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| Yarrow |
Zones: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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This is a low-growing perennial with beautiful fernlike foliage. Flat-topped clusters of white flowers rise 6 inches to 21/2 feet above the foliage sporadically from late May to frost. These flowers are excellent cut, either fresh or dry. Because of its graceful and nearly evergreen foliage, Yarrow makes a good texture plant for the front of the perennial garden, and it is a staple in meadows. It requires full sun and tolerates drought well. Given fertile soil, Yarrow will spread rapidly. Keep it in check by annually spading out the wanderers. Cat# 1000 -more info-
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Available: Currently
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| Achillea millefolium 'Apple Blossom' |
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| Yarrow, Apple Blossom |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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'Apple Blossom' Yarrow has blooms that open white and mature to a soft pink. It will grow a little over 2 feet tall in full sun and average soil. Cat# 1073 -more info-
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Available: Sept 2008
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| Achillea millefolium 'Paprika' |
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| Yarrow, Paprika |
Zones: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Paprika Yarrow is an easy to grow perennial with fern-like foliage and a long bloom time. It likes full sun and average soil conditons. Flowers shaped like pie plates are bright red with yellow centers and are on stalks 18 to 24 inches tall. You can prolong flowering by cutting back the plants after the first flowering flush in early summer. The flowers are good for cutting and are attractive to butterflies. Cat# 1001 -more info-
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Available: Sept 2008
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| Achillea millefolium 'Summer Pastels' |
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| Yarrow, Summer Pastels |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Summer Pastels has a beautiful mix of soft colored flowers throughout the summer - salmon, butter yellow, pink, and cream. It won an All-America Selections Award in 1990 for its overall ease of culture and dependability. It grows to about 16 inches in full sun and average soil. It makes a good cut flower. Cat# 1002 -more info-
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Available: 2009 or later
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| Anthea Yellow Yarrow |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Achillea Anthea has beautiful clusters of flat-topped soft yellow flowers in early summer. It is a repeat bloomer when dead-headed. It's silvery foliage has very good mildew resistance making this the best choice for gardens where summer heat and humidity are high. Dense clumps grow about 28 inches tall and a little wider. Give it full sun, average soil, and dryish conditions. Cat# 1398 -more info-
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Available: 2009 or later
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| Snowdrop Anemone |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Picture your woods in spring with drifts of pink Phlox, blue Phlox, yellow Poppies, and white fragrant Snowdrop Anemones. The dainty 11/2 inch nodding Buttercup shaped flowers are solitary on 10 to 18 inch stems over clumps of deeply lobed leaves. Flowers are then followed by interesting white woolly fruits. This Anemone loves partial shade and good rich soil where it will spread strongly. It is great for naturalizing. Cat# 1011 -more info-
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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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| Sweet Woodruff |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Sweet Woodruff is a 4 to 6 inch deciduous groundcover for good soil in shade. Bright green narrow leaves are whorled around the stems looking like spokes of a wagon wheel. Clusters of star-shaped white flowers appear in late spring but the soft green foliage of this good groundcover is the primary merit. Great with Bellwort, Gingers, Lenten Rose, and acid loving shrubs. Cat# 1020 -more info-
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Available: Sept 2008
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| Blue Wood Aster |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Common in the woods of the southeastern mountains and surrounding areas, Blue Wood Aster is a lovely fall blooming aster for shade or sun. Like the White Wood Aster, it can help bring fall color to the wood's edge with its many branched inflorescences of 3/4 inch pale lavender-blue and yellow flower heads. Give it good soil and let it naturalize with Indian Pink, Alumroot, native Azaleas, and Green and Gold. In shade, it will sprawl somewhat to 3 feet in length, and in sun it will be fairly stiffly upright and up to 3 feet tall. In our sunny fall garden, it forms clouds of soft blue flowers intermediate in height between the bright yellow Tall Narrow Leaved Sunflower and the short deeper blue Wild Ageratum. It's a beautiful combination. Cat# 1022 -more info-
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Available: Sept 2008
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| White Wood Aster |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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White Wood Aster is fairly common throughout the woods of the eastern United States, where it forms very loose sprawling clumps. It is, however, an excellent choice for the difficult shady corner or border for late summer and fall flowers. Fragrant, starry, white-fading-to-pink, one inch flowers are borne very prolifically along black, wiry, drooping stems to 3 feet in length. These flowers look terrific growing and poking through other plants. Or let the stems cascade over a shady wall. Cat# 1023 -more info-
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Available: Sept 2008
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| Aster ericoides 'Snow Flurry' |
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| Aster Snow Flurry |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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Heath Asters love dry, well-drained soils, in sun to part shade. They form evergreen clumps of needle shaped foliage and literally cover themselves with thousands of 1/2 inch white with yellow centers, many-petaled, daisy-like flowers from early to late fall. This one, 'Snow Flurry', is really neat because it only grows 12 to 18 inches tall and 3 feet wide, forming low, dense, spreading mounds. A natural for the front of the dry garden or to drape over a wall or to spread out onto a walkway, Heath Aster also feeds the fall butterflies. A real winner all the way around. Cat# 1328 -more info-
