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  • Clematis ternifolia Sweet Autumn clematis Z 4-8

    Fragrant, small white blossoms smother this vigorous vine in September and October. Can not ship to: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and...

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    Fragrant, small white blossoms smother this vigorous vine in September and October.

    Can not ship to: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.

    Size: 15-20’ x 6-10’
    Care: Sun moist well-drained soil mulched. Flowers on current year’s wood. Cut back in early spring to 6-8” above the soil.
    Native: Japan

    The genus Clematis was named by Dioscordes, physician in Nero’s army, from “klema” meaning climbing plant.  In 1877 seeds of this vine sent from Russia to the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, then distributed to nurseries throughout America.

  • Aristolochia durior syn. A. macrophylla, A sipho Dutchman’s pipe, Birthwort Z 4-8

    Yellow, mottled brown flowers like Meerschaum pipes in May – June, mostly grown for heart-shaped leaves on this vigorous climber (climbs by twining). Perfect for creating a screen on pergolas,...

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    Yellow, mottled brown flowers like Meerschaum pipes in May – June, mostly grown for heart-shaped leaves on this vigorous climber (climbs by twining). Perfect for creating a screen on pergolas, arbors and fences.

    Size: 20-30’ x 2’ at ground, 20’ on top.
    Care: sun to shade (one of few vines for shade) in moist well-drained to moist soil. Prune to encourage branching.
    Native: Maine to Georgia, west to KS.
    Wildlife Value: host Pipevine swallowtail butterfly

    Aristolochia is Greek for easing childbirth. Cherokee applied decoction of root for swollen legs & feet. Collected by Colonial nurseryman John Bartram and sent to England in 1763. Sold in America’s 1st plant catalog, Bartram’s Broadside, 1783. In Colonial and Victorian gardens, popular vine to create privacy and shade

  • Clematis  ‘Madame Julia Correvon,’  Z 4-9

    Rich-red petal-like tepals 3-4” across bloom from June to September, encircling yellow stamens, on this vigorous, climbing vine...

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    Rich-red petal-like tepals 3-4” across bloom from June to September, encircling yellow stamens, on this vigorous, climbing vine

    Size: 12’ x 3-6’
    Care: Sun to part shade in moist, well-drained soil. Cut back in early spring about 1’ above the soil level and just above a a pair of buds.
    Wildlife Value: deer and rabbit resistant. Walnut tolerant. Attracts bees and butterflies.
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit

    Francisque Morel, Clematis breeder in Lyon France, grew this Clematis in 1900 from a cross of Clematis viticella ‘Rubra grandiflora’ and Clematis ‘Ville de Lyon,’ Named for the wife of the award-winning Geneva Switzerland nurseryman and author specializing in alpine plants, Henri Correvon (1855-1935). Nurseries at at 2 Chemin Dancet, 2 Plainpalais and Chêne-Bourg. Obituary https://www.nature.com/articles/144183b0.

  • Hydrangea petiolaris syn. Hydrangea anomala petiolaris Climbing hydrangea Z 4-8

    ARCHIVED Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use. Big white lacecap flowers blanket this climbing vine in early summer....

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    Big white lacecap flowers blanket this climbing vine in early summer.

    Size: 40’ x 5-10’
    Care: sun or shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Japan & Korea
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit

    Collected by German physician and botanist Philipp Franz von Siebold in Japan during his residency on Nagaski working for the Dutch trading post there, 1823-1829. He introduced more then 2000 Japanese plants to Europe.  1st described in Flora Japonica 1839

  • Clematis fremontii Fremont’s leatherflower Z 4-7

    OUT OF STOCK Purple to white nodding bells with petal tips flipped up on this short perennial – not a vine...

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    Purple to white nodding bells with petal tips flipped up on this short perennial – not a vine

    Size: 12-18” x 12”
    Care: sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Missouri, Kansas & Nebraska

    1st collected by John C. Fremont (1813-1890) celebrated American explorer, instigator of the “Bear Revolt” that made California independent from Mexico. Governor, then senator of California, owner of California gold mine, abolitionist (“free soil” Republican), leader of soldiers who massacred Native Americans, 1st candidate for president on the Republican ticket and Civil War general fired by Lincoln for freeing the slaves of Missouri.  After accumulating fabulous wealth (gold mine) and spending it all, he died in poverty in New York. I call him the most interesting American you never heard of.

