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| Achillea x 'Fireland' |
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| Fireland Yarrow |
Zones: 3, 4, 8, 6, 5, 7, 9
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A hybrid between the drought buster, A. taygeta and our native A. millefolium, 'Fireland' has red/orange flowers on sturdy 3' stems from early to mid-summer. It would look great with butterfly weed, coreopsis 'Creme Brulee', and Russian sage. Cat# 1587 -more info-
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| Actaea pachypoda 'Misty Blue' |
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| Misty Blue Doll's Eyes, White Baneberry |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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'Misty Blue' baneberry is a selection of our native doll's eyes with soft, blue-green, finely cut foliage. Its puffy, white, spring flowers are followed in the fall by large white berries with dark spots on them (looking like doll's eyes) but the fruiting stems or pedicels are attractive reddish purple. Plants make a full 2' clump in several years and are long lived in good, moist soil and shade. 'Misty Blue' would look great in masses with wild ginger or foamflower and trilliums in front of it and something taller like bottlebrush buckeye or Florida anise tree or spicebush behind them. Cat# 1589 -more info-
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| Athyrium nipponicum 'Regal Red' |
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| Regal Red Japanese Painted Fern |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 8, 7, 9
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'Regal Red' Painted Fern is a more deeply colored selection of the beautiful Japanese painted fern. Fronds are silvery green with beautiful rose centers. New fronds are more intensely colored. Give this painted fern bright indirect light and average to good moisture-retentive soil. Clumps reach to about 1- feet tall and about as wide. They die back to the ground after a good freeze. 'Regal Red' would be outstanding with heuchera 'Obsidian', dog hobble, and Labrador violet. Cat# 1588 -more info-
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| Baptisia x 'Midnight' |
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| Midnight False Indigo |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 8, 7
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Dr. Ault at the Chicago Botanical Gardens has introduced yet another outstanding wild blue indigo in the Prairieblues series. This one, 'Midnight', has late spring/early summer, deep violet-blue, 2' inflorescences that are then followed by more flowers lower down on the plant effectively extending the bloom time to more than a month. Like our other baptisias, give 'Midnight' full sun and average to dry soil. It is very long lived and drought tolerant and will be a large, major player in your garden. Picture it with smooth phlox, stokesia 'Peachies Pick', and a white or yellow coneflower... Cat# 1590 -more info-
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| Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost' |
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| Siberian Bugloss, Brunnera |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Siberian bugloss is a very slowly spreading perennial that is grown primarily for its attractive foliage. 'Jack Frost', which is the Perennial Plant Association Perennial of the Year for 2012, has drop-dead gorgeous, silver and green heart shaped leaves that form 1 1/2 foot hosta-like clumps. In addition, in the spring, there are tiny, light blue, forget-me-not flowers on delicate 18" stems. The effect is beautiful and soft. Grow 'Jack Frost' in evenly moist, neutral soil in mostly shade where it will spread slowly and brighten a dark spot. Bleeding hearts, maidenhair ferns, shooting stars, and 'Misty Blue' doll's eyes would be excellent companions. Cat# 1591 -more info-
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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 -more info-
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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 -more info-
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| Echinacea purpurea 'PowWow Wild Berry' |
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| Purple Coneflower PowWow Wild Berry |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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This new purple coneflower, an All-America Selections winner, differs from all the others in flower color, branching, and plant size. It packs major flower color on a compact plant for a long time. Deep rose flowers that are 3-4" wide, hold their intense color longer than other coneflowers on branched stems that only grow to 2' or so. The plant reblooms continuously all summer without needing deadheading. As with all the other coneflowers, give it full sun and average to dry conditions. It is easy and very rewarding. Join it in a container with muhly grass and coreopsis 'Sienna Sunset'. Wow! Cat# 1594 -more info-
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| Echinacea purpurea 'Solar Flare' |
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| Solar Flare Purple Coneflower |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Yet another introduction by Itsaul Plants in the Big Sky series of coneflowers, 'Solar Flare' is a compact plant with huge, brilliantly colored flowers. From 12" clumps of foliage, 2'-3' dark purple/green flower stalks bear 5", spreading flat, fragrant, bright orange/red petals with dark brown cones. The contrasting colors are effective in making the flowers really stand out. Flowering continues from early summer into fall. Grow this beauty in full sun and average soil. Cat# 1595 -more info-
