Pictures
| Summer flowers ... Fuchsia magellanica "Ricartonii"
28.07.2010 This hardy fuchsia is one of my biggest joys this year. The past winter was incredibly long and harsh but still, this fuchsia proved to be a hardy miracle. It has not just survived but thrives and is doing extremely well, making a dense bush with profusion of vivid fuchsia red and purple flowers. I am overwhelmed by its vitality and health. |  |
| Summer flowers ... Yucca filamentosa
28.07.2010 |  |
| Summer flowers ... Buddleja davidii "Black Knight"
28.07.2010 |  |
| Summer flowers ... Buddleja davidii "Pink Delight"
28.07.2010 |  |
| Summer flowers ... Magnolia grandiflora "Victoria"
28.07.2010 |  |
| Summer flowers ... Chitalpa tashkentensis "Pink Dawn"
21.07.2010 Some pictures are just awsome. Being the photographer it might sound a bit like boasting but I mean that the plant in the picture, the background, the detail, simply everything works much better than I would have ever composed (thanks for that!), all I did was push the button. This chitalpa is called Pink dawn, isn´t it a lovely name that really suits this lovely plant? Luckily, recent rainstorms came just before blooming, the plant was still in bud so the rain could not damage the flowers which we are about to enjoy for 2-3 coming weeks. |  |
| Summer flowers ... x Chitalpa tashkentensis "Summer Bells"®
20.07.2010 Summer Bells® is another variety which should be blooming again at the end of summer if the weather is still hot and sunny. |  |
| Today it is going to be handsome foliage! ... Gleditsia triacanthos "Rubylace"
20.07.2010 Have you ever polished copper? This is what it looks like in the end - leaves of this honey locust do look like polished copper in the setting sun while young, freshly emerging leaves are rich burgundy red. |  |
| Handsome leaves ... Chionanthus virginicus
20.07.2010 |  |
| Handsome foliage ... Liquidambar styraciflua "Albomarginata Manon"
20.07.2010 |  |
| Handsome foliage ... Berberis thunbergii "Tiny Gold"
20.07.2010 |  |
| Handsome foliage ... Albizia julibrissin "Summer Chocolate"®
20.07.2010 |  |
| Handsome foliage ... Albizia julibrissin "Ombrella"®
20.07.2010 |  |
| Handsome foliage ... Acer cappadocicum "Aureum"
20.07.2010 |  |
| Handsome foliage ... Cercis canadensis "Forest Pansy"
20.07.2010 |  |
| Handsome foliage ... Decaisnea fargesii
20.07.2010 |  |
| Handsome foliage ... Catalpa erubescens "Purpurea"
20.07.2010 |  |
| Handsome foliage ... Gleditsia triacanthos "Sunburst"
20.07.2010 |  |
| Sky after the rain
18.07.2010 |  |
| Summer flowers ... Echinacea "Sunset"®
18.07.2010 Isn´t this name perfect? Sunset. Rich shades of setting sun. |  |
| Summer flowers ... Echinacea "Sunrise"®
18.07.2010 And sunrise has to be the obvious opposite. Lovely, too. |  |
| Summer azaleas ... "Summer Sun"
18.07.2010 About half a year ahead we are presenting another variety of late flowering hybrid azaleas. They will become available in spring 2011. |  |
| Polyantha rose by Kordes ... Rosa "Neon"®
18.07.2010 Unlike most other groundcovering and polyantha roses this one has a lovely perfume. |  |
| Summer flowers ... Rosa "Clementine"®
18.07.2010 With this rose my dream came true - I wished for a small, healthy, polyantha rose of real orange colour. |  |
| Summer flowers ... Magnolia grandiflora "Galissonniére"
18.07.2010 Beuuutiful perfume. This French variety offers not only super attractive flowers in summer but also the deepest green and largest foliage of all bull bay magnolias in the market. |  |
| Coloured leaves ... Aralia elata "Golden Umbrella"
18.07.2010 |  |
| Coloured leaves ... Aralia elata "Golden Umbrella"
18.07.2010 |  |
| Daylilies ... Hemerocallis "Strawberry Candy"
18.07.2010 |  |
| Daylilies ... Hemerocallis "Blackberry Candy"
