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Summer, deep pink, fragrant flowers atop 6″ tall mounds of slender, silvery blue foliage.
Sun in well drained soil Z 3-8
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Summer, deep pink, fragrant flowers atop 6″ tall mounds of slender, silvery blue foliage.
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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 soil
Lilium was named for the Greek word for smooth, polished referring to its leaves. This species introduced to 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. Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811. 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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Spikes of cobalt blue hooded blooms September – October POISON
Size: 24-36”x 10”
Care: part shade in moist soil
Native: No. Japan, E. Russia, Korea, China
Wildlife Value: Deer resistant. Attracts butterflies.
The name Aconitum is from the mythical hill Aconitus in Pontica where Hercules fought with Cerberus. Philip Miller in The Gardener’s Dictionary (1768) wrote that the name Aconitum comes from Greek word for dart “because the Barbarians used to daub their darts therewith.” The Monkshood reputedly sprang from the jaws of Cerberus, the guard dog of the underworld. In China called “bao ye wo tou.” Wm. Robinson considered this one of the best monkshoods. Collected before 1820.
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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.
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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 Italy
Collected before 1861.