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Fragrant, deep pink spotted blossoms with recurved petals in late summer
Lilium speciosum rubrum Z 4-9
Fragrant, deep pink spotted blossoms with recurved petals in late summer
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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.
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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 PickNamed 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. 1st Described by Swiss botanist Gaspard Bauhin in 1600’s.
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Veronica allionii Alpine speedwell Z 2-9
Purple-blue spikes bloom from early to late summer
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Purple-blue spikes bloom from early to late summer
Size: 4-6” x 8-12”
Care: sun, moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: AlpsDescribed in 1779 in Prosp. Hist. Pl. Dauphiné
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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.
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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 ProvenPlumbago 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.
