Perennials & Biennials
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Sedum sieboldii syn Hylotelephium sieboldii, October Daphne Z 3-9
Fleshy gray-green foliage edged with pink encircles the prostrate stems, flowering strawberry pink in fall. Perfect for rock gardens, front of border, fairy gardens, roof gardens, troughs and groundcover or anyplace with drought.
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Fleshy gray-green foliage edged with pink encircles the prostrate stems, flowering strawberry pink in fall. Perfect for rock gardens, front of border, fairy gardens, roof gardens, troughs and groundcover or anyplace with drought.
Size: 4" x 8"
Care: full sun in moderately fertile, well-drained soil.
Native: Japan
Wildlife Value: Drought tolerant and deer resistant.
Awards: Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant PickSedum means “plant that sits.” “Live forever” is an ancient Greek name for sedums. The Roman Pliny claimed that sedum’s juice treated wounds. In the 1500’s English herbalist Gerard called sedums “very full of life,” referring to succulent’s quality of being very easy to grow. This species named for its discoverer, Dr. Philipp Franz von Siebold (1791-1866). Von Siebold, a German doctor, worked for the Dutch East India Company as its resident physician on Deshima Island, off the coast of Japan. He boldly became too knowledgeable about Japanese affairs and was imprisoned by the Japanese in 1826 and then banished in 1828. When he left he carried nearly 500 plants with him to Europe. William Robinson, father of the mixed perennial border, described Sedum sieboldii as beautiful. He advised gardeners to grow it “in strong loam and mortar rubble in fully exposed positions (and use it as) an excellent plant for vases in summer.”
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Sedum spurium ‘Coccineum’ Dragon’s blood Z 4-9
Mat-forming evergreen. In spring red encircle its fleshy, green, round leaves. In summer leaves turn bronze and in fall deep burgundy. Small, bright pink, star-shaped flowers.
Mat-forming evergreen. In spring red encircle its fleshy, green, round leaves. In summer leaves turn bronze and in fall deep burgundy. Small, bright pink, star-shaped flowers.
Size: 4-6" x spreading 12-18"
Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: Caucasus Mountains
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit; Great Plant PickFranklin Gardens in Big Springs Arkansas sold this in 1948 for 50 cents calling it “a new sedum. . . “Called “a new Sedum that will surely become popular” New and Noteworthy Hardy Plants Spring Flor-Acres’ Perennials 1950 p. 13
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Sempervivum tectorum Hens and chicks Z 3-10
Rosettes of succulent leaves
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Rosettes of succulent leaves
Size: 4” x 4”
Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: Alps & Pyrenees MountainsGrown in gardens for thousands of years. Sempervivum means “live forever.” Romans planted Hens and chicks on their roofs to ward off lightning. As a succulent it holds water and is probably more difficult to catch fire. “This practice was preserved for historians when Charlemagne (720-814), first Holy Roman Emperor and unifier of a large part of northern Europe, ordered that all villagers within his crown lands plant houseleeks on their roofs, presumably as a safety measure. He decreed: Et ille hortulanus habeat super domum suam Iovis barbam. (And the gardener shall have house-leeks growing on his house. Capitulare de villis, about 795, LXX.)”
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Senna hebecarpa syn. Cassia hebecarpa Wild senna Z 4-8
6” long taxicab yellow racemes in July – August
6 inch long taxicab yellow racemes in July – August
Size: 4’ x 2-6’
Care: full sun in moist well-drained soil
Native: all North America east of Mississippi River from Hudson Bay south to Georgia and Tennessee, Wisconsin native
Wildlife Value: attracts bees, butterflies, birds & hummingbirdsCollected by 1753. Very similar to Senna marilandica except a bit taller, flowers prettier and a slightly bulbous gland as the base of the petiole.
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Seseli gummiferum Moon carrot Z 5-9 self-seeding biennial or short-lived perennial.
Five-inch diameter mound of many circles of pale pink to white flowers atop silvery, frilly, fern-like foliage flowering in mid-summer into early fall.
Five-inch diameter mound of many circles of pale pink to white flowers atop silvery, frilly, fern-like foliage flowering in mid-summer into early fall.
Size: 2-3’ x 12-18”
Care: Sun to part-shade in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: Crimea, Turkey and South Aegean
Wildlife Value: Deer resistant. Butterfly magnet; host for caterpillar of Eastern swallowtail butterfly.Seseli is an ancient Greek name of an umbelliferous plant. This species first described by Linnaeus in 1735. In Re classified and renamed in 1830 in Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis, sive, Enumeratio contracta ordinum generum specierumque plantarum huc usque cognitarium, juxta methodi naturalis, normas digesta.
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Sesleria autumnalis Autumn Moor Grass Z 5-9
Fresh-green spring narrow blades of grass in summer add airy purplish flower spikes with silver-white stamens on this low mounding, arching grass. Blades have a striking yellow-green color that sometimes develops a soothing golden autumn tint. Spike-like silvery flowers rise above the leaves and mature into soft tan seed heads by autumn.
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Fresh-green spring narrow blades of grass in summer add airy purplish flower spikes with silver-white stamens on this low mounding, arching grass. Blades have a striking yellow-green color that sometimes develops a soothing golden autumn tint. Spike-like silvery flowers rise above the leaves and mature into soft tan seed heads by autumn.
Size: 9-24” x 12-18”
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil, drought tolerant
Native: SE Europe east to Caucusus
Wildlife Value: walnut, salt and deer tolerant
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit. Gardens Illustrated “100 Must-Have Garden Plants,” 2013.Collected in Slovenian mountains near Idria, c. 1760 by and 1st described in Flora Carniolica by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723-1788) physician, naturalist and author. Sesleria is named to honor Leonardo Selser, 18th century Italian botanist and physician, contemporary and likely friend of Scopoli
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Sidalcea malvaeflora Checker bloom Z 5-9
Bright pink mallow type blooms looking like a miniature hollyhock.
Bright pink mallow type blooms looking like miniature hollyhock.
Size: 2-3' x 10"
Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil
Native: western No. America
Wildlife Value: Attracts large white skipper butterflies.Sidalcea is the conjunction of sida and alcea. Collected by Mexican botanist José Moziño around 1790 while on the Expedición Real de Botánica, probably in today’s Southern California.
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Silene chalcedonica syn. Lychnis chalcedonica Maltese cross, Jerusalem cross Z 4-8
Early and midsummer, blood-colored heads made of clusters of flowers each with petals like spokes of a wheel with edges curved down. Blooms in summer.
Early and midsummer, blood-colored heads made of clusters of flowers each with petals like spokes of a wheel with edges curved down. Blooms in summer.
Size: 3-4' x 12"
Care: Sun to part shade, moderately fertile, well-drained soil. Will repeat bloom if deadheaded.
Native: Western Russia
Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.Lychnis named by Theophrastus in the 3rd century B.C. for “lamp” (lychnos) due to using the leaves of Lychnis coronaria for lamp wicks, but some say due to the flame-colored flowers. Chalcedonica refers to Chalcedon, a district near Constantinople. Louis IX reputedly transported this plant from Jerusalem to France on his return from the Crusades. By 1597 it was “very common everywhere” in England. In 1912 Liberty Hyde Bailey called this “one of the best of old-fashioned flowers.” Grown by both Washington and Jefferson.
