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  • Emily Dickinson Garden for sun

    Emily Dickinson Garden for sun.

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    Emily Dickinson Garden for Sun               Size : Height x width*          Bloom color
    1 Alcea rosea – Hollyhock                                                      2-3’ x 2’                           varies
    3 Aquilegia canadensis – Canada columbine                    24-36”x 12”                     red
    1 Aster novae angliae – New England aster                       3-4’ x 24”                         pink or purple
    3 Campanula rotundifolia – Harebell                                 9-12” x 8”                         blue
    1 Clematis virginiana – Virgin’s bower (vine)                   12-20’ x 4’                        white
    3 Geranium pratense – Meadow Cranesbill                      24-36” x 24”                    bluish-violet
    1 Iris siberica – Siberian iris                                                 3-4’ x 12”                          purple
    3 Lilium lancifoliuim – Tiger lily                                         3-4’ x 12”                          orange
    1 Peony ‘Sarah Bernhardt’                                                    36” x 36”                          pink
    3 Zizia aurea – Golden alexander                                        30″ x 24″                          yellow

    All plants are perennials except the Hollyhock which is a reseeding biennial.
    If planted together in one garden these make a 30 square foot garden. **Most of these plants get wider over time by spreading roots or by self-seeding .

  • Engelmannia peristenia syn. E. pinnatafida Engelmann’s Daisy Z 4-8

    Clusters of golden-yellow daisy-like flowers, May-August, over an evergreen rosette

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    Clusters of golden-yellow daisy-like flowers, May-August, over an evergreen rosette

    Size: 18-36” x 15-18”
    Care: full sun in well-drained soil. Drought tolerant.
    Native: South central US
    Wildlife Value: Attracts birds for the seeds, Bees & butterflies for nectar/pollen. Rabbit resistant.

    First published in 1840 by Nuttal/Gray.  Named for George Engelmann (1809-1884) who was born in Germany and settled in St. Louis, Missouri, as a young man. He was a physician and botanist.  When he died much of his collection went to Missouri Botanical Garden.

  • Epilobium angustifolium syn. Chamaenerion angustifolium Fireweed Z 2-7

    Bright pink to lilac purple flowers June-July atop red stems covered in willow-like leaves

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    Bright pink to lilac purple flowers June-July atop red stems covered in willow-like leaves

    Size: 2-6’ x 3’ spreading
    Care: Sun to part shade in dry to moist well drained soil
    Native: Circum-polar to the temperate northern hemisphere. Wisconsin native.
    Wildlife Value: Attracts hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies. Host for caterpillars of Fireweed Clearwing moth and Nessus Sphinx moth

    Common name comes from its quick reappearance after a wildfire.  Native Americans used fireweed externally for burns and other skin conditions, and made a tea for gastro-intestinal and bronchial problems.  Its shoots eaten as a vegetable and young leaves added to salads. Fireweed yields a honey so prized that some Canadian beekeepers drive – or even fly – their hives to areas rich in fireweed for the blossoming season.  Described and named by 1753.

    **LISTED AS OUT OF STOCK BECAUSE WE DO NOT SHIP THIS ITEM.  IT IS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT OUR RETAIL LOCATION.

  • Epimedium grandiflorum Barrenwort, Bishop’s hat Z 5-8

    White-lavender flowers in May atop wiry stems look like fantastical birds with too many wings, or a four-cornered bishop’s hat.

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    White-lavender flowers in May atop wiry stems look like fantastical birds with too many wings, or a four-cornered bishop’s hat.  Ornamental heart-shaped leaves and red stems.

    Size: 6-12” x 18” slow spreader
    Care: shade to part shade in well-drained to moist well-drained soil. Once roots established, valuable in dry shade
    Native: China, Japan & Korea

    Its Chinese name is “Yin Yang Ho” meaning “Licentious goat herb, “ because allegedly an aphrodisiac for goats!  In China & Japan thought to remedy impotence, liver ailments & all age related maladies.  In Western gardens since 1834.

  • Epimedium x rubrum syn. Epimedium alpinum var. rubrum Red barrenwort Z 4-8

    In mid- spring small, star-shaped, rosy-red flowers dance on the ends of wiry-thin stems about one foot high. Red-flushed foliage follows the flowers, the more sun, the more red leaves.  Wonderful groundcover especially in shady, well-drained soil where little else grows.

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    In mid- spring small, star-shaped, rosy-red flowers dance on the ends of wiry-thin stems about one foot high. Red-flushed foliage follows the flowers, the more sun, the more red leaves.  Wonderful groundcover especially in shady, well-drained soil where little else grows.

    Size: 16” x 24” slow spreading
    Care: Sun to shade in most any soil but best in part shade – one of most adaptable plants
    Awards: Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanic Garden Great Plant Pick

    Cross between Epimedium grandiflorum and Epimedium alpinum. 1st described in 1853 in Belgique Hort. iii. 33. I.

  • Equisetum scirpoides Dwarf horsetail  Z 3-11

    Short, bamboo-like - Black bands show joints of green stems, no showy flowers

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    Short,bamboo-like – Black bands show joints of green stems, no showy flowers

    Size: 6” x  spreads – invasive in moist soil if not planted in pots sunk in the ground
    Care: full sun, moist to wet soil
    Native: all North America – incl. Arctic - north of IL

    Collected by André Michaux, French planthunter who searched  nearly all No. Am. East of the Mississippi for 11 years in mid-1700’s.  Contains large amounts of silica, giving it abrasiveness, so used to scrub.  Grizzly bears in Pacific Northwest reported to eat Dwarf horsetail.

  • Eragrostis spectabilis Purple Love grass Z 5-9

    Profuse tiny purple panicles in August-September. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)

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    Profuse tiny purple panicles in August-September. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)

    Size: 2’ x 18”
    Care: Full sun in well-drained soil - slow to emerge in spring. Drought tolerant
    Native: Maine west to Minnesota, south to Arizona, Wisconsin native

    Eragrostis is Greek meaning “love”, (eros) and grass, agrostis.  This species first named by German botanist Frederick Pursh (1774-1820) in his book Flora Americae Septronalis. (1813)

  • Erigeron aureus Alpine yellow fleabane Z 5-8

    White hairs cover frosted-looking basil leaves making this worthy of any garden even without flowers, but then its school bus yellow daisies flower from spring through fall.

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    White hairs cover frosted-looking basil leaves making this worthy of any garden even without flowers, but then its school bus yellow daisies flower from spring through fall.

    Size: 3-4” x 3”
    Care: sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
    Native: Cascade Mountains from Alberta to State of Washington
    Wildlife Value: attracts bees, butterflies and birds

    1st described in literature in 1884.