots on a terrace or a balcony when regularly watered.
In springtime its chartreuse coloured leaves are very attractiveA Nandina with a brand-new colour! The new shoots are yellow-green, chartreuse or also lime green and very bright. In full sun the outer leaves keep their chartreuse colour, whereas the inner leaves turn light green.Its shape is very interesting, forming a bushy and branched little shrub of under 1 m, like a ball.It never flowers, or very seldom.Recommended to illuminate the darker parts of the garden in the spring, it also accepts to be grown in pots.Trophies: Gold medal at PLANTARIUM 2014 (Boskoop - NETHERLANDS)Honored with a Retailer's Choice Award™ at SNA 2014
A deep foliage, abundant and delicate white flowers all summer longOriginating in New Zealand, this evergreen selection is hardy down to -12° C.It's leathery, regularly toothed leaves are first tender green, changing afterwards to a pretty dark green. The young stems are purple-brown.'Avalanche' is very floriferous from June to September. It covers itself in a cloud of simple, small white flowers with a purple center, standing out well on the foliage.Its long summer flowering, a quick growth and bushy shape make this variety an ideal plant for small spaces and pots.