Plants

Flowers for the garden

Babiana

Babiana

Stem simple or branched, weak in the inflorescence. Leaves ribbed, pleated and stiff, mostly pubescent, sometimes narrowing to a petiole, 3-5 per stem.

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Bacopa caroliniana

Васора caroliniana

Bacopa caroliniana is a long-stemmed plant with bright green succulent oval leaves up to 2.5 cm long, arranged in opposite pairs on the stems.

Indoor plants

Bael (Aegle marmelos)

Aegle marmelos

A beautiful subtropical, evergreen, slow-growing tree, reaching up to 3 m (sometimes up to 10 m) with fragrant flowers, native to the dry forests and plains of southern India and Burma, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Conifers

Bald cypress

Taxodium L. С. Rich.

Bald cypress (Taxodium L. С. Rich.) - a brief description of the species on Your Garden

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Baldjuansky knotweed

Polygonum

Name: derived from the Greek words 'polys' - many and 'gonos' - knee/joint; given for the knotty, jointed stem.

Climbing plants

Balkan Dioscorea

D. balcanica

A hardy plant with climbing shoots and tuberously thickened rhizomes. Its above-ground parts die back in winter, but each spring it produces two-meter stems adorned with beautiful glossy, heart-shaped dark green leaves.

Flowers for the garden

Balkan geranium or large-rhizomed geranium

G. macrorrhizum

Perennial plant. Differs from other geraniums by a long, thick rhizome up to 1.5 cm in diameter, branching over the soil surface. Thanks to the rapidly spreading rhizome the large-rhizomed geranium forms a dense, compac…

Conifers

Balkan pine, Macedonian pine or Rumelian pine

Pinus peuce

Family Pinaceae. Grows in the mountainous regions of the Balkan Peninsula. A tree up to 40 m tall, externally similar to the white pine (the most graceful of the pines introduced here), but less hardy in cultivation.

Indoor plants

Balsam (Impatiens)

Impatiens

The native range of balsam (Impatiens) is tropical and subtropical Asia and Africa.

Conifers

Balsam fir

Abies balsamea

A slender tree up to 15–25 m tall, with a regular, conical or narrow-pyramidal, dense crown that in solitary trees reaches the ground, and with blackish-gray bark.

Conifers

Balsam fir 'Nana'

Abies balsamea Nana

Cultivar of balsam fir. A dwarf tree with a cushion-shaped or conical rounded crown. Branches are spreading, densely arranged, compact, growing horizontally. Needles are dark green, flattened, glossy, 1.5-2.5 cm long, b…

Conifers

Balsam poplar

Balsamjfera L.

Balsam poplar (Balsamjfera L.) - a brief description of the species on Your Garden

Deciduous trees

Balsam poplar

Р. balsamifera L.

Large tree up to 20-25 m high, with a spreading, broad, ovoid crown. Bark of old trees dark gray at the base, above - gray, smooth. Shoots slightly angled, later cylindrical, brown. Leaves ovate

Deciduous trees

Balsam poplar

Populus balsamifera

Balsam poplar - a slender, large tree, upright shoots, in old age the crown is lacy and asymmetrical, initially fast-growing

Indoor plants

Bamboo

Bambusa

Bamboo is a rare plant in indoor compositions, but in a greenhouse or a large room it looks impressive.

Indoor plants

Banana

Musa

The banana prefers bright, diffused light; it should be shaded from direct sunlight, for example with translucent tracing paper or a thin fabric.

Flowers for the garden

Baneberry

Actaea

Plants are poisonous; toxicity remains even after drying. Contact of the sap with the mucous membranes of the mouth and eyes is especially dangerous.

Conifers

Banks' pine

Р. banksiana Lamb.

Family Pinaceae. One of the forest-forming trees in northern Canada. An evergreen tree of medium height with a broadly spreading oval crown. Needles short, strongly curved, twisted, light green. Cones small, oblique, cu…

Deciduous shrubs

Barberry

Berberis

Barberries are valued not only as ornamental-leaved plants; they also bloom extraordinarily beautifully.

Deciduous shrubs

Barberry

Berberis L.

A genus of evergreen, semi-evergreen or deciduous shrubs, less often small trees with thin ridged, often thorny shoots. Leaves alternate, oval or elliptic.

Deciduous shrubs

Barberry × media 'Parkjuweel'

Berberis × media 'Parkjuweel'

A cultivar of Barberry × media. It is a hybrid of Berberis gagnepaini chenaultii, which belongs to hybrids of Berberis gagnepaini and Berberis verruculosa.

Flowers for the garden

Bare Astilbe

A. glaberrima

Perennial plant with a woody rhizome. Only 12 cm tall. Clump diameter about 15 cm, leaves with a bronze sheen. Flowers with pink blooms in June-July.

Flowers for the garden

Barlia

Barlia

Occurs in meadows or in open woodlands, predominantly in lowlands or on hills with dry or moderately moist alkaline soils. It grows throughout the Mediterranean, except for the southern Adriatic.

Indoor plants

Barlia

Barlia

The genus Barlia occupies a very isolated position within the orchid family. From a pair of underground tubers arises a robust stem up to 80 cm long