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| Echinacea x 'Mac 'n' Cheese' |
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| Mac 'n' Cheese Coneflower |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Another great coneflower hybrid originating from Terra Nova Nursery, Mac n Cheese has soft orange/yellow flowers with large, golden cones and shortish, spreading, petals. Flowering stems are upright and well-branched. Plants grow to around 26" tall and 2' wide. As with all of the coneflowers, flowers start out intensely colored and fade over time. They want full sun, good drainage, and average to dry BASIC soil. The coneflower hybrids do not like acidic soils and winter moisture. Mid/late-summer, dry-growing, flowering companions could include other coneflowers, Butterfly Weed, Pink Muhly Grass, Coreopsis, Achillea, Russian Sage, Black-eyed Susans, and Blue Love Grass. Best planted in late spring through very early fall. Cat# 1547
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| Campsis x tagliabuana 'Mme Galen' |
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| Madame Galen Trumpet Creeper |
Zones: 6, 7, 8, 9
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This is a hybrid Trumpet Creeper between Campsis grandiflora and C. radicans. The flowers occur in clusters, are larger and longer than our native Trumpet Creeper, and are a rich salmon red color. This deciduous vine loves summer heat and sun, and is perfect for covering a sturdy trellis. It's flowering is awesome, and of course, hummingbirds love it. Cat# 1437
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| Maidenhair Fern |
Zones: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Maidenhair Fern has to be the most beautiful of all the eastern native ferns. Fronds (leaves) grow to about 2 feet in height with shiny black stems. The stems fork near the top into 2 semi-circles holding numerous soft green leaflets. The aspect of Maidenhair Fern is delicate and airy. Use it for its wonderful texture. The leaflets flutter in the slightest breeze thus suggesting coolness. Maidenhair Fern needs shade and rich, moist, but well-drained soil. It can take calcareous conditions and spreads moderately by creeping rhizomes. Cat# 1003
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| Lonicera sempervirens 'Major Wheeler' |
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| Major Wheeler Coral Honeysuckle |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Coral Honeysuckle is a woody vine native to open woods throughout eastern North America. It has long been popular for adorning mailboxes, lamp posts, fences, and trellises. Masses of flowers appear in clusters from spring through July or August then sporadically thereafter. ;;'Major Wheeler' has clusters of deep scarlet red, 2" long, tubular flowers with yellow insides. Big red berries persist in fall and early winter. It is loaded with flowers from late spring on into the fall. And it is highly mildew resistant, the semi-evergreen leaves looking good all season long.
Coral Honeysuckle is best in full sun and average soil, but would also do well in light shade. This vine is sure to attract hummingbirds and your neighbor's attention. In flower, it is extremely showy. Don't confuse this with the aggressive and obnoxious Japanese Honeysuckle vine. Coral Honeysuckle is very choice, and is not overly aggressive. Cat# 1549
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| Mapleleaf Viburnum |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Mapleleaf Viburnum is wide-ranging in eastern North America from Quebec and New Brunswick down to Florida as an understory shrub in acidic woods. Its form is an open, sometimes stoloniferous shrub growing to about 6 feet. Pie-shaped clusters of creamy white flowers appear in spring and are followed by showy blue berries in early fall. The leaves are shaped just like those of red maple and their fall color is equally as beautiful turning pastel pink and rose and salmon, sometimes almost luminescent. The ability of Mapleleaf Viburnum to grow in dry or moist shade and to provide outstanding fall color makes this a truly valuable plant for the shady landscape. Use it in the woods or at the wood's edge where it will blend in unobtrusively until fall when you will suddenly notice its beautiful soft glow. Cat# 1399
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| Marsh Marigold |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Marsh Marigold is a beautiful late spring bloomer for a sunny, moist area. Fifteen inch mounded clumps of bright green, succulent, wavy-edged, rounded leaves produce bright yellow, shiny, 1 inch flowers that look like buttercups, from late spring to early summer. Marsh Marigold needs rich soil that never gets dry. (If soil dries too much in the summer, the plant will go dormant.) It will thrive in a wet sunny area with Blue Flag Iris, Gentians,Turtlehead, and Cardinal Flower. Cat# 1361
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| Podophyllum peltatum |
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| Mayapple |
Zones: 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 6, 9
