Encyclopedia - Plants for ponds
Curly pondweed
Potamogeton crispus
These plants are entirely submerged in water; only during flowering do the small yellowish flowers, gathered in spikes, rise above the water and are wind-pollinated.
Plants
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Deciduous shrubs
Currant
Ribes L.
Currant, gooseberry (Ribes L.) - brief species description on Your Garden
Fruit trees
Curé pear or Williams Winter pear
Pýrus Williams
A popular late-winter ripening cultivar. Fruits are above average in size, elongated-pyriform, light yellow, with a characteristic rusty-brown stripe from the calyx to the stem. Flesh white, juicy, sweet-and-sour, with …
Herbs
Cushion sedge
Сarex firma
Family Cyperaceae. In the wild the plant is confined to the subalpine belt of the mountain regions of Europe.
Deciduous shrubs
Cut-leaved elder
f. laciniata
A shrub up to 3 m tall. Leaves lush green, large, deeply dissected, giving the plant an exotic appearance. Flowers white, fragrant, in large, flat, corymb-like inflorescences.
Indoor plants
Cyanotis
Cyanotis
Cyanotis somaliensis - a small herbaceous plant with creeping stems. Leaves sessile, alternately arranged, with a tubular sheath enclosing the stem.
Indoor plants
Cycas
Cycas
This is an ancient plant; in translation from Greek (Kykas) it means "palm", apparently due to the external resemblance of these plants. Cycads are considered related to both palms and ferns.
Indoor plants
Cyclamen
Cyclamen
Very often one hears that the cyclamen is a very finicky plant, that it is prone to terrible diseases and it is better not to get involved with it.
Flowers for the garden
Cylindrical heuchera
H. cilindrica
The cylindrical heuchera is somewhat larger than the others. Its heart-shaped to rounded leaves with blunt teeth are downy and form a dense hemispherical rosette up to 40 cm tall. On flower stalks up to 90 cm tall, rela…
Indoor plants
Cymbidium
Cymbidium
Native range: India, South and Southeast Asia, Japan, islands of the Malay Archipelago. More than 60 species are known in the wild, growing in rainy tropical forests.
Indoor plants
Cymbidium orchid
Cymbidium
A genus of terrestrial orchids in the Orchidaceae family. Leaves linear or sword-shaped, acute or obtuse, leathery, dark green. Inflorescence — a loose, erect, nodding or pendant few- or many-flowered raceme. Flowers wh…
Encyclopedia - Plants for ponds
Cyperus alternifolius
Cyperus alternifolius
Grows in shallow bodies of water. In greenhouses it reaches 2–2.5 m in height. Grows well indoors in pots with trays, where water must be kept constantly.
Indoor plants
Cyperus, or Sedge, Sedge-like plant
Cyperus
This elegant herbaceous plant is generally undemanding. Cyperus does not have a pronounced dormancy period and grows equally well in cool and warm rooms.
Indoor plants
Cypress
Cupressus
Cypress is a coniferous plant and its cultivation and care methods are the same as for Araucaria.
Conifers
Cypress
Cupressus
Cypress (lat. Cupressus) — a genus of evergreen trees and shrubs of the cypress family (Cupressaceae) with pyramidal or spreading crowns. Cypresses grow in the subtropical and tropical climates of the Northern Hemispher…
Flowers for the garden
Cypress spurge
Euphórbia cyparissias
Perennial plant 15—30 cm tall, glabrous or less often slightly pubescent, grayish-green. Root cylindrical, creeping, branched.
Indoor plants
Cyrtomium
Cyrtomium
Cyrtomium falkatum - a perennial herbaceous plant. Rhizome short, covered with brown scales. Fronds once-pinnately divided, dark green, about 40-50 cm long.
Deciduous shrubs
Daboecia cantabrica, Irish heath
Daboecia cantabrica
A prostrate, sprawling shrub resembling heather (25–50 cm high) with many strongly branched reddish-brown stems. There are about 20 garden forms.
Flowers for the garden
Dahlia
Dahlia
Dahlias are a perennial tuberous plant with an above-ground part that dies back annually and strong perennial tubers that store nutrients for the initial growth of buds. They belong to the Aster family. Their native ran…
Flowers for the garden
Dahurian Cimicifuga
Cimicifuga dahurica (Turcz.) Maxim
Perennial herbaceous plant. Rhizome thick, many-headed. Stems up to 100 cm tall, glabrous to the base of the inflorescence, only slightly pubescent at the nodes. Leaves large, ternately pinnate; leaf segments ovate, acu…
Deciduous trees
Dahurian birch
В. davurica Pall.
Tree up to 25 m tall with a widely spreading, airy crown. Easily distinguished from other species by its distinctive bark: on young trees it is pinkish or even slightly reddish, on old trees dark gray, sometimes almost …
Flowers for the garden
Daisy
Bellis
Small herbaceous plants with a short rhizome. Leaves spatulate, blunt, toothed, forming a basal rosette; aerial stem leafless, producing a single head.
Deciduous trees
Dalecarlian birch
В. dalecarlica L.
Native to the Scandinavian Peninsula, cultivated singly throughout the European part of Russia. Grows mixed with other deciduous species. A light-loving microtherm, a mesophyte.
Indoor plants
Dalechampia
Dalechampia
There are about 110 species distributed in the tropics of both hemispheres. It grows rapidly, reaching up to 120 cm in height. It blooms in summer with distinctive flowers on long flower stalks, gathered in axillary inf…