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| Heuchera 'Delta Dawn' |
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| Coral Bells, Heuchera Delta Dawn |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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''Delta Dawn' has large, round, lime/gold leaves with red centers and venation in the spring and fall. The coloration is fantastic. Part shade and average soil will make this easy grower very happy. Try it with dog hobble, seersucker sedge, and heuchera 'Citronelle'. Cat# 1596 -more info-
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| Heucherella 'Solar Eclipse' |
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| Foamy Bells, Solar Eclipse Heucherella |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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'Solar Eclipse' is an extraordinary new introduction with dense, leafy, 10" mounds composed of broadly scalloped burgundy brown leaves that are rimmed with lime green. Puffy white flowers occur on 16" stalks in late spring. It looks like an artists creation. The colors are so strong and striking. This easy little treasure can take full shade to all but the hottest afternoon sun and average soil. In a shady spot, try it with maidenhair fern and bowman's root. 'Solar Eclipse' is even attractive in the winter making it a container gem. Picture it with deep burgundy and yellow Johnny Jump-ups. Cat# 1597 -more info-
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| Juniperus virginiana 'Poyo' |
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| Dwarf Eastern Red Cedar, Poyo |
Zones: 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 7, 5, 3
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Eastern Red Cedar is a lovely and very common small tree that occurs throughout the United States from the Rocky Mountains east. It seems to be ubiquitous in every sunny fencerow where a bird has had an opportunity to sit for a while. It can thrive where few other plants can grow. The species is a 20 to 40' gray/green, columnar to broadly pyramidal tree that in time may have beautiful gray peeling bark and bright red wood. 'Poyo' is a dwarf, spreading form that makes bright blue/green 3' by 4' clumps. Needle color is an attractive silver-blue. Clumps have dense centers and branches spread out gracefully. Use 'Poyo' in full sun and average to dry soil where you want a fine textured evergreen - as a low hedge, a back drop, or as accents in a larger garden. Cat# 1598 -more info-
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| Lobelia cardinalis 'alba' |
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| White Cardinal Flower |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Here is a pure white form of cardinal flower. All aspects of it are identical to its red parents except its snowy white color. Cat# 1599 -more info-
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| Nepeta faassenii 'Walkers Low' |
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| Catmint |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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'Walkers Low' catmint is a beautiful perennial with gray-green aromatic foliage on long, arching stems. Lavender-blue spikes of flowers are produced continuously from late spring until frost if it is pruned back by 2/3rds after the initial flowers fade. It will thrive in full sun and average to dry, neutral soil. It is so easy and rewarding, that it was awarded the title of Perennial Plant of the Year for 2007 by the Perennial Plant Association. Its soft gray and blue colors, and its billowy habit, combine beautifully with just about every perennial for full sun. It is very effective when massed as a ground cover, when allowed to cascade over a wall, or when used individually. Bees and butterflies love it but deer and rabbits don't. Cat# 1600 -more info-
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| Orostachys boehmeri |
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| Chinese Dunce Cap |
Zones: 6, 7, 8, 9
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Chinese dunce cap is an interesting little succulent from Japan with rosettes of very pale gray leaves. Plants look like miniature hens and chicks. Young plants quickly produce offsets on thin spaghetti stems effectively spreading individuals out over a foot or so. In late summer and fall, 2 to 4" flowering stems poke up from rosettes forming cone shapes that look like dunce caps. Very interesting. The flowers are pale yellow and not showy. Give this little succulent full sun and dry, very well drained soil. Ours are happy in tufa troughs with birds foot violets, cliff stonecrop, and fameflower. Cat# 1601 -more info-
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| Phlox carolina 'Kim' |
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| Kim Garden Phlox, Thickleaf Phlox |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Phlox carolina is native to all the southeastern states, Missouri and Arkansas in deciduous woods, savannahs, and clearings. Brilliant pink, dome-shaped panicles on 18" stems appear in early to mid summer. It is beautiful in the wild along roadsides.;'Kim' is a shorter, slowly spreading ground covering selection that does well in full to part sun and average to moist soil. Flower color is not as intense, medium pink/lavender. Let it form a mat at the front of your garden along with 'Blue Ice' bluestar, and Canada anemone. It is mildew resistant and attracts butterflies.; Cat# 1602 -more info-
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| Phlox paniculata 'Shortwood' |
