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Globularia nudicaulis Globe daisy Z 3-8
Cobalt blue puffs on naked stems rise above compact rosettes of glossy oval leaves, May-June
Cobalt blue puffs on naked stems rise above compact rosettes of glossy oval leaves blooming May-June
Size: 4-8” x 4”
Care: Sun to part shade in well-drained soil. Drought tolerant/rock garden plant.
Native: northern Spain to the Pyrenees MountainsIn gardens before 1753
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Goniolimon speciosum syn. Statice speciosa, Limonium Dwarf Statice Z 3-9
Evergreen, flat, agave-like blue-green rosette of leaves. In mid-summer light pink, flat-topped flower clusters held on leafless stems 10-12” above foliage. Very different, fun and easy to grow.
Evergreen, flat, agave-like blue-green rosette of leaves. In mid-summer light pink, flat-topped flower clusters held on leafless stems 10-12” above foliage. Very different, fun and easy to grow.
Size: 10-12’ X 8”
Care: sun in well-drained soil
Native: Steppes of Eurasia: Russia, Siberia, Mongolia & western ChinaCollected by German naturalist Johann Georg Gmelin (1709-1755)1st described in 1753 then named and renamed several times. Pictured in Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 18. No. 656 1803.
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Gypsophila repens ‘Rosea’ Creeping baby’s breath Z 4-7
Tough but dainty appearing pink flowers on short, thin stems smother gray-green leaves from June to October. Excellent groundcover, front of the border or rock garden plant.
Tough but dainty appearing pink flowers on short, thin stems smother gray-green leaves from June to October. Excellent groundcover, front of the border or rock garden plant.
Size: 8" x 10-12"
Care: Full sun in well-drained soil.
Native: Mountains of central and southern EuropeGypso is Greek meaning “gypsum or lime.” Phylos means “loving.” Plant requires limey (alkaline) soil. Discovered in Siberia in 1774.
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Helenium hoopesii syn. Hymenoxys hoopesii Orange sneezeweed, Owlsclaws Z 3-8
Large mustard yellow, tending to orange, daisies with drooping petals and yellow center flowers May and continuing to September, if deadheaded.
Large mustard yellow, tending to orange, daisies with drooping petals and yellow center flowers May and continuing to September, if deadheaded.
Size: 3’ x 2’
Care: sun in moist well-drained soil
Native: Rocky Mountains
Wildlife Value: attracts bees, butterflies & moths. Rabbit and deer resistant - toxicNavajo boiled its petals with juniper ash to make a yellow dye. They also chewed the roots for their sugary taste. Indians of the Great Basin dried the leaves and flowers and inhaled them to remedy headaches, while a snuff of only dried flowers, not the leaves, remedied hay fever. Collected by C.C. Parry (1823-1890) given the name “King of Colorado Botany.” Liberty Hyde Bailey (1933) referred to this as “a very fine border plant and especially laudable for cut flowers.”
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Helictotrichon sempervirens Blue oat grass Z 4-9
June-October spikes rise above a rounded mound of thin, steel-blue, evergreen (sempervirens means always green) leaves – one of the best.
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June-October spikes rise above a rounded mound of thin, steel-blue, evergreen (sempervirens means always green) leaves – one of the best.
Size: 4' x 2'
Care: full sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: Europe
Awards: Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant Pick, England’s Royal Botanical Society Award of Garden Merit.1st described in Prospectus de l’Histoire des Plantes de Dauphiné 17. 1779. Liberty Hyde Bailey said that Blue oat grass was “scarcely grown as ornamental subjects.”(1933)
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Helleborus foetidus Bear’s foot Z 5-8 POISON
Nodding chartreuse cups with purple accents emerge in March-April from evergreen, palmate foliage. As much as a Robin - the 1st sign of spring.
Nodding chartreuse cups with purple accents emerge in March-April from evergreen, palmate foliage. As much as a Robin – the 1st sign of spring.
Size: 12-24" x 18-24"
Care: full to part shade in well-drained to moist well-drained soil.
Native: W. Europe
Awards: Great Plant Pick Award from Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden; England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.
Size: Deer and rabbit resistantThe name Helleborus is Greek from hellein meaning “to kill” and bora meaning “food” referring to the plant’s poisonous qualities if eaten. Foetidus because crushed leaves are malodorous, but the flowers are sweetly fragrant. In gardens before 1753. In 1876 it was a “well known old-fashioned plant…” The Garden.
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Helleborus niger Christmas rose, Black hellebore Z 5-8 POISON
Outfacing, white, waxy cup-shaped flowers resembling single roses in late winter, evergreen leaves.
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Outfacing, white, waxy cup-shaped flowers resembling single roses in late winter, evergreen leaves.
Size: 12-20” x 12”
Care: part shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: rocky places in Europe
Awards: Received Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.The name Helleborus is Greek from hellein meaning “to kill” and bora meaning “food” referring to the plant’s poisonous qualities if placed in food. This species is ancient – known as long ago as 300 BC in Greece where it “purged and cured the mad or melancholicke daughters of Praetus with the roots thereof.” (Parkinson, 1629) Grown in the Eichstätt Garden, the garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria, c. 1600. In Middle Ages petals thrown on floor to drive out evil and ward off power of witches. English herbalist John Gerard (1545-1612) strangely recommended it for curing poisoned animals. Sorcerers made themselves invisible by tossing the powdered plant in the air.
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Helleborus orientalis Lenten rose Z 4-9 POISON
Creamy white to pink, waxy saucer-shaped flowers with glowing yellow stamens flowering in early spring with waxy, thick leaves.
Creamy white to pink, waxy saucer-shaped flowers with glowing yellow stamens flowering in early spring with waxy, thick leaves.
Size: 12” x 12”
Care: moist humusy soil in part shade.
Native: Asia Minor
Wildlife Value: its flowers produce large amounts of nectar and pollen feeding many bees, moths, butterflies, and some birds in early spring when few other plants in flower. Deer and rabbit resistant.
Awards: Missouri Botanic Garden Plant of Merit.The name Helleborus is Greek from hellein meaning “to kill” and bora meaning “food” referring to the plant’s poisonous qualities if placed in food. This was identified by Dioscordies in De Materica Medica for medicinal use around 70 A.D. This species found in India in 1839. Favorite plant of Gertrude Jekyll, mother of the mixed perennial border, (1848-1931) planted with Daphne shrubs and Dog tooth violet in her personal garden at Munstead Wood.
