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Corylus americana American Hazelnut, Filbert Z 4-9
In spring, showy male flowers on 2-3" long catkins. Female flowers appear in small, reddish catkins grow into half inch long, egg-shaped edible nuts. Fall color ranges from orange, rose, purplish red, yellow and green.
In spring, showy male flowers on 2-3″ long catkins. Female flowers appear in small, reddish catkins grow into half inch long, egg-shaped edible nuts. Fall color ranges from orange, rose, purplish red, yellow and green.
Size: 10-16’ x 8-1’
Care: sun in any soil
Native: E. North America including Wisconsin
Wildlife Value: Exceptionally high value to wildlife. Pheasant, Quail, Turkey, Grouse, Turkey & Blue Jay and small animals eat the nuts. Pollen source for bees, host to many caterpillars both butterflies and moths. Branches make good nesting sites for songbirds. Black walnut tolerant.Described by Thomas Walter in 1788. Food for several Native American tribes. Medicinal for Cherokee, Iroquois, Menominee, Meskwaki and Ojibwa, to remedy hives, fever, headaches, pain of baby’s teething, hay fever and induce vomiting.
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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.
Very 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” spreads
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. “Sea Kale was among Thomas Jefferson’s favorite vegetables; he first planted seed of it at Monticello in 1809. Native to the seacoast of Great Britain, this hardy perennial of the cabbage family is grown for the early spring sprouts that arise from well-established plants (2 to 3 years old). Sea Kale is also quite ornamental with blueish-green leaves and showy white flowers in summer. Sea Kale has a pleasing, mild cabbage taste. At Monticello the shoots are often covered with large blanching pots as they emerge in spring. When the leaves get six inches high, they are cut from the ground and can be prepared like asparagus.”. https://www.monticello.org/house-gardens/in-bloom-at-monticello/sea-kale/. 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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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 early spring or its gigantic, round with ruffled edged foliage dramatic in green in summer but magnificent turning red in fall
Grow this for its pink umbellifer flowers in early spring or its gigantic, round with ruffled edged foliage dramatic in green in summer but magnificent turning red in fall
Size: 3-4’ x 3’
Care: shade to sun in wet soil
Native: Oregon & California
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden MeritCollected before 1849. Karok 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.
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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.
