"New" Heirloom Plants
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Heuchera x brixoides ‘Caldwell’ Z 4-8
Small pink bells surround top 6” of the wiry, erect stems in late spring-mid-summer.
Small pink bells surround top 6” of the wiry, erect stems in late spring-mid-summer.
Size: 12-18” x 6-8”
Care: part shade in moist to moist well-drained soilI do not know which Heuchera this is. This was growing here when I moved here around 1995. We bought the property from spry 93 year old Anne Patterson, “for sale by owner.” I cannot imagine that she was buying new plants in her 90’s so I’m making an educated guess that it is at least 40 years old. It does not set seed, not unusual for a hybrid. But we like it so much that we’ve divided it several times over the last couple of years to make enough to sell. Try as I might I cannot identify it but I’ve narrowed it down to a hybrid called brixoides, of which there are innumerable different selections. I’ve named it ‘Caldwell” for the crossroads where our nursery is located, originally named for the 1st settlers, Joseph and Sara Caldwell c. 1860.
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Horminum pyrenaicum Dragonmouth, Pyrenean Dead-nettle Z 5-9
Deep purple salvia-like blooms in April to May above rosettes of wide, flat leaves
Deep purple salvia-like blooms late spring to early summer above rosettes of wide, flat leaves
Size: 8-16” x 12”
Care: Sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil. Drought tolerant.
Native: Pyrenees & Alps
Wildlife Value: Attracts bees, butterflies and birds. Deer and rabbit resistant.Before 1753, Linnaeus.
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Hosta ‘fortunei ‘Aureomarginata’ Z 3-9
One of the most popular Hosta varieties. Handsome, broad, ribbed, wavy, green foliage with yellow margins. Lavender, trumpet-shaped flowers rise on scapes above the leaves in summer.
One of the most popular Hosta varieties. Handsome, broad, ribbed, wavy, green foliage with yellow margins. Lavender, trumpet-shaped flowers rise on scapes above the leaves in summer.
Size: 12-16” x 18-24”
Care: shade to part-shade in moist well-drained soil. Tolerant Black walnut toxinsHosta named for Austrian botanist Nicholas Thomas Host (1761-1834) in 1812. This variety registered in 1987.
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Lobelia siphilitica ‘Alba’ z 4-8
A striking, erect spike of pure white blossoms opening from bottom up. On top club-shaped buds, below open flowers are trumpet-shaped made of a tube flaring open at the ends with the top of the flare looking like a quarter moon with the circle at the bottom and the lower divided into three, each segment pointed at the ends. Its fresh white blooms stand out in late summer to early fall.
A striking, erect spike of pure white blossoms opening from bottom up. On top club-shaped buds, below open flowers are trumpet-shaped made of a tube flaring open at the ends with the top of the flare looking like a quarter moon with the circle at the bottom and the lower divided into three, each segment pointed at the ends. Its fresh white blooms stand out in late summer to early fall.
Size: 2-3’ x 1-2’
Care: sun to part shade in moist or moist well-drained soil
Native: The blue form of this Lobelia is native from Connecticut to Wyoming, south to Texas then east to Georgia and all states in between. This may be native in the same locations as the species or it may not.
Wildlife Value: Deer resistant, attracts bees, hummingbirds and some butterflies.This white Lobelia is “An albino of occasional occurrence.” Britton, Nathaniel Lord “On the Naming of ‘Forms,’ in the New Jersey Catalogue” Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 17: 121,125. 1890
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Melampodium leucanthum Blackfoot daisy Z 5-10
No fail low mounds of up to 50 small white daisies spring-fall, atop narrow, hairy, grey-green leaves
OUT OF STOCK
No fail low mounds of up to 50 small white daisies spring-fall, atop narrow, hairy, grey-green leaves
Size: 6-10” x 12-20”
Care: sun to part-shade in well-drained soil. Its tap root reaches down for moisture and hair on foliage protects if from desiccating winds and sun - xeric plant
Native: Colorado, Oklahoma, TX &AZ (no wonder it likes well drained soil) but perfectly happy as far north as 20° below zero in winter.
Wildlife Value: birds eat seeds –pollen and nectar attract bees and butterflies. Deer resistantBotany professor John Riddell found this in Texas, Described in Flora of North America, 1842.
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Mimulus lewisii syn. Erythyranthe lewisii Lewis’ Monkeyflower Z 5-9
Bright rose trumpets with hairy yellow throats, flowers all summer
Blooming for months in summer, flower tubes of rosy-violet flowers with random maroon dots on the throats of the three lower lobes. The center lobe of the three bottom ones is, I call it, “bee-witching” yellow.
Size: 1-2' x 12"
Care: sun in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Alaska to California west to Wyoming and Colorado
Wildlife Value: Good bee pollinator, Yellow attracts bees looking for pollen.
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of MeritFirst collected by Meriwether Lewis on the Lewis & Clark Expedition “on the head springs of the Missouri, at the foot of Portage hill.”
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Nepeta subsessilis Japanese catmint Z 4-8
Showy bluish purple spikes of bell-shaped flowers, June-September
Showy bluish purple spikes of bell-shaped flowers, June-September
Size: 18-24” x 18-24”
Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Japan
Wildlife Value: deer & rabbit resistant, attracts butterfliesSubsessilis means nearly without stalks. Catmints contain various amounts of an essential oil (nepetalactone) both a cat stimulant and a mosquito repellant. From Nambu Japan where botanists called it Miso-gawa- sô. Von Siebold, German botanist and physician, who worked in Japan from 1823 to1830 saw it. Named in Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg, sér. 3, 20: 469. (1875) by Russian botanist Karl Maximowicz.
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Pimpinella major ‘Rosea’ Greater burnet, Cow parsley 5-8
Like Queen Ann’s lace but fear its invasion? Here’s a look-alike, pink perennial that won’t take over. It’s many branches, with lacy foliage, each with a pink umbel on an upright stem bloom in early to mid-summer depending on location.
Like Queen Ann’s lace but fear its invasion? Here’s a look-alike, pink perennial that won’t take over. It’s many branches, with lacy foliage, each with a pink umbel on an upright stem bloom in early to mid-summer depending on location.
Size: 3’-4’ x 2’
Care: sun to part-shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: Europe and Caucasus
Wildlife Value: attracts bees and butterflies. Its flowers are rich in both pollen and nectar.First described in literature in 1812 by German botanist David Heinrich (1760-1846) in Nouvelle Flore des Environs de Paris. He named it Pimpinella rubra. Since then botanists decided it’s a cultivar of the white-flowered Pimpinellla major and renamed it.
