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  • Ratibida pinnata Prairie coneflower Z 3-8

    Skirt of drooping, sunny, thin petals surround erect brown cone on this fragrant flower, smelling of anise, June-August.

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    Skirt of drooping, sunny, thin petals surround erect brown cone on this fragrant flower, smelling of anise, June-August.

    Size: 4' x 18"
    Care: sun to part shade in any soil
    Native: Ontario, VT to FL, SD to OK, Wisconsin native
    Wildlife Value: Butterfly plant. Birds eat seeds.

    Pinnata means feathery in Latin referring to the thin petals of the flower.  Native Americans cured toothaches with the root & made tea from the cone and leaves.  Collected by French plant hunter André Michaux (1746-1802) on the prairies of Illinois in 1795.

  • Rheum palmatum var. tanguticum Ornamental rhubarb Z 4-8

    Gigantic, jagged-edge, bronze-tinted turning green foliage with pink plumes reaching skyward atop tall stalks in early summer.

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    Gigantic, jagged-edge, bronze-tinted turning green foliage with pink plumes reaching skyward atop tall stalks in early summer.

    Size: 8' x 6'
    Care: Sun to part shade, moist well-drained fertile soil, mulch in spring
    Native: valleys of Gansu, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Xizang, China

    Rhubarb carried from its native China to central Asia and then Europe by caravans more than 2000 years ago.  Both Greek physician Dioscoride (40-90) s and Roman Pliny (23-79) mentioned the plant during the 1st century.  In 1300’s Marco Polo explained that merchants of China do not take their beasts of burden into the mountains where rhubarb grows because “if eaten (causes) the hoofs of the animal to drop off.”  This variety 1st described in 1874.

  • Ribes aureum syn. Ribes odoratum Clove currant Z 3-8

    Early to mid-spring yellow flowers shaped like a tube with 5 petals opening wide at the ends smother the shrub giving off a sweet, clove-scented fragrance – heavenly.  Ships only in spring.

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    Early to mid-spring yellow flowers shaped like a tube with 5 petals opening wide at the ends smother the shrub giving off a sweet, clove-scented fragrance – heavenly.  Ships only in spring.

    Size: 6' x 6' spreading
    Care: Sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil.
    Native: west-central US
    Wildlife Value: Attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds for nectar. Small mammals eat the berries. Immune to Walnut toxins

    Many tribes ate the berries.  Shoshone and Paiute used the shrub’s inner bark to heal sores and swellings. Meriwether Lewis on the Lewis & Clark Expedition found this in 2 locations – “near the narrows of the Columbia” April 16 1806, now Klickitat County Washington, and on July 29, 1805 in Montana.

    **LISTED AS OUT OF STOCK BECAUSE WE DO NOT SHIP THIS ITEM.  IT IS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT OUR RETAIL LOCATION.

  • Rodgersia aesculofolia Finger-leaf rodgersia Z 5-7

    Showy, fragrant, pink-tinged, ivory flowers along stems rising up to 2’ over basal foliage. Come for the flowers and stay for the foliage - 12” wide bronze-tinted, crinkled, double-tooth edged, palmate shaped of seven leaflets radiate like spokes of a wheel.

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    Showy, fragrant, pink-tinged, ivory flowers along stems rising up to 2’ over basal foliage. Come for the flowers and stay for the foliage – 12” wide bronze-tinted, crinkled, double-tooth edged, palmate shaped of seven leaflets radiate like spokes of a wheel.

    Size: 3-5’ x3-5’
    Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to wet soil
    Native: northern China

    First collected in Sichuan province, China by Siberian Grigorii Potanin (1835-1920) in 1884. Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada vol 13 p. 96 (1893).  For his political activity as a Siberian separatist Potanin spent years in Russian prison. An accomplished geographer and naturalist he explored much of Kazakhstan and Mongolia and parts of China. In 1879-1880 he explored northern Mongolia collecting many plants and animal specimens.

  • Rodgersia pinnata Rodger’s flower Z 5-8

    Ground-hugging mound of bold leaves arranged opposite one another along the stem (pinnate, this is why it’s called pinnata) appear to be arranged in the shape of a hand (palmate) because the leaves are so large it’s hard to see the difference. To translate, the leaves are a sight to behold featuring their big size, crinkled texture,  and, dark veins. This blooms  on a stalk about a foot taller than the leaves in  July-August pink, sometimes white.

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    Ground-hugging mound of bold leaves arranged opposite one another along the stem (pinnate, this is why it’s called pinnata) appear to be arranged in the shape of a hand (palmate) because the leaves are so large it’s hard to see the difference. To translate, the leaves are a sight to behold featuring their big size, crinkled texture,  and, dark veins. This blooms  on a stalk about a foot taller than the leaves in  July-August pink, sometimes white.

    Size: 3' x 30" and slowly spreading by rhizomes
    Care: shade in moist soil
    Native: China
    Wildlife Value: deer resistant.
    Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit & Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant Picks

    Rodgersia named for American Admiral John Rodgers (1812-1882) who led an expedition in the Pacific in 1852 during which the 1st species of this genus was discovered.  This species introduced from its native China by Ernest “Chinese” Wilson (1876-1930) by 1910.

  • Rodgersia podophylla Bronze-leaf rodgersia In China: gui deng qing Z 5-8

    Blooming, creamy white panicles in summer, atop five leaflets, shield-shaped, jagged incisions at the ends forming  a  palmate, open hand shape and a tint of bronze coloring.

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    Blooming, creamy white panicles in summer, atop five leaflets, shield-shaped, jagged incisions at the ends forming  a  palmate, open hand shape and a tint of bronze coloring.

    Size: 3-5’ x 3-4’ and slowly spreading by rhizomes.
    Care: part shade in moist to moist well-drained acidic soil
    Native: woodland & stream edges in Japan, China & Korea
    Awards: Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanic Garden, Great Plant Pick Award.

    Rodgersia named for American Admiral John Rodgers (1812-1882) who led an expedition in the Pacific in 1852 during which this plant was collected. 1st mentioned in literature 1858.  Named by Harvard botanist Asa Gray.   Species name from the Greek for foot (podos) and leaf (phyllon).

  • Rosa rubrifolia syn. Rosa glauca Z 3-9

    Medium pink single blooms in spring. Purplish foliage bearing red-purple hips in autumn.

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    Medium pink single blooms in spring. Purplish foliage bearing red-purple hips in autumn.

    Size: 7’ x 5’
    Care: Full sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil. Disease resistant. Japanese beetles seem not to be interested in this rose.
    Native: Central Europe
    Awards: Plant Select; Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant Pick & Great Plants for Great Plains; Royal Botanical Society Award of Garden Merit

    In garden cultivation since 1830

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  • Rubus odoratus Flowering raspberry Z 2-8

    Purple-pink saucer shaped flowers all summer

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    Purple-pink saucer shaped flowers from June to October.  Rarely seen shrub.

    Size: 7-8' x 8' spreading
    Care: Sun to shade in moist well-drained soil. Slightly acidic.
    Native: Maine to Michigan, south to Illinois, Tennessee, east to North Carolina and all places in between
    Wildlife Value: Immune to walnut toxins.

    For sale in an English catalog in 1730. William Robinson, father of the mixed perennial garden, praised the flowering raspberry as bearing  “large clusters of rich purple flowers. Bearing scented leaves, the leaves and not the flowers being fragrant.”