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Long blooming Garden for sun
Long Blooming Garden for sun.
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Long Blooming Garden for Sun Size : Height x width* Bloom color
3 Agastache foeniculum -Anise hyssop 2-3’ x 12” purple
1 Callirhoe involucrata – Prairie poppy mallow 6” x 12-24” magenta
3 Erodium manescavii – Heron’s bill 12-18” x 8” magenta
1 Papaver rupifragum – Spanish poppy 12-18” x 8” purple
3 Rudbeckia triloba – Brown-eyed susan 3-4’ x 2-3’ yellow
3 Ruellia humilis – Prairie petunia 8-10” x 10” purple
1 Scabiosa ochroleuca- Cream pincushion flower 24-30” x 18” white
1 Teucrium hircanicum – Iranian germander 18” x 28” purpleThese BLOOM for two months or more. All plants are perennials.
If planted together in one garden these make a 24 square foot garden. *Most of these plants get wider over time by spreading roots or by self-seeding .
16 plants for $159.80. Would be $188.00 if purchased separately. You save $28.20.
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Magnolia virginiana Sweetbay magnolia 5-10
Large, ivory cups, lemon scented
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Large, ivory cups, lemon scented, in May & June & sporadically all summer & fall. 6” long leaves, waxy green on top and silvery-frosted beneath. In fall fruits open to reveal bright red seeds.
Size: 20’ x 15’
Care: Sun to part shade in acidic, moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Atlantic coast from NY to FL, west along Gulf coast to TX
Wildlife Value: nectar source for Spicebush swallowtail butterflyMagnolia named for Pierre Magnol, Montpellier professor of medicine and director of the botanic garden. (1638-1715) This species collected by Rev. John Banister in Virginia c. 1690. One of the mainstays of John Bartram’s seed business, Peter Collinson, Bartram’s agent in England, said, “the name Magnolia will sell a box of seeds.” Offered for sale in Bartram Garden’s 1783 Broadside, America’s 1st plant catalog. Pressed specimen in Emily Dickinson’s herbarium.
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Marshallia caespitosa Barbara’s Buttons Z 5-8
Dainty balls of white, fragrant flowers are borne on slender, leafless stalks, April to June
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Dainty balls of white, fragrant flowers are borne on slender, leafless stalks, April to June
Size: 12-18” x 6-12”
Care: full sun to part shade in moist, well-drained soil
Native: KS to AR, LA & TX
Wildlife Value: Attracts bees and butterfliesMarshallia grows wild in prairies with Little bluestem and Coreopsis lanceolata. Nuttall, 1836
Genus name honors Humphry Marshall (1722-1801) and his nephew Moses Marshall (1758-1813), American botanists. -
Melampodium leucanthum Blackfoot daisy Z 5-10
No fail low mounds of up to 50 small white daisies spring-fall, atop narrow, hairy, grey-green leaves
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No fail low mounds of up to 50 small white daisies spring-fall, atop narrow, hairy, grey-green leaves
Size: 6-10” x 12-20”
Care: sun to part-shade in well-drained soil. Its tap root reaches down for moisture and hair on foliage protects if from desiccating winds and sun - xeric plant
Native: Colorado, Oklahoma, TX &AZ (no wonder it likes well drained soil) but perfectly happy as far north as 20° below zero in winter.
Wildlife Value: birds eat seeds –pollen and nectar attract bees and butterflies. Deer resistantBotany professor John Riddell found this in Texas, Described in Flora of North America, 1842.
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Minuartia larcifolia Larch leaf sandwort Z 5-8
White blooms May-June over needle-shaped foliage
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White blooms May-June over needle-shaped foliage
Size: 4-5” x 12-15”
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: Mountains from Austria to SpainCollected before 1753.
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Monarda bradburyana Eastern beebalm, Bradbury’s Monarda Z. 5-8
Whorls of pale pink hood-shaped petals with dark purple spots, April to June.
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Whorls of pale pink hood-shaped petals with dark purple spots, April to June.
Size: 18-24" x 24"
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil. Walnut toxicity resistant.
Native: IL west to KS, south from AL to TX
Wildlife Value: attracts butterflies and hummingbirdsNamed for its collector, Englishman Bradbury who searched for plants in central No. America in 1810. In gardens by 1826.
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Myosotis palustris syn. M. scorpioides Forget-me-not Z. 5-9
Small gentian flowers with golden eyes, spring into fall
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Small gentian flowers with golden eyes, spring into fall.
Can not ship to: New Hampshire
Size: 9-12” x 12”
Care: sun to part shade in moist soil
Native: temperate areas world wide“Myosotis” is Greek meaning mouse ear for the leaf shape. Around 1390 Henry IV adopted soveigne vous de moy, Forget-me-not, as a symbol not to forget his reign. A German legend attributes the common name to a lover who, gathering the flower, cried out “forget-me-not” as he fell into the river and died. Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote: “The sweet forget-me-nots; That grow for happy lovers.” Persian poet Shiraz told another folk tale: an angel fell from heaven by falling in love with a “daughter of earth,”when they sat by a river twining Forget-me-not flowers in her hair. The angel was not allowed to return until the lovers planted Forget-me-nots in every corner of the earth, which they did, hand in hand. She then became immortal “without tasting the bitterness of death” and joined the angel in Paradise.
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Oenothera speciosa Evening primrose Z 5-8
June to August pale pink saucer-like blossoms
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June to August ballerina pink saucer-like blossoms, excellent groundcover.
Size: 12" x 12" spreader
Care: Full sun moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: Southwest U.S. to MexicoAnother Thomas Nuttall discovery – 1819.