18.07.2010 |  |
| Summer flowers ... Hydrangea macrophylla FOREVER & EVER "Red"®
18.07.2010 |  |
| Summer flowers ... Campsis x tagliabuana "Indian Summer"®
18.07.2010 |  |
| Summer flowers ... Campsis x tagliabuana "Indian Summer"®
18.07.2010 |  |
| Summer flowers ... Catalpa erubescens "Purpurea"
16.07.2010 |  |
| Trumpet creepers
16.07.2010 |  |
| Summer flowers ... Catalpa bignonioides "Aurea"
15.07.2010 Early July is the right time for Indian bean tree flowers. They are white with red veins and yellow throat, composed in large, erect panicles. This year the beginning of summer has been extremely hot and our tree is flowering like never before. So visitors when they first encounter it perform a little stagger backwards position :-) |  |
| Summer flowers ... Catalpa bignonioides "Aurea"
15.07.2010 |  |
| Summer flowers ... Catalpa bignonioides "Aurea"
15.07.2010 One viw of the catalpa flowers reveals sother summer blooms = trumbet creepers. |  |
| Summer flowers ... Campsis x tagliabuana "Madame Galen"
15.07.2010 |  |
| Summer flowers ... Campsis radicans "Flamenco"
15.07.2010 |  |
| Summer flowers ... Coreopsis verticillata "Zagreb"
15.07.2010 |  |
| Summer flowers ... Hemerocallis "Tigger"
15.07.2010 |  |
| Summer flowers ... x Chitalpa tashkentensis "Pink Dawn"
11.07.2010 |  |
| Summer flowers ... Daylilies
11.07.2010 |  |
| Summer flowers ... Agapanthus "Bluestorm"®
11.07.2010 |  |
| Summer flowers ... Agapanthus "Bluestorm"®
11.07.2010 |  |
| Summer flowers ... Astilbe x ardensii "Burgundy Red"
11.07.2010 |  |
| Coloured leaves ... Hedera colchica "Sulphur Heart"
11.07.2010 |  |
| Summer flowers ... Hydrangea quercifolia
11.07.2010 |  |
| Lilies ... Lilium "Red alert"
09.07.2010 Lilies are beautiful perennials with showy flowers. I must admit I took quite some time to get to like them. But now I am truly in love with them. There are so many varieties among them, each of which offers different flower shapes, colours and perfumes, and if you wisely combine them as far as blooming time you can have your garden completely lilied up from June until August :-) |  |
| Lilies ... Lilium "Fata Morgana"
09.07.2010 |  |
| Lilies ... Lilium "Aphrodite"
09.07.2010 |  |
| Lilies ... Lilium "Tiger Play"
09.07.2010 |  |
| Lilies ... Lilium "Netty´s Pride"
09.07.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Stewartia pseudocamellia
08.07.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Castanea sativa
08.07.2010 |  |
| Castanea sativa
08.07.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia grandiflora "Goliath"
06.07.2010 Bull bay magnolia flowers in summer, continuously producing flowers one after another. You can watch the phases of bud developing until full bloom. |  |
| Just blooming ... Philadelphus "Snowgoose"
06.07.2010 |  |
| Polyantha rose by KORDES ... Rosa "Rotilia"®
06.07.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Abelia engleriana
04.07.2010 There are plants and flowers I love photographing more than others. I suppose it´s natural. Every plant has something worth looking at but there are some that just attract me more. Often these plants are not the boldest, the biggest, the rarest. But still, they have a thing I love about them. Exactly like this abelia. It is such a humble plant that starts flowering in early summer and continues until early autumn. The flowers are numerous, small but tender, their colours are not extraordinary but very elegant, the habit is not particularly neat but vital and healthy looking. The blooms are wide enough for a bee as well as a humble-bee giving plenty of nectar to all. |  |
| Just blooming ... Ceratostigma willmottianum
04.07.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rosa "Gärtnerfreude"
04.07.2010 |  |
| Summer sale!
