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Ilex verticillata Winterberry holly Z 3-9 FEMALE
White flowers in May turning to dense clusters of lurid red berries lasting from fall into winter on female plants. One male needed to fertilize 3 or 4 4 female plants. Female plants have a plump round ovary at the center and vestigial stamens – sticks up; male flowers have a greatly reduced and lower center-and prominent stamens with ample pollen.
White flowers in May turning to dense clusters of lurid red berries lasting from fall into winter on female plants. One male needed to fertilize 3 or 4 4 female plants. Female plants have a plump round ovary at the center and vestigial stamens – sticks up; male flowers have a greatly reduced and lower center-and prominent stamens with ample pollen.
Size: 6-16’ x 6-10’
Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained, acidic soil
Native: Canada to FL, West to WI and MO. Wisconsin native
Wildlife Value: Berries are important winter food for Robin, Bluejay, Catbird, Cedar waxwing, Chickadee, Finch, Flicker, Mockingbird, Mourning dove, Nuthatch, Sparrow, Tanager, Thrasher, Towhee, Warbler, Woodpecker.Natives Americans used bark to induce vomiting, to remedy craziness and a decoction of roots to cure hay fever. Ojibwa used roots as remedy for diarrhea. Collected before 1753 by John Bartram (1699-1776) who called it “Prinos.” Jefferson described the Winterberry in Virginia, “the swamps in this neighborhood are now red with this berry… (it is) peculiar to America and is a real treasure.” Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811. L H Bailey (1933) called it, “one of the best hardy shrubs with ornamental fruits.”
Require a male and female plant for cross pollination. This is the female plant that will produce the berries. Generally, only 1 male shrub should be needed to pollinate 3-4 female shrubs.
**LISTED AS OUT OF STOCK BECAUSE WE DO NOT SHIP THIS ITEM. IT IS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT OUR RETAIL LOCATION.
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Ilex verticillata Winterberry holly Z 3-9 MALE
White flowers in May turning to dense clusters of lurid red berries lasting from fall into winter on female plants. One male needed to fertilize 3 or 4 4 female plants. Female plants have a plump round ovary at the center and vestigial stamens – sticks up; male flowers have a greatly reduced and lower center-and prominent stamens with ample pollen.
White flowers in May turning to dense clusters of lurid red berries lasting from fall into winter on female plants. One male needed to fertilize 3 or 4 4 female plants. Female plants have a plump round ovary at the center and vestigial stamens – sticks up; male flowers have a greatly reduced and lower center-and prominent stamens with ample pollen.
Size: 6-16’ x 6-10’
Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained, acidic soil
Native: Canada to FL, West to Wisconsin and MO.
Wildlife Value: Berries are important winter food for Robin, Bluejay, Catbird, Cedar waxwing, Chickadee, Finch, Flicker, Mockingbird, Mourning dove, Nuthatch, Sparrow, Tanager, Thrasher, Towhee, Warbler, Woodpecker.Natives Americans used bark to induce vomiting, to remedy craziness and a decoction of roots to cure hay fever. Ojibwa used roots as remedy for diarrhea. Collected before 1753 by John Bartram (1699-1776) who called it “Prinos.” Jefferson described the Winterberry in Virginia, “the swamps in this neighborhood are now red with this berry… (it is) peculiar to America and is a real treasure.” Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811. L H Bailey (1933) called it, “one of the best hardy shrubs with ornamental fruits.”
Require a male and female plant for cross pollination. This is the female plant that will produce the berries. Generally, only 1 male shrub should be needed to pollinate 3-4 female shrubs
**LISTED AS OUT OF STOCK BECAUSE WE DO NOT SHIP THIS ITEM. IT IS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT OUR RETAIL LOCATION.
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Iliamna remota Kankakee mallow Z 4-7
Cup-shaped, 5 petaled, shell pink flowers along the 4-6’ tall stems, blooming much of the summer.
Cup-shaped, 5 petaled, shell pink flowers along the 4-6’ tall stems, blooming much of the summer.
Size: 4-5' x 18"
Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Endemic to Langham Island in Kankakee River, Illinois.Collected by Rev. E.J. Hill, minister and teacher, on June 29, 1872. Botanist Edward Lee Greene (1843-1915) described and named it. In Leaflets of Botanical Observation and Criticism Greene wrote that he collected this on Langham Island in August 1, 1899 after Rev. E.J. Hill “brought this plant to knowledge.” Vol 1, 1905 pp. 206-207. http://www.botanicus.org/page/396332. Later, invasive plants threatened this plant with extinction by crowding it. After years of work the Friends of Langham Island rescued this special plant.
