Description
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Tiny green flowers bloom atop tiny spreading foliage in July and August.
Hernaria glabra Rupturewort Z 5-9
Tiny green flowers bloom atop tiny spreading foliage in July and August
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Aconitum fischeri Fischer’s monkshood syn. A. carmichaelii
Spikes of cobalt blue hooded blooms September – October
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.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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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.
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Koeleria glauca Blue hair grass Z 5-9
Erect spike-like panicles June thru August
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.Erect spike-like panicles June thru August, poke above a neat mound of erect, blue grass blades.
Size: 16" x 12”
Care: Sun in well-drained soil
Native: Siberia & Central EuropeCollected before 1800.
