Perennials & Biennials
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Aster novae angliae syn. Symphyotrichum New England Aster Z 4-8
August – October, classic violet, pink or magenta daisies
August – October, classic violet, pink or magenta daisies
Size: 3-4' x 24"
Care: Full sun dry to moist soil. Heat and drought tolerant.
Native: Vt to Alabama, west to N. M., Wisconsin native
Wildlife Value: Nectar source for many butterflies - Checkered white and Checkered skippers, Spring azure, Pearl crescent, Buckeye, Painted lady, Fiery skip butterfly, Sachem, Sleepy orange, Silver-spotted skipper and Monarch. Host for caterpillars Wavy-lined emerald moth.Aster means star, referring to the flower’s form. For the Cherokee New England aster tea cured fevers and diarrhea. Roots remedied pain and inflammation of the nose and throat. Introduced to garden cultivation by John Tradescant the Younger (1608-1662) in 1637 when he sent it to England where upon borders of New England aster became common. Washington grew New England Aster at Mount Vernon.
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Aster oblongifolius syn. Symphyotrichum oblongifolium, Aromatic aster Z 3-8
Purplish blue daisies with yellow center blooming in September to November. Good, bushy mound shape.
Purplish blue daisies with yellow center blooming in September to November. Good, bushy mound shape.
Size: 1-2’ x 1-3’
Care: sun to shade in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: Pennsylvania to No. Carolina west to Wyoming & Texas, Wisconsin native
Wildlife Value: Bees collect pollen and nectar from it. Medium sized butterflies collect its nectar. Its leaves support Silvery checkerspot and some moth caterpillars, Deer resistant.
Size: Navajo made a decoction of this to protect against witches.Meriwether Lewis collected this on the Expedition September 21, 1804, the day after nearly being swept away while Lewis and the Corps of discovery slept on the eroding sandbar, near the Big Bend of the Missouri River in South Dakota. 1st described by planthunter Thomas Nuttall in 1818(1786-1879).
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Astilbe andresii ‘Amethyst’ Z 5-8
pink plumes flowering in July, with oxblood tinged foliage
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Three foot tall pink plumes flowering in July, with oxblood tinged foliage
Size: 36"x 24"
Care: sun to part shade, moist soil essential. Immune walnut toxicity
Wildlife Value: attracts butterfliesAstilbe is Greek from a meaning “without” and stilbe meaning “lustre” referring to the fact that the leaves are not shiny. Early hybrid by George Arends, nurseryman from Ronsdorf, Gemany (1862-1952).
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Astilbe andresii ‘Fanal’ Z 4-8
Marlboro red plumes in June
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Striking Marlboro red plumes in June
Size: 24"x 18"
Care: sun to part shade, moist soil. Immune walnut toxicity
Wildlife Value: attracts butterflies
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden MeritAstilbe is Greek from a meaning “without” and stilbe meaning “lustre” referring to the fact that the leaves are not shiny. Cross of A. japonica and A. davidii made by Arends, nurseryman from Ronsdorf, Gemany (1862-1952), in 1930.
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Astilbe andresii ‘Brautschleier’ Bridal Veil Z 4-8
White plumes turning creamy in July
White plumes turning creamy in July
Size: 30” x 30”
Care: sun to part shade, moist soil essentialAstilbe is Greek from a meaning “without” and stilbe meaning “lustre” referring to the fact that the leaves are not shiny. Hybrid by George Arends, nurseryman from Ronsdorf, Germany in 1929.
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Astilbe chinensis luo xin fu in China Z 4-9
Pink plumes in mid-summer atop fern-like foliage. More tolerant of sun and well-drained soil than the hybrids.
Pink plumes in mid-summer atop fern-like foliage. More tolerant of sun and well-drained soil than the hybrids.
Size: 24” x 24” spreads
Care: Sun to shade in moist or moist well-drained soil
Native: Siberia, China, KoreaAstilbe from “the Greek word for without” and stilbe meaning “lustre” referring to the fact that the leaves are not shiny. 1st described for the West by botanist Carl Johann Maximowicz in 1859 and then named Hoteia chinensis. Liberty Hyde Bailey termed this plant “graceful” in the early 1900’s.
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Astrantia major Masterwort Z 4-7
Blush-pink leaf-like bracts with pointed ends surround crowds of tiny, cramped flowers, pincushion-like stand tall above low foliage blooming from June-August.
Blush-pink leaf-like bracts with pointed ends surround crowds of tiny, cramped flowers, pincushion-like stand tall above low foliage blooming from June-August.
Size: 12-36” x 12”
Care: Sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Europe
Awards: Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant PicksAstrantia is Greek meaning “star” referring to the star-like appearance of the flowers. European gardens by 1596 and in early colonial gardens in Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630’s. The root was used as a purgative.
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Athyrium filix femina ‘Victoriae’ Victoria lady fern Z 4-8
Clumping fern with finely divided fronds have tiny, twisted leaflets that cross one another. Vigorous grower. Dr, John Mickel, former curator of ferns at the New York Botanical Garden, called this “the Queen of green.”
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Clumping fern with finely divided fronds have tiny, twisted leaflets that cross one another. Vigorous grower. Dr, John Mickel, former curator of ferns at the New York Botanical Garden, called this “the Queen of green.”
Size: 18-24” x 18-24”
Care: part to full shade in moist to moist well-drained soilPopular Victorian fern. Mutation of Lady Fern discovered in Scotland in 1861.
