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Saponaria ocymoides Rock soapwort Z 4-9
Small bright pink flowers bloom along dense, creeping branches hugging the ground in late spring into summer.
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Small bright pink flowers bloom along dense, creeping branches hugging the ground in late spring into summer.
Size: 3" x 18"
Care: Sun, well-drained soil
Native: Spain to Yugoslavia
Awards: Received England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.Both the botanical and common names come from the plant’s use as soap, the leaves “yeelde out of themselves a certain iuice when they are bruised, which scoureth almost as well as sope.” Gerard (1633). Soapwort is still used today by antique and art restorers for its gentle cleaning: chop dried leaves and roots, boil in water for 5 minutes, and then agitate to make suds. William Robinson, father of today’s mixed perennial border gardens, praised this as bearing “masses of rosy blooms.”
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Sedum rupestre ‘Angelina’ syn. Sedum reflexum ‘Angelina’ Spruce-leaved stonecrop Z 4-8
Chartreuse, turning red-orange in fall, needle-like leaves blooming with yellow flowers June-August but the leaves are the feature.
Chartreuse, turning red-orange in fall, needle-like leaves blooming with yellow flowers June-August but the leaves are the feature.
Size: 4-6” x 1-2’ spreader
Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil.
Wildlife Value: Rabbit and Deer resistant. Drought tolerant.Species grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811
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Sedum spurium ‘Dragon’s Blood’ syn. Phedimus spurius ‘Dragon’s Blood’ Caucasian stonecrop Z 4-9
Mat-forming evergreen. In spring red encircle its fleshy, green, round leaves. In summer leaves turn bronze and in fall deep burgundy. Small, bright pink, star-shaped flowers.
Mat-forming evergreen. In spring red encircle its fleshy, green, round leaves. In summer leaves turn bronze and in fall deep burgundy. Small, bright pink, star-shaped flowers.
Size: 4-6" x spreading 12-18"
Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: Caucasus Mountains
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit; Great Plant PickFranklin Gardens in Big Springs Arkansas sold this in 1948 for 50 cents calling it “a new sedum. . . “Called “a new Sedum that will surely become popular” New and Noteworthy Hardy Plants Spring Flor-Acres’ Perennials 1950 p. 13
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Sempervivum tectorum Hens and chicks Z 3-10
Rosettes of succulent leaves
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Rosettes of succulent leaves
Size: 4” x 4”
Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: Alps & Pyrenees MountainsGrown in gardens for thousands of years. Sempervivum means “live forever.” Romans planted Hens and chicks on their roofs to ward off lightening. As a succulent it holds water and is probably more difficult to catch fire. “This practice was preserved for historians when Charlemagne (720-814), first Holy Roman Emperor and unifier of a large part of northern Europe, ordered that all villagers within his crown lands plant houseleeks on their roofs He decreed: “Et ille hortulanus habeat super domum suam Iovis barbam. (And the gardener shall have house-leeks growing on his house. Capitulare de villis, about 795, LXX.)”
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Silene schafta Schaft’s catchfly, Moss Z 5-7
One of the spectacular late season blooms –clusters of five-petaled, jagged-edge, bright magenta flowers on short mounds, September to October. Perfect for front of borders or rock gardens.
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One of the spectacular late season blooms –clusters of five-petaled, jagged-edge, bright magenta flowers on short mounds, September to October. Perfect for front of borders or rock gardens.
Size: 6” x Slowly spreading
Care: full sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: Russia
Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of MeritIntroduced from its native Russia in 1844. First described by and probably collected by Johann Gmelin (1709-1755) German naturalist who spent years hunting plants in Russia and authored four-volume Flora Sibirica. In Greek mythology Silene was a companion of Bacchus who was covered with foam. William Robinson, father of the mixed perennial border, described the flowers of this species as being “very neat tufts.”
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Sisyrinchium angustifolium Blue eyed grass Z 3-9
Petite iris-like foliage sporting blue saucer-shaped flowers with bright yellow stamens in summer.
Petite iris-like foliage sporting blue saucer-shaped flowers with bright yellow stamens in summer.
Size: 12" x 6"
Care: Sun in well-drained soil
Native: North America, Wisconsin native.Mahuna Indians of So. California made a tea from the entire plant to expel stomach worms. In cultivation by 1732. Named by Philip Miller, gardener of the Chelsea Botanic Garden, in Gardeners’ Dictionary .
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Symphyandra zanzegura syn Campanula zanzegura Ring bellflower, Rock bellflower Z 5-10
Flared petal ends of lilac bells on wiry red stems over soft, velvety leaves bloom much of summer.
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Flared petal ends of lilac bells on wiry red stems over soft, velvety leaves bloom much of summer.
Size: 15” x 15”
Care: full to part shade in well-drained soil
Native: mountains of Armenia, Eastern Europe
Wildlife Value: attracts beesDescribed and published by Ukrainian botanist Vladimir Lipsky (1863-1937) in 1894. Reclassified as a Campanula in 1980.
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Talinum calycinum syn. Phemeranthus calycinus Rock rose, Fameflower Z 6-9
Bright mauve flowers dance on wiry stems in afternoons all summer, closing at night. Leaves are succulent.
Tender reseeding perennial, but they survived the horrible winter of 2013-14. In any event they reseed reliably. Just watch for little succulent leaves.
Bright mauve flowers dance on wiry stems in afternoons all summer, closing at night. Leaves are succulent.
Size: 8-12” x 4”
Care: Sun in well-drained soil
Native: western Plains statesCollected by Dr. Frederick Wislizenus on sandy soil near the Cimarron River on an exploring trip of Texas, New Mexico and Mexico in 1846. Wislizenus (1810-1889) was a German immigrant, explorer, botanist, and medical partner of George Engelmann (1809-1884) important promoter of plant-hunting and expert on cacti and conifers.