01.07.2010 We are offering you 20% on all spring flowering azaleas, rhododendrons, kalmias and spring magnolias on condition that the total purchase must be at least 5,000 CZK. No further discounts may be applied. Gift tokens are not accepted for sale items. |  |
| Shrub rose by KORDES ... Rosa "Grande Amore"®
01.07.2010 |  |
| Shrub rose by KORDES ... Rosa "Gebrüder Grimm"®
01.07.2010 |  |
| Shrub rose by Davida Austina ... Rosa "Lichfield Angel"
01.07.2010 |  |
| Polyantha rose by KORDES ... Rosa "Little Sunset"®
01.07.2010 |  |
| Invitation to Chlumec
30.06.2010 We would like to invite you to our garden in Chlumec this weekend. It will be open to our customers from 9 am till 6 pm on Saturday and Sunday only. |  |
| Chlumec garden
29.06.2010 |  |
| Chlumec garden
29.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Lilium "Tiger Play"®
28.06.2010 Lilies are wonderful perennials with attractive blooms. I have several varieties in the summer part of the garden and they start blooming now and continue until early August. |  |
| Just blooming ... Cornus kousa "Milky Way"
28.06.2010 This Japanese dogwood, like many others, has been flowering for more than a month now. That´s because the white petals are in fact bracts i.e. coloured leaves which do not fade so quickly. The shrub in full bloom looks like covered with a million white butterflies. |  |
| Giant leaves ... Liriodendron chinense
28.06.2010 Leaves like two palms, perhaps three. This Chinese tulip tree has lyra-lke leaves which emerge with burgundy red overlay. |  |
| Giant leaves ... Liriodendron chinense
28.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Deutzia magnifica "Tourbillon Rouge"
28.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Deutzia magnifica "Tourbillon Rouge"
28.06.2010 |  |
| Platanus x acerifolia
28.06.2010 |  |
| Coloured foliage ... Physocarpus opulifolius "Lady In Red"®
28.06.2010 |  |
| Coloured foliage ... Physocarpus opulifolius "Diabolo"®
28.06.2010 |  |
| Coloured foliage ... Physocarpus opulifolius "Diabolo"®
28.06.2010 |  |
| Shrub rose by KORDES ... Rosa "Fairest Cape"®
25.06.2010 |  |
| Climbing rose by KORDES ... Rosa "Ilse Krohn Superior"®
25.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Hydrangea macrophylla FOREVER&EVER® "Red"
25.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Hydrangea macrophylla FOREVER&EVER® "Peppermint"
25.06.2010 |  |
| Roses by Kordes ... Rosa "Speelwark"®
24.06.2010 |  |
| Mountain laurels (kalmias)
23.06.2010 Mountain laurels are one of our specialities which we proudly offer as one of very few sellers in the country. They are reliable, very hardy and absolutely beautiful. These evergreen plants are perfect for a border as well as a large pot on a patio or a terrace. Complete list of available plants is here |  |
| Mountain laurels ... Kalmia latifolia "Pinwheel"
23.06.2010 |  |
| Mountain laurels ... Kalmia latifolia "Splendens"
23.06.2010 |  |
| Mountain laurels ... Kalmia latifolia "Olympic Fire"
23.06.2010 |  |
| Mountain laurels ... Kalmia latifolia "Bridesmaid"
23.06.2010 |  |
| Mountain laurels ... Kalmia latifolia "Bull´s Eye"
23.06.2010 |  |
| Mounatin laurels ... Kalmia latifolia "Elf"
23.06.2010 |  |
| Mountain laurels ... Kalmia latifolia "Minuet"
23.06.2010 |  |
| Mountain laurels ... Kalmia latifolia myrtifolia
23.06.2010 |  |
| Mountain laurels ... Kalmia latifolia "Olympic Wedding"
23.06.2010 |  |
| Late azaleas ... Azalea x "Nuccio´s Wild Cherry"
22.06.2010 |  |
| Late azaleas ... Azalea x "Dorothy Hayden"
22.06.2010 |  |
| Late azaleas ... Azalea "Perla del Verbano"
22.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Cornus kousa "Milky Way"
22.06.2010 |  |
| English roses ... Rosa "Graham Thomas"
22.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia grandiflora "Goliath"
19.06.2010 In my opinion this is the most gorgeous flowering tree that can be grown in our climate. This bull bay magnolia offers giant flowers 24-30 cm across, creamy white with a strong perfume. |  |
| Polyantha roses ... Rosa "Schneeflocke"®
16.06.2010 This year we are offering a few new varieties out of a wide range of polyantha and groundcovering roses. Schneeflocke has pure white, large blooms for polyantha rose. |  |
| Polyantha roses ... Rosa "Clementine"®
16.06.2010 This orange rose is getting me on my knees. A gorgeous shade of golden/ tangerine orange that does not fade, healthy foliage, compact growth, simply a perfect rose! |  |
| Rose by Kordes ... "Rebell"®
16.06.2010 |  |
| Davida Austin rose ... Rosa "Molineux"
16.06.2010 |  |
| David Austin rose ... Rosa "L.D.Braithwaite"
16.06.2010 |  |
| Thunderstorm
