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Mid-spring spikes of 2” pale blue star-shaped flowers rise over grass-like foliage
Camassia quamash Wild Hyacinth, Leichtlin’s Camass Z 4-8
Mid-spring spikes of 2” pale blue star-shaped flowers rise over grass-like foliage
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Hosta plantaginea ‘Grandiflora’ syn. H. plantaginea var. japonica, Funkia grandiflora Z 3-9
Fragrant white trumpets in late summer and early autumn
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.Fragrant white trumpets in late summer and early autumn
Size: 24” x 36”
Care: part sun, moist well-drained soil
Native: China
Wildlife Value: attracts hummingbirds
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.Hosta was named for Dr. Nicholas Host (1761 – 1834) physician to the emperor of Austria and expert on grasses. H. plantaginea was a popular Chinese plant as long ago as the Han Dynasty (202 B.C. – 220 A.D.) Chinese used an ointment made from H. plantaginea to reduce inflammation and fever. M. de Guines introduced H. plantaginea to Europe when he sent it to the king of France in 1789. Gertrude Jekyll, (1848-1931) mother of the mixed perennial border, recommended H. plantaginea ‘Grandiflora’ to keep border gardens looking “full and beautiful.”
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Lilium speciosum album Showy lily Z 4-9
Large, nodding flower heads with recurved petals white, glowing pinkish in August, fragrant.
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.Large, nodding flower heads with recurved petals white, glowing pinkish in August, fragrant.
Size: 3-4’ x 12”
Care: Sun to part shade in moist, acidic soilLilium was named for the Greek word for smooth, polished referring to its leaves. This species introduced to the Europe by Carl Peter von Thunberg around 1777. Von Thunberg (1743-1828), student of Linnaeus at Uppsala University in Sweden. He made three trips to the Cape of Good Hope 1772-1775 where he collected about 1000 new species, Java and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1777 and 15 months in Japan (1775-1777) where he befriended local doctors who gave him hundreds of plants new to Western horticulture. He succeeded Linnaeus as professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. Knighted by Swedish King Gustav. L.H. Bailey (1935) highly recommended this lily as “(o)ne of the most beautiful and satisfactory of all lilies, robust, permanent (and) easily grown…”
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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.
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Passiflora caerulea Blue passion flower Z 6-9
Exotic, large blossoms with an outer ruffle of petals and sepals
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.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 MeritSince at least 1753
