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Chasmanthium latifolium Northern Sea oats Z 5-9
Graceful, pendulous oat-like spikes
In August – December Northern sea oats bear pendulous panicles of oat-like spikelets, emerging green and turning bronze. They hang on all winter.
Size: 36" x 24"
Care: full sun to part shade in any soil
Native: Eastern U.S., New Jersey to Texas
Wildlife Value: attracts butterfliesIntroduced by Michaux (1746-1802) extraordinary French plant hunter, who searched much of eastern No. America for plants. Indians ate the seeds for food. Used ornamentally since Victorian times for fresh and dried arrangements.
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Chelone glabra White turtlehead Z 3-8
Spikes of pink over-tones on white, two-lipped, turtlehead shaped blooms in fall
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Spikes of pink over-tones on white, two-lipped, turtlehead shaped blooms in fall
Size: 2-3’ x 12”
Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil, tolerates clay.
Native: eastern North America incl Wisconsin
Wildlife Value: Pollen for bumblebees. Breeding site for Baltimore Checkerspot butterflies. Deer resistant.The name Chelone originated with French colonial settlers in Nova Scotia before 1700. They called this “La Tortue,” meaning “turtle” in French. The word chelone is Greek for tortoise. A tea brewed from the leaves was said to increase the appetite.
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Chelone obliqua Rose turtlehead Z 5-9
Showy rich rosy turtleheads top 2-3' stems from late summer into autumn.
Rich pink turtlehead shaped blooms in fall
Size: 16-24" x 12"
Care: Part shade moist to moist well-drained soil, tolerates clay
Native: Central and southeastern America
Wildlife Value: Attracts Baltimore Checkerspot butterflies.The name Chelone originated with French colonial settlers in Nova Scotia before 1700. They called this plant’s white-flowered relative (Chelone glabra) “La Tortue,” meaning “turtle” in French. This pink one found in 1752 by Virginia plantsman John Clayton and sent to John Bartram in Philadelphia in 1765. Called the “red Chelone.” A tea brewed from the leaves was said to increase appetite.
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Chiastophyllum oppositifolium Syn. Umbilicus oppositifolius Lamb’s tail Z 5-9
For shady gardens, a low mound of thick, succulent green leaves, bearing arching, upright stems with dangling chains of sulphur yellow flowers in May-June.
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For shady gardens, a low mound of thick, succulent green leaves, bearing arching, upright stems with dangling chains of sulphur yellow flowers in May-June.
Size: 6-8” x 10-12”
Care: part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Caucasus Mountains
Awards: Recipient Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit1st described and named as Cotyledon oppostitfoilum in Bulletin scientifique (publié par l’) Académie Imperiale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg 2: 813. 1837.
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Chrysanthemum x rubellum ‘Clara Curtis’ Z 4-9
mid-summer through fall, sprays of large, single blush pink daisies
From mid-summer through fall, sprays of large, single blush pink daisies, each with a yellow eye.
Care: Sun to part shade in any soil. Pinch back half way early and again in late June to keep plants bushy and compact, or let them grow taller.One of the Korean hybrids. A. Cumming created this in 1937 by crossing an early flowering mum with Chrysanthemum coreanum.
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Chrysanthemum x rubellum ‘Mary Stoker’ Z 4-9
Sprays of large, single warming yellow daisies, blushed with apricot top a bushy mound of light green leaves, Blooms late-summer to late-fall
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Sprays of large, single warming yellow daisies, blushed with apricot top a bushy mound of light green leaves, blooms late-summer to late-fall
Size: 1-2’ x 2-3’ and spreading
Care: Full sun to part shade, tolerates normal, sandy or clay soil
Wildlife Value: Attracts bees, butterflies and birds. Deer resistant.One of the rubellum hybrids, Hybridized in the 1930’s
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Cimicifuga racemosa syn. Actaea racemosa Snakeroot, Black Cohosh or Bugbane Z 3-8
Majestic milky white candles covered with buds like pearls that open to frilly balls in August
Majestic milky white candles covered with buds like pearls that open to frilly balls in August
Size: 4-6' x 2-4'
Care: sun to shade in any soil
Native: east N. America, Wisconsin native
Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.Cimicifuga is from cimex (Latin) meaning bug and fugere meaning to drive away. The common name “bugbane” also refers to the plant’s odor which repels insects. The common name “cohosh” came from an Algonquin Indian word for rough referring to the feeling of the root. American Indians used its roots medicinally as an astringent, an antidote to poison and snakebites and to stop coughing. Roots infused in alcohol reduced pain from rheumatism (Cherokee.) Root considered an aphrodisiac, reputedly increased estrogen and reduced hot flashes. “Like most folk remedies, it was used to treat a wide variety of multiple complaints: bronchitis, cholera, fevers, nervous disorders, lumbago, rheumatism, snakebites. It was also used in childbirth and for menstrual irregularities.” Monticello.org Collected by John Bartram, c. 1750. Philip Miller (1768) reported this “deserves a place in the shady borders.” Thomas Jefferson listed this in his book Notes on the State of Virginia, 1787.
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Clematis ‘Madame Julia Correvon,’ Z 4-9
Rich-red petal-like tepals 3-4” across bloom from June to September, encircling yellow stamens, on this vigorous, climbing vine
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Rich-red petal-like tepals 3-4” across bloom from June to September, encircling yellow stamens, on this vigorous, climbing vine
Size: 12’ x 3-6’
Care: Sun to part shade in moist, well-drained soil. Cut back in early spring about 1’ above the soil level and just above a a pair of buds.
Wildlife Value: deer and rabbit resistant. Walnut tolerant. Attracts bees and butterflies.
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden MeritFrancisque Morel, Clematis breeder in Lyon France, grew this Clematis in 1900 from a cross of Clematis viticella ‘Rubra grandiflora’ and Clematis ‘Ville de Lyon,’ Named for the wife of the award-winning Geneva Switzerland nurseryman and author specializing in alpine plants, Henri Correvon (1855-1935). Nurseries at at 2 Chemin Dancet, 2 Plainpalais and Chêne-Bourg. Obituary https://www.nature.com/articles/144183b0.
