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Silver white veins on dark green leaves. Yellow flowers. Fine for shade and part shade as a compact groundcover. Slow spreader. Not a running type. This is truly a spectacular foliage plant, unlike any other.
Silver white leaves with green margins and pink flowers. "Lamiums are dependable groundcovers that prosper in DRY SHADE, poor soils and a wide range of light conditions. And a sturdy disposition to boot! Evergreen in all but the coldest winters. Superb in containers.
Lamiums are dependable groundcovers that prosper in DRY SHADE, poor soils and a wide range of light conditions. And a sturdy disposition to boot! Soft pink flowers. White and green variegated leaves. Heat tolerant. Evergreen in all but the coldest winters.
Large
mound of textured, silvery leaves with bright orchid flower clusters.
The Intrinsic Gardens introduction is larger and more vigorous than most
Lamiums. This is an outstanding new Lamium. This almost
completely silver foliage, sometimes with a tiny green edge, is a
magnificent background for the orchid
blooms.
Finally,
a Lamium blooms that are purple, not lavender! Long bloomer, like
the others -- heavy in May and June then periodically thereafter. Almost
totally silver white leaves with a green edge. Blooms are also large
and longer -- up to 1" across. This is a stunning Lamium!
A beautiful tufted plant closely related to Mazus. Only two species occur, and are differentiated from Mazus by the globular seed pod which does not split when ripe. Flowers are two lipped, bright blue to mauve purple, and borne horizontally just above the creeping mats of foliage. Common name in Tibet translates to Milkwort
Bush
perennial sweet pea with multi-stemmed, clump-forming habit
.Pea-like flowers are borne in axillary racemes in April. Flowers
are reddish purple with red veins, becoming more violet-blue as they
mature. Will burn in full sun. Well behaved garden plant. If
your soil is acid, feed it a piece chalkboard chalk each spring - a
very effective slow release way to just make that plant's soil more
limey!
Bush
perennial sweet pea with multi-stemmed, clump-forming habit
.Pea-like flowers are borne in axillary racemes in April. The pink
and white bicolored form is well behaved in the garden. Will burn in
full sun. If your soil is acid, feed it a piece
chalkboard chalk each spring - a very effective slow release way to
just make that plant's soil more limey!
Fantastic groundcover from Australia w/ tiny round green leaves & equally tiny light blue flowers. Great ground cover in a woodland garden or a perfect filler between stepping stones. Prefers a slightly moist site. AKA Pratia, Isotoma axialiaris, Hippobroma
longiflora! This is absolutely one of our favorite plants.
How can you have a stew without a Bay
Leaf? And if you prefer them fresh rather than out of a bottle,
then grow your own! Not hardy in much of the country, it's an easy
house plant in a sunny window or sunroom. Does want a period of
fairly dry dormancy in winter so it can rest (not bone dry but just back
off on watering so it can stop active growth for a month or so.)
Many Common Names: 
A
classic French Lavender perfect for cutting fresh, dried flowers, wands
and potpourri. Blue Violet blooms to 4" long on long stems are extremely
fragrant. Aromatic, evergreen foliage. Well-drained soil and
full sun is a must for all lavenders. Prune in early spring.
Ledebouria
is a Genus of deciduous ( or slightly evergreen) bulbs - relative to the
well known Hyacinth - with glossy olive green leaves with both purplish
spots on the inside of leaves and longitudinal purple stripes on the
outside of the leaves, hence the common name Zebra's Quill.
Racemes of pink to purple bell-shaped flowers in summer. Keep dry in
winter when dormant. Spreads some but so short, it really can't
hurt anything. 
This
Scilla relative, introduced by the late Gary Hammer, California
plantsman is terrific and has proved itself to be dependable through
wet, cold winters in 6B per growers on
AKA,
Cotula squalida, C. leptinella. Dark bronze feathery foliage is
near black on this charming little, mat forming evergreen rock garden
plant reaching a diminutive 1" tall. Perfect between stepping
stones as it tolerates some foot traffic. Creamy button-like
blooms. Tolerates light shade in hot areas. Doesn't tolerate
drought.
