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A cultivar raised and selected in the USA. A vigorous climber with attractive, 6-8 cm long, trumpet-shaped, yellow flowers, the inside of the tube is orange, from July to September. It begins blooming in its second-fourth year after planting. Produces best flowers in a warm, sheltered site, in full sun and when the soil isn’t too fertile or moist. It climbs by aerial roots, but needs a little support until ...

A new Honeysuckle cultivar with a compact growth habit and a long (June to October) and profuse flowering period. Orange-scarlet flowers with yellow anthers. The stems twine round supports. It produces 0.5-1 m of annual growth and attains a height of 1.5-2 m. Tolerates moderately fertile soil as long as it’s not too dry or acid. In May it’s often subject to attack of aphids, especially when grown in a ...

A new cultivar with green leaves with yellow margins. White flowers in corymbs, in June-July. It climbs by attaching itself to the support by aerial root and can grow up to 6-10 m tall (0,5 m annually). Frost hardy. Thrives best in moist and acid soils in well lit positions that don’t receive direct sunlight. Particularly useful for growing on walls, trees, pergolas and as a groundcover. Well suited for ...

A Japanese, self-pollinating form with tasty lemon-flavoured durable fruit (Mini Kiwi) ripening in late September-October. Oval berries, about 2 cm long and 1,5 cm across can be eaten unpeeled. It starts setting fruit in the 2^nd-3^rd year after planting. It sustains frost down to –22^oC. The plant requires a warm, sunny, sheltered site and moist fertile well-drained soil. Twining stems. It’s suitable for growing up various supports, arbours, pergolas and ...

Polish variety selected by Dariusz Wyrwicki. Large (8-12 cm) mostly 5-lobed, evergreen, leathery, green leaves with creamy marble variegation. A good-growing, spreading and quite hardy plant. It clings to the support by means of adventitious roots and can scale a wall. It reaches a height of over 200 m, with about 1m of annual growth. It doesn’t like dry or acidic soil. It thrives in partial shade but can also ...

Vigorous climber with edible fruits. Light green leaves turn yellow in autumn. It climbs by means of tendrils that twine round the support. Inconspicuous, fragrant flowers in May and June. Violet-mauve edible berries are borne in October. Undemanding, drought-tolerating, disease resistant and very frost hardy (down to -40^oC). Particularly useful for growing on high fences, screens, arbours and unsightly buildings.

A Ukrainian, autogamous variety abundant in fruit. Its valuable stems are used for decorative, medicinal and nutritional purposes. The fruit, but also to some extent the leaves and the bark contain schisandrine (toning and strengthening substance), Vitamin E and many minerals: iron, copper, manganese, nickel, molybdenum, titanium and zinc, as well as significant quantities of magnesium, potassium and phosphorus. It has been used for centuries in the traditional Chinese medicine. ...

Considered the best cultivar for commercial cultivation (Berry Kiwi, Mini Kiwi). Oval fruits, about 3 cm long and 2,5 cm across, with a brown red bloom when exposed to sunlight ,ripen in early October. They are very tasty and have an edible skin. It starts bearing fruit in the 3^rd-4^th year after planting. Sustains frosts up to –28^oC. It requires a warm sheltered site and moist but well drained, fertile ...

A variety derived by Szczepan Marczyński and offered for sale in 2011. It has large matt leaves, which are green in the summer and yellow in the autumn. It grows up to 10-20 m high, climbing with the tendrils tipped with few adhesive pads. This variety is frost-resistant, not very demanding and adaptable to ordinary soils. It can grow in sunny and semi-shade positions. To be used on fences and ...

An evergreen climber with attractive deep green lanceolate leather-like leaves, 10-15 cm long and 3-4,5 cm wide. Rather sparse small (2-3 cm) yellow orange flowers are borne at the tips of stems and in leaf axils in June-July. Black violet berries. Young stems are purple and hairy and turn brown with age. Stems twine round the support. It tolerates moderately fertile soil, provided that it’s not too dry nor acid. ...

