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| Sarcococca hookeriana var. humilis |
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| Sarcococca, Sweetbox |
Zones: 6, 7, 8, 9
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Native to the western Himalayas, Sarcococca is a great little evergreen, slowly spreading shrub for rich organic soil and shade. The shrub has shiny, pointed, 3" long leaves that are medium to dark green and look good all year long. A ground cover of Sarcococca looks neat and uniform. But in late winter and early spring, many small white flowers produce the sweetest fragrance, that pretty much require you to plant this near a shady entrance to your house. And these are then followed by attractive purple-black berries. We can't really say enough good things about Sarcococca. Cat# 1474
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Available: 2009 or later
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| Clematis texensis 'Odoriba' |
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| Scarlet Clematis |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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'Odoriba' is a hybrid between two natives, Clematis crispa and C. viorna which are both closely related to C. texensis. Valued for its long and profuse flowering, it is easy to grow in full sun or light shade and good soil. It has nodding, bell-shaped, deep rose, _ inch flowers that open to reveal white insides. Bloom time is mid-summer and vines can get to 9 feet long. Blooms form on the current/new growth so plants should be pruned in late winter or early spring to two strong sets of buds on each stem. 'Odoriba' would look fantastic growing with Summersweet, Phlox David, Sunrise Coneflower, Russian Sage, and Apple Blossom Achillea. 'Odoriba' also makes a great cut flower. Cat# 1484
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| Clematis texensis 'Gravetye Beauty' |
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| Scarlet Clematis, Gravetye Beauty |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Clematis texensis is a wild species with bright red flowers that is native to several counties in Texas. It is unfortunately very difficult to propagate the species, but since the late 1800's breeders have been successful making many interspecific hybrids with small, brightly colored, tulip-shaped flowers that are great garden plants. 'Gravetye Beauty' has open star-shaped, 3 inch, rich ruby-red flowers. Bloom time is mid-summer and vines can get 8 to 12 feet long. It is easy to grow in full sun or light shade and good soil. Blooms form on the current/new growth so plants should be pruned in late winter or early spring to two strong sets of buds on each stem. Gravetye Beauty would look fantastic growing with Summersweet, Phlox David, Sunrise Coneflower, Russian Sage, and Terra Cotta Achillea. 'Gravetye Beauty' also makes a great cut flower. Cat# 1483
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| Scarlet Rose Mallow |
Zones: 6, 7, 8, 9
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If you need a big plant for a moist or wet spot in full sun, in the warm south, this one may be for you. Growing naturally in swamps and wet areas of the southeast, Scarlet Rose Mallow grows to 6 feet and has 3-5" bright scarlet flowers from mid-summer to fall that are irresistible to hummingbirds. Chop the old stems down to the ground each winter to keep it rejuvenated. Cat# 1468
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| Scouring Rush, Horsetails |
Zones: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Scouring Rush has stiff, upright, leafless stems to 4 feet tall which resemble green bamboo shoots with dark bands at the nodes or joints. It is equally at home in sun or light shade and in moist or dry soil although it will really take off in damp places. We do not recommend its use in a garden situation because of its aggressive tendencies, but rather in natural areas where it can travel at will and where its stiff, reed-like appearance will enhance texture and line diversity. It is evergreen and perennial and being a fern ally, has no flowers. However, its attractive stems are commonly used in Japanese flower arrangements. Cat# 1088
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Available: 2009 or later
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| Seashore Mallow |
Zones: 6, 7, 8, 9
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Seashore Mallow is a perennial with several stout stems arising from the crown. Very pretty 2-inch pink flowers similar to those of Hibiscus terminate the 4- to 6-foot stems. Flowering is from July to October. Give Seashore Mallow full sun, well drained soil and room to spread. At the rear of the perennial garden or as the backdrop for other lower plants, Seashore Mallow is very effective with its bright pink flowers coming during the season when yellows predominate. Combine with Asters, Sunflowers, Goldenrods, Ironweed, and Lobelias. Cat# 1129
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Available: 2009 or later
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| Seaside Goldenrod |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Flower stems erect, to 5 feet, topped by a club-like inflorescence from late summer to frost. Flowers are a rich, clear yellow and leaves are bright kelly green. Withstands brackish water, salt spray,a nd drought. Cat# 1283
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Available: 2009 or later
