Perennials & Biennials
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Papaver orientale ‘Princess Victoria Louise’ Poppy Z 3-7
crinkled, crepe-paper like apricot-pink petals
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.
Dramatic, crinkled, crepe-paper like apricot-pink petals with black blotch in center – June. It is an ephemeral, like a tulip; it all disappears in summer and then the leaves reappear in late fall, so don’t be surprised.
Size: 24-30” x 18”
Care: sun in well-drained soilPoppies have been grown since at least the time when Homer wrote the Illiad, in which he used the poppy’s hanging bud as a metaphor for a dying soldier. French botanist Tournefort discovered the classic orange poppy, P. orientale in Armenia in 1714 and sent it to the King of France. This cultivar of the Oriental poppy in gardens since 1908. Princess Victoria Louise (1892-1980) was the only daughter of William II, German Emperor and Empress Augusta Victoria of Prussia and the maternal grandmother of Queen Sophie of Spain and former King Constantine II of the Hellenes. By marriage she was the Duchess of Brunswick. She was a beauty and the flower is aptly named.
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Papaver orientale Poppy Z 2-7
The classic poppy - papery tabasco petals with black blotch center in June. D.M. Ferry Catalog, 1876:"great beauty and magnificent.” It appears to die back in summer then the leaves reappear in fall.
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Available for purchase in Spring only
The classic poppy – papery tabasco petals with black blotch center in June. D.M. Ferry Catalog, 1876: ”great beauty and magnificent.” It appears to die back in summer then the leaves reappear in fall.
Size: 2-3’ x 2’
Care: Full sun in well-drained soil.
Native: Caucasus
Wildlife Value: Deer resistant.Poppies have been grown since at least the time when Homer wrote the Illiad, in which he used the poppy’s hanging bud as a metaphor for a dying soldier. During World War I, Canadian soldier John McCrae again united the poppy with dying soldiers. He wrote “In Flanders’ Field.”
French botanist Joseph Pitton Tournefort (1656-1708) discovered this in Armenia in 1714 and sent it to the King of France. In 1741 Englishman Peter Collinson sent seeds to John Bartram who cultivated the plant in his Philadelphia nursery. Jefferson grew the oriental poppy at Monticello and Washington grew it at Mount Vernon. Acc’d to the Gardeners Dictionary, 1768 “There are two or three varieties of this which differ only in the colour of their flowers … and a double flower of this kind … Tournefort says, the Turks eat the green heads of this Poppy, although they are very bitter and acrid.” -
Papaver rupifragum Spanish poppy Z 5-9
Small crinkled, crepe-paper like apricot petals all summer & fall except for a recess in the heat of July. If you let them go to seed they will make more plants and you’ll be glad for it.
Small crinkled, crepe-paper like apricot petals all summer & fall except for a recess in the heat of July. If you let them go to seed they will make more plants and you’ll be glad for it.
Size: 12-18" x 8"
Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil. Deer resistant, drought tolerant
Native: Spain, Asia Minor & CaucasusFirst described in Journal of Botany in 1873. Louise Beebe Wilder considered this among her favorite perennials. (1918). One of our favorites too! Gertrude Jekyll, mother of the mixed perennial border planted this for its “rich apricot color.” (1908).
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Parthenium integrifolium Wild Quinine Z 3-8
Work-horse white cymes July through October
Work-horse white cymes July through October
Size: 2-3’ x 12”
Care: sun in moist well-drained soil
Native: Mass. To Georgia & Minn. To Arkansas, incl. WI
Wildlife Value: provides nectar and pollen to native bees.Seeds are fragrant when crushed. Named “quinine” because it was used to treat fevers similar to malaria. Catawabe Indians used the leaves to treat burns and the flowers to treat fever. 1st described in literature in 1732.
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Penstemon digitalis Foxglove beardtongue Z 2-8
Palest of pink tubular bells in June - deadhead for rebloom. More vigorous and longer blooming than its well-known cultivar ‘Husker Red.’
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Palest of pink tubular bells in June – deadhead for rebloom. More vigorous and longer blooming than its well-known cultivar ‘Husker Red.’
Size: 24-48” x 18”
Care: sun or part shade in fertile, well-drained soil
Native: Nebraska, Wisconsin
Wildlife Value: host for caterpillar of Baltimore Checkerspot butterfly.Penstemon is named for its five stamens, penta meaning “five” in Greek. Used medicinally by the Dakota and Pawnee – to remedy chest pains, chills and fevers. P. digitalis first sent to Europe when the son of the royal Spanish gardener sent it to Kew Botanic Garden in England, 1793.
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Penstemon grandiflorus Large beard tongue Z 3-9 short-lived perennial that reseeds
Large pink to lavender trumpets along the 3’ stem in early summer
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Large pink to lavender trumpets along the 3’ stem in early summer
Size: 3’ x 10”
Care: full sun in well-drained soil
Native: IL to N. Dakota, south to TX, Wisconsin
Wildlife Value: attracts Baltimore butterflyDiscovered by Thomas Nuttall, (1786-1859) who searched entire No. American continent, describing this Penstemon as “splendid and beautiful,” on his trip up the Missouri River in 1811. Cured chest pains and stomach aches for the Dakota and chills and fever for the Pawnee. Sioux made decoctions of this to remedy chills and fever and chest pain.
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Penstemon hirsutus Downy penstemon Z. 3-9
Lavender-Pink outside and white inside funnels in June
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Lavender-Pink outside and white inside funnels in June
Size: 20” x 12-24”
Care: sun in well-drained soil
Native: northeast North America
Wildlife Value: attracts Baltimore butterfly and feeds the Rusty patched Bumble BeePenstemon is named for its five stamens, penta meaning “five” and stemon meaning “stamen” in Greek. Penstemons are “handsome and deserving,” Bailey. P. hirsutus sent from America to England in 1758.
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Penstemon ovatus Beardtongue Z 4-9
Cornflower blue trumpets encircle spike in June, one of our favorites.
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Cornflower blue trumpets encircle spike in June, one of our favorites.
Size: 2’ x 8”
Care: Full sun in well-drained soil
Native: Pacific Northwest
Wildlife Value: attracts Baltimore butterfly, bees, bumblebees, flies, wasps and hummingbirds.Penstemon is named for its five stamens, penta meaning five in Greek. Penstemons. Ovatus means oval, shaped like an egg, with the narrower end up, referring to the foliage. This species first collected by Scottish plant hunter David Douglas (1799-1834) and introduced in 1826.
