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| White Bee Balm |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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Monardas are plants belonging to the mint family. As such, they have square stems, aromatic foliage and characteristic, showy, unusual flower heads which often form tiers of more or less globose (rounded) flower clusters around the stems. They are widely spreading clump formers - meaning that in good soil, expect your clump to take off! They all prefer full sun and average to moist soil. The flowers of Monarda clinopodia are white with purple spots on the lower lip subtended by white to pinkish bracts, and they flower in early to midsummer. Grows to 31/2 feet high. Prefers a little shade. Cat# 1146
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Available: 2009 or later
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| Sisyrinchium angustifolium 'alba' |
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| White Blue-eyed Grass |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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The regular type of Blue-eyed Grass is a perennial remaining under 1 foot high, with small star-shaped flowers with soft blue petals and yellow centers on long, narrow leaves resembling grass. This form, though, has white flowers with yellow eyes. In the wild,plants grow in open woody areas and clumps are small. When grown without competition and given better soil and more moisture, they thrive. This is a good wildflower alternative to Monkey Grass. Several plants can spread to form a border providing crisp white flowers from March into June. Grow in full sun to partial shade. Cat# 1455
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Available: 2009 or later
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| Boltonia asteroides 'Snowbank' |
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| White Boltonia |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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The Boltonias are great plants for adding color to the fall garden. Related to Asters, they cover themselves with 3/4 inch aster-like flowers so thickly, you can hardly see into the plant. 'Snowbank' is perhaps the most widely grown kind. It is an improved form of the normally white flowering species, having more and larger flowers. 'Snowbank' has blue-green foliage, oblong 5 inch leaves, and strong erect stems growing to 4 feet that seldom need staking. It likes average to moist soil and full sun. 'Snowbank' makes a bold addition to the fall garden, and clumps enlarge quickly in good conditions. Cat# 1039
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| White Crested Iris |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Only a very lucky hiker sees the white form of Dwarf Crested Iris in the wild! Our's are just like the blue, but flowers are a good white with the slightest hint of blue. Cat# 1123
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Photo courtesy of North Creek Nursery
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| Illicium floridanum 'alba' |
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| White Florida Anise-Tree |
Zones: 7, 8, 9
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Florida Anise Tree is an evergreen shrub native to moist shady ravines from Florida to Louisiana. Grow it in good soil either moist or dry and in sun or shade, where it will be moderately branched and upright growing to 9 or 10 feet. The medium green leaves are elliptic, 4 to 6 inches long, and fragrant when crushed. Late spring flowers have many narrow, 1 inch, white, strap-shaped petals forming a broad wavy star. (The regular Anise Tree has burgundy flowers.) For southern gardeners, Illicium is a nice alternative to our more common evergreen shrubs. Let it sparkle in part shade and some moisture. Cat# 1306
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| White Gaura |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Gaura is a must for sunny gardens with good, well-drained soil where summers are hot and humid. A native of Louisiana, Texas, and Mexico, it stands up quite well to abusive Augusts. Gaura forms a spreading vase-shaped plant 3 to 4 feet tall with an open, airy, willowy aspect. The 1 inch white-fading-to-pink flowers open a few at a time well above the foliage from mid summer to fall. The flowers look like delicate apple blossoms that have lost a petal or two. Flowering is enhanced by cutting the whole plant back to about 1 foot in late June. Once established, Gaura, with its long taproot, is long-lived and very drought tolerant. The red speckles that appear on the leaves are normal. Cat# 1096
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| Eupatorium purpureum 'Joe White' |
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| White Joe Pye Weed, Joe White |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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'Joe White' is Joe Pye Weed in all his glory but 'Joe White' has buff white flowers and near white stems. Use this one to cool down the late summer garden. Cat# 1301
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| Physostegia virginiana'Summer Snow' |
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| White Obedient Plant |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 6
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A perennial wildflower, found locally in bogs, wet meadows, and in crevices of river rocks, Obedient Plant has long been a garden favorite. 'Summer Snow' has pure white Snapdragon-like flowers occuring in pairs along the upper quarter of 2 foot stems in summer. It is called Obedient Plant because its flowers will obediently remain in place when bent, or so they say. The plant is slender and erect in stature and works well in a damp natural area. It's flowers are good as fresh cut flowers. Cat# 1174
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| Passiflora incarnata 'alba' |