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| Sedge, Blue Satin |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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If you want a clumping evergreen plant for shade that has a bold countenance and blue-green leaves and you don't want Hosta, then here's your answer. Blue Satin Sedge is a wonderful sedge (resembles grass) with smooth, pointed, powder blue leaves 1 inch wide by 12 inches long. Grown for its gorgeous foliage (flowers insignificant), it is a fairly slowly expanding clumper for shade and good soil. Imagine it with the shiny greens of Asarum, or the maroon of Purple Alumroot, or the glaucous blue of Dicentra 'King of Hearts'. It grows naturally in rich woods of the east where it is fairly rare. Clip off old leaves in the spring when new growth emerges. Cat# 1331
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Available: 2009 or later
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| Sedge, Seersucker |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Seersucker Sedge makes a great texture plant for moist shady places. Slowly expanding, evergreen clumps are composed of strap-shaped, puckered, shiny, bright green leaves up to 1 inch wide and 15 inches long. The effect is one of a really wide-leaved, wrinkled grass. Non-showy late spring flowers appear on thin, black-tipped stems. The species occurs in rich woods from Minnesota to Maine and south to Alabama and Georgia where it is rare throughout its range but may be locally abundant.;;Give this plant good soil and some shade and use it with other plants of similar needs: ferns, Bleeding Hearts, Foamflowers, Phlox, etc. Clip off old leaves in the spring when new growth emerges. Cat# 1330
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Available: 2009 or later
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| Sensitive Fern |
Zones: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Sensitive Fern has fronds that are broadly triangular with lobed leaflets. The fertile fronds are very different from the sterile fronds, forming what look like stiff, upright elongated clusters of dry beads. The fern gets its name because the yellow fall fronds shrivel and turn brown after the first good frost. Sensitive Fern grows naturally over a very wide range - from Labrador to Florida, in damp places. Give it a damp, lightly shaded spot and it will easily thrive for you, naturalizing by creeping rhizomes into an attractive deciduous ground cover about 2 feet tall. It would be lovely growing as a ground cover with Spicebush and Sweet Pepperbush. Cat# 1152
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Available: 2009 or later
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| Leucanthemum xsuperbum 'Becky' |
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| Shasta Daisy - Becky |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Here is a great Shasta Daisy. In fact was the Perennial Plant Association's Plant of the Year for 2003. And it's great because; it's beautiful, growing up to 3 feet tall with 4-5 inch flower heads, it flowers from summer to fall if deadheaded occasionally, the flower stalks stand up in hard summer rains, it is great for northern as well as southern gardeners, and the flowers make great cut flowers. Give it full sun and average soil and let this long-lived evergreen perennial brighten up your garden. Remember, white and gray are two colors that best bridge two opposing colors. Cat# 1333
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Available: 2009 or later
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| Shenandoah Switch Grass |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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'Shenandoah' is considered to have the best red coloring of all the switch grasses. This one starts out red in June, by mid-summer it looks like Bloodgrass, and in fall, it is a rich burgundy. Given full sun and average soil, it is a slow grower reaching up to 4 feet. Pink Boltonia, Smooth Aster, and Seashore Mallow would be great with it. Cat# 1273
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Available: 2009 or later
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| Shooting Stars |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Wide-ranging in the eastern United States west to Minnesota, Nebraska, and Texas, Shooting Star is a beautiful ephemeral wild flower of rocky, wooded slopes, bluffs, meadows, and prairies. Clusters of flowers, which smell faintly of grape juice, atop one foot stalks appear in mid to late spring above rosettes of bright green leaves resembling smooth, fleshy, leaf lettuce. The white, pink, or magenta petals are reflexed backwards like Cyclamen flowers, with yellow anthers pointing forward, giving the impressing of little stars shooting toward the earth. Flowering lasts for several weeks then gradually the leaves yellow and the plant goes dormant until the next spring. Shooting Stars like partial shade but will tolerate more or less, and moist but well drained slightly alkaline soil. They like moisture in the spring while in active growth and then drier conditions during the summer and fall. Too much moisture then, and they will rot. Although a little slow to get to any size, once established Shooting Stars are long-lived and will naturalize freely. In masses, they are stunning. Try them with Stonecrop, Devils Bit, blue wood sedge, Eared Coreopsis, or Columbine. The eastern type has white flowers and the western type has pink or magenta flowers. Cat# 1362
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| Shooting Stars |
Zones: Dodecatheon meadia, 4, 5, 6,