13.06.2010 We have enjoyed the very first truly hot week this year. While in May we made a few a low temperature records, in early June we must have made another one, this time on the high side with 33°C. Logically, every heat wave is followed by a good thunderstorm, just like last night. When I was about 10 years younger I was fascinated by the unique pictures the sky can create after a storm or before it or actually anytime. The following photos were made within 45 minutes. Such a change between the images in so short time, isn´t it? |  |
| The sky
13.06.2010 |  |
| The sky
13.06.2010 |  |
| Garden after the storm
13.06.2010 After a late afternoon thunderstorm the sky is covered with grey-white clouds covering the setting sun. This creates a gorgeous effect making the whole sky orange and consequently the country is flooded with this golden-orange colour. Then you feel like on another planet with a different colour spectrum. I love that time although it seldom takes longer than about half an hour. |  |
| Garden after the storm
13.06.2010 |  |
| Garden after the storm
13.06.2010 |  |
| Garden after the storm
13.06.2010 |  |
| Swimming season kicked off
12.06.2010 The hot days are finally here and especially children are hard to call off out of the swimming pools. And a swimming pool, if you decided to have one in your garden, are a centre of attention in summer so when we landscape our customers´ gardens we chose such plants around it that are most attractive mainly in summer when the pool is in use. |  |
| Just blooming ... Clematis "Multi Blue"
11.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Madame Masson"
11.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Erato"
11.06.2010 This rhody is placed in a shady spot behind the house so it flowers almost 4 weeks later than the one in the fron yard where it gets full sunlight. |  |
| Just blooming ... Wisteria floribunda "Violacea Plena"
11.06.2010 One of the last blooms this spring. |  |
| Matteucia struthiopteris
11.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Chionanthus virginicus
11.06.2010 This rarity is hard to beat. |  |
| English roses
10.06.2010 The roses from David Austin are eventually here. Long winter and cold spring did not allow us to take them any earlier and David Austin nurseries decided to wait long enough to supply quality plants. After the few years we have been dealing with David Austin Roses I must say that this batch is the best quality we have seen ever so the wait was worth it. |  |
| English roses ... "Wildeve" NEW
10.06.2010 |  |
| English roses ... "Golden Celebration" NEW
10.06.2010 |  |
| English roses ... "Anne Boleyn"
10.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ...Rosa Westzeit"®
10.06.2010 Simply PERFECT! I have never seen such a vibrant shade of orange on a rose yet. |  |
| Just blooming ... Deutzia scabra "Pride of Rochester"
10.06.2010 |  |
| Abies concolor
10.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia sieboldii
09.06.2010 Every magnolia is beautiful. But some are even more beautiful :-) For instance oyama magnolia. It is such a gorgeous plant with pure white flowers with ruby red centre. |  |
| Daylight visitor
09.06.2010 Dragonfly. |  |
| Night-time visitor
09.06.2010 |  |
| Leaves ... Magnolia tripetala
09.06.2010 Are you sitting down? Do so if not. This breathtaking foliage show belongs to umbrella magnolia which has the largest leaves among all magnolias that can be grown down to zone 5. See the arm in the background? That is a male arm, not a kid´s. |  |
| Just blooming ... Cytisus "Boskoop Ruby"
09.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Cytisus "Lena"
09.06.2010 |  |
| New leaves ... Magnolia "Goldstar"
09.06.2010 |  |
| New leaves ... Magnolia "Goldstar"
09.06.2010 |  |
| New leaves ... Magnolia "Yellow River"
09.06.2010 |  |
| New leaves ... Magnolia "Yellow River"
09.06.2010 |  |
| New leaves ... Magnolia loebneri "Léonard Messel"
09.06.2010 |  |
| Canadian lilacs
08.06.2010 These lilacs were first hybridized and introduced by a Canadian botanist Isabella Preston in Ottawa. They have different inflorescence as opposed to common lilac, the scent is different, too, and they bloom later - in early June. |  |
| Just blooming ... Syringa x prestoniae "Miss Canada"
08.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Syringa x prestoniae "Agnes Smith"
08.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Syringa x prestoniae "Royalty"
08.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Syringa reflexa
08.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Syringa josikaea
08.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Syringa meyerii "Palibin"
08.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Cornus kousa "China Girl"
08.06.2010 |  |
| New leaves ... Berberis thunbergii "Admiration"®
08.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron Mrs. T H Lowinsky"
08.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Roseum Elegans"
08.06.2010 |  |
| New leaves ... Ilex aquifolium "Argenteomarginata"
