Baptisia leucantha syn. Baptisia lacteata, Baptisia alba White Wild Indigo, Prairie wild indigo Z 3-9

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• Platycodon grandiflorus albus Balloon flower Z 3-9

  Balloon shaped buds opening to white bells, blooming mid-summer to early fall.

  

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  Balloon shaped buds opening to white bells in mid-summer to early fall.

  Size: 24" x 12"
  Care: Full sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil. Heat and drought tolerant. Deadhead for rebloom.
  Native: Eastern Asia
  Wildlife Value: attracts hummingbirds, bees & butterflies
  Awards: England's Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.

  
  Platycodon is Greek from platys meaning “broad” and kodon meaning “bell”, referring to the shape of the flower. Cultivated in China for hundreds of years where it is called Jie-geng.  Chinese used the root boiled to cure a chill in the stomach. Mentioned in Man’yoshu, a Japanese anthology of poems written in the 8^th century.  German botanist Johann Gmelin (1709-1755)  collected P. grandiflorus in Siberia in 1754.  Gmelin’s Siberian mission, sponsored by Catherine the Great, took 10 years and nearly killed him.  Gmelin introduced it to European garden cultivation by 1782.  Robert Fortune found the white form in a nursery near Shanghai and sent it to England in 1845.
  

• Tanacetum niveum Silver tansy, Snow tansy Z 5-9

  Profusion of small classic daisies May-July atop fragrant silver foliage. Cut back for rebloom. Let the seeds drop for more plants next year. If you cut them back after the 1^st flowering they will rebloom for most of the summer and fall.

  

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  Profusion of small classic daisies May-July atop fragrant silver foliage. Cut back for rebloom. Let the seeds drop for more plants next year. If you cut them back after the 1^st flowering they will rebloom for most of the summer and fall.

  Size: 2’ x 3’
  Care: sun in moist well drained soil
  Native: central & southern Europe

  Named by Carl Heinrich Schultz (1805-1867)

• Amsonia hubrichtii Thread leaf amsonia Z 5-8

  Blue spring flowers, feathery green summer foliage and golden fall color

  

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  An erect, clump-forming plant that is primarily grown for its blue spring flowers, feathery green summer foliage and golden fall color.  Powdery blue, 1/2″ star-like flowers appear in late spring atop stems rising to 3′ tall.

  Size: 2-3’ x 2-3’
  Care: full sun to part shade in well-drained soil
  Native: Ouachita Mountains in central Arkansas.

  First recorded in the 1770s as A. angustifolia, but later named Hubricht’s Amsonia, after Leslie Hubricht, an American biologist who re-discovered it in the 1940s.

• Campanula portenschlagiana Dalmatian bellflower Z 4-8

  Purple, upfacing bells for months in mid to late summer

  

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  Size: 4-6” x 20”
  Care: full sun-part shade in moist well-drained soil
  Native: Northern Yugoslavia
  Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit. Top rated for ornamental traits and landscape performance by the Chicago Botanic Garden & Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant Pick.

  Campanula is Latin meaning “little bell.”  This species named for one of its discoverers, Franz Edler von Portenschlag-Ledermayer (1772-1822). 1^st described in Systema Vegetabilium 5: 93 in 1819