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Imperata cylindrica ‘Rubra’ Japanese blood grass Z 4-9
Green grass blades tinged with red turn blood red in late summer.
Green grass blades tinged with red turn blood red in late summer.
Can not ship to: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah & West Virginia
Size: 16-20" x 12" gradually spreading
Care: sun to light shade in moist well-drained soil.
Native: Japan
Wildlife Value: resistant to deer and rabbitsCultivated in Japanese gardens since 1800’s. 1st published description in 1812. Introduced to the U.S. in 1911 near Mobile Alabama as packing material in a shipment of plants from Japan and into Mississippi as a forage crop from the Philippines before 1920.
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Ipomopsis aggregata Standing cypress, Skyrocket, Scarlet gilia Z 4-11 Reseeding biennial
Many attention-grabbing, cardinal red trumpets on a leafless spike in summer-fall gardens
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Many attention-grabbing, cardinal red trumpets on a leafless spike in summer-fall gardens
Size: 3-5’ x 12”
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: west from ND, south to TX to the Pacific Ocean, also western Canada
Wildlife Value: attracts bees, Swallowtail butterflies and flocks of hummingbirds. Deer resistant.Hopi made it into decorations and dye. Klamath children sucked its nectar from the flowers. Navajo remedied many ailments with this – spider bites. stomach ailments by induce purging. And they grew it for its beauty. Canada’s Salish washed their face, hair, and eyes with this. Shoshone remedied pains of rheumatism by crushing the plants and applying it to the aches. Also a remedy sexually transmitted diseases, itches, tonic for blood and induce vomiting,
Collected by Meriwether Lewis on the Lolo Trail crossing the Bitterroot Range of the Rockies, June 26 1806. Named and described initially by Frederick Pursh in Flora Americae Septronalis Vol1 p. 147 (1813) from the plant collected by Lewis on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. -
Iris ‘Monsignor’ syn. Anne’s Iris Z 3-9
Classic purple iris with sunny throat and white stripes on the beard, blossoms in late May to early June
Classic purple iris with sunny throat and white stripes on the beard, blossoms in late May to early June
Size: 15" x 8"
Care: moist well-drained soil in sun to part shadeThis Iris was growing in the gardens when we moved here in 1992. The property has been owned continuously by the Utter – Patterson family from 1880 until 1992. Anne Patterson began gardening here in 1927 as a young bride, so I call these “Anne’s Iris.” In June 2003 Anne turned 104 years old. She passed away on August 1. Hybridized at French nursery Vilmorin-Andrieux et Cie, a legendary seed house started in late 1700’s. Some firm members specialized in Irises from the 1880’s. The firm introduced ‘Monsignor’ in 1907, one of its earlier hybrids.
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Iris ‘Spark’ Z 4-8
Early blooming, intermediate bearded iris of brick-red standards and burgundy falls with a bright spark of a beard in the middle.
Early blooming, intermediate bearded iris of brick-red standards and burgundy falls with a bright spark of a beard in the middle.
Size: 23” x 12”
Care: sun in moist well-drained soil.
Wildlife Value: Welcomes bees with easy access to pollen.Iris is named after the Greek goddess who accompanied the souls of women to the Elysian Fields by way of the rainbow. Her footprints left flowers the colors of the rainbow. Iris means the eye of heaven. The iris is the flower of chivalry, having “a sword for its leaf and a lily for its heart.” Ruskin. Spark hybridized and introduced by Col. J. C. Nicholls in 1931,
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Iris ‘Wabash’ Z 3-8
Pure white standards with deep purple falls edged in white and a bright yellow beard in late May-early June. “A new iris so far in advance of others of similar color combination that they are simply not in the race.” Cooley’s Gardens catalog, 1938
Pure white standards with deep purple falls edged in white and a bright yellow beard in late May-early June. “A new iris so far in advance of others of similar color combination that they are simply not in the race.” Cooley’s Gardens catalog, 1938
Size: 39" x 8"
Care: sun in moist well-drained soil. In July-August lift & divide every 2 to 3 years; discard mushy rhizomes.
Wildlife Value: Deer and rabbit resistant.
Awards: Dykes award (best iris in world) winner 1940.Iris is named after the Greek goddess who accompanied the souls of women to the Elysian Fields by way of the rainbow. Her footprints left flowers the colors of the rainbow. Iris means the eye of heaven. The iris is the flower of chivalry, having “a sword for its leaf and a lily for its heart.
Hybridized by Mary Williamson in 1936, daughter of famed iris hybridizer E.B. Williamson. She became a renowned hybridizer in her own right. ‘Wabash’, is a cross of ‘Dorothy Dietz’ with ‘Cantabile.’
