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Rosy racemes May- June emerge from a mound of grass-like leaves. Short-lived but reseeds.
Silene suecica syn. Lychnis alpina Arctic campion Z 4-8
Rosy racemes May- June emerge from a mound of grass-like leaves
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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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Carex davalliana Bath’s sedge, Davall’s sedge Z 4-8
Short hedge-hog like clump with white flowers
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Short hedge-hog like clump with white flowers turning to bronzy spiked seedheads May-June. Best for rock, railroad or fairy gardens – anyplace for a miniature, clumping grass.
Size: 6” x 12”
Care: sun to light shade in moist soil
Native: wet places in Europe and western No. AmericaCollected before 1798 by Edmund Davall who botanized in Switzerland.
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Aster sibiricus syn. Eurybia sibirica Siberian aster, Arctic aster Z 3-9
Lavender daisies from late-summer into fall
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Lavender daisies from late-summer into fall, valuable for long-blooming and short size
Size: 6-10” x 15-24” Care: sun in well-drained, to moist well-drained, acidic soil
Native: NW US, Alaska, Canada, Arctic & Siberia
Wildlife Value: attracts butterfliesCollected by German plant hunter Johann Gmelin in Siberia before 1753
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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)
