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Silver lady's-mantle: complete guide
Alchemilla conjuncta
Silver lady's-mantle is an elegant groundcover with distinctive silver foliage and delicate yellow flowers. Your complete growing guide for this Alpine plant.
Field parsley piert: complete guide
Aphanes arvensis
Discover Field parsley piert (Aphanes arvensis), a delicate wild plant from the Rosaceae family with intricate foliage.
Slender parsley-piert: complete guide
Aphanes australis
Discover Slender parsley-piert (Aphanes australis), a delicate wildflower from the Rosaceae family with finely cut foliage.
RosaceaeRacemose cotoneaster: complete guide
Cotoneaster racemiflorus
Discover Cotoneaster racemiflorus, a compact shrub with clustered red berries. Hardy, low-maintenance, perfect for borders and hedges.
Cotoneaster zabelii: complete guide
Cotoneaster zabelii
Discover Cherryred Cotoneaster: growing requirements, maintenance tips, and cultivation advice for this ornamental shrub. Perfect for European gardens and wildlife support.
Rough Geum (Geum hispidum): complete guide
Geum hispidum Fr.
Discover Rough Geum, an elegant alpine plant with yellow flowers from the Rose family. Full care guide for European gardens and beyond.
Holodiscus discolor: complete guide
Holodiscus discolor
Learn to cultivate oceanspray: hardiness, creamy white flower plumes, drought tolerance, and care tips for this North American native shrub.
Malus angustifolia: complete guide
Malus angustifolia
Discover the Southern crab apple, an elegant native tree with beautiful flowers and decorative fruits. Perfect for landscape gardens. Practical growing tips.
Malus ioensis: complete guide
Malus ioensis
Discover the Prairie crab apple, a hardy native tree with large, fragrant flowers. Ideal for the Midwest. Growing tips and care advice.
Malus toringoides: complete guide
Malus toringoides
Discover the Cut-leaf crab apple with delicate flowers and red fruit. A unique Asian tree for modern gardens. Growing tips and plant advice.
Potentilla biennis: complete guide
Potentilla biennis
Biennial Cinquefoil is a North American wildflower with yellow blooms and delicate foliage. Unpretentious and hardy for natural gardens in dry conditions.
Red cinquefoil: complete guide
Potentilla concinna
Discover Potentilla concinna (red cinquefoil), a compact alpine shrub plant with red flowers, suitable for rock gardens and alpine borders.
Graceful cinquefoil: complete guide
Potentilla gracilis
Discover Potentilla gracilis (graceful cinquefoil), a versatile alpine mountain plant with yellow flowers, perfect for borders, meadows, and rock gardens.
Hairy Cinquefoil: complete guide
Potentilla hirta
This Mediterranean wildflower thrives in rocky sites and offers golden blooms June to August. Drought-tolerant, frost-hardy, and perfect for rock gardens and wildlife gardening.
Nepalese Cinquefoil: complete guide
Potentilla nepalensis
This hardy Himalayan plant displays stunning red to orange flowers from May through October. Ideal for borders, containers, and long-season color gardens. Easy cultivation, drought-tolerant once established.
Potentilla valderia: complete guide
Potentilla valderia L.
Potentilla valderia is a rare, compact alpine groundcover with white flowers. Learn how to grow this jewel from the Maritime Alps in your garden.
Hoary Cherry: complete guide
Prunus canescens
Prunus canescens is an elegant Asian ornamental cherry with grey-green foliage and delicate white spring flowers. Hardy, low-maintenance, perfect for mixed borders.
Manchurian Apricot (Prunus mandshurica): complete guide
Prunus mandshurica
Discover Manchurian Apricot: growth habit, flowers, fruits and care requirements. An ornamental fruit tree hardy to extreme cold.
West Indies Cherry: complete guide
Prunus myrtifolia (L.) Urb.
The West Indies Cherry (Prunus myrtifolia) is a tropical tree with glossy foliage and vibrant red berries. Discover how to cultivate this exotic fruit tree successfully in your garden.
Prunus sibirica: complete guide
Prunus sibirica
Prunus sibirica (Siberian apricot) is a hardy fruit-bearing tree from the Rose family. Learn growing tips, care, and how to integrate this beautiful tree into your garden.
Prunus triloba: complete guide
Prunus triloba
Discover flowering almond, striking tree with pink blossoms. Perfect for spring gardens.
Asian Firethorn: complete guide
Pyracantha rogersiana
Pyracantha rogersiana is a stunning evergreen shrub with white spring flowers and brilliant orange berries. Hardy, wildlife food, perfect for espalier, walls, and hedging.
Wichura's rose: complete guide
Rosa luciae
Rosa luciae, known as Wichura's rose or Memorial rose, is an elegant East Asian shrub producing pink flowers and ornamental hips. Learn how to grow and maintain this beautiful climbing and spreading rose.
Rosa lucieae: complete guide
Rosa lucieae
Rosa lucieae, the Japanese Memorial rose variant, is a vigorous rose species with rapid growth and stoloniferous habit. Features soft pink flowers and decorative autumn hips for wildlife.