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Hystrix patula syn. Elymus hystris var. hystris Bottle brush grass Z 5-9
June thru fall bears 6” long spikes looking like bottle brushes
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June thru fall bears 6” long spikes looking like bottle brushes.
Size: 2-3’ x 12-18”
Care: sun to part shade in dry to moist well-drained soil - tolerates dry shade
Native: Nova Scotia S to Virginia, W to ND and OK. Wisconsin native
Wildlife Value: Birds eat seedsHystrix from the Greek (‘hedgehog’) meaning “with spikes” or “bristly” describing the flowers and patula means “spreading.” Collected before 1794. In 1913 L H Bailey wrote, “sometimes used for lawn decoration and for borders.”
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Iberis sempervirens Candytuft Z 5-9
Profuse clusters of small, pure white flowers, each flower made of multiple small petals blooming in April and May on this evergreen subshrub.
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Profuse clusters of small, pure white flowers, each flower made of multiple small petals blooming in April and May on this evergreen subshrub.
Size: 6-12” x 24”
Care: Sun in moist well-drained soil
Native: Southern Europe
Wildlife Value: nectar source for gray hairstreak butterfly
Awards: England's Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.Iberis is Latin for Spain, “Iberia” the country where the plant was first discovered. The common name “Candytuft” comes from Candia, Crete where the plant grew. In 1623 English herbalist, John Parkinson (1567-1650) included the Candytuft in his Garden of Pleasant Flowers saying it: “is not so sharpe biting in taste…and therefore is not to be used in medicines.”
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Ilex decidua Possumhaw, Yaupon, Meadow holly Z 5-9
The beauty is in the berries, orange-red berries ripen in September and persist throughout the winter to dazzle the landscape, until mid-March when new growth begins on this small, deciduous tree.
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.
The beauty is in the berries, orange-red berries ripen in September and persist throughout the winter to dazzle the landscape, until mid-March when new growth begins on this small, deciduous tree.
Size: 10-15’ x 10-15’
Care: sun to part-shade in acidic, moist to moist well-drained soil, OK in clay
Native: SE & Central US
Wildlife Value: The fruit attracts birds, deer and some small mammals, including opossums, but is poisonous to people.
Awards: Oklahoma Proven 2001Described in literature in 1788.
Dave’s Garden: The origin of common name holly dates back to the 11th century, where the German word hulis and Old English term holegn both refer to holly. Then as now, the Gaelic term for holly is cuileann.**LISTED AS OUT OF STOCK BECAUSE WE DO NOT SHIP THIS ITEM. IT IS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT OUR RETAIL LOCATION.
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Ilex verticillata Winterberry holly Z 3-9 FEMALE
White flowers in May turning to dense clusters of lurid red berries lasting from fall into winter on female plants. One male needed to fertilize 3 or 4 4 female plants. Female plants have a plump round ovary at the center and vestigial stamens – sticks up; male flowers have a greatly reduced and lower center-and prominent stamens with ample pollen.
White flowers in May turning to dense clusters of lurid red berries lasting from fall into winter on female plants. One male needed to fertilize 3 or 4 4 female plants. Female plants have a plump round ovary at the center and vestigial stamens – sticks up; male flowers have a greatly reduced and lower center-and prominent stamens with ample pollen.
Size: 6-16’ x 6-10’
Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained, acidic soil
Native: Canada to FL, West to WI and MO. Wisconsin native
Wildlife Value: Berries are important winter food for Robin, Bluejay, Catbird, Cedar waxwing, Chickadee, Finch, Flicker, Mockingbird, Mourning dove, Nuthatch, Sparrow, Tanager, Thrasher, Towhee, Warbler, Woodpecker.Natives Americans used bark to induce vomiting, to remedy craziness and a decoction of roots to cure hay fever. Ojibwa used roots as remedy for diarrhea. Collected before 1753 by John Bartram (1699-1776) who called it “Prinos.” Jefferson described the Winterberry in Virginia, “the swamps in this neighborhood are now red with this berry… (it is) peculiar to America and is a real treasure.” Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811. L H Bailey (1933) called it, “one of the best hardy shrubs with ornamental fruits.”
Require a male and female plant for cross pollination. This is the female plant that will produce the berries. Generally, only 1 male shrub should be needed to pollinate 3-4 female shrubs.
**LISTED AS OUT OF STOCK BECAUSE WE DO NOT SHIP THIS ITEM. IT IS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT OUR RETAIL LOCATION.
