Dodecatheon meadia Shooting Star Z 4-8

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  Platycodon grandiflorus var. albus – Balloon flower  Z 4-9
  Balloon shaped buds opening to white bells in mid to late summer

  Size: 24" x 12"
  Care: Full sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil.
  Native: Eastern Asia
  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. Planthunter Robert Fortune found the white form in a nursery near Shanghai and sent it to England in 1845.

• Clematis texensis ‘Gravetye Beauty’ Z 5-9

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  Clematis texensis ‘Gravetye Beauty’ Z 5-9
  Small crimson-red bells dangle from July to September

  Size: 8’ x 3’
  Care: Full sun in humusy, fertile, moist well-drained soil. Mulch around the base. Flowers on current year’s stems so cut back to 6-8” in late winter or early spring.

  The genus Clematis was named by Dioscordes, physician in Nero’s army, from klema meaning “climbing plant.” The species 1^st collected by the “Father of Texas Botany” Ferdinand Lindheimer in 1830’s. Max Leichtlin of the Baden Botanic Garden sent C. texensis to Kew in 1880. French nurseryman Francisque Morel sent this selection to William Robinson. Robinson named it for his English nursery at Gravetye Manor in 1914

• Epimedium grandiflorum Barrenwort, Bishop’s hat Z 5-8

  White-lavender flowers in May atop wiry stems look like fantastical birds with too many wings, or a four-cornered bishop’s hat.

  

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  Epimedium grandiflorum   Barrenwort, Bishop’s hat    Z 5-8
  White-lavender flowers in May atop wiry stems look like fantastical birds with too many wings, or a four-cornered bishop’s hat.  Ornamental heart-shaped leaves and red stems.

  Size: 6-12” x 18” slow spreader
  Care: shade to part shade in well-drained to moist well-drained soil. Once roots established, valuable in dry shade
  Native: China, Japan & Korea

  Its Chinese name is “Yin Yang Ho” meaning “Licentious goat herb, “ because allegedly an aphrodisiac for goats!  In China & Japan thought to remedy impotence, liver ailments & all age related maladies.  In Western gardens since 1834.

• Chrysanthemum x rubellum ‘Mary Stoker’ Z 3-9

  Plants form a bushy mound of light green leaves, bearing loose sprays of large, single soft yellow daisies, blushed with apricot. Blooms mid-summer to early fall

  

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  Chrysanthemum x rubellum ‘Mary Stoker’   Z 3-9
  Plants form a bushy mound of light green leaves, bearing loose sprays of large, single soft yellow daisies, blushed with apricot.  Blooms mid-summer to early fall

  Size: 1-2’ x 2-3’ and spreading
  Care: Full sun to part shade, tolerates normal, sandy or clay soil
  Wildlife Value: Attracts bees, butterflies and birds. Deer resistant.

  One of the Korean hybrids, Hybridized in the 1930’s