Aster azureus syn. Symphyotricum oolentangiense var. oolentangiense Sky blue aster Z 3-9

Related products

• Chaerophyllum hirsutum ‘Roseum’ Hairy chervil Z 5-7

  Airy rose-pink umbels like a short, pink Queen Anne’s lace, blooming in spring to early summer, compliment the fern-like apple-scented fragrant foliage.

  

  Quantity

  Buy

  ARCHIVED

  Note: This is a plant not currently for sale.  This is an archive page preserved for informational use.

  Airy rose-pink umbels like a short, pink Queen Anne’s lace, blooming in spring to early summer, compliment the fern-like apple-scented fragrant foliage.

  Size: 24” x 12”
  Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil, cut back to refresh foliage and rebloom.
  Native: Spain to Greece
  Awards: Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant Pick

  Named from Greek chairo meaning “to please” & phyllon meaning “leaf,” so named “because the leaves, steeped in wine, and drank, will exhilarate and chear (sic.) melancholy persons… (it) grows naturally on the Alps, and the Helvetian mountains. …the stalk (is) terminated by large umbels of flowers, in which some plants are red and in others white…. These plants are preferred in botanic gardens for variety …” Gardeners’ Dictionary, 1768.   1^st Described by Swiss botanist Gaspard Bauhin in 1600’s.

• Punica granatum var. nana Dwarf pomegranate Z 7-11

  Adorable dwarf shrub bearing orange-red blooms in July and August then tiny, edible pomegranates. Where not hardy makes good container plant and bonsai.

  

  Quantity

  Buy

  ARCHIVED

  Note: This is a plant not currently for sale.  This is an archive page preserved for informational use.

  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.

• Antennaria dioica Pussy toes Z 5-9

  Pale pink “pussy-toe”, resembling the pads of a kitten’s foot

  

  Quantity

  Buy

  ARCHIVED

  Note: This is a plant not currently for sale.  This is an archive page preserved for informational use.

  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

  Antennaria from the Latin antenna originally referring to the mast of a sailboat.  Part of the flower supposedly resembles a butterfly’s antennae.  Historically used for medicine as an astringent, a cough remedy and to break fever.  First described by German physician and botanical author Leonhard Fuchs (1501-1566).  Gertrude Jekyll (1848-1931), mother of the mixed perennial border, planted this in her own rock garden at Munstead Wood and in the Sundial Garden at Pednor House in Buckinghamshire. The pink version, A. dioica rosea, collected in the Rocky Mountains by C.C. Parry before 1860.

• Koeleria glauca Blue hair grass Z 5-9

  Erect spike-like panicles June thru August

  

  Quantity

  Buy

  ARCHIVED

  Note: This is a plant not currently for sale.  This is an archive page preserved for informational use.

  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.