Solidago graminifolia Grass-leaved goldenrod Z 3-9

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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.

• Chrysanthemum parthenium syn. Tanacetum parthenium Feverfew Z 5-9

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  Cheerful, small white daisies flower all summer and autumn.

  Size: 18-24” x 12”
  Care: Full sun moist well-drained soil
  Native: Europe and Caucasus

  Common name “Feverfew” speaks for itself, referring to the plant’s medicinal qualities. The species’ name parthenium comes from Plutarch who claimed that the plant saved the life of a construction worker who fell from the Parthenon.   Feverfew was prescribed to remedy coughs, indigestion, congestion, melancholy, hysteria, vertigo, freckles, opium overdoses and for “them that are giddie in the head.” Parkinson.  A favorite early cottage garden flower.   Pressed specimen in Emily Dickinson’s herbarium.

• Passiflora caerulea Blue passion flower Z 6-9

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  Exotic, large blossoms with an outer ruffle of petals and sepals; an inner disc of concentric rings of blue, white and purple filaments; and a central “antenna.” From mid-summer through fall.

  Size: 15’ x 4’
  Care: sun in well-drained soil
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  Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit

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• Campanula punctata var. rubriflora Z 4-9

  Dangling rosy purple bells hide their red spots inside the petals

  

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  Dangling rosy purple bells hide their red spots inside the petals – early summer

  Size: 12”x16” & spreading
  Care: Sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
  Native: Japan
  Awards: Top rated for ornamental traits and landscape performance by the Chicago Botanic Garden.

  Campanula is Latin meaning little bell. Punctata means spotted. In 1629 Parkinson described campanulas as “cherished for the beautie of their flowers.”  This variety collected in Japan before 1950.