Description
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Chubby spikes of many clear blue-purple flowers blooming June-September. Deadhead to rebloom
Chubby spikes of many clear blue-purple flowers blooming June-September. Deadhead to rebloom
OUT OF STOCK
Chubby spikes of many clear blue-purple flowers blooming June-September. Deadhead to rebloom
OUT OF STOCK
Rosettes of succulent leaves
Size: 4” x 4”
Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: Alps & Pyrenees Mountains
Grown in gardens for thousands of years. Sempervivum means “live forever.” Romans planted Hens and chicks on their roofs to ward off lightning. As a succulent it holds water and is probably more difficult to catch fire. “This practice was preserved for historians when Charlemagne (720-814), first Holy Roman Emperor and unifier of a large part of northern Europe, ordered that all villagers within his crown lands plant houseleeks on their roofs, presumably as a safety measure. He decreed: Et ille hortulanus habeat super domum suam Iovis barbam. (And the gardener shall have house-leeks growing on his house. Capitulare de villis, about 795, LXX.)”
$12.95/bareroot
BuyDark pink-purple flowers from late spring to mid-summer
Size: 32” x 18”
Care: full sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: Europe
Wildlife Value: a favorite of Bumblebees
In Greek mythology Silene was a companion of Bacchus who was covered with foam. Dioicus means that male and female plants are separate. Described by 1750’s. Grown in American gardens since 1800’s
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BuyA WOW plant. Bodacious two-toned spikes of purple & lavender bracts, June to August. Even its leaves are attractive, glossy, deeply incised. Both flowers and leaves have thorny tips.
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Size: 3-4' x 2-3'
Care: Sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil.
Native: Italy & Turkey
Acanthus means “thorn” and spinosus means “spine” referring to the leaves. Grown since at least 5th century B.C. Inspiration for Corinthian column capital in architecture of ancient Greece and Rome
$9.95/bareroot
BuySpring – summer frilly, white “shirtbuttons”
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Size: 12-36”x 24”
Care: Full sun, well-drained to moist well-drained soil.
Native: North temperate regions
Ptarmica is Greek for sneeze because this plant used for snuff. English brides carried this at their weddings and called the plant “Seven years’ love.” Cultivated in Europe since the Middle Ages and in the U.S. since the 1700’s. The double form grown in English gardens by 1597. Philip Miller (1768) referred to this as “double Maudlin.” “The Pearl” described in the May 1905 edition of The Garden as “probably giving more satisfaction than any other white-flowered hardy perennial. The Pearl is a pearl indeed.”