08.06.2010 |  |
| New leaves ... Pieris japonica "Passion"®
07.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Blattgold"
07.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Blattgold"
07.06.2010 |  |
| Raining cats and dogs ... and perhaps men :-)
02.06.2010 Well, our lawn is one solid (or rather flooded) rice field and water in the swimming pool will soon flow over its edges. Well, that is a day in raining hell. But I don´t feel like moaning, why don´t we make the best of it. Do you remember a song from the 80´s called It´s Raining Men? Fantastic tune and a big smash for a duo called The Weather Girls. What do you think about the video concept today, after almost 30 years? A bunch of half-naked sexy boys in their tight swimming trunks surrounding two chocolate godesses. Remember to close your mouth when wondering how come this was ever supposed to be hot :-) |  |
| New leaves ... Gunnera manicata
02.06.2010 One of the few to not just like but even love the load of water is this giant gunnera. |  |
| Just blooming ... Syringa patula "Miss Kim"
02.06.2010 Amazing perfume ... |  |
| Just blooming ... Crataegus laevigata "Paul´s Scarlet"
01.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Crataegus laevigata "Paul´s Scarlet"
01.06.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Azalea x "Conversation Piece"
31.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Azalea japonica "Amoena"
31.05.2010 |  |
| New leaves ... Gunnera manicata
31.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Photinia x fraseri "Red Robin"
31.05.2010 |  |
| New leaves ... Ulmus x hollandica "Wredei"
31.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Tamarindos"
31.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Azalea "Goldtopas"
31.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Hachmann´s Charmant"
31.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Cornus x "Venus"
30.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Enkianthus campanulatus
30.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Wisteria floribunda "Macrobotrys"
30.05.2010 The longest racemes of violet flowers in the world, among wisterias of course. It is called Macrobotrys and is has a place of honour in my garden - right at the summer patio. |  |
| Just blooming ... Azalea "Glowing Embers"
30.05.2010 Glowing Embers is a perfect name telling it all. This azalea looks exactly like a fire that is just about to lose flames before you go to bed after a summer night out at a fire. |  |
| Just blooming ... Cytisus praecox "Allgold"
30.05.2010 One vivid yellow ball. Called a broom this plant is often considered too ordinary to grow in a nice garden. What a load of rubbish! Cytisus is a fantastic plant offering a long-term flowering of many colours. I love all of them them. If you shear it regularly after flowering each year you can get a shrub as beautiful as this one. |  |
| Just blooming ... Cytisus scoparius "La Coquette"
30.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Cytisus scoparius "La Coquette"
30.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Azalea "Mount St.Helen´s"
30.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Ceanothus x "Blue Sapphire"
30.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Baden Baden"
30.05.2010 |  |
| Spring evening
25.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Azalea japonica "Rosinetta"®
25.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Azalea japonica "Rosinetta"®
25.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia x "Charles Coates"
25.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Azalea japonica "Peppina"®
25.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Cytisus x praecox "Allgold"
25.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Dopey"
25.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Paulownia tomentosa
25.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Golden Torch"
25.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Azalea japonica "Purple Splendor"
25.05.2010 When in bloom you can definitely see it from a distance. What you can´t see are leaves. |  |
| Just blooming ... Azalea "Gibraltar"
25.05.2010 |  |
| The racemes chart
24.05.2010 Racemes are probably the most attractive forms of inflorescence. They look unusual and offer quite a few colours and believe me that there are not just wisterias to belong to this group. |  |
| The racemes chart ... Wisteria floribunda "Alba"
24.05.2010 |  |
| The racemes chart ... Wisteria floribunda "Rosea"
24.05.2010 |  |
| The racemes chart ... Laburnum x watereri "Vossii"
24.05.2010 |  |
| The racemes chart ... Wisteria x formosa "Issai"
24.05.2010 |  |
| The racemes chart ... quiz question
