Pulsatilla patens syn. Anemone patens Eastern pasque flower Z 3-7

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  Umbels of shatter-shot yellow florets, like fireworks, bloom atop blue-green stems in July.

  

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  Umbels of shatter-shot yellow florets, like fireworks, bloom atop blue-green stems in July.

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  Size: 10” x 3”
  Care: sun in moist well-drained soil
  Native: Northern Turkey
  Wildlife Value: Resists critters including deer, rabbits, squirrels, mice, and moles and voles. They cannot stand the onion-like smell of Alliums protecting near-by plants too. Attracts bees & butterflies
  Awards: species received Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit

  Described by Swiss botanist Pierre Edmond Boissier before 1885

• Aurinia saxitilis syn. Alyssum saxatile Basket of Gold Z 4-7

  Many 4-petaled taxi-cab yellow flowers clusters atop each stem like a cloud over the welcoming spring.

  

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  Many 4-petaled taxi-cab yellow flowers clusters atop each stem like a cloud over the welcoming spring.

  Size: 10" x 12"
  Care: Full sun well-drained soil, cut back after flowering to maintain compact form. Drought tolerant
  Native: Central and southeastern Europe
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• Alcea rosea Hollyhock BIENNIAL Z 4-9

  Early to late summer spikes of single platters - mixed colors. The classic cottage garden flower.

  

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  Size: 2-5' x 2'
  Care: Sun in well-drained soil.
  Native: West Asia
  Wildlife Value: Butterfly plant, host for Painted Lady butterflies

  Hollyhocks have been cultivated in China for thousands of years where it symbolized the passing of time. They cooked the leaves for a vegetable and, also ate the buds. Transported from Middle East to Europe by the Crusaders and introduced to England by 1573. Grown in the Eichstätt Garden, the garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria, c. 1600. Culpepper, a 17^th century English herbalist, claimed the plant could be used to cure ailments of the “belly, Stone, Reins, Kidneys, Bladder, Coughs, Shortness of Breath, Wheesing, … the King’s Evil, Kernels, Chin-cough, Wounds, Bruises, Falls. . . (and) Sun-burning.”  Both single and double forms grew in England by the time of Parkinson (1629).  Parkinson said they came “in many and sundry colours.”  John Winthrop Jr. introduced the 1^st hollyhock to the New World in the 1630’s.  Grown at America’s 1^st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811.

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• Sporobolus heterolepsis Prairie dropseed Zone 3 – 9

  Mound of graceful thinnest of grass blades

  

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  The description in the Chiltern Seeds catalog cannot be improved:  “This is the most elegant and refined of the North American prairie grasses …the finest texture composed of the thinnest of thin, thread-like, glossy green blades,.. in autumn turning deep orange before fading to a light copper for the winter.  In late summer the plants bear, on very slender stalks high above the foliage, unbelievably delicate, graceful flower panicles, excellent for cutting. ”One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)

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  Care: Full sun in well-drained soil
  Native: from Canada in the north to Texas in the south, Wisconsin native
  Wildlife Value: seeds are food for birds
  Awards: Missouri Botanic Garden Plant of Merit & Great Plants for Great Plains Grass of the Year.

  Sporobolos is Greek from sporo meaning seed and ballein meaning to cast forth because the seed readily falls from the flower (or dropseed, the common name).  Ojibwa “Medicine Society” used roots to cure sores & “remove bile.”