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Mayapple is a common wildflower of good woodland soil throughout the eastern two thirds of North America. In early spring, solitary stems poke up from the soil like thick fingers. These gradually lengthen and then unfurl exposing two 12" wide, umbrella-like, glossy green leaves, first drooping and protective, then held flat outright. Older plants will have a single large white nodding flower where the two leaf petioles fork. The flowers are hard to see beneath the leaves and are short-lived. Successful pollination results in red berries, the apple, in early summer. Then the plant heads back underground until next spring. But while it is up, mayapple will cover quite a bit of ground in time; it's leaves so dense and wide-spreading that it appears as a solid ground cover. Think of mayapple as a beautiful plant that is a ground cover and fills in while other plants are getting ready for their own displays. Plant it among shrubs such as spicebush, paw paw, or hydrangea, or with taller perennials like doll's eyes, cohosh, tall larkspur, or ostrich fern. Cat# 1605
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| Baptisia x 'Midnight' |
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| Midnight False Indigo |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 8, 7
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Dr. Ault at the Chicago Botanical Gardens has introduced yet another outstanding wild blue indigo in the Prairieblues series. This one, 'Midnight', has late spring/early summer, deep violet-blue, 2' inflorescences that are then followed by more flowers lower down on the plant effectively extending the bloom time to more than a month. Like our other baptisias, give 'Midnight' full sun and average to dry soil. It is very long lived and drought tolerant and will be a large, major player in your garden. Picture it with smooth phlox, stokesia 'Peachies Pick', and a white or yellow coneflower... Cat# 1590
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| Actaea pachypoda 'Misty Blue' |
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| Misty Blue Doll's Eyes, White Baneberry |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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'Misty Blue' baneberry is a selection of our native doll's eyes with soft, blue-green, finely cut foliage. Its puffy, white, spring flowers are followed in the fall by large white berries with dark spots on them (looking like doll's eyes) but the fruiting stems or pedicels are attractive reddish purple. Plants make a full 2' clump in several years and are long lived in good, moist soil and shade. 'Misty Blue' would look great in masses with wild ginger or foamflower and trilliums in front of it and something taller like bottlebrush buckeye or Florida anise tree or spicebush behind them. Cat# 1589
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| Phlox subulata |
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| Moss Phlox, Moss Pink |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Moss phlox is a prostrate, semi-evergreen native perennial that lives on dry, often rocky open slopes and clearings throughout much of eastern North America. In mid to late spring, showy 5-petaled flowers in colors ranging from white to shocking pink to pale blue (and all colors in between) will literally cover the foliage. Plants form mats of very linear, needle-like leaves. This profuse flowering display combined with its adaptability to difficult conditions has made moss phlox a very popular landscaping plant. There are few plants better for covering a sunny, dry bank, for cascading over a stonewall, or for edging. It wants good drainage and full sun except towards the southern end of its range where some protection from the hot afternoon sun would be welcome. Ours are mixed colors including bright rose, soft lavender, bluish, and very pale lavender. Cat# 1604
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| Mountain Mint |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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If you've ever driven on a country lane and noticed along the road banks, plants that look like their tops have been spray-painted, chances are it's Mountain Mint. Upright stems usually 2 to 4 feet tall are topped with hemispherical flower heads with the same configuration as Bee Balm. Flowers are in dense clusters of white suffused with green and pale pink spots. The white coloring extends down from the flowers including stems and leaves for 6 to 12 inches. Plants really do look like they've been painted. Mountain Mint will grow in full sun or light shade. It takes dry or moist conditions and grows locally on chert and red clay banks. Its leaves and stems are also extremely aromatic. Just watering plants in pots will fill a greenhouse with a fresh herbal-mint fragrance. For that reason you may want to use this plant where you or your pets might brush past it frequently. With its white upper parts on display for the latter third of the growing season, Mountain Mint is a curious plant, something a bit unusual for the woods' edge or border of a natural area. Cat# 1179
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