A
very rare plant from Japan. Large golden variegated leaves that lighten
up the woodland garden with golden, green splashed leaves. Blooms
resemble miniature creamy yellow bottlebrush buckeye and open quite late
in Fall -- in October - when not much is blooming in the dappled shade.
Should be well-watered until established, thereafter when the top couple
of inches of soil are dry.
From
Japan. To the unfamiliar, it resembles a dwarf hydrangea with its
quilted serrated softly hair, pale green leaves. Silky lavender
pink bottle-brush like flowers with long stamens grace the plant in
October. Like all Japanese Mint Shrubs, it waits until fall to
bloom so it can get the attention it deserves! Should be
well-watered until established, thereafter when the top couple of inches
of soil are dry.
An
upright, clump-forming native that's 'almost' gaudy in it's exuberant
bloom of 10-15 unbranched stems and as many as 70 blooms per plant.
Fluffy, thistle-like deep rose-purple blooms 1" WIDE appear on
terminal columnar inflorescences. This
species, in particular, is beloved by Monarch Butterflies.
Read more about Liatris ligulistylis and Monarch Madness over them here at
The very smallest
Liatris. This American native shows it's delicate,
multi-stemmed flower spikes above ferny foliage. Beautiful specimen. Prefers moist,
well-drained soil but will take dryness when established. Tolerates very poor soil. Rare. Very
LONG BLOOMING. Exquisite!
As
above but with white blooms! Very hard to find in the trade.
Like the species, very long blooming, tolerates dry soil when
established . A sweet little Butterfly magnet. Very fern on
this great American Native.
One
of the Biggest Liatris - it can reach 5' in height! An upright,
clump-forming East Coast Native with rounded, fluffy, rose-purple to
violet-lavender flowers heads to 3/4" across crowded on terminal
spikes to 20" and on rigid flower stalks. These arise from
narrow, lance-shaped leaves to 12" in length. Blooms open top
to bottom. This species is distinguished from other in it's height
and its reflexed, long-tipped involucral bracts. You will read that
this plant is a Biennial and that it's found in * wet soil in nature but
that's WHY it can behave as a Biennial -- it rots in winter in wet soil
but self seeds in these areas to persist and is used in wetland
restoration. Plant it in well-drained soil and it's very, very
Perennial. Featured by one of our favorite garden Gurus and hort.
writers, C. Colston Burrell in this review of his book
Native
to the Midwest, this is a giant of a Liatris, erect and unbranched,
reaching to 5" with lowers leaves to 12" long. Racemes can reach
up to 2', blooming from top to bottom with as many 40 extra large for
the genus, 1-2" shaggy flower heads per raceme. The root system
consists of a bulb-like corm with fibrous roots. Attracts
butterflies, skippers and especially Monarch butterflies. It
is a Host Plant for many, many moths. Tolerates a bit more shade
than other Liatris. Hard to find in the trade but fabulous!
Larger by 1-2' than the more well know 'Floristan White' and sometimes
larger is what's called for Adds great vertical interest to the
border and stands up like a beacon calling in Butterflies and rare
moths! And wow, the effect in big flower arrangements.
As
above and brand new to the trade in 2006, Floristan Violet is by virtue of
his breeding already a dependable, 'Bones of the Garden' Perennial!
Strongly drought tolerant like 'Floristan White' and with the same more
compact habit which get from 'some' to 'much' taller!
Wands of flowers /w spikes that are very unusual in that they open first at the top. This white form goes w/ every other plant in your garden & does it well. Excellent cut flower, butterfly attracter, disliked by deer & grows in the poorest soil, takes part shade -- pretty hard to beat! Strongly drought tolerant.
More compact than various species.
Most compact of Gayfeathers. Wildflowers native to the United States & beautiful in meadows & mixed borders. Flowers are on dense spikes atop leafy, erect stems. A pleasing addition to the middle of a mixed border, or along a 'countrified' fence. Flower spikes are superb in both fresh & dried arrangements. Plant tag says 20-30" -- 16-20" is correct.
Tufted
red-violet flowers, distinctive in the genus above deep green, shiny,
leathery foliage. Thinner and with shorter flower stalks than other
species with usually 4-5 flower heads per stem. Robust and
multi-branched. Perfectly happy in pathetic soil! As long as
it's well-drained! This is a 'button' bloom Liatris, rather than a
spike.