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| White Passion Flower |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Words cannot describe the beauty of the Passion Flower, a perennial vine climbing with tendrils. Flowers are heavily sweet-scented, 2- to 3-inches wide, and have exotic floral appendages, protrusions, and frills. Given a dry, sunny location, and a fence or trellis to climb on, these vines will flourish and flower from July to October. In the rare white Passion Flower, all flower parts are pure white except the anthers which are butter yellow. When the icy white flowers are seen against the kelly green leaves, you just might think about lime sherbet...Although this plant is tougher than nails once established, it is sometimes difficult to establish. We strongly recommend late spring planting. Cat# 1159
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Available: 2009 or later
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| $10.00 each
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| Dichromena (Rhynchospora) colorata |
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| White Star Sedge |
Zones: 6, 7, 8, 9
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Common in moist or wet open areas or thin woods along the coastal plain from Virginia to Texas, White Star Sedge looks like a grass with daisy-like flowers with long, drooping, pointed petals. It is actually a grass-like plant called a sedge. The "flowers" are composed of 5 or 6 conspicuous drooping white bracts or leaves surrounding inconspicuous flowers on 1 to 2 foot stems. White Star Sedge can be fairly aggressive in moist soil with sun or part shade and could be used a a bright green ground cover. Drier sites will slow the spread. The white "flowers" are effective all summer into fall. Cat# 1077
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| Echinacea purpurea 'White Swan' |
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| White Swan Coneflower |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Striking, large flower heads rise above neat clumps of foliage 2 to 3 1/2 feet tall. The flower heads have white rays (petals) and greenish-changing-to-orangey-brown centers. At maturity, the rays angle downward and the center assumes a distinct cone shape. Plants are long-lived perennials and bloom June through August. They are easy to grow, the foliage is attractive, and the form of the flowers is unique and beautiful. Coneflowers attract butterflies and its seed is good for birds, too. Cat# 1261
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| White Turtlehead |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Flowering in late summer and early fall, this turtlehead has white snapdragon-like flowers on 2 to 4 foot tall stems. It occurs in moist, partly shaded places throughout the eastern US. In the garden, plant it in full sun to light shade, in moist soil. An early summer pinching will keep it shorter and fuller. Cat# 1463
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Photo courtesy of Tom Barnes
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| White Wild Bleeding Heart |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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The White Wild Bleeding Heart is one of the few perennial wildflowers that will flower spring to fall. Peaking in late spring, the delicate frosty pure white flowers are more or less heart-shaped with a flared base. They are clustered on a spike arched over blue-green feathery foliage. Plants form clumps about 1 foot in height and spread. The key to prolonging the bloom and vigor of Bleeding Heart is to give it partial shade, ample moisture, and good drainage, and to deadhead it regularly. It looks great with Purple Alumroot, Wild Ginger, and Hostas. Cat# 1075
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| Geranium maculatum 'albiflorum' |
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| White Wild Geranium |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7
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Here's the rare pure white form of the Wild Geranium. Pristine flowers. Beautiful. Cat# 1102
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| Baptisia alba (pendula, leucantha) |
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| White Wild Indigo |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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As a summertime hedge or a group of plants toward the rear of the garden, White Wild Indigo is sure to be a show stopper. Spikes of rich white pea-like flowers rise above bluish-green foliage in early summer. The upper parts of the spikes and the bracts holding the flowers are charcoal gray, so the color combination is beautiful. This perennial needs full sun and average moisture conditions. It resents being disturbed so plant it where it can remain for years. Try using the flowers as fresh cut flowers for something really unusual. Cat# 1033
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| Wisteria frutescens 'alba' |
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| White Wisteria |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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American Wisteria occurs infrequently in low open woods throughout much of the southeastern coastal plain area. It is not nearly as vigorous as the Chinese Wisteria which has escaped cultivation and festoons wild trees in our area, but it will still easily grow to 30 feet or more. White Wisteria has late spring and early summer flower clusters in 4 to 6 inch racemes of fragrant soft white. Grow this vine in full sun to light shade in average soil where you want the effect but perhaps not the strength of Chinese Wisteria. The white form is rare in the wild. Cat# 1292
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Available: 2009 or later
