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• Achillea ageratifolia Greek yarrow Z 4-8

  Silvery foliage smothered with porcelain white flowers June-August, fragrant

  

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  Silvery foliage smothered with porcelain white flowers June-August, fragrant

  Size: 6”x 18”
  Care: sun in dry to moist well-drained soil
  Native: Balkans, Greece & Yugoslavia
  Wildlife Value: Attracts butterflies, deer resistant.
  Size: Good in rock garden & troughs.

  Achillea named for Achilles who used Achillea millefolium to bandage bleeding wounds for his soldiers. According to Philip Miller (1768) Achillea’s common name is “Nosebleed.” Ageratifloia means leaves like an Ageratum.
  Collected before 1796.

• Achillea nana Dwarf yarrow Z 4-7

  White flowers over grey-green foliage blooms for nearly 2 months in summer.

  

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  White flowers over grey-green foliage blooms for nearly 2 months in summer.

  Size: 2-4” x spreading
  Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
  Native: mountains of central Europe

  Collected before 1753. Philip Miller’s The Gardener’s Dictionary (1768) wrote that it is a “native of the Alps…very hardy … will thrive in any soil (and) deserve(s) a place in gardens.” Achillea named for Achilles, hero of Homer’s Illiad, used Achillea millefolium to stop bleeding of his wounded soldiers at the siege of Troy. Achilles learned about the uses of Achillea from Chiron, the Centaur. Nana means “dwarf.”

• Achillea tomentosa Woolly yarrow Z 4-8

  Lemony colored platter-like flower heads from June to July atop a spray of wooly foliage.

  

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  Lemony colored platter-like flower heads from June to July atop a spray of wooly foliage.

   

  Size: 8” x 12”
  Care: Full sun in moist to dry soil
  Native: Southern to Eastern Europe
  Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.

  Grown in garden of Tradescant the Elder’s (1570-1638) in 1630. ”A splendid plant with fern like foliage and rich golden-yellow flower heads.” H.H. Thomas, 1915.  Philip Miller’s The Gardener’s Dictionary, describes this as having “finely cut” leaves with flowers “of a bright yellow colour, and continue long in beauty.” (1768)
  Achillea named for Achilles, hero of Homer’s Iliad, who used a different  Achillea to stop his soldiers’ bleeding at the siege of Troy.  Tomentosa means “furry” or “covered in hairs”,  referring to the leaves of this plant.

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• Acinos alpinus syn. Calamintha alpina syn Clinopodium alpinus

  Reddish purple flowers all summer and fall

  

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  Reddish purple flowers bloom on cushions all summer and fall – “long and late season of bloom.” Foster

  Size: 4-6”x 8”
  Care: sun in well-drained soil
  Native: European mountains - Alps and Pyrenees

  Collected before 1753.
  Common name for its aromatic foliage. It has been used to reduce excessive sweating and fever.  Also, leaves may be brewed for tea.

• Aconitum fischeri Fischer’s monkshood syn. A. carmichaelii

  Spikes of cobalt blue hooded blooms September – October

  

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  Spikes of cobalt blue hooded blooms September – October       POISON

   

  Size: 24-36”x 10”
  Care: part shade in moist soil
  Native: No. Japan, E. Russia, Korea, China
  Wildlife Value: Deer resistant. Attracts butterflies.

  The name Aconitum is from the mythical hill Aconitus in Pontica where Hercules fought with Cerberus.  Philip Miller in The Gardener’s Dictionary (1768) wrote that the name Aconitum comes from Greek word for dart “because the Barbarians used to daub their darts therewith.” The Monkshood reputedly sprang from the jaws of Cerberus, the guard dog of the underworld.  In China called “bao ye wo tou.”  Wm. Robinson considered this one of the best monkshoods.  Collected before 1820.

• Aconitum napellus ‘Albus’ White Monkshood, Wolfsbane Z 4-8 POISON

  Purest of white hooded blooms flowering along spikes in mid to late summer

  

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  Purest of white hooded blooms flowering along spikes in mid to late summer

  Size: 2-3” x 18-24”
  Care: part shade, cool, moist soil
  Native: Europe

  The name Aconitum is from the mythical hill Aconitus in Pontica where Hercules fought with Cerberus. The Monkshood reputedly sprang from the jaws of Cerberus, the guard dog of the underworld. Believed to make a potion that helped witches fly. This was identified by Dioscordies in De Materica Medica for medicinal use around 70 A.D. Philip Miller in The Gardener’s Dictionary (1768) wrote that the name Aconitum comes from Greek word for dart “because the Barbarians used to daub their darts therewith.” He also considered “in flower it makes a pretty appearance.”Used by physicians in 1200’s and to poison wolves: “This Wolf’s bayne of all poisons is the most hastie poison.” Wm. Turner, 1560’s. Called Monkshood due to the shape of each flower like a monk’s hood.
  This white variety in English gardens before 1768, Philip Miller’s Garden Dictionary

• Adiantum aleuticum Western Maidenhair Fern Z 3-9

  Bright green fronds perch atop black stems like the fingers of an open hand

  

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  Bright green fronds perch atop black stems like the fingers of an open hand

  Size: 30” x 30”
  Care: shade in moist, well-drained soil
  Native: East and west of the Cascade Mountains and is also found scattered along the eastern seaboard
  Wildlife Value: Deer resistant
  Awards: Elisabeth C Miller Great Plant Pick, Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit

  According to folklore if a girl can hold the stem without causing the leaves to tremble, then she was chaste.
  Natives used the stems in basketry designs and made tea from the leaves to use as a hair wash.  Quinault burnt the leaves and rubbed ashes in their hair to make it long, shiny and black.  California Natives used the stems for pierced earrings, inserting them into the ear lobe to keep the hole from closing. They chewed the leaves to remedy internal wounds, chest pain, or stomach trouble and made a cough syrup from it.

• Aesculus pavia Red buckeye Z 5-8

  Spectacular raspberry colored upright panicles in spring

  

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  Spectacular raspberry colored upright panicles in spring

  Size: 15’ x 10’
  Care: sun to part shade in moist well drained soil- understory tree
  Native: eastern US
  Wildlife Value: attracts butterflies & feeds hummingbirds
  Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit; Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Gold Medal Plant Award & Missouri Botanic Garden Award of Merit

  Aesculus is a Latin name for a nut bearing tree.  Pavia comes from Peter Pav, a Dutch professor at University of Leyden. Native Americans used nuts from the tree to stupefy fish.  Chickasaws pulverized the root, placed it in baskets and violently churned the baskets in the river to poison fish.  Cherokee carried the nuts in their pockets for good luck, as well as for curing piles and rheumatism.  Pounded nuts also cured swelling, sprains, tumors and infections This plant collected by John Bartram (1699-1777) and sent to England by 1711. Jefferson grew this at Monticello, planted in 1798..