Perennials & Biennials

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  • Iberis sempervirens Candytuft Z 5-9

    Profuse clusters of small, pure white flowers, each flower made of multiple small petals blooming in April and May on this evergreen subshrub.

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    Profuse clusters of small, pure white flowers, each flower made of multiple small petals blooming in April and May on this evergreen subshrub.

    Size: 6-12” x 24”
    Care: Sun in moist well-drained soil
    Native: Southern Europe
    Wildlife Value: nectar source for gray hairstreak butterfly
    Awards: England's Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.

    Iberis is Latin for Spain, “Iberia” the country where the plant was first discovered.   The common name “Candytuft” comes from Candia, Crete where the plant grew.  In 1623 English herbalist, John Parkinson (1567-1650) included the Candytuft in his Garden of Pleasant Flowers saying it: “is not so sharpe biting in taste…and therefore is not to be used in medicines.”

  • Iliamna remota Kankakee mallow Z 4-7

    Cup-shaped, 5 petaled, shell pink flowers along the 4-6’ tall stems, blooming much of the summer.

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    Cup-shaped, 5 petaled, shell pink flowers along the 4-6’ tall stems, blooming much of the summer.

    Size: 4-5' x 18"
    Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Endemic to Langham Island in Kankakee River, Illinois.

    Collected by Rev. E.J. Hill, minister and teacher, on June 29, 1872.  Botanist Edward Lee Greene (1843-1915) described and named it.  In Leaflets of Botanical Observation and Criticism Greene wrote that he collected this on Langham Island in August 1, 1899 after Rev. E.J. Hill “brought this plant to knowledge.” Vol 1, 1905 pp. 206-207. http://www.botanicus.org/page/396332. Later, invasive plants threatened this plant with extinction by crowding it. After years of work the Friends of Langham Island rescued this special plant.

  • Ipomopsis aggregata Standing cypress, Skyrocket, Scarlet gilia Z 4-11 Reseeding biennial

    Many attention-grabbing, cardinal red trumpets on a leafless spike in summer-fall gardens

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    Many attention-grabbing, cardinal red trumpets on a leafless spike in summer-fall gardens

    Size: 3-5’ x 12”
    Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
    Native: west from ND, south to TX to the Pacific Ocean, also western Canada
    Wildlife Value: attracts bees, Swallowtail butterflies and flocks of hummingbirds. Deer resistant.

    Hopi made it into decorations and dye.  Klamath children sucked its nectar from the flowers. Navajo remedied many ailments with this – spider bites. stomach ailments by induce purging. And they grew it for its beauty. Canada’s Salish washed their face, hair, and eyes with this.  Shoshone remedied pains of rheumatism by crushing the plants and applying it to the aches. Also a remedy sexually transmitted diseases,  itches, tonic for blood and induce vomiting,
    Collected by Meriwether Lewis on the Lolo Trail crossing the Bitterroot Range of the Rockies, June 26 1806. Named and described initially by Frederick Pursh in Flora Americae Septronalis Vol1 p. 147 (1813) from the plant collected by Lewis on the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

  • Iris ‘Monsignor’ syn. Anne’s Iris Z 3-9

    Classic purple iris with sunny throat and white stripes on the beard, blossoms in late May to early June

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    Classic purple iris with sunny throat and white stripes on the beard,  blossoms in late May to early June

    Size: 15" x 8"
    Care: moist well-drained soil in sun to part shade

    This Iris was growing in the gardens when we moved here in 1992. The property has been owned continuously by the Utter – Patterson family from 1880 until 1992.  Anne Patterson began gardening here in 1927 as a young bride, so I call these “Anne’s Iris.”  In June 2003 Anne turned 104 years old.  She passed away on August 1. Hybridized at French nursery Vilmorin-Andrieux et Cie, a legendary seed house started in late 1700’s.  Some firm members specialized in Irises from the 1880’s. The firm introduced ‘Monsignor’ in 1907, one of its earlier hybrids.

  • Iris ‘Spark’ Z 4-8

    Early blooming, intermediate bearded iris of brick-red standards and burgundy falls with a bright spark of a beard in the middle.

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    Early blooming, intermediate bearded iris of brick-red standards and burgundy falls with a bright spark of a beard in the middle.

    Size: 23” x 12”
    Care: sun in moist well-drained soil.
    Wildlife Value: Welcomes bees with easy access to pollen.

    Iris is named after the Greek goddess who accompanied the souls of women to the Elysian Fields by way of the rainbow.  Her footprints left flowers the colors of the rainbow. Iris means the eye of heaven. The iris is the flower of chivalry, having “a sword for its leaf and a lily for its heart.” Ruskin.   Spark hybridized and introduced by Col. J. C. Nicholls in 1931,

  • Iris ‘Wabash’ Z 3-8

    Pure white standards with deep purple falls edged in white and a bright yellow beard in late May-early June. “A new iris so far in advance of others of similar color combination that they are simply not in the race.” Cooley’s Gardens catalog, 1938

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    Pure white standards with deep purple falls edged in white and a bright yellow beard in late May-early June. “A new iris so far in advance of others of similar color combination that they are simply not in the race.” Cooley’s Gardens catalog, 1938

    Size: 39" x 8"
    Care: sun in moist well-drained soil. In July-August lift & divide every 2 to 3 years; discard mushy rhizomes.
    Wildlife Value: Deer and rabbit resistant.
    Awards: Dykes award (best iris in world) winner 1940.

     Iris is named after the Greek goddess who accompanied the souls of women to the Elysian Fields by way of the rainbow.  Her footprints left flowers the colors of the rainbow.   Iris means the eye of heaven. The iris is the flower of chivalry, having “a sword for its leaf and a lily for its heart.
    Hybridized by Mary Williamson in 1936, daughter of famed iris hybridizer E.B. Williamson. She became a renowned hybridizer in her own right. ‘Wabash’, is a cross of ‘Dorothy Dietz’ with ‘Cantabile.’

  • Iris ‘Polar King’ Z 4-9

    Pure white with yellow falls, reblooming iris.  Blooms spring and again in fall.

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    Pure white with yellow falls, reblooming iris.  Blooms spring and again in fall.

    Size: 34”x8” Vigorous & spreads by rhizomes.
    Care: Sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil. Plant with rhizome tops above soil. In July-August lift & divide every 2 to 3 years; discard mushy rhizomes. In fall cut back foliage to prevent moths from laying eggs of Iris borer.
    Wildlife Value: Deer and rabbit resistant.
    Awards: American Iris Society Award of Merit

    Iris is named after the Greek goddess who accompanied the souls of women to the Elysian fields by way of the rainbow.  Her footprints left flowers the colors of the rainbow.   Iris means “eye of heaven.” The iris is the flower of chivalry, having “a sword for its leaf and a lily for its heart.” Ruskin.   This hybrid bred by Thomas Donahue of Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts. He 1st showed it at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society flower show in October of 1931 where it won several awards.  Registered in 1939.

  • Iris cristata Crested iris Z 4-8

    Lavender, blue or white, short Iris blooming, in May, on this small, shade Iris, make a good shade groundcover

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    Lavender, blue or white, short Iris blooming, in May, on this small, shade Iris, make a good shade groundcover

    Size: 6” x 8" spreader
    Care: Part to full shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
    Native: Maryland to Georgia, west to Missouri
    Wildlife Value: Deer and rabbit resistant.

    Cherokee applied a salve of the pulverized root to ulcers and made an infusion to remedy liver ailments.  Collected by Rev. John Banister (1649-1692) who moved to colonial Virginia in 1678.  A gunman mistakenly shot and killed him while he collected plants.  Grown by Jefferson.