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  • Aronia arbutifolia Red chokeberry syn. Photinia pyrifolia SHRUB Z 5-9

    Corymbs of white in spring, gorgeous red foliage in fall compliments the red berries that persist into winter

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    Corymbs of white in spring, gorgeous red foliage in fall compliments the red berries that persist into winter

    Size: 6-8' X 3-5'
    Care: sun to part shade in moist to well-drained acidic soil. Prune annually in late winter to promote vigorous growth.
    Native: Nova Scotia west to Ontario south to TX & FL
    Wildlife Value: Berries overwinter-food for Thrush, Oriole, and Cedar waxwings.

    Showy shrub collected by André Michaux around 1800.  Aronia comes from aria a subgenus of a related plant, Sorbus.  Arbutifolia means “leaves like the Arbutus.”  William Robinson, father of mixed borders, reported: “Massed, charming both in flower and fine color of leaf in autumn.”

     

  • Artemisia frigida Prairie sagewort, Silky wormwood Z 3-10

    Erect stems bear silvery-white, finely-divided foliage. Leaves smell like camphor. Inconspicuous yellow flowers bloom in summer. 

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    Erect stems bear silvery-white, finely-divided foliage. Leaves smell like camphor. Inconspicuous yellow flowers bloom in summer. 

    Size: 6-18” x 12-18”
    Care: sun in well-drained soil
    Native: all North America except the SE, CA and OR, Wisconsin native
    Wildlife Value: deer resistant, source of nesting material for native bees, food for caterpillars of several butterflies & moths
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit
    Size: Native Americans used this Artemisia to preserve meat, feed horses, repel insects, to remedy toothache, headache, coughing, lung ailments, heartburn, and colds. Indians in Great Basin used it in ceremonies. Chippewa made a decoction of root for convulsions. For the Lakota this was "women's medicine" with an infusion helping regulate menstrual periods and inducing contractions in pregnancy.

    Meriwether Lewis collected this along the Missouri River in South Dakota on October 3, 1804.

  • Artemisia lactiflora White mugwort Z 3-8

    Plumes of creamy white, resembling an astilbe, above foliage blackish-green on one side and silver on the other side, Blooms August to October

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    Blooms in plumes of creamy white, resembling an astilbe, above foliage blackish green on one side and silver on the other side.  Blooms August to October.

    Size: 4-5’ x 1.5-2’
    Care: sun to part shade in moist, well-drained soil.
    Native: East asia-China
    Wildlife Value: attracts butterflies & bees. Rabbit and Deer tolerant
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit

    Genus is named for Artemis, Greek goddess of the moon, wild animals, and hunting. Lactiflora means “milk-white flowers”

    Used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat menstrual & liver disorders, and reduce inflammation. Southeast Asians cook with its leaves and tender stems boiled or stir fried and added to soups. 1st described in Western literature 1837.

  • Artemisia ludoviciana Silver sage, Wormwood Z 4-9

    Grown for its silver-grey foliage

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    Grown for its silver-grey foliage in the garden & dried in arrangements

    Size: 3’ x 2’ and spreading
    Care: sun in well-drained soil
    Native: Colorado south to Texas, west to California.

    Blackfoot cleaned themselves with this as part of religious rituals.  California’s Shasta Indians prepared dead bodies to be buried with the leaves.  HoChunk made a smudge to revive the unconscious.  Cahuilla Indians made baskets and roofs and walls of their homes with the stems.  First collected for gardens by Thomas Nuttall in early 1800’s.  Artemisia named for the wife of Mausolus, king of Caria, who began using another Artemisia. Miller 1768.

  • Artemisia stellerana Beach wormwood, Dusty miller Z 3-7

    Intricate, embroidery-like, felty-white foliage

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    Grown for its intricate, embroidery-like, felty-white foliage

    Can not ship to: Maryland

    Size: 24” x 12”
    Care: sun in moist well-drained to dry soil
    Native: naturalized in North America from Massachusetts to Delaware

    Artemisia named for the wife of Mausolus, king of Caria, who began using another Artemisia.  Miller 1768. Collected from the wild by 1842.  Recommended by Gertrude Jekyll to use on the edges of gardens, 1908   L.H. Bailey (1933) described it as “attractive for its whiteness.  Useful for borders.”

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  • Arum italicum Cuckoo plant, Lords and ladies Z 5-9

    Unusual greenish white jack-in-the-pulpit type flowers, called spath, followed by showy spikes of tomato red berries in the fall. Foliage showy too – green with network of white veins. “The leaves of this sort rise a foot and a half high, are very large, running out to a point; these are finely veined with white, interspersed with black spots, which, together with the fine shining green of their surface, make a pretty variety. The flowers grow near a foot high, and have long upright spaths, which are of a pale green, inclining to white; these appear the end of April, or beginning of May, and the seeds are ripe in August.” Phillip Miller’s Gardeners Dictionary, 1768.

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    Arum italicum Cuckoo plant, Lords and ladies   Z 5-9
    Unusual greenish white jack-in-the-pulpit type flowers, called spath, followed by showy spikes of tomato red berries in the fall. Foliage showy too – green with network of white veins.
    “The leaves of this sort rise a foot and a half high, are very large, running out to a point; these are finely veined with white, interspersed with black spots, which, together with the fine shining green of their surface, make a pretty variety. The flowers grow near a foot high, and have long upright spaths, which are of a pale green, inclining to white; these appear the end of April, or beginning of May, and the seeds are ripe in August.” Phillip Miller’s Gardeners Dictionary, 1768.

    Can not ship to: Maryland

    Size: 10-15”x 6"
    Care: Shade to part shade in moist well-drained soil
    Native: Italy, Spain and Portugal.
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit

    This was identified by Dioscordies in De Materica Medica for medicinal use around 70 A.D.  “Showy,” according to William Robinson (1933.)

  • Aruncus aethusifolius Dwarf goat’s beard Z 3-8

    You know the fireworks they display at the end of the night, with light bursting every direction from a center? These flowers resemble a tiny version of that, emerging in spring and early summer above a compact mound of fern-like foliage

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    You know the fireworks they display at the end of the night, with light bursting every direction from a center? These flowers resemble a tiny version of that, emerging in spring and early summer above a compact mound of fern-like foliage. Good foil for solid, paddle-like leaves of Bergenia.

    Size: 10" x 12-18"
    Care: part shade to shade in moist to well-drained soil
    Native: Korea
    Awards: Elizabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant Pick.

    Described in 1912 by Japanese botanist who explored Korea for plants, Takenoshin Nakai (1882-1952)

  • Aruncus dioicus syn. Spiraea aruncus, Aruncus sylvester Goat’s beard Z 3-7

    Bold cream-colored arching plumes in early to mid-summer, light up shady corners.

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    Bold cream-colored arching plumes in early to mid-summer, light up shady corners.

    Size: 5-6' x 4'
    Care: part to full shade, moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Europe, E. Siberia, E. North America
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit

    Grown by Tradescant in England by 1633. Sold in America’s 1st plant catalog, Bartram’s Broadside, 1783.  In 1870 William Robinson recommended growing the plant for naturalization.  Robinson described it as: “beautiful in foliage and habit as well as flower…flowers are freely produced in summer in large gracefully-drooping plumes.”