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| Dolls Eyes, White Baneberry |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Common throughout the eastern US in rich soil on north facing wooded slopes and ravines, Doll's Eyes is best known when it is in fruit displaying its white berries with dark spots resembling old porcelain doll's eyes. Plants grow about 2 feet tall and a little wider forming clumps of astilbe-like leaves. In late spring, small, puffy, fragrant, white flowers appear on stalks well above the foliage. These are later followed by the white berries, which incidentally, are very poisonous. Grow Doll's Eyes in good, organic, well drained soil in full to part shade. They will disappear and go dormant by early fall, sometimes earlier if it's been very hot. Ferns, Blue Sedge, Poppies, and Goldenseal would make good partners. Cat# 1432 -more info-
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Available: 2009 or later
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| Baneberry, Red |
Zones: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Native to rich woods across Canada and the northern half of the United States, Red Baneberry is the red-fruited counterpart of Doll's Eyes, Actaea pachypoda. Plants are long lived and trouble free, forming 2 foot clumps of twice or thrice cut leaves like very coarse fern leaves. One half inch, puffy, creamy white spring flowers mature into clusters of bright red, poisonous, bitter berries, unlikely to be eaten by birds or humans, which persist into late summer. For deep to partial shade and good soil, companion plants might include Blue Sedge, gingers, and Purple Alumroot. Cat# 1131 -more info-
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Available: 2009 or later
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| $10.00 each
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| Maidenhair Fern |
Zones: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Maidenhair Fern has to be the most beautiful of all the eastern native ferns. Fronds (leaves) grow to about 2 feet in height with shiny black stems. The stems fork near the top into 2 semi-circles holding numerous soft green leaflets. The aspect of Maidenhair Fern is delicate and airy. Use it for its wonderful texture. The leaflets flutter in the slightest breeze thus suggesting coolness. Maidenhair Fern needs shade and rich, moist, but well-drained soil. It can take calcareous conditions and spreads moderately by creeping rhizomes. Cat# 1003 -more info-
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Available: 2009 or later
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| $5.00 each
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| Bottlebrush Buckeye |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Though rarely found in the wild, Bottlebrush Buckeye is a large suckering shrub native to moist woodlands of the southeastern coastal plain. In cultivation, given average to moist soil and full sun to part shade, Bottlebrush Buckeye forms a handsome dense suckering shrub colony 10 feet by 10 feet. Typical buckeye leaves are topped in early to mid summer with masses of creamy white flower spikes, each one10 inches long and 4 inches wide. The flower display is outstanding and fall color is often a good yellow. Give this shrub plenty of room as a specimen planting or locate it at a moist wood's edge. When grown in more shade, its aspect will be more open and wispy, and flowering will be quite subtle, but still the effect is beautiful. Cat# 1005 -more info-
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Available: Currently
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| Dwarf Red Buckeye |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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The Dwarf Red Buckeye is a clump forming, deciduous shrub or small tree growing in a rounded form 10 to 20 feet tall and wide. It is easily spotted in moist forests and low open areas in April and May when its brilliant scarlet 6 inch by 9 inch flower clusters shine like beacons. The foliage which has five parted leaflets is a rich green in the summer. Leaves fall early in the fall with no notable color. Although this species normally occurs in light shade, it can be a stunning specimen plant in a sunny location with good soil moisture. Cat# 1004 -more info-
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Photo courtesy of Missouri Botanical PlantFinder
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Available: 2009 or later
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| $12.00 each
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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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Available: Sept 2008
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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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Available: 2009 or later
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| $5.00 each
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| Columbine |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Columbine is a beautiful wildflower that is frequently found on rock cliffs and road cuts in the southeast in partial shade and sharp drainage. It is equally at home though in full shade to full sun. Plants grow 1 to 4 feet tall with delicate orange-red flowers with long spurs. They flower in spring to early summer and except when really cold, keep a small rosette of evergreen foliage. Columbine tends to self-sow prolifically so it would be great for naturalizing in a woodland garden, or if you are lucky enough to have some rock cliffs, ledges, or walls, let it go wild there. Cat# 1012 -more info-
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Available: Currently
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| Aquilegia canadensis 'Corbett' |
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| Corbett Columbine, Dwarf Yellow |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Introduced by Richard Simon of Bluemont Nurseries, Corbett Columbine is just like the wild red Columbine except that is rarely grows over 18 inches tall and its flowers are a pale yellow with short spurs. I prefers partial sun and good soil with good drainage but will tolerate full shade to full sun as long as the soil is not too dry and it drains well. Flowering is in mid to late spring. Good companions would include Bluestar, Blue Phlox, Firepink, Dwarf Crested Iris, and Alumroot. Cat# 1013 -more info-
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Available: Currently
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| Green Dragon |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Green Dragon is similar to the more familiar Jack-in-the-Pulpit in its general form and structure, but it is a much more dramatic looking plant. A stout single leaf divided into 7 to 15 leaflets which spread a foot or more in width, may grow up to 31/2 feet tall. From its base, a green and brown mottled flower stalk rises in late spring with the same spathe and spadix structure as in Jack-in-the-Pulpit. The spadix is long ( in) and twists snake-like up through the leaflets of the plant. The effect is truly exotic, suggesting Green Dragon may be more at home in a tropical rain forest than in our eastern deciduous forests. But it is fully hardy and will do well in light shade and rich, moist soil. Plants die back down to the ground right after flowering unless they make berries but should emerge again in mid spring. Cat# 1014 -more info-
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3 to 4 years old plants
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| Arisaema sikokianum |
