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Flowers like canary yellow cups, June-July.
Linum flavum compactum Dwarf golden flax Z 4-9 SUBSHRUB
Flowers like canary yellow cups, June-July.
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Potentilla argyrophylla Cinquefoil Z 5-8
Sunshine colored saucers with orange centers in early summer
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Sunshine colored saucers with orange centers in early summer
Size: 24” x 24”
Care: sun in well-drained soil
Native: Nepal, China, Pakistan & AfghanastanPotentilla is Latin meaning powerful referring to medicinal properties. Argyrophylla means silver leaved. Potentillas used by dentists in the 16th century to reduce pain according to Gerard, English herbalist. Per Culpepper, 17th century English herbalist potentilla is to be used if Jupiter is ascending and the moon is “applying to him.” This species collected by 1831.
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Asteromoea mongolica syn. Aster mongolicus or Kalimeris pinnatafida ‘Hortensis’ Japanese aster, Mongolian aster Z 3-9
Covered with petite double white daisies, blooming for months –late summer-fall
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Covered with petite double white daisies with golden stamens blooming for months –late summer-fall.
Size: 2-3’ x 1-2’
Care: sun to part shade in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: Japan
Awards: Georgia Gold Medal 1998 Taxonomists had trouble naming this one. First described in French Journal Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. in 1882. A favorite flower of the late garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence who traced it to the grounds of the old Oxford Orphanage in Oxford NC. (1942) -
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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Ajania pacifica syn. Chrysanthemum pacifica Silver and Gold Z 5-9
Mounds of decorative, silver-edged foliage all summer with sunshine yellow button flowers in October to November
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Mounds of decorative, silver-edged foliage all summer with sunshine yellow button flowers in October to November
Size: 12-24” x 12-36”can pinch back in June to make compact
Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: coasts of Japan1st described by Japanese botanist Takenoshin Nakai in Botanical Magazine 42: 462. 1928.
