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.
Plants
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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…
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Dalmatian geranium
G. dalmaticum
The most graceful geranium from the limestone cliffs of the Balkans. Thanks to its creeping thin rhizomes it forms a low, up to 10-15 cm high, loose groundcover of rounded, delicately divided leaves on thin petioles.
Deciduous shrubs
Dammer's cotoneaster
Cotoneaster dammeri
A species of non-spiny evergreen shrubs in the genus Cotoneaster. A groundcover plant with dark green leathery leaves. They turn purple in autumn. Flowers are small, numerous, whitish-pink. Fruits are nearly spherical b…
Deciduous shrubs
Dammer's rooting cotoneaster
Cotoneaster dammeri var. radicans
A variety of non-spiny evergreen groundcover shrubs of the species Cotoneaster dammeri of the genus Cotoneaster (family Rosaceae). Leaves leathery, elliptic, dark green, lighter beneath
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Dark amaranth
A. hypochondriacus
A sparsely branched annual plant up to 150 cm tall. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, pointed, purple or greenish-purple. Inflorescences — erect, spike-like panicles with an elongated central portion, of various colors but more…
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Dark blood-red cinquefoil
Potentilla atrosanguinea Lodd.
Perennial plant up to 60 cm tall, with erect, branched, pubescent stems. Flowers glossy red up to 5 cm in diameter, borne in corymbose or paniculate inflorescences.
Deciduous shrubs
Dark red maple with dissected leaves
Acer palmatum «Dissectum Garnet»
A medium-sized shrub, 1–2 m high, 1–2 m wide; hemispherical; very slow-growing.
Deciduous trees
Dark red maple with dissected leaves
palmatum 'Dissectum Garnet'
Dark red maple with dissected leaves (palmatum 'Dissectum Garnet') - a brief description of the species on Your Garden
Flowers for the garden
Darmera or Peltiphyllum shieldleaf
Darmera
Perennial with a powerful, rather thick (4 - б cm in diameter) knobby rhizome located at the soil surface. Leaves are basal on sturdy thick petioles (up to 90 cm long), large, rounded, slightly notched at the edge, with…
Indoor plants
Date palm
Phoenix
Native to the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia and Africa, and the Canary Islands. The genus includes about 17 species
Flowers for the garden
Datura
Datura
Annual herbaceous plants 0.5—1 m high. Stem glabrous, erect, ternately and fork-branching. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, ovate-acuminate, up to 15 cm long, glabrous, dark green above, slightly lighter below.
Conifers
Daurian juniper
Juniperus davurica Pall
A prostrate shrub with ascending branches covered with gray, peeling bark. Shoots thin, four-angled.
Indoor plants
Davallia
Davallia
Several species are cultivated as houseplants, for example, Davallia dissecta, Davallia trichomanoides, Davallia truncatula, Davallia pentaphylla - all are epiphytic ferns with thick rhizomes spread over the surface of …
Flowers for the garden
David's astilbe
A. davidii
A tall perennial plant up to 150 cm high, with a broadly spreading habit. Leaves compound, twice- or thrice-pinnate, light green, wrinkled, with brown veins and petioles.
David's maple
Acer davidii
<p>Distribution. <br /> Native to Central China. In Russia it is present at the state farm "Southern Cultures" (Adler), where it grows well - in 15 years it reached a height of 6 m and was completely undamaged at frosts…
Deciduous trees
David's maple
Acer davidii
An unusual tree with large entire leaves, with ornamental orange-yellow and purple autumn foliage, and in winter with shiny green bark of the trunk and branches with narrow longitudinal white stripes. A deciduous tree u…
Deciduous shrubs
David's maple
Acer davidii Franch
David's maple (Davidii Franch) - a brief species description on Your Garden
Deciduous shrubs
David's viburnum
V. davidii
A dwarf evergreen shrub about 1 m tall, with horizontally growing, symmetrically arranged shoots. The crown is compact. Grows slowly.