Deciduous shrubs
Viburnum plicatum
V. plicatum
Viburnum plicatum (V. plicatum) - description, types, photos, care, maintenance, transplanting, pests, propagation - Viburnum
Plants
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Deciduous shrubs
Viburnum-leaved ninebark
Ph. opulifolius
A shrub up to 3 m tall with slightly spreading, drooping branches forming a dense, hemispherical crown. Leaves 3-5-lobed, rounded-elliptic, up to 4 cm, with a larger, elongated central lobe, serrate-toothed at the margi…
Encyclopedia - Plants for ponds
Victoria or Regia (royal)
Victoria
Victoria are beautiful ornamental plants, striking with their huge floating leaves, reaching 2.5-3 m in diameter in their native range.
Climbing plants
Vine
Ampelopsis
Deciduous woody lianas that climb supports by means of coiling tendrils. Leaves simple, entire, more or less deeply 3–5-lobed, palmate or pinnate, on long petioles. Inflorescences shield-shaped, regularly dichotomously …
Deciduous trees
Vine maple
Acer circinatum Pursh.
Vine maple (A. circinatum Pursh.) - description, species, photos, care, maintenance, transplanting, pests, propagation - Maple
Conifers
Virginia Pine
Рinus virginiana
Family Pinaceae. A small tree with a rounded, somewhat open crown. Needles of medium length, in bundles of 2, yellow-green. Cones small, ovoid, reddish-brown.
Fruit trees
Virginia bird cherry
Р. virginiana
Family Rosaceae (Rosaceae). Grows predominantly along rivers, on rich and moist soils, in the eastern regions of North America.
Conifers
Virginia juniper
Juniperus virginiana
A species of evergreen shrubs of the cypress family. A monoecious, less often dioecious evergreen conifer with an oval crown. Juvenile foliage needle-like, later becoming scale-like, green. Cones (berry-like) ovoid, dar…
Conifers
Virginia juniper 'Golden Spring'
Juniperus Virginiana 'Golden Spring'
Dwarf cultivar of Virginia juniper. Mature plants reach about 50 cm in height, about 150 cm in diameter. In youth the crown is vase-shaped, in maturity cushion-shaped. Evergreen coniferous shrub with green foliage, with…
Encyclopedia - Plants for ponds
Virginia knotweed
Polygonum virginianum
Greenish-white flowers appear in late summer and are of little value to the gardener. It is most ornamental in full sun; light partial shade is acceptable.
Flowers for the garden
Virginia speedwell
Veronicastram virginica
Native to eastern North America. Virginia speedwell reaches up to 130 cm in height. The shrub is sturdy. Leaves lanceolate, lush green, arranged in whorls.
Climbing plants
Vitaceae (Grape family)
Vitaceae
The family comprises 12 genera and about 700 species, occurring in temperate, subtropical and tropical regions of both hemispheres. The largest genus is Cissus with its more than 350 species. Vitaceae are small trees, e…
Indoor plants
Viviparous Asplenium
Asplenium viviparum Presl.
Leaves short-petiolate, twice- to four-times pinnate, 40–60 cm long, 15–20 cm wide. Segments very narrow, linear to almost filiform, 0.5–1 cm long, 1 mm wide.
Encyclopedia - Plants for ponds
Viviparous knotweed
Polygonum viviparum
A low (10-15 cm) bushy perennial plant with narrow elongated petiolate leaves gathered in basal rosettes.
Indoor plants
Vriesea
Vriesea
In the wild there are about 250 species. Vriesea with gray leaves are more undemanding - they tolerate fluctuations in temperature and air humidity more easily than species with green leaves.
Indoor plants
Vuylstekeara
Vuylstekeara
This plant received its hard-to-pronounce name in honor of its breeder — a Flemish gardener who created it in the 19th century. The aim of breeding was to obtain a beautiful flower for cool rooms.
Flowers for the garden
Wahlenbergia
Wahlenbergia
Perennial 8 cm high. Porcelain-blue flowers on short pedicels slightly rise above a carpet of dark green foliage.
Flowers for the garden
Waldheimia
Waldheimia
Subshrub up to 10 cm high, with numerous generative and vegetative shoots strongly branched at the base, forming loose mats.
Flowers for the garden
Waldsteinia
Waldsteinia
These are low-growing creeping perennials that form dense mats. Leaves lobed (3-5 lobes). Flowers yellow or white.
Fruit trees
Walnut
Juglans
A genus of deciduous trees in the walnut family. Leaves pinnately compound with an odd number of leaflets, alternate, large. Flowers unisexual, wind-pollinated. Fruits – oblong or rounded syncarpous dry drupes.
Fruit trees
Walnut
J. regia L.
Walnut family. In the wild it grows in the mountainous regions of Central Asia, Transcaucasia, the southern part of the Balkan Peninsula, Iran, China, Korea and Japan.
Fruit trees
Walnut
Juglans regia
Tree - reaches 10-15 (20) m in height and 8-10 m in width, the trunk is fairly short, sometimes crooked, branches widely spreading, sometimes slightly pendulous, slow-growing 30-40 cm per year.
Deciduous shrubs
Warty Barberry
Verruculosa Hemsi
Very valuable and frost-hardy, reaching 1.50-2 m in height, an evergreen, slow-growing and densely growing shrub with sprawling curved branches.