Description
Very fragrant, recurved white trumpets with gold bands radiating from the center down the middle of each petal, decorated with red spots. Blooms in late summer.
Lilium auratum Gold-band lily, Yamayuri in Japan Z 5-8
$13.25/barerootVery fragrant, recurved white trumpets with gold bands radiating from the center down the middle of each petal, decorated with red spots. Blooms in late summer.
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Aconitum napellus Monkshood Wolfsbane Z 5-8 POISON
Striking, late summer to fall tall stalks, top third covered with flowers, blue washed purple each topped with a hood, in ancient times like a monks’ hood, today like a sweatshirt’s hoody.
Striking, late summer to fall on the top third of tall stalks, covered with flowers, blue washed purple each topped with a hood, in ancient times like a monks’ hood, today like a sweatshirt’s hoody.
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Size: 2-3’x 12”
Care: part shade, cool, moist soil
Native: Europe
Wildlife Value: Aconitums are unusual. They change sex, which, in turn increases procreation! When first blooming they have a “male phase” of about 5-6 days when pollen is available, and the plant produces more nectar and stronger scent. Then the male parts wither making the pollen available to the female parts. The pollen is toxic to bees so most avoid it leaving more for the female parts, therefore increasing fertilization. However, bees are able to collect nectar without harm. https://botany.one/2019/11/aconitum-offers-bees-more-nectar-to-carry-its-toxic-pollen/ Also deer resistant.
Awards: Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant PicksThe name Aconitum is from the mythical hill Aconitus in Pontica where Hercules fought with Cerberus. The Monkshood reputedly sprang from the jaws of Cerberus, the guard dog of the underworld. Believed to make a potion that helped witches fly. Identified by Dioscorides in De Materica Medica for medicinal use c. 70 A.D. 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.” Used by physicians in 1200’s and to poison wolves: “This Wolf’s bayne of all poisons is the most hastie poison.” Wm. Turner, 1560’s. Called Monkshood due to the shape of each flower like a monk’s hood. Introduced to the new world by John Winthrop in 1631.
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Stachys minima syn. Stachys spathulata Dwarf betony Z 5-9
Atop a mound of spatula-shaped, crinkled leaves with scalloped edges rises a bounty of 4 to 5 inch tall spikes, each crowned with a hoard of tiny fuchsia-colored trumpets blowing their horns “look at me” in early to mid-summer.
Atop a mound of spatula-shaped, crinkled leaves with scalloped edges rises a bounty of 4 to 5 inch tall spikes, each crowned with a hoard of tiny fuchsia-colored trumpets blowing their horns “look at me” in early to mid-summer.
Size: 4-8" x 8-12" spreading slowly by rhizomes
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: South Africa
Wildlife Value: Deer resistant. Attracts small bees and butterfliesEnglish adventurer and naturalist William John Burchell (1781-1863) scoured South Africa from 1803 to 1815 collecting more than 50,000 specimens packed in 48 crates. In places unexplored he found insects, animals, fish and unknown plants, this being one. Although he published two volumes of his exploration, he did not finish the last, third volume, leaving another to write the botany. Premier English botanist George Bentham (1800-1884) took up the task authoring Labiatarum Genera et Species, published in 1834. He wrote the first published description and named this tiny plant with outsized charm.
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Limonium minutum Dwarf statice Z 5-9
All summer long, droves of lavender blossoms above a mini pillow of spoon-shaped, glossy foliage.
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All summer long, droves of lavender blossoms above a mini pillow of spoon-shaped, glossy foliage.
Size: 6-8” x 6-8”
Care: sun in well-drained soil
Native: southeast France on limestone seacliffs
Wildlife Value: deer resistant, salt tolerantDescribed by Linnaeus, 1753. The name Limoniuim comes from the Greek word for meadow.
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Acanthus spinosus Bear’s breeches Z 5-9
A WOW plant. Bodacious two-toned spikes of purple & white bracts, June to September. Glossy, deeply incised leaves. Both flowers and leaves terminate in thorny tips.
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A WOW plant. Bodacious two-toned spikes of purple & white bracts, June to September. Glossy, deeply incised leaves. Both flowers and leaves terminate in thorny tips. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)
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Size: 3-4' x 2-3'
Care: Sun in well-drained soil. Be patient - slow to emerge in spring.
Native: Italy & Turkey
Wildlife Value: Attracts butterflies, Deer and rabbit resistant.The name Acanthus comes from the Greek akantha meaning “thorn” or “thistle” and spinosus means “spine” referring to the thorn on the leaf and flower tips Grown since at least 5thcentury B.C. Inspiration for Corinthian column capital in architecture of ancient Greece and Rome. According to one legend famous Athenian architect and sculptor, Callimachus, 5th century B.C. was charmed upon seeing this plant and adopted it for the top of columns he designed in Corinth. Philip Miller’s 1768 Gardener’s Dictionary, describes this as having “deeply jagged” leaves and “each segment is terminated with a sharp spine, as are also the foot-stalks of the leaves, and the empalement of the flower, which renders it troublesome to handle. . .”
