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Magnolia virginiana Sweetbay magnolia 5-10
Large, ivory cups, lemon scented
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Large, ivory cups, lemon scented, in May & June & sporadically all summer & fall. 6” long leaves, waxy green on top and silvery-frosted beneath. In fall fruits open to reveal bright red seeds.

Size: 20’ x 15’
Care: Sun to part shade in acidic, moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Atlantic coast from NY to FL, west along Gulf coast to TX
Wildlife Value: nectar source for Spicebush swallowtail butterfly
Magnolia named for Pierre Magnol, Montpellier professor of medicine and director of the botanic garden. (1638-1715) This species collected by Rev. John Banister in Virginia c. 1690. One of the mainstays of John Bartram’s seed business, Peter Collinson, Bartram’s agent in England, said, “the name Magnolia will sell a box of seeds.” Offered for sale in Bartram Garden’s 1783 Broadside, America’s 1^st plant catalog. Pressed specimen in Emily Dickinson’s herbarium.
Mahonia aquifolium Oregon grape Z 5-9
Clusters of buttercup yellow flowers in spring followed by glaucous blue fruit with red stems. Holly-like, evergreen leaves turn purple in fall for a four-season ornament.
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Clusters of buttercup yellow flowers in spring followed by glaucous blue fruit with red stems. Holly-like, evergreen leaves turn purple in fall for a four-season ornament.

Size: 5’ x 3’
Care: sheltered site (in Z 5) in humusy, moist to moist well-drained soil, sun to part shade
Native: Pacific Northwest
Wildlife Value: Attracts bees & butterflies, Birds eat the berries
Mahonia is named in honor of Bernard McMahon, Scottish nurseryman who immigrated to Philadelphia around 1802. McMahon’s nursery received plants discovered by Lewis & Clark who collected this plant in April 1806 along the rapids of the Columbia River. The Snohomish ate the berries and made a yellow dye from its roots. It cured bloodshot eyes and kidney disease for the Okanagan-Colville. California’s Karok Indians boiled the root and drank the liquid to cure numerous ailments. Steamed roots and leaves believed to remedy yellow fever. Lakota Sioux treated stomach, digestive, kidney and breathing ailments with this.
Marshallia caespitosa Barbara’s Buttons Z 5-8
Dainty balls of white, fragrant flowers are borne on slender, leafless stalks, April to June
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Dainty balls of white, fragrant flowers are borne on slender, leafless stalks, April to June

Size: 12-18” x 6-12”
Care: full sun to part shade in moist, well-drained soil
Native: KS to AR, LA & TX
Wildlife Value: Attracts bees and butterflies
Marshallia grows wild in prairies with Little bluestem and Coreopsis lanceolata. Nuttall, 1836
Genus name honors Humphry Marshall (1722-1801) and his nephew Moses Marshall (1758-1813), American botanists.
Minuartia larcifolia Larch leaf sandwort Z 5-8
White blooms May-June over needle-shaped foliage
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White blooms May-June over needle-shaped foliage

Size: 4-5” x 12-15”
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: Mountains from Austria to Spain
Collected before 1753.
Myosotis palustris syn. M. scorpioides Forget-me-not Z. 5-9
Small gentian flowers with golden eyes, spring into fall
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Small gentian flowers with golden eyes, spring into fall.

Can not ship to: New Hampshire

Size: 9-12” x 12”
Care: sun to part shade in moist soil
Native: temperate areas world wide
“Myosotis” is Greek meaning mouse ear for the leaf shape. Around 1390 Henry IV adopted soveigne vous de moy, Forget-me-not, as a symbol not to forget his reign. A German legend attributes the common name to a lover who, gathering the flower, cried out “forget-me-not” as he fell into the river and died. Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote: “The sweet forget-me-nots; That grow for happy lovers.” Persian poet Shiraz told another folk tale: an angel fell from heaven by falling in love with a “daughter of earth,”when they sat by a river twining Forget-me-not flowers in her hair. The angel was not allowed to return until the lovers planted Forget-me-nots in every corner of the earth, which they did, hand in hand. She then became immortal “without tasting the bitterness of death” and joined the angel in Paradise.
Oenothera speciosa Evening primrose Z 5-8
June to August pale pink saucer-like blossoms
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June to August ballerina pink saucer-like blossoms, excellent groundcover.

Size: 12" x 12" spreader
Care: Full sun moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: Southwest U.S. to Mexico
Another Thomas Nuttall discovery – 1819.
Ononis natrix Yellow restharrow Z 4-8
Yellow pea like flowers with red veins June- August
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Yellow pea like flowers with red veins June- August

Size: 12” X 12”
Care: sun in dry soil
Native: Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Circum-Mediterranean
Linnaeus 1753
Papaver orientale ‘Beauty of Livermere’ Z 3-9
Glossy fire engine red petals with black heart in June.
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Scarlet, tissue-thin petals surround a purple blotch at the base highlighted with purple stamens

Size: 3' x 2'
Care: sun in well-drained soil. Foliage dies back in summer & reemerges in the cool autumn.
Wildlife Value: Attracts hummingbirds, bees & butterflies. Deer & rabbit resistant.
This red selection listed in Matineau’s book 1910