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Available: Currently
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| Aster oblongifolius 'October Skies' |
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| October skies aster |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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Aromatic Aster is one of our all-time favorites. It just cannot be beat for long lasting fall color or ease of culture. Its dwarf variety, 'October Skies' is just as good but only half as high. So use this one when you want a low spreading dense mound instead of a medium height mound. Cat# 1329 -more info-
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Available: Sept 2008
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| Bignonia capreolata var. atrosanguinea |
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| Red Cross Vine |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Cross Vine is a woody vine that grows to 50 feet or so with compound, semi-evergreen leaves and very showy summer flowers. It is common throughout the east. It winds its way up trees and telephone poles, and over rocks, and holds on by twining and by tendrils that can dig into tree bark. The typical wild type has clusters of 2 inch, red, tubular flowers with widely flaring lobes or lips that are yellow inside. They are very showy and fragrant and hummingbirds love them. This form has entirely reddish maroon flowers - no yellow. Leaves turn reddish purple in the fall. In the south, they are evergreen, otherwise they will loose some leaves when it gets very cold. Grow in full sun and average to moist soil. Plants do not generally get overbearing so a super strength support is not necessary. Flowering is on old wood, thus any pruning is best done shortly after flowering. Cat# 1436 -more info-
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Available: 2009 or later
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| $10.00 each
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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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| 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 -more info-
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| Carex laxiculmis 'Bunny Blue' |
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| Bunny blue Sedge |
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 -more info-
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Available: Currently
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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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| 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 -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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Available: Currently
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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 -more info-
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Available: Sept 2008
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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 -more info-
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Available: Currently
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| Dichromena (Rhynchospora) colorata |
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| White Star Sedge |
Zones: 6, 7, 8, 9
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Common in moist or wet open areas or thin woods along the coastal plain from Virginia to Texas, White Star Sedge looks like a grass with daisy-like flowers with long, drooping, pointed petals. It is actually a grass-like plant called a sedge. The "flowers" are composed of 5 or 6 conspicuous drooping white bracts or leaves surrounding inconspicuous flowers on 1 to 2 foot stems. White Star Sedge can be fairly aggressive in moist soil with sun or part shade and could be used a a bright green ground cover. Drier sites will slow the spread. The white "flowers" are effective all summer into fall. Cat# 1077 -more info-
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Available: Currently
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| Itea virginica 'Henry's Garnet' |
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| Henry's Garnet Virginia Sweetspire, Virginia Sweet |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Itea virginica is an understory shrub native to moist woods in the southeast. It is an open upright shrub growing to about 7 feet tall. It has bright green oblong leaves which turn a good red in the fall. White, fragrant flowers are borne on upright, dense racemes (elongated clusters) 2 to 6 inches long in early- to midsummer. The native species is good enough to include in your garden. But, 'Henry's Garnet' is a truly outstanding selection. The flower clusters are twice as long as the original species, and they arch and cascade above the foliage beautifully. Fall foliage turns deep burgundy. The colorful leaves seem to hold on forever, too, sometimes persisting well into the winter. Grow 'Henry's Garnet' in moist to average soil in full sun or light shade. Expect a happy mature plant to be 6 feet tall and at least that wide. This plant in flower or in fall color is a dazzler. Cat# 1127 -more info-
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Available: 2009 or later
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| Itea virginica 'Little Henry' |
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| Dwarf Virginia Sweetspire |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Itea virginica is an understory shrub native to moist woods in the southeast. It is an open upright shrub growing to about 7 feet tall. It has bright green oblong leaves which turn a good red in the fall. White, fragrant flowers are borne on upright, dense racemes (elongated clusters) 2 to 6 inches long in early- to midsummer. The native species is good enough to include in your garden. But, 'Little Henry' is a truly outstanding selection because it is very dense and compact, growing only to about 3 feet tall and at least as wide. The flower clusters are about 6 inches long, and they arch and spray above the foliage beautifully. Fall foliage turns deep burgundy. The colorful leaves seem to hold on forever, too, sometimes persisting well into the winter. Grow 'Little Henry' in moist to average soil in full sun or light shade. This plant in flower or in fall color is a dazzler, and also a butterfly magnet. Cat# 1307 -more info-
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