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| Poet's Laurel, Alexandrian Laurel |
Zones: 7, 8, 9
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Danae is a wonderful, low-growing, spreading, evergreen shrub for shady places with good organic soil. Its arching stems reach 2-3', and in the fall, have showy _" orange-red berries. The deep green, shiny, waxy leaves are evergreen. Danae is a nearly perfect plant for shade and good soil although once established, it will do well in dry shade also. This is a slow growing spreader whose only negative is that it is not more widely available. Cat# 1567
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| Tall Larkspur |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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Here is a great big tall Delphinium that is native to rich, basic woods in very scattered locales from Maine to the southernmost tip of the Appalachians in Alabama. Tall larkspur grows 4-6' tall and has loose racemes of deep blue-purple flowers in mid to late summer. Its lanky stems may need some support, or let it fall over and ramble. But either way, it is stunning. It wants fertile, basic soil, with average moisture, and full shade to part sun (no strong afternoon sun). Both hummingbirds and butterflies love its nectar. Cat# 1568
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| Bewitched Clove Pink |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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Old timey Clove Pinks love sun and good drainage. They are perfect for a rock garden or a sunny bank. The silvery green foliage forms low, spreading, evergreen mats and their Carnation-like flowers are strongly and sweetly scented. 'Bewitched' has 1 inch light pink flowers with a magenta ring. These cover 6 inch mounds of silvery needle-shaped leaves in late spring and early summer. Excellent with blue Baptisia. Cat# 1259
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| Firewitch Clove Pink |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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Old timey Clove Pinks love sun and good drainage. They are perfect for a rock garden or a sunny bank. The silvery green foliage forms low, spreading, evergreen mats and their Carnation-like flowers are strongly and sweetly scented. 'Firewitch' has 1 inch brilliiant raspberry red flowers which cover 6 inch mounds of silvery needle-shaped leaves in late spring, early summer, and then sporadically throughout the summer. If you want tons of color and fragrance, this one is for you. This is the Perennial Plant Association's Plant of the Year for 2006. Cat# 1260
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| Wicked Witch Clove Pink |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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Old timey Clove Pinks love sun and good drainage. They are perfect for a rock garden or a sunny bank. The silvery green foliage forms low, spreading, evergreen mats and their Carnation-like flowers are strongly and sweetly scented. 'Wicked Witch', a sport of 'Firewitch', has 1 inch brilliant cherry red flowers which cover 6 inch mounds of silvery needle-shaped leaves in late spring, early summer, and then sporadically throughout the summer. If you want tons of color, and an intoxicating clove fragrance, this one is for you. Cat# 1550
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| Dicentra 'Burning Hearts' |
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| Burning Hearts Bleeding Hearts |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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'Burning Hearts' bleeding hearts is a hybrid selection that is a compact, long blooming, award-winning perennial for shade and good, well-drained soil. Fern-like, blue-gray foliage is topped with sweetly fragrant, deep rose-red heart-shaped flowers that keep coming spring through fall with adequate moisture. The foliage and flower color is much more intense and its habit is more compact than wild bleeding heart. Give 'Burning Hearts' a spot in the front and center of your garden with purple alumroot, southern red Trillium, and Japanese cobra lily, or in a container with 'Obsidian' heuchera and 'Blue Zinger' sedge. This one is a real winner. Cat# 1592
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| Dutchman's Breeches |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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Dutchman's breeches is a delicate spring ephemeral that may blanket rich, north facing slopes and shaded ledges over its huge range throughout the eastern 2/3rds of North America. It forms dense 10" high colonies of deeply cut, gray-green, fern-like foliage with stalks of flowers hovering above the leaves. The white flowers resemble a pair of breeches or pantaloons hung upside down. The growing period may last only 2-3 months or so; then they die back down until the next year. Over time, Dutchman's breeches can cover large areas, which is breath-taking in early spring. Once started, they spread by seed or by disturbance of their tiny corms. Cat# 1569
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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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| 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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| Old Fashioned Bleeding Heart |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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This is the big showy Old Fashioned Bleeding Heart which your grandmother had. Blue-green and pink sprouts often with visible flower buds poke through the ground in mid-spring and finally unfurl into 2 foot mounds of blue-green succulence with arching stems weighted down by lovely rows of bright pink and white dangling hearts. Flowering can last for a month or more and is determined by moisture. The sooner the ground becomes dry, the sooner Old Fashioned Bleeding Heart will turn yellow and go dormant until next year. Site this plant in more shade than sun with good soil. It is long lived and will just get bigger and bigger every year. Fantastic with Foamflower, Bluebells, and Golden Ragwort. Cat# 1076
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| Dicentra spectabilis alba |
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| Old Fashioned Bleeding Heart |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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This is the big showy Old Fashioned Bleeding Heart which your grandmother had. Blue-green and pink sprouts often with visible flower buds poke through the ground in mid-spring and finally unfurl into 2 foot mounds of blue-green succulence with arching stems weighted down by lovely rows of snowy white dangling hearts. Flowering can last for a month or more and is determined by moisture. The sooner the ground becomes dry, the sooner Old Fashioned Bleeding Heart will turn yellow and go dormant until next year. Site this plant in more shade than sun with good soil. It is long lived and will just get bigger and bigger every year. Fantastic with Foamflower, Bluebells, and Golden Ragwort. Cat# 1430
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Photo courtesy of Walters Gardens
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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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| Yellow Foxglove |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Yellow Foxglove is a truly perennial Foxglove. It has 1-inch yellow-speckled-brown tubular flowers on 2-foot spikes in early summer. The clumps are evergreen and get about 1 foot wide. Give it good soil in full sun where it may self-sow if happy. Cat# 1405
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| Straw Foxglove |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Straw Foxglove is another true perennial, evergreen Foxglove. It grows 2 to 3 feet tall and has 3/4 inch pale yellow, brown-speckled, nodding flowers borne along one side of the flower stems. In partial shade, it assumes a more relaxed and graceful aspect than D. grandiflora (Yellow Foxglove). It self sows readily when old flower heads are left alone. Cat# 1080
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| Evergreen Solomon's Seal |
Zones: 6, 7, 8, 9
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Disporopsis is a Chinese cousin to Solomon's Seal. It forms moderately spreading colonies of 15" arching stems with opposite pointed deep green leaves. Spring flowers are small nodding white bells. Evergreen Solomon's Seal thrives in shade and good soil but will tolerate dry shade once established. It can make a great evergreen ground cover with say, Hearts-a-Bustin or Spicebush behind it and maybe Trilliums, or Bleeding Hearts, or woodland Phlox in front. Cat# 1560
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| Fairybells, Yellow Mandarin |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7
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Throughout rich woods from Canada to north Alabama and west to Kentucky and Tennessee, Fairybells forms patches of delicately branched, zig-zagging, 30" tall stems with spreading foliage. Yellow/green, nodding, flaring/bell shaped flowers are single or paired at the ends of the stems from early to late spring. Flowering is often followed by a good display of bright red berries in the fall.
