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Cotoneaster apiculatus Cranberry cotoneaster Z 5-7
White flowers followed by bright red berries lasting all winter. Glossy, leathery foliage tinges bronze in fall.
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White flowers followed by bright red berries lasting all winter. Glossy, leathery foliage tinges bronze in fall.
Size: 3’ x 7’
Care: Sun in moist well-drained soil. Blooms on new wood so can prune in spring. Pruning promotes bushy plant and increased flowering.
Native: SW ChinaCollected by E.H.Wilson before 1916 who described it as “forming neat mounds . . . straddled with scarlet berries in the fall and winter.”
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Cotoneaster multiflorus Showy cotoneaster, Many-flowered cotoneaster Z 4-8
Descriptively named “many-flowered” this specimen, fountain-shaped shrub with arching branches covered in spring with white flowers of five oval petals blooming all along the branches. In fall yellow leaves set off spectacular apple-red fruit replace each flower, all along the branches.
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Descriptively named “many-flowered” this specimen, fountain-shaped shrub with arching branches covered in spring with white flowers of five oval petals blooming all along the branches. In fall yellow leaves set off spectacular apple-red fruit replace each flower, all along the branches.
Size: 10’ x 10’
Care: sun to part shade in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: Western China.In China called shui xun zi. Collected by 1830.
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Crambe maritima Sea kale Z. 5-9
Very sweetly fragrant, honey-scented, chalky white flowers cover the plant in late May and early June. Ornamental, bluish crinkled foliage all season.
Sweetly fragrant, honey-scented, chalky white flowers cover the plant in late May and early June. Ornamental, bluish crinkled foliage all season.
Size: 18” x 12”
Care: Moist well-drained soil in full sun
Native: Western Europe to Asia Minor
Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit and Great Plant Pick Award from Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden.Crambe means cabbage in Greek. “The glaucous leaves of the Sea kale afford a striking contrast to the bronzy foliage of surrounding subjects…I have eaten them several times and thought them delicious.” The Garden March 1876. “By the turn of the 19th century, sea kale was a very popular vegetable; its blanched shoots, which have a sweet, nutty cabbage flavor, were readily found in the finest markets and restaurants,” The American Gardener, March/April 2009. Grown by Jefferson. Recommended as an ornamental flower by Gertrude Jekyll in 1908 for its glaucous foliage.
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Dalea aurea syn Parosela aurea Golden prairie clover Z 5-9
Cone-shaped fuzzy yellow flower spikes rise above sparse foliage in April-June
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.
Cone-shaped fuzzy yellow flower spikes rise above sparse foliage in April-June
Size: 1-3’ x 1’
Care: sun in dry soil
Native: West US from TX to WY
Wildlife Value: Attracts bees, butterflies
Size: Native Americans used Golden Prairie-clover to treat diarrhea and colicCollected and described by Thomas Nuttall, 1813.
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Dalea purpurea syn. Petalostemon purpurea Violet prairie clover Z 4-9
Vase shaped clump with wands of violet to purple encircling tall coneheads mid-summer
Vase shaped clump with wands of violet to purple encircling tall coneheads mid-summer
Size: 2’ x 18”
Care: full sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil.
Native: Canada to Texas, Wisconsin native
Wildlife Value: Host for caterpillars of Dogface Sulphur, Striped blue & Mexican blue butterflies. Supports over 80 bee species including endangered Rusty patched Bumble BeesDalea named to honor English botanist Dr. Samuel Dale (1659- 1739.) Chippewa, Meskwaki and Navajo used medicinally – as remedies for heart ailments, pneumonia, diarrhea and measles. Comanche and Lakota chewed the root like gum, for its sweet taste. Sioux combined it with Amorpha canescens, Leadplant to ambush bison. Sioux also treated fevers and stomach disorders with an infusion made from the plant. Pawnee made brooms from the flexible stems. 1st collected by French botanist André Michaux (1746-1802) who spent 11 years in America collecting hundreds of new plants.
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Darmera peltatum syn. Peltiphyllum peltatum Umbrella plant, Indian rhubarb Z 5-8
Grow this for its pink umbellifer flowers in earliest spring or its gigantic, round ruffled edged green turning red foliage for drama.
Grow this for its pink umbellifer flowers in earliest spring or its gigantic, round ruffled edged green turning red foliage for drama.
Size: 3-4’ x 3’
Care: shade to part sun in moist well-drained to wet soil
Native: Oregon & California
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden MeritKarok natives (NW corner of California) ate young shoots and Miwok tribal members, (N central California), mixed crushed root with acorn meal to make it white. Collected before 1849 when its description first published.
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Delphinium elatum Perennial larkspur Z 2-7
Spikes of blue to purple single, elf-capped shaped blossoms with black eyes in June, repeating in August-September. Sturdy stems.
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Spikes of blue to purple single, elf-capped shaped blossoms with black eyes in June, repeating in August-September. Sturdy stems. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)
Size: 4’ x 12”
Care: part sun in moist well-drained soil.
Native: Siberia & central EuropeGrown in the Eichstätt Garden, the garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria, c. 1600. One of the parents of today’s border hybrids. Pressed specimen in Emily Dickinson’s herbarium.
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Delphinium exaltatum Tall Larkspur, American larkspur Z 4-8
Fabulous, not because of a big flower-head, but because it grows everywhere with no special care, graceful lavender or purple spikes of trumpets on tall stems in July to August and beyond.
Fabulous, not because of a big flower-head, but because it grows everywhere with no special care, graceful lavender or purple spikes of trumpets on tall stems in July to August and beyond.
Size: 3-4' x 9"
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil. Withstands winds, no staking needed. Not fussy. Let the seeds drop & you’ll get babies.
Native: Pennsylvania to No. Carolina west to Ohio & Alabama
Wildlife Value: attract hummingbirdsDelphinium, named by Dioscorides, is Greek for “dolphin” due to the resemblance of the flower shape. According to William Aiton (1731-1793), early director at Kew Royal Garden, Quaker nurseryman and explorer John Bartram (1699-1777) sent it to England. London’s Chelsea Physic gardener Philip Miller grew it in 1758. Jefferson planted this at Monticello in the NW quarter of the outer border in March 1811.
