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  Profuse golden yellow flowers from July through fall, slow to emerge in spring so don’t prematurely assume it’s gone. Very sweet yellow blooms over long period of time.

  Size: 4-6”x 12-15”
  Care: full sun in well-drained soil
  Native: Colorado & Kansas south to SW U.S.

  The name Zinnia honors German botany professor Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727-1759). This species 1^st collected by Edwin James, physician and botanist on the Long Expedition in 1820.

• Dicentra eximia Fringed bleeding heart Z 4-8

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  Wildlife Value: Nectar source for hummingbirds & White swallowtail butterfly.

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• Myosotis palustris syn. M. scorpioides Forget-me-not Z. 5-9

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  Size: 9-12” x 12”
  Care: sun to part shade in moist soil
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  “Myosotis” is Greek meaning mouse ear for the leaf shape.  Around 1390 Henry IV adopted soveigne vous de moy, Forget-me-not, as a symbol not to forget his reign.  A German legend attributes the common name to a lover who, gathering the flower, cried out “forget-me-not” as he fell into the river and died. Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote: “The sweet forget-me-nots; That grow for happy lovers.” Persian poet Shiraz told another folk tale: an angel fell from heaven by falling in love with a “daughter of earth,”when they sat by a river twining Forget-me-not flowers in her hair.  The angel was not allowed to return until the lovers planted Forget-me-nots in every corner of the earth, which they did, hand in hand.  She then became immortal “without tasting the bitterness of death” and joined the angel in Paradise.

• Echium vulgare Vipers bugloss Self-sowing biennial Z 3-8

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  Spikes of true blue blossoms touched with a hint of pink, May through September. Self-seeds readily, considered noxious weed in Washington.  Bristly hairs on stems can cause skin irritation

  Can not ship to: Idaho, Maryland and Montana

  Size: 2-3’ x 12”
  Care: sun in most any soil
  Native: Europe.
  Wildlife Value: Important pollinator for bees.

  In past leaves boiled for a tea to remedy headaches and fevers.  In mid-1700’s grew on chalky lands over most of England.  Echium is Greek for Viper’s bugloss because a concoction of the root and wine supposedly cured snake bites or acc’d to Gardeners’ Dictionary 1768 “because the ripe seed of this plant resembles the head of a viper.”