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Fothergilla gardenii Dwarf fothergilla Z 5-9
Honey-scented ivory bottlebrushes, made up of long stamens, 2” tall in spring, leaves turn jewel toned red, purple & orange in fall.
Honey-scented ivory bottlebrushes, made up of long stamens, 2” tall in spring, leaves turn jewel toned red, purple & orange in fall.
Size: 2-3’ x 2-6’
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained, acidic soil. Pruning not recommended.
Native: NC south to MS & west to TN
Awards: Missouri Botanic Garden Award of Merit, Great Plant Pick Award from Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical GardenCollected before 1750’s by John Bartram and offered for sale in Bartram Garden’s 1783 Broadside, America’s 1st plant catalog. Genus named to honor Dr. John Fothergill (1712-1781) avid English plant collector & friend of Peter Collinson. And species named to honor Dr. Alexander Garden, (1730-1791) a colonial Scotsman who lived in the Carolinas.
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Fragrant Garden for sun
ARCHIVED Note: This collection is a not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use. Fragrant Garden for sun Size: Height x width * Bloom color 3 Agastache foeniculum – Anise hyssop 2-3’ x 12” purple 1 Buddleja davidii – Butterfly bush […]
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Fragrant Garden for sun Size: Height x width * Bloom color
3 Agastache foeniculum – Anise hyssop 2-3’ x 12” purple
1 Buddleja davidii – Butterfly bush 6’ x 4’ purple
1 Clematis ternifolia – Sweet autumn 15-20’ x 6-10’ white
3 Lavandula angustifolia ‘Munstead’ 12-18” x 12-18” lavender
1 Lilium auratum – Gold band lily 2-5’ x 12” white/yellow
1 Paeonia ‘Sarah Bernhardt’ 36” x 36” pink
1 Monarda didyma – ‘Cambridge Scarlet’ beebalm 3-4’ x spreading red
3 Sporobolis heterolepsis -Prairie dropseed 2′ x 2′ pink/brown
3 Thymus serphyllum – Creeping thyme 3″ x 24″ purpleAll plants are perennials.
If planted together in one garden these make a 28 square foot garden. *Most of these plants get wider over time by spreading roots or by self-seeding .17 plants for $182.62. Would be $214.85 if purchased separately. You save $32.23.
If you plan on coming to the Nursery to purchase this collection, please give us at least 24 hours notice to prepare the collection for you.
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Gaillardia aristata Blanket flower Z 3-8
Yellow and red daisy petals surround red cones non-stop
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Yellow and red daisy petals surround red cones non-stop, June-October, a true winner.
Size: 30” x 24”
Care: sun, well-drained soil
Native: Western US, Canada to Arizona
Awards: Oklahoma ProvenNamed for French botanist, M. Gaillard de Marentonneau. Blackfooot used Blanket flower to absorb soup and waterproof rawhide. The entire plant toasted and pounded, mixed with bear grease cured mumps. It prevented balding and cured eye ailments in horses. Found by Meriwether Lewis on the Expedition, July 6, 1806 along the Blackfoot River on “dry hills” in Montana.
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Galium odoratum Sweet woodruff, Bedstraw Z 4-8
Whorls of fine textured leaves, like spokes of a wheel, with white blooms in spring lighting up the shade
Whorls of fine textured leaves, like spokes of a wheel, with white blooms in spring lighting up the shade
Size: 6-12" x 18" spreading
Care: shade to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil.
Native: Europe and Mediterranean areaCalled “Bedstraw” because, according to legend, Mary rested on hay of Bedstraw on Christmas. May wine made an ancient herbal remedy: handful of dried and crushed leaves plus fresh lemon juice steeped in wine for 3-4 hours “makes a man merry and (is) good for the heart and liver.” Garlands hanging in houses in summer “coole and make fresh the place, to the delight and comfort of such as are therein.” per English herbalist Gerard, 1633. Dried branches give a grassy vanilla fragrance, used in sachets and potpourris, as an insect repellant and to make grey-green dyes.
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Gaultheria procumbens Wintergreen, Checkerberry, Teaberry Z 3-8
“Gaultheria procumbens is in absolute perfection and beautiful – first as regards its bell-shaped blossoms, and afterwards its berries…” The Garden January 1876.
