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A stylish variegated agapanthus!The evergreen BLUE PANACHE® is remarkable due to its bright foliage and a beautiful variegation. The leaves are 30 to 35 cm long and 2 to 3 cm wide. The green-grey leaf blade is widely edged in white and irregularly striated.The plant is vigorous and of a big developpement. In June and July 70 to 80 cm long floral stems carry beautiful blue inflorescences with more than a hundred flowers. The variety is sterile.Like all Agapanthus, BLUE PANACHE® loves rich and well-drained soils and tolerates droughts and chalk.It prefers sunny positons but also flowers well in half-shade.The plant must be protected in cold climatic zones (temperatures below -5° C).

PITCHOUNE® Blue, a beautiful blue and compact African lily. This Agapanthus presents all the qualities of the PITCHOUNE® range. Made up of numerous flowers, these umbels are bigger and of a deeper blue than those of dwarf Agapanthus praecox; they bloom in June - July, their flowering is good.The leaves are wide and evergreen.PITCHOUNE® Blue will have a nice summery effect, planted outside in areas of temperate climate, or in pots.

From the PITCHOUNE® range, a vividly reblooming white agapanthus This Agapanthus presents all the qualities of the PITCHOUNE® range.The first white very dense umbels open in June-July. It's an exceptional variety due to its renewed flowering until early September, under good conditions.Thanks to its reduced dimensions, its evergreen foliage and long and dense flowering, PITCHOUNE® White is ideal, grown in pots or in the soil in areas of temperate climate.

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.

A climbing, semi-evergreen, vigourous hydrangea.This climbing Hydrangea comes from a crossing of H. anomala ssp petiolaris and H. seemannii. It has an evergreen to semi-evergreen foliage. It is covered in beautiful copper coloured young shoots in spring.It is hardy, its height is of over 2.50 m and more. Trained against a wall, it hangs on to its support with its air roots, without damanging it. It can also be used as ground cover.In May and June it grows large, quite flat, sterile and fertile white flowers.Trophies: Second Prize in the nursery category at the show Innovert ® 2008 ( Angers - France)Bronze Medal at PLANTARIUM 2007 (Boskoop - NETHERLANDS)

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.

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.