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| Calamagrostis 'Karl Foerster' |
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| Feather Reed Grass |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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The Perennial Plant Association's pick of the year for 2001, 'Karl Foerster', is a very upright clump forming grass that is easy to grow in full sun and average soil. Growing 4 to 5 feet tall, it is a cool season grass so it greens up in early spring and by mid-summer, has whitish flower heads that mature to warm gold later on. Use this one where you want a strong vertical shape as a backdrop or an accent. 'Karl Foerster' may bend and sway in wind and rain but will always find its way back upright. Cat# 1255
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Photo courtesy of Walters Gardens
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| Glade Savory |
Zones: 6, 7, 8
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The Glade Savory is a rare plant found in rock depressions and gravely soil in full sun in middle Tennessee along with the Tennessee Coneflower, Aromatic Sumac, and Little Bluestem. It has bright green, 1/4 inch , oval, succulent leaves and forms dense mats 3 to 4 inches tall and a foot or so wide. Small pale lavender blue, mint-like flowers occur in full sun or a little shade. So you might try it in a rock garden or in a seepage area. We grow it between paving stones in our front walkway where it is great in full sun but gets a little powdery mildew in shade. Cat# 1194
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| American Beautyberry |
Zones: 7, 8, 9
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Naturally occurring in moist woodlands throughout the southeast, Beautyberry is a large, open shrub with a habit similar to Forsythia. But in early fall the non-showy white flowers have matured into eye-popping clusters of brilliant lavendar purple fruits. Branches look like there are 2 inch wads of grape bubblegum at every node. It is very showy. For best effect, grow Beautyberry in moist soil in full sun or light shade, and late each winter, cut them down to 6 to 10 inches or so. This will result in shorter, denser 4 foot stems with good flowering and fruiting for the fall. Butterflies visit the mid-summer flowers and birds will eventually eat the fruits in late winter. Cat# 1480
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Photo courtesy of Missouri Botanical PlantFinder
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Available: May 2010
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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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| Sweetshrub |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Native to mixed deciduous forests and stream banks from Virginia to Florida, Sweetshrub is a 6 to 9 foot tall and wide shrub that has fruity-fragrant, maroon, many-petaled, tulip-like flowers in late spring. The flowers mature into hard brown capsules whose seeds rattle inside in fall. Sweetshrub is a good shrub for the border, or house or fence corner. It is easy in full sun or part shade in average to moist soil. Fall color is a nice bright yellow and looks great with Fothergilla, Aromatic Aster, White Wood Aster, Sumac, and Itea. Cat# 1298
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Photo courtesy of Missouri Botanical PlantFinder
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| Campsis grandiflora 'Morning Calm' |
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| Chinese Trumpet Creeper |
Zones: 6, 7, 8, 9
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'Morning Calm' is a lovely Trumpet Creeper introduced by the J. C. Raulston Arboretum. Growing 20 to 25 feet long/tall by 6 to 9 feet wide at maturity, it is not as aggressive as our native Trumpet Creeper. It blooms in early summer with loose clusters of dangling trumpet shaped, peachy-rose, yellow-throated flowers. Hummingbirds love it. Its coarsely toothed leaves are deciduous and over time the vine becomes woody. Needs full sun and average to moist soil. Cat# 1402
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| Trumpet Creeper |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Trumpet Creeper, a perennial vine has 3-inch long, striking, trumpet-shaped, red flowers in mid to late summer followed by decorative pods in the fall. It takes sun and any soil. Trumpet creeper, a very strong grower, is a great choice for adorning a fence, trellis, or mailbox in an informal setting. Cat# 1042
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| Campsis radicans var. flava |
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| Yellow Trumpet Creeper |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Yellow Trumpet Creeper, a perennial deciduous vine, has 3-inch long, striking, trumpet-shaped, peachy yellow colored flowers in mid to late summer followed by decorative pods in the fall. It takes sun and any soil. It is a very strong grower, and is a great choice for adorning a fence, trellis, or mailbox in an informal setting. Cat# 1043
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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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| Carex flacca 'Blue Zinger' |
