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  • Helleborus foetidus Bear’s foot Z 5-8

    Nodding chartreuse cups with purple accents emerge in March-April from evergreen, palmate foliage.  Like a Robin - the 1st sign of spring.

    $12.95/bareroot

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    Nodding chartreuse cups with purple accents emerge in March-April from evergreen, palmate foliage.  Like a Robin – the 1st sign of spring.

    Size: 12-24" x 18-24"
    Care: full to part shade in well-drained to moist well-drained soil.
    Native: W. Europe
    Awards: Great Plant Pick Award from Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden; England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.
    Size: Deer and rabbit resistant

    The name Helleborus is Greek from hellein meaning “to kill” and bora meaning “food” referring to the plant’s poisonous qualities if eaten.  Foetidus because crushed leaves are malodorous, but the flowers are sweetly fragrant. In gardens before 1753. In 1876 it was a “well known old-fashioned plant…” The Garden.

  • Helleborus niger Christmas rose, Black hellebore Z 5-8 POISON

    Outfacing, white, waxy cup-shaped flowers resembling single roses in late winter, evergreen leaves.

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    Outfacing, white, waxy cup-shaped flowers resembling single roses in late winter, evergreen leaves.

    Size: 12-20” x 12”
    Care: part shade in moist well-drained soil
    Native: rocky places in Europe
    Awards: Received Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.

    The name Helleborus is Greek from hellein meaning “to kill” and bora meaning “food” referring to the plant’s poisonous qualities if placed in food.  This species is ancient – known as long ago as 300 BC in Greece where it “purged and cured the mad or melancholicke daughters of Praetus with the roots thereof.” (Parkinson, 1629) Grown in the Eichstätt Garden, the garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria, c. 1600.  In Middle Ages petals thrown on floor to drive out evil and ward off power of witches. English herbalist John Gerard (1545-1612) strangely recommended it for curing poisoned animals. Sorcerers made themselves invisible by tossing the powdered plant in the air.

  • Helleborus orientalis Lenten rose Z 4-9 POISON

    Creamy white to pink, waxy saucers (by 1900 purple varieties too) in early spring, evergreen foliage.

    $13.25/bareroot

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    Creamy white to pink, waxy saucers (by 1900 purple varieties too) in early spring, evergreen foliage.

    Size: 12” x 12”
    Care: moist humusy soil in full to part shade.
    Native: Asia Minor
    Wildlife Value: Deer and rabbit resistant.
    Awards: Missouri Botanic Garden Plant of Merit.

    The name Helleborus is Greek from hellein meaning “to kill” and bora meaning “food” referring to the plant’s poisonous qualities. This species was identified by Dioscorides in De Materica Medica for medicinal uses around 70 A.D. According to folklore witches summon demons with this. Favorite plant of Gertrude Jekyll  (1848-1931)  mother of the mixed perennial border, planted with Daphne shrubs and Dog tooth violet in her personal garden at Munstead Wood.

  • Hemerocallis ‘Beware of Attack Gardener’ Bob’s daylily Z 4-10

    Burgundy petals with golden centers

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    Tetraploid daylily with burgundy petals with golden centers.  Stripes start golden at center and turn almost white by the point of the petal.  Blooms in July.

    Robert Koehne (April 1971-September 2014) Bob was a good personal friend and very enthusiastic gardener – perennially cheerful.  He loved his wife and two children and daylily breeding.  These daylilies are his “children” too.  He bred them, named them and registered them.  He died of colon cancer too soon – before he could grow grey with Darby or see his kids or his daylilies grow up.  We are growing on his daylilies.  This year we have only a few to sell but in time these will multiply, hopefully like rabbits. The proceeds go to his family.

    Tetraploid daylily with burgundy petals with golden centers.  Stripes start golden at center and turn almost white by the point of the petal.  Blooms in July.

  • Hemerocallis ‘Black Dirt Live Again’ Bob’s daylily Z 4-10

    Flat and open burgundy-purple petals and a yellow center

    $9.95/bareroot

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    Tetraploid daylily with flat and open burgundy-purple petals and a yellow center.   Blooms in July.

    Robert Koehne (April 1971-September 2014) Bob was a good personal friend and very enthusiastic gardener – perennially cheerful.  He loved his wife and two children and daylily breeding.  These daylilies are his “children” too.  He bred them, named them and registered them.  He died of colon cancer too soon – before he could grow grey with Darby or see his kids or his daylilies grow up.  We are growing on his daylilies.  This year we have only a few to sell but in time these will multiply, hopefully like rabbits. The proceeds go to his family.

    Tetraploid daylily with flat and open burgundy-purple petals and a yellow center.   Blooms in July.

  • Hemerocallis ‘Boozin Susan’ Bob’s daylily Z 4-10

    Deep orange petals with a hint of a ruffle and a yellow stripe leading down to a yellow center.

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    Tetraploid daylily  with deep orange petals with a hint of a ruffle and a yellow stripe leading down to a yellow center.  Blooms in July.

    Robert Koehne (April 1971-September 2014) Bob was a good personal friend and very enthusiastic gardener – perennially cheerful.  He loved his wife and two children and daylily breeding.  These daylilies are his “children” too.  He bred them, named them and registered them.  He died of colon cancer too soon – before he could grow grey with Darby or see his kids or his daylilies grow up.  We are growing on his daylilies.  This year we have only a few to sell but in time these will multiply, hopefully like rabbits. The proceeds go to his family.

    Tetraploid daylily  with deep orange petals with a hint of a ruffle and a yellow stripe leading down to a yellow center.  Blooms in July.

  • Hemerocallis ‘Florentine Opera’ Bob’s daylily Z 4-10

    Flat burgundy petals with a hint of ruffle leading to a yellow center

    $9.95/bareroot

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    Tetraploid daylily with flat burgundy petals with a hint of ruffle leading to a yellow center.  A yellow stripe makes its way about halfway out each petal.  Blooms in July.

    Robert Koehne (April 1971-September 2014) Bob was a good personal friend and very enthusiastic gardener – perennially cheerful.  He loved his wife and two children and daylily breeding.  These daylilies are his “children” too.  He bred them, named them and registered them.  He died of colon cancer too soon – before he could grow grey with Darby or see his kids or his daylilies grow up.  We are growing on his daylilies.  This year we have only a few to sell but in time these will multiply, hopefully like rabbits. The proceeds go to his family.

    Tetraploid daylily with flat burgundy petals with a hint of ruffle leading to a yellow center.  A yellow stripe makes its way about halfway out each petal.  Blooms in July.

  • Hemerocallis ‘Franklin Tower’ Bob’s daylily Z 4-10

    Slightly ruffled maroon petals with a bright yellow center

    $9.95/bareroot

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    Tetraploid daylily with slightly ruffled maroon petals with a bright yellow center.

    Robert Koehne (April 1971-September 2014) Bob was a good personal friend and very enthusiastic gardener – perennially cheerful.  He loved his wife and two children and daylily breeding.  These daylilies are his “children” too.  He bred them, named them and registered them.  He died of colon cancer too soon – before he could grow grey with Darby or see his kids or his daylilies grow up.  We are growing on his daylilies.  This year we have only a few to sell but in time these will multiply, hopefully like rabbits. The proceeds go to his family.

    Tetraploid daylily with slightly ruffled maroon petals with a bright yellow center.