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Papaver orientale Poppy Z 2-7
The classic poppy - papery tabasco petals with black blotch center in June. D.M. Ferry Catalog, 1876:"great beauty and magnificent.” It dies back in summer then the leaves reappear in fall.
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Available for purchase in Spring only
The classic poppy – papery tabasco petals with black blotch center in June. D.M. Ferry Catalog, 1876: ”great beauty and magnificent.” It dies back in summer then the leaves reappear in fall.
Size: 2-3’ x 2’
Care: Full sun in well-drained soil. Drought tolerant
Native: Caucasus
Wildlife Value: Deer resistant.Poppies have been grown since at least the time when Homer wrote the Illiad, in which he used the poppy’s hanging bud as a metaphor for a dying soldier. During World War I, Canadian soldier John McCrae again united the poppy with dying soldiers. He wrote “In Flanders’ Field.” French botanist Joseph Pitton Tournefort (1656-1708) discovered this in Armenia in 1714 and sent it to the Jardin du Roi. Tournefort wrote “the Turks eat the green heads of this Poppy, although they are very bitter and acrid.” In 1741 Englishman Peter Collinson sent seeds to John Bartram (1699-1777) who cultivated the plant in his Philadelphia nursery. Jefferson grew the oriental poppy at Monticello and Washington grew it at Mount Vernon.
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Papaver rupifragum Spanish poppy Z 5-9
Crinkled, crepe-paper like apricot petals all summer & fall except for a recess in the heat of mid-summer.
Crinkled, crepe-paper like apricot petals all summer & fall except for a recess in the heat of mid-summer
Size: 12-18" x 8"
Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil. Deer resistant, drought tolerant
Native: Spain, Asia Minor & CaucasusFirst described in Journal of Botany in 1873. Louise Beebe Wilder considered this among her favorite perennials. (1918). One of our favorites too! Gertrude Jekyll, mother of the mixed perennial border planted this for its “rich apricot color.” (1908).
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Parthenium integrifolium Wild Quinine Z 3-8
Frosty white blooms from July to September
Frosty white blooms from July to October, not especially showy but so reliable and sturdy, excellent. It’s a work horse.
Size: 2-4' x 18"
Care: Full sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil. Drought tolerant.
Native: Mass. to Georgia, west Minnesota to Arkansas, Wisconsin nativeSeeds fragrant when crushed. Named Quinine because it was used to treat fevers similar to malaria. Catawabe Indians used leaves to treat burns and flowers to treat fever.
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Parthenocissus quinquefolia Virginia creeper Z 3-9
Brilliant scarlet in autumn
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Spring leaves bronzy, turn green in summer and then brilliant scarlet in autumn, with contrasting blue berries with red stems.
Size: 50’ x 10'
Care: Either sun or shade in well-drained soil
Native: Eastern No. America
Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.Parthenocissus is Greek meaning “virgin ivy.” Cultivated in American gardens since 1700’s. Sent to England by English planthunter Tradescant the Younger in the 1640’s. Grown by Jefferson.
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Passiflora caerulea Blue passion flower Z 6-9
Exotic, large blossoms with an outer ruffle of petals and sepals
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Exotic, large blossoms with an outer ruffle of petals and sepals; an inner disc of concentric rings of blue, white and purple filaments; and a central “antenna.” From mid-summer through fall.
Size: 15’ x 4’
Care: sun in well-drained soil
Native: So. America
Wildlife Value: Host for several butterfly caterpillars
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of MeritSince at least 1753
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Passiflora incarnata Maypop Z. 5 (with protection)-9
Abundant, extremely showy lavender and white flowers all summer then egg size yellow fruit that you can eat. Most hardy of the passionflowers.
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Abundant, extremely showy lavender and white flowers all summer then egg size yellow fruit that you can eat. Most hardy of the passionflowers.
Size: 10-15’ x 18”
Care: sun in moist soil
Native: Eastern US
Wildlife Value: Attracts butterfliesCollected by Rev. John Banister who moved to colonial Virginia in 1678. A gunman mistakenly shot and killed him while he collected plants. Pressed specimen in Emily Dickinson’s herbarium. Dies back to ground in winter only to pop out of the ground in May, hence “Maypop.”
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Pennisetum orientale Oriental fountain grass Z 5-10
Showy, white to pinkish inflorescences summer thru fall.
Showy, white to pinkish inflorescences summer thru fall. Richard Darke, grass guru, describes this as “One of the most striking hardy fountain grasses. Low growing, compact and exceptionally floriferous … Blooms over an unusually long period from late June through October”
Size: 2' x 2'
Care: sun in well-drained soil or moist well-drained soil. Deer resistant and drought tolerant.
Native: central & SW Asia
Awards: Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant PicksThe plant is named for its soft inflorescences; Latin penna and seta mean feather-bristle. This species collected before 1821.
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Penstemon digitalis Foxglove beardtongue Z 2-8
Palest of pink tubular bells
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Palest of pink tubular bells in June – deadhead for rebloom. More vigorous and longer blooming than its well-known cultivar ‘Husker Red.’
Size: 24-48” x 18”
Care: sun or part shade in moist to moist, well-drained soil
Native: Maine to So. Dakota, south to Virginia and Texas and all in between, Wisconsin
Wildlife Value: host for caterpillar of Baltimore Checkerspot butterfly. Feeds several bees and hummingbirds pollen and nectar.Penstemon is named for its five stamens, penta meaning “five” in Greek. Used medicinally by the Dakota and Pawnee – to remedy chest pains, chills and fevers. P. digitalis first transported to Europe when the son of the royal Spanish gardener sent it to Kew in England, 1793.
