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| Achillea millefolium 'Terra Cotta' |
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| Terra Cotta Yarrow |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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'Terra Cotta' is a selection of our native yarrow that has multicolored flower heads ranging from salmon-peach to pale yellow-orange to terra cotta all appearing at the same time. Flowering is all summer if dead-headed often. About 30 inches tall, foliage silvery. Wants full sun, average to dry soil. Cat# 1431 -more info-
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| Antennaria plantaginifolia |
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| Pussytoes |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Pussytoes is widely occurring throughout the eastern United States on open, dry, wooded slopes where it forms scattered mats of dark green or silver, 2 to 3 inch long, spoon shaped leaves. In spring, silvery-white, pussy toe shaped clusters of fuzzy flower heads appear on stalks up to 8 inches tall. This little plant is useful as an evergreen groundcover in shady dry places (maybe a wood's edge) where is can form beautiful silvery mats which spread by white runners. New growth tends to be white and changes to dark green over time. Give it some shade, dry, well drained (poor) soil, and NO mulch. Alumroot, Firepink, and Columbine would be natural companions. Cat# 1401 -more info-
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| Pussytoes |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Pussytoes is widely occurring throughout the eastern United States on open, dry, wooded slopes where it forms scattered mats of dark green or silver, 2 to 3 inch long, spoon shaped leaves. In spring, solitary, silvery white, pussy toe shaped fower heads appear on stalks 4 to 5 inches tall. This little plant is useful as a groundcover in shady dry places where is can form beautiful silvery mats which spread by white runners. New growth tends to be white and changes to dark green over time. Give it some shade, dry well drained (poor) soil, and NO mulch. Alumroot, Firepink, and Columbine would be natural companions. Cat# 1225 -more info-
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| Pussytoes, Shale Barrens |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7
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The Shale Barrens Pussytoes is restricted to dry, shaly barrens of the mountains of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Delaware where it roots into rock crevices and forms thick mats of small silver leaves. Spreading slowly by runners, over time it will form beautiful silvery mats in dry, partly shady, poor soil. In spring, silvery white, pussy toe shaped clusters of fuzzy flowers appear on stalks up to 15 inches tall. Alumroot, Firepink, and Columbine would be natural companions. Cat# 1267 -more info-
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| Aquilegia canadensis 'Little Lanterns' |
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| Columbine, Little Lanterns , dwarf red |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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'Little Lanterns' is a great selection of wild Columbine which grows less than 1 foot tall. It has the same lovely green/blue glaucous leaves and deep red and yellow flowers. Give it sun or shade and very well drained, lean soil. Due to it's shorter stature, 'Little Lanterns' might be better suited for the right next to the path or wall, or the middle of the rock garden. Collect its seeds and sow them where you want more or let it naturalize at will. Cat# 1326 -more info-
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Photo courtesy of Jelitto Staudensamen GmbH
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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, 1" 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 -more info-
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Available: Currently
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| $10.00 each
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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 -more info-
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| $10.00 each
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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 -more info-
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Available: Fall 2010
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| $10.00 each
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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 -more info-
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| $10.00 each
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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 -more info-
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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 -more info-
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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 -more info-
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| $15.00 each
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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 -more info-
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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 -more info-
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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 -more info-
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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 -more info-
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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 -more info-
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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 -more info-
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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 -more info-
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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 -more info-
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| Dianthus 'Wicked Witch' |
 New this Year!
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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 -more info-
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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 -more info-
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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 -more info-
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| Disporopsis pernyi |
New this Year!
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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 -more info-
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| $12.00 each
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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 -more info-
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