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This is our selection of plants that can stand some cold. Some will only resist to cool weather and light frost, but some others will take hard frost in colder climates. They are all very different but they deserve to be tried because all these tropical-looking plants have non tropical requirements. They will surely thrive outdoors in coastal Mediterranean climates or in a mildly heated greenhouse where frost does not occur.
Semi-evergreen shrub with deep green foliage and long bloom time. This "Glossy abelia" has abundant lavender pink flowers and showy red calyces . Highly fragrant! The leaves retain the reddish foliage all summer long. Frost tolerant, while evergreen in frost free climates.
Frost-hardy exotic-looking shrub with showy pendulous flowers reminiscent of chinese lanterns.
Old classic cultivar with pointed copper leaves with creamy margin. This cultivar is hardier than others to cold and grows at cooler temperatures. These tropical garden shrubs can be pruned and grown in pots.
This cultivar bears oval fruits, about 3cm long, with a reddish-brown color when exposed to sunlight, very tasty and with edible skin, ripen in early October. Considered the best cultivar for commercial cultivation, since it’s one of the most prolific cultivars of hardy kiwis
This climber from the Kiwi family has everything to like! In the spring, its perfumed flowering will aromatize your garden.
A male baby kiwi and an excellent pollinator for female varieties. Fast-growing, it flowers from April to June, with one of the best foliage of the species.
This is the only self fertile cultivar of Kiwi around, so it does need the existance of a male and a female plant! Jenny is a mostly-female fuzzy kiwi, bearing fruits with with nice shape, sweetness and flavour. Kiwi vines can become rather large and many people with small plots, will enjoy keeping just one and not two of them.
Frost-hardy Aechmea with blue-tipped green leaves, from the outskirts of a city named Blumenau, in the cool, wet South of Brazil. Spikes of yellow flowers are followed by colourful fruits, lasting months. It can take -7 C (20 F). This is the TRUE blumenavii, not the many mislabelled specimens in the trade.
Cold-hardy Aechmea found in Bolivia to NE. Argentina. It is a large, spiny plant 50-80 cm tall, producing long-lasting colourful inflorescences in Spring. Great in gardens or in tall pots. Hardy to about -6 C.
New cold-hardy hybrid with spectacular colours. Leaves are golden to bronze, orange and dark green, the inflorescence is long-lasting.
First time offering of a new clone of Aechmea nudicaulis collected on the hills above Blumenau in Southern Brazil. Small sized, compact, with colourful speckled leaves with rounded tips.
Aechmea ornata is hardy to some good frost, to at least -7 C. This variety Hoehneana has minor differences in the inflorescence but our plants are truly dwarf, with a mottled pale green colour, often with a pink hue on the tips.
This variegated clone is just as frost hardy as the wild species but its colour pattern is hypnotic! It is full of perfect yellow stripes, often wider at the center of each leaf. It is a supreme ornamental that can't be missed in any tropical garden far from the tropics, said to be hardy to at least -7 C.
Very squat, compact form of the super hardy Aechmea ornata. Rosettes are wider than tall. Furthermore their colour is quite attractive, with a mottled pale green colour, often with a pink hue on the tips.
Mid-sized plant with yellow flowers. Native to a small area of coastal forest in cooler So.Brazil, it is a tough sun-loving plant that grows well in open and exposed sites. Use in trees or stumps as an epiphyte or on rocks.
This is the smallest variety of a widely grown frost-hardy bromeliad. When blooming the upper part of the plant turns bright pink for 2-3 months. This easy growing beauty is endemic to Santa Catalina, in SE Brazil. Cold hardy to at least - 8 C.
Attractive hardy bromeliad with golden-green leaves and brown-black spines. Aechmea triangularis flowers in late spring, with red bracts and blue flowers. It tolerates frost - some growers say it can take down to - 6 C (21 F).
Impressive frost-hardy variegated hybrid. It is a solid, perfect, showy monster that will be a tropical conversation-piece in any non-tropical garden. It was developed by crossing Aechmea distichantha schlumbergeri x A. caudata melanocrater.
Frost-resistant hybrid, developed for non-tropical growers. It is descendant of the frost hardy Aechmea distichantha, crossed with Aechmea phanerophlebia. 'Rambo' builds a swollen monster rosette, of lime-green leaves armed with black spines. The pink inflorescence comes up from the top of the closed rosette.
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