Perennials & Biennials
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Potentilla thurberi Scarlet cinquefoil Z 5-9
Loose clusters of Cabernet-like reddish purple saucers - June to September.
Loose clusters of Cabernet-like reddish purple saucers – June to September. Valuable for both its long bloom and its dark red flowers.
Size: 30" x 12"
Care: full sun in well-drained soil
Native: Arizona & New MexicoPotentilla is Latin meaning powerful referring to medicinal properties. This species collected before 1880’s.
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Potentilla tridentata syn. Sibbaldiopsis tridentate Three-toothed cinquefoil Z 2-7
Clusters of white, single rose-like saucer flowers spring and early summer on this dainty-appearing perennial. Its glossy evergreen leaves tinge red in fall and winter.
Clusters of white, single rose-like saucer flowers spring and early summer on this dainty-appearing perennial. Its glossy evergreen leaves tinge red in fall and winter.
Size: 6" x 12" spreading by runners-can become a groundcover.
Care: sun in well-drained, acidic soil
Native: New England to Upper Great Lakes, north to the Arctic, Appalachian Mountains of Georgia, WI native.
Wildlife Value: source of food for Copper butterflies
Awards: Cary Award Distinctive Plants for New EnglandDescribed and named by Kew’s British botanist William Aiton in Hortus Kewensis 1789.
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Potentilla x tonguei Staghorn cinquefoil Z. 5-8
Apricot-yellow flowers with red centers bloom June-September
Apricot-yellow flowers with red centers bloom June-September.
Size: 6” x 12”
Care: Sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.This is a cross of P. anglica and P. nepalensis which took place naturally in a garden. This Cinquefoil has been in gardens since at least 1839. Potentilla is Latin meaning “powerful” referring to historic medicinal properties since Hippocrates. We love its long, colorful blooms and neat habit.
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Primula denticulata Drumstick primula Z 3-8
Spring-blooming ball, like a lollipop, purple or blue with a yellow eye, atop a leafless scape emerging from a base of wrinkled foliage
Spring-blooming ball, like a lollipop, purple or blue with a yellow eye, atop a leafless scape emerging from a base of wrinkled foliage,
Size: 12-18" x 12-18"
Care: Sun to shade in moist to moist well-drained soil.
Native: Afghanistan, N. Pakistan, across the Himalaya to Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou in China.
Wildlife Value: attracts butterflies, Deer and rabbit resistant.Collected by Dr. Frances Buchanan “in moist hills about Chitlong in Nepal.” Exotic Botany, vol. 2 (1805) Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828) who purchased the huge cache of Linneus’ collection and founder of the Linnean Society. Knighted by Prince Regent for contributions to science.
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Primula elatior Oxlip Z 4-9
Nodding trumpets of soft yellow flowers with a dark yellow center atop upright stems
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Nodding trumpets of soft yellow flowers with a dark yellow center atop upright stems
Size: 10” x 10”
Care: part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Europe
Wildlife Value: deer and rabbit resistant
Awards: Plant Select® Central Rocky Mountain region; Royal Botanical Society Award of Garden MeritPrimula is from Italian “primavera” meaning first spring. Elatior means “tall”, all things being relative it’s taller than some Primulas but not very tall. In gardens since at least 1765. According to Philip Miller, Gardener’s Dictionary 1768, “they are much used in medicine.” Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811.
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Primula japonica Japanese primrose, Candelabra primrose in Japan called Kurin-sou Z 4-8
White, red, pink or purple primrose flowers in early summer whorl around the leafless stem
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White, pink or purple primrose flowers in early summer whorl around the leafless stem ending in a many-flowered clump on top. Basal mound of crinkled foliage.
Size: 18”x 18”
Care: sun to part shade in moist, acidic soil. Moist soil important.
Native: Japan
Awards: Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant Pick.Introduced to Western gardens by Robert Fortune, English plant hunter, 1870 but Jan 1876 issue of The Garden reported that it was “introduced some years ago by Mr. Bull…” English plantsman, Listed in the 1873 catalog of Leichtlin’schen Gartens in Baden-Baden. Wm. Robinson called this “one of the best and most amiable of the species.” (1933)
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Primula veris Cowslip Z 3-8
Sunniest of yellow trumpet flowers announce the beginning of spring
Sunniest of yellow trumpet flowers announce the beginning of spring.
Size: 8" x 8"
Care: part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil.
Native: Europe
Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit and Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant PicksPrimula is Italian “primavera” meaning first spring. Veris is redundant, meaning flowers in spring. According to legend, Cowslip decorated the entrance to Norse goddess Fryda’s palace. The blossoms were used to make wine; a recipe from the 1700’s called for water, sugar, lemon juice, egg whites and a “peck of cowslips.” According to Culpepper, a 1500’s herbalist, cowslip extract made women more beautiful. Cowslip was a favorite Shakespearean plant. Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811. Jefferson received cowslip seeds in 1824. Pressed specimen in Emily Dickinson’s herbarium.
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Primula x bulleesiana Candelabra primrose Z 4-7
Blooms June-July, a rainbow of colors ranging from red, orange, rose, to cream, lavender and purple
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Blooms June-July, a rainbow of colors ranging from red, orange, rose, to cream, lavender, and purple
Size: 18-24” x 12-18”
Care: Sun to part shade in moist to wet well-drained soil
Wildlife Value: Attracts butterflies. Deer resistant
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit 1993Hybrid cross between Primula bulleyana and Primula beesiana (both parents are native to the Himalayas and China).
Collected in China, introduced to Britain in 1906
