An incredible succulent for your garden.
Nothing else quite like it! With smooth pale gray succulent
foliage, it's topped in summer by lovely yellow bloom that shade to
peach near the base.
Soil: Well-drained H: 6-8
W: 6-8" B/M: Yellow to
peach/Summer
Native
to more than half the country and yet has 'Threatened' status in the
states of Tennessee and Wisconsin. I find this to be one of
the most graceful, elegant Coneflowers due to the pale color and
lovely, thin, extremely-reflexed petals. One of our few
Natives that really can grow in every state due to it's broad range
of zone compatibility. Plants usually rebloom without
deadheading, however deadheading improves general appearance. Freely
self-seeds if at least some of the seed heads are left in place (and
the goldfinches love them.)
Echinacea
paradoxa is just that - a Paradox! A Coneflower that isn't
pink or white but Gold. Echinacea pallida has lovely gold
petals and a bristly dark center. A deep taproot allows it to
be happy in dry conditions but it's just as happy in a normal garden
setting. Native to Missouri and Arkansas. Able to take
almost any temperatures except Zone 10.
Soil:
Most any, well-drained H: 20-36" W: 12-24"
B/M: Gold/6-7
Echinacea purpurea forms -
Zone:(3)4-8(9) Note on zones: with protection,
they can survive in Zone 3 and with shade can usually make it in zone
9.
If
Hedda Hopper designed a Coneflower, this would be it! It's
wearing a charming, flamboyant hat! Beautifully unique,
FRAGRANT flowers sprout another set of petals atop the cone in a thoroughly
delightful manner! Generally the doubles don't appear until
their second year and thereafter. German Gardener,
Eugen Schleipfer discovered this chance mutation in his garden and
started dividing and promoting the best form. TWENTY years
later, he introduced 'Doublecker' ('Doppelganger') to the
trade. Protection in zone 3, shade in zone 9
Soil:
Most any well-drained
H: 40"(IB) W:24" B/M: Pink/7-Frost
with deadheading
One
of the 'Bones of the Garden' -- one of the best, dependable, 'Tried
'n True' plants to build a garden around is now, also, one of the 'Rare and New
Plants'! White Swan, move over and make room for Fragrant
Angel -- just as pretty as you but with large, fragrant,
horizontal blooms with overlapping petals and huge yellow cones,
often with a green rim when the plant first opens. The strong
stems extend the bloom season from mid-summer thru fall! This
will be THE white Echinacea!
Soil:
Most any, well-drained H: 20" (40" IB) W:
24" B/M: White/7-Frost with deadheading
The
first ever DOUBLE WHITE Coneflower! White pom-pom with just a
hint of light green. A new ConefectionTM
Coneflower. From the same breeder as Pink Double Delight comes this white double
selection with pale green at the center of the cone. A promising new
selection that should be as vigorous and compact as its pink cousin.
Non-drooping
petals of rosy purple. Good cut flower. Petals fade less
in light shade. Drought tolerant when established.
Dependable 'Timex' plants "takes a licking & keeps on
ticking"! Magnus has extra large flowers and is very wind
resistant. 1998
Perennial Plant of the Year! We dropped this for awhile
with all the new ones but after many requests, brought it back!
It is, after all, a classic!
Soil:
Most any, well-drained H: 24-48" W: 18-24"
B/M: Pink/7-Frost with deadheading
One
of the most amazing of all the hot new Coneflowers. A
description doesn't do it just. Just look at the
picture! 3-4" wide FULLY DOUBLE sock it to me blooms.
Similar to the newer 'Pink Double Delight' below but taller.
Soil:
Most any, well-drained H: 24-48" W: 18-24"
B/M: Deep Pink/7-Frost with deadheading
From
the same folks that brought you 'Coconut Lime' above, it's the pink
counterpart. Similar to 'Razzmatazz' above but shorter.
We absolutely love the look of this beauty. A new ConefectionTM
Cone-flower (get it?) 3" blooms dazzle the passers by starting
medium to dark pink and fading to lavender pink. Vigorous
grower.
Soil:
Most any, well-drained H: 18-24" W: 18-24"
B/M: Medium Pink/7-Frost with deadheading
An
exciting, improved variety of ‘Magnus’ developed by Jelitto
Perennial Seeds of Germany. This breeding effort has resulted in
more uniformly sized plants with larger, more darkly colored
flowers. The intense carmine-red petals are held horizontally from
the center cone giving ‘Rubinstern’ a very beautiful and
distinctive look.
