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  • Sedum spurium ‘Dragon’s Blood’ syn. Phedimus spurius ‘Dragon’s Blood’ Caucasian stonecrop Z 4-9

    Mat-forming evergreen. In spring red encircle its fleshy, green, round leaves. In summer leaves turn bronze and in fall deep burgundy. Small, bright pink, star-shaped flowers.

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    Mat-forming evergreen. In spring red encircle its fleshy, green, round leaves. In summer leaves turn bronze and in fall deep burgundy. Small, bright pink, star-shaped flowers.

    Size: 4-6" x spreading 12-18"
    Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Caucasus Mountains
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit; Great Plant Pick

    Franklin Gardens in Big Springs Arkansas sold this in 1948 for 50 cents calling it “a new sedum. . . “Called “a new Sedum that will surely become popular” New and Noteworthy Hardy Plants Spring Flor-Acres’ Perennials 1950 p. 13

  • Selinum wallichianum syn. S. tenuifolium Milk parsley Z 6-10

    All summer filigree of lacy, fern-like foliage then in late summer -fall white domes, 8” across, each dome made of multiple balls atop purple-red stems.

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    “Queen of umbellifers,” EA Bowles. All summer filigree of lacy, fern-like foliage then in late summer -fall white domes, 8” across, each dome made of multiple balls atop purple-red stems.

    Size: 3-5’ x 3’
    Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
    Native: Himalayas
    Wildlife Value: butterfly magnet
    Awards: recipient of the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit

    Originally named Cortia lindeyi in 1830 Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 4: 186. Named for Dutch physician and botanist Nathanial Wallich (1786-1854). Rural Himalayan residents use this for spice, incense and fodder.

  • Semiaquilegia ecalcarata Spurless columbine, Z 5-9

    Dainty dusty plum-pink columbine-like blossoms, without the tail, dangle above divided lobed foliage in May-June.

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    Dainty dusty plum-pink columbine-like blossoms, without the tail, dangle above divided lobed foliage in May-June.

    Size: 6-10” x 8”
    Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil
    Native: open woods and slopes in central China & Tibet
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit

    Collected before 1891. Named “Wu ju lou dou cai” in Chinese.

  • Sempervivum tectorum Hens and chicks Z 3-10

    Rosettes of succulent leaves

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    Rosettes of succulent leaves

    Size: 4” x 4”
    Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Alps & Pyrenees Mountains

    Grown in gardens for thousands of years.  Sempervivum means “live forever.”  Romans planted Hens and chicks on their roofs to ward off lightening.  As a succulent it holds water and is probably more difficult to catch fire.  “This practice was preserved for historians when Charlemagne (720-814), first Holy Roman Emperor and unifier of a large part of northern Europe, ordered that all villagers within his crown lands plant houseleeks on their roofs He decreed: “Et ille hortulanus habeat super domum suam Iovis barbam. (And the gardener shall have house-leeks growing on his house. Capitulare de villis, about 795,  LXX.)”

  • Senna hebecarpa syn. Cassia hebecarpa Wild senna Z 3-8

    Six inch long taxicab yellow flower clusters along the stem in July – August

    $13.25/bareroot

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    Six inch long taxicab yellow flower clusters along the stem in July – August

    Size: 4’ x 2-6’
    Care: full sun in moist well-drained soil
    Native: all North America east of Mississippi River from Hudson Bay south to Georgia and Tennessee, Wisconsin native
    Wildlife Value: attracts bumble bees and wasps. A legume – it adds nitrogen to the soil

    Collected by 1753.

  • Seseli gummiferum  Moon carrot  Z 5-9 self-seeding biennial or short-lived perennial.

    Five-inch diameter mound of many circles of pale pink to white flowers atop silvery, frilly, fern-like foliage flowering in mid-summer into early fall.

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    Five inch diameter mound of many circles of pale pink to white flowers atop  silvery, frilly, fern-like foliage flowering in mid-summer into early fall.

    Size: 2-3’ x 12-18”
    Care: Sun to part-shade in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Crimea, Turkey and South Aegean
    Wildlife Value: Deer resistant.  Butterfly magnet; host for caterpillar of Eastern swallowtail butterfly.

    Seseli is an ancient Greek name of an umbelliferous plant. This species first described by Linnaeus in 1735.  Re classified and renamed in 1830 in Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis, sive, Enumeratio contracta ordinum generum specierumque plantarum huc usque cognitarium, juxta methodi naturalis, normas digesta.

  • Sesleria autumnalis Autumn Moor Grass Z 5-9

    Fresh-green spring narrow blades of grass in summer add airy purplish flower spikes with silver-white stamens on this low mounding, arching   grass. Blades have a striking yellow-green color that sometimes develops a soothing golden autumn tint.  Spike-like silvery flowers rise above the leaves and mature into soft tan seed heads by autumn.

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    $10.75/bareroot

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    Fresh-green spring narrow blades of grass in summer add airy purplish flower spikes with silver-white stamens on this low mounding, arching   grass. Blades have a striking yellow-green color that sometimes develops a soothing golden autumn tint.  Spike-like silvery flowers rise above the leaves and mature into soft tan seed heads by autumn.

    Size: 16-18” x 12-18”
    Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil, drought tolerant
    Native: SE Europe east to Caucusus
    Wildlife Value: walnut, salt and deer tolerant
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit. Gardens Illustrated “100 Must-Have Garden Plants,” 2013.

    Collected in Slovenian mountains near Idria, c. 1760 by and 1st described in Flora Carniolica by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723-1788) physician, naturalist and author. Sesleria is named to honor Leonardo Selser, 18th century Italian botanist and physician, contemporary and likely friend of Scopoli

  • Sesleria heufleriana Balkan Moor grass Z 4-9

    Spike-like panicles of white in very early spring turning purple atop clumps of gray-blue blades.

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    Spike-like panicles of white in very early spring turning purple atop clumps of gray-blue blades.

    Size: 24” x 16”
    Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil
    Native: open woodlands of Europe

    Sesleria named for Leonardo Selser, 18th century Italian naturalist and physician, Collected before 1878.