  • Viola corsica Corsican violet Z 4-8

    ARCHIVED Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use. Rare species violet. Clouds of blue violets with veined heart leading...

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    Note: This is a plant not currently for sale.  This is an archive page preserved for informational use.

    Rare species violet. Clouds of blue violets with veined heart leading to tiny yellow centers from late spring thru fall-blooms its head off. Reliably perennial. More heat tolerant than pansies.

    Size: 5-7” x 8-10”
    Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil.
    Native: Corsica

    1st described by Swedish botanist Carl Fredrik Nyman before 1893.

  • Heptacodium miconioides Seven son flower Z 5-9

    ...red-brown peeling bark and glossy heart-shaped leaves. “Avant Gardener” newsletter September 2011, calls it the “two-bloom tree,” saying, “more and more praise is being lavished on a rare late-flowering shrub/tree...

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    Fragrant white flowers August–September then in October clusters of burgundy-red calyces surround the fruit capsules as showy as the flowers on this large shrub or small tree.  Ornamental tan and red-brown peeling bark and glossy heart-shaped leaves.  “Avant Gardener” newsletter September 2011, calls it the “two-bloom tree,” saying, “more and more praise is being lavished on a rare late-flowering shrub/tree … even more showy (than the panicles of fragrant white flowers) is its ‘second bloom’, consisting of red-purple calyxes which remain after the flowers fall…well into October.”

    Size: 15’ x 10-12’
    Care: sun in moist to moist well-drained soil, drought tolerant. Prune in late winter to make it bushy, maintain shape or reduce size, if you wish.
    Native: China
    Wildlife Value: Attracts butterflies & bees, Deer resistant. Salt tolerant.
    Awards: 2011 Great Plants Shrub of the Year; 2008 Plant Select®; Cary Award Distinctive Plants for New England & Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Gold, Missouri Botanical Garden Plant of Merit

    Hepta means seven because each inflorescence has 7 flowers, and codium means flower. Collected initially by E H Wilson in 1907 at about 3000 feet in Hupeh Province.  Rare in its native China.

  • Campanula ochroleuca Bellflower Z 4-7

    ...covered with fine hairs with five, flared petal-ends surrounding ivory stamens and pistil along erect to arching stems. Blooms June-July on slow-spreading, clump-forming rosettes of hairy, heart-shaped or triangular leaves....

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    Ivory, rocket-shaped buds open to bell-like blossoms covered with fine hairs with five, flared petal-ends surrounding ivory stamens and pistil along erect to arching stems. Blooms June-July on slow-spreading, clump-forming rosettes of hairy, heart-shaped or triangular leaves.

    Size: 12-18” x 12-15”
    Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
    Native: Caucasus
    Wildlife Value: provides pollen to bees and butterflies, rabbit resistant

    First described in a published document in 1949.

  • Symphyandra pendula Bellflower Z 5-8

    OUT OF STOCK Panicles of creamy white bell-shaped flowers dangle over heart-shaped foliage March-June...

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    Panicles of creamy white bell-shaped flowers dangle over heart-shaped foliage March-June

    Size: 20” x 12”
    Care: Full to part sun in well-drained soil
    Native: Caucasus
    Wildlife Value: attracts bees, butterflies and birds

    Collected before 1830

  • Dracocephalum rupestre in China mao jian cao Z 4-8

    True deep blue, hooded flowers rise above heart-shaped, crinkled foliage in the heat of mid-summer

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    True deep blue, hooded flowers rise above heart-shaped, crinkled foliage in the heat of mid-summer

    Size: 12’ X 12”
    Care: sun to part shade in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Western China in alpine meadows and grassy slopes

    First named in the West in 1867, Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, Vol 7 p. 166.  Dracocephalum means “dragonhead” in Greek.  Chinese made a tea from this.