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Wide-ranging in the eastern United States west to Minnesota, Nebraska, and Texas, Shooting Star is a beautiful ephemeral wild flower of rocky, wooded slopes, bluffs, meadows, and prairies. Clusters of flowers, which smell faintly of grape juice, atop one foot stalks appear in mid to late spring above rosettes of bright green leaves resembling smooth, fleshy, leaf lettuce. The white, pink, or magenta petals are reflexed backwards like Cyclamen flowers, with yellow anthers pointing forward, giving the impressing of little stars shooting toward the earth. Flowering lasts for several weeks then gradually the leaves yellow and the plant goes dormant until the next spring. Shooting Stars like partial shade but will tolerate more or less, and moist but well drained slightly alkaline soil. They like moisture in the spring while in active growth and then dry conditions during the summer and fall. Too much moisture then and they will rot. Although a little slow to get to any size, once established Shooting Stars are long-lived and will naturalize freely. In masses, they are stunning. Try them with Stonecrop, Birds Foot Violet, Eared Coreopsis, or Columbine. The western type has pink or magenta flowers and ours are a deep magenta. The eastern type has white flowers. Cat# 1340
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| Showy Evening Primrose |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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All summer long, from Illinois to Virginia and south, if you think you are seeing pieces of pink tissue paper in fields and along roadsides, you may be seeing the flowers of Showy Evening Primrose. The 2 inch, 4 petaled, day-blooming flowers are soft pink (occasionally white) with bright yellow centers. Grow this tough plant in full sun and average soil where it will form 2 foot clumps. A natural for meadow planting or a difficult area where spreading is desired. Cat# 1150
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| Shrubby St. Johnswort |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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This St. Johnswort is a widely occurring shrub found throughout the eastern United States in dryish, rocky, sometimes calcareous soils. It forms densely branched mounds 2 to 4 feet tall and wide. Leaves are narrow, long, blue-green, and fall off in the fall with no additional color. Bright yellow, puffy, 1 inch flowers occur all summer long. Shrubby St. Johnswort will tolerate fairly poor but well-drained soils in full sun or light shade. It would be very effective as a hedge (trim in winter or early spring as flowering occurs on new growth) or where long term summer color is needed in a difficult bright spot. An added benefit is the dried fruit capsules which are shiney, dark brown and oval-pointed. They are produced in profusion and are effective from September to March. This Hypericum is very useful and definitely under-used. Cat# 1119
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Available: 2009 or later
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| Sideoats Grama |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Sideoats Grama forms neat 2 foot tufts of grass that gradually spread by means of underground rhizomes. The mid-summer flowers are truly beautiful-small spots of bright purple and orange, one-sided along stiff stems. Native to central and southern states, Sideoats Grama likes dry sunny places and would look great with Asters, Coneflowers, Baptisias, Achillea, Butterfly Weed, Sunflowers, and Sumac. Clumps turn an attractive beige for the winter. Cat# 1040
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| Heuchera americana 'Silver Scrolls' |
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| Silver Scrolls Alumroot |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Metallic silver with intricate dark venation absolutely luminescent in shade. Twenty-four inch wands of showy white-pink tinged flowers in spring. Bronze medal winner in Holland Cat# 1372
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| Sorghastrum nutans 'Sioux Blue' |
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| Sioux Blue Indian Grass |
Zones: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Indian Grass is a stiff, upright, clump forming grass which ranges throughout eastern North America in dry places. 'Sioux Blue,' a Longwood Gardens selection, is a 6 foot tall, very erect form with powder blue leaves and copper-brown, fairly compact flower spikes. Use it in dry sunny places in masses or let it naturalize in a prairie setting. The blue of its foliage would be stunning with fall Asters, Sunflowers, and Seashore Mallow. Cat# 1207
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Available: 2009 or later
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| Clethra alnifolia 'Sixteen Candles' |
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| Sixteen Candles Summersweet |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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'Sixteen Candles' is a dwarf Summersweet growing to about 3 feet by 3 feet. It is very compact and floriferous. It differs from 'Hummingbird' in that its flower stalks are held stiffly upright, they do not spread out or dip. It prefers full sun and some moisture. Fragrance is heavenly in mid to late summer and fall color is a good yellow. Cat# 1299
