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Potentilla argyrophylla Cinquefoil Z 5-8
Sunshine colored saucers with orange centers in early summer
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Sunshine colored saucers with orange centers in early summer
Size: 24” x 24”
Care: sun in well-drained soil
Native: Nepal, China, Pakistan & AfghanastanPotentilla is Latin meaning powerful referring to medicinal properties. Argyrophylla means silver leaved. Potentillas used by dentists in the 16th century to reduce pain according to Gerard, English herbalist. Per Culpepper, 17th century English herbalist potentilla is to be used if Jupiter is ascending and the moon is “applying to him.” This species collected by 1831.
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Potentilla hippiana Woody cinquefoil Z 4-8
Small clusters of yellow flowers atop fuzzy, toothed edged leaves
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Small clusters of yellow flowers, July-August, atop fuzzy, toothed edged leaves
Size: 5-20” x 12"
Care: full sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: Central & Southeast USA & much of Canada
Wildlife Value: Bee plantJohann Georg Lehmann (1792-1860) named this species in 1827 from a specimen collected by Edwin James in 1820 near the “sources of the Platte”. Carl Hippio was, in Weber’s words, “a revered colleague of Lehmann”
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Prairie Garden
Prairie Garden
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Prairie Garden Size : Height x width* Bloom color
3 Agastache foeniculum – Anise hyssop 2-3’ x 12” purple
3 Allium cernuum – Prairie onion 12”-18”x 3-6” pink
1 Aster cordifolius – Blue wood aster 2-3’ x 2-3’ blue
3 Bouteloua gracilis – Blue grama 2’ x 12” purple tinge
1 Desmanthus illinoensis – Prairie mimosa 4’ x 3’ white
1 Eryngium yuccifolium – Rattlesnake master 48” x 18” white
1 Eupatorium sessilifolium – Upland boneset 3-4’ x 12-24” white
1 Euphorbia corollata – Flowering spurge 36”x 18” white
3 Geum triflorum – Prairie smoke 12”x 8” pink
1 Hystrix patula – Bottlebrush grass 2-3’ x 12-18” purple/green
1 Monarda fistulosa – Beebalm 3-4’ x 2’ purple
1 Parthenium integrifolium – Wild quinine 2-3’x 12” white
1 Solidago riddellii – Riddell’s goldenrod 3’ x 2’ yellow
3 Sporobolis heterolepsis – Prairie dropseed 2’ x 2’ orange-copper
All plants are perennials.
If planted together in one garden these make a 32 square foot garden. *Most of these plants get wider over time by spreading roots or by self-seeding .
24 plants for $213.47. Would be $251.15 if purchased separately. You save $37.67.
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Primula vulgaris syn. Primula acaulis English primrose Z 4-8
Primrose yellow blossoms in earliest of spring.
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Primrose yellow blossoms cheer on the earliest of spring.
Size: 6" x 6"
Care: shade in moist to moist well-drained soil. Immune to Walnut toxicity
Native: Europe
Awards: Received England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.Primula is from Italian “primavera” meaning first spring. Vulgaris means common. Grown in the Eichstätt Garden, the garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria, c. 1600. Grown by Jefferson. Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811. Old medicinal uses to cure gout and headaches.
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Pulsatilla patens syn. Anemone patens Eastern pasque flower Z 3-7
Up-facing blue-violet bells in early spring emerge from foliage decorated with silky hairs.
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Up-facing blue-violet bells in early spring emerge from foliage decorated with silky hairs.
Size: 8-12” x 4-6" slow to grow, so be patient
Care: sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: northern Great Plains including WI, Siberia, AlaskaThe name Pasque is Old French for Easter referring to the spring bloom time. Patens means “spreading.” South Dakota honors this as its state flower.
Collected for gardens prior to 1753. The Blackfoot made a decoction of this plant to speed a baby’s delivery and applied crushed leaves to skin to remedy irritation. Omaha applied fresh, crushed leaves as a poltice for rheumatism. -
Pulsatilla vulgaris var. ‘Alba’ Z 4-8
Pure white petals of open bell-shape with yellow centers flowers in early spring. Fun, furry foliage and Medusa-like seed heads.
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Pure white petals of open bell-shape with yellow centers flowers in early spring. Fun, furry foliage and Medusa-like seed heads.
Size: 8-12” x 8-12”
Care: sun to part shade in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: Europe
Wildlife Value: Deer resistant, early pollen source for bees
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit“There is a variety of (Pulsatilla vulgaris) with white flowers…” Gardeners Dictionary, 1768.
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Punica granatum var. nana Dwarf pomegranate Z 7-11
Adorable dwarf shrub bearing orange-red blooms in July and August then tiny, edible pomegranates. Where not hardy makes good container plant and bonsai.
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Adorable dwarf shrub bearing orange-red blooms in July and August then tiny, edible pomegranates. Where not hardy makes good container plant and bonsai.
Size: 2-4’ x 2-4’
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: Europe to Himalayas“The plants will bear miniature fruit if grown in areas with year-round temperatures that rarely fall below 40° F. To grow indoors, moderate night-time temperatures should be given (50° to 60° F). Keep at 40° to 45° F in winter until new growth appears. In the growing period, keep moderately moist. Water sparingly from August on. This plant requires good drainage. Plants will bear fruit indoors if grown in a sunny exposure.” Issour Botanic Garden. It is deciduous and may lose its leaves.
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Ranunculus acris ‘Flora-pleno’ Meadow buttercup Z 4-8 POISON
Scads of cheerful yellow balls made from many petals, bloom in early spring. Excellent cut flower
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Scads of cheerful yellow balls made from many petals, bloom in early spring. Excellent cut flower
Size: 18-24” x 12” slowly spreading
Care: Sun to part sun in moist soil
Native: Europe
Wildlife Value: deer resistant, attract butterflies
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden MeritRanunculus is Latin for little frog, so named by Roman Pliny referring to the wet conditions required by some ranunculus. William Robinson considered this “pretty.” The English Flower Garden 1899.
