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  • Semiaquilegia ecalcarata Spurless columbine, Z 5-9

    Dainty dusty plum-pink columbine-like blossoms, without the tail, dangle above divided lobed foliage in May-June.

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    Dainty dusty plum-pink columbine-like blossoms, without the tail, dangle above divided lobed foliage in May-June.

    Size: 6-10” x 8”
    Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil
    Native: open woods and slopes in central China & Tibet
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit

    Collected before 1891. Named “Wu ju lou dou cai” in Chinese.

  • Sempervivum tectorum Hens and chicks Z 3-10

    Rosettes of succulent leaves

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    Rosettes of succulent leaves

    Size: 4” x 4”
    Care: sun in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Alps & Pyrenees Mountains

    Grown in gardens for thousands of years.  Sempervivum means “live forever.”  Romans planted Hens and chicks on their roofs to ward off lightning.  As a succulent it holds water and is probably more difficult to catch fire.  “This practice was preserved for historians when Charlemagne (720-814), first Holy Roman Emperor and unifier of a large part of northern Europe, ordered that all villagers within his crown lands plant houseleeks on their roofs, presumably as a safety measure. He decreed: Et ille hortulanus habeat super domum suam Iovis barbam. (And the gardener shall have house-leeks growing on his house. Capitulare de villis, about 795,  LXX.)”

  • Senna hebecarpa syn. Cassia hebecarpa Wild senna Z 4-8

    6” long taxicab yellow racemes in July – August

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    6 inch long taxicab yellow racemes in July – August

    Size: 4’ x 2-6’
    Care: full sun in moist well-drained soil
    Native: all North America east of Mississippi River from Hudson Bay south to Georgia and Tennessee, Wisconsin native
    Wildlife Value: attracts bees, butterflies, birds & hummingbirds

    Collected by 1753. Very similar to Senna marilandica except a bit taller, flowers prettier and a slightly bulbous gland as the base of the petiole.

  • Seseli gummiferum  Moon carrot  Z 5-9 self-seeding biennial or short-lived perennial.

    Five-inch diameter mound of many circles of pale pink to white flowers atop silvery, frilly, fern-like foliage flowering in mid-summer into early fall.

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    Five inch diameter mound of many circles of pale pink to white flowers atop silvery, frilly, fern-like foliage flowering in mid-summer into early fall.

    Size: 2-3’ x 12-18”
    Care: Sun to part-shade in well-drained to moist well-drained soil
    Native: Crimea, Turkey and South Aegean
    Wildlife Value: Deer resistant.  Butterfly magnet; host for caterpillar of Eastern swallowtail butterfly.

    Seseli is an ancient Greek name of an umbelliferous plant. This species first described by Linnaeus in 1735. In Re classified and renamed in 1830 in Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis, sive, Enumeratio contracta ordinum generum specierumque plantarum huc usque cognitarium, juxta methodi naturalis, normas digesta.

  • Sesleria autumnalis Autumn Moor Grass Z 5-9

    Fresh-green spring narrow blades of grass in summer add airy purplish flower spikes with silver-white stamens on this low mounding, arching   grass. Blades have a striking yellow-green color that sometimes develops a soothing golden autumn tint.  Spike-like silvery flowers rise above the leaves and mature into soft tan seed heads by autumn.

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    Fresh-green spring narrow blades of grass in summer add airy purplish flower spikes with silver-white stamens on this low mounding, arching   grass. Blades have a striking yellow-green color that sometimes develops a soothing golden autumn tint.  Spike-like silvery flowers rise above the leaves and mature into soft tan seed heads by autumn.

    Size: 9-24” x 12-18”
    Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil, drought tolerant
    Native: SE Europe east to Caucusus
    Wildlife Value: walnut, salt and deer tolerant
    Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit. Gardens Illustrated “100 Must-Have Garden Plants,” 2013.

    Collected in Slovenian mountains near Idria, c. 1760 by and 1st described in Flora Carniolica by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723-1788) physician, naturalist and author. Sesleria is named to honor Leonardo Selser, 18th century Italian botanist and physician, contemporary and likely friend of Scopoli

  • Sesleria heufleriana Balkan Moor grass Z 4-9

    Spike-like panicles of white (in very early spring) turning purple atop clumps of gray-blue blades

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    Spike-like panicles of white (in very early spring) turning purple, atop clumps of gray-blue blades

    Size: 24” x 16”
    Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil
    Native: open woodlands of Europe

    Collected before 1878.

  • Sesleria nitida Nest Moor grass Z 5-8

    Spike-like panicles of white turn purple atop mounds of gray-blue blades

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    In early spring, about the time Robins appear, spike-like panicles of white turn purple atop mounds of gray-blue blades

    Size: 24”x16”
    Care: sun to part shade in most any soil
    Native: central and southern Italy

    Collected before 1861.

  • Shade Garden

    Shade Garden.

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    Shade Garden                                                            Size : Height x width*          Bloom color
    3 Asarum canadense – Wild ginger                                           6” x 6” spreading                 brown
    3 Astilbe chinensis                                                                         24” x 24”                                pink
    1 Brunnera macrophyllum – Siberian bugloss                         18″ x 24″                                blue
    1 Chelone glabra – Turtlehead                                                     2-4’ x 12”                               white
    1 Disporum flavens – Fairy bells                                                25-30” x 16-20”                   yellow
    3 Dodecatheon meadia – Shooting star                                     12-24” x 6-12”                      white
    1 Hosta ‘Blue Cadet’                                                                       35-40” x 36”                        lavender
    1 Primula veris – Cowslip                                                              8”x 8”                                    yellow
    3 Stylophorum diphyllum – Celantine poppy                           12-18” x 12”                          yellow
    1 Tricyrtis hirta – Toadlily                                                             2-3’ x 2’                                white & purple

    All plants are perennials.
    If planted together in one garden these make a 30 square foot garden. **Most of these plants get wider over time by spreading roots or by self-seeding .
    18 plants for $158.14.  Would be $186.05 if purchased separately.  You save $27.90.
    If you plan on coming to the Nursery to purchase this collection, please give us at least 24 hours notice to prepare the collection for you.