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GRAPHITE® White: deciduous, hardy, graphic, with delicate white flowers This agapanthus offers all the characteristics of SAPHO's new GRAPHITE® range.They are deciduous and hardy, produce a large number of full inflorescences on graphite coloured floral stems in June and July. The flowers are white with some delicate purple traces on the back.GRAPHITE® White brings an unusual contemporary effect to your flower beds or pots. This effect will be even stronger when planted in association with GRAPHITE® Blue.

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.

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.

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 pyramide shaped maidenhair tree. Its moderate dimensions and its pyramide shaped even growth allows this beautiful Ginkgo selection to be used in gardens, planted in rows and grown in large containers.'Blagon' is spectacular in the autumn due to its golden yellow colour. For 30 years, the original stock plant has still not told the secret of its «flowers», meaning we still don't know if it is a male of female tree.It is rustic, resistant and adapts well to urban conditions.

Bright with its green - grey variegated foliage, edged in white'Silver Lining' catches the eye with its dense and bright foliage. The green-grey leaf blade is nicely mixed with paler green, edged in bright white with some overflows towards the interior.In June-July it is covered in big corymbs of fertile flowers encircled with white sterile flowers.It is of medium growth and attaches itself to its support by air roots. It can be trained against a wall or planted as ground cover ; it grows well in tubs.

A small, panicle hydrangea with abundant, changing flowering Compact, much-branched habit, with very dark green foliage Early white flowering, gradually changing to light pink as the season progresses Long, abundant flowering Good stem strength Ideal for pots and small gardens

A Hydrangea with large panicles that remain white throughout the season.  Flowers remain white all season long Vigorous, medium-sized, with strong stems and large inflorescences Medium-sized, it can be planted as an isolated specimen or in a bed Silver Winner KVBC Trophy

Abundant flower heads on strong stems SWEET SUMMER is remarkable for its about 20 - 25 cm long, dense, cone shaped panicles. The sterile flowers are at first green, then white, and finally pink, and bloom progressively from the bottom to the top, the flowers thus offer a pretty layering. The very small fertile flowers are naturally hidden. The flowers renew themselves all summer long. the shrub simultaneously carries panicles of all three shades.The flower stems are strong and stay well upright, without dropping due to the weight of the panicles in full bloom.The heads can be used as cut or dried flowers. In autumn, the foliage turns from yellow to purple red. Trophies: Silver Medal at PLANTARIUM 2013 (Boskoop - Netherlands)

Small in size, giant in bloom! A variety with an ultra-compact, highly branched habit, PETITE® Star blooms early and spectacularly, covering the entire plant. The colors of the blooms are progressive: starting with lime, they quickly turn to pure white, then evolve to pink and red at the end of the season. This variety is ideal for balconies, terraces or low landscape beds.