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| Skullcap, Heartleaf |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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From shale barrens in the mountains of West Virginia, comes the Heartleaf Skullcap. Forming 2-foot mounds of blue-green and green, 1 1/2 inch crinkly, heart-shaped leaves, Skullcap has mid-summer flowers, which resemble blue-lavender snapdragons, on 2 to 6 inch stems. This showy Skullcap spreads by small, thickened, underground runners, and needs excellent drainage, dry, gritty soil, and part shade. It frequently goes dormant after flowering in mid-summer thereby avoiding summer-time stresses. Other plants preferring the same conditions are Conradina, Pussytoes, Dwarf Iris, Birdsfoot Violet, and Glade Savory. Cat# 1389
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| Smooth Aster |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Smooth Aster is a favorite of ours because of its soft blue flowers and attractive glaucous, blue-green foliage. It forms stiffly arching stems to 4 feet tall that are covered with loose open heads of 1 inch, violet-blue-with-yellow flowers from late summer into fall. The foliage is smooth, low clumping, and is very disease resistant. This is a very easy aster for average soil in full sun. It would be a knock-out with Boltonia, Little Bluestem, Seashore Mallow, and Hairy Sunflower. Cat# 1024
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| Smooth Beardtongue |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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Smooth Beardtongue is widely occurring east of the Mississippi River from Michigan to Maine and south to Georgia and Alabama in roadside meadows, woodland margins, moist to dry woods, and even alkaline rocky slopes. It's habitat is quite varied. Very showy late spring-early summer flowers are pale purplish-pink, snapdragon-like and on 2 to 4 foot tall spikes. This is a good plant for naturalizing in moist to dryish places in part shade in neutral to basic soil as it has a tap root that will help it deal with drought. Cat# 1450
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| Smooth Phlox |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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A beautiful upright growing phlox of average to moist soils in full sun or part shade, the Smooth Phlox has late spring to early summer flowers of bright rose pink on stems up to 3 feet tall. Cut back after flowering for repeat bloom. Leaves are glossy, dark green, long and narrow, and plants form a gradually enlarging clump. It might look great with Blue Flag Iris and Blue Wild Indigo. Cat# 1169
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| Smooth White Beard-Tongue |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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The Beard-tongues that are native to the eastern United States, are primarily rock outcrop species. They seem to thrive on thin soil, good drainage, and open shade or full sun. Penstemon digitalis is the only one that will tolerate dampness year round. While technically classified as perennials, we've found that excessive soil richness may result in a short life for a Penstemon. They receive their common name of Beard-tongue because of the tuft of yellow hairs just outside of the throats of the flowers which resemble delicate Snapdragons. Smooth Beard-tongue grows 2- to 4-feet tall with loose clusters of white-with-purple-lined flowers in early summer. It does well in full sun or light shade where there may be a drainage problem. Although it likes having soggy feet, it doesn't resent occasional droughts. Plants form evergreen clumps. Cat# 1160
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| Snowdrop Anemone |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Picture your woods in spring with drifts of pink Phlox, blue Phlox, yellow Poppies, and white fragrant Snowdrop Anemones. The dainty 11/2 inch nodding Buttercup shaped flowers are solitary on 10 to 18 inch stems over clumps of deeply lobed leaves. Flowers are then followed by interesting white woolly fruits. This Anemone loves partial shade and good rich soil where it will spread strongly. It is great for naturalizing. Cat# 1011
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| Polygonatum multiflorum 'Variegatum' |
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| Solomon's Seal, Variegated |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Polygonatum multiflorum is the European Solomon's Seal and 'variegatum' is a variety which has beautiful green leaves that are streaked with white and pale green, and which have narrow white margins. Its graceful 2 foot tall stems are unbranched and have pairs of oval leaves and clusters of small, pendulous, tubular white flowers. Flowering is in late spring for a few weeks. Solomon's Seal likes bright shade and cool, moist, good soil where it will spread forming nice drifts. It will tolerate drier sites but will not spread quickly. Variegated Solomon's Seal would make an excellent addition to any woodland garden. Cat# 1352
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| Solomons Seal |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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Solomon's Seal is a common wildflower of moist, eastern woods. Its arching stems, paired leaves held parallel to the ground, and bell-shaped, white, pendant flowers are well known. The mature stems can arch up to 6 feet in height although 3 feet is more likely. Plants spread slowly and increase by means of knotty rhizomes. (Polygonatum comes from poly-gonu meaning many knee joints). A mature clump can be quite handsome and elegant. Use this plant where you can appreciate the pretty flowers and blue berries and where its bold architectural qualities are needed. Flowering is in late spring, fruiting is in late summer, and plants turn brownish-yellow before disappearing for winter. Cat# 1310