This will be the 'classic' Coneflower that others will be judged
by! Carmine red to purple rays and bronze-brown cone
Soil:
Most any, well-drained H: 24-36"
IB" W: 18-24"
B/M: Ruby or carmine red /7-9
A
different species! Blooms ALL SUMMER into early fall. Deep rooted,
very adaptable plants. A very choice, rare plant found in just a few
small colonies in the wild. (We grow our own, of course.) Differing
from other coneflowers in that it produces upturned, instead of
drooping, flowers that are a dark mauve; to 4" across. The petals
vary in size with now two plants exactly alike!
Beautiful! Tap
rooted.
A beautiful new color from the Big SkyTM
series. Soft orange petals surround brilliant deep orange cones held
upright on sturdy stems. A great color for gardens that make plants
with blue flowers nearby just pop! Petals fade to
creamy yellow and remain attractive with age.
Recent
breeding work of Dr. Jim Ault at the Chicago
Botanic Garden has produced this marvel, their second
new coneflower introduction. Mango Meadowbrite™ appears to have
occurred as a mutation of Orange Meadowbrite™ during the process
of tissue culture propagation. Large single blooms have neon
mango-yellow petals surrounding a deep golden-orange cone with the
same wonderful habit, vigor and drought tolerance as it's parent.
Soil:
Well-drained H: 30-36" W: 18"
B/M: Mango/7-Frost with deadheading
From
the Echinacea
Big Sky™ series of some of our favorite folks in the trade
- the Saul Brothers out of Atlanta. With all of the varying
shades of sunset in one bloom! Huge 5-6
fragrant, orange blooms blend to rose around the dark central cone.
Tallest of the Big Sky™ Echinacea. Strong stems make it a
stand up star in your garden!
From
the Echinacea
Big Sky™ series of some of our favorite folks in the trade - the Saul Brothers out of
Atlanta. Enormous orange blooms to 6" across will become
the new favorite in your garden or in your flower arrangement.
Tough, like all Echinaceas! Just way more gorgeous than
most! Also FRAGRANT and a consistent rebloomer. 4th in the
Big Sky Series. 8-10" taller than 'Sunset'.
Soil:
Well-drained H: 32-36" W:
18"
B/M: Orange/7-Frost with deadheading
From
the Echinacea
Big Sky™ series of some of our favorite folks in the trade - the Saul Brothers out of
Atlanta. This new selection of Coneflower has soft, citron yellows
flowers up to 5" wide with a central cone that starts out green
and quickly gives way to gold.. Has an amazing and
delightful Rose-Like Fragrance! Sunrise is the most
fragrant of the group. Wow! An E. paradoxa x E.
purpurea hybrid. 2nd in the Big
Sky Series.
From
the Echinacea
Big Sky™ series of some of our favorite folks in the trade -
the Saul Brothers out of Atlanta. This new selection of
Coneflower has electrifying orange flowers with a prominent brownish
central cone. The wide petals are slightly reflexed and
overlap which give the blooms a full, substantial look. Has an
amazing and delightful Honey Rose-Like Fragrance! Wow! An E.
paradoxa x E. purpurea hybrid. These are some of the hottest
plants in the trade -- we had to get on a waiting list to get the
Patent Pending plugs in 2007! 1st in the
Big Sky Series
Soil:
Well-drained H: 24-30" W:
18" B/M: Electric Orange Red/7-Frost with
deadheading
Well,
do we need another color Echinacea? Well, yup, 'cause there
wasn't a true bold orange! But now there is. So if your
garden scheme cries and pleads for a luscious pumpkin orange, try
the fabulous new 'Tiki Torch' for a real hot spot in your garden!
It will keep the Torch Fires burning with 4 1/2" mammoth blooms
from June through September with deadheading
From
the Echinacea
Big Sky™ series of some of our favorite folks in the trade -
the Saul Brothers out of Atlanta. Echinacea 'Twilight' ppaf is the third new coneflower in the Big Sky series.
Rose petals surround a unique red cone. 24" high, Twilight is
also heavily branched and fragrant. These are some of the hottest
plants in the trade -- we had to get on a waiting list to get the
Patent Pending plugs on 2007! 3rd in the
Big Sky Series.
