Perky white flowers mass over a mound of evergreen foliage, May – June. “…(A) very ornamental plant …(with) fine pure white and large flowers … the white flowers appear so thickly in early summer as to obscure the foliage.” Alpine Flowers for English Gardens 1911
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Perky white flowers mass over a mound of evergreen foliage, May – June. “…(A) very ornamental plant …(with) fine pure white and large flowers … the white flowers appear so thickly in early summer as to obscure the foliage.” Alpine Flowers for English Gardens 1911.
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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.
Size: Cut fresh or dried flowers, prairie garden
Blackfoot used the leaves to clean themselves as part of religious rituals. California’s Shasta Indians used the leaves to prepare dead bodies to be buried. HoChunk made a smudge to revive the unconscious. Cahuilla Indians made baskets and roofs and walls of their homes with the stems. First collected for gardens by Meriwether Lewis October 1, 1804 in South Dakota. Artemisia named for the wife of Mausolus, king of Caria, who began using the plants and adopted it as hers. Miller 1768.
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Rose pink, with yellow above the lower lip, snapdragon-shaped blooms in spring and repeats in fall. Fuzzy, glaucous, silver-grey foliage. Excellent for places you want low-growing, drought tolerant flowers.
Size: 12” x 2’
Care: sun in well-drained soil
Native: Spain & Morocco
Wildlife Value: deer resistant, attracts hummingbirds
Described in 1852 in Pugillus Plantarum Novarum Africae Borealis Hispaniaeque Australis
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Erect spike-like panicles June thru August, poke above a neat mound of erect, blue grass blades.
Size: 16" x 12”
Care: Sun in well-drained soil
Native: Siberia & Central Europe
Collected before 1800.
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Adorable dwarf shrub bearing orange-red blooms in July and August then tiny, edible pomegranates. Where not hardy makes good container plant and bonsai.
Size: 2-4’ x 2-4’
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: Europe to Himalayas
“The plants will bear miniature fruit if grown in areas with year-round temperatures that rarely fall below 40° F. To grow indoors, moderate night-time temperatures should be given (50° to 60° F). Keep at 40° to 45° F in winter until new growth appears. In the growing period, keep moderately moist. Water sparingly from August on. This plant requires good drainage. Plants will bear fruit indoors if grown in a sunny exposure.” Issour Botanic Garden. It is deciduous and may lose its leaves.
This dwarf described in 1803.
