Potentilla argyrophylla Cinquefoil Z 5-8

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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.

• Antirrhinum hispanicum ‘Roseum’ syn. A. glutinosum Perennial snapdragon, Spanish snapdragon Z 5-8

  Rose pink, with yellow above the lower lip, snapdragon-shaped blooms in spring, repeats in fall. Fuzzy, silver-grey foliage

  

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  Rose pink, with yellow above the lower lip, snapdragon-shaped blooms in spring and repeats in fall. Fuzzy, glaucous, silver-grey foliage. Excellent for places you want low-growing, drought tolerant flowers.

  Size: 12” x 2’
  Care: sun in well-drained soil
  Native: Spain & Morocco
  Wildlife Value: deer resistant, attracts hummingbirds

  Described in 1852 in Pugillus Plantarum Novarum Africae Borealis Hispaniaeque Australis

• Chaerophyllum hirsutum ‘Roseum’ Hairy chervil Z 5-7

  Airy rose-pink umbels like a short, pink Queen Anne’s lace, blooming in spring to early summer, compliment the fern-like apple-scented fragrant foliage.

  

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  Airy rose-pink umbels like a short, pink Queen Anne’s lace, blooming in spring to early summer, compliment the fern-like apple-scented fragrant foliage.

  Size: 24” x 12”
  Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil, cut back to refresh foliage and rebloom.
  Native: Spain to Greece
  Awards: Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant Pick

  Named from Greek chairo meaning “to please” & phyllon meaning “leaf,” so named “because the leaves, steeped in wine, and drank, will exhilarate and chear (sic.) melancholy persons… (it) grows naturally on the Alps, and the Helvetian mountains. …the stalk (is) terminated by large umbels of flowers, in which some plants are red and in others white…. These plants are preferred in botanic gardens for variety …” Gardeners’ Dictionary, 1768.   1^st Described by Swiss botanist Gaspard Bauhin in 1600’s.

• Aconitum fischeri Fischer’s monkshood syn. A. carmichaelii

  Spikes of cobalt blue hooded blooms September – October

  

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  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.