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  • Lobelia cardinalis Cardinal flower Z 3-9

    Ruby, cardinal red tubes with an upper lip split in half and a lower lip like a pixie’s apron encircle the spike up and down from August to October beckon hummingbirds to feed.

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    Ruby, cardinal red tubes with an upper lip split in half and a lower lip like a pixie’s apron encircle the spike up and down from August to October beckon hummingbirds to feed.

    Size: 3’ x 12”
    Care: sun to part shade in fertile, moist soil. Moist soil important
    Native: Canada to Texas, Wisconsin native.
    Wildlife Value: attracts hummingbirds
    Awards: Received England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit & Missouri Botanic Garden Plant of Merit.

    Lobelia is named for Matthias L’Obel (1538-1616) French expatriate who immigrated to England and became physician to King James I. Cherokee cured stomach aches, worms, pain, fever, nose bleeds, rheumatism, headaches, colds and croup with Lobelia.  They used the root to treat syphilis.  In 1749 Swedish botanist Peter Kalm wrote that Indians used five species of Lobelia to cure venereal disease, “an infallible art of curing it.” Other Natives and colonists used the plant to induce vomiting. At the end of a funeral, Meskwaki Indians threw the dried and pulverized plant into the grave.  Meskwaki also chopped the roots and secretly put it in the food of “a quarrelsome pair.”  Allegedly “this makes the pair love each other again.”  Tradescant the Younger (1608-1662) introduced this to European gardens when he sent it to England in 1637.  Offered for sale in Bartram Garden’s 1783 Broadside. Grown by Washington at Mount Vernon and Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. Pressed specimen in Emily Dickinson’s herbarium.

  • Lobelia siphilitica ‘Alba’ z 4-8

    Striking, erect spike of pure ivory blossoms opening from bottom up. On top club-shaped buds, below trumpet-shapes made of a tube flaring open at the ends with the top of the flare looking like a quarter moon with the circle at the bottom and the lower divided into three, each segment pointed at the ends. Its fresh white blooms stand out in late summer to early fall.

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    Striking, erect spike of pure ivory blossoms opening from bottom up. On top club-shaped buds, below trumpet-shapes made of a tube flaring open at the ends with the top of the flare looking like a quarter moon with the circle at the bottom and the lower divided into three, each segment pointed at the ends. Its fresh white blooms stand out in late summer to early fall.

    Size: 2-3’ x 1-2’
    Care: sun to part shade in moist or moist well-drained soil
    Wildlife Value: Deer resistant, attracts bees, hummingbirds and some butterflies.

    This white one is “An albino of occasional occurrence.” Britton, Nathaniel Lord “On the Naming of ‘Forms,’ in the New Jersey Catalogue” Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 17: 121,125. 1890. This may, therefore, be native in the same locations as the blue species or it may not.

  • Lobelia siphilitica Great lobelia Z 4-9

    A striking, erect spike of sky  to blueberry-blue blossoms. On top club-shaped buds, below trumpet-shaped, open flowers,  made of a tube flaring open with the bottom divided into three, each segment pointed at the ends. From late summer to early fall.

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    A striking, erect spike of sky to blueberry-blue blossoms. On top club-shaped buds, below trumpet-shaped, open flowers, made of a tube flaring open with the bottom divided into three, each segment pointed at the ends. From late summer to early fall.

    Size: 3' x 12"
    Care: Full sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Connecticut to Wyoming, south to Texas then east to Georgia and all states in between, Wisconsin native.
    Wildlife Value: attracts bumble bees, hummingbirds and some butterflies

    Lobelia is named for Matthias L’Obel (1538-1616) a French expatriate who emigrated to England and became physician to English King James I. Oneidas considered this good medicine for distemper. Sioux treated bloat, diarrhea and dysentery as well as a love charm by adding powdered root to the food of the intended.   Cherokee used the root to treat headaches, stomachaches, worms, nosebleeds, colds and syphilis.  1st collected by Rev. John Banister (1649-1692) who moved to colonial Virginia in 1678.  A gunman mistakenly shot and killed him while he collected plants.   In 1749 Swedish botanist Peter Kalm wrote that Natives used five species of Lobelia to cure venereal disease, having “an infallible art of curing it.”  According to John Bartram (1699-17760) “The learned Pehr Kalm (who gained the Knowledge of it from Colonel Johnson, who learned it of the Indians, who, after great Rewards bestowed on several of them, revealed the Secret to him) saith, That the Roots of this Plant cureth the Pox much more perfectly and easily than any mercurial Preparations, and is generally used by the Canada Indians, for the Cure of themselves.” (Better than mercury!) Offered for sale in Bartram Garden’s 1783 Broadside, America’s 1st plant catalog.

