Two New Bamboos

Bought last Wednesday 

at 

Stams Bamboo Nursery Ltd.

Ballinwillin, Lismore, 
Co. Waterford, Ireland

Fargesia rufa

Thamnocalamus crassinodus ‘Kew Beauty’

Photographs © Hans van den Bos, Ireland

New Ferns

Bought yesterday 

at 

Shady Plants Fern Nursery

Clashmore, Co. Waterford, Ireland

Arachniodes standishii - Arachniodes davalliaeformis - Athyrium filix-femina 'Minutissimum' - Athyrium angustata 'Lady in Red' - Athyrium 'Ghost' - Athyrium 'Branford rambler' - Dryopteris erythrosora 'Prolifica' - Matteuccia struthioopteris - Pentarhizidium orientale

Photograph © Hans van den Bos, Ireland

Warm August afternoon in Hortus Godotii

Photograph © Hans van den Bos, Ireland

For the first time in flower

Lilium 'Rialto'

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Hortus Godotii 2016 - 2017

Photographs & Video

Hans van den Bos

Three new grasses

Anemanthele lessoniana

Carex comans 'Frosted Curls'

Calamagrostis brachytricha

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Flowers of one of the most beautiful rhododendrons

Rhododendron 'Marie Fortie'

Marie Fortie bears unusual coloured flowers that are dark red /purple, funnel shaped, grouped in bunches with a deep purple spot in the throat, something not seen in rhododendrons. It is a medium sized evergreen rhododendron with a broad upright bushy shape flowering from May to June. Ultimate height and spread 2m x 4m in 10-20 years.  

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New in the Hosta collection

Hosta 'Big Daddy'

Hosta sieboldiana 'Frances Williams'

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Two New Azaleas

Rhododendron japonicum 'Geisha Red'

[Michico]

Rhododendron japonicum 'Geisha White'

[Hisako]

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New / Nieuw / Nouveau / Neu

Helleborus 'Double Anna White'

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Tulips in Godotii

Tulipa 'Spring Green'

Tulipa 'Queen of the Night'

Tulipa 'Flaming Parrot'

Tulipa greigii 'Rotkäppchen'

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Polystichum munitum

New in Hortus Godotii

The Western sword fern is an evergreen fern native to western North America, where it is one of the most abundant ferns.
Height 1.5 meter

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Ferns in spring

Asplenium scolopendrium

Polystichum polyblepharum 'Jade'

Dryopteris filix-mas

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New plants - Spring 2017

Epimedium 'Akebono'

Dicentra spectabilis

Heuchera 'September Morn'

Tulipa 'Spring Green'

Photographs © Hans van den Bos, Ireland