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  • Gaura lindheimeri syn. Oenothera lindheimeri White gaura, Beeblossom Z 5-9

    Multitudes of small white/pink. 4-petaled blossoms on wiry stems from May to October. Cut back by half in July to increase blossoms, as though the hoards are not enough.

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    Multitudes of small white/pink. 4-petaled blossoms on wiry stems from May to October. Cut back by half in July to increase blossoms, as though the hoards are not enough.

    Size: 36” x 36”
    Care: Full sun in well-drained to moist well-drained acidic soil
    Native: Texas and Louisiana
    Wildlife Value: deer & rabbit resistant. Source of pollen for bees, butterflies and hummingbirds
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.

    Gaura is from the Greek gauros meaning superb.  Collected in 1851 by German plant hunter Ferdinand Lindheimer (1801-1879) in the Texas Hill Country.  Lindheimer considered the Father of Texas botany.   L.H. Bailey (1913) wrote:  “The best kind is Gaura lindheimeri which has white flowers of singular appearance, with rosy calyx tubes.”

  • Hemerocallis ‘Coral Lemonade’  Z 4-9

    Tetraploid Daylily.  Rose-pink blossom, Petal edges ruffled, sepals smaller and edges mostly smooth. Small green gold colored eye. Blooms in July.

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    Tetraploid Daylily.  Rose-pink blossom, Petal edges ruffled, sepals smaller and edges mostly smooth. Small green gold colored eye. Blooms in July.

    Size: 29-36” tall; Blossoms 5” across
    Care: sun in most any soil

    Tetraploid Daylily.  Rose-pink blossom, Petal edges ruffled, sepals smaller and edges mostly smooth. Small green gold colored eye. Blooms in July.

  • Pulsatilla vulgaris var. rubra syn. Anemone pulsatilla var. rubra Pasqueflower

    Wine-red petals of bell-shape with yellow centers flowers in early spring. Fun, furry foliage

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    Wine-red petals of bell-shape with yellow centers flowers in early spring. Fun, furry foliage and Medusa-like seed heads.

    Size: 12-20” x 4-8”
    Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Europe
    Wildlife Value: Deer resistant, early pollen source for bees.

    Called Pasqueflower because it blooms at Easter time. Variety rubra considered a separate species, not a variety, by Caspar Bauhin in Theatri botanici, 1671. Illustrated in Gerard’s Herball, 1636.

  • Teucrium montanum Mountain germander, Creeping germander Z 5-8

    Evergreen, narrow leaves covered with bouquets of flowers topped with a pair of upright, clasping petals streaked with burgundy, leading to a pair of open, white arms and a  single, drooping white petal all resembling a snowman with a pointed red-streaked head blooming  all summer on this spreading, cover-the-ground, drought-tolerant plant.

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    Evergreen, narrow leaves covered with bouquets of flowers topped with a pair of upright, clasping petals streaked with burgundy, leading to a pair of open, white arms and a  single, drooping white petal all resembling a snowman with a pointed red-streaked head blooming  all summer on this spreading, cover-the-ground, drought-tolerant plant.

    Size: 10” x spreading
    Care: sun in well-drained soil
    Native: Spain across the Alps and east as far as Turkey

    The word teucrium believed to be named for Teucer, king in ancient Troy . He reputedly made medicine from teucrium. Known more than two centuries ago in ancient Greece and Rome