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  • Gaultheria procumbens Wintergreen, Checkerberry, Teaberry Z 3-8

    “Gaultheria procumbens is in absolute perfection and beautiful – first as regards its bell-shaped blossoms, and afterwards its berries…”  The Garden January 1876.

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    “Gaultheria procumbens is in absolute perfection and beautiful – first as regards its bell-shaped blossoms, and afterwards its berries…”  The Garden , January 1876.

    Size: 4” x 2’, spreading slowly - will make dense groundcover in time.
    Care: part shade in moist to moist well-drained, acidic soil
    Native: Eastern North America – Canada to Georgia west to Wisconsin
    Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.

    Ojibwa made tea from the leaves; the tea “makes them feel good.”  Oneida used this for women having a painful menstrual cycle. For the Algonquin Wintergreen cured the common cold, headaches, grippe and stomachaches.  Cherokee cured swollen gums and colds.  Berries described as a grape in 1717.  Named by Swedish botanist Peter Kalm after Dr. Gaulthier, with whom he botanized in Canada in 1749. Sold in America’s 1st plant catalog, Bartram’s Broadside, 1783. During the American Revolution when tea became unavailable, colonists used the plant to make tea.  The tea reputedly relieved pain from headaches, muscle pains and colds.  The leaves contain oil effective against pain – methyl salicylate. Pressed specimen in Emily Dickinson’s herbarium.

  • Gentiana cruciata Cross-leaf gentian Z 4-9

    True-blue clusters of short trumpet flowers grow from leaf axils of upper stems, from August through September. Lance-shaped, leathery leaves crowd below and cross one another as its name describes.

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    True-blue clusters of short trumpet flowers grow from leaf axils of upper stems, from August through September. Lance-shaped, leathery leaves crowd below and cross one another as its name describes.

    Size: 8-16” x 12-16”
    Care: sun to part shade in moist or moist well-drained soil.
    Native: much of Europe and East Asia
    Wildlife Value: Attracts hummingbirds, butterflies, and other insects.  Rabbit resistant.

    In mid-1700’s it was said to grow “. . .in Pannoniae, (province of the Roman Empire bounded on the north and east by the Danube) and Apenninorum, (probably about the Apennines Mountain range of Italy) and Helvetia.” (Switzerland). Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 231. 1753. (1 May 1753)
    Known more than 600 years ago, possibly before. Leonard Fuchs, German doctor and botanist, (1501-1566) named and described it.  Renamed to its current name by botanist Caspari Bauhin (1560-1625) in Pinax Theatricum.

     

  • Gentiana dahurica Siberian Gentian da wu li qin jiao in China Z 4-7

    Clusters of dark blue tubes with white throats extend from leaf axils, blooming in mid to late summer.

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    Clusters of dark blue tubes with white throats extend from leaf axils, blooming in mid to late summer.

    Size: 6-12” x 12”
    Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
    Native: China & Mongolia, Russia.
    Wildlife Value: Attracts hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies

    Gentian named after King Gentius of Illyria in the Adriatic.  He discovered medicinal uses for gentians around 180 B.C.  This species described in writing in 1812.

  • Gentiana gracilipes Kansu gentian, Grass-leaved gentian Z 4-8

    Lax stems sprawl on the ground while trumpet-shaped blue flowers, with darker spots inside, grow from leaf axils along stems and stem tips, blooming from July to September.

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    Lax stems sprawl on the ground while trumpet-shaped blue flowers, with darker spots inside, grow from leaf axils along stems and stem tips, blooming from July to September.

    Size: 8" x 12”
    Care: Sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
    Native: Mongolia, and China.
    Wildlife Value: Attracts hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies

    First published in Fl. Carniol., ed. 2, 1: 182 (1771)

  • Geranium macrorrhizum Bigroot Geranium Z 4-8

    Five raspberry-purple open petals showcase its tall, purple stamens beckoning come hither to bees. Blooms in early summer. Fragrant foliage smells like pine trees at Christmas. Good groundcover in dry shade

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    Five raspberry-purple open petals showcase its tall, purple stamens beckoning come hither to bees. Blooms in early summer. Fragrant foliage smells like pine trees at Christmas. Good groundcover in dry shade

    Size: 20" x 24"
    Care: part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
    Native: Southern Europe
    Awards: Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant Pick.

    Geranium is Greek meaning “crane” referring to the shape of its seed resembling the bill of a crane.   Cultivated in England by 1600.

  • Geranium maculatum American Cranesbill, Wild geranium, Spotted geranium Z 3-8

    Clusters of two to five pink infused with lavender, flowers of five, paddle-shaped petals bloom in late spring to early summer.

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    Clusters of two to five pink infused with lavender, flowers of five, paddle-shaped petals bloom in late spring to early summer.

    Size: 24" x 18"
    Care: Full sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: East North America, Wisconsin native.
    Wildlife Value: primarily visited by several kinds of bees.

    Native Americans taught colonists to use the plant to cure diarrhea, dysentery, and hemorrhaging.  Also used on sores, open wounds, canker sores and sore feet.  The Choctaw prescribed it for venereal disease.  Sent to Europe in 1732. Jefferson asked John Bartram to obtain seeds, 1786.  Collected by French plant hunter André Michaux (1746-1802).  Pressed specimen in Emily Dickinson’s herbarium.

  • Geranium phaeum ‘Samobor’ Mourning widow Z 4-9

    Very distinctive, variegated, chocolate-green chevron-marked leaves.  Nodding, eggplant purple flowers in late spring-early summer.

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    Very distinctive, variegated, chocolate-green chevron-marked leaves.  Nodding, eggplant purple flowers in late spring-early summer.

    Size: 12-15” x 12"
    Care: part sun to shade in moist well-drained soil
    Native: Croatia
    Wildlife Value: Deer & rabbit resistant. Attracts butterflies and other pollinators

    OK you caught me, it’s not heirloom – this had its 34th birthday in 2024.  In three decades, it will be eligible for Social Security.  It’s such a wonderful plant it’s Ok to make an occasional exception. It is a natural, genetic variant found growing in damp woods in Croatia. Named for the Croatian town of Samobor where the very first ‘Samobor’ still grows.  Discovered in 1990 by Elizabeth Strangman of Washfield Nursery in Kent England.

  • Geranium pratense Meadow Cranesbill Z 4-7

    Clusters of saucer-shaped blue-violet flowers of five, paddle-shaped petals bloom in late spring to early summer.

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    Clusters of saucer-shaped blue-violet flowers of five, paddle-shaped petals bloom in late spring to early summer.

    Size: 24-36" x 24"
    Care: Full sun in moist to well-drained soil
    Native: Northern Europe, central Asia
    Wildlife Value: High sugar content in nectar feeds many pollinators. Deer and rabbit resistant.

    Geranium is Greek meaning “crane” referring to the shape of its seed resembling the bill of a crane.  In 1629 John Parkinson described the uses of the Cranesbill for: “great wound herbes, and effectual to stay bleedings… [Germans] extoll it wonderfully, for a singular remedy against the stone, both in the reines and bladder.”  Widely cultivated in Europe by 1500’s.  Cultivated in the U.S. since the 1800’s now naturalized.