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| Blue Zinger Sedge |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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'Blue Zinger' is a dense, grass-like sedge with softly, cascading, blue-green leaves. Plants form slowly spreading clumps up to 16 inches tall. Grow it as a ground cover in light shade, in dry to moist soil. The effect is soft and fine but once established, 'Blue Zinger' is drought tolerant and tough. In the south it is evergreen. As with all Carex, a late winter hair cut will keep it tidy. Cat# 1459
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Photo courtesy of North Creek Nursery
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| Blue Wood Sedge |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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Blue Wood Sedge ranges from the central-eastern and mid-states down to the gulf coast in low woods and moist meadow edges. But in your garden, it is quite at home in a shady place with moist soil. Once established, it tolerates drought well. This is an evergreen sedge that would make a great replacement for liriope. It makes strong, slowly spreading clumps of fine-textured, glaucous, quilted, _" wide leaves. So use it as a border or mixed in with just about any shade loving wildflower. As with all Carex, a late winter hair cut will keep it tidy. Cat# 1461
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| Carex laxiculmis 'Bunny Blue' |
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| Sedge, Bunny blue |
Zones: 6, 7, 8, 9
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Carex laxiculmis, native to much of the eastern United States, grows in rich, moist woods, and it has dark green, narrow, evergreen leaves. This variety, 'Bunny Blue', has silver-blue leaves just under 1/2" wide, and forms rounded clumps around a foot tall and wide. Use it as a clumping ground cover or border plant in shade and good, moist soil. As with all Carex, a late winter hair cut will keep it tidy. Cat# 1460
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Available: May 2010
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| Pennsylvania Sedge |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Pennsylvania Sedge grows in dry to moist woods in the mountains from West Virginia to Alabama and Georgia. It forms soft, grass-like, 15 inch clumps of very narrow, bright green leaves. The clumps spread rather quickly and are very soft and curl gently turning pale brown for the winter. Use this in masses to soften and brighten a damp shady area. It would work very nicely with Blue Phlox, ferns, Labrador Violet, Alumroot, and White Wood Aster. Cat# 1045
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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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| 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 Bleeding 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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| Ceratostigma plumbaginoides |
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| Plumbago, Leadwort |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Plumbago makes a great ground cover for sunny to partly sunny places. Electric blue flowers come in late summer and fall, above 1 inch shiny green leaves which turn red and yellow in the fall. Plumbago, which is late to break dormancy in the spring, makes a moderately thick ground cover, but once established, it is very tough and tolerates abuse such as drought and hot weather. Try it with shrubs or taller, strong perennials like Rudbeckia and Feather Reed Grass. Cat# 1046
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| Devil's Bit, Fairy Wand |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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From a basal cluster of evergreen, elliptic or oblong leaves, 1 to 3 foot tall flower stems sprout up and are topped with masses of tiny white, tightly packed white flowers. Ranging throughout the eastern US, this interesting perennial flowers in late spring/early summer and prefers rich, moist soil, and partial to full shade. Eventually plants will naturalize and form sizeable colonies. Female plants have taller erect flowering stems while those of male plants grow shorter and droop at the ends like fairy wands. Cat# 1462
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| River Oats, Northern Sea Oats |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Fairly common in the southeast in low damp open woods, stream margins, and ditches, River Oats is an attractive, upright arching grass resembling somewhat the more familiar Sea Oats of southern sand dunes. In full sun, it grows 3 feet tall with leaves 1/2 inch in width. In some shade, expect taller plants that may need some staking. The flower/seed heads of River Oats which are effective from midsummer through mid-fall, are especially attractive. Long oblong, 3 by 1/2 inch wide spikelets with a distinct herringbone pattern are paper flat and pendant on thread-like pedicels dangling like earrings. These appear in arching sprays above the foliage and gracefully shimmer in the breeze. Summer color is medium green turning to yellow then brown in fall. Grow River Oats in sun to part shade, and dry to wet. It spreads moderately by rhizomes and also naturalizes by seed. We like it with Boltonia, Turtlehead, Orange Coneflower, and New England Aster. Cat# 1047
