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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 resistant
Botany professor John Riddell found this in Texas, Described in Flora of North America, 1842.
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 Spain
Collected before 1753.
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 hummingbirds
Named for its collector, Englishman Bradbury who searched for plants in central No. America in 1810. In gardens by 1826.
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.
Nepeta nervosa Catmint Z 4-9
Chubby spikes of many clear blue-purple flowers blooming June-September. Deadhead to rebloom
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Chubby spikes of many clear blue-purple flowers blooming June-September. Deadhead to rebloom

Size: 16-20” x 18-24”
Care: sun in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: China
Wildlife Value: deer & rabbit resistant, attracts bees & butterflies
Nepetas may have been named after Nepete, an old Etrusrian city. Nervosa means with conspicuous veins. Collected before 1833.
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 Mexico
Another Thomas Nuttall discovery – 1819.
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