With its natural charm and colorful flowers, the lungwort awakens dreary garden niches from the winter slumber. As a vigorous ground cover, the rustic predatory plant makes itself useful in poorly lighted, damp locations. Anyone who is familiar with naturopathy knows how to appreciate the valuable ingredients of the real lung herb to alleviate diseases of the…
The shrub marguerite is a flower dream come true with the exotic charm of the Canary Islands. Where the flowering shrub stands out in the tub and bed, other summer flowers find it difficult to match this floral spectacle. White, pink or bright yellow cup-shaped flowers thrive on the richly branched shoots so numerous that they almost…
They bloom in beautiful shades of color in the bed, on the balcony and on the windowsill on long or short flower stalks, in swamps or forests up to chalky rock crevices. The genus of the primroses gives us a motley palette of diverse species for almost every location. So that you don’t miss the perfect Primula…
With the wonderful Crossandra infundibuliformis ‘Fortuna’, the floral splendor of the Orient finds its way onto your windowsill. Among the tropical Crossandra species, this variety has proven itself as an opulent houseplant that conjures up a magical ambience with its bright orange flowers from April to October. So that the exotic subshrub shows its most beautiful side all summer…
The room ash spreads evergreen comfort in living rooms. Integrated into the design of work spaces, the elegant ornamental plant grounds mentally minded office workers, helps reduce stress and filters the air they breathe. Its multi-faceted advantages and its lush green appearance, paired with an uncomplicated disposition, make the Radermachera sinica a perfect houseplant for beginners and…
With its evergreen leaves and fragrant, white spring blossoms, the grape heather is an elegant ornamental wood that is in the spotlight on the garden stage all year round. Its most beautiful varieties inspire as soon as they shoot with their bronze-violet play of colors, which, after subtle summer green, leads to a furious firework of…
The tea plant from the genus of the camellia and the tea shrub family grows as an evergreen shrub or small tree. Depending on the species, it can reach heights of one to five meters. The yellowish-white flowers appear on this camellia between October and February. Leaves and leaf buds are slightly downy and the fruits that Camellia…
Lilac blossoms are a dream. Whether as a bouquet or left on the bush or tree, they convince with their beauty, many also with their scent. For a time, lilac was considered outdated and conservative. New varieties have brought the garden lavender back to life, today you can see more freshly planted noble lilacs in the gardens. Although the…
The refinement of roses is one of the supreme disciplines of the gardening trade and inspires awe in many hobby gardeners. There are even rumors that private individuals are not allowed to graft roses, which is only true if someone wants to get into the business with the grafting results. If “only” your own garden is to…
Clematis are so easy to care for that the question of the details of how to cut them back quite often only comes to mind when “the wild undergrowth on the house wall” clearly needs a pair of scissors … until then, the clematis was just there and doing what Vines just pretend: they grow…