"New" Heirloom Plants
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Teucrium montanum Mountain germander, Creeping germander Z 5-8
Evergreen, narrow leaves covered with bouquets of flowers topped with a pair of upright, clasping petals streaked with burgundy, leading to a pair of open, white arms and a single, drooping white petal all resembling a snowman with a pointed red-streaked head blooming all summer on this spreading, cover-the-ground, drought-tolerant plant.
Evergreen, narrow leaves covered with bouquets of flowers topped with a pair of upright, clasping petals streaked with burgundy, leading to a pair of open, white arms and a single, drooping white petal all resembling a snowman with a pointed red-streaked head blooming all summer on this spreading, cover-the-ground, drought-tolerant plant.
Size: 10” x spreading
Care: sun in well-drained soil
Native: Spain across the Alps and east as far as TurkeyThe word teucrium believed to be named for Teucer, king in ancient Troy . He reputedly made medicine from teucrium. Known more than two centuries ago in ancient Greece and Rome
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Thalictrum alpinum Alpine meadowrue Z 2-9
Flowering June, purple skirt surrounding dangling yellow anthers on this petite Meadowrue
OUT OF STOCK
Flowering June, purple skirt surrounding dangling yellow anthers on this petite Meadowrue
Size: 8” x 4”
Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Mountains Western US, north to Alaska, Eastern Canada, Siberia, Europe & ChinaThalictrum is from Greek meaning “to flourish” or “look green.” In China called “gao shan tang cao.” Collected before 1679.
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Wisteria frutescens syn. Wisteria macrostachya America wisteria Z. 5-8
Lush, dense, drooping, fragrant purplish-blue, pea-like racemes in late summer on new fragrant purplish-blue, pea-like. drooping flower-clusters in early summer on new stems.
Lush, dense, drooping, fragrant purplish-blue, pea-like racemes in late summer on new fragrant purplish-blue, pea-like. drooping flower-clusters in early summer on new stems.
Size: 12-20’ x 4’
Care: sun to part shade in moist, mildly acidic soil For best flowering trim vine to four buds from last year's new growth in late winter or early spring, before this year's growth begins. A legume, so it enriches the soil by adding nitrogen. Seed pods poisonous.
Native: Virginia to FL, west to TX, north to IL
Wildlife Value: Larval host for Marine Blue skipper butterfly. Deer resistantCollected before 1753. Wisteria named “in memory of Caspar Wistar,(1761-1818) M.D. late professor of anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, and for many years president of the American Philosophical Society: a philanthropist of simple manners, and modest pretensions, but an active promoter of science.” Thomas Nuttall.
