Hello from Sunlight Gardens, your premiermail order source for wildflowers, ferns, vines, perennials, and shrubs of eastern North America. We grow hardy, robust plants that will beautify your gardens and support a diversity of wildlife. We can help you succeed in this by providing you with solid information, a great selection, and high quality plants. Our plants grow! And rest assured that all our plants are entirely nursery propagated and are grown with sustainability in mind. Our web site is secure. You can order on-line or if you prefer, you can print an order form or use the one in our price list, and send us your order via snail mail. You can download our 2009 Price List or request that we mail one to you. Or you can download a pdf version of our 2007 descriptive catalog which has color photos and lengthy descriptions and landscape ideas for all our plants. Please read and enjoy! No shipping in August - too hot! July July gets hot and humid here in east Tennessee. We still get plenty of rain but the days become sultry and a cool reprieve is welcome. So imagine sitting on your cool, shady porch with, July’s featured plant, dutchmans pipevine, winding over the railing and snaking through the lattice work. In its native habitat, it would be half way up the trees in rich woods, and just about to flower. It has big heart-shaped leaves and small green/brown/yellow flowers shaped like old fashioned smoking pipes. This is also just about time for the pipevine swallowtail caterpillars to chow down on its leaves – a necessary step before becoming a beautiful butterfly. |
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Dutchmans Pipe Vine Dutchmans Pipe is a common vine in moist southern Appalachian hardwood forests in coves and along stream banks easily twining 20 to 30 feet high. It has been popular as a porch screen for ages because it is fast growing, has large heart shaped leaves, and has odd little flowers. The two inch pale brownish purple flowers are pipe shaped or s-shaped with a widely flaring triangular "mouth" perfect for catching careless flies. The curious looking early summer flowers are borne sparsely among the wide leaves. Try it on a trellis for screening or let it ramble among shrubs and trees. It likes good moist soil and can take either shade or sun. click here |
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| Good Companions for Dutchmans Pipevine | |
| Heuchera villosa 'Citronelle' | Citronelle Alumroot |
| Athyrium filix-femina | Lady Fern |
| Carex platyphylla | Sedge, Blue Satin |
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| Native Plants | Showy Berries & Fruits |
| Good Fragrance | Evergreen |
| Good Fall Color | Semi-Evergreen |
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Our 2009 Price List will be mailed soon Request a Price List by mail or download a .pdf Price List (2.8 megs) Our 2007 catalog is available as a .pdf. Catalog: SunlightGardens2007.pdf (7.9 megs) Order Form: SunlightGardensForm.pdf (80 k) Browse our catalog alphabetically by either the latin or the common name. Match plants with your conditions of soil, light, water and more click here to search All our plant descriptions include the temperature zones in which each will thrive. Look at our Hardiness Zone map to determine which zone number matches your location.
Are deer a problem? These plants are generally not tasty to deer. Drought Tolerant Just getting started? Try something easy to grow. Got a green thumb? Want a challenge? Try something difficult or tricky. Or try something not too hard. |
