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Brilliant spikes of buttercup yellow pea-like flowers June-July
Brilliant spikes of buttercup yellow pea-like flowers June-July
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Brilliant spikes of buttercup yellow pea-like flowers June-July
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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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Mounds of decorative, silver-edged foliage all summer with sunshine yellow button flowers in October to November
Size: 12-24” x 12-36”can pinch back in June to make compact
Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
Native: coasts of Japan
1st described by Japanese botanist Takenoshin Nakai in Botanical Magazine 42: 462. 1928.
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Adorable dwarf shrub bearing orange-red blooms in July and August then tiny, edible pomegranates. Where not hardy makes good container plant and bonsai.
Size: 2-4’ x 2-4’
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: Europe to Himalayas
“The plants will bear miniature fruit if grown in areas with year-round temperatures that rarely fall below 40° F. To grow indoors, moderate night-time temperatures should be given (50° to 60° F). Keep at 40° to 45° F in winter until new growth appears. In the growing period, keep moderately moist. Water sparingly from August on. This plant requires good drainage. Plants will bear fruit indoors if grown in a sunny exposure.” Issour Botanic Garden. It is deciduous and may lose its leaves.
This dwarf described in 1803.
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Rosette of thick silver-grey leaves with an inch-long terminal tip of each spine and offshoots, knowns as “pups” emerge near the base, even of young plants. Flowers only once & takes +10 years. In Z 5-6 plant in spring to get established.
Size: 18” x 18-28”
Care: sun in well-drained soil. We grow this in Z 5A on the south-facing side of a mound of well-drained soil, with a few large rocks nearby and gravel mulch.
Native: mountains of Arizona and New Mexico.
First Americans in the SW traded baked leaves and buds hundreds of years ago. Roasted stalks,baked buds & water mixed & fermented make pulque, further distilled to make mescal or tequila.