Hosta plantaginea ‘Grandiflora’ syn. H. plantaginea var. japonica, Funkia grandiflora Z 3-9

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• Ceratostigma plumbaginoides Plumbago, Leadwort Z 5-9

  Cobalt blue flower clusters with contrasting, showy red stems

  

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  Cobalt blue flower clusters with contrasting, showy red stems and calyces  in late summer and fall.   Foliage turns crimson in fall – excellent groundcover. One of the most award winning plants.

  Size: 9-12” x 18”
  Care: Sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
  Native: China
  Awards: Five (5) of them! Georgia Gold Medal 2006, Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant Picks, Missouri Botanical Garden Plant of Merit, Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit, Oklahoma Proven

  Plumbago is Latin meaning “lead” derived from use of the plant to treat lead poisoning. First collected by Russian botanist Alexander von Bunge in 1830 in Mongolia, then introduced by Robert Fortune who found it growing in Shanghi in 1846.  “Bear a profusion of brilliant cobalt blue flowers (when) the leaves take on a distinct reddish tinge.”  H.H. Thomas 1915.

• Aconitum fischeri Fischer’s monkshood syn. A. carmichaelii

  Spikes of cobalt blue hooded blooms September – October

  

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  Spikes of cobalt blue hooded blooms September – October       POISON

   

  Size: 24-36”x 10”
  Care: part shade in moist soil
  Native: No. Japan, E. Russia, Korea, China
  Wildlife Value: Deer resistant. Attracts butterflies.

  The name Aconitum is from the mythical hill Aconitus in Pontica where Hercules fought with Cerberus.  Philip Miller in The Gardener’s Dictionary (1768) wrote that the name Aconitum comes from Greek word for dart “because the Barbarians used to daub their darts therewith.” The Monkshood reputedly sprang from the jaws of Cerberus, the guard dog of the underworld.  In China called “bao ye wo tou.”  Wm. Robinson considered this one of the best monkshoods.  Collected before 1820.

• Artemisia ludoviciana Silver sage, Wormwood Z 4-9

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

  

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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.

• 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.

  

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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.