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• Aconitum napellus ‘Albus’ White Monkshood, Wolfsbane Z 4-8 POISON

  Purest of white hooded blooms flowering along spikes in mid to late summer

  

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  Purest of white hooded blooms flowering along spikes in mid to late summer

  Size: 2-3” x 18-24”
  Care: part shade, cool, moist soil
  Native: Europe

  The name Aconitum is from the mythical hill Aconitus in Pontica where Hercules fought with Cerberus. The Monkshood reputedly sprang from the jaws of Cerberus, the guard dog of the underworld. Believed to make a potion that helped witches fly. This was identified by Dioscordies in De Materica Medica for medicinal use around 70 A.D. Philip Miller in The Gardener’s Dictionary (1768) wrote that the name Aconitum comes from Greek word for dart “because the Barbarians used to daub their darts therewith.” He also considered “in flower it makes a pretty appearance.”Used by physicians in 1200’s and to poison wolves: “This Wolf’s bayne of all poisons is the most hastie poison.” Wm. Turner, 1560’s. Called Monkshood due to the shape of each flower like a monk’s hood.
  This white variety in English gardens before 1768, Philip Miller’s Garden Dictionary

• Adiantum aleuticum Western Maidenhair Fern Z 3-9

  Bright green fronds perch atop black stems like the fingers of an open hand

  

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  Bright green fronds perch atop black stems like the fingers of an open hand

  Size: 30” x 30”
  Care: shade in moist, well-drained soil
  Native: East and west of the Cascade Mountains and is also found scattered along the eastern seaboard
  Wildlife Value: Deer resistant
  Awards: Elisabeth C Miller Great Plant Pick, Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit

  According to folklore if a girl can hold the stem without causing the leaves to tremble, then she was chaste.
  Natives used the stems in basketry designs and made tea from the leaves to use as a hair wash.  Quinault burnt the leaves and rubbed ashes in their hair to make it long, shiny and black.  California Natives used the stems for pierced earrings, inserting them into the ear lobe to keep the hole from closing. They chewed the leaves to remedy internal wounds, chest pain, or stomach trouble and made a cough syrup from it.

• Aethionema grandiflorum Persian stonecress Z 5-8

  Bushy, low growing perennial with blue-green leaves and spikes of fragrant pink to lavender flowers, June-July

  

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  Bushy, low growing perennial with blue-green leaves and spikes of fragrant pink to lavender flowers, June-July

  Size: 6-12” x 12-18”
  Care: full sun in well-drained soil. Drought tolerant.
  Native: Iran, Iraq, Caucasus, Turkey
  Wildlife Value: attracts honeybees & other pollinators, Deer & Rabbit resistant.
  Awards: Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society

  Short-lived perennial, but self-seeds where happy. Described in 1849 by Pierre Edmond Boissier and Rudolph Friedrich Hohenacker.

• Agastache aurantiaca Navajo sunset Z 5-9

  Brilliant light orange blooms from spring-fall, silvery-grey aromatic foliage

  

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  Agastache aurantiaca   Navajo sunset   Z 5-9
  Brilliant light orange blooms from spring-fall, silvery-grey aromatic foliage

  Size: 12-18” x 24”
  Care: sun in well-drained soil
  Native: Western US
  Wildlife Value: attracts bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and birds. Deer and rabbit resistant

  Published in American Midland Naturalist 1945.