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Cryptotaenia japonica ‘Atropurpurea’ Purple-leaved Japanese Wild Parsley, Japanese honeywort Z 4-7
Flowers light pink small umbels in mid-summer but forget the flowers and grow this for its showy purple bronze stems and leaves, branched stems with deeply divided, compound leaves and slightly ruffled
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Flowers light pink small umbels in mid-summer but forget the flowers and grow this for its showy purple bronze stems and leaves, branched stems with deeply divided, compound leaves and slightly ruffled edges
Size: 18-24" x 8" and self-seeds to make clumps
Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: eastern Asia1st described in Journal of Japanese Botany in 1926. Asians use Honeywort as a seasoning, a strengthening tonic and eat its sprouts in salads but toxic if eaten in large quantities.
CAUTION: may cause dermatitis with repeated contact in some people; toxic if eaten in large quantities. -
Cynara cardunculus Cardoon Z 7-9
Spectacular basal foliage - arching, silvery, deeply incised leaves, Late summer-fall spiny buds open to rich purple feathery flowers.
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In colder areas grow as annual
Spectacular basal foliage – arching, silvery, deeply incised leaves. Late summer-fall spiny buds open to rich purple feathery flowers.Size: 3-4’ x 3-4’
Care: sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil. Cut off flowers immediately after flowering to bring on new foliage, gorgeous into late fall.
Native: Southern EuropeThe leaf stems, blanched, are also edible. Bridgemen, The Young Gardeners Assistant (1847)
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Dahlia ‘Bishop of Llandaff’ Tender perennial
Fiery red, sem-double flowers atop reliably purple foliage from July until frost,
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Fiery red, semi-double flowers atop reliably purple foliage from July until frost
Size: 2-3’ x 12”
Care: moist well drained soil in full sun – lift bulb in fall, overwinter in basement
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit – 1928.Dahlias originally grown as food by Aztecs. 1st collected for the West by Spaniards in Mexico in 1615. The genus named after Dr. Anders Dahl, a student of Linnaeus and later a Swedish botanist in his own right. This cultivar came from a batch of chance seedlings in the nursery of breeder Fred Treseder in Wales UK. Treseder offered this and a few others to Bishop Joshua Hughes of Llandaff in 1924.
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Deer Resistant garden for sun
ARCHIVED Note: This collection is not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use. Deer Resistant Garden for sun Size: Height x width* Bloom color 3 Achillea filipendulina – Fernleaf yarrow […]
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Deer Resistant Garden for sun Size: Height x width* Bloom color
3 Achillea filipendulina – Fernleaf yarrow 3’-4’ x 30” yellow
3 Agastache foeniculum – Anise hyssop 2-3’ x 12” purple
1 Calamintha nepeta ssp nepeta – Lesser calamint 18-24” x 8-12” white
1 Coreopsis verticillata – Thread leafed tickseed 24” x 18” yellow
1 Echinops ritro – Globe thistle 3-4’ x 18” blue
3 Euphorbia polychroma – Cushion spurge 16” x 24” chartreuse
3 Lavandula angustifolia ‘Munstead’ 12-18” x 12-18” lavender
3 Nepeta mussinii – catmint 18” x 18” lavender
1 Perovskia atriplicifolia – Russian sage 4’ x 4’ lavender
1 Salvia nemorosa – Meadow sage 36” x 24” purpleAll plants are perennials.
If planted together in one garden these make a 36 square foot garden. *Most of these plants get wider over time by spreading roots or by self-seeding .
20 plants for $192.27. Would be $226.20 if purchased separately. You save $33.93.
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Delphinium grandiflorum ‘Blue Butterfly’ Z 4-8
Picture a dangling blue elf cap for the flower.
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Picture a dangling cornflower blue elf cap for the flower. Blooms in June and repeats if deadheaded.
Size: 12-18" x 9"
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil.
Native: Siberia, China & Japan
Wildlife Value: attracts hummingbirdsDr. Johann Ammann sent the seeds of this Delphinium from the Imperial Academy at St. Petersburg to Peter Collinson in England in 1736. ‘Blue Butterfly’ selected by 1900. Gertrude Jekyll, mother of the mixed perennial garden valued ‘Blue Butterfly’ for its “pure blue,” late 1800’s.
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Delphinium vestitum syn. D. chitralicum syn. D. rectivenium, qian lie cui que in China, Clothed Delphinium, Flowers of India Z 6-10
Spikes of purple-blue with deep black centers rise above large rounded leaves. Blooms in August-Sept
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Spikes of purple-blue with deep black centers rise above large, rounded leaves. Blooms in August-Sept
Size: 24” x10”
Care: full sun to part shade
Native: Himalayas
Wildlife Value: attracts bees & butterfliesNathaniel Wallich had already described Delphinium vestitum but the name was validly published by John Forbes Royle in 1834.
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Delphinium x formosum ‘Belladonna’ Garland delphinium Z 4-8
June & repeat in September pale sky blue graceful, short spikes
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June & repeat in September pale sky blue graceful, short spikes
Size: 2- 3’ x 12”
Care: Sun well-drained soil. Do not cut back in fall. Delphiniiums have hollow stems where moisture will collect and kill the plant (crown rot) over winter.Delphinium, named by Dioscorides, is Greek for “dolphin.” In 1597 Gerard wrote that the Delphinium leaf paralyzed scorpions and all venomous beasts. D. x formosum called “the finest garden hybrid” of the early 19th century. It was “raised by Mr. G. Moore, a nurseryman of East Dereham, Norfolk.” George Phillips, (1933). ‘Belladonna’ hybridized in 1800’s as cutting flowers. Blooms last long in the vase. In the July 1872 issue of “the Garden” Wm. Robinson called this “too seldom seen” and “a great ornament.”
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Dianthus anatolicus Anatolian pink Z 5-10
Dense mound-forming perennial with needle-like, evergreen grey foliage. Masses of whitish pink, feather- margined flowers with a wine-colored eye bloom in May-June. Highly regarded alpine plant.
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Dense mound-forming perennial with needle-like, evergreen grey foliage. Masses of whitish pink, feather- margined flowers with a wine-colored eye bloom in May-June. Highly regarded alpine plant.
Size: 3” x 6”
Care: sun in well-drained soil
Native: Turkey to TibetTheophrastus named Dianthus in the 4th century B.C., meaning “Jove’s flower.” The common name “pink” is from “pinct” referring to the jagged edge of the petals. In 1629 John Parkinson described the Dianthus: “There remain divers sorts of wild or small Gilloflowers (which wee usually call Pinkes) to be entreated of, some bearing single, and some double flowers, some smooth, almost without any deepe dents on the edges, and some ragged, or as it were feathered.” This species described in Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium Novarum, ser. 1 1: 22. 1843.
