Perennials & Biennials

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  • Primula x bulleesiana Candelabra primrose Z 4-7

    From clustered stems, each bearing a whorl of 3-6 flowers encircling each leafless  stem alternating  with a bare section of leafless stem, then another whorl of flowers, then another section of bare stem, in tiers, like a  ballerina’s tutu with bare midriff between. Each whorl blooms in succession from the bottom up. This blooms June – July in a rainbow of colors - red, orange, rose, cream, lavender and purple.

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    From clustered stems, each bearing a whorl of 3-6 flowers encircling each leafless  stem alternating  with a bare section of leafless stem, then another whorl of flowers, then another section of bare stem, in tiers, like a  ballerina’s tutu with bare midriff between. Each whorl blooms in succession from the bottom up. This blooms June – July in a rainbow of colors – red, orange, rose, cream, lavender and purple.

    Size: 18-24” x 12-18”
    Care: Sun to part shade in moist to well-drained soil
    Wildlife Value: Attracts butterflies. Deer resistant
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit 1993

    Hybrid cross between Primula bulleyana and Primula beesiana (both parents are native to the Himalayas and China).
    Collected in China, introduced to Britain in 1906

  • Pulmonaria angustifolia Narrow-leaf lungwort, Blue cowslip Z 4-8

    One of the earliest to flower - Pink turning azure blue, trumpet-shaped flowers in April- May. Fuzzy foliage.

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    Welcome spring with this very early flower – Pink trumpet-shaped flowers turn deep blue in early sprng.. Fuzzy foliage.

    Size: 12”x 12”
    Care: full to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil.
    Native: Austria & Hungary.
    Wildlife Value: walnut and deer tolerant. Early source of nectar for bees.
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit

    Angustifolia means “narrow leaves.”  Grown in gardens before 1590’s.

  • Pulmonaria saccharata ‘Mrs. Moon’ Greater lungwort, Bethlehem sage Z 3-8

    In early spring funnel form pink flowers turn to blue above bristly, white mottled green foliage. Leaves attractive through fall

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    In earliest spring funnel form pink flowers turn to blue above bristly, white mottled green foliage. Leaves attractive through fall

    Size: 8-18” x 18-24”
    Care: full to part shade in moist well-drained soil
    Native: species France & Italy
    Wildlife Value: walnut and deer tolerant. Early source of nectar for bees.

    The species originally described by English botanist and gardener to Queen Mary, Leonard Plukenet (1641-1706) .Described by Philip Miller (1768) as having “spotted leaves as if they were incrusted with sugar.” ‘Mrs. Moon’ cultivar offered for sale in 1938 by Gardenside Nurseries in Shelburne VT.  Name Pulmonaria from Latin pulmo or lung (e.g.today’s pulmonary) because the blotched leaves were considered to resemble lung disease.   Saccharata comes from Latin word for sugar because the white bristly leaves resembled sugar coating.

  • Pycanthemum muticum Clustered Mountain Mint, Blunt Mountain Mint Z 4-8

    Silvery bracts underlying silvery-pink pincushion flowers blooming from June to September. Flowers and leaves emit a minty fragrance.

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    Silvery bracts underlying silvery-pink pincushion flowers blooming from June to September. Flowers and leaves emit a minty fragrance.

    Size: 12-36” x 12-36” spreading.
    Care: sun to part shade in moist to well-drained soil, drought tolerant
    Native: Maine to Michigan, south and angling southwest from Wisconsin to Texas
    Wildlife Value: Deer resistant. One of highest nectar and pollen producing flowers, attracting copious numbers and kinds of bees, butterflies, wasps, and other insects.
    Awards: Georgia Native Plant Society Plant of the Year 2022, Perennial Plant Society of the Year.

    Collected and described by French botanist André Michaux (1746-1802) who spent 11 years exploring the North America for plants. c. 1795.

  • Pycanthemum virginianum Mountain mint Z 4-8

    Corymbs of numerous pinkish-white blossoms, leaves fragrant.

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    Corymbs of numerous pinkish-white blossoms in August, leaves fragrant.

    Size: 3' x 18"
    Care: full sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
    Native: Wisconsin native, Eastern U.S.
    Wildlife Value: attracts butterflies, supports over 50 bee species.

    Named by Linnaeus in 1753.  Pycanthemum is Greek meaning “dense blossom.”  Chippewa used it to stop menstrual flow, cure chills and fever and to season meat.  The plant gave the Meskwaki energy and lured minks into their traps. Lakota Sioux: “The leaves make a very pleasant tea. An infusion of the plant is taken for coughs.” Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811

  • Ranunculus acris   Meadow buttercup  Z  4-8 POISON

    Scads of cheerful cup-shaped, butter-colored  blooms atop wiry stems  in late spring to early to mid- summer. Flowers taller than the deeply divided foliage into 3-5 hand-shaped lobes, each of which it divided again into more lobes with sharp-shaped tips with tooth-like edges all with prominent veins.  Excellent cut flower

    $10.75/each

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    Scads of cheerful cup-shaped, butter-colored  blooms atop wiry stems  in late spring to early to mid- summer. Flowers taller than the deeply divided foliage into 3-5 hand-shaped lobes, each of which it divided again into more lobes with sharp-shaped tips with tooth-like edges all with prominent veins.  Excellent cut flower

    Size: 18-24” x 12” slowly spreading
    Care: Sun to part sun in moist soil
    Native: Europe
    Wildlife Value: deer resistant, attracts butterflies and bees.

    Ranunculus is Latin for little frog, so named by Roman Pliny referring to the wet conditions required by some ranunculus.  Named by English naturalist John Ray in  Historia plantarum, published between 1686 and 1704, in which he classified 18,000 plant species.

  • Ranunculus repens var. pleniflorus Creeping buttercup Z 3-9

    Small bright yellow nearly ball-shaped flowers blooming in May - June on this short groundcover.  

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    Small bright yellow nearly ball-shaped flowers blooming in May – June on this short groundcover.

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    Size: 10" x spreading
    Care: part sun to shade in moist soil
    Native: Europe, Siberia, from Newfoundland to Virginia

    Ranunculus is Latin for little frog, so named by Roman naturalist Pliny (23-79) referring to the wet conditions required by some ranunculus.  In 1629 John Parkinson (1567-1650) apothecary to James I and royal botanist to Charles I, called this Ranunculus protensis flore multiplici. The root was supposed to break persistent sores by “drawing the venome to the place.”  Jefferson planted Creeping buttercup at Monticello in 1782; it may or may not have been this double.

  • 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.