I have ordered from five
different online nurseries this year. (2008) I have received
everything for "bareroot" to what I got from you today. I ordered a
few types of Echinacea, just yesterday got some that was a tiny
little root ball the size of my thumb. I was so sad by this. Then
today your order arrived! The plants literally burst out of the box
when I opened the flaps, one plant had buds on it all ready! They
are as nice if I had gone to the nursery myself and picked it out by
hand. I just wanted to let you know I am thrilled and so very happy
with your nursery and my plants.
Cindy,
Gettysburg, PA
$7.99 Qt.
Echium russicum (E. rubrum)
Viper's Bugloss
Zone: 7-10 (Biennial in colder zones)
A
hardy biennial that will be Perennials in Zone 7 and warmer IF it
has well-drained soil and not too rich. Otherwise, depend on
self-seeding to produce plants with neat bottlebrush spikes of rich
crimson-red flowers throughout summer on a compact plant reaching
24" in height. Doesn't mind dry soil but really resents
transplanting. Wonderful blended with other Meadow Plants.
Forms
an unusual yet attractive carpet of tangled thin stems. Lots of
bright red berries by mid-summer, lasting well into autumn. From
Tibet. Thin, blue green stems spread like entwined sea whips.
Beautiful, 'inflated' fleshy, bright red berries in late June are
arrestingly beautiful. Xeric. Very rare. This is just a
great rock garden plant. Small as a year old plant but a good
grower.
A
'Mormon Tea' from the far flung parts of the world: Afghanistan, N
India, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and
China. You're not going to
find this on at Wal-Mart! With typical yellow green blooms in
April/May and red berries in July/August. This
very tiny sub-shrub is a mere 2-3" tall and adorable,
adorable. Perfect for the trough, container or rock garden.
Ephedra sinica Chinese Ephedra, Dwarf Chinese Joint Fir
Zone: 5-10
A
medical herb (Ma Huang) from China used there for more than 5000
years. There are strong cautions against it's use in this
country. But it more than holds it's own as an ornamental
plant. It's a cone-bearing, evergreen sub-shrub 12"
in height with narrow blue-green branches and is very drought
tolerant. It adds a wonderful textural quality to the
impeccably drained garden. Produces ornamental red
cones. Our form is 12" tall although the species can be
taller. Similar in looks but slightly taller than Ephedra
minima.
One of the treasures of the US woodlands. With 2-3",
thick shiny dark green leaves, heart-shaped at the based and a bit
lighter beneath comes HIGHLY FRAGRANT blooms, white to pink in
clusters of 3-5 and up to 1/2" across in early to
mid-spring. Those are followed by 1/2" pale yellow-orange
berry like capsules in late summer. Absolutely demanding about
soil -- it must be sandy, acid and well-drained. It does not
like root disturbance. Soil fungal macrorrhizum that it needs
is usually found in woodland soil. If you're trying to grow it
in the shade garden, try to incorporate some woodland soil in with
the planting -- we do in each pot but that may not be
sufficient. Superb cultural information from a contributor on
this iVillage Forum page.
Grows in Pine Barrens if that gives you thoughts on culture.
Epimediums
or Barrenwort - Bishop's Caps - Fairy Wings
(Horny
Goat Weed is also a common name ... :-) what can we say?)
We have an
huge selection of
Epimediums - because we're mad, mad, mad for them! Popular
for years in Europe, they're just being discovered in the US.
Light, airy spring blooms on plants that frequently are tough as
nails and drought tolerant when established. Dependable,
basically polite spreaders or clump formers. The difference
between Evergreen and Deciduous foliage is somewhat unique. Evergreen
means the leaf will never fall of of it's own accord even when it gets
ragged or even skeletonized, which they can do in colder zones.
The deciduous ones, however, turn brown and fall off on their
own. Basically by late winter, most are ready to be sheared
prior to the coming bloom period. Most varieties/species are
listed as hardy to Zone 5 however, many have been grown farther north
with a good layer of mulch. They can take cold but can't take
alternate quick freezing and thawing.
About price: "Epimediums
are self-sterile (they won’t set seed unless pollinated by another
plant), and breeding from seed is complicated. The plants cannot be
rapidly propagated through tissue culture or stem cuttings, either.
Division of a rhizome is the most effective method of propagation. On
clumping varieties, however, this process is very slow, so these types
of epimediums command higher prices."
