Plants

Flowering shrubs

Carpenteria

Carpenteria

A perennial, evergreen shrub or small tree reaching about 3 m in height. Crown spherical; trunk and older branches are covered with easily peeling bark.

Deciduous shrubs

Carpet berry

Shallon

Carpet berry (Shallon) - a brief description of the species on Your Garden

Deciduous shrubs

Carpet dogwood

Сotoneaster ‘Adpressus Bois’

A groundcover shrub, 10–20 cm tall. Leaves whorled, ovate

Flowers for the garden

Carpet rose 'Alba Meidiland'

Alba Meidiland

Carpet rose 'Alba Meidiland' (Alba Meidiland) - a brief description for Your Garden

Flowering shrubs

Caryopteris

Caryopteris

Herbaceous plants or small shrubs up to 1-4 m tall. Leaves opposite, simple, oval or lanceolate, toothed at the margin, aromatic. Flowers blue or white.

Indoor plants

Caryota

Caryota

Caryota mitis - or the "fishtail" palm, is distinguished by its characteristic leaf structure - the leaf has somewhat torn-looking edges and is drooping, which makes it resemble a fish tail.

Flowering shrubs

Cassiope

Cassiope

Low-growing evergreen creeping subshrubs 10—25 cm high. Stems thin, creeping, branched. Leaves small, scale-like, lanceolate, very tightly clasping the stem.

Flowers for the garden

Castor bean

Ricinus

An evergreen shrub up to 10 m tall. Under cultivation in temperate climate countries (Europe) it is an annual plant up to 2–3 m tall. Stems erect, branched, hollow inside, pink, red, purple or almost black in color, cov…

Deciduous trees

Catalpa

Catalpa Scop.

Deciduous, less often evergreen trees with a low, airy, broadly rounded, very spreading, less often pyramidal crown. Leaves arranged oppositely

Deciduous trees

Catalpa bignonioides 'Nana'

Catalpa bignonioides “Nana”

Very slow-growing, small, compact tree with a rounded crown, 4-6 m high.

Deciduous trees

Catalpa bignonioides “Aurea”

Catalpa bignonioides “Aurea”

Catalpa bignonioides “Aurea” - a small tree with a rounded crown, 6-10 m tall, 5-8 m wide, very slow-growing.

Indoor plants

Catharanthus

Catharanthus

Native to humid tropical forests, primarily the island of Madagascar. Only five species of this attractively flowering plant occur in nature. In cultivation the species Catharanthus roseus (pink catharanthus or pink per…

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Cattail

Typha

Monoecious perennial aquatic or marsh herbs 2 to 4 m high, with long thick creeping rhizomes.

Indoor plants

Cattleya

Cattleya

Cattleyas are epiphytic plants with a pronounced above-ground rhizome. In the wild there are about 70 species, and the various hybrids produced by biologists from interspecific crosses, as well as crosses with orchids o…

Flowers for the garden

Caucasian Ophrys

Ophrys caucasica

A plant 20–35 cm tall with a nearly globose tuber. Leaves in the lower half of the stem, oblong-lanceolate, 6–8.5 cm long and up to 2.5 cm wide. Inflorescence sparse, of 4–10 flowers.

Flowers for the garden

Caucasian dictamnus

Dictamnus caucasicus Fisch

A plant up to 80 cm tall with large odd-pinnate, dark green leaves, whose oblong-lanceolate leaflets are hairy.

Deciduous trees

Caucasian hornbeam

С. caucasica Grossh.

A tree up to 30–35 m tall. After severe freezing in the winter of 1978/79 they grow in a bushy form, height 7.1 m, crown diameter 420 cm. Vegetation period from early May to early October.

Conifers

Caucasian ivy

Colchica К. Koch

Caucasian ivy (Colchica К. Koch) - a brief description of the species on Your Garden

Deciduous trees

Caucasian oak

Turneri 'Pseudoturneri'

Caucasian oak (Turneri 'Pseudoturneri') - a brief description of the species on Your Garden

Flowering shrubs

Ceanothus or Red Root

Ceanothus

Deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees. Stems twig-like, non-spiny, less often spiny. Leaves alternate or opposite, 1—5 cm long, mostly petiolate.

Conifers

Cedar

Cedrus

A genus of coniferous trees in the family Pinaceae. Members of the genus are evergreen trees with a spreading crown. Needles 3-4-angled, prickly, from dark to blue-green. Cones erect, solitary, barrel-shaped or elongate…

Conifers

Cedar of Lebanon

Cedrus libani

Cedar of Lebanon (Libani) - a brief species description on Your Garden

Flowers for the garden

Celandine

Chelidónium

Celandine, or wartweed, is a monotypic genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the poppy family (Papaveraceae). According to current understanding, the sole species of the genus

Flowers for the garden

Celosia

Celosia L.

Name: derived from the Greek word 'kelcos' - burning, flaming, and related to the coloration of the leaves and flowers.