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“Gaultheria procumbens is in absolute perfection and beautiful – first as regards its bell-shaped blossoms, and afterwards its berries…” The Garden , January 1876.
Size: 4” x 2’, spreading slowly - will make dense groundcover in time.
Care: part shade in moist to moist well-drained, acidic soil
Native: Eastern North America – Canada to Georgia west to Wisconsin
Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.Ojibwa made tea from the leaves; the tea “makes them feel good.” Oneida used this for women having a painful menstrual cycle. For the Algonquin Wintergreen cured the common cold, headaches, grippe and stomachaches. Cherokee cured swollen gums and colds. Berries described as a grape in 1717. Named by Swedish botanist Peter Kalm after Dr. Gaulthier, with whom he botanized in Canada in 1749. Sold in America’s 1st plant catalog, Bartram’s Broadside, 1783. During the American Revolution when tea became unavailable, colonists used the plant to make tea. The tea reputedly relieved pain from headaches, muscle pains and colds. The leaves contain oil effective against pain – methyl salicylate. Pressed specimen in Emily Dickinson’s herbarium.
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Gaura lindheimeri syn. Oenothera lindheimeri White gaura, Beeblossom Z 5-9
Multitudes of small white/pink. 4-petaled blossoms on wiry stems from May to October. Cut back by half in July to increase blossoms, as though the hoards are not enough.
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Multitudes of small white/pink. 4-petaled blossoms on wiry stems from May to October. Cut back by half in July to increase blossoms, as though the hoards are not enough.
Size: 36” x 36”
Care: Full sun in well-drained to moist well-drained acidic soil
Native: Texas and Louisiana
Wildlife Value: deer & rabbit resistant. Source of pollen for bees, butterflies and hummingbirds
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.Gaura is from the Greek gauros meaning superb. Collected in 1851 by German plant hunter Ferdinand Lindheimer (1801-1879) in the Texas Hill Country. Lindheimer considered the Father of Texas botany. L.H. Bailey (1913) wrote: “The best kind is Gaura lindheimeri which has white flowers of singular appearance, with rosy calyx tubes.”
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Gentiana andrewsii Bottle gentian Z 4-9
Blue bottle-like or oval balloon blooms in late summer
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Blue bottle-like or oval balloon blooms in late summer
Size: 12-24” x 6”
Care: full sun to part shade in humusy, moist to moist well drained, acidic soil
Native: Eastern North America, incl. WisconsinGentian named after King Gentius of Illyria in the Adriatic. He discovered medicinal uses for gentians around 180 B.C. Iroquois used Bottle gentian to ease pain from headaches and muscle aches, to cure lonesomeness and craziness. Hanging dried root around the house warded off witches. Meskwaki cured snake bites and “caked breast” with the plant. For Lakota Sioux: Roots flavored beverages and prevented snakebites when rubbed on skin.
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Gentiana cruciata Cross-leaf gentian Z 4-9
Reputed the easiest Gentian, its true-blue clusters of short trumpet flowers grow from leaf axils of upper stems, from August through September. Lance-shaped, leathery leaves crowd below and cross one another as its name describes.
Reputed the easiest Gentian, its true-blue clusters of short trumpet flowers grow from leaf axils of upper stems, from August through September. Lance-shaped, leathery leaves crowd below and cross one another as its name describes.
Size: 8-16” x 12-16”
Care: sun to part shade in moist or moist well-drained soil.
Native: much of Europe and East Asia
Wildlife Value: Attracts hummingbirds, butterflies and other insects. Rabbit resistantIn mid-1700’s it was said to grow “. . .in Pannoniae, (province of the Roman Empire bounded on the north and east by the Danube) and Apenninorum, (probably about the Apennines Mountain range of Italy) and Helvetia.” (Switzerland). Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 231. 1753. (1 May 1753) Known more than 600 years ago, possibly before. Leonard Fuchs, German doctor and botanist, (1501-1566) named and described it. Renamed to its current name by botanist Caspari Bauhin (1560-1625) in Pinax Theatricum
