Description
Bright green fronds perch atop black stems like the fingers of an open hand
Adiantum aleuticum Western Maidenhair Fern Z 3-9
$12.95/barerootBright green fronds perch atop black stems like the fingers of an open hand
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Cynara cardunculus Cardoon Z 7-9
Spectacular basal foliage - arching, silvery, deeply incised leaves, Late summer-fall spiny buds open to rich purple feathery flowers.
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.In colder areas grow as annual
Spectacular basal foliage – arching, silvery, deeply incised leaves. Late summer-fall spiny buds open to rich purple feathery flowers.Size: 3-4’ x 3-4’
Care: sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil. Cut off flowers immediately after flowering to bring on new foliage, gorgeous into late fall.
Native: Southern EuropeThe leaf stems, blanched, are also edible. Bridgemen, The Young Gardeners Assistant (1847)
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Carex davalliana Bath’s sedge, Davall’s sedge Z 4-8
Short hedge-hog like clump with white flowers
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.Short hedge-hog like clump with white flowers turning to bronzy spiked seedheads May-June. Best for rock, railroad or fairy gardens – anyplace for a miniature, clumping grass.
Size: 6” x 12”
Care: sun to light shade in moist soil
Native: wet places in Europe and western No. AmericaCollected before 1798 by Edmund Davall who botanized in Switzerland.
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Zinnia grandiflora Rocky Mountain Zinnia SUBSHRUB Z. 4-9
Profuse golden yellow flowers from July through fall, slow to emerge in spring so don't prematurely assume it's gone.
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.Profuse golden yellow flowers from July through fall, slow to emerge in spring so don’t prematurely assume it’s gone. Very sweet yellow blooms over long period of time.
Size: 4-6”x 12-15”
Care: full sun in well-drained soil
Native: Colorado & Kansas south to SW U.S.The name Zinnia honors German botany professor Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727-1759). This species 1st collected by Edwin James, physician and botanist on the Long Expedition in 1820.
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Sesleria nitida Nest Moor grass Z 5-8
Spike-like panicles of white turn purple atop mounds of gray-blue blades
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.In early spring, about the time Robins appear, spike-like panicles of white turn purple atop mounds of gray-blue blades
Size: 24”x16”
Care: sun to part shade in most any soil
Native: central and southern ItalyCollected before 1861.