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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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| Chelone lyonii 'Hot Lips' |
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| Turtlehead, Hot Lips |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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'Hot Lips' Turtlehead is a selection of the species that differs in having deeper green foliage and bright, deep pink flowers. Otherwise it's quite similar - 2 to 3 feet tall, late summer flowers, prefers average to moist soil and full sun. A great fall combination is 'Hot Lips', 'Fireworks' Goldenrod, and Hardy Ageratum or Smooth Aster. Cat# 1438
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| Turtlehead |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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This Turtlehead is native to the coastal plain and mountains of the Southeast where it is infrequent along stream banks and swampy forest margins. It differs from Chelone lyonii primarily in having narrow leaves and darker pink flowers. From late summer into fall, its very showy deep pink/purple, snapdragon-like flowers shine like beacons in sunny areas. Great companions could include Wild Ageratum, Ironweed, Culvers Root, and Cardinal Flower. Cat# 1332
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| Fringe Tree, Old Man's Beard |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Here is a beautiful, small tree that deserves a prominent spot. It grows 10 to 20 feet tall and as wide, and has an open, spreading form with one or several light gray trunks. But in mid to late spring just as new bright green leaves are emerging, Fringe Trees erupt into bloom. Individual flowers of inch long, thin, wavy, white petals form clouds of blooms along the stems, almost ethereal and sweetly fragrant. Flowering persists for several weeks. Summer leaves are oblong -pointed, 6 inches long or so, and have medium to coarse texture. Fall color is yellow to brown. Individual Fringe Trees are either male or female. Males may have slightly showier flowers, and females, when pollinated by a male, have clusters of blue berries in late summer. We don't know yet, what sex ours are.;;Fringe Tree grows wild in various habitats in the southeast - moist woods, dry rocky slopes, and sandy stream banks, but usually on basic soils. To best grow this absolutely beautiful small tree, give it sun or part shade and moist, fertile soil. You could frame a path, dress up your front door, or create a lovely lightly shaded island planting using Fringe Tree as your featured plant. Cat# 1363
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| Chrysanthemum 'Ryans Pink' |
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| Ryan's Pink Chrysanthemum |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Well, we think this is 'Ryans Pink' and no matter what the taxonomists are now calling Chrysanthemum, to us this is still an old-fashioned Chrysanthemum. Anyway, this upright mum has single solft pink flowers with yellow centers. It's just a lovely good pink that looks great with Aromatic Asters and tall Sunflowers. It prefers full sun and average soil. Cut it in half in late spring and again a few weeks later to keep it shorter, otherwise it grows to about 3 feet. Cat# 1049
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Available: May 2010
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| Chrysogonum virginianum 'Eco Laquered Spider' |
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| Green and Gold |
Zones: 6, 7, 8, 9
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'Eco Laquered Spider' is a fast spreading Green and Gold. It forms evergreen, flattened clumps of shiny green leaves, which emerge rather grayish and fuzzy. These 2-inch high clumps send out runners which root along the way forming more clumps. In average to good soil, with light mulch and part shade, expect one plant to spread 3 feet or more in 2 years. One-inch buttercup-like flowers appear in spring. This is a great ground cover where you want a fairly fast spreader but do not plant it with other low growers that it could overrun. Cat# 1364
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| Chrysogonum virginianum var. australe |
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| Creeping Green And Gold |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Creeping Green-and-Gold is a good low, evergreen, ground cover which spreads rapidly by short stolons or runners. Its flowers are 5 petaled and daisy like. It flowers in spring and occasionally again in fall. This variety would be a great choice where a vigorous ground cover is desired in full sun or part shade with good soil and good drainage. Cat# 1050
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| Chrysogonum virginianum var. virginianum |
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| Green And Gold, Goldenstar |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Here is the attractive, ever-blooming, low growing, low maintenance perennial that everyone wants. Actually, Green-and-Gold only flowers from March through October, but that's about the longest span you'll find among wildflowers. Peaking in May, the 1-inch wide, 5-petaled flowers look like little yellow daisies rising just above or nestled among neat, dark green, 9 inch high mounds of foliage. For best growth, give Green-and-Gold sun or light shade and rich, well-drained soil. Excessive moisture and heavy mulches encourage fungal attacks so water sparingly, use a pea gravel or sand mulch, or mulch very lightly under the leaves. Green-and-Gold is an excellent plant for the front of the perennial border, retaining most of its green leaves throughout the winter. It would also be good for a rock garden or along a sunny path. Good companion plants include Indian Pink, Alumroot, Blue-eyed Grass, Eared Coreopsis, Dwarf Crested Iris, and Lyre-leaved Sage. Cat# 1052