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| Sourwood, Lily of the Valley Tree |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Watch out Dogwoods, 'cause Sourwoods are going to give you a run for your money! Why? Sourwoods are medium sized trees growing 25 to 30 feet tall in cultivation with a pronounced conical shape. They are long-lived, slow growers in acidic, well-drained, organic soils in sun or shade. Leaves are long-pointed and rich shiny green but come fall, the foliage turns red, yellow, or purple but mostly deep burgundy with some shocking pink. This goes on for 2 or more months. And the flowers start appearing in mid-summer amongst the dark green leaves. Four to 10 inch long, drooping clusters of tiny, bell-shaped, white flowers become so plentiful that they weigh down the branches so the upper third of the tree looks like it has been strung with garlands of white popcorn. Flowering persists on into the fall and looks lovely against the dark red foliage. Do you think we like Sourwood? Sourwood should be used as a specimen tree in full sun where its colors will really develop. Cat# 1416
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Available: 2009 or later
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| Southern Bush-Honeysuckle |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Southern Bush-honeysuckle is a rare native deciduous shrub growing 4 to 6 feet in height and spread. Small yellow tubular flowers appear in late summer. Foliage is a glossy, dark green. The species likes full sun to part shade and good drainage. Southern Bush-honeysuckle is very tough, withstanding cold, wind, poor soil, and drought. It is extremely valuable as an attractive fast-growing shrub for sunny steep banks where other plants do not do well. It will spread by underground rhizomes and can be pruned in early spring to keep growth lower. Do not confuse this choice species with the common wild honeysuckle bush, Lonicera tartarica, or the Japanese honeysuckle vine, Lonicera japonica, that have escaped and invaded woods throughout the east. Cat# 1078
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| Sparkleberry Holly |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Introduced by the National Arboretum, Sparkleberry is a showy deciduous holly hybrid between Ilex verticillata or Winterberry and I. serrata. Unlike typical hollies that have thick evergreen foliage, Sparkleberry's leaves turn yellow in the fall and then fall off. But it is the spectacular berries that create such a show. Masses of 3/8 inch bright red berries persist into late winter creating quite a display in the winter landscape. Sparkleberry looks great planted in large groups or in front of evergreens. Shrubs are distinctly upright growing to 10 feet or so and like wet to average soil in sun or light shade. Male and female plants are required in order to produce berries and the perfect male to pollinate Sparkleberry is 'Apollo'. Cat# 1120
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| Spicebush |
Zones: 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 6
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A common shrub in moist eastern woods, Spicebush seems to blend in with the scenery except when its greensih yellow flowers are open in mid-spring and when its fruits are ripe in the early fall looking like shiny, brilliant crimson coffee beans. This plant will grow in full shade where it may reach 10 or more feet with an open branching habit or in full sun where it would be shorter and more compact. In either case, it likes good moist soil. Fall color is yellow in full sun. Spicebush is the host plant for the larval stage of the Spicebush Swallowtail butterfly. So in summer we eagerly look for cocoons wrapped within rolled leaves knowing that shortly, beautiful butterflies, (black with yellow and blue) will emerge. (Both male and female plants are required to produce berries on female plants. Since our plants are seed grown, we do not know if they will be male or female.) Cat# 1136
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| Spiderwort, Osprey |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Osprey Spiderwort is a perennial resembling the houseplant Wandering Jew. Clumps of grassy, strap-like leaves grow to 2 to 3 feet and are topped by clusters of large white flowers with feathery blue stamens during early- to mid-summer. The 1-inch, 3-petaled, triangular flowers open in the morning and dissolve away in the afternoon leaving no mess. Spiderwort can take full sun or partial shade in average soil. It will grow rampantly in moist soil and tolerates anything except drought. After flowering the foliage may sprawl and look untidy, at which time you might cut it down to the ground to rejuvenate it. We like Spiderwort with Sundrops and White Beard-tongue. Cat# 1397
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Available: Currently
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| Spreading Hydrangea |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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In our area, on nearly every north-facing, rocky slope with good, rich soil, in early to midsummer, you're just about guaranteed to find Spreading Hydrangea quietly flowering. The 4- to 12-inch flower clusters resemble pie plates composed of many small creamy white florets. In typical Hydrangea fashion, the sterile florets are the showier, larger ones, but the whole effect is subtle and soft. Flowers are borne on widely arching stems 2 to 5 feet long, with large oval or heart-shaped leaves. The stems are stout and attractive when they begin peeling leaving gray and brown streaks. Spreading Hydrangea is a deciduous shrub that is a fast grower for shade and good soil. It is suitable for covering large natural areas where it may spread by underground stolons. Since it flowers on new wood, any pruning (which is a good idea every other year) should be done any time after flowering up until early spring. Cat# 1115
