Thalictrum dioicum Early meadowrue Z 5-9

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• Antennaria dioica Pussy toes Z 5-9

  Pale pink “pussy-toe”, resembling the pads of a kitten’s foot

  

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  Pale pink “pussy-toe”, resembling the pads of a kitten’s foot, flowers in early summer, great silvery-gray foliage, good groundcover and rock garden plant.

  Size: 2” x 18”
  Care: full sun in well-drained soil, drought tolerant
  Native: Temperate areas worldwide

  Antennaria from the Latin antenna originally referring to the mast of a sailboat.  Part of the flower supposedly resembles a butterfly’s antennae.  Historically used for medicine as an astringent, a cough remedy and to break fever.  First described by German physician and botanical author Leonhard Fuchs (1501-1566).  Gertrude Jekyll (1848-1931), mother of the mixed perennial border, planted this in her own rock garden at Munstead Wood and in the Sundial Garden at Pednor House in Buckinghamshire. The pink version, A. dioica rosea, collected in the Rocky Mountains by C.C. Parry before 1860.

• Lilium speciosum album Showy lily Z 4-9

  Large, nodding flower heads with recurved petals white, glowing pinkish in August, fragrant.

  

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  Large, nodding flower heads with recurved petals white, glowing pinkish in August, fragrant.

  Size: 3-4’ x 12”
  Care: Sun to part shade in moist, acidic soil

  Lilium was named for the Greek word for smooth, polished referring to its leaves.  This species introduced to Europe by Carl Peter von Thunberg around 1777.  Von Thunberg (1743-1828), student of Linnaeus at Uppsala University in Sweden. He made three trips to the Cape of Good Hope 1772-1775 where he collected about 1000 new species, Java and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1777 and 15 months in Japan  (1775-1777) where he befriended local doctors who gave him hundreds of plants new to Western horticulture.  He succeeded Linnaeus as professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala.  Knighted by Swedish King Gustav. Grown at America’s 1^st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811. L.H. Bailey (1935) highly recommended this lily as “(o)ne of the most beautiful and satisfactory of all lilies, robust, permanent (and) easily grown…”

• Asteromoea mongolica syn. Aster mongolicus or Kalimeris pinnatafida ‘Hortensis’ Japanese aster, Mongolian aster Z 3-9

  Covered with petite double white daisies, blooming for months –late summer-fall

  

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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)

• 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