Inspirations

A miracle of colours, all year long ! This superb variety has bright, colorful variegated foliage, which falls in autumn and reveals its highly decorative red wood in winter. The very pink, tricolored young shoots evolve to green with creamy white and pink margins. The pink variegation returns in autumn, turning crimson to garnet-pink (even more intense in colder climates). It's a highly branched plant, which structures very well and looks great in pots.

A cultivation which will wake up beds and mixed hedgesGOLDEN LADY® 'MINCOJAU3' is a real improvement on the existing golden varieties. In spring it has beautiful young, bright orange shoots which progressively turn golden yellow. The foliage turns a yellow green in summer and is not affected by the sunlight. It becomes orange in the autumn.The cream - pink inflorescences appear in July.Being dense and branching naturally, this cultivation is easy to grow in containers.The bright and varied tints of the foliage are at their best when the shrub is grown in a bed or a mixed hedge.

An evergreen and brightly variegated foliage, highly fragrant flowers, and great branching as a bonus!Resulting from a natural mutation, Daphne odora 'Rogalski' is more compact, more branched, and with smaller leaves than the original variety, Daphne odora 'Aureomarginata'. 'Rogalski' is particularly suitable for small gardens. It is also easier to grow because it branches very well from the start. Its shorter branches are stronger at the time of flowering. Daphne 'Rogalski' retains all the superb qualities of the original variety: a beautiful evergreen foliage, bright green with yellow edges, and flowers with an intense fragrance. Among the range of small evergreen shrubs available for the garden, it is one of the first to flower. (February - March). It brings interest with its intense fragrance and lights up the dark corners to the garden with its foliage.

MARIANNI®, a sure bet for the garden because of its bright lasting variegation and its intensely fragrant flowers. The evergreen foliage of MARIANNI ®, our Daphne selection, is very widely edged in light yellow, more intensely than the traditional 'Aureomarginata' variety. The shrub attracts attention by the luminosity of its variegation, in contrast to its dark green tint.Its shape is rounded and bushy, its growth rate medium.In February-March bouquets of small very fragrant flowers, purple pink on the outside of the petals , light pink on the inside, appear at the end of the stems. The flowering period is long. Trophies: Silver Medal at PLANTARIUM 2008 (Boskoop - Netherlands)

Brilliant foliage, even in full sun ! This sun-hardy shrub with its variegated tricolored foliage adds a bright touch! Its silvery-green and yellow foliage, with young orange shoots, also takes on beautiful autumn colors, with stronger tricolors in September-October. Its flowers appear in spring and are highly melliferous. Easy to grow, it has dense growth and a compact, bushy structure. What's more, it's low-maintenance and very hardy, resistant to dryness and disease. It is ideal for patio terraces, as a border plant or as a mass landscape planting.

An original colour and a very even growth for this new ElaeagnusThe foliage is  widely variegated in a light yellow which gets stronger with the seasons. This shrub stands out from far away due to its luminosity. Its good ramification, its compact shape, its evenness, make it an excellent container plant and is easy to use in the garden. Reacting well to pruning, it can be used in a hedge. Like all the other Elaeagnus, the discrete, white and scented flowering takes place in autumn.Trophies: Bronze Medal at PLANTARIUM 2015 (Boskoop - Netherlands)

A precious heather for the garden. Mutant of the well-known variety 'Kramer's Rote', 'Eva Gold' possesses all its qualities: rapid growth, rounded and compact shape, long-lasting and abundant red flowers in the middle of winter for an Erica type heather. The colour of its foliage has the particularity of changing throughout the year, from the light green new growth, turning golden yellow in summer, again becoming pure green in winter. Attractive individually or in large groups, possibly planted with other heathers, 'Eva Gold' will embellish borders and slopes, as much with its remarkable flowers from November to March, as with its bright yellow colour in summer, which does not fade in the sun. It can also be planted in pots. Trophies: Praised by the Boskoop observation station (NETHERLANDS)

A springtime asset for smaller spaces. 'Niagara', a hybrid cultivation of Exochorda racemosa and macrantha 'The Bride', is denser than The Bride, well branched, with a more shrub-like shape, less arched.It is also more floriferous and offers numerous clusters of small white flowers in April - May.Very hardy. Once it is well settled, it tolerates drought.'Niagara' is well suited for smaller areas and can be grown in a pot. Trophies: Best new variety prize at Plantion 2011 (EDE)SILVER medal awarded by Trials Committee of RHBS (Boskoop - Netherlands)

Upright branches covered in a profusion of pure white flowers in spring Exochordas are shrubs that will delight in the spring with their extremely pure white flowers. The variety MAGICAL SPRINGTIME® is a recent selection whose branches are upright and covered from top to bottom in flowers in April and May. Its straight, lightly spreading habit differenciates it from the variety 'The Bride' whose branches are more arched and habit more weeping. This shrub requires no maintenance. It flowers on both the current year's wood and on older wood, and with the right conditions will flower again in the summer.

The first ground-cover Forsythia is still a STAR ! MAREE D'OR ®, about 0.80 m high and 1.50 m wide, layers naturally and as such has all the qualities of a good ground cover.Its grapefruit yellow, abundant flowers are early, in February - March, depending on the regions and climate. It flowers on the previous year's stems.The light green foliage comes after the flowers and completely covers the stems.Because of its principal function as a ground cover, MAREE D'OR ® can be used grouped on banks, guide islands, roundabouts and their green areas, using 1 plant per square meter. It can stand being planted on slabs, in containers and flower boxes.

A touch of light in beds and mixed hedges ... highly appreciated by garden lovers for a long time! WEEK-END® is interesting as it keeps its dense and branched shape, thus reducing the need for pruning to a minimum.Its abundant, golden yellow flowers start blossoming at the beginning of March, depending on the region (according to 'Lynwood').A 'must' in cultivation... and for a long time appreciated by garden lovers: a touch of sunshine in the garden from March onwards and for a flowering hedge. There is no need to cut back regularly thanks to its naturally dense and upright shape. WEEK-END® can also be planted in big tubs.

Doubled and perfumed, the elegance of a gardenia in the garden Gardenia Celestial Star® is a shrub producing elegant white flowers with a remarkable perfume that are doubled and scrolled at the heart. The first flowers emerge at the end of spring - beginning of summer. The display is sustained throughout the summer months with a generous production of flowers once the plant is well settled in. Gardenia Celestial Star® has a beautifully varnished and persistent foliage. Its excellent growth, ready branching, easy cultivation and relative resistance to frost allow its use as a garden Gardenia or as a terrace plant.