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Ilex verticillata Winterberry holly Z 3-9 MALE
White flowers in May turning to dense clusters of lurid red berries lasting from fall into winter on female plants. One male needed to fertilize 3 or 4 4 female plants. Female plants have a plump round ovary at the center and vestigial stamens – sticks up; male flowers have a greatly reduced and lower center-and prominent stamens with ample pollen.
White flowers in May turning to dense clusters of lurid red berries lasting from fall into winter on female plants. One male needed to fertilize 3 or 4 4 female plants. Female plants have a plump round ovary at the center and vestigial stamens – sticks up; male flowers have a greatly reduced and lower center-and prominent stamens with ample pollen.
Size: 6-16’ x 6-10’
Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained, acidic soil
Native: Canada to FL, West to Wisconsin and MO.
Wildlife Value: Berries are important winter food for Robin, Bluejay, Catbird, Cedar waxwing, Chickadee, Finch, Flicker, Mockingbird, Mourning dove, Nuthatch, Sparrow, Tanager, Thrasher, Towhee, Warbler, Woodpecker.Natives Americans used bark to induce vomiting, to remedy craziness and a decoction of roots to cure hay fever. Ojibwa used roots as remedy for diarrhea. Collected before 1753 by John Bartram (1699-1776) who called it “Prinos.” Jefferson described the Winterberry in Virginia, “the swamps in this neighborhood are now red with this berry… (it is) peculiar to America and is a real treasure.” Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811. L H Bailey (1933) called it, “one of the best hardy shrubs with ornamental fruits.”
Require a male and female plant for cross pollination. This is the female plant that will produce the berries. Generally, only 1 male shrub should be needed to pollinate 3-4 female shrubs
**LISTED AS OUT OF STOCK BECAUSE WE DO NOT SHIP THIS ITEM. IT IS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT OUR RETAIL LOCATION.
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Iliamna remota Kankakee mallow Z 4-7
Cup-shaped, 5 petaled, shell pink flowers along the 4-6’ tall stems, blooming much of the summer.
Cup-shaped, 5 petaled, shell pink flowers along the 4-6’ tall stems, blooming much of the summer.
Size: 4-5' x 18"
Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Endemic to Langham Island in Kankakee River, Illinois.Collected by Rev. E.J. Hill, minister and teacher, on June 29, 1872. Botanist Edward Lee Greene (1843-1915) described and named it. In Leaflets of Botanical Observation and Criticism Greene wrote that he collected this on Langham Island in August 1, 1899 after Rev. E.J. Hill “brought this plant to knowledge.” Vol 1, 1905 pp. 206-207. http://www.botanicus.org/page/396332. Later, invasive plants threatened this plant with extinction by crowding it. After years of work the Friends of Langham Island rescued this special plant.
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Imperata cylindrica ‘Rubra’ Japanese blood grass Z 4-9
Green grass blades tinged with red turn blood red in late summer.
Green grass blades tinged with red turn blood red in late summer.
Can not ship to: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah & West Virginia
Size: 16-20" x 12" gradually spreading
Care: sun to light shade in moist well-drained soil.
Native: Japan
Wildlife Value: resistant to deer and rabbitsCultivated in Japanese gardens since 1800’s. 1st published description in 1812. Introduced to the U.S. in 1911 near Mobile Alabama as packing material in a shipment of plants from Japan and into Mississippi as a forage crop from the Philippines before 1920.
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Ipomopsis aggregata Standing cypress, Skyrocket, Scarlet gilia Z 4-11 Reseeding biennial
Many attention-grabbing, cardinal red trumpets on a leafless spike in summer-fall gardens
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Many attention-grabbing, cardinal red trumpets on a leafless spike in summer-fall gardens
Size: 3-5’ x 12”
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: west from ND, south to TX to the Pacific Ocean, also western Canada
Wildlife Value: attracts bees, Swallowtail butterflies and flocks of hummingbirds. Deer resistant.Hopi made it into decorations and dye. Klamath children sucked its nectar from the flowers. Navajo remedied many ailments with this – spider bites. stomach ailments by induce purging. And they grew it for its beauty. Canada’s Salish washed their face, hair, and eyes with this. Shoshone remedied pains of rheumatism by crushing the plants and applying it to the aches. Also a remedy sexually transmitted diseases, itches, tonic for blood and induce vomiting,
Collected by Meriwether Lewis on the Lolo Trail crossing the Bitterroot Range of the Rockies, June 26 1806. Named and described initially by Frederick Pursh in Flora Americae Septronalis Vol1 p. 147 (1813) from the plant collected by Lewis on the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
