"New" Heirloom Plants

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• Spigelia marilandica Carolina pink, Woodland pinkroot Z 5-9

  Stems topped with showy red tubes and fireworks-like yellow, five-pointed stars flare  atop the tubes in  late spring to early summer  and later in the north.  Deadhead for rebloom

  

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  Stems topped with showy red tubes and fireworks-like yellow, five-pointed stars flare  atop the tubes in  late spring to early summer  and later in the north.  Deadhead for rebloom

  Size: 12-24” x 6-18”
  Care: part to full shade in most well-drained soil, tolerates wet soil
  Native: NJ to Fl west to TX
  Wildlife Value: nectar for hummingbirds; deer resistant
  Awards: 2011 Theodore Klein Plant Award Winner

  Cherokee used this to purge parasites from intestines. In garden by 1753. Philip Miller’s Dictionary “the plant “is esteemed as the best medicine (in North America) yet known for the worms.” (1768)  According to Jacob Bigelow in American Medical Botany, 1817 one doctor used it as a purgative and another as a narcotic.

• Tanacetum armenum syn. Leucanthemum armenum Snow daisy

  Dwarf subshrub covered with mound of silvery foliage and little white daisies in June to July

  

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  Dwarf subshrub covered with mound of silvery foliage and little white daisies in June to July

  Size: 5-6” x 8-10”
  Care: sun in well-drained soil
  Native: Turkey

  Collected before 1844

• Veronica officinalis Common speedwell Z 3-7

  Mat-forming perennial with spikes of blue flowers with darker blue stripes on the petals, May-August

  

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  Mat-forming perennial with spikes of blue flowers with darker blue stripes on the petals, May-August

  Size: 4-12” x 6”
  Care: sun in dry, well-drained soil
  Native: Europe and Asia
  Wildlife Value: attracts bees

  Used in European traditional medicine as a cough remedy and tonic as well as a salve. Used for centuries as a cure-all medicinal as long ago as ancient Rome.

• Veronica oltensis Turkish-leaf speedwell, Thyme-leaf speedwell Z 4-9

  Tiny azure flowers smother the ground in spring-early summer on this groundcover or rock garden plant, or grow in walkway crevices.

  

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  Tiny azure flowers smother the ground in spring-early summer on this groundcover or rock garden plant, or grow in walkway crevices.

  Size: 1" x 24" slow spreader
  Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil
  Native: Mountain valleys of Oltu and Coruh inTurkey.

  Described in literature in 1914.