24.05.2010 About the same time last yer this plant was already flowering. Owing to very cold spring this year it has only started to come out of buds with no chance of flowers. Now, this is a prize quiz - if you tell the complete name of the plant including variety name you will get a gift token worth 1000 CZK to spend in our garden centre. If there are more correct answers there will be a draw. Send your answers to zahrada@safro.cz. |  |
| New leaves ... Quercus frainetto
24.05.2010 Now, enough of flower racemes for a while. Let´s switch to foliage. I will start with my most favourite oak which is Hungarian oak. You know what, I drive a lot. And I think that Hungarian drivers are the most considerate drivers in Europe. They never stand in the way or block a lane. My respect. |  |
| New leaves ... Pieris japonica "Katsura"
24.05.2010 |  |
| New leaves ... Acer saccharinum "Wieri"
24.05.2010 |  |
| New leaves ... Stranvaesia davidiana
24.05.2010 |  |
| New leaves ... Quercus x turneri Pseudoturneri"
24.05.2010 |  |
| New leaves ... Aralia elata "Variegata"
24.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia "Susan"
24.05.2010 Most medium late magnolias have two phases of blooming. The first one comes in late April when the shrub is flooded with flowers an no leaves. The second one follows 2-4 weeks later, the plant is in leaf already and the flowers appear again in good quantity and if the weather is not too hot (which is something out of the question this year) they remain unharmed by the sun and beautiful. Just like the flowers of this Susan magnolia. |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia "Susan"
24.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia "Daphne"
24.05.2010 So far the deepest yellow flowering magnolia is called Daphne and has been in flower for the fourth week now. |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia "Daphne"
24.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia liliiflora "Nigra"
24.05.2010 |  |
| Weather
18.05.2010 It is appalling. In the middle of May we see mist coming out of our mouths when we speak, snow in the mountains, somewhere 45 cm, and major floods due to heavy rains in Northern Moravia. When will it stop? When will it turn to better? Everyobody has been looking forward to nicer and warmer wether after this year´s long winter but it still does not seem coming. I will use one of our grandmothers´ old sayings: "that is beacuse you pray so little these days...". |  |
| New leaves ... Acer pseudoplatanus "Leopoldii"
18.05.2010 And as it is hopeless making photos when it is raining I will offer you a few pictures made last week before the wet weekend began. |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia "Satisfaction"
18.05.2010 |  |
| New leaves ... Acer palmatum "Dissectum" (Viridis)
18.05.2010 |  |
| Acer palmatum "Dissectum" (Viridis)
18.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Wisteria sinensis
18.05.2010 |  |
| New leaves ... Acer platanoides "Crimson Sentry"
18.05.2010 |  |
| New leaves ... Acer pseudoplatanus "Brilliantissimum"
18.05.2010 |  |
| Carpinus betulus "Monumentalis"
18.05.2010 |  |
| Just blooming ... Cercis canadensis "Lavender Twist"
18.05.2010 |  |
| Blue Angel
14.05.2010 If you like empress tree" and you live in or near Prague do not miss a chance to see it flowering just not at Andìl (a part of Prague - Smíchov). You will be impressed by the unusual colour of flowers as well as the size of inflorescence and obviously their quantity. |  |
| Blue Angel
14.05.2010 The architect who planned these trees had a clear vision years ago. His vision comes alive every year in May when these trees are covered with violet-blue flowers and followed by extra large leaves in summer. Brilliant idea. It is a pity I have no way of photographing the trees from an upper level from where you could see the square completely flooded by violet colour. I may blackmail a doorman of the tallest building to allow me on the roof if I find enough courage ... :-) |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron makinoi "Rosa Perle"
14.05.2010 Among rhododendrons you can find species and varieties that look very unusual and not many gardeners grow or even know them. I am very fond of makinoi rhododendrons. They have narrow, dark green, sometimes undulated leaves and look a bit like oleander shrubs. Moreover, Rosa Perle is a variety that offers bright pink flowers that can be seen from a distance. |  |
| Just blooming ... Azalea "Arneson Gem"
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| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Belami"
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| Just blooming ... Azalea japonica "Johanna"
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| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Goldprinz"
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| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Dreamland"
