Plant Encyclopedia
Everything about care, pruning, watering and winter hardiness of thousands of plants
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Arabis alpina: complete guide
Arabis alpina
Discover Alpine rockcress, a hardy alpine plant with white flowers. Support, drainage and combinations for rock gardens.
Wild Ginger: complete guide
Asarum caudatum
Asarum caudatum is a frost-hardy groundcover for shady sites with attractive heart-shaped leaves. Small burgundy flowers hidden beneath foliage in spring.
CyperaceaeIntermediate sedge: complete guide
Carex media
Intermediate sedge - ornamental grass for alpine and subarctic gardens, frost-hardy and elegant.
Showy sedge: complete guide
Carex spectabilis
Showy sedge - ornamental grass for alpine and subarctic landscapes, frost-hardy and spectacular.
Corispermum pallasii: complete guide
Corispermum pallasii
Discover Siberian bugseed (Corispermum pallasii), a hardy annual herb with delicate foliage. Perfect for dry gardens, xeriscapes, and natural borders with minimal maintenance requirements.
Erysimum rhaeticum: complete guide
Erysimum rhaeticum
Discover the Swiss wallflower, an Alpine plant with cheerful yellow flowers. Perfect for rock gardens, scree beds, and borders with outstanding frost hardiness.
Geranium nepalense: complete guide
Geranium nepalense
Discover the Nepalese crane's-bill, an elegant low-growing perennial with pink blooms. Perfect ground cover and frost-hardy. Care tips and planting advice for your garden.
Grass Pea: complete guide
Lathyrus sativus
Discover Grass Pea (Lathyrus sativus): cultivation, care, soil requirements, and harvest. A nutritious legume crop for your garden.
Maackia amurensis: complete guide
Maackia amurensis
Discover the Amur maackia, a strong ornamental tree with white flower clusters and distinctive bark. Ideal for growing gardens.
Malus prattii: complete guide
Malus prattii
Discover the Pratt apple, an elegant Asian crabapple with small fruits and refined architecture. Ideal for small gardens.
Winter heliotrope: complete guide
Petasites pyrenaicus
Winter heliotrope (Petasites pyrenaicus) guide: fragrant winter blooms, ideal location, soil, watering, seasonal care. Scent-filled Mediterranean plant.
Picea chihuahuana: complete guide
Picea chihuahuana
Discover the rare Chihuahua spruce with elegant narrow form. Care, placement and growth of this exceptional conifer from Mexico.
Picea likiangensis: complete guide
Picea likiangensis
Discover the Lijiang spruce from the Himalayas. Everything about care, growth and placement of this remarkable Asian conifer.
Podocarpus macrophyllus: complete guide
Podocarpus macrophyllus
Buddhist pine or Japanese yew offers elegance with broad green needles. Discover growth habits, frost hardiness, care and ideal placement in gardens.
Snow raspberry: complete guide
Rubus nivalis
Discover the snow raspberry (Rubus nivalis), a rare alpine species with delicate white flowers and red-orange berries. Perfect for alpine and rock gardens.
CaryophyllaceaeSnow pearlwort: complete guide
Sagina nivalis
Discover Sagina nivalis, a tiny alpine cushion plant from arctic and alpine regions. Ideal for rock gardens, troughs, and high-altitude landscapes with expert care.
MelanthiaceaeVeratrum nigrum: complete guide
Veratrum nigrum
Discover the black veratrum, a stately shrub with purple flowers. Learn everything about cultivation, maintenance, and toxicity of this European classic garden plant.
Persian speedwell: complete guide
Veronica persica
Learn about Persian speedwell (Veronica persica). A frost-hardy plant with blue flowers, ideal for winter blooms in gardens.
Banana Yucca: complete guide
Yucca baccata
Learn how to grow Banana Yucca in your garden. This frost-tolerant desert plant thrives in dry soils with white flowers and edible fruit. Perfect for xeriscaping.