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  • Ononis natrix Yellow restharrow Z 4-8

    Yellow pea like flowers with red veins June- August

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    Yellow pea like flowers with red veins June- August

    Size: 12” X 12”
    Care: sun in dry soil
    Native: Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Circum-Mediterranean

    Linnaeus 1753

  • Papaver orientale ‘Beauty of Livermere’ Z 3-9

    Glossy fire engine red petals with black heart in June.

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    Scarlet, tissue-thin petals surround a purple blotch at the base highlighted with purple stamens

    Size: 3' x 2'
    Care: sun in well-drained soil. Foliage dies back in summer & reemerges in the cool autumn.
    Wildlife Value: Attracts hummingbirds, bees & butterflies. Deer & rabbit resistant.

    This red selection listed in Matineau’s book 1910

  • Parthenocissus quinquefolia Virginia creeper Z 3-9

    Brilliant scarlet in autumn

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    Spring leaves bronzy, turn green in summer and then brilliant scarlet in autumn, with contrasting blue berries with red stems.

    Size: 50’ x 10'
    Care: Either sun or shade in well-drained soil
    Native: Eastern No. America
    Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.

    Parthenocissus is Greek meaning “virgin ivy.” Cultivated in American gardens since 1700’s.  Sent to England by English planthunter Tradescant the Younger in the 1640’s. Grown by Jefferson.

  • Passiflora caerulea Blue passion flower Z 6-9

    Exotic, large blossoms with an outer ruffle of petals and sepals

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    Exotic, large blossoms with an outer ruffle of petals and sepals; an inner disc of concentric rings of blue, white and purple filaments; and a central “antenna.” From mid-summer through fall.

    Size: 15’ x 4’
    Care: sun in well-drained soil
    Native: So. America
    Wildlife Value: Host for several butterfly caterpillars
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit

    Since at least 1753

  • Passiflora incarnata Maypop Z. 5 (with protection)-9

    Abundant, extremely showy lavender and white flowers all summer then egg size yellow fruit that you can eat. Most hardy of the passionflowers.

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    Abundant, extremely showy lavender and white flowers all summer then egg size yellow fruit that you can eat. Most hardy of the passionflowers.

    Size: 10-15’ x 18”
    Care: sun in moist soil
    Native: Eastern US
    Wildlife Value: Attracts butterflies

    Collected by Rev. John Banister who moved to colonial Virginia in 1678. A gunman mistakenly shot and killed him while he collected plants. Pressed specimen in Emily Dickinson’s herbarium. Dies back to ground in winter only to pop out of the ground in May, hence “Maypop.”

  • Philadelphus lewisii Lewis’ Mock Orange Z 4-9

    A triple delight. From late spring to early summer clusters of 2” wide, four-petaled, snow-white flowers with a center boss of sunny stamens smother stem ends on this vase-shaped shrub. The flowers perfume the air with a delicious, orange scent. Then in fall the foliage turns citrus-yellow. Idaho adopted this as the state flower.

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    A triple delight. From late spring to early summer clusters of 2” wide, four-petaled, snow-white flowers with a center boss of sunny stamens smother stem ends on this vase-shaped shrub. The flowers perfume the air with a delicious, orange scent. Then in fall the foliage turns citrus-yellow. Idaho adopted this as the state flower.

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    Size: 5-10’ x 5-7’
    Care: sun to part-shade in moist to well-drained soil
    Native: from British Columbia to California, east to Montana.
    Wildlife Value: Nectar and pollen attract bumble bees, moths, butterflies and hoverflies. It hosts caterpillars and chrysalises. Many birds eat the seeds.

    Natives used its strong and hard wood to make arrows, bows, combs, pipes for smoking, snowshoes, clubs, armor to protect chests, fishing spears, harpoon shafts, sticks for digging, knitting needles and baskets. Meriwether Lewis collected this plant on the Lewis & Clark Expedition in two places, in early May 1806 in Nez Perce County Idaho and two months later in Missoula County, Montana.

  • Platycodon grandiflorus double Double Balloon flower Z 3-9

    Balloon shaped buds opening to double blue bells from mid-summer to early fall. Deadhead for rebloom.

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    Balloon shaped buds opening to double blue bells from mid-summer to early fall. Deadhead for rebloom.

    Size: 24” x 12”
    Care: Full sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil, Heat and drought tolerant.
    Native: Eastern Asia
    Wildlife Value: attracts bees & butterflies

    Platycodon is Greek from platys meaning “broad” and kodon meaning “bell”, referring to the shape of the flower. Cultivated in China for hundreds of years where it is called Jie-geng.  The Chinese used the root boiled to cure a chill in the stomach. Mentioned in Man’yoshu, a Japanese anthology of poems written in the 8th century.  German botanist Johann Gmelin first discovered P. grandiflorus in Siberia in 1754.  Gmelin’s Siberian mission, sponsored by Catherine the Great, took 10 years and nearly killed him.  Gmelin introduced it to European garden cultivation by 1782.  The double form since 1800’s.

  • Pollia japonica Z 5-8 Yabumyooga in Japanese

    Whorls of white flowers on a stalk above foliage blooming in July-August turn to blue berries in fall, oblong, foot-long, shiny foliage resembling ginger leaves.  

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    Whorls of white flowers on a stalk above foliage blooming in July-August turn to blue berries in fall, oblong, foot-long, shiny foliage resembling ginger leaves.

    Size: 1-3’ x 1-3’ spreads by rhizomes
    Care: part to full shade in medium to moist soil
    Native: Forests in China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan

    Collected by Thunberg by 1784. Used medicinally in Asia to treat colds and vertigo.