Penstemon strictus Rocky Mountain penstemon Z 3-8

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  Powder-blue flowers in early summer; feathery foliage turns caution-sign yellow in fall.

  Size: 2-3’ x 2-3’
  Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
  Native: Central-So, US
  Wildlife Value: attracts butterflies & bees
  Awards: Missouri Botanic Garden Plant of Merit; Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Gold Medal; and Mount Cuba Center, botanic garden in Delaware, trialed several Amsonias and gave this its highest rating.

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• Sempervivum tectorum Hens and chicks Z 3-10

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  Native: Alps & Pyrenees Mountains

  Grown in gardens for thousands of years.  Sempervivum means “live forever.”  Romans planted Hens and chicks on their roofs to ward off lightening.  As a succulent it holds water and is probably more difficult to catch fire.  “This practice was preserved for historians when Charlemagne (720-814), first Holy Roman Emperor and unifier of a large part of northern Europe, ordered that all villagers within his crown lands plant houseleeks on their roofs He decreed: “Et ille hortulanus habeat super domum suam Iovis barbam. (And the gardener shall have house-leeks growing on his house. Capitulare de villis, about 795,  LXX.)”

• Limonium minutum Dwarf statice Z 5-9

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  Size: 6-8” x 6-8”
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  Native: southeast France on limestone seacliffs
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• Thymus serpyllum syn. Thymus praecox Mother-of-thyme, creeping thyme Z 4-9

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  Native: Europe & Western Asia
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  Thymus  from the Greek word for “odor” due to the plant’s fragrance.  Ancient Greeks made incense with thyme.   This species since at least 1753. Acc’d to Parkinson in 1640 this remedied hysterics in women.  Wm. Robinson wrote,”nothing can be more charming than a sunny bank covered with” Thymus serpyllum.  LH Bailey extolled it as “prized as an evergreen edging and as cover for rockwork and waste places …The leaves are sometimes used for seasoning.”