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Muscari

Muscari

Muscari

Perennial, herbaceous, bulbous plants 10 to 30 cm tall. Bulbs small, ovoid, with light outer scales. Leaves (2–6) basal, linear, about 10 cm long, appear in spring or autumn.

Drooping reed or graceful Isolepis

Drooping reed or graceful Isolepis

SCIRPUS cernus (Isolepis gracilis)

A beautiful, graceful plant. Can be used in hanging baskets as a trailing plant, and also for decorating aquariums.

Blue Calochortus

Blue Calochortus

С. caeruleus (Kellogg) S. Wats.

Occurs in open stands of Libocedrus decurrens Torr. in the middle belt of the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada in California.

Waldheimia

Waldheimia

Waldheimia

Subshrub up to 10 cm high, with numerous generative and vegetative shoots strongly branched at the base, forming loose mats.

Rocky Mountain juniper

Rocky Mountain juniper

Juniperus scopulorum

A species of evergreen shrubs of the genus Juniperus in the cypress family. It has a beautiful conical crown starting almost from the ground. Foliage mostly scale-like, dark green or glaucous-blue. Berry-cones globose, …

Chinar or Plane

Chinar or Plane

Platanus L.

Chinar or Plane (Platanus L.) - a brief species description for Your Garden

Common holly

Common holly

Ilex aquifolium L.

The type species of the genus Ilex of the family Aquifoliaceae. An evergreen dioecious tree (cultivated as a shrub) with glossy, dark green leaves with wavy and spiny margins. Flowers small, white, inconspicuous, fragra…

Spear-shaped willow

Spear-shaped willow

Salix hastata L

A species of deciduous shrubs of the genus Salix. A shrub with an oval-rounded dense crown. Leaves elliptic, glabrous, dull green above, glaucous beneath. Catkins erect, dense, silvery.

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