Black Walnut Tolerant
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Monarda didyma ‘Cambridge Scarlet’ Beebalm Z 4-9
Whorls of scarlet tubes & bracts looking like fireworks, in summer
Whorls of scarlet tubes & bracts looking like fireworks, in summer
Size: 3-4' x spreading
Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil.
Native: N. E. America
Wildlife Value: Checkered white, Fritillary and Melissa blue butterflies relish Beebalm’s nectar.Cherokee used the species medicinally, to cure colic, flatulence, nosebleed, measles, flu, hysteria and to induce restful sleep. Monarda was named in honor of Nicholas Monardes (1493-1588), a Spanish botanist who wrote about plants of the New World. Discovered by John Bartram (1699-1777) being used by colonists in Oswego N.Y. to make tea. Oswego Indians taught the colonists how to make tea from the dried leaves. Bartram sent this Beebalm to Peter Collinson in England in whose garden it grew in 1744. By 1757 its English availability was “nearly universal” among gardeners. During the American Revolution used as a substitute for tea. Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811.This cultivar ‘Cambridge Scarlet’ recommended by Gertrude Jekyll in 1908.
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Monarda fistulosa Wild bergamont Z 3-9
Whorls of hooded lavender tubes in July - August
Whorls of hooded lavender tubes in July – August
Size: 3-4' x 2' spreading
Care: Sun to part shade any soil.
Native: central U.S., Wisconsin native
Wildlife Value: Checkered white, Tiger swallowtail, Giant swallowtail and Melissa blue butterflies relish Wild bergamot’s nectar. Supports over 70 bee species including Rusty patched Bumble Bee.Used medicinally by many Native tribes- Blackfoot, Cherokee, Chippewa, Choctaw, Crow, Dakota and Flathead. Cherokee: to cure colic, flatulence, nosebleed, measles, flu, hysteria and to induce restful sleep Blackfoot called it “Single-young-Man.” Teton Dakotas boiled the leaves and flowers for medicine to cure abdominal pain. Ho-Chunk boiled the leaves to make a medicine for pimples. Choctaws cured chest pain in children. The Flathead cured colds and sore teeth with Wild Bergamot. HoChunk inhaled fumes in a sweat bath to cure colds. Oneidas made a tea. For the Sioux it was nourishment and a panacea: tea, stomachache, fever, indigestion, sore throats, fainting, whooping cough, wounds, sore eyes, ulcers, and snakebites. First documented by French explorers before 1635. Plant exported to Europe by Tradescant the Younger in 1637. Grown by Washington at Mount Vernon. Today it is a flavor in Earl Grey tea.
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Oenothera macrocarpa syn. O. missouriensis Ozark sundrops Z 3-7
Big, lemon-yellow blossoms much of the summer, then turn into curious-looking, big oval seed pods
Big, lemon-yellow blossoms much of the summer, then turn into curious-looking, big oval seed pods
Size: 9-12" x 12"
Care: sun in well-drained soil
Native: Missouri & Nebraska
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.Oenothera is Greek meaning wine tasting referring to the ancient use of Sundrop roots. This discovered in 1810 by Thomas Nuttall when he traveled along the Missouri River “on the elevated summits of the …hills in the vicinity of the lead-mines of the river Meremeck, 30 miles from St. Louis, Louisiana.” (then in the Louisiana Territory). Nuttall described it as a “splendid and singular species.”
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Onoclea sensibilis Sensitive fern Zones 4-10
Medium green fronds grow with deep curves along the wide stem then grow outward with lance-shaped fronds with wavy leaf margins. Don’t be fooled by the name sensitive. This is a tough fern growing just about any place with some shade.
Medium green fronds grow with deep curves along the wide stem then grow outward with lance-shaped fronds with wavy leaf margins. Don’t be fooled by the name sensitive. This is a tough fern growing just about any place with some shade.
Size: 12-20" x 24” spreading, slowly by rhizomes.