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| Shortwood Summer Phlox |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Phlox paniculata is widespread along stream banks and roadsides in the eastern United States everywhere but in Florida. It is the wild phlox you may see blooming in the summer with big balls of pink, lavender, or even white flowers. This species has given rise to many cultivated forms. 'Shortwood' is one that is believed to have come from P. 'David' and 'Eva Cullum'. She has brilliant pink flowers from mid summer into fall and is mildew resistant in full sun and good soil. It is a butterfly magnet, makes a great cut flower, and is super fragrant. Cat# 1603 -more info-
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| Phlox subulata |
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| Moss Phlox, Moss Pink |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Moss phlox is a prostrate, semi-evergreen native perennial that lives on dry, often rocky open slopes and clearings throughout much of eastern North America. In mid to late spring, showy 5-petaled flowers in colors ranging from white to shocking pink to pale blue (and all colors in between) will literally cover the foliage. Plants form mats of very linear, needle-like leaves. This profuse flowering display combined with its adaptability to difficult conditions has made moss phlox a very popular landscaping plant. There are few plants better for covering a sunny, dry bank, for cascading over a stonewall, or for edging. It wants good drainage and full sun except towards the southern end of its range where some protection from the hot afternoon sun would be welcome. Ours are mixed colors including bright rose, soft lavender, bluish, and very pale lavender. Cat# 1604 -more info-
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| Podophyllum peltatum |
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| Mayapple |
Zones: 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 6, 9
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Mayapple is a common wildflower of good woodland soil throughout the eastern two thirds of North America. In early spring, solitary stems poke up from the soil like thick fingers. These gradually lengthen and then unfurl exposing two 12" wide, umbrella-like, glossy green leaves, first drooping and protective, then held flat outright. Older plants will have a single large white nodding flower where the two leaf petioles fork. The flowers are hard to see beneath the leaves and are short-lived. Successful pollination results in red berries, the apple, in early summer. Then the plant heads back underground until next spring. But while it is up, mayapple will cover quite a bit of ground in time; it's leaves so dense and wide-spreading that it appears as a solid ground cover. Think of mayapple as a beautiful plant that is a ground cover and fills in while other plants are getting ready for their own displays. Plant it among shrubs such as spicebush, paw paw, or hydrangea, or with taller perennials like doll's eyes, cohosh, tall larkspur, or ostrich fern. Cat# 1605 -more info-
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| Thelypteris noveboracensis |
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| New York Fern |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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New York fern is a common fern throughout eastern North America in moist woods with filtered light where it often forms extensive colonies. Clumps of graceful upright, arching bright green, twice-cut fronds spread underground. It is an excellent fern to use as a quickly spreading ground cover in moist, neutral to very acidic soil. Give it room to romp. Cat# 1606 -more info-
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| Tiarella cordifolia 'Spring Symphony' |
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| Spring Symphony Foam Flower |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Here's another outstanding introduction from Terra Nova Nursery. 'Spring Symphony', a clumper, not only has dense spikes of very light pink flowers, but it also has deeply cut leaves (resembling turkey feet) with black splotches along their midribs. Very showy! Give this one a front and center position in your shade garden and surround it with maidenhair fern, cobra lilies, and dwarf crested iris. It will bloom for 2 months in spring and as with all foamflowers, is evergreen. Cat# 1288 -more info-
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| Viburnum nudum var. cassinoides |
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| Possum Haw, Witherod |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Possum haw is a big, rounded, multi-stemmed, deciduous shrub that thrives in damp woods, thickets, and swamps across eastern North America. Shrub form is rounded and multi-stemmed. Variety cassinoides is the more southern type and has smaller, oval, matte green leaves, while var. nudum (from which Viburnum 'Winterthur' is derived), is more northern and has leathery, glossy leaves. Flat-topped white flowers appear in spring and are followed in the fall by the most beautiful berry display imaginable. Clusters of large " berries morph from light pink, to brilliant pink/red, to red, blue, then almost black when finally, birds gobble them up. In addition to providing food for birds, this variety is particularly useful as a pollinator for Viburnum 'Winterthur'. Plant them nearby one another to get a bumper fruit crop on 'Winterthur'. For best fruiting and fall foliage color, give possum haw full sun to light shade and average to moist soil. Cat# 1608 -more info-
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