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  • Nepeta nervosa Catmint Z 4-9

    Chubby spikes of many clear blue-purple flowers blooming June-September. Deadhead to rebloom

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    Chubby spikes of many clear blue-purple flowers blooming June-September. Deadhead to rebloom

    Size: 16-20” x 18-24”
    Care: sun in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: China
    Wildlife Value: deer & rabbit resistant, attracts bees & butterflies

    Nepetas may have been named after Nepete, an old Etrusrian city. Nervosa means with conspicuous veins. Collected before 1833.

  • Nepeta racemosa syn. N. mussinii Catmint Z 4-8

    Lavender blue from May through September, cut back for rebloom

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    Lavender blue from May through September, cut back for rebloom

    Size: 18" x 18"
    Care: Full sun in well-drained soil
    Native: Caucasus
    Wildlife Value: attracts butterflies and bees
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.

    Nepetas may have been named after Nepete, an old Etrusrian city. Mussinii named for the plant’s discoverer, Russian Count Apollos Apollosovitch Mussin-Pushkin.  In gardens before 1810 and a favorite Victorian bedding plant by the late 1800’s.  Catmints contain various amounts of an essential oil  (nepetalactone) both a cat stimulant and a mosquito repellant.

  • Nepeta subsessilis Japanese catmint Z 4-8

    Showy bluish-purple spikes of bell-shaped flowers forming short spikes, June-September

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    Showy bluish-purple spikes of bell-shaped flowers forming short spikes, June-September

     

    Size: 18-24” x 18-24” 
    Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Japan
    Wildlife Value: deer & rabbit resistant, attracts butterflies

    Subsessilis means nearly without stalks.  Catmints contain various amounts of an essential oil (nepetalactone) both a cat stimulant and a mosquito repellant. From Nambu Japan where botanists called it Miso-gawa- sô.  Von Siebold, German botanist and physician, who worked in Japan from 1823 to1830, saw it.   Named in Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersburg, sér. 3, 20: 469. (1875) by Russian botanist Karl Maximowicz.

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  • Nicotiana langsdorffii Langsdorff’s tobacco Z 10-11, grow as annual in colder areas

    Pendulous Granny Smith apple colored, tube-shaped flowers in summer through fall.

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    Pendulous Granny Smith apple colored, tube-shaped flowers, in summer through fall.

    Size: 2-3’ x 6”
    Care: full sun to part shade in well-drained soil
    Native: Chile and Brazil
    Wildlife Value: attract hummingbirds
    Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.

    Nicotiana langsdorfii introduced in 1819.  The genus name nicotiana named after John Nicot who introduced smoking tobacco to Europe. Langsdorfii named to honor  Russian naturalist Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff, Baron de Langsdorff ( 1774 -1852), Russian consul general in Brazil and leader of Langsdorff Expedition of Brazil, 1826-1829.

  • Nipponanthemum nipponicum, syn. Chrysanthemum nipponicum, Chrysanthemum album   Nippon daisy, Montauk daisy Z 5-9

    Yes, you can have pristine white daisies all summer and into fall.  Grow Shastas for summer flowers then pair them with Nippon daisies for 3” blooms in late summer and fall.  Excellent cut flower

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    Yes, you can have pristine white daisies all summer and into fall.  Grow your Shastas for summer flowers then pair them with Nippon daisies for 3” blooms in late summer and fall.  Excellent cut flower.

    Size: 2-3' x 2-3'
    Care: sun in well-drained soil. Cut back in early summer to keep it short and bushy, if you wish.
    Native: Japan

    Physician and botanist Phillip von Siebold (1796-1866) collected it during his 8-year residence in Japan working for the Dutch East India Company. Described in 1872 in Bull. Acad. Imp Sci. Saint Petersburg 17:420 (p. 208) Named Montauk after a ship carrying a shipment shipwrecked at Montauk Long Island and the plants grew on the beach.

  • Oenothera macrocarpa syn. O. missouriensis Ozark sundrops Z 3-7

    Big, lemon-yellow blossoms much of the summer, then turn into curious-looking, big oval seed pods

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    Big, lemon-yellow blossoms much of the summer, then turn into curious-looking, big oval seed pods

    Size: 9-12" x 12"
    Care: sun in well-drained soil
    Native: Missouri & Nebraska
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.

    Oenothera is Greek meaning wine tasting referring to the ancient use of Sundrop roots. This discovered in 1810 by Thomas Nuttall when he traveled along the Missouri River “on the elevated summits of the …hills in the vicinity of the lead-mines of the river Meremeck, 30 miles from St. Louis, Louisiana.” (then in the Louisiana Territory).  Nuttall described it as a “splendid and singular species.”

  • Oenothera speciosa Evening primrose Z 5-8

    June to August pale pink saucer-like blossoms

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    Note: This is a plant not currently for sale.  This is an archive page preserved for informational use.

    June to August ballerina pink saucer-like blossoms, excellent groundcover.

    Size: 12" x 12" spreader
    Care: Full sun moist well-drained to well-drained soil
    Native: Southwest U.S. to Mexico

    Another Thomas Nuttall discovery – 1819.

  • Onoclea sensibilis Sensitive fern Zones 4-10

    Medium green fronds grow with deep curves along the wide stem then grow outward with lance-shaped fronds with wavy leaf margins.  Don’t be fooled by the name sensitive.  This is a tough fern growing just about any place with some shade.

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    Medium green fronds grow with deep curves along the wide stem then grow outward with lance-shaped fronds with wavy leaf margins.  Don’t be fooled by the name sensitive.  This is a tough fern growing just about any place with some shade.

    Size: 12-20" x 24” spreading, slowly by rhizomes.
    Care: part to full shade in moist to well-drained soil
    Native: Eastern North America, Wisconsin native
    Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.

    Collected before 1700.   Sensibilis means sensitive on account of fronds dying back when it frosts. Oneida used this for bedding when hunting. According to Oneida tradition if a woman drinks an infusion, she can never have children after she gets married.