Rodgersia pinnata Rodger’s flower Z 5-8

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• Metasequoia glyptostroboides Dawn redwood Z 4-8

  Fast-growing, pyramidal-shaped deciduous conifer.

  

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  Fast-growing, pyramidal-shaped deciduous conifer.  The orange to brown trunk base tapers and thickens with up to a dozen large buttress-like root flares extending several feet up the trunk.  Feathery, fern-like, soft foliage emerges light green in spring, and turns red-bronze in fall before dropping.  Its branches are well-attached and make excellent climbing.

  Size: 70-90’ x 15-25’
  Care: sun in moist to moist well-drained, slightly acid soil
  Native: Szechuan China
  Awards: Royal Botanic Garden Award of Garden Merit, Yew Dell Botanical Gardens’ Theodore Klein Plant Awards & Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Gold

  From fossil records, dawn redwood is known to have existed as many as 50,000,000 years ago. However, it was not until 1941 that dawn redwood was first discovered growing in the wild near the town of Modaoqi China by Chinese forester, T. Kan. Seeds collected from the original site were made available to the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1947. Seedlings grown therefrom were planted in front of the Lehmann Building at MBG in 1952 where they have now developed into large mature trees (70’+ tall). Dawn redwood is a deciduous, coniferous tree that grows in a conical shape to 100’ tall. It is related to and closely resembles bald cypress (Taxodium) and redwood (Sequoia).

• Linaria purpurea Purple toadflax Z 5-9

  Violet racemes all summer July to September

  

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  Violet racemes all summer through fall

  Size: 36” x 12”
  Care: Sun, well-drained soil
  Native: Southern Europe

  Both the Latin and common names are related to flax.  Linaria comes from “linum” which is Greek for “flax” and toadflax includes the word “flax.”  The leaves of Linaria purpurea resemble flax leaves.  According to 17^th century English herbalist, John Parkinson, the plant “causes one to make water.”  Grown by English plantsman and explorer, Tradescant the Elder, 1634.

• Silphium perfoliatum Cup plant Z 3-9

  Golden daisies waive at the sun from July to September, its cup shaped leaves hold water where butterflies drink & bathe

  

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  Golden daisies waive at the sun from July to September, its cup shaped leaves hold water where butterflies drink & bathe

  Can not ship to: Connecticut and New York

  Size: 7’ x 3’
  Care: full sun to part shade in moist soil
  Native: Central North America, native to Wisconsin.
  Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit

  Sap used by Native Americans to chew and freshen breath.  Also used to cure colds, neuralgia, fever, and liver disorders.  The Chippewa used to stop lung hemorrhaging, menstrual bleeding and cure chest pain.  The Winnebago drank a potion from the plant to purify themselves before a buffalo hunt. For the Iroquois it cured paralysis, prevented children from seeing ghosts and illness caused by the dead.  Lakota Sioux: “Children sometimes use the resin as chewing gum. An infusion of the whole plant is used to rid horses and humans of intestinal worms. An infusion of the leaves is used to loosen phlegm in the lungs. Described and classified in 1753.

• Sempervivum tectorum Hens and chicks Z 3-10

  Rosettes of succulent leaves

  

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  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.)”