"New" Heirloom Plants
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Semiaquilegia ecalcarata Spurless columbine, Z 5-9
Dainty mauvish, dusty pink columbine-like blossoms, without the tail, dangle above foliage in May-June.
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Dainty mauvish, dusty pink columbine-like blossoms, without the tail, dangle above foliage in May-June.
Size: 6-10” x 8”
Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil
Native: open woods and slopes in central China & TibetCollected before 1891. Named “Wu ju lou dou cai” in Chinese.
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Solidago sphacelata ‘Golden Fleece’ Golden Fleece Goldenrod Z 4-8
Dense horizontal golden panicles on this dwarf Goldenrod, August to September
Dense horizontal golden panicles on this dwarf Goldenrod, August to September
Size: 12-18” x 24”
Care: full sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: species SE US
Wildlife Value: Butterfly magnet Monarch, Viceroy & Painted ladies
Awards: Missouri Botanic Garden Award of Merit & Cornell University AllstarSolidago from solidus and ago meaning to bring together. Species collected by 1800’s but this cultivar selected by Dr. Richard Lightly at Mount Cuba Center in the 1980’s. OK, it’s not old but it is so different from all other Goldenrods that I couldn’t resist.
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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
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 WinnerCherokee 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.
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Synthyris missourica Mountain Kittentails Z 2-6
Deep blue elongated raceme that curls like a kitten’s tail. Round scalloped leaves hug the ground, with a few small leaves dotting the stalk before the flowers.
Deep blue elongated raceme that curls like a kitten’s tail. Round scalloped leaves hug the ground, with a few small leaves dotting the stalk before the flowers.
Size: 8-10” x spreads
Care: part shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: WA, ID, MT, OR and mountain slopes of N.E. CACollected by Lewis & Clark on June 26, 1806 from the headwaters of Hungry Creek in Idaho
