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All Plants on this page are in Trade Quart Pots (Qt.) which are 1.68Pints (794 ml) liquid measure. 

(Similar to a true nursery quart on top width and height, but tapered to a smaller bottom for lighter shipping.)

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New 3/21

$7.99 Qt. 

Echeveria runyonii 'Topsy Turvy'

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

 

$7.99 Qt. 

Echinacea pallida   Pale Purple Coneflower     Zone:  3-10     

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.)

Soil:    H:24-36"  W:12-18"    B/M: Pale pink/6-7

US Native Plants

Attracts Butterflies

$7.99 Qt. 

Echinacea paradoxa         Gold Coneflower       Zone: 3-9      

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

US Native Plants

Attracts Butterflies

  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.  

$7.99 Qt. 

Echinacea purpurea 'Doubledecker'  (Double Decker, 'Doppelganger' ) Tiered Coneflower  Z:(3)4-8(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

Attracts Butterflies

 

$8.99 Qt. 

Echinacea purpurea ‘Fragrant Angel’ PPAF PVR     Fragrant White Coneflower   Z:(3)4-8(9)   

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

Attracts Butterflies

$11.99 Qt. 

Echinacea purpurea  'Coconut Lime' PPAF  Double Coneflower  Z: 5-10 

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.

Soil: Well-drained       H: 20" (28-30"IB)  W:24"     B/M: White/7-Frost with deadheading      

Attracts Butterflies

$6.99 Qt. 

Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus'        Pink Coneflower    Z:(3)4-8(9)  

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

Attracts Butterflies

New 2008

$11.99 Qt. 

Echinacea purpurea 'Razzmatazz' PP#13894    Double Coneflower  Z:(3)4-8(9)  

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

Attracts Butterflies

New 2008

$11.99 Qt. 

Echinacea purpurea 'Pink Double Delight' PPAF   Dwarf Double Coneflower  Z:(3)4-8(9)  

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

Attracts Butterflies

$7.99 Qt. 

Echinacea purpurea 'Rubinstern'   'Ruby Star' Coneflower        Z:(3)4-8(9)    

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

Attracts Butterflies

$8.99 Qt. 

Echinacea tennesseensis 'Rocky Top'      Tennessee Coneflower,   Zone: 5    

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. 

Soil: Well-drained       H: 24-30" W: 18"   B/M: Pink 6-10    Native

Attracts Butterflies

 

The totally, completely hot new Coneflower hybrids from Itsaul Nursery and Chicago Botanic Garden.

 

New 01-09

$11.99 Qt. 

Echinacea 'Harvest Moon' PPAF     Hybrid Coneflower     Zone: 4-9   

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.

Soil: Well-drained       H:24-36"  W: 18-24"    B/M: Yellow Orange/ 7-Frost with deadheading

Attracts Butterflies

$11.99 Qt. 

Out of stock, consider 'Harvest Moon' above

Echinacea x Mango Meadowbrite™    Hybrid Coneflower      Zone: 3-9   

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

Attracts Butterflies

New 5-23

$11.99 Qt. 

Echinacea 'Summer Sky' PP18783      Hybrid coneflower   Zone: 3-9 

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!

Soil: Well-drained       H: 32-36" W: 18-24"   B/M: Sunset tone/7-Frost with deadheading

Attracts Butterflies

$11.99 Qt. 

Echinacea x 'Sundown' ppaf      Hybrid Orange Coneflower   Zone:  4-9  

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

Attracts Butterflies

$11.99 Qt. 

Echinacea x 'Sunrise' ppaf    Hybrid Yellow Coneflower      Zone: 4-9   

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.

Soil: Well-drained       H: 30-36" W: 18"   B/M: Butter Yellow/7-Frost with deadheading

Attracts Butterflies

$12.99 Qt. 

 

Echinacea x 'Sunset' ppaf    Hybrid Orange Coneflower     Zone: 4-9   

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

Attracts Butterflies

New 2008

$12.99 Qt. 

 

Shipping week of June 16th

Echinacea x 'Tiki Torch' PPAF    Hybrid  Coneflower     Zone: 4-9   

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

Soil: Well-drained       H: 24-32" W: 18"      B/M: Pumpkin Orange/7-Frost with deadheading

Attracts Butterflies

$12.99 Qt. 

Echinacea x 'Twilight' ppaf    Hybrid Red Coneflower     Zone: 4-9   

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.

Soil: Well-drained       H: 24-30"    W: 18"      B/M: Rosy Red/7-Frost with deadheading

Attracts Butterflies

What you're saying about us... 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  Sun   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.

Soil: Well-drained, Limey      H:24"  W:15-18"     B/M:  Crimson red/7-8

 

$8.99 Qt. 

Ephedra minima      Dwarf Mormon Tea    Zone: 5   

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.  

Soil: Sharply drained       H: 2-4" W: 12"    B/M: Yellow-green/6-7 

Evergreen

Chinese Plants/Chinese Native

$8.99 Qt.

Ephedra minuta     Miniature Joint Fir     Sun        Zone: 5

Similar to the above but about 3 times as tall.

Soil: Sharply drained       H:12" W:     B/M:   Yellow-green/6-7

Evergreen

Chinese Plants/Chinese Native

$8.99 Qt.

Ephedra regeliana     Xi Zi Ma Huang     Sun        Zone: 5-10

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.

Soil: Sharply drained       H:3-4" W:     B/M: Yellow-green/4-5

Evergreen

Chinese Plants/Chinese Native

$8.99 Qt.

Ephedra sinica    Chinese Ephedra, Dwarf Chinese Joint Fir      Sun        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.

Soil: Very Well-drained        H: 12" W:     B/M: na/5-6

Evergreen

Chinese Plants/Chinese Native

$11.99 Qt.

Epigaea repens     Trailing Arbutus    Part ShadeFull Shade     Zone: 3-9

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.

Soil: Well-drained, Acid ph 4-6.5      H: 4-6"  W:     B/M: White/3-5

US Native Plants

Evergreen

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."

$17.99 Qt. 

Epimedium acuminatum    Chinese Fairy Wing/Barrenwort   Zone: 5-9  

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.  

Soil: Moist, rich, well-drained        H: 12-15" W: 12-15"    B/M: Mauve & white/4-5 

Chinese Plants/Chinese Native

$27.99 Qt. 

Epimedium acuminatum 'Yellow Flowered'  Chinese Fairy Wing/Barrenwort  Z: 5-9 

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 

Chinese Plants/Chinese Native

$9.99 Qt. 

Epimedium grandiflorum 'Alba'   Fairy Wings/ Barrenwort    Zone: 5-9   

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.

Soil: Moist, rich, well-drained         H: 8-12" W: 12"        B/M: White 4-5 

Chinese Plants/Chinese Native

$9.99 Qt. 

Epimedium grandiflorum 'Lilafee'    Fairy Wings/ Barrenwort    Zone: 5-9  

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

Soil: Moist, rich, well-drained         H: 10" W: 12"         B/M: Lilac-purple 4-5 

Chinese Plants/Chinese Native

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$27.99 Qt. 

Epimedium latisepalum    Chinese Fairy Wing/Barrenwort   Zone: 4-9   

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.

Soil:  Moist, rich, well-drained     H: 16"  W: 16-20"       B/M:  Creamy White/ 4-5

Chinese Plants/Chinese Native

$10.99 Qt. 

Epimedium pinnatum ssp. colchicum   Fairy Wings/ Barrenwort  Zone: 5-8(9)  

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.

Soil: Moist, rich, well-drained       H: 10" W: 10"       B/M: Yellow 4-5 

$9.99 Qt.