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Globularia nudicaulis Globe daisy Z 3-8
Cobalt blue puffs on naked stems rise above compact rosettes of glossy oval leaves, May-June
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Cobalt blue puffs on naked stems rise above compact rosettes of glossy oval leaves blooming May-June
Size: 4-8” x 4”
Care: Sun to part shade in well-drained soil. Drought tolerant/rock garden plant.
Native: northern Spain to the Pyrenees MountainsIn gardens before 1753
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Globularia trichosantha Blue Globe Daisy Z 5-9
Globe-shaped blue puffs bloom in late spring above a mat of evergreen foliage
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Globe-shaped blue puffs bloom in late spring above a mat of evergreen foliage
Size: 6-8” x 8-12”
Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil
Native: Balkan region of eastern Europe.
Wildlife Value: Attracts beesCollected before 1839.
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Goniolimon speciosum syn. Statice speciosa, Limonium Dwarf Statice Z 3-9
Evergreen, flat, agave-like blue-green rosette of leaves. In mid-summer light pink, flat-topped flower clusters held on leafless stems 10-12” above foliage. Very different, fun and easy to grow.
Evergreen, flat, agave-like blue-green rosette of leaves. In mid-summer light pink, flat-topped flower clusters held on leafless stems 10-12” above foliage. Very different, fun and easy to grow.
Size: 10-12’ X 8”
Care: sun in well-drained soil
Native: Steppes of Eurasia: Russia, Siberia, Mongolia & western ChinaCollected by German naturalist Johann Georg Gmelin (1709-1755)1st described in 1753 then named and renamed several times. Pictured in Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 18. No. 656 1803.
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Gypsophila repens ‘Rosea’ Creeping baby’s breath Z 4-7
Tough but dainty appearing pink flowers on short, thin stems smother gray-green leaves from June to October. Excellent groundcover, front of the border or rock garden plant.
Tough but dainty appearing pink flowers on short, thin stems smother gray-green leaves from June to October. Excellent groundcover, front of the border or rock garden plant.
Size: 8" x 10-12"
Care: Full sun in well-drained soil.
Native: Mountains of central and southern EuropeGypso is Greek meaning “gypsum or lime.” Phylos means “loving.” Plant requires limey (alkaline) soil. Discovered in Siberia in 1774.
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Hamamelis vernalis Spring witch-hazel Z 4-8
Unusual, small yellow-red fragrant flowers in very early spring February-April. Showy golden foliage in fall. Hardy & durable.
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Unusual, small yellow-red fragrant flowers in very early spring February-April. Showy golden foliage in fall. Hardy & durable.
Size: 6-10’ x spreading
Care: Sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained acidic soil, tolerates clay. Prune in spring after flowering.
Native: Ozark Plateau of MO, OK & AK
Awards: Missouri Botanic Garden Plant of Merit.
Size: Native Americans made extracts of the leaves, bark and stems to remedy inflammation & bruises.Collected for horticulture by 1908.
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Hamamelis virginiana Witch hazel Z 3-8
Oval shaped leaves turn shades of yellow in fall then stem-hugging clusters of sun-yellow ribbon-shaped petals cling to branches from October to December.
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Oval shaped leaves turn shades of yellow in fall then stem-hugging clusters of sun-yellow ribbon-shaped petals cling to branches from October to December.
Size: 10-15’ x 10-15’, slow growth
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil to moist, acidic
Native: Novia Scotia to Florida, Great Lakes to east Texas, Wisconsin native
Wildlife Value: Attracts birds, Deer resistantAn extract of leaves, twigs, and bark is used in mildly astringent lotions and toilet water. A myth of witchcraft held that a forked branch of Witch-hazel could locate underground water. Native Americans used witch-hazel leaves for tea. Its oil used in medicines, eye-washes, after shave lotions and salves for soothing insect bites, burns and poison ivy rashes. Oneida used the leaves to remedy colds and stomach ailments. Illustrated in Catesby’s Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, published in series 1729-1747. Collected by French plant hunter André Michaux (1746-1802) who, for 11 years scoured eastern US as far west as the Mississippi River in Illinois Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811.
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Helenium hoopesii syn. Hymenoxys hoopesii Orange sneezeweed, Owlsclaws Z 3-8
Large mustard yellow, tending to orange, daisies with drooping petals and yellow center flowers May and continuing to September, if deadheaded.
Large mustard yellow, tending to orange, daisies with drooping petals and yellow center flowers May and continuing to September, if deadheaded.
Size: 3’ x 2’
Care: sun in moist well-drained soil
Native: Rocky Mountains
Wildlife Value: attracts bees, butterflies & moths. Rabbit and deer resistant - toxicNavajo boiled its petals with juniper ash to make a yellow dye. They also chewed the roots for their sugary taste. Indians of the Great Basin dried the leaves and flowers and inhaled them to remedy headaches, while a snuff of only dried flowers, not the leaves, remedied hay fever. Collected by C.C. Parry (1823-1890) given the name “King of Colorado Botany.” Liberty Hyde Bailey (1933) referred to this as “a very fine border plant and especially laudable for cut flowers.”
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Helictotrichon sempervirens Blue oat grass Z 4-9
June-October spikes rise above a rounded mound of thin, steel-blue, evergreen (sempervirens means always green) leaves – one of the best.
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June-October spikes rise above a rounded mound of thin, steel-blue, evergreen (sempervirens means always green) leaves – one of the best.
Size: 4' x 2'
Care: full sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: Europe
Awards: Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant Pick, England’s Royal Botanical Society Award of Garden Merit.1st described in Prospectus de l’Histoire des Plantes de Dauphiné 17. 1779. Liberty Hyde Bailey said that Blue oat grass was “scarcely grown as ornamental subjects.”(1933)
