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Fragrant Garden for sun
ARCHIVED Note: This collection is a not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use. Fragrant Garden for sun Size: Height x width * Bloom color 3 Agastache foeniculum – Anise hyssop 2-3’ x 12” purple 1 Buddleja davidii – Butterfly bush […]
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Fragrant Garden for sun Size: Height x width * Bloom color
3 Agastache foeniculum – Anise hyssop 2-3’ x 12” purple
1 Buddleja davidii – Butterfly bush 6’ x 4’ purple
1 Clematis ternifolia – Sweet autumn 15-20’ x 6-10’ white
3 Lavandula angustifolia ‘Munstead’ 12-18” x 12-18” lavender
1 Lilium auratum – Gold band lily 2-5’ x 12” white/yellow
1 Paeonia ‘Sarah Bernhardt’ 36” x 36” pink
1 Monarda didyma – ‘Cambridge Scarlet’ beebalm 3-4’ x spreading red
3 Sporobolis heterolepsis -Prairie dropseed 2′ x 2′ pink/brown
3 Thymus serphyllum – Creeping thyme 3″ x 24″ purpleAll plants are perennials.
If planted together in one garden these make a 28 square foot garden. *Most of these plants get wider over time by spreading roots or by self-seeding .17 plants for $182.62. Would be $214.85 if purchased separately. You save $32.23.
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.
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Gaillardia aristata Blanket flower Z 3-8
Yellow and red daisy petals surround red cones non-stop
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Yellow and red daisy petals surround red cones non-stop, June-October, a true winner.
Size: 30” x 24”
Care: sun, well-drained soil
Native: Western US, Canada to Arizona
Awards: Oklahoma ProvenNamed for French botanist, M. Gaillard de Marentonneau. Blackfooot used Blanket flower to absorb soup and waterproof rawhide. The entire plant toasted and pounded, mixed with bear grease cured mumps. It prevented balding and cured eye ailments in horses. Found by Meriwether Lewis on the Expedition, July 6, 1806 along the Blackfoot River on “dry hills” in Montana.
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Gentiana andrewsii Bottle gentian Z 4-9
Blue bottle-like or oval balloon blooms in late summer
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Blue bottle-like or oval balloon blooms in late summer
Size: 12-24” x 6”
Care: full sun to part shade in humusy, moist to moist well drained, acidic soil
Native: Eastern North America, incl. WisconsinGentian named after King Gentius of Illyria in the Adriatic. He discovered medicinal uses for gentians around 180 B.C. Iroquois used Bottle gentian to ease pain from headaches and muscle aches, to cure lonesomeness and craziness. Hanging dried root around the house warded off witches. Meskwaki cured snake bites and “caked breast” with the plant. For Lakota Sioux: Roots flavored beverages and prevented snakebites when rubbed on skin.
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Glaucium flavum Yellow horned poppy Z 5-10 short-lived perennial, reseeding generously
Its silver, deep-cut foliage is reason enough to grow this. The bright yellow flower much of summer tops it off.
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Its silver, deep-cut foliage is reason enough to grow this. The bright yellow flower much of summer tops it off.
Can not ship to: Maine and Massachusetts
Size: 1-2’ x 1-2’
Care: sun in well-drained soil
Native: Europe esp. sea coasts.
Wildlife Value: deer resistantThis was identified by Dioscordies in De Materica Medica for medicinal use around 70 A.D. Philip Miller’s Dictionary (1763) called it Cheliodonium glaucium while Tournefort (1703) called it Glaucium flore luteo. Thank goodness for common names – it is ID’ed as Yellow Horn Poppy.
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Globularia trichosantha Blue Globe Daisy Z 5-9
Globe-shaped blue puffs bloom in late spring above a mat of evergreen foliage
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Globe-shaped blue puffs bloom in late spring above a mat of evergreen foliage
Size: 6-8” x 8-12”
Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil
Native: Balkan region of eastern Europe.
Wildlife Value: Attracts beesCollected before 1839.
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Hamamelis vernalis Spring witch-hazel Z 4-8
Unusual, small yellow-red fragrant flowers in very early spring February-April. Showy golden foliage in fall. Hardy & durable.
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Unusual, small yellow-red fragrant flowers in very early spring February-April. Showy golden foliage in fall. Hardy & durable.
Size: 6-10’ x spreading
Care: Sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained acidic soil, tolerates clay. Prune in spring after flowering.
Native: Ozark Plateau of MO, OK & AK
Awards: Missouri Botanic Garden Plant of Merit.
Size: Native Americans made extracts of the leaves, bark and stems to remedy inflammation & bruises.Collected for horticulture by 1908.
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Hamamelis virginiana Witch hazel Z 3-8
Oval shaped leaves turn shades of yellow in fall then stem-hugging clusters of sun-yellow ribbon-shaped petals cling to branches from October to December.
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Oval shaped leaves turn shades of yellow in fall then stem-hugging clusters of sun-yellow ribbon-shaped petals cling to branches from October to December.
Size: 10-15’ x 10-15’, slow growth
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil to moist, acidic
Native: Novia Scotia to Florida, Great Lakes to east Texas, Wisconsin native
Wildlife Value: Attracts birds, Deer resistantAn extract of leaves, twigs, and bark is used in mildly astringent lotions and toilet water. A myth of witchcraft held that a forked branch of Witch-hazel could locate underground water. Native Americans used witch-hazel leaves for tea. Its oil used in medicines, eye-washes, after shave lotions and salves for soothing insect bites, burns and poison ivy rashes. Oneida used the leaves to remedy colds and stomach ailments. Illustrated in Catesby’s Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, published in series 1729-1747. Collected by French plant hunter André Michaux (1746-1802) who, for 11 years scoured eastern US as far west as the Mississippi River in Illinois Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811.
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Hernaria glabra Rupturewort Z 5-9
Tiny green flowers bloom atop tiny spreading foliage in July and August
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Tiny green flowers bloom atop tiny spreading foliage in July and August.
Size: 2” x 12”
Care: sun moist well-drained to dry soil
Native: Europe, west & central AsiaGrown as a ground cover over graves in the 1800’s and “as a carpet bedding plant on account of its neat and compact dark green foliage,” Sanders 1913. Named for its old-time medicinal use, a remedy for hernias (powdered herb mixed with wine, ingested daily.)