A cultivar selected in the USA. A moderately vigorous, self-clinging vine with attractive large three-lobed light yellow green leaves arranged like roof tiles. In autumn leaves turn orange scarlet. It climbs by means of adhesive pads at the ends of leaf tendrils. Best grown in a sheltered, well-lit spot but without strong sunlight. Moderately hardy, it may freeze during severe winters. Particularly useful for covering walls, arbours, pergolas, trees, pylons ...

A Czech variety selected in a natural setting in the mountains of South Korea. A moderately vigorous self-clinging climber with attractive foliage: three-lobed, coarsely toothed rounded leaves, wavy at the edges, deep green in summer and turning brilliant scarlet in autumn. It climbs by means of adhesive pads at the ends of leaf tendrils. An undemanding and healthy plant, it tolerates moderate soils. Particularly useful for covering walls, arbours, pergolas, ...

A valuable cultivar of delicately, sweetly scented, deep red flowers. Healthy, frost and disease resistant.

A vigorous, undemanding vine with attractive leaves and decorative fruit. Flowers are unassuming, greenish in colour, borne in May. The fruit reach the full colour at the end of September or in October and remains attractive for a long time – beautifully contrasting seeds in red arils are surrounded by slightly parted yellow-orange covering. It does not require a separate pollinator. Leaves vary from lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate, glossy, green turning ...

A striking, strong-growing ivy variety of exceptionally large leaves but moderate frost hardiness. Selected before 1870 by J. F. Ruprecht in the native site in Caucasus. The leaves are 15-20 cm long, varying from ovate to cordate, non-lobed, irregularly dentate, evergreen, leathery, lustreless, light green in spring, they darken in summer. It clings to supports by means of aerial roots, climbing over walls. It reaches 7 m height, gaining 1-2 ...

A striking, strong-growing variety of ivy with exceptionally large leaves, splashed with cream colour but of a moderate frost hardiness. Selected in Great Britain before 1907. The leaves are 15-20 cm long, varying from ovate to cordate, non-lobed, irregularly dentate, evergreen, leathery, lustrous, and green with cream colour-splashed edges and silvery-green streaks. It clings to supports by means of aerial roots, climbing over walls. It reaches 7 m height, gaining ...

A striking, very strong-growing ivy variety of exceptionally large green and yellow leaves but moderate frost hardiness. The leaves are 15-20 cm long, varying from ovate to cordate, non-lobed, irregularly dentate, evergreen, leathery, lustrous, green with yellow veins and irregular, blurred splash of yellow and light green in the middle. It clings to supports by means of aerial roots, climbing over walls. It reaches 7 m height, gaining 1- 2 ...

A dwarf variety of roundish leaves 4-6 cm in diameter, green, glossy on the upper side and white and green underneath, serrated and set on long petioles. Flowers are sterile, cream coloured, honey scented and scarce, gathered in corymbs, blooming in June and July. It climbs by means of adventitious roots, reaching 1-1,5 m height (10 cm annual growth ratio. Frost hardy, undemanding, resistant to diseases and vermin. Prefers moist ...

Slow-growing vine similar to wisteria, but blooming in summer. Flowers are light violet-pink gathered in loose clusters 25-35 cm long. Blooming in June and July. Leaves are pinnate, consisting usually of 13 narrow ovate leaflets. Stems twine anticlockwise around supports. It may freeze during harsher winters. This variety starts blooming in the 4^th-5^th year after planting. Grows up to 2-2,5 m. Native to Japan and Korea. Most abundant blooming occurs ...

A popular self-clinging variety with numerous adhesive pads at tendrils’ ends that enable the plant to climb over smooth surfaces. Leaves compound, consisting of 5 elliptical lobes, pointy and dentate, dark green lustreless on the upper side and light green turning scarlet in autumn underneath. Unassuming, yellow-green flowers blossom in July–August. Fruit - small purple-black waxy berries – are set on red stalks. Rather strong-growing vine reaching 10-20 m (1-2 ...