Care: part to full shade in moist to well-drained soil
Native: Eastern North America, Wisconsin native
Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.Collected before 1700. Sensibilis means sensitive on account of fronds dying back when it frosts. Oneida used this for bedding when hunting. According to Oneida tradition if a woman drinks an infusion, she can never have children after she gets married.
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Osmunda regalis Royal fern Z. 4-10
Lance-shaped double divided leaves. Late summer erect brown tassels form – they are fertile fronds. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)
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Lance-shaped double divided leaves. Late summer erect brown tassels form – they are fertile fronds. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)
Size: 4-6’ x 12’
Care: Sun to Light shade, moist, humusy, acidic, fertile soil
Native: Eastern North America
Awards: Great Plant Pick Award from Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden & England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.Osmunda named for Osmunder, a Saxon god. Winnebago used the root medicinally and the leaves as a bed when hunting. 1st collected by Rev. John Banister who moved to colonial Virginia in 1678. A gunman mistakenly shot and killed him while he collected plants.
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Phlox divaricata Wild sweet William Z 3-8
Bright lavender flowers, tubes opening to five flat, paddle-shaped lobes, welcome spring. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)
Bright lavender flowers, tubes opening to five flat, paddle-shaped lobes, welcome spring. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)
Size: 12" x 10"
Care: part shade in moist, well-drained soil.
Native: Canada to New England, Wisconsin
Wildlife Value: pollinated by Tiger swallowtail butterflies, hummingbirds, bumblebees and others while they reach the flower’s nectar
Awards: Received England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.Phlox is Greek meaning “flame.” 1st introduced to gardens by John Bartram around 1746. Recommended by Gertrude Jekyll, mother of mixed perennial borders, in 1908.
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Phlox paniculata Garden phlox Z 4-8
Many small, tube-shaped flowers opening to five flat petals join together in a dome-shaped, fragrant, magenta 6-8” cluster at the end of each branch, blooming from July to September. The classic farm garden flower. Deadhead for rebloom.
Many small, tube-shaped flowers opening to five flat petals join together in a dome-shaped, fragrant, magenta 6-8” cluster at the end of each branch, blooming from July to September. The classic farm garden flower. Deadhead for rebloom.
Size: 4' x 2' spreader and self-seeder
Care: full sun to part shade in moist or moist well-drained soil.
Native: Pennsylvania west to Arkansas and Missouri. South to Alabama.
Wildlife Value: Silvery checkerspot, European cabbage, and Blue, Black & Spicebush swallowtails butterflies relish Phlox’s nectar. Deer and Walnut resistant.Phlox is Greek meaning flame. One of the 1st plants collected in No. America – grown in Tradescant the Elder’s South Lambeth (now a borough of South London) nursery in 1634. Offered for sale in Bartram Garden’s 1783 Broadside, America’s 1st plant catalog.
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Phlox stolonifera syn. P. reptans Creeping phlox Z. 5-9
Carpet of purple tube-shaped flowers at the stem, opening to flat petals, each with a notch on the end. It blooms from mid-spring into early summer.
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Carpet of purple tube-shaped flowers at the stem, opening to flat petals, each with a notch on the end. It blooms from mid-spring into early summer.
Size: 6-10” x spreads by stolons (stems that root on soil surface, hence the name "stolonifera.")
Care: shade to part-shade in moist well-drained, mildly acidic soil
Native: Appalachian Mountains’s Appalachian foothills. Maine to Georgia, west to Ohio
Wildlife Value: Deer and rabbit resistant. Attracts butterflies and bees.Discovered by Scottish botanist John Fraser (1750-1811) in Georgia 1786 and sent to Curtis’s Botanical Magazine in 1801. Also collected by French botanist Andre Michaux about same time.
(Do not confuse this Phlox stolonifera with Phlox subulata – with the same common name of Creeping phlox- that blooms earlier in spring, is about 4” taller and grows in sun, not shade.)
