Description
Bright pink to lilac purple flowers June-September atop red stems covered in willow-like leaves
Epilobium angustifolium syn. Chamaenerion angustifolium Fireweed Z 2-7
$9.95/barerootBright pink to lilac purple flowers June-September atop red stems covered in willow-like leaves
Related products
-
Campanula portenschlagiana Dalmatian bellflower Z 4-8
Purple, upfacing bells for months in mid to late summer
Campanula portenschlagiana Dalmatian bellflower Z 4-8
Purple, upfacing bells for months in mid to late summerSize: 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.” In 1629 Parkinson described campanulas as “cherished for the beautie of their flowers.” This species named for one of its discoverers, Franz Edler von Portenschlag-Ledermayer (1772-1822). 1st described inSystema Vegetabilium 5: 93 in 1819. Listed in Sanders’ Flower Garden in 1913.
-
Agave parryi Mescal agave, Parry’s agave, Century plant Z 5 (with care) – 10
Rosette of thick silver-grey leaves with an inch-long terminal tip of each spine
Agave parryi Mescal agave, Parry’s agave, Century plant, kwa ni in Hopi Z 5 (with care) – 10
Rosette of thick silver-grey leaves with an inch-long terminal tip of each spine and offshoots, knowns as “pups” emerge near the base, even of young plants. Flowers only once & takes +10 years. In Z 5-6 plant in spring to get established.Size: 18” x 18-28”
Care: sun in well-drained soil. We grow this in Z 5A on the south-facing side of a mound of well-drained soil, with a few large rocks nearby and gravel mulch.
Native: mountains of Arizona and New Mexico.First Americans in the SW traded baked leaves and buds hundreds of years ago. Roasted stalks,baked buds & water mixed & fermented make pulque, further distilled to make mescal or tequila.
-
Limonium minutum Dwarf statice Z 5-9
All summer long, droves of lavender blossoms above a mini pillow of spoon-shaped, glossy foliage.
OUT OF STOCK
Limonium minutum Dwarf statice Z 5-9
All summer long, droves of lavender blossoms above a mini pillow of spoon-shaped, glossy foliage.Size: 6-8” x 6-8”
Care: sun in well-drained soil
Native: southeast France on limestone seacliffs
Wildlife Value: deer resistant, salt tolerantDescribed by Linnaeus, 1753. The name Limoniuim comes from the Greek word for meadow.
-
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
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 fallSize: 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
