Description
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Creeping shrub, with tiny glossy leaves, pink flowers, and bright red berries
Vaccinium macrocarpon syn. Oxycoccus macrocarpus Cranberry Z 3-7
Creeping shrub, with tiny glossy leaves, pink flowers, and bright red berries
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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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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.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.
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Punica granatum var. nana Dwarf pomegranate Z 7-11
Adorable dwarf shrub bearing orange-red blooms in July and August then tiny, edible pomegranates. Where not hardy makes good container plant and bonsai.
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.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 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.” Missouri Botanic Garden. This dwarf described in 1803.
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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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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.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) -
Ceratostigma plumbaginoides Plumbago, Leadwort Z 5-9
Cobalt blue flower clusters with contrasting, showy red stems
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.Cobalt blue flower clusters with contrasting, showy red stems and calyces in late summer and fall. Foliage turns crimson in fall – excellent groundcover. One of the most award winning plants.
Size: 9-12” x 18”
Care: Sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: China
Awards: Five (5) of them! Georgia Gold Medal 2006, Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant Picks, Missouri Botanical Garden Plant of Merit, Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit, Oklahoma ProvenPlumbago is Latin meaning “lead” derived from use of the plant to treat lead poisoning. First collected by Russian botanist Alexander von Bunge in 1830 in Mongolia, then introduced by Robert Fortune who found it growing in Shanghi in 1846. “Bear a profusion of brilliant cobalt blue flowers (when) the leaves take on a distinct reddish tinge.” H.H. Thomas 1915.