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| Cladrastis kentukea |
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| Yellowwood |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Yellowwood is a very attractive medium to large tree for a prime spot in the landscape. It gets 30-45 feet tall and wide, has smooth gray bark, and has the most beautiful, fragrant clusters of creamy white, wisteria-like flowers in the spring. Flowering can be so abundant that the fallen flowers look like snow on the ground. Yellowwood likes alkaline soil that is well drained and of average fertility. It wants full sun. A tree in flower is absolutely breathtaking. Cat# 1530
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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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| Leather Flower |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Rare in moist woods of the southeast, Leather Flower weaves its way through the brush and trees and dangles its summer flowers throughout and up high. But in cultivation, and with proper pruning, WOW.;;This non-aggressive vine has smooth green leaves with 2 to 4 pairs of leaflets, and from the leaf axils of new growth, 1 inch bright pink flowers are formed nearly all summer long. The solitary, bell-shaped flowers are on 6 inch long stalks which reach out to the sun, and are deep pink with yellow on the insides of the flared openings. It is called Leather Flower because the flowers are thickened almost like a thin banana peel. While new flowers are forming, the old ones develop into very ornamental fluffy seed heads which start glistening gold, turning whitish, then maturing into a deep brown.;;This Clematis likes good soil with regular moisture and partial sun - could take full sun in the north and more shade in the south. It wants to grow around 12 to 15 feet per year but flowering occurs on new growth only. So for use on a fence, trellis, or post where you want to see the flowers up close and down low, pruning should be done any time after the plant has gone dormant in the late fall up to early spring. Cut back to two strong sets of buds or nodes on the stem as close to the ground as possible. Blooms should appear within 2 to 3 feet of where you pruned the stem. Or, if you wanted it to twine around a porch railing that was 10 feet above ground level, you could prune the old stems to about 6 or 7 feet above the ground. If you want to grow it up through a tree or shrub, don't prune at all. It may take some time to reach these heights.;;Leather Flower is definitely a candidate for the front porch railing. Given good soil, some light, and moisture, it is a real show stopper.; Cat# 1334
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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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| 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 x armandii 'Snowdrift' |
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| Armands Clematis, Snowdrift Clematis |
Zones: 6, 7, 8, 9
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Clematis 'Armandii' is one of the few evergreen clematis, and not only has attractive dark, long-pointed, glossy green leaves that are virtually pest free, but it also has wonderfully fragrant, small white flowers in early spring that completely cover the vines. Grow this beauty in light shade and good soil and let it twine up a trellis or fence, or ramble over shrubs. Not only will you have delicate, graceful flowers in the spring, but it will be handsome throughout the rest of the year. Vines can grow to 20 feet or so, and can be very long lived. Since flowering is in spring on the previous year's growth, prune, if necessary, after flowering in late spring or early summer. Choice. Cat# 1481
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| Durandii Clematis |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Clematis durandii, a hybrid in the Clematis integrifolia group, is a non-twining perennial vine that grows 6 to 10 feet long. Valued for its long and profuse flowering from June to September, it is easy to grow in full sun or light shade and good soil. Blooms start as deep blue/violet nodding bells, then open up to 4 inches, spreading, and flat. It looks great tied up to a support or scrambling in and out of shrubs and perennials. 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. 'Durandii' would look fantastic growing with Summersweet, Phlox David or Eva Cullum, Sunrise Coneflower, Russian Sage, and Apple Blossom Achillea. 'Durandii' also makes a great cut flower. Cat# 1482
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Available: May 2010
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| $15.00 each
