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Celastrus scandens Bittersweet, Staff vine VINE Z 4-8
Conspicuous orange fruit in autumn, persisting into winter on the females of this vigorous, native vine
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.Conspicuous orange fruit in autumn, persisting into winter on the females of this vigorous native vine.
Size: 20-30' x 6'
Care: full sun to part shade in any soil except wet. Prune by cutting back fruiting branches in late winter and pinch back branches throughout summer.
Native: Eastern half of North America west to South Dakota and south to New Mexico, Wisconsin nativeName Celastrus derived from Greek “kelastros”. In the mid-1800’s an ointment made from a half pound of Bittersweet root bark simmered with one pound of lard remedied “swelled breasts, discuss or drive away tumors or swellings and also for piles.” Cherokee drank a tea for stomach ailments, chewed the root to cure coughs and washed away bad smells with Bittersweet. HoChunk included the root in a compound to cure colds. 1st collected by Rev. John Banister who moved to colonial Virginia in 1678. A gunman mistakenly shot and killed him while he collected plants. For sale in Bartram Garden’s 1783 Broadside, America’s 1st plant catalog.
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Ceratostigma plumbaginoides Plumbago, Leadwort Z 5-9
Cobalt blue flower clusters with contrasting, showy red stems
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.Cobalt blue flower clusters with contrasting, showy red stems and calyces in late summer and fall. Foliage turns crimson in fall – excellent groundcover. One of the most award winning plants.
Size: 9-12” x 18”
Care: Sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: China
Awards: Five (5) of them! Georgia Gold Medal 2006, Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant Picks, Missouri Botanical Garden Plant of Merit, Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit, Oklahoma ProvenPlumbago is Latin meaning “lead” derived from use of the plant to treat lead poisoning. First collected by Russian botanist Alexander von Bunge in 1830 in Mongolia, then introduced by Robert Fortune who found it growing in Shanghi in 1846. “Bear a profusion of brilliant cobalt blue flowers (when) the leaves take on a distinct reddish tinge.” H.H. Thomas 1915.
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Chrysanthemum serotinum syn. Leucanthemella serotina Autumn oxeye, Giant daisy Z 4-8
Pure white daisies with golden centers, 2-3” across, aren’t just for summer. This one celebrates the fall.
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.Pure white daisies with golden centers, 2-3” across, aren’t just for summer. This one celebrates the fall.
Size: 4-7’ x 12-24”
Care: sun in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: SE Europe & Balkans
Wildlife Value: Attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden MeritDescribed by Linnaeus 1753. The Gardeners Dictionary (1783): “This grows naturally in North America but hath long been preserved in English gardens. …each(stalk) being terminated by a large, white, radiated flower; these appear in September. It multiplies very fast by its creeping roots.”
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Clematis columbiana v. tenuiloba syn. C. alpina v. occidentalis sub. var. tenuiloba Rock clematis Z 3-8
Deep violet elongated bells in early summer on short erect stems, only 6” high
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.Deep violet elongated bells in early summer on short erect stems, only 6” high
Size: 6" x 12"
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: Rocky Mountains & the Dakotas1st described in 1881 by Harvard botanist Asa Gray
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Clematis recta ‘Purpurea’ Ground clematis, Flammula clematis POISONOUS Z 3-9
Fragrant star-shaped white blooms May-July on attractive purple foliage, fading to green by mid-summer.
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.Fragrant star-shaped white blooms May-July on attractive purple foliage, fading to green by mid-summer. Can be trained to climb or left as a groundcover. Handling plant may cause contact dermatitis or allergic reaction
Size: 3-5' x 2-4'
Care: sun to part shade with moist well-drained soil. Pinch back buds to maintain purple foliage longer-when plant blooms foliage fades to green.
Native: Eastern, southern and central Europe.
Wildlife Value: attracts hummingbirds, butterflies & bees; Deer and Black Walnut tolerantRecommended for its purple foliage in The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll.
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Codonopsis ovata syn. Glosocomia ovata syn. Wahlenbergia roylei Kashmir Bellflower, Bonnet Bellflower Z 3-7
Large, single, pendulous, milky-blue bell-shaped flowers flared at the tips. Blooms July-August.
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.Large, single, pendulous, milky-blue bell-shaped flowers flared at the tips. Blooms July-August.
Size: 15” x 15”
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: Himalayas, from Pakistan to Kashmir
Wildlife Value: attracts Bees
Size: Root is edible (but not tasty) when cooked. It can also be dried and ground into a powder. A famine food, used when all else fails. The roots and leaves have been used in its native areas to make a poultice for the treatment of bruises, ulcers and wounds. Medicinal use published 1895.Collected before 1835.
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Cornus kousa Kousa dogwood Z 5-8
Audacious, snow white 4” bracts for 4-6 weeks in June & July cover shrub’s horizontal branches, followed by crimson fruit in late summer & scarlet foliage in fall.
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.Audacious, snow white 4” bracts for 4-6 weeks in June & July cover shrub’s horizontal branches, followed by crimson fruit in late summer & scarlet foliage in fall.
Considered an invasive/illegal species in Maryland
Size: 15’ x 15’
Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil Prune: little required, done in late winter
Native: Asia
Awards: Cary Award Distinctive Plants for New EnglandCalled Yamaboushi in its native Japan. In 1861 George Rogers Hall, residing in Yokohama, sent the 1st Cornus kousa seed to America from Japan. Francis Parkman sowed the seeds in his garden in Jamaica Plain MA garden. By the 1890’s 2 nurseries sold it in the U.S. – Parsons & Sons Co. and Yokohama Nursery. “Chinese” Wilson introduced the variety var. chinensis from Hupei Province in central China in 1907.
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Cottage Garden for sun
Cottage Garden for sun
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.
Cottage Garden for Sun Size: Height x Width* Bloom color
Spring blooming
1 Anemone sylvestris – Windflower 12” x 12” spreading white
1 Papaver orientale – Poppy 2-3’ x 2’ orange
Summer blooming
1 Alcea rosea – Hollyhock (reseeding biennial) 2-3’ x 2’ varies
3 Delphinium exaltatum – Tall larkspur 3-4′ x 9″ purple
3 Lilium lancifolium – Tiger lily 3-4’ x 12” orange
3 Phlox paniculata – Garden phlox 4’ x 2’ magenta
1 Stachys byzantia – Lambs ear 12”x 12” lavender-pink
Fall blooming
1 Aster novae angliae – New England aster 3-4’ x 24” pink or purple
1 Boltonia asteroides – Bolton’s aster 5-6’ x 3’ white
3 Eupatorium coelestinum Blue mist 3’ x 2-3’ blue18 plants for $174.67. Would be $205.50 if purchased separately. You save $30.83.
If planted together in one garden these make a 33 square foot garden.
*Most of these plants get wider by spreading roots or by self-seeding over time.
All plants are perennials except the Hollyhock which is a biennial that reseeds.
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.
