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  • Geranium wlassovianum Wlassov’s cranesbill Z 4-8

    Flowers dusky violet with white eyes, June to September, non-stop. Ornamental, lobed leaves, red in spring & fall.

    $12.95/bareroot

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    Flowers dusky violet oval petals and darker purple veins leading to white eye in center showcasing, purple stamens. Blooms June to July and sporadically through August.  Ornamental, lobed leaves, red in spring.

    Size: 24" x 24"
    Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil.
    Native: Siberia, Russia, Mongolia & China
    Awards: Elizabeth Carey Miller Botanic Garden, Great Plant Award.

    Geranium is Greek meaning “crane” referring to the shape of its seed resembling the bill of a crane.  This species described and named before 1822 by Frederich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer (1782-1854), German doctor, and director of Imperial Botanic Garden in St. Petersburg.

  • Geranium x ibericum – Johnson’s Blue Z 3-8

    Long blooming (July to September) if sheared back after 1st flowering, blue flowered saucers & in fall brilliant crimson foliage.

    $12.75/bareroot

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    Long blooming (July to September) if sheared back after 1st flowering, blue flowered saucers & in fall brilliant crimson foliage.

    Size: 18” x 15”
    Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.

    Cross of G. himalayense and G. pretense bred by A.T. Johnson, schoolmaster, writer & photographer, in his garden in Conwy Valley, Wales in 1945.

  • Geum chiloensis x ‘Mrs. Bradshaw’ Z 5-9

    Small rose-shaped semi-double rich blood-red flowers showcasing a bullseye of yellow pollen dots atop wiry stems from June to August, if deadheaded.

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    Small rose-shaped semi-double rich blood-red flowers showcasing a bullseye of yellow pollen dots atop wiry stems from June to August, if deadheaded.

    Size: 20" x 24"
    Care: Full sun in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Wildlife Value: nectar and pollen feed bees and butterflies
    Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.

    The species collected by Alexander Cruickshank in So. America in 1820’s.  ‘Mrs. Bradshaw’ listed in a book published in 1910.

  • Geum triflorum Prairie smoke, Old Man’s whiskers Z 1-8

    Pale purplish-pink dangling cup-shaped flowers in spring to early summer, followed by hair-like, pink seed heads like the hair on a troll doll.

    $10.25/bareroot

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    Pale purplish-pink dangling cup-shaped flowers in spring to early summer, followed by hair-like, pink seed heads like the hair on a troll doll.

    Size: 10" x 8" but slow to grow to this width
    Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
    Native: all of northern No. America, Wisconsin native
    Awards: Great Plants for Great Plains

    Introduced to gardens in 1609.  Many Native American medicinal uses.  Blackfeet used it to cure coughs, skin sores and wounds on people and horses, swollen eyes, canker sores, and fuzzy thinking in people. Crushed, ripe seeds made a perfume.  Okanagan-Colville women made a love potion from the roots, as well as curing vaginal yeast infections.  The Eastern Cascades of Canada brewed a medicinal tea for eye-wash, sore throats and general aches from the plant. Sioux used it for many ailments:  sore eyes, canker sores, sore throat, perfume, wounds, and added it to mixtures of plants for smoking Collected by Meriwether Lewis on June 12, 1806 on the Weippe Prairie, not far from the villages of the Nez Perce in Idaho.

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  • Gillenia trifoliata Syn. Porteranthus trifoliata Indian physic Z 5-9

    White stars flutter as butterflies atop wire-like red stems in June. In fall foliage turns red. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)

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    White stars flutter as butterflies atop wire-like red stems in June. In fall foliage turns red. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)

    Size: 3’ x 2’
    Care: part shade in moist well-drained soil
    Native: from Canada to Georgia
    Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit and Great Plant Pick Award from Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden.

    Gillenia named in honor of “a German botanist or physician of the  17th century, A. Gille or Gillenius.  Cherokee chewed the root to alleviate bee stings and toothaches.  Small sips of the tea relieved asthma and colds, (larger quantities lethal.) Native Americans took the dried, powdered root as a laxative.   1st collected by Rev. John Banister (1654-1692) who moved to colonial Virginia in 1678.  A gunman mistakenly shot and killed him while he collected plants.  Offered for sale in Bartram Garden’s 1783 Broadside, America’s 1st plant catalog.  Jefferson considered this medicinal in Notes on the State of Virginia. Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811. Sanders described it as a “graceful spirea-like plant.” 1913.

  • Glaucium flavum Yellow horned poppy Z 5-10 short-lived perennial, reseeding generously

    Its silver, deep-cut foliage is reason enough to grow this. The bright yellow flower much of summer tops it off.  

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    Note: This is a plant not currently for sale.  This is an archive page preserved for informational use.

    Its silver, deep-cut foliage is reason enough to grow this. The bright yellow flower much of summer tops it off.

    Can not ship to: Maine and Massachusetts

     

    Size: 1-2’ x 1-2’
    Care: sun in well-drained soil
    Native: Europe esp. sea coasts.
    Wildlife Value: deer resistant

    This was identified by Dioscordies in De Materica Medica for medicinal use around 70 A.D. Philip Miller’s Dictionary (1763) called it Cheliodonium glaucium while Tournefort (1703) called it Glaucium flore luteo. Thank goodness for common names – it is ID’ed as Yellow Horn Poppy.

  • Globularia cordifolia Globe daisy, Wedge leaved globularia Z 5-9

    Dense, blue, globe-shaped umbels in spring

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    Dense, blue, globe-shaped umbels in spring, mat forming, leathery, spoon-shaped leaves.

    Size: 5” x 12”
    Care: sun in well-drained soil
    Native: alpine pastures in Switzerland and Pyrenees
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.

    Collected before 1753.  “The most desirable (Globularia) for the rockwork is the neat G. cordifolia which is a little prostrate trailing shrub with bluish flowers.” William Robinson 1879.