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Kniphofia caulescens Red hot poker, Regal torch lily Z 5-10
fat spikes of flowers open coral-red, turning pale lemon-yellow
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Evergreen perennial with short, stout stems bearing grass-like broad, grey-green leaves. Blooming July to August, fat spikes of flowers open coral-red, turning pale lemon-yellow
Size: 3’ x 2-3’
Care: sun in moist well-drained soil
Native: Lesotho South Africa
Wildlife Value: deer and rabbit resistant. Attracts hummingbirds
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit; Denver Botanic Garden Plant SelectIntroduced to gardens by Mr. T. Cooper about 1860. 1st described by French botanist Carrière in Revue Horticole in 1884
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Kniphofia triangularis Dwarf Red hot poker Z 5-8
From early to late summer, with dead-heading, vivid coral spikes, like a torch .
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In late summer and fall vivid coral spikes, like a torch.
Size: 2’ x 12-18”
Care: sun in moist to well-drained soil, Drought tolerant once established
Native: mountain grassland & moist areas in the Eastern Cape to the Northern province of South Africa.
Wildlife Value: resistant to deer & rabbits, feeds hummingbirds, bees and butterflies1st described in 1854 in Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum: Secumdum familias naturales v. 4 p. 551..
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Kniphofia uvaria Red hot poker, Torch lily Z 5-10
Vibrant red and yellow spikes of tube-shaped flowers
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Vibrant red and yellow spikes of tube-shaped flowers in early summer arise on leafless stems (called a scape) from a basal clump of strap-like leaves
Size: 2-3’ x 12-15”
Care: sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: South Africa
Wildlife Value: deer & rabbit resistant, attracts hummingbirdsIntroduced to English gardens c. 1700 and called Alöe uvaria then renamed by English botanist Wm. Jackson Hooker. The Gardeners Dictionary (1783): “The flowers are produced in close thick spikes, upon stalks near three feet high, They are of an Orange colour…” Illustrated in Curtis’ Botanical Garden 80 (1 Nov 1854).
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Koeleria glauca Blue hair grass Z 5-9
Erect spike-like panicles June thru August
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Erect spike-like panicles June thru August, poke above a neat mound of erect, blue grass blades.
Size: 16" x 12”
Care: Sun in well-drained soil
Native: Siberia & Central EuropeCollected before 1800.
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Koeleria macrantha syn. Koeleria cristata June grass
whitish spike-like panicles
Erect ivory spike-like panicles June thru August, poke above a neat mound of erect grass blades.
Size: 2' x 18"
Care: Sun in well drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: prairies of No. America, Wisconsin native.Koeleria named by Linnaeus for grass specialist and professor at Mainz, G.L. Koeler (1765-1806). Cheyenne Indians tied June grass to the heads of Sun Dancers to deter them from getting tired and made paint brushes from it. New Mexico’s Jemez Indians made brooms from tied blades. Isleta and Havasupai Indians ate ground seeds in bread and as mush. Liberty Hyde Bailey (1933) said: “Sometimes cultivated for lawn decoration in open dry ground.” Meriwether Lewis collected this at Camp Chopunnish in Idaho on June 10, 1806 while waiting for snow melt to safely cross the Bitterroots on the expedition’s way home.
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Kolkwitzia amabilis syn Linnaea amabilis Beautybush Z. 5-9 SHRUB
Profuse pale to dark pink bell flowers with yellow throats grace this arching shrub in early summer
Profuse pale to dark pink bell flowers with yellow throats grace this arching shrub in early summer
Size: 10’ x 12’
Care: Full sun in well-drained soil. Flowers on last season’s wood so prune just after blooms fade.
Native: ChinaNamed for Richard Kolkwitz, botany professor in Berlin. First introduced to the West by Ernest Henry “Chinese” Wilson who found it in the mountains near Ichang and sent its seeds to the Veitch Nursery in England in 1901. Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum received the shrub in 1907. It was one of Wilson’s favorite plants out of his hundreds of finds. Wilson wrote, “(a)mong the deciduous-leaved shrubs that central and western China has given to American gardens Kolkwitzia stands in the front rank.” Arnoldia 68/2.
**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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Lathyrus japonicus v. maritimus Beach pea Z 3-6
Magenta pea flowers June through August on its trailing stems. A legume, it puts nitrogen in the soil fertilizing plants growing nearby.
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Magenta pea flowers June through August on its trailing stems. A legume, it puts nitrogen in the soil fertilizing plants growing nearby.
Size: 18-24” tall but lays on ground, not upright
Care: sun in well-drained soil. Drought tolerant.
Native: all northern states from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Wisconsin native. (It seems strange that a variety of a plant native to Japan grows as a native in North America. The species, although named “Japonica” is circumpolar, native in the entire northern hemisphere.)
Wildlife Value: pollinated by bees, primarily bumblebeesIroquois cooked the stalks and leaves to remedy rheumatism. Taxonomic mess. First described and named in 1735 then another name in 1824, now changed again to its current name.
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Lathyrus vernus Spring vetchling, Spring pea, Spring vetch Z 4-9
Bushy plants bear showy, red-purple pea-like blooms age to rich purple in March-June. Ephemeral, dying back in August when you can cut it back. Spring gem.
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Bushy plants bear showy, red-purple pea-like blooms age to rich purple in March-June. Ephemeral, dying back in August when you can cut it back. Spring gem.
Size: 12” x 12”
Care: sun in north to shade in south, moist well-drained soil. Drought tolerant once established
Native: No. Europe - Siberia
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit, Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant PicksIntroduced to gardens before 1629. Parkinson called it “Blew Everlasting Pease.”