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| Japanese Cobra Lily |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Japanese Cobra Lily is a very elegant cousin of our Jack in the Pulpit. The flower is composed of a pure white spadix or Jack that looks like a big puffy marshmellow surrounded by a pitcher that is glowing white inside and dark purple/black on the outside with a dark striped hood. Single flower stalks come up in mid-spring with a pair of 5-lobed glossy green leaves reaching about 12 to 20 inches tall. Unlike many other Arisaemas, the foliage stays up all summer. If you are lucky and the flowers were pollinated (you need at least 2 plants), you may see bright red berried fruits in late summer.;;Japanese Cobra Lily wants partial to full shade and moderate to moist soil during the growing season. Excessive winter moisture is death to these plants.;;It is truly a gem for the shaded garden. These plants may come potted or bare root depending on their stage of growth but they are of blooming age. They are shipped only when NOT actively growing. Generally this means no shipping between April first and August. Cat# 1496 -more info-
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| Jack-In-The-Pulpit |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Jack-in-the-Pulpit is a popular perennial wildflower that arises from a bulb-like structure called a corm. Plants have one or two compound leaves with 3 leaflets and grow 18 to (rarely) 30 inches tall. The flowers consist of a green and purple striped spathe (the pulpit) surrounding and arching over a whitish spadix (Jack). It takes 3 years or more for plants to flower from seed. Early summer flowers may be followed by clusters of bright red berries in the fall. Grow this in a rich, moist, shady spot. Plants die back down to the ground right after flowering unless they make berries but should emerge again in mid spring. Cat# 1015 -more info-
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Photo courtesy of Tom Barnes
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5 year old plants
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| Dutchmans Pipe Vine |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Dutchmans Pipe is a common vine in moist southern Appalachian hardwood forests in coves and along stream banks easily twining 20 to 30 feet high. It has been popular as a porch screen for ages because it is fast growing, has large heart shaped leaves, and has odd little flowers. The two inch pale brownish purple flowers are pipe shaped or s-shaped with a widely flaring triangular "mouth" perfect for catching careless flies. The curious looking early summer flowers are borne sparsely among the wide leaves. Try it on a trellis for screening or let it ramble among shrubs and trees. It likes good moist soil and can take either shade or sun. Cat# 1016 -more info-
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Available: Currently
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| Ginger, Deciduous Wild |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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There are just under a dozen species of wild gingers or Little Brown Jugs, which are native to the eastern United States. They grow in rich organic soil shaded by tall trees and shrubs. The evergreen species are in the genus Hexastylis, and the only non-evergreen one is Asarum. All have interesting, brown, jug-shaped flowers that are attached at soil level. The leaves of Deciduous Wild Ginger are bright green, heart-shaped, slightly fuzzy, and large (up to 6 inches across), and it is the only native ginger that loses its leaves in the winter. However, it is also the fastest spreader and makes a great groundcover in good soil in the shade. It grows to about 6 inches tall. Cat# 1249 -more info-
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Available: 2009 or later
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| Asclepias tuberosus 'Hello Yellow' |
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| Butterfly Weed, Hello Yellow |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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If you do not love the color orange (dare I suggest that in the midst of University of Tennessee Volunteers country?), then maybe the yellow Butterfly Weed, 'Hello Yellow', would appeal to you. Its flower colors range from lemony yellow to tangerine/yellow. Since these plants are seed grown, we don't know until they flower just exactly which shade of yellow they'll be. In all other respects, 'Hello Yellow' is just like orange Butterfly Weed - great for a sunny, dry, well drained spot. Cat# 1327 -more info-
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| Lady Fern |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Lady Fern is a common fern in moist woods in North America, Europe, and Asia. Plus there are more than 300 named British forms. The wild type grows 2 to 3 feet tall from erect rhizomes. Its twice cut fronds are a soft green and are very fragile. Lady Fern is easy to grow in good moisture retentive soil in light shade. Use it with abundance with all the spring wildflowers, hostas, and Spicebush. Cat# 1031 -more info-
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Available: Sept 2008
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| Athyrium niponicum 'Pictum' |
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| Japanese Painted Fern |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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This fern is noted for its striking silver green fronds. In spring, its fiddleheads emerge with a rosy glow. Clumps normally grow to about 18 inches tall and do best in a little morning sun, and light shade thereafter in good soil. Some bright light is needed to bring out the beautiful coloration. Use the Japanese Painted Fern to add splashes of silver. Cat# 1032 -more info-
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| Yellow Baptisia |
Zones: 6, 7, 8
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Growing just under 3 feet tall and wide, Yellow Baptisia forms neat tight mounded clumps with short terminal spikes of bright, bright, strong, clear yellow, pea-shaped flowers in early summer. These are followed by decorative rounded pea pods. the leaves are shaped like clover. It likes full sun and average to dry soil. Cat# 1253 -more info-
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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 -more info-
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Available: Sept 2008
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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 -more info-
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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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Available: 2009 or later
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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 Dicentra 'King of 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: Sept 2008
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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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| 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 organic mulches encourage fungal attacks so water sparingly, use a pea gravel or sand mulch, or mulch very lightly with organic mulch 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 Fire Pink, Alumroot, Sundrops, Eared Coreopsis, Dwarf Crested Iris, and Lyre-leaved Sage. Cat# 1052 -more info-
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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 -more info-
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