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| White Wood Aster |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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White Wood Aster is fairly common throughout the woods of the eastern United States, where it forms very loose sprawling clumps. It is, however, an excellent choice for the difficult shady corner or border for late summer and fall flowers. Fragrant, starry, white-fading-to-pink, one inch flowers are borne very prolifically along black, wiry, drooping stems to 3 feet in length. These flowers look terrific growing and poking through other plants. Or let the stems cascade over a shady wall. Cat# 1023
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| Conoclinium coelestinum compact form |
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| Wild Ageratum, compact mistflower |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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This Ageratum differs from the wild or typical type in that its habit is stiffly upright, not at all sprawling, and its flower clusters are in tight balls, not open clusters, making the bluish-purple flower color seem deeper. In all other respects, the two types are similar - up to 2 feet tall, like sun and moisture, and definitely will spread! Cat# 1365
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| Conoclinium (Eupatorium) coelestinum |
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| Wild Ageratum, Mistflower |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Flat-topped clusters of small, soft-blue, fuzzy flowers appear amidst the bright green foliage of this perennial Wild Ageratum. If cut back in half in early summer, these plants will form a lovely clump for the perennial garden. Or, if left unpinched, the result will be an open mound about 2 feet tall in sun (3 feet in shade), with flowers from July through October. This plant prefers sun or partial shade and moisture. Its flowers are excellent cut. It tends to spread, but can be kept in check by growing it in a dry spot, by annually removing spreading shoots with a spade, or by surrounding the plant with a bottomless can, pot, or pail extending from the soil surface down into the soil a foot or so. This confines the roots and creeping underground stems. In a natural setting, Wild Ageratum can become a beautiful low maintenance, medium height ground cover for a moist partly shaded area. It grows beautifully with Great Blue Lobelia, Ironweed, and Seashore Mallow. Cat# 1090
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| Wild Bergamot |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Monardas are plants belonging to the mint family. As such, they have square stems, aromatic foliage and characteristic, showy, unusual flower heads which often form tiers of more or less globose (rounded) flower clusters around the stems. They are widely spreading clump formers - meaning that in good soil, expect your clump to take off! They all prefer full sun and average to moist soil. The flowers of Wild Bergamot are a light lavender with lavender-green bracts on stems 3- to 5-feet tall, in June and July. Leaves are grayish green. It is often found in calcareous soils. Good for the rear of the perennial border or natural area, can take drier conditions. Cat# 1148
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| Wild Bleeding Heart |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Wild Bleeding Heart is one of the few perennial wildflowers that will flower spring to fall. Peaking in late spring, the delicate pale rose flowers are more or less heart-shaped with a flared base. They are clustered on a spike arched over blue-green feathery foliage. Plants form clumps about 1 foot in height and spread. The key to prolonging the bloom and vigor of Bleeding Heart is to give it partial shade, ample moisture, and good drainage, and to deadhead it regularly. It looks great with Blue Satin Sedge and Hexastylis. Cat# 1074
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| Wild Blue Flag |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Wild Blue Flag used to be a familiar sight in northern boggy areas, but increasing development has restricted its habitats. Given damp or at least moisture retentive soils, this iris will produce vigorous clumps of arching leaves 2 feet tall. Clusters of 2- to 3-inch purplish-blue flowers rise several inches above the foliage in early summer. They variously may have yellow blotches on the signals or purple veining on the falls. Reportedly, the flowers do well as fresh cuts. Blue Flag is a wonderful plant for sunny, damp areas where it combines well with Cardinal Flower, Turtlehead, Clethra, Obedient Plant, Gentians, and Hibiscus. Cat# 1126
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| Wild Geranium, Cranesbill |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Fairly common in rich woods of the east, Wild Geranium is a cheerful and easy hardy wildflower for lightly shaded gardens. Flowers are rosy-pink, sometimes white, with five rounded petals, 11/2 inches wide, from April into June. The plant makes a rounded mound up to 2 feet with deeply cleft leaves. Wild Geranium has long been a favorite for wildflower gardens because it is easy, beautiful, and not too fussy. Light shade and average soil and moisture conditions should ensure years of pleasure. If your soil is fortified with ample compost, expect to have plenty of Wild Geranium to give to friends. Cat# 1101
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| Hexastylis splendens 'Quicksilver' |
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| Wild Ginger, Quicksilver |
Zones: 6, 7, 8
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Another species from China, evergreen Quicksilver Ginger has huge 6 inch, long heart-shaped leaves that are semi glossy and silver mottled, and interesting, brown, jug-shaped flowers that are attached at soil level in mid to late spring. Quicksilver Ginger grows to about 6 inches tall and is the fastest spreader of our evergreen gingers. Hexastylis (used to be called Asarum) make wonderful groundcovers in good, rich, organic soil shaded by tall trees and shrubs. Cat# 1294
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Photo courtesy of Itsaul Plants
