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  Pale pink “pussy-toe”, resembling the pads of a kitten’s foot, flowers in early summer, great silvery-gray foliage, good groundcover and rock garden plant.

  Size: 2” x 18”
  Care: full sun in well-drained soil, drought tolerant
  Native: Temperate areas worldwide

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• Myosotis palustris syn. M. scorpioides Forget-me-not Z. 5-9

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  Can not ship to: New Hampshire

  Size: 9-12” x 12”
  Care: sun to part shade in moist soil
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  “Myosotis” is Greek meaning mouse ear for the leaf shape.  Around 1390 Henry IV adopted soveigne vous de moy, Forget-me-not, as a symbol not to forget his reign.  A German legend attributes the common name to a lover who, gathering the flower, cried out “forget-me-not” as he fell into the river and died. Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote: “The sweet forget-me-nots; That grow for happy lovers.” Persian poet Shiraz told another folk tale: an angel fell from heaven by falling in love with a “daughter of earth,”when they sat by a river twining Forget-me-not flowers in her hair.  The angel was not allowed to return until the lovers planted Forget-me-nots in every corner of the earth, which they did, hand in hand.  She then became immortal “without tasting the bitterness of death” and joined the angel in Paradise.

• Artemisia ludoviciana Silver sage, Wormwood Z 4-9

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  Grown for its silver-grey foliage in the garden & dried in arrangements

  Size: 3’ x 2’ and spreading
  Care: sun in well-drained soil
  Native: Colorado south to Texas, west to California.
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• Asteromoea mongolica syn. Aster mongolicus or Kalimeris pinnatafida ‘Hortensis’ Japanese aster, Mongolian aster Z 3-9

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  Covered with petite double white daisies with golden stamens blooming for months –late summer-fall.

  Size: 2-3’ x 1-2’
  Care: sun to part shade in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
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