Fairybells can make a nice textural addition to your shade garden. Its fine,complex pattern would look good with broad leaved wildflowers.; Cat# 1499
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Photo courtesy of Tom Barnes
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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 impression 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 usually has white flowers and the western type has pink or magenta flowers. Cat# 1362
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| Shooting Stars, Aphrodite |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Consider Aphrodite to be a pink flowering Shooting Star on steroids. Clusters of intense violet pink flowers, which smell faintly of grape juice, atop 20" tall stalks, in mid to late spring. Leafy rosettes are about 15" tall and a 20" wide. 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. Cat# 1559
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| Dodecatheon meadia 'Goliath' |
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| Goliath Shooting Stars |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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Shooting stars is a perennial wildflower of open woods and prairies, with a wide range in North America from Minnesota south to Texas and east to New York. It forms small clumps of leaves that look like lettuce from which flowering scapes arise in late spring. 'Goliath' has taller and stouter flowering stems to 2', and deep lilac-rose flowers. If you could stand to cut them off, they make excellent cut flowers. Cat# 1593
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| Shooting Stars |
Zones: Dodecatheon meadia, 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 impression 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. This Shooting Star has deep magenta flowers. Cat# 1340
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| Log Fern |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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The Log Fern is a rare fern scattered from Georgia to Arkansas and in Michigan. It is a fertile tetraploid hybrid between the southern Dryopteris ludoviciana (Southern Shield Fern) and the northern D. goldiana (Goldies Wood Fern). It has firm-textured, oblong, almost twice cut fronds 3 to 4 feet tall and 8 inches wide. It makes beautiful stately clumps. It forms slowly expanding clumps that are evergreen in the south. It wants shade and good moist soil. Cat# 1081
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| Autumn Fern |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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Autumn Fern grows 24 to 30 inches tall and has glossy, leathery leaves that are evergreen in all but the coldest or harshest of conditions. The new growth comes out coppery bronze, turns dark green and then fronds turn bronze again in winter. The plant's aspect is semi-stiff and it would be good in a shady foundation planting. Cat# 1082
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| Goldies Wood Fern |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Goldies Wood Fern, the largest species of our native Dryopteris or Wood Ferns, grows in cool, moist woods in the northeastern United States and Canada. It is a bold, somewhat coarse fern. The fronds are stout, deep green and oblong-triangular in shape, 3 to 4 feet tall and 1 foot wide. They arise from a vase-like crown of golden brown scales. Clumps spread slowly by creeping rhizomes. During the fall, fronds turn an attractive yellow then die back for the winter. This easy-to-grow fern is very attractive planted in masses where strong, bold texture is desired. Cat# 1439
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| Southern Wood Fern |
Zones: 6, 7, 8, 9
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Southern wood fern grows naturally throughout the South in wet woods, swamps, and over limestone rocks where it may reach majestic, evergreen clumps to 4' tall and 3' wide. In the garden, however, it is an easy fern in light shade and average to moist soil where it spreads slowly and rarely exceeds 3'; unless you are in the deep South with oppressively hot, humid summers and heavy, saturated soils. In this case, the fern thrives and attains its impressive 4' clumps. Fronds are slender, glossy, and dark green, only dying back when temperatures drop into the 20's. Cat# 1570
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| Dixie Wood Fern |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Dixie Wood Fern is a natural hybrid between D. celsa (Log Fern) and D. ludoviciana (Southern Wood Fern). It occurs in scattered populations in rich, loamy, rocky seeps from Louisiana to Virginia. It is a slowly creeping fern, with erect, 4' tall, slender, dark green, twice-cut fronds.
This is a garden aristocrat. Plant it in a moist shade garden in the back where it will be the perfect back-drop for spring and summer wildflowers. It is hardy in New York, but deciduous, and will be evergreen in the south. Cat# 1551
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