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| Cinnamon Clethra |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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Cinnamon Clethra is a medium sized deciduous shrub or small tree. From spreading underground stems, it may form colonies up to 18 or 20 feet tall in the wild but in cultivation rarely exceeds 10 to 12 feet. It can be pruned to grow as a tree or left as a suckering shrub. The species grows wild in our southern mountains among boulders and along stream banks in open shade in rich, moist soil. It is called Cinnamon Clethra because mature plants may have incredibly beautiful cinnamon, hazel, and ochre-colored striped bark. The midsummer flowers are in drooping clusters of 1/4 inch white bells and are heavily scented . The leaves are a smooth green turning a good yellow in the fall. Cinnamon Clethra would be an excellent choice for sites in sun to shade with moist or average, organic soils. Use it where its midsummer fragrance and its winter bark detail can be appreciated. Cat# 1055
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| Summersweet, Sweet Pepperbush |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Sweet Pepperbush is a beautiful, under-used, deciduous shrub for the shrub border or natural areas. For 4 to 6 weeks in midsummer, plants bear hundreds of white, wonderfully fragrant flowers arranged in plump, upright, bottle-brush-like spikes 2 to 6 inches long. The scent is a sweet perfume and bees love the nectar. Sweet Pepperbush grows to about 8 feet and may sucker freely, forming a dense, round-tipped colony. It grows in wet or average soil in sun or shade and apparently withstands salt spray. The attractive green leaves turn a good yellow in the fall, then fall off neatly. You might try Clethra underplanted with Gentians, Wild Ageratum, and Red or Blue Lobelia. Cat# 1056
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| Clethra alnifolia 'Hummingbird' |
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| Hummingbird Clethra, Summersweet |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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This is a dwarf form of the white Summersweet. It grows to about 3 feet tall and 4 feet wide, and is very compact and florific. For 4 to 6 weeks in midsummer, plants bear hundreds of white, wonderfully fragrant flowers arranged in plump, upright, bottle-brush-like spikes 2 to 6 inches long. The scent is a sweet perfume and bees love the nectar. A well-grown specimen almost looks like a big pincushion of white when in flower. Like the other Summersweets, it has glossy green leaves which turn a good yellow before falling off in the fall. Give it full sun and moisture for best performance. Cat# 1057
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| Clethra alnifolia 'Ruby Spice' |
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| Ruby Spice Summersweet |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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A sport of 'Pink Spires', 'Ruby Spice' is considered the finest truly pink Summersweet. It has 4 to 5 inch spikes of good bright rose pink, fragrant flowers for a month or more in mid summer. It has a dense suckering habit growing to 8 feet by 6 feet and prefers sun or part shade and moisture. How pretty this might be with Stokesia 'Peachie's Pick'. Cat# 1403
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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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| 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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| 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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| Gray Conradina |
Zones: 7, 8, 9, 6
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Gray Conradina occurs naturally in far south coastal plain areas under open stands of oaks and pines in dry, sandy, slightly acidic soils. It is little known in cultivation. Gray Conradina grows about 12 inches tall and makes a neat, rounded, spreading clump. The leaves are olive green with a grayish underside. They resemble those of a very fine and lax or soft rosemary, and are very fragrant when brushed. Flowers which look like 1/2 inch pale lavender snapdragons, occur primarily in spring and fall, and intermittently in the summer. Gray Conradina is quite attractive and would be very useful as a border plant or for texture in the garden. They require perfect drainage, full-to-mostly sun, and fairly dry conditions. Good companions include Butterfly Weed, the Echinaceas, Beard-tongue, and Firepink. Cat# 1059
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| Cumberland Rosemary |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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Cumberland Rosemary is a very rare plant known only from several counties in Tennessee and Kentucky where it grows on gravelly river banks which are seasonally flooded then left high and dry in the summer. The plant looks like a semi-prostrate juniper growing about 12 inches tall and spreading several feet. Its leaves are semi-evergreen and look like those of Rosemary. They are wonderfully and strongly scented as you would imagine a wild Rosemary and can apparently be used like Rosemary in cooking. Lavender-blue flowers appear in midsummer. Grow Cumberland Rosemary in well-drained soil or pure sand in full sun. Use it for its fine bristly texture where a low plant is needed. It would be very effective at the edge of a retaining wall where passersby might brush against the foliage, releasing its pleasant scent. It is federally Threatened. USFWS PRT# - TEO68568-0. Cat# 1060
