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Lobelia siphilitica Great lobelia Z 4-9
A striking, erect spike of sky to blueberry-blue blossoms. On top club-shaped buds, below trumpet-shapes, 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.
A striking, erect spike of sky to blueberry-blue blossoms. On top club-shaped buds, below trumpet-shapes, 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 butterfliesLobelia is named for Matthias L’Obel (1538-1616) a French expatriate who emigrated to England and became physician to English King James I. Cherokee used the root to treat headaches, stomachaches, worms, nosebleeds, colds and syphilis. 1st collected by Rev. John Banister 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 Indians 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!) 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. Offered for sale in Bartram Garden’s 1783 Broadside, America’s 1st plant catalog.
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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” purpleThese 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.
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Lonicera x brownii ‘Dropmore Scarlet’ Dropmore Scarlet trumpet honeysuckle Z 2-8
Clusters of scarlet trumpets with orange throats repeat bloom July into fall.
OUT OF STOCK
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.
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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.
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 butterfliesOld-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.
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Lupinus perennis Sun-dial lupin, Old maid’s bonnet, wild pea Z. 4-9
Many flowered blue, pea flowered raceme May-June
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.
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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.
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, AlpsNamed 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)
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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.
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: JapanIntroduced 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.
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Lysimachia clethroides Gooseneck loosestrife Z 3-8
White racemes looking like a goose neck from mid to late summer, deadhead to rebloom
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 MeritDioscorides (1st century A.D.) named Lysimachia after King Lysimachus of Thracia. This species collected before 1844.
