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Viola tricolor Johnny jump up, Heartease Z 2-9 RESEEDING short-lived perennial
Cheery purple, yellow and white small pansies from spring to late fall
Cheery purple, yellow and white small pansies from spring to late fall
Size: 3-5” x 4-6”
Care: Sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: Europe and Asia
Wildlife Value: Violas are the sole food source for the caterpillar of Fritillary butterflies.Viola was named after a mythical young woman who Zeus loved and who Zeus’ wife harassed. Athens adopted the V. tricolor as its symbol. Pliny prescribed it for headaches in ancient Rome. Mentioned repeatedly by Shakespeare. In the 1500’s the plant was used to make a medicinal tea to cure chest and lung inflammations, (Gerard) and later to cure impetigo and ulcers. When Napoleon Bonaparte died Viola tricolor found in his locket with a snip of Josephine’s hair. Thomas Jefferson imported Viola tricolor from France in 1767. Pressed specimen in Emily Dickinson’s herbarium.
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Weigela florida Shrub Z 4-9
Rosy pink, white or red trumpets in May and June,repeating sporadically all summer, described by Robert Fortune as ”fine rose-coloured flowers, which hung in graceful bunches from the axils of the leaves and the ends of the branches”
Rosy pink, white or red trumpets in May and June,repeating sporadically all summer, described by Robert Fortune as ”fine rose-coloured flowers, which hung in graceful bunches from the axils of the leaves and the ends of the branches”
Size: 5’ x 4’
Care: full sun to part shade in well-drained soil. Blooms on both old and new wood so can prune anytime. Pruning promotes compact, bushy habit & more flowers.
Native: ChinaNamed for German professor Christian Ehrenfried Weigel. Introduced to western cultivation in 1845 by Robert Fortune who found it growing in a northern Chinese garden. A favorite of Queen Victoria.
**LISTED AS OUT OF STOCK BECAUSE WE DO NOT SHIP THIS ITEM. IT IS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT OUR RETAIL LOCATION.
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Xanthorhiza simplicissima Yellowroot Z 4-9
Short, spreading shrub, blooms sprays of plum-colored flowers in spring, then forming berries. For dessert its leaves turn yellow, purple and maroon in fall. Excellent groundcover under trees and for erosion control. Will suppress weeds.
Short, spreading shrub, blooms sprays of plum-colored flowers in spring, then forming berries. For dessert its leaves turn yellow, purple and maroon in fall. Excellent groundcover under trees and for erosion control. Will suppress weeds.
Size: 2-3” x spreading
Care: filtered sun to shade in moist to moist well-drained, slightly acidic soil
Native: Maine to FL and west to Ohio
Wildlife Value: food and habitat for several birds.Colonial horticulturist William Bartram found it near Buffalo Lick GA in 1773. He wrote: “This evening I discovered a very curious Little Shrub, growing on the bottoms of these Hills & on the steep banks of the Creek. . . the root affording strong Yellow Tincture. . . It has long slender branching Roots which run & spread about . . . filling large patches of ground . . . it is in my opinion a very valuable Shrub . .”
Native Americans dyed fibers with the yellow root.
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Xerophyllum tenax Turkey beard, Indian basket grass Z 5-8
Plume of fragrant white flowers May-August on naked stalks rising from mound of grassy foliage, actually a lily.
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Plume of fragrant white flowers May-August on naked stalks rising from mound of grassy foliage, actually a lily.
Size: 3-5’ x 24-30”
Care: sun to part shade in well-drained soil
Native: British Columbia, to Montana & WYSeveral western Indian tribes wove baskets & hats from the leaves & roasted the roots for food. Blackfoot applied the plant to wounds to stop bleeding and repair breaks & sprains. Collected by Meriwether Lewis June 15, 1806 just east of Weippe Prairie and west of Bitterroot Mountains in Idaho.
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Yucca filamentosa Adam’s Needle, Silk grass Z 5-9
tall stalks bearing alabaster bells
Six foot tall stalks bearing alabaster bells tower over clumps of swordlike leaves with margins of curly threads in July and August.
Size: 30" leaves - 5' flower x 5'
Care: full sun, moist well-drained to well-drained soil. Drought tolerant
Native: New Jersey to Florida
Wildlife Value: It’s only pollinator is the Yucca moth and the Yucca is the only food source for the Yucca moth in a mutually beneficial relationship.
Awards: England's Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit; Cary Award Distinctive Plants for New England and Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant Pick.In 1596 Gerard named the genus Yucca from the incorrectly identified plant, the Iucca. Filimentosa is from the Latin filum meaning “thread” because of the threads on the leaf margins. Colonists cut the leaves of Y. filamentosa to make thread. Indians used the root as an ingredient in bread, to make suds for cleaning and the leaf fibers to make clothes. For the Cherokee it cured diabetes and skin sores, induced sleep in people and drugged fish for an easier catch. Tradescant the Younger collected this in Virginia before 1640. Both Gerard and Parkinson grew Yucca filamentosa in their personal gardens. Jefferson planted it in 1794 and called it “beargrass.”
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Zauschneria garetii syn Epilobium canum ssp. garrettii Hummingbird trumpet, California fuchsia, Garrett’s Firechalice Z 5-9
Fiery orange trumpets float above a loose mat of green foliage, evergreen in warm climates. Blooms July-first frost
Fiery orange trumpets float above a loose mat of green foliage, evergreen in warm climates. Blooms July-first frost
Size: 4-6” x 15-18”
Care: Sun to shade in well-drained soil. Prefers afternoon shade in hot climates
Native: CA, UT, WY, ID, AZ
Wildlife Value: Attracts hummingbirds, birds and butterflies, Deer and rabbit resistantNamed for Johann Baptista Josef Zauschner (1737-1799) botanist and professor of medicine at the University of Prague. Beautiful planted with Nepeta, Agastache and Perovskia atriplicifolia. Published by Aven Nelson (1859-1952) Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 20(7): 36–37. 1907. Collected by A. O. Garrett (1870-1948), August 28, 1906 in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Salt Lake City, UT.
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Zinnia grandiflora Rocky Mountain Zinnia SUBSHRUB Z. 4-9
Profuse golden yellow flowers from July through fall, slow to emerge in spring so don't prematurely assume it's gone.
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.Profuse golden yellow flowers from July through fall, slow to emerge in spring so don’t prematurely assume it’s gone. Very sweet yellow blooms over long period of time.
Size: 4-6”x 12-15”
Care: full sun in well-drained soil
Native: Colorado & Kansas south to SW U.S.The name Zinnia honors German botany professor Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727-1759). This species 1st collected by Edwin James, physician and botanist on the Long Expedition in 1820.
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Zizia aurea Golden alexanders Z 4-9
In spring, golden umbels
Tiny chartreuse-golden flowers, grouped in umbels, spring. Good cut flower.
Size: 30"x 24"
Care: full sun in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: from New Brunswick south to Florida - west to Texas, Wisconsin native
Wildlife Value: Primary host for the Missouri Woodland Swallowtail butterfly.Meskwaki used the root to reduce fevers and the flower stalks to ease headaches. Collected by late 1700’s. Good cut flower.
