Star-shaped crimson flowers August – September atop succulent red-tinged leaves that blaze all crimson in fall and winter.
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Star-shaped crimson flowers August – September atop succulent red-tinged leaves that blaze all crimson in fall and winter. Perfect for rock gardens, front of border, fairy gardens, roof gardens, troughs and groundcover or any place with drought.
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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
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Spikes of true blue blossoms touched with a hint of pink, May through September. Self-seeds readily, considered noxious weed in Washington. Bristly hairs on stems can cause skin irritation
Can not ship to: Idaho, Maryland and Montana
Size: 2-3’ x 12”
Care: sun in most any soil
Native: Europe.
Wildlife Value: Important pollinator for bees.
In past leaves boiled for a tea to remedy headaches and fevers. In mid-1700’s grew on chalky lands over most of England. Echium is Greek for Viper’s bugloss because a concoction of the root and wine supposedly cured snake bites or acc’d to Gardeners’ Dictionary 1768 “because the ripe seed of this plant resembles the head of a viper.”
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Covered with petite double white daisies with golden stamens blooming for months –late summer-fall.
Size: 2-3’ x 1-2’
Care: sun to part shade in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: Japan
Awards: Georgia Gold Medal 1998
Taxonomists had trouble naming this one. First described in French Journal Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. in 1882. A favorite flower of the late garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence who traced it to the grounds of the old Oxford Orphanage in Oxford NC. (1942)
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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.
