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  • Adlumia fungosa Allegheny vine, Climbing fumitory, Bleeding heart vine Biennial Z 4-8

    OUT OF STOCK Dangling pink to white Bleeding heart-like flowers bloom all summer, June-September. Fern-like foliage on twining stems...

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    Dangling pink to white Bleeding heart-like flowers bloom all summer, June-September. Fern-like foliage on twining stems

    Size: 6-10’ x 12”
    Care: part shade to shade in moist to moist well-drained, acidic soil
    Native: Nova Scotia to No. Carolina west to Minnesota Wisconsin native status-special concern
    Wildlife Value: attracts bumblebees

    1st described in 1789 (Aiton, Vol. 3 Hortus Kewensis).

Common Names of Plants

…geranium Geranium macrorrhizum Blackberry lily Iris domestica Black eyed susan Rudbeckia fulgida Black hollyhock Alcea rosea nigra Blazing star Liatris spicata Bleeding heart Dicentra spectabilis & ‘Alba’ Bleeding heart vine

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  • Dicentra spectablis syn Lamprocapnos spectabilis Bleeding Heart Z 3-9

    OUT OF STOCK From May through June legendary dangling, dark pink heart-shaped blossoms. One of the best....

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    From May through June legendary dangling, dark pink heart-shaped blossoms. One of the best.

    Size: 36" x 18"
    Care: Part shade to shade, moist well-drained soil.
    Native: Japan
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit

    Dicentra derived from Greek dis meaning “two” and kentros meaning “spurs” because the flowers have two spurs.  Spectabilis means “worthy of notice.” The Bleeding heart was a favorite garden plant in China for centuries before its discovery by Europeans.  Introduced to the West in 1846 after Robert Fortune found it growing on the Island of Chusan and sent it to the Horticultural Society of London.  It became an immediate sensation in England.  By 1866 the Bleeding heart was available in America.

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  • Celastrus scandens Bittersweet, Staff vine VINE Z 4-8

    ...plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use. Conspicuous orange fruit in autumn, persisting into winter on the females of this vigorous native vine....

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    Conspicuous orange fruit in autumn, persisting into winter on the females of this vigorous native vine.

    Size: 20-30' x 6'
    Care: full sun to part shade in any soil except wet. Prune by cutting back fruiting branches in late winter and pinch back branches throughout summer.
    Native: Eastern half of North America west to South Dakota and south to New Mexico, Wisconsin native

    Name Celastrus derived from Greek “kelastros”.  In the mid-1800’s an ointment made from a half pound of Bittersweet root bark simmered with one pound of lard remedied “swelled breasts, discuss or drive away tumors or swellings and also for piles.”   Cherokee drank a tea for stomach ailments, chewed the root to cure coughs and washed away bad smells with Bittersweet.  HoChunk included the root in a compound to cure colds. 1st collected by Rev. John Banister who moved to colonial Virginia in 1678.  A gunman mistakenly shot and killed him while he collected plants.  For sale in Bartram Garden’s 1783 Broadside, America’s 1st plant catalog.

  • Dicentra eximia syn Lamprocapnos , Fringed bleeding heart Z 4-8

    OUT OF STOCK May to October dangling rose pink heart-shaped panicles among fern-like, grey-green foliage. They appear delicate but are not....

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    May to October dangling rose pink heart-shaped panicles among fern-like, grey-green foliage.  They appear delicate but are not.

    Size: 8” x 8”
    Care: Part shade, moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Mountains from New York to Georgia
    Wildlife Value: Nectar source for hummingbirds & White swallowtail butterfly.

    Dicentra derived from Greek dis meaning two and kentros meaning spurs. Introduced to gardens by Quaker planthunter and nurseryman John Bartram (1699-1777) in mid-1700’s.   Recommended by Gertrude Jekyll, mother of mixed perennial borders, in 1908.

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  • Dicentra spectablis Alba syn Lamprocapnos spectabilis White bleeding heart Z 3-9

    May – June Legendary dangling alabaster, heart shaped blossoms. One of the best....

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    May – June Legendary dangling alabaster, heart shaped blossoms. One of the best.

    Size: 36" x 18"
    Care: Part shade to shade in moist well-drained soil.
    Native: Japan

    Dicentra derived from Greek dis meaning “two” and kentros meaning “spurs.” The white form in gardens in the West 1877.

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…His forays were extremely successful introducing many plants, Callicarpa dichtoma, Beauty berry;Pinus bungeanus, Lacebark pine; numerous tree peony cultivars, Dicentra spectabilis, Bleeding heart, Balloon Flower; and Anemone hupehensis var. japonica,…

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  • Campsis radicans Trumpet vine Z 5-9

    Mid summer into autumn – huge, gorgeous orange trumpets on vigorous vine...

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    Mid summer into autumn  – huge, gorgeous orange trumpets on vigorous vine

    Size: 30’ x 3’ at base
    Care: sun moist well-drained soil
    Native: PA to IL & south as far as Florida
    Wildlife Value: Hummingbird magnet.

    In garden cultivation in America since 1600’s.  Collected in 1640’s by English gardener Tradescant the Younger. John Bartram grew it in his Philadelphia nursery nearly 300 years ago.  Campsis is derived from the Greek word kampsis referring to the flower’s curved stamens.  Radicans from radicant meaning “having rooted stems.” The bloom is “a most splendid sight,” according to Breck in 1851.  Per Liberty Hyde Bailey in 1912: “The native trumpet creeper is very common in the southern woodlands and fields (with) a great variety in brilliancy of the blossoms.  This is an excellent plant for covering the bare trunks of palmettos.”  Pressed specimen in Emily Dickinson’s herbarium.

  • Schizophragma hydrangeoides ‘Rosea’ Pink Japanese hydrangea vine Z 5-8

    ...resembling lacecap hydrangeas, with creamy-white flowers surrounded by showy bracts that age to rosy pink, blooming in July & August & its sepals remain conspicuous long after. Heart-shaped foliage turns...

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    Deciduous woody climber clinging by adhesive, aerial roots, with showy flower-heads resembling lacecap hydrangeas, with creamy-white flowers surrounded by showy bracts that age to rosy pink, blooming in July & August & its sepals remain conspicuous long after. Heart-shaped foliage turns yellow in fall.

    Size: 20-30’ x 6-9’
    Care: part shade to shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Japan where they “climb the trunks of tall trees and blossom among the lower limbs.” Arnold Arboretum Bulletin 1933.
    Wildlife Value: Deer resistant.
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.

    ‘Rosea’ found by English planthunter Charles Maries c. 1878, collecting for London’s Veitch Nursery and referred to in The Book of Climbing Plants and Wall Shrubs, Samuel Arnett 1902.

February 23, 2018

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…grayi Gray’s sedge Cercis canadensis Redbud Chasmanthium latifolium Northern sea oats Clematis – all Cornus alternifolia Pagoda dogwood Dicentra – all- Bleeding heart Echinacea purpurea Purple coneflower Eryngium yuccifolium Rattlesnake…

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