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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 SocietyShort-lived perennial, but self-seeds where happy. Described in 1849 by Pierre Edmond Boissier and Rudolph Friedrich Hohenacker.
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Agastache foeniculum Anise hyssop Z 4-8
Purplish-blue spikes from July to October, very fragrant, smells like anise.
Purplish-blue spikes from July to October, very fragrant, smells like anise.
Size: 2-3' x 12"
Care: Full sun in well-drained soil
Native: North America
Wildlife Value: Skipper butterflies love Anise hyssop’s nectar, deer resistant.The name Agastache is from Greek agan and stachys meaning much like an ear of wheat referring to the shape of the flower spike. Anise hyssop leaves were used by American Indians of the Missouri River region to make tea and as a sweetener in cooking. The Cheyenne used it to relieve chest pain due to coughing or to a dispirited heart. Listed hyssop as an aromatic herb in McMahon’s 1805 book.
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Ajuga genevensis Geneva Bugle Z 4-9
True blue 6” spikes in spring and early summer
Ajuga genevensis Geneva Bugle Z 4-9
True blue 6” spikes in spring and early summer. Great groundcover.Size: 6” x 12”
Care: full sun to shade in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: Europe
Wildlife Value: Tolerates foot traffic. Deer and rabbit resistant.William Robinson, father of the mixed perennial garden, called this “among the best.” (1933). In gardens before 1753.
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Alcea rosea Hollyhock BIENNIAL
Early to late summer spikes of single platters - mixed colors. The classic cottage garden flower.
Early to late summer spikes of single platters – mixed colors. The classic cottage garden flower.
Size: 5-8' x 24"
Care: Sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil. Drought tolerant
Native: West Asia
Wildlife Value: Butterfly plant, host for Painted Lady butterfliesCultivated in China for thousands of years where it symbolized the passing of time. They cooked the leaves for a vegetable and also ate the buds. Transported from Middle East to Europe by the Crusaders and introduced to England by the 1400’s. Culpepper, a 17th century English herbalist, claimed the plant could be used to cure ailments of the “belly, Stone, Reins, Kidneys, Bladder, Coughs, Shortness of Breath, Wheesing, … the King’s Evil,, Kernels, Chin-cough, Wounds, Bruises, Falls. . . (and) Sun-burning.” Both single and double forms grew in England by the time of Parkinson (1629). Parkinson said they came “in many and sundry colours.” John Winthrop Jr. introduced the 1st hollyhock to the New World in the 1630’s.
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Alcea rosea var. nigra Black hollyhock BIENNIAL Z 4-9
Early to late summer spikes of single jet-black/maroon platters.
Early to late summer spikes of single jet-black/maroon platters.
Size: 5-8’ x 24”
Care: sun in well-drained soil
Native: West Asia
Wildlife Value: Attracts bees, butterflies and birdsHollyhocks have been cultivated in China for thousands of years where it symbolized the passing of time. They cooked the leaves for a vegetable and also ate the buds. Transported from Middle East to Europe by the Crusaders and introduced to England by 1573. Grown in the Eichstätt Garden, the garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria, c. 1600. Culpepper, a 17th century English herbalist, claimed the plant could be used to cure ailments of the “belly, Stone, Reins, Kidneys, Bladder, Coughs, Shortness of Breath, Wheesing, … the King’s Evil,, Kernels, Chin-cough, Wounds, Bruises, Falls. . . (and) Sun-burning.” Both single and double forms grew in England by the time of Parkinson (1629). Parkinson said they came “in many and sundry colours.” John Winthrop Jr. introduced the 1st hollyhock to the New World in the 1630’s.
In the 1880’s Mr. W. Charter of Saffron Walden in England cultivated frilly doubles, now known as ‘Charter’s Doubles.’
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Alchemilla alpina Alpine lady’s mantle
short sprays of chartreuse-yellow flowers in early summer
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From a low mound of palmate, silvery-margined leaves with silver undersides emerge short sprays of chartreuse-yellow flowers in early summer. Will rebloom if cut back flowers after bloom
Size: 6-8” x 8-12”
Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Europe and southern GreenlandNamed by Linnaeus 1753. Philip Miller described this as having leaves “that are very white and deeply cut into five parts like a hand…” The Gardeners Dictionary 1783
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Alchemilla erythropoda Dwarf lady’s mantle Z 3-7
A miniature Lady’s Mantle for edging borders or growing in the rock garden. Short sprays of chartreuse flowers appear over a dense mound of scalloped light-green leaves that catch and hold rain or dewdrops
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A miniature Lady’s Mantle for edging borders or growing in the rock garden. Short sprays of chartreuse flowers appear over a dense mound of scalloped light-green leaves that catch and hold rain or dewdrops
Size: 6-10” x 9-12”
Care: Sun to shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: Eastern Europe
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of MeritYou might not transmute gold with Alchemilla, but foamy clusters of tiny, starlike flowers in yellow-green chartreuse bloom above scalloped, tooth-edged foliage. A contrast of forms and greens Alchemilla was used to collect dewdrops in the medieval preparation of the Philosopher’s Stone. We find the way moisture collects and moves like mercury on the pale green leaves always magical.
Described in Flora Kavkaza Flora Kavkaza in 1928.
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Alchemilla mollis Lady’s mantle
Petite chartreuse flowers cover foot long sprays
Petite chartreuse flowers cover foot long sprays in early to midsummer. Mounds of fan-like blue-grey foliage. Wonderful groundcover.
Size: 24"x S 30"
Care: Sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: East Carpathians, CaucasusNamed for alchemists, medieval chemists who believed they could transmute ordinary substances into gold. Dew drops beading on the fan shaped leaves were added to gold-making recipes. 16th century English medicinal uses included: cures for inflammation from wounds, bruises and flu, clot blood, aid conception and discourage miscarriages. Reputedly the plant also returned women to their former beauty of youth. Cultivated in U.S. since 1800’s.
