Black Walnut Tolerant

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  • Oenothera macrocarpa syn. O. missouriensis Ozark sundrops Z 3-7

    Four wide petals form a cup of big, canary-yellow blossoms much of the summer, then turn into curious big oval seed pods

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    Four wide petals form a cup of big, canary-yellow blossoms much of the summer, then turn into curious big oval seed pods

    Size: 9-12" x 12"
    Care: sun in well-drained soil
    Native: Missouri & Nebraska
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.

    Oenothera is Greek meaning wine tasting referring to the ancient use of Sundrop roots. This discovered in 1810 by Thomas Nuttall when he traveled along the Missouri River “on the elevated summits of the …hills in the vicinity of the lead-mines of the river Meremeck, 30 miles from St. Louis, Louisiana.” (then in the Louisiana Territory).  Nuttall described it as a “splendid and singular species.”

  • Onoclea sensibilis Sensitive fern Zones 4-10

    Medium green fronds grow with deep curves along the wide stem then grow outward with lance-shaped fronds with wavy leaf margins.  Don’t be fooled by the name sensitive.  This is a tough fern growing just about any place with some shade.

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    Medium green fronds grow with deep curves along the wide stem then grow outward with lance-shaped fronds with wavy leaf margins.  Don’t be fooled by the name sensitive.  This is a tough fern growing just about any place with some shade.

    Size: 12-20" x 24” spreading, slowly by rhizomes.
    Care: part to full shade in moist to well-drained soil
    Native: Eastern North America, Wisconsin native
    Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.

    Collected before 1700.   Sensibilis means sensitive on account of fronds dying back when it frosts. Oneida used this for bedding when hunting. According to Oneida tradition if a woman drinks an infusion, she can never have children after she gets married.

  • Osmunda regalis Royal fern Z. 4-10

    Lance-shaped double divided leaves. Late summer erect brown tassels form – they are fertile fronds

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    Lance-shaped double divided leaves. Late summer erect brown tassels form – they are fertile fronds. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)

    Size: 4-6’ x 12’
    Care: Sun to Light shade, moist, humusy, acidic, fertile soil
    Native: Eastern North America
    Awards: Great Plant Pick Award from Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden & England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.

    Osmunda named for Osmunder, a Saxon god. 1st collected by Rev. John Banister who moved to colonial Virginia in 1678. A gunman mistakenly shot and killed him while he collected plants.

  • Phlox divaricata Wild sweet William Z 3-8

    Bright lavender flowers, tubes with flat lobes, welcome spring. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)

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    Bright lavender flowers, tubes with flat lobes, welcome spring. One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)

    Size: 12" x 10"
    Care: part shade in moist, well-drained soil.
    Native: Quebec to Wisconsin south to North Carolina & Alabama
    Wildlife Value: attracts hummingbirds
    Awards: Received England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.

    Phlox is Greek meaning “flame.” 1st introduced to gardens by Quaker explorer and nurseryman John Bartram (1699-1777) around 1746. Recommended by Gertrude Jekyll, mother of mixed perennial borders, in 1908.

  • Phlox paniculata Garden phlox Z 4-8

    Magenta, fragrant flowers from July to September – the classic farm garden flower. Deadhead for rebloom.

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    Magenta, fragrant flowers from July to September – the classic farm garden flower. Deadhead for rebloom.

    Size: 4' x 2' spreader and self-seeder
    Care: full sun, part shade in moist or moist well-drained soil.
    Native: Pennsylvania west to Arkansas and Missouri. South to Alabama.
    Wildlife Value: numerous butterflies relish Phlox’s nectar.

    Phlox is Greek meaning flame.  A farmyard plant in North America.  One of the 1st plants collected in No. America – grown in Tradescant the Elder’s (1570-1638) South Lambeth nursery in 1634. Offered for sale in Bartram Garden’s 1783 Broadside, America’s 1st plant catalog.

  • Phlox stolonifera syn. P. reptans Creeping phlox Z. 4-9

    Flowers white to pink to purple in spring

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    Flowers white to pink to purple in spring

    Size: 6-12” x spreads by stolons (stems that root on soil surface
    Care: sun to shade in most any soil
    Native: Appalachian Mountains
    Size: Very useful groundcover due to its willingness to grow anywhere

    Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 1801: discovered by John Fraser in Georgia 1786 and sent to Sims in 1801. ALSO COLLECTED BY Michaux about same time but Sims described 1st ans so received priority. Sims’ described a form with violet corolla from Blue Ridge Mtns. A purple colored form which is more wide-spread named P. stolonifera crassifolia by Don. A “showy-flowered Phlox which has long been in cultivation combines the characters of P. subulata and P. stolonifera in such a striking way as to clearly indicate its origin as a hybrid between these two species.” Given various names incl/ P. procumbens, P verna and P. amoena. P. 76

  • Physotegia virginiana Obedient plant Z 3-9

    Purplish red to rosy pink spikes of hooded snapdragons

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    Purplish red to rosy pink spikes of hooded snapdragons July to September

    Size: 3' x 3' and spreading
    Care: sun in moist to moist well-drained soil. Deer resistant and tolerates Walnut toxins
    Native: Quebec to Manitoba, TX to GA, Wisconsin native
    Wildlife Value: attracts hummingbirds

    Collected before 1750. Called Obedient plant because if you push a flower it will remain in place temporarily – like a child who stays in the corner until you’re not looking.

  • Podophyllum peltatum Mayapple, Hog apple, Mandrake Z 4-9

    White waxy cups in spring.  Ephemeral, dies back in summer.

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    White waxy cups in spring.  Ephemeral, dies back in summer.

    Size: 18" x 4' spreading by rhizomes
    Care: moist well-drained soil in full to part shade.
    Native: Quebec to Minnesota, south to Florida & Texas, Wisconsin native

    Named for its supposed resemblance to a duck’s foot (Anapodophyllum.)  Mayapple root used medicinally by Native Americans – for the Iroquois & Delaware as a laxative and purgative, to purify the body and expel worms.  Cherokee and Menomonee made the root’s juice to protect corn and potatoes from insects. Oneidas made a poltice for sores – cut every joint of root & bake half a day until brown then add water. Roots also used by Native Americans and early settlers as a purgative, emetic, “liver cleanser,” worm expellant, and to remedy jaundice, constipation, hepatitis, fevers and syphilis. Introduced 1664. You can hunt Morel mushrooms when Mayapples bloom.