Aconitum fischeri Fischer’s monkshood syn. A. carmichaelii

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• Myosotis palustris syn. M. scorpioides Forget-me-not Z. 5-9

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  Small gentian flowers with golden eyes, spring into fall.

  Can not ship to: New Hampshire

  Size: 9-12” x 12”
  Care: sun to part shade in moist soil
  Native: temperate areas world wide

  “Myosotis” is Greek meaning mouse ear for the leaf shape.  Around 1390 Henry IV adopted soveigne vous de moy, Forget-me-not, as a symbol not to forget his reign.  A German legend attributes the common name to a lover who, gathering the flower, cried out “forget-me-not” as he fell into the river and died. Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote: “The sweet forget-me-nots; That grow for happy lovers.” Persian poet Shiraz told another folk tale: an angel fell from heaven by falling in love with a “daughter of earth,”when they sat by a river twining Forget-me-not flowers in her hair.  The angel was not allowed to return until the lovers planted Forget-me-nots in every corner of the earth, which they did, hand in hand.  She then became immortal “without tasting the bitterness of death” and joined the angel in Paradise.

• Campanula punctata var. rubriflora Z 4-9

  Dangling rosy purple bells hide their red spots inside the petals

  

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  Dangling rosy purple bells hide their red spots inside the petals – early summer

  Size: 12”x16” & spreading
  Care: Sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
  Native: Japan
  Awards: Top rated for ornamental traits and landscape performance by the Chicago Botanic Garden.

  Campanula is Latin meaning little bell. Punctata means spotted. In 1629 Parkinson described campanulas as “cherished for the beautie of their flowers.”  This variety collected in Japan before 1950.

• Passiflora caerulea Blue passion flower Z 6-9

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  Exotic, large blossoms with an outer ruffle of petals and sepals; an inner disc of concentric rings of blue, white and purple filaments; and a central “antenna.” From mid-summer through fall.

  Size: 15’ x 4’
  Care: sun in well-drained soil
  Native: So. America
  Wildlife Value: Host for several butterfly caterpillars
  Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit

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• Coreopsis rosea Pink tickseed Z 4-8

  Dainty (appearing but actually tough) pink daisies with yellow centers from summer through autumn, very long blooming. Wonderful for rock gardens, groundcover or front of border.

  

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  Dainty (appearing but actually tough) pink daisies with yellow centers from summer through autumn, very long blooming. Wonderful for rock gardens, groundcover or front of border.

  Size: 12” x 12” spreading
  Care: full sun in well-drained soil. Slow to emerge in spring.
  Native: Eastern No. America

  Coreopsis is Greek meaning “buglike” referring to the seeds looking like little black bugs.  Thomas Nuttall 1^st collected this flower in 1815 about 20 miles NW of Savannah along the river.  He described its native habitat: “in open grassy swamps from New Jersey to Georgia…” William Robinson, father of the mixed perennial border called this “a neat and pretty plant.”  In 1913 Sanders wrote that it “make(s) a brilliant display of color (when) grown in masses in sunny borders.”