Perennials & Biennials
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Helleborus niger Christmas rose, Black hellebore Z 5-8 POISON
Outfacing, white, waxy cup-shaped flowers resembling single roses in late winter, evergreen leaves.
OUT OF STOCK
Outfacing, white, waxy cup-shaped flowers resembling single roses in late winter, evergreen leaves.
Size: 12-20” x 12”
Care: part shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: rocky places in Europe
Awards: Received Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.The name Helleborus is Greek from hellein meaning “to kill” and bora meaning “food” referring to the plant’s poisonous qualities if placed in food. This species is ancient – known as long ago as 300 BC in Greece where it “purged and cured the mad or melancholicke daughters of Praetus with the roots thereof.” (Parkinson, 1629) Grown in the Eichstätt Garden, the garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria, c. 1600. In Middle Ages petals thrown on floor to drive out evil and ward off power of witches. English herbalist John Gerard (1545-1612) strangely recommended it for curing poisoned animals. Sorcerers made themselves invisible by tossing the powdered plant in the air.
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Helleborus orientalis Lenten rose Z 4-9 POISON
Creamy white to pink, waxy saucer-shaped flowers with glowing yellow stamens flowering in early spring with waxy, thick leaves.
Creamy white to pink, waxy saucer-shaped flowers with glowing yellow stamens flowering in early spring with waxy, thick leaves.
Size: 12” x 12”
Care: moist humusy soil in part shade.
Native: Asia Minor
Wildlife Value: its flowers produce large amounts of nectar and pollen feeding many bees, moths, butterflies, and some birds in early spring when few other plants in flower. Deer and rabbit resistant.
Awards: Missouri Botanic Garden Plant of Merit.The name Helleborus is Greek from hellein meaning “to kill” and bora meaning “food” referring to the plant’s poisonous qualities if placed in food. This was identified by Dioscordies in De Materica Medica for medicinal use around 70 A.D. This species found in India in 1839. Favorite plant of Gertrude Jekyll, mother of the mixed perennial border, (1848-1931) planted with Daphne shrubs and Dog tooth violet in her personal garden at Munstead Wood.
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Hemerocallis ‘Hyperion’
Midsummer, fragrant lemon yellow trumpets
Midsummer, fragrant lemon yellow trumpets
Size: 36" x 12"
Care: Sun, moist well-drained soil. Drought tolerant.Hybrid origin, bred in 1925 and still popular today.
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Hemerocallis ‘Peachy Sunshine’ Z 4-9
Wavy-edged, peachy-pink petals form a 6-pointed star with a yellow throat as sunny as Bob’s disposition. Blooms late mid-season
Wavy-edged, peachy-pink petals form a 6-pointed star with a yellow throat as sunny as Bob’s disposition. Blooms late mid-season
Size: 30-35” tall, flowers 6 1/2” across
Tetraploid hybridized by Robert Koehne in 2013, only a seedling when Bob passed (1971-2014)
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Hemerocallis ‘Tomato’ Bob’s Tetraploid Daylily ‘Tomato’ Z 4-9
Self daylily with fat, round petals resembling rich, ripe red polished tomatoes with a hint of sparkle, deepening toward the throat. Mid-season bloom.
Self daylily with fat, round petals resembling rich, ripe red polished tomatoes with a hint of sparkle, deepening toward the throat. Mid-season bloom.
Size: 32-38” tall, flowers 6” across
Wildlife Value: Pollen attracts and feeds bees, some hawkmoths, some butterflies and hummingbirds.Robert Koehne (April 1971-September 2014) Bob was a good personal friend and very enthusiastic gardener – perennially cheerful. He loved his wife and two children and daylily breeding. These daylilies are his “children” too. He bred them, named them and registered them. He died of colon cancer too soon – before he could grow grey with Darby or see his kids or his daylilies grow up. We are growing on his daylilies. This year we have only a few to sell but in time these will multiply, hopefully like rabbits. The proceeds go to his family.
Tetraploid hybridized by Robert Koehne in 2013, only a seedling when Bob passed (1971-2014)
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Hemerocallis ‘Baby Cheeks’
Ruffled margins encircle its broad recurve petals, the color of baby’s cheeks setting off a primrose yellow throat.
Tetraploid daylily. Our own hybrid. Flowers in July.
Ruffled margins encircle its broad recurve petals, the color of baby’s cheeks setting off a primrose yellow throat.Size: 20-30” tall
Care: Full sunOur own hybrid
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Hemerocallis ‘Candy Corn” Z 4-9
Tetraploid Daylily. Broad peach fading to yellow ruffled edges. Sepals shorter than petals, Golden center. Blooms in July.
Tetraploid Daylily. Broad peach fading to yellow ruffled edges. Sepals shorter than petals, Golden center. Blooms in July.
Size: 28-36” tall. Blossom 4.5” across
Care: sun in most any soilTetraploid Daylily. Broad peach fading to yellow ruffled edges. Sepals shorter than petals, Golden center. Blooms in July.
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Hemerocallis ‘Condiment Petals’ Z 4-9
Tetraploid Daylily. Deep coral blossoms with ruffled edges edged in fine white line. Sepals smaller than petals. Mustard eye. Blooms in July.
Tetraploid Daylily. Deep coral blossoms with ruffled edges edged in fine white line. Sepals smaller than petals. Mustard eye. Blooms in July.
Size: 33-38” tall; Blossoms 6.5” across
