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Potentilla nepalensis Nepal cinquefoil Z 5-9
Five-petal, open pink saucers with raspberry centers, blossom in small clusters atop leafless stems, above the clump of ground-hugging foliage. blooming in summer. “A fine species,” Liberty Hyde Bailey 1933.
Five-petal, open pink saucers with raspberry centers, blossom in small clusters atop leafless stems, above the clump of ground-hugging foliage. blooming in summer. “A fine species,” Liberty Hyde Bailey 1933.
Size: 1-2' x 12-18"
Care: sun in moist well-drained soil to well-drained soil
Native: Himalayan mountains1st described in 1822 in Exotic Flora, Vol. 2 p. 88, William Jackson Hooker. It flowered at the botanic garden in Edinburgh in 1823.
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Potentilla porphyrantha Z 3-8
Bun of gray-green foliage sets off 7-petal pink blooms, medium pink in the center fading to light pink on the ends, surrounding a boss of stamens. Blooms in spring. One of our favorites.
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Bun of gray-green foliage sets off 7-petal pink blooms, medium pink in the center fading to light pink on the ends, surrounding a boss of stamens. Blooms in spring. One of our favorites.
Size: 6” x 15”
Care: sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: Caucasus Mountains in Armenia1st described for botany in 1940. Seems to be controversy among taxonomists about the plant’s name. Regardless, both the foliage and flowers make a beautiful little plant.
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Potentilla rupestris syn. Drymocallis rupestris Rock cinquefoil, Siberian tea Z 5-8
White, single rose-like saucer flowers with prominent yellow stamens flowering atop leafless stems. Blooms in early summer.
White, single rose-like saucer flowers with prominent yellow stamens flowering atop leafless stems. Blooms in early summer.
Size: 10-20" x 12"
Care: sun to part shade in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: Europe, Asia & mountains of western No. AmericaPotentilla is Latin meaning “powerful” referring to medicinal properties. Rupestris means “rock loving.” This species 1st identified in literature in 1650. Russians used the leaves to brew tea.
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Potentilla thurberi Scarlet cinquefoil Z 5-9
Loose clusters of Cabernet-red saucers blooming atop tall stems, elevating the small saucer-like flowers to make them more visible. Blooms from June to September.
Loose clusters of Cabernet-red saucers blooming atop tall stems, elevating the small saucer-like flowers to make them more visible. Blooms from June to September.
Size: 30" x 12"
Care: full sun in well-drained soil
Native: Arizona & New MexicoPotentilla is Latin meaning powerful referring to medicinal properties. This species collected before 1880’s.
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Potentilla tridentata syn. Sibbaldiopsis tridentate Three-toothed cinquefoil Z 2-7
Clusters of white, single rose-like saucer flowers spring and early summer on this dainty-appearing perennial. Its glossy evergreen leaves tinge red in fall and winter.
Clusters of white, single rose-like saucer flowers spring and early summer on this dainty-appearing perennial. Its glossy evergreen leaves tinge red in fall and winter.
Size: 6" x 12" spreading by runners-can become a groundcover.
Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained acidic soil.
Native: New England to Upper Great Lakes, north to the Arctic, Appalachian Mountains of Georgia, Wisconsin native.
Awards: Cary Award Distinctive Plants for New EnglandDescribed by Kew’ Botanic Garden’s 1st botanist William Aiton (1731-1793) Hortus Kewensis vol 2 p. 216 (1789), who wrote that it came from Benjamin Bewick’s “curious botanic garden” in Clapham. Introduced it in 1776.
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Potentilla x tonguei Staghorn cinquefoil Z. 5-8
Apricot-yellow flowers with red centers bloom June-September
Apricot-yellow flowers with red centers bloom June-September.
Size: 6” x 12”
Care: Sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.This is a cross of P. anglica and P. nepalensis which took place naturally in a garden. This Cinquefoil has been in gardens since at least 1839. Potentilla is Latin meaning “powerful” referring to historic medicinal properties since Hippocrates. We love its long, colorful blooms and neat habit.
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Prairie Garden
Prairie Garden
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Note: This collection is not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.
Prairie Garden Size : Height x width* Bloom color
3 Agastache foeniculum – Anise hyssop 2-3’ x 12” purple
3 Allium cernuum – Prairie onion 12”-18”x 3-6” pink
1 Aster cordifolius – Blue wood aster 2-3’ x 2-3’ blue
3 Bouteloua gracilis – Blue grama 2’ x 12” purple tinge
1 Desmanthus illinoensis – Prairie mimosa 4’ x 3’ white
1 Eryngium yuccifolium – Rattlesnake master 48” x 18” white
1 Eupatorium sessilifolium – Upland boneset 3-4’ x 12-24” white
1 Euphorbia corollata – Flowering spurge 36”x 18” white
3 Geum triflorum – Prairie smoke 12”x 8” pink
1 Hystrix patula – Bottlebrush grass 2-3’ x 12-18” purple/green
1 Monarda fistulosa – Beebalm 3-4’ x 2’ purple
1 Parthenium integrifolium – Wild quinine 2-3’x 12” white
1 Solidago riddellii – Riddell’s goldenrod 3’ x 2’ yellow
3 Sporobolis heterolepsis – Prairie dropseed 2’ x 2’ orange-copper
All plants are perennials.
If planted together in one garden these make a 32 square foot garden. *Most of these plants get wider over time by spreading roots or by self-seeding .
24 plants for $213.47. Would be $251.15 if purchased separately. You save $37.67.
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. -
Primula beesiana Candelabra primrose, Bee’s primrose Z 4-8
From 2-8 stems, each bearing a whorl of a dozen or so small, fuchsia-pink flowers encircling each leafless stem like a ballerina’s tutu,, then alternating with a leafless stem, the another whorl of flowers then another section of leafless stem in tiers, Each whorl blooms in succession from the bottom up.
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From 2-8 stems, each bearing a whorl of a dozen or so small, fuchsia-pink flowers encircling each leafless stem like a ballerina’s tutu,, then alternating with a leafless stem, the another whorl of flowers then another section of leafless stem in tiers, Each whorl blooms in succession from the bottom up.
Size: 1’ x 1’
Care: part shade in moist or moist well-drained soil in neutral to acidic pH
Native: Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in SW China and Myranmar
Wildlife Value: attracts butterflies, bees and other pollinators
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden MeritPrimula means “first spring” in Italian. The common name “Bee’s” is not for the insect; it’s for the nursery that grew them on and sold them and funded Scottish collector George Forrest’s trip to China to hunt for plants. Forrest collected this around 1910. Naturalist Arthur Bulley (1861-1942) owned that nursery, Bees Ltd.
