Description
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Bright green fronds perch atop black stems like the fingers of an open hand
Bright green fronds perch atop black stems like the fingers of an open hand
OUT OF STOCK
Bright green fronds perch atop black stems like the fingers of an open hand
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Pale pink “pussy-toe”, resembling the pads of a kitten’s foot, flowers in early summer, great silvery-gray foliage, good groundcover and rock garden plant.
Size: 2” x 18”
Care: full sun in well-drained soil, drought tolerant
Native: Temperate areas worldwide
Antennaria from the Latin antenna originally referring to the mast of a sailboat. Part of the flower supposedly resembles a butterfly’s antennae. Historically used for medicine as an astringent, a cough remedy and to break fever. First described by German physician and botanical author Leonhard Fuchs (1501-1566). Gertrude Jekyll (1848-1931), mother of the mixed perennial border, planted this in her own rock garden at Munstead Wood and in the Sundial Garden at Pednor House in Buckinghamshire. The pink version, A. dioica rosea, collected in the Rocky Mountains by C.C. Parry before 1860.
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In colder areas grow as annual
Spectacular basal foliage – arching, silvery, deeply incised leaves. Late summer-fall spiny buds open to rich purple feathery flowers.
Size: 3-4’ x 3-4’
Care: sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil. Cut off flowers immediately after flowering to bring on new foliage, gorgeous into late fall.
Native: Southern Europe
The leaf stems, blanched, are also edible. Bridgemen, The Young Gardeners Assistant (1847)
Described by Linneaus 1753.
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Mounds of decorative, silver-edged foliage all summer with sunshine yellow button flowers in October to November
Size: 12-24” x 12-36”can pinch back in June to make compact
Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: coasts of Japan
1st described by Japanese botanist Takenoshin Nakai in Botanical Magazine 42: 462. 1928.
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Rosette of thick silver-grey leaves with an inch-long terminal tip of each spine and offshoots, knowns as “pups” emerge near the base, even of young plants. Flowers only once & takes +10 years. In Z 5-6 plant in spring to get established.
Size: 18” x 18-28”
Care: sun in well-drained soil. We grow this in Z 5A on the south-facing side of a mound of well-drained soil, with a few large rocks nearby and gravel mulch.
Native: mountains of Arizona and New Mexico.
First Americans in the SW traded baked leaves and buds hundreds of years ago. Roasted stalks,baked buds & water mixed & fermented make pulque, further distilled to make mescal or tequila.