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  • Hibiscus syriacus Rose of Sharon Z 5-9

    Bodacious blooms of white and magenta July to September

    $18.95/ONLY AVAILABLE ON SITE @ NURSERY

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    Bodacious blooms of white and magenta July to September

    Can not ship to: Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Virginia and West Virginia

    Size: 8-10’ x 6-8’
    Care: sun to part shade in most any soil.
    Native: China and India
    Wildlife Value: pollinated by hummingbirds, bees and butterflies

    Grown in the Eichstätt Garden, the garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria, c. 1600.   Grown by Tradescant the Elder in England – 1634. Chinese used the flowers and leaves to make tea.  George Washington planted these near the serpentine bowling alley at Mount Vernon. Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811.

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  • Holodiscus discolor Creambush, Ocean spray Z 5-10

    Multistemmed shrub with dense, elegant pyramidal clusters of arching cream-colored flowers in early to mid summer. Leaves tint red in fall.

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    Multi-stemmed shrub with dense, elegant pyramidal clusters of arching cream-colored flowers in early to mid-summer. Leaves tint red in fall.

    Size: 4-8’ x 8’
    Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Montana to Colorado west to the Pacific.
    Wildlife Value: nectar for hummingbirds, food for butterfly caterpillars, bird habitat.

    Hard and durable wood was used to make digging sticks, spears, harpoon shafts, bows, and arrows by nearly all coastal Native groups. A few used the wood to make sticks to barbeque salmon, fish hooks, needles for weaving and knitting, Pegs were made to use like nails. Others made wood intoarmor plating and canoe paddles.
    A few Natives made an infusion of boiled fruit to cure diarrhea, measles, chickenpox and as a blood tonic.  Collected by Meriwether Lewis in today’s Idaho on the Clearwater River, May 29, 1806 en route back east on  the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

  • Horminum pyrenaicum   Dragonmouth, Pyrenean Dead-nettle   Z 5-9

    Deep purple salvia-like blooms in April to May above rosettes of wide, flat leaves

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    Deep purple salvia-like blooms late spring to early summer above rosettes of wide, flat leaves

     

     

    Size: 8-16” x 12” 
    Care: Sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil.  Drought tolerant.
    Native: Pyrenees & Alps
    Wildlife Value: Attracts bees, butterflies and birds. Deer and rabbit resistant.

    Before 1753, Linnaeus.

  • Hosta ‘Blue Cadet’

    Lavender flowers late in season

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    Lavender flowers late in season

    Size: 35-40” x 36”
    Care: part to full shade in moist well-drained soil
    Awards: Nancy Minks Award in 1986

    Hosta was named for Dr. Nicholas Host (1761 – 1834) the physician to the emperor of Austria and an expert on grasses. This cultivar ranked as one of the top 7 hostas and one of the top 2 hostas with blue foliage. Hybridized by Aden in 1974.

  • Hosta ‘fortunei ‘Aureomarginata’ Z 3-9

    One of the most popular Hosta varieties.  Handsome, broad, ribbed, wavy, green foliage with yellow margins.  Lavender, trumpet-shaped flowers rise on scapes above the leaves in summer.

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    One of the most popular Hosta varieties.  Handsome, broad, ribbed, wavy, green foliage with yellow margins.  Lavender, trumpet-shaped flowers rise on scapes above the leaves in summer.

    Size: 12-16” x 18-24” 
    Care: shade to part-shade in moist well-drained soil.  Tolerant Black walnut toxins

    Hosta named for Austrian botanist Nicholas Thomas Host (1761-1834) in 1812. This variety registered in 1987.

  • Hosta lancifolia Lanceleaf Hosta Z 3-8

    Lavender flowers in late summer to early autumn

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    Lavender flowers in late summer to early autumn

    Size: 18" x 30"
    Care: sun to shade in moist well-drained soil.
    Native: Japan
    Wildlife Value: attracts hummingbirds

    Japanese called Hostas Giboshi and ate young leaves in spring as a vegetable. Hosta was named for Dr. Nicholas Host (1761-1834) the physician to the emperor of Austria. Hostas, cultivated since at least the 12th century in Asia, were first described for Europeans by Englebert Kaempfer in 1712, doctor for the Dutch East Indian Company on Dechima Island. . He taught Japanese interpreters astronomy and math and plied them with liquor in exchange for plants.  H. lancifolia drawings date to 1690.  Cultivated in the U.S. since the late 1800’s.

  • Hosta nigrescens Black hosta, Kuro-Giboshi in Japan Z 3-8

    Lavender blooms in August-September up to 6’ tall; nearly 3’ tall vase-shaped mound of thick, cupped foliage. Resists slugs.

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    Lavender blooms in August-September up to 6’ tall; nearly 3’ tall vase-shaped mound of thick, cupped foliage. Resists slugs.

    Size: 32” (flowers to 6’) x 74”
    Care: sun to shade in moist soil
    Native: fertile soil in valleys and forest margins in central and north Japan

    Widely grown in Japanese temple gardens. Young leaves were eaten in Japan to ward off famine.

    Cultivated long before it was given a botanical name by Maekawa (1937/1940). The Japanese name Kuro Gibōshi translates to “black hosta.” This name dates to the floral work of Yokusai Iinuma (1910). Not actually black, but very dark-green and covered with a light gray, powdery coating initially, the leaves lose the gray covering and become very dark, polished green. The species name nigrescens also describes the dark coloring.

  • Hosta plantaginea ‘Grandiflora’ syn. H. plantaginea var. japonica, Funkia grandiflora Z 3-9

    Fragrant white trumpets in late summer and early autumn

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    Fragrant white trumpets in late summer and early autumn

    Size: 24” x 36”
    Care: part sun, moist well-drained soil
    Native: China
    Wildlife Value: attracts hummingbirds
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.

    Hosta was named for Dr. Nicholas Host (1761 – 1834) physician to the emperor of Austria and expert on grasses.  H. plantaginea was a popular Chinese plant as long ago as the Han Dynasty (202 B.C. – 220 A.D.)  Chinese used an ointment made from H. plantaginea to reduce inflammation and fever.  M. de Guines introduced H. plantaginea to Europe when he sent it to the king of France in 1789. Gertrude Jekyll, (1848-1931) mother of the mixed perennial border, recommended H. plantaginea ‘Grandiflora’ to keep border gardens looking “full and beautiful.”