A hardy gardenia with very fragrant double flowers.
Native to South Carolina, 'Crown Jewel' is a selection of Gardenia with a frost tolerance of -10° C, or even lower depending on planting conditions.
In June-July, this shrub produces very attractive double blooms giving off a powerful perfume.
Its flowers are more abundant compared with those of the parent plants, especially 'Kleim's Hardy', and sometimes come out later. Some flowers still bloom at the end of summer.
The medium-sized white flowers which can reach 6-7 cm in diameter offer a good contrast to the attractive glossy dark green leaves, smaller than in other varieties. This one stays evergreen in winter.
The shrub has a dwarf, spreading growth, compact and well-branched. It is a low grower.
'Crown Jewel' can therefore be used outside most of the time, in beds, in pots, near the house, on a terrace, a balcony, where the double flowers with their fine scent will be especially appreciated in summer.
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Simple and perfumed, the elegance of a gardenia in the gardenThe Gardenia Sweet Heart® is a shrub with beautiful, simple and star-shaped flowers that release a heady perfume. The first flowers emerge at the end of spring - beginning of summer. The display is sustained throughout the summer months with a generous production of flowers once the plant is well settled in. Gardenia Sweet Heart® has a beautifully varnished and persistent foliage.Its excellent growth, ready branching, easy cultivation and relative resistance to frost allow the use as a garden Gardenia or terrace plant.
A resistant hebe, easy to grow and highly ornamentalHebe 'Celebration' is a highly ornamental variety that we have chosen for its resistance and easy cultivation. It has variegated, almost two-toned leaves: dark green along the central nerve and very light green across the width of the leaf, with a light pink edging.The overall effect is of a dense and very bright foliage. Its highly colourful flowers add to its interest. Numerous clusters of melliferous flowers of an intense magenta appear at the end of May and continue through the summer. It's a robust plant which naturally forms a well-branched, dome-shaped shrub with a tendancy to spread with age. It makes an excellent shrub for your garden or patio. A higher resistance to excess water makes it less sensitive to phytophtora than classic varieties.As a plant originating in coastal climates, this veronica may need to be protected from frost in winter. Hebe 'Celebration' received a Silver Award at the UK National Plant Show in 2016.Trophies: SILVER award at the 2016 National Plant Show, UK
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.
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.