Black Walnut Tolerant

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  • Physotegia virginiana Obedient plant Z 3-9

    Purplish red to rosy pink spikes of hooded snapdragons

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    Purplish red to rosy pink spikes of hooded snapdragons July to September

    Size: 3' x 3' and spreading
    Care: sun in moist to moist well-drained soil. Deer resistant and tolerates Walnut toxins
    Native: Quebec to Manitoba, TX to GA, Wisconsin native
    Wildlife Value: attracts hummingbirds

    Collected before 1750. Called Obedient plant because if you push a flower it will remain in place temporarily – like a child who stays in the corner until you’re not looking.

  • Podophyllum peltatum Mayapple, Hog apple, Mandrake Z 4-9

    Nodding, waxy, 6-9-petaled, white cup-shaped flowers with yellow stamens, bloom in spring.  Flowers shaded by umbrella-like leaves. Ephemeral, dies back in summer.

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    Nodding, waxy, 6-9-petaled, white cup-shaped flowers with yellow stamens, bloom in spring.  Flowers shaded by umbrella-like leaves. Ephemeral, dies back in summer.

    Size: 18" x 4' spreading by rhizomes
    Care: moist well-drained soil in full to part shade; drought tolerant
    Native: Quebec to Minnesota, south to Florida & Texas, Wisconsin native
    Wildlife Value: attracts bumblebees. Walnut tolerant, resistant to deer and rabbits.

    Named by botanists for its supposed resemblance to a duck’s foot (Anapodophyllum.)  Its common name from the small green, apple-shaped seed pod that emerges in May, after flowering.  Although its roots, seeds, and leaves are poisonous, Mayapple root used medicinally by Native Americans – for the Iroquois & Delaware as a laxative and purgative, to purify the body and expel worms.  Cherokee and Menomonee made the root’s juice into insecticide to protect corn and potatoes from insects. Oneidas made a poltice for sores – cut every joint of root & bake half a day until brown then add water. Roots also used by Native Americans and early settlers as a purgative, emetic, “liver cleanser,” worm expellant, and to remedy jaundice, constipation, hepatitis, fever, and syphilis. Introduced 1664. You can hunt Morel mushrooms when Mayapples bloom.

  • Polemonium reptans Greek valerian, Jacobs ladder Z 3-8

    Opposite leaves grow up the foot-tall stems forming a ladder to the tops where sprays of five-petaled lavender-blue bells with bright yellow stamens, bloom in spring. Repeats if deadheaded and may self-sow if not cut back.

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    Opposite leaves grow up the foot-tall stems forming a ladder to the tops where sprays of five-petaled lavender-blue bells with bright yellow stamens, bloom in spring. Repeats if deadheaded and may self-sow if not cut back.

    Size: 8-12” x 10”
    Care: part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Ontario & Quebec to Alabama, west to MN & KS, Wisconsin native
    Wildlife Value: attracts bees, butterflies and wasps. Tolerates walnut, resists deer.

    Polemonium is Greek meaning “to wage war,” “on account of the contests, which arose betwixt two princes, each assuming the honour of the discovery of it to himself.” Gardeners Dictionary, 1768.  Meskwaki made a compound of roots of this plant as a physic and urinary problem remedy.  Collected for gardens before 1750.

  • Polygonatum multiflorum Solomon’s seal Z 4-10

    Dangling dainty white bells in June followed by black fruit on the arching stem.   The leaves “make a fine mass of elegant foliage,” Sanders, 1913.

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    Dangling dainty white bells in June followed by black fruit on the arching stem.   The leaves “make a fine mass of elegant foliage,” Sanders, 1913.

    Size: 5' x 10"
    Care: shade in fertile, humusy, well-drained soil. Good dry shade plant
    Native: Europe and Asia

    Greek physician Dioscorides named Polygonatum in the 1st century, which means “many jointed” referring to scars on the rhizome.  Medieval herbalists opined that Biblical figure Solomon put scars on the rhizome to demonstrate the plant’s curative powers.  P. multiflorum cultivated in English gardens by 1450.  In 1596 English herbalist Gerard endorsed its use to repair broken bones – mix the pulverized root and drink it with ale to “gleweth together the bones in very short space.”  He also claimed fresh stamped root of Polygonatum would cure cuts and bruises for “women’s willfulness in stumbling on their hasty husband’s fists.” According to Culpepper, Italian wives “much used” this remedy.  American gardens since 1700’s.

  • Polystichum acrostichoides Christmas fern Z 3-10

    Leathery, lance-shaped evergreen fronds stay fresh and green through winter.

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    Leathery, lance-shaped evergreen fronds stay fresh and green through winter.

    Size: 18" x 18"
    Care: part shade to full shade in most any soil, nearly indestructable
    Native: Every state east of the Rockies, Wisconsin native
    Awards: Kentucky's Theodore Klein Plant Award

    Evergreen fronds last all winter.  Called “Christmas” because in the past florists used the evergreen fronds in holiday arrangements.  Collected by Michaux before 1800. Collected by French botanist and plant hunter André Michaux (1746-1802) while searching east of the Mississippi River before 1800.

    **LISTED AS OUT OF STOCK BECAUSE WE DO NOT SHIP THIS ITEM.  IT IS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT OUR RETAIL LOCATION.

  • Primula elatior Oxlip Z 4-9

    Nodding trumpets of soft yellow flowers with a dark yellow center  atop upright stems

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    Nodding trumpets of soft yellow flowers with a dark yellow center atop upright stems

    Size: 10” x 10”
    Care: part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Europe
    Wildlife Value: Deer and rabbit resistant. Attracts bees, butterflies, some moths and hummingbirds.
    Awards: Plant Select® Central Rocky Mountain region; Royal Botanical Society Award of Garden Merit

    Primula is from Italian “primavera” meaning first spring.  Elatior means “tall”, all things being relative it’s taller than some Primulas but not very tall.  In gardens since at least 1765. According to Philip Miller, Gardener’s Dictionary 1768, “they are much used in medicine.” Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811.

  • Primula veris Cowslip Z 3-8

    Sunniest of yellow trumpet flowers announce the beginning of spring atop short, leafless stems

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    Sunniest of yellow trumpet flowers announce the beginning of spring atop short, leafless stems

    Size: 8" x 8"
    Care: part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil.
    Native: Europe
    Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit and Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant Picks

    Primula is Italian “primavera” meaning first spring. Veris is redundant, meaning flowers in spring.  According to legend, Cowslip decorated the entrance to Norse goddess Fryda’s palace. The blossoms were used to make wine; a recipe from the 1700’s called for water, sugar, lemon juice, egg whites and a “peck of cowslips.”    Culpepper, a 1500’s herbalist, reported that cowslip extract made women “more beautiful.”  Cowslip was a favorite Shakespearean plant.  Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811. Jefferson received cowslip seeds in 1824. Pressed specimen in Emily Dickinson’s herbarium.

  • Pulmonaria angustifolia Narrow-leaf lungwort, Blue cowslip Z 4-8

    One of the earliest to flower - Pink turning azure blue, trumpet-shaped flowers in April- May. Fuzzy foliage.

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    Welcome spring with this very early flower – Pink trumpet-shaped flowers turn deep blue in early sprng.. Fuzzy foliage.

    Size: 12”x 12”
    Care: full to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil.
    Native: Austria & Hungary.
    Wildlife Value: walnut and deer tolerant. Early source of nectar for bees.
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit

    Angustifolia means “narrow leaves.”  Grown in gardens before 1590’s.