Deciduous shrubs
Buckthorn, alder buckthorn
Rhamnus L.
Buckthorn, alder buckthorn (Rhamnus L.) - a brief species description on Your Garden
Plants
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Herbs
Buckwheat
Paspalum
Family: grasses. Distributed in the tropical and subtropical zones of the globe; most species are in South America.
Flowers for the garden
Bugle or Ajuga
Ajuga
Known in cultivation since 1653, when it was first presented at the London Horticultural Show. This genus comprises 50 annual and perennial species, widely distributed in the temperate zones of Europe and Asia, but ther…
Deciduous shrubs
Bullate cotoneaster
Cotoneaster bullatus Bois
A species of spineless deciduous shrubs of the genus Cotoneaster. The crown is graceful and spreading. Leaves are bullate-wrinkled, dark green. Flowers numerous, small, white, arranged in corymbs. Fruits globose, scarle…
Deciduous trees
Bunduk
Gymnocladus
A tree up to 30 m tall, with a slender trunk and a luxuriant, when freely grown, rounded crown reaching 8 m in diameter.
Flowers for the garden
Bupleurum
Bupleurum
Perennial or annual herbaceous plants. They grow on wet meadows, on slopes, and on sea cliffs. The root is strong, a taproot. Stem erect, up to 1 m tall.
Flowers for the garden
Bur-reed
Sparganium
A perennial waterside plant prone to rapid spreading. In nature bur-reeds grow along the marshy banks of rivers, ponds, and in bogs. The capitate inflorescences of these plants consist of numerous small inconspicuous fl…
Flowers for the garden
Bur-reeds (Sparganioideae)
Sparganioideae
The second subfamily — the bur-reeds — is also represented by a single genus, Sparganium (bur-reed). About 15–20 species of Sparganium are known, widely distributed in subarctic, temperate and subtropical regions of the…
Flowers for the garden
Busch's shield fern
Dryopteris buschiana
Plant height 50-100 cm. Clump is cup-shaped. Leaves dark green, oval, leathery, evergreen. Winter-hardy; used for solitary plantings and small groups. Propagated by spores
Deciduous trees
Bushy Japanese holly
Сrenata 'Hetzii'
Bushy Japanese holly (Сrenata 'Hetzii') - brief description of the species on Your Garden
Flowers for the garden
Butterbur
Petasites
Butterbur is a very distinctive and ornamental plant, unfortunately not very well known to our gardeners, despite the fact that two of its species occur in Europe.
Flowers for the garden
Buttercup
Ranunculus L.
Name: derives from the Latin word 'rana' - frog, and can be explained by the fact that many members of the genus live in water or nearby.
Deciduous trees
Butternut
Dioicus
Butternut (Dioicus) - a brief description of the species for Your Garden
Flowers for the garden
Buzulnik Vorobyeva
Ligularia vorobievii Worosch.
Perennial; in favorable conditions forms substantial clumps up to 1.2 m in diameter with flowering stems up to 2 m tall. Leaves thick, leathery, rounded, dark green.
Encyclopedia - Plants for ponds
Cabomba
Cabomba
Cabomba are aquatic and marsh plants with very attractive opposite, finely divided, fan-shaped underwater leaves.
Encyclopedia - Plants for ponds
Cabomba caroliniana
Cabomba caroliniana
In nature, Cabomba caroliniana occurs from North to South America. It grows in standing and flowing bodies of water with flow from slow to fast, at depths down to 1.5 m.
Indoor plants
Caesalpinia
Caesalpinia
Members of the genus are trees and shrubs, sometimes lianas (climbing shrubs), often spiny, with bipinnate leaves.
Indoor plants
Caladium
Caladium
Native to South America. There are 15 species in the wild. Leaf edges brown, petioles droop, leaves curl — if it is too cold. The plant does not tolerate temperatures below 16°C and cannot stand drafts.
Indoor plants
Calamondin (Цитрофортунелла)
Citrus х microcarpa
It is an evergreen compact plant with small glossy dark-green leaves that have a pleasant fragrance. The flowers are white and very fragrant. The fruits are small, resembling tiny tangerines, with a thin orange fragrant…
Indoor plants
Calanthe
Calanthe
The genus Calanthe includes over 150 terrestrial, rarely epiphytic species, distributed from South Africa and the island of Madagascar to Japan, the tropical regions of Asia, the islands of the Malay Archipelago and Aus…
Indoor plants
Calathea
Calathea
Native to the humid tropical regions of South America. It is a decorative-leaved perennial rhizomatous plant about 70–80 cm tall.
Indoor plants
Calceolaria
Calceolaria
The genus name comes from the Latin calceolatus — slipper — from the shape of the two-lipped distinctive flower. There are about 200 species of this plant in the wild.
Flowers for the garden
Calendula or Pot Marigold
Calendula
An annual erect plant 20-75 cm tall. Root a taproot. Shoots thick, ribbed, light green, covered with sticky glandular hairs.