Perennials & Biennials

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  • Lobelia cardinalis Cardinal flower Z 3-9

    Ruby, cardinal red tubes with an upper lip split in half and a lower lip like a pixie’s apron encircle the spike from August to October beckon hummingbirds to feed.

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    Ruby, cardinal red tubes with an upper lip split in half and a lower lip like a pixie’s apron encircle the spike from August to October beckon hummingbirds to feed.

    Size: 3’ x 12”
    Care: sun to part shade in fertile, moist soil. Moist soil important
    Native: Canada to Texas, Wisconsin native.
    Wildlife Value: attracts hummingbirds
    Awards: Received England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit & Missouri Botanic Garden Plant of Merit.

    Cherokee cured stomach aches, worms, pain, fever, nose bleeds, rheumatism, headaches, colds, and croup with Lobelia.  They used the root to treat syphilis.  Other Natives and colonists used the plant to induce vomiting. At the end of a funeral, Meskwaki Indians threw the dried and pulverized plant into the grave.  Meskwaki also chopped the roots and secretly put it in the food of “a quarrelsome pair.”  Allegedly “this makes the pair love each other again.”   Lobelia is named for Matthias L’Obel (1538-1616) French expatriate who immigrated to England and became physician to English King James I. Tradescant the Younger introduced this to European gardens when he sent it to England in 1637.  Offered for sale in Bartram Garden’s 1783 Broadside. In 1749 Swedish botanist Peter Kalm wrote that Indians used five species of Lobelia to cure venereal disease, “an infallible art of curing it.” Grown by Washington at Mount Vernon and Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. Pressed specimen in Emily Dickinson’s herbarium.

  • Lobelia siphilitica ‘Alba’ z 4-8

    A striking, erect spike of pure white blossoms opening from bottom up. On top club-shaped buds, below trumpet-shapes made of a tube flaring open at the ends with the top of the flare looking like a quarter moon with the circle at the bottom and the lower divided into three, each segment pointed at the ends. Its fresh white blooms stand out in late summer to early fall.

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    A striking, erect spike of pure white blossoms opening from bottom up. On top club-shaped buds, below trumpet-shapes made of a tube flaring open at the ends with the top of the flare looking like a quarter moon with the circle at the bottom and the lower divided into three, each segment pointed at the ends. Its fresh white blooms stand out in late summer to early fall.

    Size: 2-3’ x 1-2’
    Care: sun to part shade in moist or moist well-drained soil
    Native: The blue form, the species Lobelia siphilitica is native from Connecticut to Wyoming, south to Texas then east to Georgia and all states in between, Wisconsin native.
    Wildlife Value: Deer resistant, attracts bees, hummingbirds and some butterflies.

    This white one is “An albino of occasional occurrence.” Britton, Nathaniel Lord “On the Naming of ‘Forms,’ in the New Jersey Catalogue” Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 17: 121,125. 1890. This may, therefore, be native in the same locations as the blue species or it may not.

  • Lobelia siphilitica Great lobelia Z 4-9

    A striking, erect spike of sky to blueberry-blue blossoms. On top club-shaped buds, below trumpet-shapes, open flowers, made of a tube flaring open with the bottom divided into three, each segment pointed at the ends. From late summer to early fall.

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    A striking, erect spike of sky to blueberry-blue blossoms. On top club-shaped buds, below trumpet-shapes, open flowers, made of a tube flaring open with the bottom divided into three, each segment pointed at the ends. From late summer to early fall.

