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Yellow pea like flowers with red veins June- August
Ononis natrix Yellow restharrow Z 4-8
Yellow pea like flowers with red veins June- August
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Cynara cardunculus Cardoon Z 7-9
Spectacular basal foliage - arching, silvery, deeply incised leaves, Late summer-fall spiny buds open to rich purple feathery flowers.
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.In colder areas grow as annual
Spectacular basal foliage – arching, silvery, deeply incised leaves. Late summer-fall spiny buds open to rich purple feathery flowers.Size: 3-4’ x 3-4’
Care: sun in moist well-drained to well-drained soil. Cut off flowers immediately after flowering to bring on new foliage, gorgeous into late fall.
Native: Southern EuropeThe leaf stems, blanched, are also edible. Bridgemen, The Young Gardeners Assistant (1847)
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Veronica allionii Alpine speedwell Z 2-9
Purple-blue spikes bloom from early to late summer
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.Purple-blue spikes bloom from early to late summer
Size: 4-6” x 8-12”
Care: sun, moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: AlpsDescribed in 1779 in Prosp. Hist. Pl. Dauphiné
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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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Zinnia grandiflora Rocky Mountain Zinnia SUBSHRUB Z. 4-9
Profuse golden yellow flowers from July through fall, slow to emerge in spring so don't prematurely assume it's gone.
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.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 1st collected by Edwin James, physician and botanist on the Long Expedition in 1820.
