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  • Lilium leichtlinii Leichtlin’s Lily, Citronella Lily Z 5-9

    Up-curved petals on down-facing, yellow flowers freckled with dark spots grace a tall stem with multiple horizontal side shoots, each ending with a flower in June-July.

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    Up-curved petals on down-facing, yellow flowers freckled with dark spots grace a tall stem with multiple horizontal side shoots, each ending with a flower in June-July.

    Size: 3-4’ x 10”
    Care: sun to part shade in humus-rich, moist well-drained soil
    Native: central Honshu Japan among tall grasses in moist meadows

    Introduced from Japan by the London nursery of Veitch and Sons and described first in Bot. Mag. 93: t. 5673 1867 wherein it was named for German horticulturist Maximilian Leichtlin (1831-1910) He worked at several gardens in Europe then traveled to South America and then founded a botanic garden in Baden-Baden, Germany specializing in bulbous plants. Listed in the 1873 catalog of Leichtlin’schen Gartens in Baden-Baden.

  • Lilium martagon Martagon lily Z 3-8

    Usually pink to carmine, smallish downfacing, reflexed petals, with one stem baring up to 50 individual flowers on mature plant.

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    Usually pink to carmine, smallish downfacing, reflexed petals, with one stem baring up to 50 individual flowers on mature plant.

    Size: 3-6’ x 8-12”
    Care: part shade to sun (shorter in sun) in well-drained, lime soil. Resents being moved & often will not emerge in 1st year.
    Native: Eastern France to Korea.
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit; Elisabeth C. Miller Botanic Garden Great Plant Pick.

    The name Martagon means cap in Turkish from the style of turban adopted by Turkish ruler, Sultan Mohammed, which was known as a martagon and had a similarly pendulous shape. Described by English herbalist Gerard (1545-1612) in 1596.

  • Lilium superbum Meadow lily Z 4-8

    Brilliant orange with purple spots, Turks’-cap type, reflexed petals (tepals), blooming in late summer to early fall.

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    Brilliant orange with purple spots, Turks’-cap type, reflexed petals (tepals), blooming in late summer to early fall.

    Size: 10’ x 12”
    Care: Sun in moist to moist-well-drained, acidic soil
    Native: from VT to Fl & west to Mississippi River, Wisconsin native

    Lilium was named for the Greek word for smooth, polished referring to its leaves. This collected before 1665. In his 1665 book, Flora, seu de Florum Cultura John Rea, nurseryman and author, called it the “Virginia Martagon.” Sold in America’s 1st plant catalog, Bartram’s Broadside, 1783. L.H. Bailey (1913): “The most magnificent and showy of native North American species, well worthy of extensive cultivation.”

  • Limonium latifolium syn. Limonium platyphyllum Sea lavender, Statice latifolia Z 2-8

    Airy lavender blue panicles from mid to late summer.  Leathery foliage turns reddish in fall. Excellent cut or dried flowers.

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    Airy lavender blue panicles from mid to late summer.  Leathery foliage turns reddish in fall. Excellent cut or dried flowers.

    Size: 24-30” x 24”
    Care: Full sun in well-drained soil
    Native: Russia, Bulgaria & Romania
    Wildlife Value: Deer resistant.

    Limonium is Greek meaning “meadow” and latifolium means “wide leaf”.  This was identified by Dioscorides in De Materica Medica for medicinal use around 70 A.D.  Cultivated in gardens since 1700’s.  Formerly used to repel moths and cure canker sores.

     

  • Limonium minutum Dwarf statice Z 5-9

    All summer long, droves of lavender blossoms above a mini pillow of spoon-shaped, glossy foliage.

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    All summer long, droves of lavender blossoms above a mini pillow of spoon-shaped, glossy foliage.

    Size: 6-8” x 6-8”
    Care: sun in well-drained soil
    Native: southeast France on limestone seacliffs
    Wildlife Value: deer resistant, salt tolerant

    Described by Linnaeus, 1753. The name Limoniuim comes from the Greek word for meadow.

  • Linaria alpina Alpine toadflax Z 5-8

    Purple snapdragon-like petals bloom all summer and  show off golden-orange lips

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    Purple snapdragon-like petals bloom all summer and  show off golden-orange lips

    Size: 4-6” x 6-12”
    Care: sun in well-drained soil
    Native: Mountains of central and southern Europe

    Listed in Gardeners Dictionary, 1768.  Wm Robinson in July 1872 issue of The Garden: “The alpine Linaria is never more beautiful than when self-sown in a gravel walk.” January 1876 bloomed for 4+ months in the rock garden at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.

  • Linaria purpurea Purple toadflax Z 5-9

    Violet racemes all summer July to September

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    Violet racemes all summer through fall

    Size: 36” x 12”
    Care: Sun, well-drained soil
    Native: Southern Europe

    Both the Latin and common names are related to flax.  Linaria comes from “linum” which is Greek for “flax” and toadflax includes the word “flax.”  The leaves of Linaria purpurea resemble flax leaves.  According to 17th century English herbalist, John Parkinson, the plant “causes one to make water.”  Grown by English plantsman and explorer, Tradescant the Elder, 1634.

  • Linum alpinum Alpine flax, Mountain flax Z 4-9

    Compact blue flax, perfect for the rock garden or in a sunny border. Bushy mound of small soft-blue saucers for weeks in late spring & early summer.  Reblooms if you cut it half way back in late June

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    Compact blue flax, perfect for the rock garden or in a sunny border. Bushy mound of small soft-blue saucers for weeks in late spring & early summer.  Reblooms if you cut it half way back in late June

    Size: 8-12” x 10-12”
    Care: sun in well-drained soil
    Native: mountains of Europe

    Published as a separate species in 1925.