Archives

Showing 49–56 of 164 results

  • Cynara cardunculus Cardoon Z 7-9

    Spectacular basal foliage - arching, silvery, deeply incised leaves, Late summer-fall spiny buds open to rich purple feathery flowers.

    Placeholder

    Buy

    ARCHIVED

    Note: This is a plant not currently for sale.  This is an archive page preserved for informational use.

    In colder areas grow as annual
    Spectacular basal foliage – arching, silvery, deeply incised leaves. Late summer-fall spiny buds open to rich purple feathery flowers.

    Size: 3-4’ x 3-4’
    Care: sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil. Cut off flowers immediately after flowering to bring on new foliage, gorgeous into late fall.
    Native: Southern Europe

    The leaf stems, blanched, are also edible. Bridgemen, The Young Gardeners Assistant (1847)
    Described by Linneaus 1753.

  • Dahlia ‘Bishop of Llandaff’ Tender perennial

    Fiery red, sem-double flowers atop reliably purple foliage from July until frost,

    Buy

    ARCHIVED

    Note: This is a plant not currently for sale.  This is an archive page preserved for informational use.

    Fiery red, semi-double flowers atop reliably purple foliage from July until frost

    Size: 2-3’ x 12”
    Care: moist well drained soil in full sun – lift bulb in fall, overwinter in basement
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit – 1928.

    Dahlias originally grown as food by Aztecs. 1st collected for the West by Spaniards in Mexico in 1615. The genus named after Dr. Anders Dahl, a student of Linnaeus and later a Swedish botanist in his own right. This cultivar came from a batch of chance seedlings in the nursery of breeder Fred Treseder in Wales UK. Treseder offered this and a few others to Bishop Joshua Hughes of Llandaff in 1924.

  • Deer Resistant garden for sun

    ARCHIVED Note: This collection is not currently for sale.  This is an archive page preserved for informational use. Deer Resistant Garden for sun                         Size: Height x width*                       Bloom color 3 Achillea filipendulina – Fernleaf yarrow                    […]

    Placeholder

    Buy

    ARCHIVED

    Note: This collection is not currently for sale.  This is an archive page preserved for informational use.

    Deer Resistant Garden for sun                         Size: Height x width*                       Bloom color
    3 Achillea filipendulina – Fernleaf yarrow                            3’-4’ x 30”                                          yellow
    3 Agastache foeniculum – Anise hyssop                               2-3’ x 12”                                            purple
    1 Calamintha nepeta ssp nepeta – Lesser calamint           18-24” x 8-12”                                  white
    1 Coreopsis verticillata – Thread leafed tickseed                24” x 18”                                            yellow
    1 Echinops ritro – Globe thistle                                              3-4’ x 18”                                            blue
    3 Euphorbia polychroma – Cushion spurge                        16” x 24”                                             chartreuse
    3 Lavandula angustifolia ‘Munstead’                                    12-18” x 12-18”                                  lavender
    3 Nepeta mussinii – catmint                                                  18” x 18”                                              lavender
    1 Perovskia atriplicifolia – Russian sage                              4’ x 4’                                                   lavender
    1 Salvia nemorosa – Meadow sage                                        36” x 24”                                             purple

    All plants are perennials.
    If planted together in one garden these make a 36 square foot garden. *Most of these plants get wider over time by spreading roots or by self-seeding .
    20 plants for $192.27.  Would be $226.20 if purchased separately. You save $33.93.
    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.

  • Delphinium grandiflorum ‘Blue Butterfly’ Z 4-8

    Picture a dangling blue elf cap for the flower.

    Buy

    ARCHIVED

    Note: This is a plant not currently for sale.  This is an archive page preserved for informational use.

    Picture a dangling cornflower blue elf cap for the flower. Blooms in June and repeats if deadheaded.

    Size: 12-18" x 9"
    Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil.
    Native: Siberia, China & Japan
    Wildlife Value: attracts hummingbirds

    Dr. Johann Ammann sent the seeds of this Delphinium from the Imperial Academy at St. Petersburg to Peter Collinson in England in 1736. ‘Blue Butterfly’ selected by 1900. Gertrude Jekyll, mother of the mixed perennial garden valued ‘Blue Butterfly’ for its “pure blue,” late 1800’s.

  • Delphinium vestitum syn. D. chitralicum syn. D. rectivenium, qian lie cui que in China, Clothed Delphinium, Flowers of India Z 6-10

    Spikes of purple-blue with deep black centers rise above large rounded leaves. Blooms in August-Sept

    Placeholder

    Buy

    ARCHIVED

    Note: This is a plant not currently for sale.  This is an archive page preserved for informational use.

    Spikes of purple-blue with deep black centers rise above large, rounded leaves. Blooms in August-Sept

    Size: 24” x10”
    Care: full sun to part shade
    Native: Himalayas
    Wildlife Value: attracts bees & butterflies

    Nathaniel Wallich had already described Delphinium vestitum but the name was validly published by John Forbes Royle in 1834.

  • Delphinium x formosum ‘Belladonna’ Garland delphinium Z 4-8

    June & repeat in September pale sky blue graceful, short spikes

    Buy

    ARCHIVED

    Note: This is a plant not currently for sale.  This is an archive page preserved for informational use.

    June & repeat in September pale sky blue graceful, short spikes

    Size: 2- 3’ x 12”
    Care: Sun well-drained soil. Do not cut back in fall. Delphiniiums have hollow stems where moisture will collect and kill the plant (crown rot) over winter.

    Delphinium, named by Dioscorides, is Greek for “dolphin.” In 1597 Gerard wrote that the Delphinium leaf paralyzed scorpions and all venomous beasts. D. x formosum called “the finest garden hybrid” of the early 19th century. It was “raised by Mr. G. Moore, a nurseryman of East Dereham, Norfolk.” George Phillips, (1933). ‘Belladonna’ hybridized in 1800’s as cutting flowers. Blooms last long in the vase. In the July 1872 issue of “the Garden” Wm. Robinson called this “too seldom seen” and “a great ornament.”

  • Dianthus anatolicus Anatolian pink Z 5-10

    Dense mound-forming perennial with needle-like, evergreen grey foliage. Masses of whitish pink, feather- margined flowers with a wine-colored eye bloom in May-June. Highly regarded alpine plant.

    Placeholder

    Buy

    ARCHIVED

    Note: This is a plant not currently for sale.  This is an archive page preserved for informational use.

    Dense mound-forming perennial with needle-like, evergreen grey foliage. Masses of whitish pink, feather- margined flowers with a wine-colored eye bloom in May-June. Highly regarded alpine plant.

    Size: 3” x 6”
    Care: sun in well-drained soil
    Native: Turkey to Tibet

    Theophrastus named Dianthus in the 4th century B.C., meaning “Jove’s flower.” The common name “pink” is from “pinct” referring to the jagged edge of the petals.   In 1629 John Parkinson described the Dianthus: “There remain divers sorts of wild or small Gilloflowers (which wee usually call Pinkes) to be entreated of, some bearing single, and some double flowers, some smooth, almost without any deepe dents on the edges, and some ragged, or as it were feathered.” This species described in Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium Novarum, ser. 1 1: 22. 1843.

  • Dianthus arpadianus

    Small pale pink flowers sit above short clumps of evergreen foliage  

    Buy

    ARCHIVED

    Note: This is a plant not currently for sale.  This is an archive page preserved for informational use.

    Small pale pink flowers sit above short clumps of evergreen foliage

    Size: 3” x 3”
    Care: full sun in moist well-drained soil
    Native: Greece & Turkey

    Collected before 1934