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| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Claudine"
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| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Tamarindos"
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| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Erato"
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| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Rocket"
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| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Macarena"
09.05.2010 Spring is bursting with colours. May is rhododendron time and we love new varieties that offer new combinations of colours that had been unavailable yet some 10 years ago. Macarena is a fantastic example with orange flowers. |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Halfdan Lem"
09.05.2010 Halfdan Lem has large red flowers and large leaves. |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "Cunningham´s White"
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| Just blooming ... Rhododendron makinoi "JENS JÖRGEN SÖRENSEN"
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| Just blooming ... Azalea japonica "Anouk"
09.05.2010 Quite large flowers for a dwarf azalea with tiny leaves. |  |
| Just blooming ... Malus "Perpetu / Evereste"
07.05.2010 Evereste is a ornamental for of apple tree. These plants are called crap apples. They are cultivated for their profusion of flowers and ornamental spherical fruit that is small but quite attractive. |  |
| Just blooming ... Malus "Royal Beauty"
07.05.2010 Royal Beauty is the top favourite crab apple. It has purple-red flowers, burdundy red leaves, and weeping habit which makes it a beautiful specimen plant in any garden. |  |
| Just blooming ... Paulownia tomentosa
07.05.2010 "Just blooming" may be a bit exaggerated at this moment. "Waking up" would be more appropriate. I just couldn´t not pass the moment of the very first flower opening by. |  |
| Rhododendrons
04.05.2010 Quite often I hear people moan about rhododendrons, especially here in the Czech and Slovak Republic. They are unhappy about their state because you get to see quite a number of odd-looking plants that are in bad soil and/or unsuitable position. Plants are losing leaves or are attacked by pests and diseases. Such plants obviously give the impression that rhododendrons are not worth planting in nice gardens. To be honest, yet some 5 years ago I was the same - reluctant to grow and sell them. But then I got some really quality plants from England and Germany, planted them exactly as per the instructions given directly by the grower and they are fantastic. Just look at this border, even in today´s rainy weather the plants look seriously perfect, offering a healthy, green background that will soon burst with many colourful flowers. |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron "President Roosevelt"
04.05.2010 And for those of you who want to have something extra we are offering a UNIQUE variety that not only has variegated foliage (we know a few other varieties with variegated foliage) but also bi-coloured flowers that are white in the middle and glowing pink at margins, which is a combination that no other rhody with coloured leaves has offered so far. Simply gorgeous. |  |
| Just blooming ... Rhododendron praecox
04.05.2010 And talking of rhododendrons I owe you a picture of the earliest flowering one from last week. |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia "Yellow River"
04.05.2010 April is a magnolia month. And since we are magnolia specialists we also offer other varieties that bloom later and bring splash of colours even in May and June. Yellow River is a denudata type that makes large, light yellow flowers in end April and when they have gone the shrub opens another portion of flowers from buds that are nearer the stem. |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia x soulangeana "Dorsopurpurea"
04.05.2010 Dorsopurpurea is a great variety with deep purple-red flowers. It blooms later than saucer magnolias. |  |
| Just blooming ... Magnolia "Goldstar"
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| Just blooming ... Magnolia "Butterflies"
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| Just blooming ... Cornus florida "Rubra"
04.05.2010 No comment here, I suppose ... :-) |  |
| Evergreen ... Fargesia murielae "Simba"
04.05.2010 Simba - a top variety of clump-forming, hardy, and reliable bamboo. It does not weed around. |  |
| Just blooming ... Prunus persica "Nigra"
04.05.2010 Among last year´s novelties there was also this dwarf ornamental peach with dark purple leaves. It was so new that no one could tell us anything about its flowers. Now we know = they are light pink and profuse. |  |