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| Conradina verticillata 'Cumberland Snow' |
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| Cumberland Snow Conradina, White Cumberland Rosema |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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'Cumberland Snow' is the white form of Cumberland Rosemary, a very rare plant known only from several counties in Tennessee and Kentucky where it grows on gravelly river banks which are seasonally flooded then left high and dry in the summer. The plant looks like a semi-prostrate juniper growing about 12 inches tall and spreading several feet. Its leaves are semi-evergreen and look like those of Rosemary. They are wonderfully and strongly scented as you would imagine a wild Rosemary and can apparently be used like Rosemary. 'Cumberland Snow' has pure white flowers appearing in midsummer. Grow it in well-drained soil or pure sand in full sun. Use it for its fine bristly texture where a low plant is needed. It would be very effective at the edge of a retaining wall where passersby might brush against the foliage, releasing its pleasant scent. Cat# 1061
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| Lily of the Valley |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Who does not know and love the sweet perfume of Lily of the Valley? Lily of the Valley was introduced from Europe some time ago, and has escaped from cultivation throughout the east. In the north, it grows vigorously and makes a very good ground cover in moist shady places. It is much slower growing in the south and can be helped by loosening the soil and adding organic matter. While it may be too aggressive to be planted in a perennial border, it does work very well with shrubs and trees. The fragrant white bell-shaped flowers appear in late spring and at least some should be cut and brought indoors. As a distraction away from its rather ratty late summer foliage, plant some ferns, Hardy Begonias, Wood Asters, and Hearts-a-Bustin with it. Cat# 1258
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| Eared Coreopsis |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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Eared Coreopsis is an evergreen groundcover. Clumps are 6 to 9 inches tall while flowering stems may be up to 18 inches tall. This Coreopsis is perfect for naturalizing along woodland margins or in light shade. The plant forms colonies by means of underground stolons so give it room to spread. The primary virtue of Eared Coreopsis is the masses of bright yellow daisy-like flowers coming in April through June. Try growing some on the sunnier side under tall native azaleas and dogwoods. Cat# 1062
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Available: May 2010
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| Coreopsis auriculata 'nana' |
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| Dwarf Eared Coreopsis |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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'Nana' is the dwarf form of Eared Coreopsis and grows only 6 inches tall. It flowers in late spring and is a good, slow-spreading, evergreen groundcover. After flowering, providing the soil does not get too dry, the foliage stays a good dark green turning greenish-bronze for the winter. It prefers part shade and average soil. This looks great with Fire Pink, Columbine, and Cumberland Rosemary. Cat# 1063
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| Coreopsis auriculata 'Zamfir' |
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| Zamfir Eared Coreopsis |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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This is a neat introduction by Itsaul Nursery in Atlanta, that has 2 inch, golden yellow fluted, tubular flowers from late spring to mid-summer. The spreading evergreen clumps grow about 12 inches tall and 12 to 18 inches wide. Give it sun to part shade and average soil. Cat# 1404
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| Greater Tickseed, Whorled-Leaf Coreopsis |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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There aren't many wildflowers for shady spots that flower in summer but here is one. Greater Tickseed is a 3 foot, upright, open grower with 2 inch yellow daisy-like flowers from early to mid summer. It grows naturally in open, dryish woods from Florida to Ohio. It can take sun or shade and dry or average soil. Its leaves appear to be 6-whorled at the nodes when actually they are opposite, paired, and 3-cleft. Greater Tickseed provides cheerful, unassuming color in places that are sometimes considered difficult. Companions might include River Oats, Blue Star, Columbine, and any of the Heucheras. Cat# 1065
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| Downy Coreopsis |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Essentially occurring throughout the southeast in meadows and open woods, Downy Coreopsis grows 3 to 4 feet tall and has bright golden yellow flowers all summer and deep kelly green leaves. It is very similar to Coreopsis lanceolata and also tends to be short lived. It is a good one for naturalizing in a sunny place. Cat# 1066