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Photo courtesy of Missouri Botanical PlantFinder
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Available: Currently
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| Spreading Liatris |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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The Spreading Liatris grows naturally in rocky or sandy, rather dry, barren, open woods, a habitat quite different from other Liatris. It has a basal clump of gray-green leaves, sparsely produced, from which rise 2- to 31/2- foot flower spikes. The individual flower heads are quite large, an inch or more in width, and are spaced 1 to 2 inches apart on the stalk from August into October. In bud the flowers are a beautiful bright rose opening into lavender-purple. This Liatris is useful for its late blooming time and for its ability to grow in poor soil in light shade or full sun. Cat# 1135
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Available: Currently
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| Spring Beauty |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Spring Beauty is a common wildflower in rich woods throughout eastern North America. We see it blanketing acres and acres of good, damp woods. In our area, it even becomes established in average-to-damp sunny lawns. The small, white, 5-petaled, pink-striped flowers seem to come from nowhere in early to mid spring as the linear leaves are easily lost among the forest leaves or lawn grasses. A single corm (root stock) may have dozens of flowers that wave cheerfully in the cool spring breezes. And as soon as they're here, they're gone. Spring ephemerals, they die back and go dormant soon after flowering. When happy, they will colonize large areas over time. Hope to be so lucky!;;Cannot ship while in active growth March through April. Cat# 1054
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Photo courtesy of Missouri Botanical PlantFinder
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Available: Currently
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| Phlox paniculata 'Starfire' |
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| Starfire Summer Phlox |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Mildew resistant and growing to around 3 feet tall, 'Starfire' has deep, shocking pink flowers with almost black stems creating a beautiful color contrast. The foliage has dark markings also. Blooms in early to mid-summer but will keep flowering if spent flowers are cut off. A great cut flower, very fragrant, and butterflies love it. Looks gorgeous with anything blue, white, or soft yellow. Cat# 1358
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| Baptisia x bicolor 'Starlite' |
New this Year!
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| Starlite Prairieblues, False Indigo |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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This is a new selection from the cross of Baptisia australis and B. bracteata by Jim Ault at the Chicago Botanic Garden, and is the second in his Prairieblues series. A medium sized densely mounded plant growing to around 3 feet tall, this selection has 24 inch flower stems bearing a profusion of bicolored blooms. Deep violet-lavendar buds unfurl into lovely periwinkle-blue blooms with contrasting butter-cream keels. Like the other Baptisias, it is an easy keeper in full sun and average to dry soil. Flowering in early summer, it would look great with Achillea Apple Blossom, all of the Bluestars, Dianthus 'Firewitch', Blue Love Grass, Geranium 'Rozanne', Smooth Phlox, or Hairy Phlox. Early summer is such an exploding time in the garden! Cat# 1479
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Photo courtesy of North Creek Nursery
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Available: 2009 or later
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| $10.00 each
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| Stiff Blue Star |
Zones: 6, 7, 8, 9
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Stiff Blue Star is a rare plant in moist open woods of the lower south. It grows to about 2 feet tall by 3 feet wide and has closely spaced lance shaped leaves giving a compact appearance. Late spring, soft blue-gray flowers, average to moist soil, and more sun than shade. Easy, simple. Cat# 1400
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Available: 2009 or later
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| Stokes' Aster |
Zones: 6, 7, 8, 9
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Multiple light blue flower heads on stout 18-inch stems rise above the succulent foliage in June. The showy flower heads are 3 inches across with fringed ray flowers (petals) subtended by attractive green leafy bracts. This perennial is well-suited to the front of the garden where it will receive full to filtered sun and some moisture. The flowers are good as cut flowers although they may close at night. Stokes' Aster has long been a garden favorite and deservedly so. Also available in white. Specify blue or white. Cat# 1210
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