Description
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Iconic dark pink rays with orange-rust cones from mid-summer to fall
Echinacea purpurea Purple coneflower Z 3-8
Iconic dark pink rays with orange-rust cones from mid-summer to fall
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Potentilla argyrophylla Cinquefoil Z 5-8
Sunshine colored saucers with orange centers in early summer
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.Sunshine colored saucers with orange centers in early summer
Size: 24” x 24”
Care: sun in well-drained soil
Native: Nepal, China, Pakistan & AfghanastanPotentilla is Latin meaning powerful referring to medicinal properties. Argyrophylla means silver leaved. Potentillas used by dentists in the 16th century to reduce pain according to Gerard, English herbalist. Per Culpepper, 17th century English herbalist potentilla is to be used if Jupiter is ascending and the moon is “applying to him.” This species collected by 1831.
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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
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Asteromoea mongolica syn. Aster mongolicus or Kalimeris pinnatafida ‘Hortensis’ Japanese aster, Mongolian aster Z 3-9
Covered with petite double white daisies, blooming for months –late summer-fall
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.Covered with petite double white daisies with golden stamens blooming for months –late summer-fall.
Size: 2-3’ x 1-2’
Care: sun to part shade in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: Japan
Awards: Georgia Gold Medal 1998 Taxonomists had trouble naming this one. First described in French Journal Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. in 1882. A favorite flower of the late garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence who traced it to the grounds of the old Oxford Orphanage in Oxford NC. (1942) -
Antennaria dioica Pussy toes Z 5-9
Pale pink “pussy-toe”, resembling the pads of a kitten’s foot
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.Pale pink “pussy-toe”, resembling the pads of a kitten’s foot, flowers in early summer, great silvery-gray foliage, good groundcover and rock garden plant.
Size: 2” x 18”
Care: full sun in well-drained soil, drought tolerant
Native: Temperate areas worldwideAntennaria from the Latin antenna originally referring to the mast of a sailboat. Part of the flower supposedly resembles a butterfly’s antennae. Historically used for medicine as an astringent, a cough remedy and to break fever. First described by German physician and botanical author Leonhard Fuchs (1501-1566). Gertrude Jekyll (1848-1931), mother of the mixed perennial border, planted this in her own rock garden at Munstead Wood and in the Sundial Garden at Pednor House in Buckinghamshire. The pink version, A. dioica rosea, collected in the Rocky Mountains by C.C. Parry before 1860.
