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  Bushy plants bear showy, red-purple pea-like blooms age to rich purple in March-June.  Ephemeral, dying back in August when you can cut it back. Spring gem.

  Size: 12” x 12”
  Care: sun in north to shade in south, moist well-drained soil. Drought tolerant once established
  Native: No. Europe - Siberia
  Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit, Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant Picks

  Introduced to gardens before 1629.  Parkinson called it “Blew Everlasting Pease.”

• Buxus microphylla var. koreana syn. B. sinensis var. insularis

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  Size: 24” x 30”
  Care: Light to Part shade in well drained, alkaline soil. Do not crowd with other plants, roots prefer no competition. Fertilize regularly for dramatic growth. Prune in early spring. Unlike English boxwood this can be pruned back hard. One of a few shade tolerant evergreens and deer resistant too. Also the most hardy Boxwood.

  Introduced from Asia to American and European gardens around 1900 by Ernest Henry “Chinese” Wilson (1876-1930) who scoured Asia for plants.

• Crambe cordifolia Colewort Z. 5-9

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  Giant profusion of white flowers from late May to June

  Size: 7-8’ x 5’
  Care: full sun in well-drained soil
  Native: Caucasus

  First collected before 1863.  ”This is a stately and noble plant, with large heart shaped leaves.  The loose flower-heads, which are often 6 feet in height, and nearly as much through, are composed of myriads of small white flowers, which at a distance may be likened to a giant specimen of Gypsophila; it blooms during June and July.”  H.H. Thomas 1915.

• Amsonia hubrichtii Thread leaf amsonia Z 5-8

  Blue spring flowers, feathery green summer foliage and golden fall color

  

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  Amsonia hubrichtii  Thread leaf amsonia  Z 5-8
  An erect, clump-forming plant that is primarily grown for its blue spring flowers, feathery green summer foliage and golden fall color.  Powdery blue, 1/2″ star-like flowers appear in late spring atop stems rising to 3′ tall.

  Size: 2-3’ x 2-3’
  Care: full sun to part shade in well-drained soil
  Native: Ouachita Mountains in central Arkansas.

  First recorded in the 1770s as A. angustifolia, but later named Hubricht’s Amsonia, after Leslie Hubricht, an American biologist who re-discovered it in the 1940s.