Black Walnut Tolerant

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  • Pulmonaria saccharata ‘Mrs. Moon’ Greater lungwort, Bethlehem sage Z 3-8

    In early spring funnel form pink flowers turn to blue above bristly, white mottled green foliage. Leaves attractive through fall

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    In earliest spring funnel form pink flowers turn to blue above bristly, white mottled green foliage. Leaves attractive through fall

    Size: 8-18” x 18-24”
    Care: full to part shade in moist well-drained soil
    Native: species France & Italy
    Wildlife Value: walnut and deer tolerant. Early source of nectar for bees.

    The species originally described by English botanist and gardener to Queen Mary, Leonard Plukenet (1641-1706) .Described by Philip Miller (1768) as having “spotted leaves as if they were incrusted with sugar.” ‘Mrs. Moon’ cultivar offered for sale in 1938 by Gardenside Nurseries in Shelburne VT.  Name Pulmonaria from Latin pulmo or lung (e.g.today’s pulmonary) because the blotched leaves were considered to resemble lung disease.   Saccharata comes from Latin word for sugar because the white bristly leaves resembled sugar coating.

  • Ranunculus repens var. pleniflorus Creeping buttercup Z 3-9

    Small bright yellow nearly ball-shaped flowers blooming in May - June on this short groundcover.  

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    Small bright yellow nearly ball-shaped flowers blooming in May – June on this short groundcover.

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    Size: 10" x spreading
    Care: part sun to shade in moist soil
    Native: Europe, Siberia, from Newfoundland to Virginia

    Ranunculus is Latin for little frog, so named by Roman naturalist Pliny (23-79) referring to the wet conditions required by some ranunculus.  In 1629 John Parkinson (1567-1650) apothecary to James I and royal botanist to Charles I, called this Ranunculus protensis flore multiplici. The root was supposed to break persistent sores by “drawing the venome to the place.”  Jefferson planted Creeping buttercup at Monticello in 1782; it may or may not have been this double.

  • Ribes aureum syn. Ribes odoratum Clove currant Z 3-8

    Early to mid-spring yellow flowers shaped like a tube with 5 petals opening wide at the ends smother the shrub giving off a sweet, clove-scented fragrance – heavenly.  Ships only in spring.

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    Early to mid-spring yellow flowers shaped like a tube with 5 petals opening wide at the ends smother the shrub giving off a sweet, clove-scented fragrance – heavenly.  Ships only in spring.

    Size: 6' x 6' spreading
    Care: Sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil.
    Native: west-central US
    Wildlife Value: Attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds for nectar. Small mammals eat the berries. Immune to Walnut toxins

    Many tribes ate the berries.  Shoshone and Paiute used the shrub’s inner bark to heal sores and swellings. Meriwether Lewis on the Lewis & Clark Expedition found this in 2 locations – “near the narrows of the Columbia” April 16 1806, now Klickitat County Washington, and on July 29, 1805 in Montana.

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  • Rubus odoratus Flowering raspberry Z 2-8

    Purple-pink saucer shaped flowers all summer

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    Purple-pink saucer shaped flowers from June to October.  Rarely seen shrub.

    Size: 7-8' x 8' spreading
    Care: Sun to shade in moist well-drained soil. Slightly acidic.
    Native: Maine to Michigan, south to Illinois, Tennessee, east to North Carolina and all places in between
    Wildlife Value: Immune to walnut toxins.

    For sale in an English catalog in 1730. William Robinson, father of the mixed perennial garden, praised the flowering raspberry as bearing  “large clusters of rich purple flowers. Bearing scented leaves, the leaves and not the flowers being fragrant.”

  • Rudbeckia fulgida Black eyed susan Z 4-9

    The classic Black-eyed susan, 2-3" wide yellow daisies with a dark center from July-October

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    The classic Black-eyed susan, 2-3″ wide yellow daisies with a dark center from July – October

    Size: 30" x 18"
    Care: full sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
    Native: East and Southeastern U.S.
    Wildlife Value: A great number of bees, flies and beetles collect pollen or drink nectar from this Rudbeckia

    Cherokee ate the stems and leaves and used this species to remedy earaches, sores, flux, venereal disease, snakebites, dropsy, and swelling.  Iroquois healed the heart and rid children of worms with this, Potawatomi make a brown dye with this.  This species fulgida was introduced to England in 1760 and named in William Aition’s Hortus Kewensis, V. 3 p. 251 (1789).    

  • Rudbeckia laciniata var. hortensia Golden Glow Z 3-9

    Imposing double daisies with multiple petals bloom atop a 6 or 7 foot erect stem as thick as a small tree trunk  reign over neighboring flowers like a king. “Rich, yellow double flowers borne in autumn, excellent for cutting, “Sanders 1913.  Blooms July-August.

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    Imposing double daisies with multiple petals bloom atop a 6 or 7 foot erect stem as thick as a small tree trunk  reign over neighboring flowers like a king. “Rich, yellow double flowers borne in autumn, excellent for cutting, “Sanders 1913.  Blooms July-August.

     

    Size: 5-7' x 12" and spreading
    Care: sun in moist well-drained to well drained soil, drought tolerant
    Wildlife Value: Immune to Walnut toxins

    Serendipitous discovery in a group of seedlings in 1894. Said to be “the most popular hardy perennial introduced during the last 25 years,” April, 1905, The Garden magazine. Recommended by Gertrude Jekyll in 1908. Beth in New Mexico advised that her alpaca named Ricardo finds them delicious.

  • Rudbeckia maxima Great coneflower Z 4-9

    Magnificent wildflower with huge paddle-shaped leaves of blue-grey-green and tall stalks of finch-gold petals

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    Magnificent wildflower with huge paddle-shaped leaves of blue-grey-green and tall stalks of finch-gold petals encircling central cones 4-5″ tall.

    Size: 5-6' x 2'
    Care: Sun in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: OK, AK, TX & LA
    Wildlife Value: Nectar source for larvae of painted Lady butterfly & for large Wood nymph butterfly.

    Rudbeckia was named by Linnaeus for his University of Upsala professor, Olaf Rudbeck.  Rudbeck made the surprising claim “that the Paradise of Scripture was situated somewhere in Sweden.”   C.F. Leyel.  This species collected by Englishman Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859) in Oklahoma Territory near the Red River in 1816.  Nuttall searched much of the No. American continent from New England west to Oregon, the South, Midwest, the Plains, S.E., California & Hawaii, finding thousands of new plants.

  • Rudbeckia subtomentosa Sweet coneflower Z 4-8

    These Rudbeckias tower above basal leaves on rigid, branching  stems forming clumps of sun  yellow petaled flowers surrounding a raised, brown-purple dome of disc flowers.

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    These Rudbeckias tower above basal leaves on rigid, branching  stems forming clumps of sun  yellow petaled flowers surrounding a raised, brown-purple dome of disc flowers.

    Size: 4-5' x 1-2'
    Care: Sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: East US, Wisconsin native.
    Wildlife Value: attracts butterflies, deer resistant

    Rudbeckia was named by Linnaeus for his University of Upsala professor, Olaf Rudbeck.  Rudbeck made the surprising claim “that the Paradise of Scripture was situated somewhere in Sweden.” C.F. Level. This species described in 1815.  May have been collected by English planthunter John Bradbury (1768-1823).