    Size: 3' x 12"
    Care: Full sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Connecticut to Wyoming, south to Texas then east to Georgia and all states in between, Wisconsin native.
    Wildlife Value: attracts bumble bees, hummingbirds and some butterflies

    Lobelia is named for Matthias L’Obel (1538-1616) a French expatriate who emigrated to England and became physician to English King James I.  Cherokee used the root to treat headaches, stomachaches, worms, nosebleeds, colds and syphilis.  1st collected by Rev. John Banister who moved to colonial Virginia in 1678.  A gunman mistakenly shot and killed him while he collected plants.   In 1749 Swedish botanist Peter Kalm wrote that Indians used five species of Lobelia to cure venereal disease, having “an infallible art of curing it.”  According to John Bartram (1699-17760) “The learned Pehr Kalm (who gained the Knowledge of it from Colonel Johnson, who learned it of the Indians, who, after great Rewards bestowed on several of them, revealed the Secret to him) saith, That the Roots of this Plant cureth the Pox much more perfectly and easily than any mercurial Preparations, and is generally used by the Canada Indians, for the Cure of themselves“ (Better than mercury!) Oneidas considered this good medicine for distemper. Sioux treated bloat, diarrhea and dysentery as well as a love charm by adding powdered root to the food of the intended.  Offered for sale in Bartram Garden’s 1783 Broadside, America’s 1st plant catalog.

  • Lunaria annua Money plant, Honesty, Silver dollar Biennial Reseeds Z 5-10

    Mauve phlox-like blooms spring to early summer turn into silvery, translucent seedpods.

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    Mauve phlox-like blooms spring to early summer turn into silvery, translucent seedpods.

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    Size: 1'-3' x 1’
    Care: Full sun to part shade.
    Native: mountains of Italy
    Wildlife Value: attracts bees and butterflies

    Old-fashioned heirloom. Silver dollars are perfect for dried bouquets! Popular in winter flower arrangements since colonial times. Introduced to England from Germany in the late 1500’s and carried to America by the Puritans as a reminder of home.  Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811.

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  • Lycoris squamigera Surprise lily, Naked lady Z 5-9

    Strap-like leaves appear in April, then die back in summer.  In August a shoot appears seemingly out-of-no-where, topped with pale pink trumpets.  Flowers resemble Amaryllis.

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    Strap-like leaves appear in April, then die back in summer. In August a shoot appears seemingly out-of-no-where, topped with pale pink trumpets. Flowers resemble Amaryllis

    Size: 18-24” x 6”
    Care: full sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
    Native: Japan

    Introduced to Western gardens from Japan in 1861 by Dr. George Rogers Hall (1820-1899), a physician who moved to Shanghai and became a trader, introducing several Japanese plants to the U.S.

  • Lysimachia clethroides Gooseneck loosestrife Z 3-8

    White racemes looking like a goose neck from mid to late summer, deadhead to rebloom

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    White racemes looking like a goose neck from mid to late summer, deadhead to rebloom

    Size: 36" x spreads
    Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained humusy soil
    Native: China and Japan
    Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit

    Dioscorides (1st century A.D.) named Lysimachia after King Lysimachus of Thracia. This species collected before 1844.

  • Lysimachia nummularia ‘Aurea’ Creeping jenny Z 3-9

    Bright yellow flowers in summer, chartreuse foliage which is the reason to grow this.

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    Bright yellow flowers in summer & chartreuse foliage which is the reason to grow this.

    Size: 2” x spreading
    Care: full sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Europe
    Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.

    Dioscorides (1st century A.D.) named Lysimachia after King Lysimachus of Thracia. By the 1590’s used as cure for wounds and whooping cough. Species listed in Gardeners Dictionary, 1768.  ‘Aurea’, H.H. Thomas 1915.  Breck (1851) called this “suitable for rockwork or hanging from a pot in a northern exposure.”  L.H. Bailey echoed this: “Very useful for rustic vases and baskets, also for carpeting ground in shady places.”

  • Macleaya cordata Plume poppy Z 4-9

    An imposing plant - impressive, glaucous leaves with conspicuous veins and jagged margins, and, from July to October, tawny pink plumes.

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    An imposing plant – impressive, glaucous leaves with conspicuous veins and jagged margins, and, from July to October, tawny pink plumes.

    Can not ship to: Delaware and Maryland

    Size: 6-8' x 3' and spreading
    Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
    Native: China and Japan

    English seaman on Macartney’s Chinese mission sent this to Europe in 1792. In its native China the plant’s juice disinfected insect bites. Grown in American gardens since the 1800’s.