  • Long blooming Garden for sun

    Long Blooming Garden for sun.

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    Note: This collection is not currently for sale.  This is an archive page preserved for informational use.

    Long Blooming Garden for Sun                               Size : Height x width*          Bloom color
    3 Agastache foeniculum -Anise hyssop                                                2-3’ x 12”                         purple
    1 Callirhoe involucrata – Prairie poppy mallow                                  6” x 12-24”                      magenta
    3 Erodium manescavii – Heron’s bill                                                   12-18” x 8”                      magenta
    1 Papaver rupifragum – Spanish poppy                                               12-18” x 8”                      purple
    3 Rudbeckia triloba – Brown-eyed susan                                             3-4’ x 2-3’                        yellow
    3 Ruellia humilis – Prairie petunia                                                        8-10” x 10”                      purple
    1 Scabiosa ochroleuca- Cream pincushion flower                              24-30” x 18”                   white
    1 Teucrium hircanicum – Iranian germander                                     18” x 28”                         purple

    These BLOOM for two months or more.  All plants are perennials.
    If planted together in one garden these make a 24 square foot garden. *Most of these plants get wider over time by spreading roots or by self-seeding .
    16 plants for $159.80. Would be $188.00 if purchased separately. You save $28.20.
    If you plan on coming to the Nursery to purchase this collection, please give us at least 24 hours notice to prepare the collection for you.

  • Lonicera x brownii ‘Dropmore Scarlet’ Dropmore Scarlet trumpet honeysuckle Z 2-8

    Clusters of scarlet trumpets with orange throats repeat bloom July into fall.

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    Clusters of scarlet trumpets with orange throats bloom repeatedly from July into fall.

    Size: 10-12’ x 2-3’ fast growing
    Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil. Prune in early spring
    Wildlife Value: Hummingbirds love the red trumpet-shaped flowers. Tolerates walnut toxicity.

    Cross of L. sempervirens and L. hirsuta.  This long-blooming selection made by Dr. F.L. Skinner at Dropmore Manitoba. Introduced in 1950.

  • Lunaria annua Money plant, Honesty, Silver dollar Biennial Reseeds Z 5-10

    Mauve phlox-like blooms spring to early summer turn into silvery, translucent seedpods.

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    Mauve phlox-like blooms spring to early summer turn into silvery, translucent seedpods.

    LIMITED QUANTITIES AVAILABLE, LIMIT OF 1 PER CUSTOMER PLEASE.

     

    Size: 1'-3' x 1’
    Care: Full sun to part shade.
    Native: mountains of Italy
    Wildlife Value: attracts bees and butterflies

    Old-fashioned heirloom. Silver dollars are perfect for dried bouquets! Popular in winter flower arrangements since colonial times. Introduced to England from Germany in the late 1500’s and carried to America by the Puritans as a reminder of home.  Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811.

    **LISTED AS OUT OF STOCK BECAUSE WE DO NOT SHIP THIS ITEM.  IT IS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT OUR RETAIL LOCATION.

  • Lupinus perennis Sun-dial lupin, Old maid’s bonnet, wild pea Z. 4-9

    Many flowered blue, pea flowered raceme May-June

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    Many flowered blue, pea flowered raceme May-June

    Size: 1-2' x 12"
    Care: full sun in well drained soil. A legume, so it enriches the soil by adding nitrogen.
    Native: Maine to FL, Ontario to MN to Louisiana, Wisconsin native.
    Wildlife Value: Attracts both hummingbirds and butterflies. The only food for larvae of endangered species, Karner Blue butterfly.

    Lupinus is Latin from Lupus meaning “wolf.” Cherokee used this to stop bleeding.  The Menominee fattened their horses with this Lupin and made them spirited.  They rubbed the plant on themselves to give power to control the horses. Likely sent from its native Virginia to England by Tradescant the Younger in 1637. Collected by André Michaux(1746-1802)  in late 1700’s.  Grown by Jefferson.  Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811.

  • Luzula nivea Snowy woodrush 5-8

    Very unusual & ornamental grass. Dense Bone-white flower clusters in June-July. Evergreen leaves with hairy margins.

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    Very unusual & ornamental grass. Dense Bone-white flower clusters in June-July. Evergreen leaves with hairy margins.

    Size: 24” x 24”
    Care: part shade to shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil.
    Native: Central and southern Europe, Alps

    Named by Linnaeus in 1753.  Genus name Latin meaning “light.”  Nivea means “snow white.”  According to Liberty Hyde Bailey the flowers are “useful in dried bouquets.”(1933)