Darrell Probst, Horticulture Magazine , "Up and
Coming Epimediums"
This rare perennial from thickets and woods in Western China has handsome
evergreen leaves and arching sprays of beautiful
large inflorescences of dark lavender maroon petals and lighter
white or pale yellowish tinted lilac sepals 1" or more across which
hang like exotic spiders over the trifoliate leaves that are
undulate with spiny margins. The long, curly violet/purple
spurs and shorter but broader lavender sepals are a combination
found in no other Epimedium. Foliage emerges pink
tinted maroon eventually turning green and is often mottled with
dark spots early on!
Needs a cool, shady site. Choice and Rare. Evergreen but
ready to be sheared in late winter.
This
ridiculously rare Epimedium with white sepals and light yellow petals and spurs
and may eventually be classified as it's own
species, however, for the time being it is still considered a Yellow
Form of E. acuminatum. The Chinese have long said there is a
yellow form but only recently has it made it's way to the United
States The Genus Epimedium also agrees that there is a yellow
form. Evergreen but ready to be sheared in late
winter. Trifoliate leaves, undulate, spiny margins. Large
1" spidery blooms with long spurs. These are particularly
good, bloom size plants.
Soil:
Moist, rich, well drained H:
15-18" W: B/M: White and Pale Yellow/4-5
CHOICE
shade groundcover, this shorter Epimedium has racemes of
long-spurred, brownish red heart shaped leaves divided into oval
leaflets which turn green. Spreads most readily in loose, rich in
organic material. Cut back early spring. Once established, chokes
out weeds. China.
Choice
groundcover or specimen for shaded areas, Lilafee (Lilac Fairy) is
one of the newest & prettiest from Ernst Pagels large, spidery
pendent, long-spurred flowers. Toothed, glossy green leaves. Cut
back semi-evergreen foliage in late winter. Weed inhibiting once
established. This one looks fabulous when sited near a rock or
statue. China
HUGE
flowers on one of, if not the most beautiful of all
Epimediums. "Epimedium latisepalum is one of the most
beautiful species of the genus, with large, well-spaced, pendulous
white flowers, rivalled only by E. ogisui with slightly smaller
flowers." Stern, The Genus
Epimedium. Extremely
rare. In 2005 we were the only online source in the US for
this plant.
Foliage is amazing, amazing, amazing! Tall stiff stems with
4-5" long, shiny spiny edged leaflets. Discovered in 1993. Good
with morning sun.
Best
choice for a spreading evergreen groundcover. Very drought tolerant.
Topped in very early spring w/ spikes of bright yellow bells with
reddish spurs held nicely above the expanding new foliage. The
deeply burrowing rhizomes make this one exceedingly drought tolerant
and hardy. The thick
foliage has proven very resistant to leaf spot diseases. Light to
deep shade. From Turkey and the Republic of Georgia.
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One
of the 'Bones of the Garden' -- one of the best, dependable, 'Tried
'n True' plants to build a garden around is now, also, one of the 'Rare and New
Plants'! White Swan, move over and make room for Fragrant
Angel -- just as pretty as you but with large, fragrant,
horizontal blooms with overlapping petals and huge yellow cones,
often with a green rim when the plant first opens. The strong
stems extend the bloom season from mid-summer thru fall! This
will be THE white Echinacea!
Echinacea
purpurea 'Coconut Lime' PPAF
From
the same folks that brought you 'Coconut Lime' above, it's the pink
counterpart. Similar to 'Razzmatazz' above but shorter.
We absolutely love the look of this beauty. A new ConefectionTM
Cone-flower (get it?) 3" blooms dazzle the passers by starting
medium to dark pink and fading to lavender pink. Vigorous
grower.
A
different species! Blooms ALL SUMMER into early fall. Deep rooted,
very adaptable plants. A very choice, rare plant found in just a few
small colonies in the wild. (We grow our own, of course.) Differing
from other coneflowers in that it produces upturned, instead of
drooping, flowers that are a dark mauve; to 4" across. The petals
vary in size with now two plants exactly alike!
Beautiful! Tap
rooted. 
Echinacea x
Mango Meadowbrite™
From
the Echinacea
Big Sky™ series of some of our favorite folks in the trade
- the Saul Brothers out of Atlanta. With all of the varying
shades of sunset in one bloom! Huge 5-6
Echinacea
x 'Sundown' 
Echinacea x 'Sunrise'
ppaf 
Echinacea
x 'Sunset' ppaf
Echinacea
x 'Tiki Torch' PPAF
Zone: 3-9
Epimediums
or Barrenwort - Bishop's Caps - Fairy Wings
Epimedium acuminatum 'Yellow
Flowered'
Epimedium latisepalum