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| Rosey Thread-Leaf Coreopsis |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Coreopsis rosea makes bright green, 10 inch clumps of very finely dissected foliage giving the plant a delicate, fine texture much like Coreopsis 'Moonbeam'. The flowers are rosey-pink with yellow centers and occur mid to late summer. Rosey Threadleaf is good as an edging plant or as a ground cover. Sheer after flowering to encourage blooms all summer. Cat# 1067
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Available: May 2010
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| Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam' |
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| Coreopsis, Moonbeam |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Coreopsis 'Moonbeam' is a selected form of the southeastern native C. verticillata which grows in dry, open woods. Two foot clumps are made of very finely dissected foliage giving the plant a delicate, fine texture. Soft yellow daisy-like flowers appear from May to July and can be prolonged by occasionally shearing the spent flowers off. Grow the plant in full sun and average soil. Cut the whole clump to half its height in early May for an even more compact plant. It is neat and tidy and so well behaved that it was chosen to be the Perennial Plant Association's plant of the year for 1992. Cat# 1068
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Available: May 2010
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| Cornus sericea 'Silver and Gold' |
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| Variegated Goldstem Dogwood |
Zones: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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The species Cornus sericea, formerly Cornus stolonifera, or Red Osier Dogwood, is a shrubby, spreading-by-underground-runners, reddish stemmed Dogwood that loves damp places. 'Silver and Gold', however, is a form selected by the Mt. Cuba Center for its unique stem and leaf coloring and ease of culture. Plants grow to about 6 feet and form a spreading, suckering shrub with bright yellow stems. The leaves are variegated creamy yellow and green and fall off in the fall with no significant color. Flowers are not significant. And the plant is tougher than nails growing wet or dry, in sun or light shade. These traits combined, resulted in the plant being given the Styer Award of Merit. Try this plant against an evergreen or dark backdrop to really set off its color. Cat# 1336
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Available: May 2010
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| Pale Corydalis, Rock Harlequin |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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Pale Corydalis is a biennial which is wide ranging from Newfoundland west to British Columbia and south to Georgia and the mountains of the southeast where it grows on rocky outcrops and in dry, gravelly woods. Related to wild Bleeding Heart, Dutchman's Britches, and Squirrel Corn, it has similar glaucous blue green finely divided foliage and small dangling heart-shaped pink with yellow tipped flowers from mid-spring to early summer. It forms delicate sprawling clumps under 20 inches high. While not long-lived, Corydalis will find where it is happy and maintain itself by self-sowing. It will tolerate thin rocky soil and full sun in the north but would need some shade in the south. Richer soil would encourage more robust plants. Let this naturalize in an area with Columbine, Alumroot, Stonecrop, Beardtongue, and Lyre-Leaved Sage. Cat# 1337
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| TiTi, Leatherwood |
Zones: 6, 7, 8, 9
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If you've ever seen thicket of TiTi along streams or swamps of the southeast, you had to have been taken back by the wonderful fragrance of the late spring-early summer flowers, or the gorgeous red or orange fall leaf color, or the beautiful, irregular, twisting, contorted branching patterns. This is truly a shrub for all seasons. Growing in moist or wet places in the southeast, TiTi is a small, graceful tree or shrub (10-15 feet tall) with a rounded shape. Its creamy white flowers are in 3 to 6 inch long drooping clusters. Bees love them and the honey of TiTi is harvested commercially. In the south, it holds its deep green leaves all winter but loses them further north. This would make a lovely tree for a bright moist place. Cat# 1338
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| Cystopteris bulbifera |
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| Bulblet Bladder Fern |
Zones: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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This delicate fern is given its name because of the curious bulblets that form on the undersides of the fronds. The bulblets begin as microscopic dots eventually growing to _ inch by which time they have formed delicate young leaves. The slightest movement of the parent frond will scatter the little bulblets on the ground where they will grow into adult fern plants. A single mature frond of 3 or more feet may bear more than 50 bulblets so this is quite an effective way to increase the fern's numbers. Grow the Bulblet Bladder Fern in a shaded spot with rich, moist soil (and possibly some limey rocks), and it will form a carpet of bright green. Cat# 1531
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