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  • Persicaria polymorpha syn.Persicaria alpina, Koenigia alpina Giant fleeceflower Z 4-9

    Giant white blizzard of plumes June-September tower atop its 5-6’ stems

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    Giant white blizzard of plumes June-September tower atop its 5-6’ stems

    Size: 5' x 5' (big but not invasive)
    Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: China, Korean peninsula & Himalayas
    Wildlife Value: Deer and rabbit resistant
    Awards: Great Plant Pick Award from Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden. Rated “Excellent” by Chicago Botanic Garden

    One of the hot “new” plants promoted by landscape designer Wolfgang Oehme.  In fact, this plant was collected before 1872 (it flowered in London in 1872, per The Garden) and was described more than 120 years ago by premier Japanese botanist Takenoshin Nakai (1882-1952.)  Nakai, professor, author, scholar and appointed official botanist for Korea in 1910 after Japan annexed Korea following the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars. There he explored botanically unknown mountains and forests introducing its plants to the world through his international contacts and authoring Flora Koreana. (1909-1910)

  • Petrophytum caespitosum Mat rock Spiraea Z 4-9

    Tight cushions bearing white spikes August-September.

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    Tight cushions bearing white spikes August-September. Its roots penetrate rock crevices and cracks

    Size: 4” x 4-6’
    Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil. Drought tolerant. Do not allow leaf litter to cover it.
    Native: Sierras to Rocky Mountains

    Collected by premier plant hunter Thomas Nuttall 1834-1837 on his exploration across the continent to the Pacific “on high shelving rocks in the Rocky Mountains, towards the sources of the Platte.”

  • Philadelphus lewisii Lewis’ Mock Orange Z 4-9

    A triple delight. From late spring to early summer clusters of 2” wide, four-petaled, snow-white flowers with a center boss of sunny stamens smother this vase-shaped shrub. The flowers perfume the air with a delicious, orange scent. Then in fall the foliage turns citrus-yellow. Idaho adopted this as the state flower.

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    $16.95/pot

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    A triple delight. From late spring to early summer clusters of 2” wide, four-petaled, snow-white flowers with a center boss of sunny stamens smother this vase-shaped shrub. The flowers perfume the air with a delicious, orange scent. Then in fall the foliage turns citrus-yellow.  Idaho adopted this as the state flower.

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    Size: 5-10’ x 5-7’
    Care: sun to part-shade in moist to well-drained soil
    Native: from British Columbia to California, east to Montana.
    Wildlife Value: Nectar and pollen attract bumble bees, moths, butterflies and hoverflies. It hosts caterpillars and chrysalises. Many birds eat the seeds.

    Natives used its strong and hard wood to make arrows, bows, combs, pipes for smoking, snowshoes, clubs, armor to protect chests, fishing spears, harpoon shafts, sticks for digging, knitting needles and baskets. Meriwether Lewis collected this plant in two places, in early May 1806 in Nez Perce County Idaho and two months later in Missoula County, Montana.

  • Philadelphus microphyllus syn. Philadelphus occidentalis Littleleaf mockorange, Western Mock Orange    Z. 4-9

    Four swan-white, undulating-edged petals on each flower circle around canary-colored stamens in early summer. Its flowers give off a strong fragrance of oranges with a hint of pineapple blooming from its multi-branch ends of these variable shrubs with yellow foliage in fall.

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    Four swan-white, undulating-edged petals on each flower circle around canary-colored stamens in early summer. Its flowers give off a strong fragrance of oranges with a hint of pineapple blooming from its multi-branch ends of these variable shrubs with yellow foliage in fall.

    Size: 3-8’x 3-5’ big variations in size 
    Care: Sun in well-drained soil, drought tolerant  
    Native: West and southwest: CA, AZ, CO, NM, TX & UT

    Isleta Pueblo Indians ate the berries.  Sanders, The Flower Garden (1913): “Forms a dense bush, 3 ft. high …flowers in summer, a pretty kind.  A native of Colorado.”

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  • Phlomis tuberosa syn. Phlomoides tuberosa Jerusalem sage Z 5-8

    Whorls of bubblegum pink, beak-shaped flowers encircle the stem in July.

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    Whorls of bubblegum pink, beak-shaped flowers encircle the stem in July. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)

    Size: 4' x 12"
    Care: Sun well-drained soil
    Native: central and S.E. Europe to central Asia.
    Wildlife Value: attracts butterflies, deer resistant.
    Awards: Chicago Botanic Garden rates this 4-stars for health, robust growth, hardiness and flower production.

    In garden of English plant enthusiast Peter Collinson, 1736. The name Phlomis is Greek meaning “to burn” “because in old time the peasants used to burn these plants to enlighten their chambers.” Gardeners Dictionary, 1768.  This species 1st collected for description and naming in Siberia in 1759.

  • Phlox buckleyi Sword leaf Phlox Z 4-8

    Sprays of mauve, pink or purple in May-June

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    Sprays of mauve, pink or purple in May-June

    Size: 8- 18” x 12”
    Care: sun to part shade in any soil
    Native: Virginia & West Virginia

    Described and named by Edgar Theodore Wherry (1885-1982), unflagging naturalist in the finest tradition of wide interests in the natural world.  After getting his Ph.D in 1909 in geology-mineralogy he became Asst. Curator of Minerals for the Smithsonian.  In 8 years he transferred to the USDA Bureau of Chemistry, becoming its principal chemist.  He left in 1930 to accept an appointment as botany professor at U. Penn., where he taught botany and ecology for 25 years.

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  • Phlox carolina ‘Miss Lingard’ Wedding phlox Z 5-8

    bridal white blossoms with pink eyes

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    True to its common name, this 3′ tall selection bears bridal white blossoms with pink eyes from June into August

    Size: 4' x 18"
    Care: full sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil, resistant to powdery mildew
    Native: Cultivar of native in eastern and central U.S.
    Wildlife Value: attracts butterflies and hummingbirds

    Phlox is Greek meaning “flame.” The species carolina in gardens before 1889 and cultivar ‘Miss Lingard’ before 1905.

  • Phlox divaricata Wild sweet William Z 3-8

    Bright lavender flowers, tubes with flat lobes, welcome spring. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)

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    Bright lavender flowers, tubes with flat lobes, welcome spring. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)

    Size: 12" x 10"
    Care: part shade in moist, well-drained soil.
    Native: Quebec to Wisconsin south to North Carolina & Alabama
    Wildlife Value: attracts hummingbirds
    Awards: Received England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.

    Phlox is Greek meaning “flame.” 1st introduced to gardens by Quaker explorer and nurseryman John Bartram (1699-1777) around 1746. Recommended by Gertrude Jekyll, mother of mixed perennial borders, in 1908.