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Lavandula angustifolia var. rosea syn. L. spica var. rosea Lavender Z 4
Pink colored lavender flowers, and still fragrant.
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Pink colored lavender flowers, and still fragrant. We especially like this for its compact habit.
Size: 12” x 12”
Care: sun in moist well-drained soilPink variety in gardens by 1800.
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Leucothoë fontanesia Fetterbush, Doghobble Z 5-8 POISON
Suckering evergreen shrub with graceful, arching branches, in May-June fragrant, dangling clusters of waxy, milky white, urn shaped flowers. Burgundy-purple foliage in fall.
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Suckering evergreen shrub with graceful, arching branches, in May-June fragrant, dangling clusters of waxy, milky white, urn shaped flowers. Burgundy-purple foliage in fall.
Size: 3-5’ x3-5’ slow
Care: part shade to shade, moist acidic soil. Protect from winter wind
Native: Mass. To Georgia.
Wildlife Value: attracts bees and butterflies. Deer resistantLeucothoë was a sea goddess in Greek mythology. Fontanesia honors French botanist René Louiches Desfontaines (1750-1833). Named Doghobble because the branches can grow into impenetrable thickets to hinder (hobble) dogs & horses. This species collected before 1788.
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Lilium lankongense pu jing bai he in China Z 5-8
In June to July 6 to 12 fragrant, pale pink upturned petals with deep red spots blossom on this elegant lily.
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In June to July 6 to 12 fragrant, pale pink upturned petals with deep red spots blossom on this elegant lily.
Size: 25-36” x 12"
Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil, acidic soil
Native: alpine grasslands in Xizand and Yunnan ChinaCollected before 1892.
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Lilium regale Regal lily Z 4-8
Midsummer, white trumpets flushed with purple, very fragrant
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Midsummer, white trumpets flushed with purple, very fragrant
Size: 4-6' x 12"
Care: Sun, moist well-drained soil
Native: Western China
Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of MeritLilium was named for the Greek word for smooth, polished referring to its leaves. Ernest Henry “China” Wilson discovered the Trumpet lily when he came upon the Min River valley floor covered with the flowers in bloom, “(n)ot in twos and threes but in hundreds, in thousands, aye, in tens of thousands.” Wilson 1917 Carrying the bulbs out he broke his leg while walking on a narrow mountain trail due to an avalanche. Continuing on the trail Wilson encountered a donkey train coming toward him. To allow the donkeys to pass, he laid down on the trail and let the donkeys step over his body. He walked with a limp the rest of his life, referred to as his “lily limp.” He sent the bulbs to his patron, the Veitch nursery in England.
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Lilium speciosum album Showy lily Z 4-9
Large, nodding flower heads with recurved petals white, glowing pinkish in August, fragrant.
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Large, nodding flower heads with recurved petals white, glowing pinkish in August, fragrant.
Size: 3-4’ x 12”
Care: Sun to part shade in moist, acidic soilLilium was named for the Greek word for smooth, polished referring to its leaves. This species introduced to Europe by Carl Peter von Thunberg around 1777. Von Thunberg (1743-1828), student of Linnaeus at Uppsala University in Sweden. He made three trips to the Cape of Good Hope 1772-1775 where he collected about 1000 new species, Java and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1777 and 15 months in Japan (1775-1777) where he befriended local doctors who gave him hundreds of plants new to Western horticulture. He succeeded Linnaeus as professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. Knighted by Swedish King Gustav. Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811. L.H. Bailey (1935) highly recommended this lily as “(o)ne of the most beautiful and satisfactory of all lilies, robust, permanent (and) easily grown…”
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Lilium speciosum rubrum Z 4-9
Fragrant, deep pink spotted blossoms with recurved petals in late summer
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Fragrant, deep pink spotted blossoms with recurved petals in late summer
Size: 3-4’ x 12”
Care: Sun to part shade in moist, acidic soil
Native: part of China & southern JapanLilium was named for the Greek word for smooth, polished referring to its leaves. Englebert Kaempfer, first physician to the Dutch East India Co. on Deschema Island (1690’s) described Lilium speciosum in his writings, published in 1712. Introduced to Europe by Siebold and to England in 1832. The English periodical Botanical Register described it: “surely if there is anything, not human, which is magnificent in beauty, it is this plant.” In 1896 the Wisconsin Horticultural Society praised this lily as deserving “…a prominent place in every garden…an old standard lily, as far back as our memory goes.”
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Linum flavum compactum Dwarf golden flax Z 4-9 SUBSHRUB
Flowers like canary yellow cups, June-July.
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Flowers like canary yellow cups, June-July.
Size: 6- 12”x 14”
Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: Central & So. EuropeDescribed by Parkinson in 1640. “Flowers golden yellow, in a much branching cyme, the showy petals much exceeding the …sepals … not popularly known in this country.” L H Bailey (1933)
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Liquidambar styrociflua Sweet gum Z 5-9
Star-shaped leaves turn parti-color in fall – red, purple, orange. Gum ball fruit matures in winter.
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Star-shaped leaves turn parti-color in fall – red, purple, orange. Gum ball fruit matures in winter.
Size: 60-80‘ x 40-60’
Care: sun in moist to moist well-drained acidic soil
Native: Eastern US north to southern IL & west to Mississippi River.
Wildlife Value: Deer resistant & black walnut tolerant. Seeds food for numerous birds.Cherokee made a salve for wounds & sores from the tree & mixed it with sheep or cow tallow for itches.
Collected before 1753. Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811.**LISTED AS OUT OF STOCK BECAUSE WE DO NOT SHIP THIS ITEM. IT IS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT OUR RETAIL LOCATION.
