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Sedum album White stonecrop Z 3-8
Clusters of tiny white flowers bloom in mid-summer above succulent, cylindrical foliage.
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Clusters of tiny white flowers bloom in mid-summer above succulent, cylindrical foliage.
Size: 3-6" x 12-18" spreading making an easy groundcover
Care: sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: Europe, Western Asia and Northern Africa
Wildlife Value: Butterflies attracted to flowers, Deer and rabbit resistant.Sedum means “plant that sits.” “Live forever” is an ancient Greek name for sedums. The Roman Pliny claimed that sedum’s juice treated wounds. In the 1500’s English herbalist Gerard called sedums “very full of life,” referring to succulent’s quality of being very easy to grow. This species collected before 1671. It “grows naturally upon old walls in many parts of England.” Gardeners Dictionary, 1768. In 1867 described as “growing, ever so luxuriantly upon roofs and walls (as well as) the rocks at Great Malvern…” Botany of Worcestershire. Landscape designer Andrew Jackson Downing recommended this for edging, 1868.
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Sedum hispanicum var. minus ‘Purple Form’ Little Blue Spanish stonecrop, Tiny buttons Z 4-9
Many petite faintly pink flowers in June, soft, succulent, glaucous leaves form a perfect mound.
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Many petite faintly pink flowers in June, soft, succulent, glaucous leaves form a perfect mound. Perfect for rock gardens, front of border, fairy gardens, roof garden, troughs and groundcover, or any place with drought.
Size: 2” x 8”
Care: sun to part sun in well-drained soil
Native: Southern Europe, Balkan peninsulaThe variety minus is considered a synonym of the species which was described by the father of botany, Linnaeus, in 1750’s.
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Selinum wallichianum syn. S. tenuifolium Milk parsley Z 6-10
All summer filigree of lacy, fern-like foliage then in late summer -fall white domes, 8” across, each dome made of multiple balls atop purple-red stems.
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“Queen of umbellifers,” EA Bowles. All summer filigree of lacy, fern-like foliage then in late summer -fall white domes, 8” across, each dome made of multiple balls atop purple-red stems.
Size: 3-5’ x 3’
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: Himalayas
Wildlife Value: butterfly magnet
Awards: recipient of the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden MeritOriginally named Cortia lindeyi in 1830 Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 4: 186. Named for Dutch physician and botanist Nathanial Wallich (1786-1854). Rural Himalayan residents use this for spice, incense and fodder.
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Semiaquilegia ecalcarata Spurless columbine, Z 5-9
Dainty dusty plum-pink columbine-like blossoms, without the tail, dangle above divided lobed foliage in May-June.
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Dainty dusty plum-pink columbine-like blossoms, without the tail, dangle above divided lobed foliage in May-June.
Size: 6-10” x 8”
Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil
Native: open woods and slopes in central China & Tibet
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden MeritCollected before 1891. Named “Wu ju lou dou cai” in Chinese.
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Sesleria nitida Nest Moor grass Z 5-8
Spike-like panicles of white turn purple atop mounds of gray-blue blades
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In early spring, about the time Robins appear, spike-like panicles of white turn purple atop mounds of gray-blue blades
Size: 24”x16”
Care: sun to part shade in most any soil
Native: central and southern ItalyCollected before 1861.
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Shade Garden
Shade Garden.
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Shade Garden Size : Height x width* Bloom color
3 Asarum canadense – Wild ginger 6” x 6” spreading brown
3 Astilbe chinensis 24” x 24” pink
1 Brunnera macrophyllum – Siberian bugloss 18″ x 24″ blue
1 Chelone glabra – Turtlehead 2-4’ x 12” white
1 Disporum flavens – Fairy bells 25-30” x 16-20” yellow
3 Dodecatheon meadia – Shooting star 12-24” x 6-12” white
1 Hosta ‘Blue Cadet’ 35-40” x 36” lavender
1 Primula veris – Cowslip 8”x 8” yellow
3 Stylophorum diphyllum – Celantine poppy 12-18” x 12” yellow
1 Tricyrtis hirta – Toadlily 2-3’ x 2’ white & purpleAll plants are perennials.
If planted together in one garden these make a 30 square foot garden. **Most of these plants get wider over time by spreading roots or by self-seeding .
18 plants for $158.14. Would be $186.05 if purchased separately. You save $27.90.
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Silene alpestris Alpine catchfly Z. 5-8
It flowers in May (through August) the flowers being of a polished whiteness
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“It flowers in May (through August) the flowers being of a polished whiteness, with the petals notched, and abundantly produced over the shining green masses of leaves.” Robinson 1903
Size: 4-6” x 8-12"
Care: full sun in well-drained soil
Native: European AlpsCollected in Austria by 1773
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Silene caroliniana Wild Pink, Carolina campion, Sticky catchfly Z 4-8
In spring loose clusters of rose-pink flowers with five spreading wedge-shaped petals
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In spring loose clusters of rose-pink flowers with five spreading wedge-shaped petals
Size: 12” x12”
Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil
Native: eastern and central North America
Wildlife Value: attracts Bees and ButterfliesNamed and described by Thomas Walter, 1788.
