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Euphorbia myrsinites Donkeytail spurge Z 5-8
Chartreuse umbels at stem tips contrast succulent blue-gray foliage in early spring
Chartreuse umbels at stem tips contrast succulent blue-gray foliage in early spring
Can not ship to: Colorado.
Size: 4” x 12”
Care: Sun in well-drained soil, drought resistant
Native: Western Asia
Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.Euphorbia was named for Euphorbus, physician of Numibian King Juba, father of Ptolemy (c. 50 B.C. – 20 A.D.) Reputedly Euphorbus used spurge to remedy the King’s enlarged stomach. Euphorbus’ brother was Augustus Caesar’s physician. Myrsinites is a Greek word meaning “resembling myrtle.” This plant described by Swiss botanical scholar Conrad Gesner in his book Horti Germaniae published in 1541.
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Euphorbia polychroma Cushion spurge syn. Euphorbia epithymoides Z 4-9
May - June flashy chartreuse flowers. In fall foliage turns orangey-red.
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May – June flashy chartreuse flowers. In fall foliage turns orangey-red.
Size: 16" x 24"
Care: Sun, moist well-drained humusy soil. Drought tolerant.
Native: Central and Southern Europe
Awards: England's Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.Polychroma means many colors referring to the fact that the plant changes colors with yellow-chartreuse flowers in spring and red foliage in fall. Named and described by Swedish botanist Linnaeus 1753.
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Fall Garden for sun
Fall Blooming Garden for sun.
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Note: This collection is not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.
Fall garden for Sun Size : Height x width* Bloom color
3 Aster cordifolius – Blue wood aster 2-3’ x 2-3’ blue
1 Boltonia asteroides – Bolton’s aster 5-6’ x 3’ white
1 Chrysanthemum ‘Clara Curtis’ 2’ x 2’ pink
1 Imperata cylindrical – Japanese bloodgrass 16-20” x 12” red leaves
1 Miscanthus purpurascens – Flame grass 4-5’ x 3-4’ orange-red leaves
1 Nipponanthemum nipponicum – Nippon daisy 2-3’ x 2-3’ white
1 Pennisetum orientale – Oriental fountaingrass 2′ x 2′ pink
1 Persicaria affinis – Dwarf fleeceflower 8-12” x 3’ red
3 Sedum sieboldii – October daphne 4” x 8” pink
3 Sedum spurium ‘Coccineum’ – Dragon’s blood 6” x 24” redAll plants are perennials.
If planted together in one garden these make a 36 square foot garden. **Most of these plants get wider over time by spreading roots or by self-seeding .
16 plants for $148.92. Would be $175.20 if purchased separately. You save $26.28.
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Festuca ovina var. glauca Blue fescue Z 4-10
Short mound of silvery blue spiky grass tufts. In summer short spikes of blue-green flowers.
Short mound of silvery blue spiky grass tufts. In summer short spikes of blue-green flowers.
Size: 12" x 10"
Care: full sun, well-drained soil
Native: temperate areas in Europe
Wildlife Value: host for larvae of a few butterfliesFestuca is Latin meaning “grass stalk..” This variety described and named in 1881
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Fibigia clypeata Roman shields Z 5-7
Yellow spring flowers – early summer, followed by small, oval “silver dollars.”
Yellow spring flowers – early summer, followed by small, oval “silver dollars” on erect stems.
Size: 18” x 12-15”
Care: sun well-drained soil Self-seeds freely
Native: Southern Europe
Wildlife Value: source of nectar and pollen for bees and other insects
Size: Used for their ornamental seed pods. Harvest either when 1st form for fuzzy grey-green color or when mature with outer skin removed for translucent, silver shieldIn gardens before 1753.
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Filipendula rubra Queen of the Prairie Z 3-9
Extraordinary frothy pink plumes, like cotton candy, blooming in midsummer
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Extraordinary frothy pink plumes, like cotton candy, blooming in midsummer
Size: 4-6’ x 4-5'
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to moist soil
Native: US East coast west to MN s to MO and NC, Wisconsin native
Wildlife Value: This creates pollen but not nectar limiting the pollinators to bees and flies (Butterflies and wasps want nectar.).Meskwaki Indians used it for heart ailments and as an aphrodisiac. Although the plant’s name has been changed five times, this was 1st described in 1768.
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Filipendula vulgaris syn. F. hexapetala Dropwort or Meadowsweet Z 3-9
In early summer bundles of milk white ball-shaped buds and open blossoms atop clumps of finely-cut, fern-like leaves, both flowers and foliage fragrant, early to mid-summer.
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In early summer bundles of milk white ball-shaped buds and open blossoms atop clumps of finely-cut, fern-like leaves, both flowers and foliage fragrant, early to mid-summer.
Size: 24" x 18"
Care: sun in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Europe, north and central Asia
Wildlife Value: attracts bees, beetles and fliesFilipendula is Latin from filum meaning thread and pendulus meaning hanging for small tubers hanging by threadlike roots. In the 1600’s Nicholas Culpepper described Meadowsweet’s medicinal uses as curing bladder problems, throat, lung diseases and “the falling sickness.” Filipendula vulgaris also remedied bloated stomachs “dissolving and breaking the wind.”
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Foeniculum vulgaris ‘Purpureum’ Bronze fennel Z 4-9
Yellow blooms on flat-topped umbels in late spring into summer, features dusky purple, feathery, compound, aromatic purple leaves with needle-like segments.
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Yellow blooms on flat-topped umbels in late spring into summer, features dusky purple, feathery, compound, aromatic purple leaves with needle-like segments.
Size: 4-5’ x 2-3’
Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil. Drought tolerant.
Native: Mediterranean
Wildlife Value: attracts bees and birds. Nectar plant for Swallowtail butterflies. Flat-topped surface gives insects a landing pad.Ancient Egyptians used fennel as food and medicine. Considered a snake bite remedy in ancient China. During the Middle Ages it was hung over doorways to drive away evil spirits. Fennel is also associated with the origin of the marathon. Athenian Pheidippides carried a fennel stalk on his 150-mile, 2-day run to Sparta to gather soldiers for the battle of Marathon with Persia in 490 B.C. The battle itself was also reportedly waged on a field of fennel. The Gardeners Dictionary, eighth ed. 1768.
