Description
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Dense spikes of buttery yellow in June, resembling Baptisia or Lupin with clover-like foliage.
Thermopsis caroliniana syn. Thermopsis villosa Carolina lupine Z 4-9
Dense spikes of buttery yellow in June, resembling Baptisia or Lupin with clover like foliage.
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Artemisia stellerana Beach wormwood, Dusty miller Z 3-7
Intricate, embroidery-like, felty-white foliage
Grown for its intricate, embroidery-like, felty-white foliage
Can not ship to: Maryland
Size: 24” x 12”
Care: sun in moist well-drained to dry soil
Native: naturalized in North America from Massachusetts to DelawareArtemisia named for the wife of Mausolus, king of Caria, who began using another Artemisia. Miller 1768. Collected from the wild by 1842. Recommended by Gertrude Jekyll to use on the edges of gardens, 1908 L.H. Bailey (1933) described it as “attractive for its whiteness. Useful for borders.”
**LISTED AS OUT OF STOCK BECAUSE WE DO NOT SHIP THIS ITEM. IT IS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT OUR RETAIL LOCATION.
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Aster alpinus Alpine Aster Z 5-7
Frilly little daisies, May-June, lavender, pink or white
Frilly little daisies, May-June, lavender, pink or white. Plant where they’ll be seen in the front of the garden. Also good in rock gardens
Size: 6-10" x 18"
Care: Full sun well-drained soil. Drought tolerant & tolerant of Black walnut toxins
Native: Rockies
Wildlife Value: attract butterfliesAster means star referring to the flower form. Collected by Drummond in the Rockies by 1800.
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Lathyrus vernus Spring vetchling, Spring pea, Spring vetch Z 4-9
Bushy plants bear showy, red-purple pea-like blooms age to rich purple in March-June. Ephemeral, dying back in August when you can cut it back. Spring gem.
Bushy plants bear showy, red-purple pea-like blooms age to rich purple in March-June. Ephemeral, dying back in August when you can cut it back. Spring gem.
Size: 12” x 12”
Care: sun in north to shade in south, moist well-drained soil. Drought tolerant once established
Native: No. Europe - Siberia
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit, Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant PicksIntroduced to gardens before 1629. Parkinson called it “Blew Everlasting Pease.”
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Sporobolus heterolepsis Prairie dropseed Zone 3 – 9
Mound of graceful thinnest of grass blades
The description in the Chiltern Seeds catalog cannot be improved: “This is the most elegant and refined of the North American prairie grasses …the finest texture composed of the thinnest of thin, thread-like, glossy green blades,.. in autumn turning deep orange before fading to a light copper for the winter. In late summer the plants bear, on very slender stalks high above the foliage, unbelievably delicate, graceful flower panicles, excellent for cutting.”
Size: 2’ x 2’
Care: Full sun in well-drained soil
Native: from Canada in the north to Texas in the south, Wisconsin nativeSporobolos is Greek from sporo meaning seed and ballein meaning to cast forth because the seed readily falls from the flower (or dropseed, the common name). Ojibwa “Medicine Society” used roots to cure sores & “remove bile.”
