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  • 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.

    $9.95/POT

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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

    $10.25/BAREROOT

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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.”  Likely sent from its native Virginia to England by Tradescant the Younger in 1637. Certainly collected by Frenchman Michaux, who scoured eastern North American over 11 years in late 1700’s.  Grown by Jefferson.  Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811.The 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.

  • Luzula nivea Snowy woodrush 5-8

    Very unusual & ornamental grass. Dense white flower clusters in June-July. Leaves are evergreen with hairy margins.  One of few grasses for shady areas.

    $10.95/bareroot

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    Very unusual & ornamental grass. Dense white flower clusters in June-July. Leaves are evergreen with hairy margins.  One of few grasses for shady areas.

    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)

  • Lycoris squamigera Surprise lily, Naked lady Z 5-9

    Strap-like leaves appear in April, then die back in summer.  In August a shoot appears seemingly out-of-no-where, topped with pale pink trumpets.  Flowers resemble Amaryllis.

    $12.75/bareroot

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    Strap-like leaves appear in April, then die back in summer. In August a shoot appears seemingly out-of-no-where, topped with pale pink trumpets. Flowers resemble Amaryllis

    Size: 18-24” x 6”
    Care: full sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
    Native: Japan

    Introduced to Western gardens from Japan in 1861 by Dr. George Rogers Hall (1820-1899), a physician who moved to Shanghai and became a trader, introducing several Japanese plants to the U.S.

  • Lysimachia clethroides Gooseneck loosestrife Z 3-8

    White racemes looking like a goose neck from mid to late summer, deadhead to rebloom

    $12.75/bareroot

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    White racemes looking like a goose neck from mid to late summer, deadhead to rebloom

    Size: 36" x spreads
    Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained humusy soil
    Native: China and Japan
    Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit

    Dioscorides (1st century A.D.) named Lysimachia after King Lysimachus of Thracia. This species collected before 1844.

  • Lysimachia nummularia ‘Aurea’ Creeping jenny Z 3-9

    Bright yellow flowers in summer, chartreuse foliage which is the reason to grow this.

    $9.25/pot

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    Bright yellow flowers in summer & chartreuse foliage which is the reason to grow this.

    Size: 2” x spreading
    Care: full sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Europe
    Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.

    Dioscorides (1st century A.D.) named Lysimachia after King Lysimachus of Thracia. By the 1590’s used as cure for wounds and whooping cough. Species listed in Gardeners Dictionary, 1768.  ‘Aurea’, H.H. Thomas 1915.  Breck (1851) called this “suitable for rockwork or hanging from a pot in a northern exposure.”  L.H. Bailey echoed this: “Very useful for rustic vases and baskets, also for carpeting ground in shady places.”