Flowers for the garden
Wahlenbergia
Wahlenbergia
Perennial 8 cm high. Porcelain-blue flowers on short pedicels slightly rise above a carpet of dark green foliage.
Plants
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Flowers for the garden
Waldheimia
Waldheimia
Subshrub up to 10 cm high, with numerous generative and vegetative shoots strongly branched at the base, forming loose mats.
Flowers for the garden
Waldsteinia
Waldsteinia
These are low-growing creeping perennials that form dense mats. Leaves lobed (3-5 lobes). Flowers yellow or white.
Fruit trees
Walnut
Juglans
A genus of deciduous trees in the walnut family. Leaves pinnately compound with an odd number of leaflets, alternate, large. Flowers unisexual, wind-pollinated. Fruits – oblong or rounded syncarpous dry drupes.
Fruit trees
Walnut
J. regia L.
Walnut family. In the wild it grows in the mountainous regions of Central Asia, Transcaucasia, the southern part of the Balkan Peninsula, Iran, China, Korea and Japan.
Fruit trees
Walnut
Juglans regia
Tree - reaches 10-15 (20) m in height and 8-10 m in width, the trunk is fairly short, sometimes crooked, branches widely spreading, sometimes slightly pendulous, slow-growing 30-40 cm per year.
Deciduous shrubs
Warty Barberry
Verruculosa Hemsi
Very valuable and frost-hardy, reaching 1.50-2 m in height, an evergreen, slow-growing and densely growing shrub with sprawling curved branches.
Deciduous shrubs
Warty barberry
Berberis hookeri var. hookeri
A type of barberry from the genus Berberis. An evergreen shrub with arching, spiny shoots covered in warts. Leaves elliptical, dark green, with 2–4 spiny teeth. Flowers yellow, small. Fruits ovoid, purplish-black.
Deciduous trees
Warty birch or pendulous birch
Betula pendula Roth
Warty birch or pendulous birch (Betula pendula) is an attractive deciduous tree with a weeping crown and white bark. It tolerates air pollution well, making it suitable for plantings on city streets.
Indoor plants
Washingtonia
Washingtonia
Genus of the Palm family. An erect, single-stemmed, fast-growing palm with large fan-shaped leaves divided into segments. Inflorescences large, compound panicles. Fruits berry-like, black, oblong-ovoid.
Indoor plants
Washingtonia robusta
Washingtonia robusta H.Wendl.
A species of the genus Washingtonia in the palm family. An erect single-stemmed palm with a trunk that expands toward the base. A compact dense crown of fan-shaped dark green leaves is located at the top of the trunk.
Encyclopedia - Plants for ponds
Water Silkweed
Batrachium trichophyllum
Perennial rooting plant. Varies in height; with submerged fan-shaped dark green leaves finely divided into threadlike segments, in some species somewhat stiff, sticking together when removed from the water, in others no…
Encyclopedia - Plants for ponds
Water lily
Nymphaea
Water lily (Nymphaea). The water-lily family - Nymphaeaceae. Water lilies are perennial herbaceous aquatic plants.
Encyclopedia - Plants for ponds
Water mint
Mentha aquatica
This is a perennial herbaceous plant up to 90 cm tall. Stems are hairy, square in cross-section. Leaves are oval, 2–6 cm long and 1–4 cm wide, sometimes taking on a reddish tint. When crushed they emit a characteristic …
Encyclopedia - Plants for ponds
Water-plantain
Alísma
Members of the genus are perennial (rarely annual) herbaceous plants. The rhizome is very short and thick
Encyclopedia - Plants for ponds
Water-soldier
Stratiotes
A beautiful floating plant, attached by its roots to the bottom of a pond at a shallow depth for most of the time. Twice a year — during flowering in July and at the end of August, when daughter rosettes appear, it rise…
Encyclopedia - Plants for ponds
Watercress
Nasturtium (Rorippa)
Watercress is a fast-growing perennial aquatic or semi-aquatic plant of the Brassicaceae (cabbage) family, distributed from Europe to Central Asia. It has been used since ancient times as a leafy vegetable.
Flowers for the garden
Watsonia
Watsonia
Herbaceous cormous-bulbous plants with a simple or branched stem. Very similar to Gladiolus. They differ from it by their undivided stigma lobes,
Flowers for the garden
Watsonia iris-leaved
W. iridifolia Ker-Gawl
Stem up to 120 cm high, usually branched, bearing several leaves in a basal rosette. Leaves long, strap-shaped, 2-2.5 cm wide. Inflorescence dense, two-ranked, of 12-20 flowers
Encyclopedia - Plants for ponds
Wavy Aponogeton
Aponogeton stachysporus
Habitat - ponds, ditches, swamps. The rhizome is tuberous in form; translucent leaves with a patterned design and a narrowed tip reach 25 cm in length and 4 cm in width.
Herbs
Wavy Meadow-grass
Deschampsia flexuosa
Family: grasses. Native to Europe, Asia Minor, Japan, China, North America. Forms loose tufts. Stem 30-60 cm tall, thin, smooth; rhizome short and creeping.
Flowers for the garden
Wavy hosta
Нosta undulata (Otto et Dietr.) Bailey
A plant with oblong-ovate leaves up to 20 cm long and up to 13 cm wide, with entire margins, strongly wavy, and a white central area or with alternating white and green patches at the base
Herbs
Wavy uzara
Xysmalobium Undulatum R. Br.
Family Asclepiadaceae. Pharmacopoeial name: uzara root - Uzarae radix (formerly: Radix Uzarae).
Deciduous shrubs
Wax myrtle
Myrica
A genus of plants in the family Myricaceae. Evergreen, less often deciduous shrubs or trees with a globular, dense crown. Leaves alternate, growing spirally, dark green, with resinous golden or whitish glandular dots.