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Rudbeckia laciniata ‘Herbstsonne’ Rudbeckia nitida ‘Herbstsonne’ syn. Rudbeckia ‘Autumn Sun’ Z 5-10
Exceptionally large & drooping petals, with a tall, central cone of green, blooms July to September.
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Exceptionally large & drooping petals, with a tall, central cone of green, blooms July to September.
Size: 4-7’ x 2-3’
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
Wildlife Value: provides butterfly nectar and seeds food for birds
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden MeritIt’s “an old selection.”
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Rumex sanguineus ssp. sanguineus Bloody dock Z 5-8
ornamental green foliage embroidered with red veins
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Grown for its ornamental green foliage embroidered with red veins.
Size: 12" x 12"
Care: sun to shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: uncommon sport of species from Europe, SW Asia & N. Africa
Size: Containers, borders for bold effect. Young leaves of this Sorrel edible – taste like Chard. Adds color to salads & makes fine soup.Sanguineus means “blood-red”, from Latin sanguis, meaning “blood.” In gardens by 1760’s.
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Salix discolor Pussy willow Z 4-8
Grown for its fuzzy catkins appearing in late winter before the leaves emerge
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Grown for its fuzzy catkins appearing in late winter before the leaves emerge
Size: 15-20’ x 12-15’
Care: full sun, prefers moist soil but tolerates well-drained soil
Native: E. No. America incl. WI
Wildlife Value: Important food source for many pollinator bees incl. honey bees. Pussy willows attract queens looking for a location for a new colony. Host to caterpillars of cecropia moth, red-spotted purple, tiger swallowtail, & viceroy butterflies. Hummingbirds make nests from the pussy fluff.The name Salix is from “salio” meaning “to leap or dance, because of its quick growth.” Gardeners Dictionary, 1768. This species introduced to cultivation by German plant hunter Gotthilf Henry Ernest Muhlenberg in late 1700’s-early 1800’s. Willows contain salicin, the pain-killer in aspirin, and used since ancient Greece to relieve pain.
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Sanguisorba tenuifolia Great burnet, Japanese burnet Z 4-8
One to two inch long spikes - purplish red, in late summer
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One to two inch long spikes – purplish red, in late summer
Size: 4-6’ x 12”
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: Northern AsiaSanguisorba is Latin meaning to soak up blood, for the plant’s reputed ability to clot blood.
Collected by 1851.
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Scabiosa columbaria f. nana Dwarf dove pincushions Z 4-8
Lavender- blue pincushions
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Lavender- blue pincushions on this short, front-of-the-border flower that blooms for four, yes, 4, months, June to September. Deadhead to promote reblooming.
Size: 6-12” x 12-18”
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained alkaline soil
Native: Europe
Wildlife Value: Attracts bees, butterflies and birdsDifferent colored ones including lavender and pink described in The Garden 1872.
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Scabiosa japonica var. alpina Alpine pincushion flower Z 4-9
Lavender-blue pincushions over mound of gray-green foliage, blooms June-September
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Lavender-blue pincushions over mound of gray-green foliage, blooms June-September
Size: 6-12” x 12”
Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil
Native: Japan’s subalpine meadows
Wildlife Value: attracts bees, butterflies and birdsDescribed by Japanese botanist Hosayoshi Takeda before 1962.
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Schizophragma hydrangeoides ‘Rosea’ Pink Japanese hydrangea vine Z 5-8
Deciduous woody climber clinging by adhesive, aerial roots, with showy flower-heads resembling lacecap hydrangeas, with creamy-white flowers surrounded by showy bracts that age to rosy pink, blooming in July & August & its sepals remain conspicuous long after. Heart-shaped foliage turns yellow in fall.
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Deciduous woody climber clinging by adhesive, aerial roots, with showy flower-heads resembling lacecap hydrangeas, with creamy-white flowers surrounded by showy bracts that age to rosy pink, blooming in July & August & its sepals remain conspicuous long after. Heart-shaped foliage turns yellow in fall.
Size: 20-30’ x 6-9’
Care: part shade to shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Japan where they “climb the trunks of tall trees and blossom among the lower limbs.” Arnold Arboretum Bulletin 1933.
Wildlife Value: Deer resistant.
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.‘Rosea’ found by English planthunter Charles Maries c. 1878, collecting for London’s Veitch Nursery and referred to in The Book of Climbing Plants and Wall Shrubs, Samuel Arnett 1902.
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Scutellaria alpina Alpine skullcap Z 5-9
Mounds of two-toned snapdragon-like flowers July - October.
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Bailey (1913): “A hardy spreading perennial about 10 in. high, with ovate, serrately dentate leaves and large, purple and white, somewhat yellowish flowers in dense, terminal racemes. … A handsome rock or low border perennial.” Mounds of two-toned snapdragon-like flowers July – October.
Size: 6-10” x 12”
Care: Sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: Pyrenees, Appennines to the Balkans; central Russia to southern SiberiaLinnaeus’ imaginative mind named this genus after the Latin sculellum meaning “a little dish,” because of its resemblance to the flower’s helmet-shaped calyx. In gardens before 1753.
