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Schizophragma hydrangeoides ‘Rosea’ Pink Japanese hydrangea vine Z 5-8
Deciduous woody climber clinging by adhesive, aerial roots, with showy flower-heads resembling lacecap hydrangeas, with creamy-white flowers surrounded by showy bracts that age to rosy pink, blooming in July & August & its sepals remain conspicuous long after. Heart-shaped foliage turns yellow in fall.
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.Deciduous woody climber clinging by adhesive, aerial roots, with showy flower-heads resembling lacecap hydrangeas, with creamy-white flowers surrounded by showy bracts that age to rosy pink, blooming in July & August & its sepals remain conspicuous long after. Heart-shaped foliage turns yellow in fall.
Size: 20-30’ x 6-9’
Care: part shade to shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Japan where they “climb the trunks of tall trees and blossom among the lower limbs.” Arnold Arboretum Bulletin 1933.
Wildlife Value: Deer resistant.
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.‘Rosea’ found by English planthunter Charles Maries c. 1878, collecting for London’s Veitch Nursery and referred to in The Book of Climbing Plants and Wall Shrubs, Samuel Arnett 1902.
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Scutellaria alpina Alpine skullcap Z 5-9
Mounds of two-toned snapdragon-like flowers July - October.
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.Bailey (1913): “A hardy spreading perennial about 10 in. high, with ovate, serrately dentate leaves and large, purple and white, somewhat yellowish flowers in dense, terminal racemes. … A handsome rock or low border perennial.” Mounds of two-toned snapdragon-like flowers July – October.
Size: 6-10” x 12”
Care: Sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: Pyrenees, Appennines to the Balkans; central Russia to southern SiberiaLinnaeus’ imaginative mind named this genus after the Latin sculellum meaning “a little dish,” because of its resemblance to the flower’s helmet-shaped calyx. In gardens before 1753.
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Sedum album White stonecrop Z 4-8
Rounded leaflets green turning red in fall and winter; dainty white flowers
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.Rounded leaflets green turning red in fall and winter; dainty white flowers in mid-summer. Perfect for rock gardens, front of border, fairy gardens, roof gardens, troughs and groundcover or any place with drought.
Size: 4” x 12” spreading
Care: sun in well-drained soil - thrives on neglect. Deer resistant & drought tolerant.
Native: Europe, west & north AsiaSedum means “plant that sits.” “Live forever” is an ancient Greek name for sedums. The Roman Pliny claimed that sedum’s juice treated wounds. In the 1500’s English herbalist Gerard called sedums “very full of life,” referring to succulent’s quality of being very easy to grow. This species collected before 1671. It “grows naturally upon old walls in many parts of England.” Gardeners Dictionary, 1768. In 1867 described as “growing, ever so luxuriantly upon roofs and walls (as well as) the rocks at Great Malvern…” Botany of Worcestershire. Landscape designer Andrew Jackson Downing recommended this for edging, 1868.
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Sedum spurium ‘Coccineum’ Dragon’s blood Z 4-9
Star-shaped crimson flowers August – September atop succulent red-tinged leaves that blaze all crimson in fall and winter.
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.Star-shaped crimson flowers August – September atop succulent red-tinged leaves that blaze all crimson in fall and winter. Perfect for rock gardens, front of border, fairy gardens, roof gardens, troughs and groundcover or any place with drought.
Size: 6” x 24”
Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil
Native: Caucasus MountainsSedum means “plant that sits.” “Live forever” is an ancient Greek name for sedums. The Roman Pliny claimed that sedum’s juice treated wounds. In the 1500’s English herbalist Gerard called sedums “very full of life,” referring to succulent’s quality of being very easy to grow. Spurium means “false.” This cultivar collected before 1826.
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Sesleria nitida Nest Moor grass Z 5-8
Spike-like panicles of white turn purple atop mounds of gray-blue blades
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.In early spring, about the time Robins appear, spike-like panicles of white turn purple atop mounds of gray-blue blades
Size: 24”x16”
Care: sun to part shade in most any soil
Native: central and southern ItalyCollected before 1861.
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Shade Garden
Shade Garden.
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Shade Garden Size : Height x width* Bloom color
3 Asarum canadense – Wild ginger 6” x 6” spreading brown
3 Astilbe chinensis 24” x 24” pink
1 Brunnera macrophyllum – Siberian bugloss 18″ x 24″ blue
1 Chelone glabra – Turtlehead 2-4’ x 12” white
1 Disporum flavens – Fairy bells 25-30” x 16-20” yellow
3 Dodecatheon meadia – Shooting star 12-24” x 6-12” white
1 Hosta ‘Blue Cadet’ 35-40” x 36” lavender
1 Primula veris – Cowslip 8”x 8” yellow
3 Stylophorum diphyllum – Celantine poppy 12-18” x 12” yellow
1 Tricyrtis hirta – Toadlily 2-3’ x 2’ white & purpleAll plants are perennials.
If planted together in one garden these make a 30 square foot garden. **Most of these plants get wider over time by spreading roots or by self-seeding .
18 plants for $158.14. Would be $186.05 if purchased separately. You save $27.90.
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. -
Silene suecica syn. Lychnis alpina Arctic campion Z 4-8
Rosy racemes May- June emerge from a mound of grass-like leaves
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.Rosy racemes May- June emerge from a mound of grass-like leaves. Short-lived but reseeds.
Size: 5” x 6”
Care: Sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: Northern Asia & EuropeIn gardens before 1753. May 6, 1876 The Garden described its flowers as “forming bright rosy patches…”
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Sisyrinchium albidum White blue-eyed grass Z 3-10
White or pale blue star-shaped flowers with yellow centers blossom over short, grass-like foliage in late spring-early summer.
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.White or pale blue star-shaped flowers with yellow centers blossom over short, grass-like foliage in late spring-early summer.
Size: 18-24” x 6-12”
Care: sun in moist well-drained soil
Native: East coast from Maine to Florida and west as far as Wisconsin
Wildlife Value: attracts bees & butterflies, Deer resistant.
Size: Menominee kept this in their house or pocket to ward off snakes.First published in 1832.