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| Wild Oats |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Wild Oats forms large colonies of widely spaced stems on moist soil in woods and coves throughout the eastern United States. Plants grow to about 1 foot tall and the arching stems are terminated by mid-spring, straw-yellow, bell-shaped flowers. It is a good plant for naturalizing in good soil and shady areas. Cat# 1318
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| Wild Sweet William, Blue Phlox |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Wild Sweet William is a spring blooming woodland phlox that is evergreen and low growing with flowering stems up to 15 inches tall holding beautiful, soft blue flowers in mid-spring. The 1 inch flowers are held in 5 inch clusters and are very strongly and sweetly scented - the perfect lure for early spring butterflies. Blue Phlox is a must for the woodland wild garden in light shade and good, moisture retentive soil. They should naturalize by seed. Combines beautifully with every color of spring! Cat# 1167
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| Phlox divaricata var. 'laphamii' |
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| Wild Sweet William, Blue Phlox |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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This variety of Wild Sweet William is a spring blooming woodland phlox that is evergreen and low growing with flowering stems up to 15 inches tall holding beautiful, soft lavendar blue flowers in mid-spring. The 1 inch flowers are held in 5 inch clusters and are very strongly and sweetly scented - the perfect lure for early spring butterflies. Blue Phlox is a must for the woodland wild garden in light shade and good, moisture retentive soil. They should naturalize by seed. Combines beautifully with every color of spring! Cat# 1451
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| Ilex verticillata 'Winter Red' |
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| Winter Red Holly |
Zones: 'Winter Red' is a compact
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'Winter Red' is a compact, very heavily berried selection of the wide ranging Winterberry, a deciduous holly. Upright, rounded shrubs grow 10 feet tall and not quite as wide, and have rich green leaves that turn bronze then yellow before falling off in the fall. Dense clusters of red berries are clustered along the stems from late summer into winter. Repeated freezes and thaws make the berries palatable to birds later on. All 'Winter Red' plants are females and therefore need a male pollinator. Ours berry heavily using either Ilex x 'Apollo' or wild Ilex opaca. Give this easy shrub full sun or light shade and average to moist, good soil. The berry laden stems are also very nice as cut stems. Cat# 1429
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| Wintergreen, Checkerberry, Teaberry |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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Found in dry or moist acidic woods of eastern North America south to cooler elevations in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia, Wintergreen is a common evergreen ground-cover well-known for its fresh wintergreen smell when its leaves are crushed. Growing only 6 inches tall, this creeper has dark, broadly oval 1 inch leathery leaves that turn reddish in cold weather. It has solitary, nodding, white urn-shaped summer flowers that are followed by bright red 1/2 inch berries that may remain on the plant from late summer through the following spring! That's a long time. Give Wintergreen good, organic, well drained, acidic soil and shade. The better the soil, the more quickly it will spread. Companions could include Ginseng, Foamflower, Bowmans Root, or many ferns. Cat# 1341
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| Viburnum nudum 'Winterthur' |
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| Winterthur Viburnum |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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'Winterthur' is an improved selection from Winterthur Gardens in Delaware, of the Smooth Witherod which grows naturally in moist places throughout the southeast. Growing 5 to 7 feet high and wide with dense, compact branching, 'Winterthur' has 3 to 4 inch long, waxy, lustrous deep green leaves that turn a gorgeous reddish purple in fall before falling off. The creamy white pie-shaped flower clusters appear in mid-summer and are followed by white berries that change to deep purple black in fall. Grow it in full sun to light shade and average to moist soil. Would make an excellent screen or backdrop. Cat# 1291
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| Wood Sorrel |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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Wood Sorrel grows in open woods in rocky, acidic soils throughout the eastern United States often around the bases of large oak trees where they may form large patches. The 2 to 3 inch tall clumps have clover-like leaves and 2/3 inch light violet-pink flowers bunched on 3-inch stalks in late spring. Flowers often close on cloudy days. By mid-summer the plants have gone dormant and disappeared. Plants come from tiny pea-sized tubers, which spread, via thread-like runners. This is a neat plant to naturalize in average to dry soil in open shade. Try it with Alumroot, Pussytoes, and 'Corbett' Columbine. Best planted AFTER going dormant in summer. Cat# 1384
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Photo courtesy of Missouri Botanical PlantFinder
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| Woodland Sunflower |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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A common wildflower in open woods throughout the entire eastern US, Woodland Sunflower provides nice 2", pale yellow flowers from mid-summer into fall in the shade. This is useful. Growing 2 to 5 feet tall, just give it average soil and some shade, and once established, it is quite drought tolerant. Over time, it may naturalize into colonies from its creeping rhizomes. This would be pretty along a woodland path. Cat# 1465
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