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.

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.

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)

The first hydrangea paniculata of the season. PRIM'WHITE® has been selected from seedlings of Hydrangea paniculata 'Dharuma'. Flowering on the previous year's growth, the shrub is very early flowering from the end of May or June (depending on the region), this shrub produces elegant white, slightly flat flower panicles. The abundant sterile flowers have large sepals which start cream-coloured then turn white. In good conditions a second flowering prolongs its decorative interest in August - September..This small plant with fine grey-green wood, pale green foliage and very red stalks is of small growth. Well branched, it has a more regular shape and better growth characteristics than its parent plant.The different varieties of the Hydrangea paniculata range, supplied by SAPHO, go well in a shrub border together with perennials or in a pot.

A long, dazzling and fragrant flowering period! A clear improvement on the Philadelphus x virginalis group Flowering all along the branches, from mid-May to the end of summer Large, full double, pure white flowers, with a more intense fragrance Very healthy foliage throughout the season A compact, well-branched, harmonious habit, easy to grow, suitable for gardens (even small ones) and pots

In springtime light, pretty copper shimmering foliage.This shrub is remarkable for its dense, deciduous jagged foliage, with its original orange copper shades in spring, turning to purple in summer and autumn. It prefers a sunny position to develop its beautiful colours.It has bushy habit, dense, stocky with strong, straight branches.Small balls of white flowers bloom from May to June. They are followed by red fruits in summer.DIABLE D'OR® suits well in mixed free hedges. Its copper shimmering in springtime, turning to purple later on makes it very precious for creating seasonal variations in the colours of the hedges foliage. The flowers and fruit add to its ornamental value.

Compact and very fruit-bearing, a snowberry with white berries. This cultivation has all the characteristics of the snowberry of the MAGICAL® range.Galaxy has white berries.MAGICAL®, Candy, Galxy and Sweet, distributed by SAPHO, are very attractive shrubs, thanks to their abundance of decorative flowers at the end of the season. These varieties can be associated with evergreens and other flowering shrubs, in mixed hedges or shrub borders. In pots, they brighten up entrances, balconies or terraces from August onwards, until the first frosts. Trophies: Silver medal at Plantarium 2007 (Booskop - NETHERLANDS)

Resistant to the Dutch elm disease, our towns and countryside have found the elm again. Tested by INRAE, this hybrid is the result of cross fertilization of six French varieties, plus an English and a Chinese one. It is resistant to the Dutch elm disease.Its bark is smooth. The leaves are quite similar to the common elm tree: asymmetrically toothed, with a rough underside. The deep green foliage is dense. In the autumn it has a beautiful golden yellow tint.In March, before the leaves, grow discreet flowers in the shape of little red globules without petals.Its slender trunk gives LUTECE® a perfect aptitude for a high-stem training, better than Ulmus RESISTA® 'Sapporo Gold'; growing naturally its habit is regular and homogeneous. It also makes a very good shrub. It is fast growing.Perfectly adapted to landscape hedges, this cultivation is equally interesting planted in groups on an embankment for example, but also as individual tree or grown in line if it has been grown as a full standard.The name of LUTÈCE® was given to it in recognition of the help provided by Parks and Gardens Department of the city of Paris for having taken care of a field of experimentation in the Vincennes Park.

Variegated, even in sunlight.'Brigela' is the weigela with variegated green foliage, edged in creamy yellow, which keeps its qualities all summer long, even in full sun.This shrub with deciduous foliage is very vigorous, and upright. It reaches a height of 2.00 to 3.00 m and a similar spread.The dark red flowers in May - June on last year's branches are abundant.Due to its variegated foliage and its remarkable flowers, 'Brigela' is ideal in beds or open hedges, together with evergreens.

A rainbow in the garden.The "rainbow" foliage is very original: green with a wide yellow border turning dark pink during the summer. The relatively wide leaves keep their variegation throughout the growing season thus contrasting with the red wood; they do not burn in the sun.It's shape is compact and well branched, its growth average.The trumpet shaped pale pink flowers are abundant in May - June. They are sterile so don't produce any seed or fruit.This cultivation is particularly interesting from spring to autumn, thanks to its attractive foliage and its moderate dimensions are an asset for small areas.Trophies: Silver medal at Plantarium 2007 (Booskop - NETHERLANDS)