Search Results for: Lady fern
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Alchemilla mollis Lady’s mantle Z 3-8
June to July, clusters of starry chartreuse flowers bloom above sage green, scalloped, tooth-edged foliage that holds dew drops like beads of mercury....
June to July, clusters of starry chartreuse flowers bloom above sage green, scalloped, tooth-edged foliage that holds dew drops like beads of mercury.
Size: 12" x 12"
Care: Sun to part shade in moist soil
Native: East Carpathians, Caucasus
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.Alchemilla derived from Arabic for alchemist, medieval chemists who attempted to transmute ordinary substances into gold. They used the dew drops which beaded on leaves to add to gold making recipes. “Lady’s mantle” comes from a legend that the plant was used to adorn the Virgin Mary. Gerard, a 16th century English herbalist, identified medicinal uses: cure inflammation from wounds, clot blood, help bruises and flu, aid conception and discourage miscarriages. Reputedly the plant also returned women to the former beauty of youth.
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Alchemilla alpina Alpine lady’s mantle Z 3-9
From a low mound of palmate (shaped like an open hand) silvery-margined leaves with silver undersides emerge short frothy sprays of chartreuse-yellow flowers in early summer. Will rebloom if cut...
From a low mound of palmate (shaped like an open hand) silvery-margined leaves with silver undersides emerge short frothy sprays of chartreuse-yellow flowers in early summer. Will rebloom if cut back flowers after bloom.
Size: 6-8” x 8-12”
Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Europe and southern Greenland
Wildlife Value: Deer and rabbit resistantThe species originally described by English botanist and gardener to Queen Mary, Leonard Plukenet (1641-1706).
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Lycoris squamigera Surprise lily, Naked lady Z 5-9
Strap-like leaves appear in April, then die back in summer. In August a shoot appears seemingly out-of-no-where, topped with pale pink trumpets. Flowers resemble Amaryllis
Strap-like leaves appear in April, then die back in summer. In August a shoot appears seemingly out-of-no-where, topped with pale pink trumpets. Flowers resemble Amaryllis
Size: 18-24” x 6”
Care: full sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: JapanIntroduced to Western gardens from Japan in 1861 by Dr. George Rogers Hall (1820-1899), a physician who moved to Shanghai and became a trader, introducing several Japanese plants to the U.S.
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Matteuccia struthiopteris Ostrich fern Z 3-7
Dissected, feathery fronds resemble ostrich plumes form vase-shaped clumps.
Dissected, feathery fronds resemble ostrich plumes form vase-shaped clumps.
Size: 3-4’ x 5-8’ spreading by rhizomes.
Care: part to full shade in moist well-drained to moist soil
Native: eastern No. America, Wisconsin nativeIn gardens before 1790. Matteuccia is named to honor Italian scientist Carlo Matteucci (1811-1866.) Struthiopteris comes from struthio meaning “ostrich” and pteris meaning “fern.” The fronds are edible – Vermont adopted this as its state vegetable.
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Thalictrum minus ‘Adiantifolium’ Fernleaf meadowrue Z 4-8
Loose panicles of tiny yellowish flowers top fern-like foliage in mid-summer....
Loose panicles of tiny yellowish flowers top fern-like foliage in mid-summer.
Size: 36" x 24"
Care: part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil.
Native: Europe, North Africa & Siberia
Wildlife Value: Attracts Black swallowtail butterfly, Deer resistant.
Awards: Rated as excellent by the Chicago Botanic Garden.Thalictrum is from Greek meaning “to flourish” or “look green.” The species grown by English herbalist Gerard (1545-1612) in the 1590’s.
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Chaerophyllum hirsutum ‘Roseum’ Hairy chervil Z 5-7
...is an archive page preserved for informational use. Airy rose-pink umbels like a short, pink Queen Anne’s lace, blooming in spring to early summer, compliment the fern-like apple-scented fragrant foliage....
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.
Airy rose-pink umbels like a short, pink Queen Anne’s lace, blooming in spring to early summer, compliment the fern-like apple-scented fragrant foliage.
Size: 24” x 12”
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil, cut back to refresh foliage and rebloom.
Native: Spain to Greece
Awards: Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant PickNamed from Greek chairo meaning “to please” & phyllon meaning “leaf,” so named “because the leaves, steeped in wine, and drank, will exhilarate and chear (sic.) melancholy persons… (it) grows naturally on the Alps, and the Helvetian mountains. …the stalk (is) terminated by large umbels of flowers, in which some plants are red and in others white…. These plants are preferred in botanic gardens for variety …” Gardeners’ Dictionary, 1768. 1st Described by Swiss botanist Gaspard Bauhin in 1600’s.
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Osmunda cinnamomea Cinnamon fern Z 4-8
OUT OF STOCK The species name refers to its cinnamon-brown spore bearing stalks....
OUT OF STOCK
The species name refers to its cinnamon-brown spore bearing stalks.
Size: 36” x 24”
Care: Part shade in moist soil
Native: Eastern No. America
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.The species name refers to its cinnamon-brown spore bearing stalks. Cherokee used this fern to cure snakebites by applying the chewed root to the bite. Roots cured rheumatism and chills. Cooked spring fronds made a tonic. 1st collected by Rev. John Banister in colonial Virginia c. 1680. A gunman mistakenly shot and killed him while he collected plants. Its fiddleheads are food for ruffed grouse, and hummingbirds sometimes use the fuzz on young fronds to line their nests.
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Aruncus aethusifolius Dwarf goat’s beard Z 3-8
...center? These flowers resemble a tiny version of that, emerging in spring and early summer above a compact mound of fern-like foliage. Good foil for solid, paddle-like leaves of Bergenia....
You know the fireworks they display at the end of the night, with light bursting every direction from a center? These flowers resemble a tiny version of that, emerging in spring and early summer above a compact mound of fern-like foliage. Good foil for solid, paddle-like leaves of Bergenia.
Size: 10" x 12-18"
Care: part shade to shade in moist to well-drained soil
Native: Korea
Awards: Elizabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant Pick.Described in 1912 by Japanese botanist who explored Korea for plants, Takenoshin Nakai (1882-1952)
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Adlumia fungosa Allegheny vine, Climbing fumitory, Bleeding heart vine Biennial Z 4-8
OUT OF STOCK Dangling pink to white Bleeding heart-like flowers bloom all summer, June-September. Fern-like foliage on twining stems...
OUT OF STOCK
Dangling pink to white Bleeding heart-like flowers bloom all summer, June-September. Fern-like foliage on twining stems
Size: 6-10’ x 12”
Care: part shade to shade in moist to moist well-drained, acidic soil
Native: Nova Scotia to No. Carolina west to Minnesota Wisconsin native status-special concern
Wildlife Value: attracts bumblebees1st described in 1789 (Aiton, Vol. 3 Hortus Kewensis).
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Astilbe chinensis luo xin fu in China Z 4-9
Pink plumes in mid-summer atop fern-like foliage. More tolerant of sun and well-drained soil than the hybrids....
Pink plumes in mid-summer atop fern-like foliage. More tolerant of sun and well-drained soil than the hybrids.
Size: 24” x 24” spreads
Care: Sun to shade in moist or moist well-drained soil
Native: Siberia, China, KoreaAstilbe from “the Greek word for without” and stilbe meaning “lustre” referring to the fact that the leaves are not shiny. 1st described for the West by botanist Carl Johann Maximowicz in 1859 and then named Hoteia chinensis. Liberty Hyde Bailey termed this plant “graceful” in the early 1900’s.