Adenophora lilifolia Ladybells Z 3-8

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• Platycodon grandiflorus albus Balloon flower Z 3-9

  Balloon shaped buds as though puffed with air, open to white, five-petal bells from mid-summer to early fall.

  

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  Balloon shaped buds as though puffed with air, open to white, five-petal bells from mid-summer to early fall.

  Size: 24" x 12"
  Care: Sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil, heat and drought tolerant. Deadhead for rebloom.
  Native: Eastern Asia
  Wildlife Value: attracts hummingbirds, bees & butterflies
  Awards: England's Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.

  Platycodon is Greek from platys meaning “broad” and kodon meaning “bell”, referring to the shape of the flower. Cultivated in China for hundreds of years where it is called Jie-geng.  The Chinese used the root boiled to cure a chill in the stomach. Mentioned in Man’yoshu, a Japanese anthology of poems written in the 8^th century.  German botanist Johann Gmelin first collected this in Siberia in 1754.  Gmelin’s Siberian mission, sponsored by Catherine the Great, took 10 years and nearly killed him.  Gmelin introduced it to European gardens by 1782.  Robert Fortune found the white form in a nursery near Shanghai and sent it to England in 1845. 

• Thymus serpyllum syn. Thymus praecox Mother-of-thyme, creeping thyme Z 4-9

  Short purple spikes in June-July

  

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  Short purple spikes in June-July

  Size: 3” x 24”
  Care: sun in well-drained soil
  Native: Europe & Western Asia
  Size: groundcover, rock garden, herb, fragrant foliage, thyme lawn

  Thymus  from the Greek word for “odor” due to the plant’s fragrance.  Ancient Greeks made incense with thyme.   This species since at least 1753. Acc’d to Parkinson in 1640 this remedied hysterics in women.  Wm. Robinson wrote,”nothing can be more charming than a sunny bank covered with” Thymus serpyllum.  LH Bailey extolled it as “prized as an evergreen edging and as cover for rockwork and waste places …The leaves are sometimes used for seasoning.”

• Campanula portenschlagiana Dalmatian bellflower Z 4-8

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  Purple, upfacing bells for months in mid to late summer

  Size: 4-6” x 20”
  Care: full sun-part shade in moist well-drained soil
  Native: Northern Yugoslavia
  Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit. Top rated Chicago Botanic Garden & Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant Pick.

  Campanula is Latin meaning “little bell.”  1^st described in Systema Vegetabilium 5: 93 in 1819 by one of its discoverers, Franz Edler von Portenschlag-Ledermayer (1772-1822).

• Chrysanthemum x rubellum ‘Mary Stoker’ Z 4-9

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  Sprays of large, single warming yellow daisies, blushed with apricot top a bushy mound of light green leaves, blooms late-summer to late-fall

  Size: 1-2’ x 2-3’ and spreading
  Care: Full sun to part shade, tolerates normal, sandy or clay soil
  Wildlife Value: Attracts bees, butterflies and birds. Deer resistant.

  One of the rubellum hybrids, Hybridized in the 1930’s