Ajuga genevensis Geneva Bugle Z 4-9

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

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

  

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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 

• Sempervivum tectorum Hens and chicks Z 3-10

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  Size: 4” x 4”
  Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
  Native: Alps & Pyrenees Mountains

  Grown in gardens for thousands of years.  Sempervivum means “live forever.”  Romans planted Hens and chicks on their roofs to ward off lightening.  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 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.)”

• Buxus microphylla var. koreana syn. B. sinensis var. insularis

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  Size: 24” x 30”
  Care: Light to Part shade in well drained, alkaline soil. Do not crowd with other plants, roots prefer no competition. Fertilize regularly for dramatic growth. Prune in early spring. Unlike English boxwood this can be pruned back hard. One of a few shade tolerant evergreens and deer resistant too. Also the most hardy Boxwood.

  Introduced from Asia to American and European gardens around 1900 by Ernest Henry “Chinese” Wilson (1876-1930) who scoured Asia for plants.

• Centranthus ruber Jupiter’s beard, Red Valerian, Pretty Betsy Z 5-8

  Clusters of crimson, star-shaped florets atop 2’ stems bloom their heads off ALL summer into fall.

  

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  Clusters of crimson, star-shaped florets atop 2’ stems bloom their heads off ALL summer into fall.

  Size: 24-36”x 12”
  Care: Sun in well-drained alkaline soil, drought tolerant
  Native: Mediterranean
  Wildlife Value: attracts butterflies, bees and hover flies.

  Centranthus is from the Greek meaning “spurred flower.”  According to Culpepper, an English herbalist from the early 1600’s, this plant comforts the heart and stirs up lust.  Parkinson, in 1629 describes it “of a fine red colour, very pleasant to behold.”