Plants

Deciduous shrubs

Black viburnum or Buryat viburnum

V. burejaeticum Regel et Herd.

A strongly branching, spreading shrub up to 3 m tall, sometimes a small tree with a spreading, open crown, a gray trunk and bare, light, yellowish-gray branches.

Fruit trees

Black walnut

uglans nigra L.

Family: walnut family. Native to North America. Considered among the most valuable tree species for urban greening.

Flowers for the garden

Black-eyed geranium, small-stamened or Armenian

G. psilostemon

Perennial plant. A bright, striking plant, the best ornament of the subalpine meadows of the Caucasus. A thick short rhizome is located at a depth of 5-15 cm.

Deciduous shrubs

Black-fruited cotoneaster

Cotoneaster melanocarpus Fisch. ex Btytt

A species of non-spiny deciduous shrubs of the genus Cotoneaster. Crown spreading. Shoots pubescent. Leaves ovate, glabrous above, whitish-woolly beneath. Flowers pink, small, gathered in corymbs. Fruits globose, black,…

Flowers for the garden

Black-purple loosestrife

Lysimachia atropurpurea

An unusual perennial 45-90 cm tall. Hardiness zone according to Western catalogs: 3-9. A delightful species with spikes of numerous wine-red, almost black flowers, sharply contrasting with silvery-green lanceolate leave…

Flowers for the garden

Black-seed or Nigella

Nigella

Annual herbaceous plants with erect, strongly branched stems 30–60 cm high. Leaves small, twice- or thrice-pinnately dissected, less often palmately divided, lacy, arranged alternately.

Fruit trees

Blackberry

Rubus

Family Rosaceae. This enormous genus contains up to 600 species of blackberries and raspberries that share the Latin name Rubus and belong to the rose family (Rosaceae).

Deciduous shrubs

Blackberry 'Loch Ness'

Rubus fruticosus agg. 'Loch Ness'

A thornless cultivar of the common blackberry. Fruits average 4 g (up to 10 g), uniformly sized, black and glossy; very good for transport. Flesh juicy, firm, with a pronounced characteristic aroma. Ripens in August. Yi…

Deciduous shrubs

Blackberry, raspberry

Rubus L.

Members are deciduous creeping, prostrate or erect shrubs. Shoots are often covered with prickles. Flowers are large, clustered in racemes, white or pink. Fruits are aggregate drupes, often edible, red, yellow or black.

Deciduous shrubs

Blackcurrant 'Black Pearl'

Ribes nigrum L.

A mid-season variety. A medium-sized, sparsely leaved shrub. Fruits are round berries 1.3–1.5 g, densely black in color with a firm skin. Fruits transport and store well.

Deciduous shrubs

Blackcurrant 'Sanuta'

Ribes nigrum Sanuta

A medium-sized, compact, semi-spreading, neat shrub. Shoots are thick, with shortened internodes. Racemes are short, densely arranged. Berries are uniform in size, weighing up to 3–5 grams, black, shiny. Skin is firm bu…

Deciduous shrubs

Blackcurrant 'Zagadka'

Ribes nigrum Zagadka

A self-fertile, high-yielding variety of blackcurrant with mid-early ripening. Fruits are large, weighing 1.2–2.2 g, rounded, black in color, with dry detachment and a small number of seeds, aromatic, of high taste qual…

Flowering shrubs

Blackening Broom

Cytisus nigricans L.

A species of deciduous plants in the genus Cytisus (broom) of the family Fabaceae. A deciduous shrub with a branched, compact crown. Shoots and leaves blacken when dried. Leaves are trifoliate. Flowers are fragrant, yel…

Deciduous shrubs

Blackthorn (Sloe)

Prunus spinоsa

Vertically growing shrub forming thickets, 1-3 m high and wide, with thorny, spreading branches, slow-growing

Deciduous shrubs

Blackthorn or sloe

Spinosa L.

Blackthorn or sloe (Spinosa L.) - a brief description of the species for Your Garden

Deciduous shrubs

Bladdernut

Staphylea

Bladdernut (Staphylea) - brief species description on Your Garden

Flowers for the garden

Bladderwort

Pinguicula

Carnivorous herbaceous plants growing in water or moist places, with an irregular flower and a two-lipped corolla. The bladderwort's trapping organ is the leaf.

Indoor plants

Blechnum

Blechnum

Blechnum gibbum - in the wild this is a large palm-like plant with fronds reaching up to 1 m in length.

Flowers for the garden

Bletilla striped or hyacinth-like

Bletilla striata

They grow on clay-sandy soils in moist shaded places on hills and on mountain slopes in China and Japan. This genus includes 9 species which, like all orchids, form bulb-like pseudobulbs.

Deciduous shrubs

Blood-red dogwood

Cornus sanguinea

Appearance: shrub or small tree, 1-5 m high, 2-4 m wide, branches arranged vertically, slow-growing.

Flowers for the garden

Blood-red geranium

G. sanguineum L.

It differs from other geraniums by having a long, fleshy, nodose rhizome, from which arise rounded leaves deeply divided into linear segments on bristly petioles. The leaves are overwintering, light green, and in autumn…

Flowers for the garden

Bloomeria

Bloomeria

Corm-bulb with a brown netted-fibrous tunic, globose, 1.5 cm in diameter. Leaves linear, keeled. Flowers in an umbel, numerous, star-shaped.

Conifers

Blue Atlas cedar, blue cedar

Сedrus atlantica 'Glauca'

The blue Atlas cedar differs from the species by much denser branching and magnificent gray-blue needles; the intense color is especially noticeable when the foliage unfolds.

Flowers for the garden

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.