Compact, clump-forming perennial with heart-shaped, long-stalked, leathery leaves.
Daisy like, bright gold flower heads on branching stems from mid- to late-summer. Will take sun provided it gets lots of moisture but doesn't want to stand in it. Lovely
burgundy red stems. A great strong grower!
We
think this is one of the best in Genus. None like the heat but
Ligularia tolerates much better than others in the Genus.
Hugh glossy cut leaves look so tropical when growing in Zone 5 and 6 and
form an impressive hummock of foliage! Golden daisy bloom on
stems to 6' tall can't be missed! Wilt's in the sun if not moist
(but then gets over it) unless it's dry all the time. Really
prefers a well-watered or moist spot.
Loosely clump-forming perennial with stems clothed in
deeply cut, dark green leaves. Narrow spires of small,
yellow flower heads appear from mid- to late summer on burgundy stems. Takes the most sun and
driest soil of any of the Ligularias but happiest in moist. If sunny
AND dry, it will wilt in the afternoon
Bold,
dark green, more angular than round, foliage and one of the last
Ligularias to bloom. A somewhat compact plant for a Ligularia that
will fit in any garden. 12-18" tall with daisy like blooms.
A Japanese hybrid between Farfugium japonicum and Farfugium
hiberniflorum. This new introduction is a stunner in the shade
garden. Blooms are wonderful in flowers arrangements.
This lily enjoys heat, flowers the first year from seed, eventually reaches 7+' tall with a dozen or more 10" long sweetly fragrant pure white flowers in early August. I can't say enough good things about this easy to grow gem! Looks like Easter
Lilies.
A
lovely Native lily with 2 1/2" orange blooms, spotted maroon, with a
green star at the center (which distinguishes it from Lilium trigrinum of
Asia). Found in wet meadows and woods in the Easter US. Showy
and often very numerous flowers. Sharply-reflexed sepals and petals
curve backward to touch at the stem thus forming the "Turk's
Cap". Shouldn't be allowed to dry out.
Large sprays, often over 12" across, of tiny lilac blooms make an elegant display in the garden & last for months when dried. Forms an evergreen rosette of attractive deep green, leathery, oval 6-9" basal leaves. 
Easy
to grow plant, with blooms that look like miniature snapdragons. Upright
perennial with blue foliage that bursts into an array of colors in
Fall. Self-seeds gently and you can get either pink or purple from
the seedlings. Over the years, we have continued to select seedlings
with lengthy bloom heads and our form has exceptionally large bloom heads.
Host Plant for Buckeye Caterpillar.
A
pink form of the above. This seedling of Linaria arrived in our
garden and clearly has a much, much larger bloom than the pink form
in the trade 'Canon J. Went'. Like the purple form above, we
think it's a garden staple. Easy and beautiful. Host
Plant for Buckeye Caterpillar.
A
Southeastern US Native is new to the trade and found in swampy
areas.. This member of the Scrophulaira family grows like common
moneywort, creeping along the ground with 1/2" heart-shaped
leaves. Adorable tubular blue flowers each with a white star-like
markings in the center bloom from spring through summer. AKA,
Ilysanthes grandiflora. Members of Dave's
Garden report hardiness to Zone 6. Great along a stream bed.
Narrow bright chartreuse to gold foliage forms an 10" tall clump and the
foliage color provides great contrast. So unique and oddly unknown
in the trade. It shouldn't be! Beautiful purple
flowers a couple of inches above the foliage in Fall. More
gold in sun as you might expect. Discovered in South Carolina and
named for that state's Pee Dee River.
This group of grass like plants consists of a clumping form of evergreen perennials native to Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, and China. They are planted as a groundcover or path edging and the plants do not creep. Green grass-like leaves 14-18 inches in height. White flower spikes in mid summer; needs some shade. A bit slower than others.
Evergreen perennial has silvery-white vertical striping on its dark green, grass-like leaves. Pale purple flowers are followed by whitish-green berries, with dark green markings. Use as an accent, border or mass planting. A very choice form that spreads a bit more than L. muscari
forms, but not berserk! Formerly, Ophiopogen
spicatus
