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Choice woodland plant with large 7" scalloped blue-green leaves and 2" white flowers. The leaves embrace the flower stem as they emerge. A welcome sight when you're looking for spring. Dry soil will make the plant go dormant early.
Unique
blue, brush-like flowers stand over the divided bronze-green foliage on a
new plant to the trade from Sichuan, China. This is a distant cousin to
Cryptotaenia. This woodland gem has a compact habit and can bloom for
MONTHS. Great in containers and in the border. Found growing between
Corydalis in the Panda preserve. Absolutely delightful.
Introduced
by Carroll Gardens so it's with two 'L's like their name - it's misspelled
everywhere! Dee[ yellow button flowers in mid to late summer over
fine-textured fragrant silver-gray foliage helps keep bugs out of the
garden. Perfect for the Perennial Garden or the Herb Garden and nice
for knot gardens or low hedges when kept clipped. Drought tolerant.
Compact grey-green finely-cut foliage. The best santolina. Does well even in compacted & wet conditions, unlike other lavender cottons. Will also take light shade. Strong pine scent. One of Pete's favorite plants. One customer planted his ENTIRE FRONT YARD in it!
True!!
It's the green lavender cotton! Delicate leaf structure belies the toughness of this plant. Great as an evergreen specimen, low hedge or as part of a perennial or herb grouping. All santolinas are underused. This is a foliage plant and, in some opinions, the yellow blooms, are better cut off. The plant maintains it's shape better.
Showy masses of bright carmine pink 1" blooms literally cover the plant for a long period in midsummer. Handsome, oval, blue green foliage on a refined, compact plant. Try planting it in front of a Caryopteris or Veronica Sunny Border Blue.
WELL-BEHAVED, Excellent soapwort.
A much branched, delicate variety If not sheared, it will self-seed. Extremely cold hardy BUT that
does depend on well-drained soil.
It's called Bouncing Bet, because it does bounce around via self seeding
and underground runners but gosh it's so pretty and looks so-o-o-o great
with other plants, that you should make some room for it! This is
really a beautiful, long blooming plant! 
One of the best introductions to come out of China in years. This rare Aristolochia family member is clothed w/ 5" wide fuzzy, light green, heart-shaped leaves. From early spring through late summer,
it's topped with 3/4" buttery yellow flowers. You will see a few self-sown seedlings after the 2nd year. RARE. CHOICE!
An herb with a strong spicy flavor used in soups, meats, vegetables and teas
but surprisingly good edging plant which may be clipped for a formal effect.
A low shrub with dark green foliage and profuse white flowers. Useful border
plant. Trim back in early spring. Not reliably hardy below 10
degrees.
While
it's typically thought of as a submerged plant, growing into small
colonies from underground runners but it also grows in moist spots and
drainage ditches so if you have a swampy spot in your yard, it's a
marvelous plant. Reaching 2 feet tall, it's topped with arching
bottlebrush spikes of white flowers, usually 6-8" long but can be
longer. The seeds are small nutlets that resemble a lizard's
tail. 3" long leaves can be either arrowhead-shaped or
heart-shaped and the leaf stalks form clasps where they join the
stem. 
This
Saxafrage must have sharply drained 1/2 tiny rocks in alkaline soil. The white you see on the leaves is lime being excreted, not variegation. Choice alpine; white flowers on 4-10" stems often have a yellow blotch & occasionally red spots. No baking PM sun!
Evergreen.
The
green form of Strawberry Begonia.
(BUT it's NOT a Begonia or a Strawberry!) Makes an unusual, not too
aggressive groundcover for Part shade that in May and June is covered with
spikes of small airy white flowers. Tolerates dry soils, but a
moist, well-drained site is better. Velvety, fuzzy textured leaves.
A beautiful form of the species above with brilliant
sulfur-yellow to harvest gold foliage with a red metallic sheen. Makes a
unique and unusual groundcover. In 5 years, expect a 3' wide
patch. In May and June, the gorgeous foliage is topped with a
fantastic show of 1' spikes composed of small airy white flowers. Tolerates
dry soils, but a moist, well-drained site is better. Easily one of the
dumbest common names -- neither a strawberry nor a Begonia. Go figure
Common Names!
Chinese native woodland groundcover. White occasionally pink flowers in mid-summer on 12"
stems. Adequate moisture. The "Red Carpet" groundcover for moist places--thick solid rounded leaves in profusion, each covered with showy red hair. Hardy in zone 6 with protection. Gorgeous when in bloom & not 'pushy' like Saxafraga stolonifera.
If
you like Hens 'n Chicks but have too much shade for them, take a look at
this! It looks like a big richly green and gold variegated Hens 'n
Chick!. Sends up 9" airy sprays of palest pink blooms that in mass
makes good cut flowers. Water well the first year until
established. Very hard to find in the trade.
Butterfly Blue and it's buddy, 'Pink Misty' have met the test
of time and are still blooming when all of the hot, new plants have 'taken a
powder'!
An exceptional performer, w/ lavender-blue blooms from Mid-summer to heavy frost. Neat, compact. Neutral to slightly alkaline soil. Divide & replace soil every 3 years. Deadhead.
A
dwarf selection of Pincushion Flower that only reaches an adorable
6" tall when blooming! Profuse HUGE 1-2" blooms all
summer and attracts hummingbirds and butterflies. Hardy enough
in Zone 6 and warmer to live in a pot or even a bit colder in a
heavy trough. Very charming. Short lived if grown in
poorly drained soil. Japanese Pincushion is not the generally
available Scabiosa and is a profuse dwarf bloomer especially in cool
summer areas. Because it will take some shade, move it there
in warmer areas.
From September through Frost, Kafir Lily puts
on a shameless display of bright red flowers. Long
Iris-like foliage and solid blooms somewhat like Candy Lilies.
It's a great color in the Fall Garden often dominated by gold, rusts and
yellows. Great cut flower. The soil must be well-watered or moist.
Beautiful with Golden Rod and Blue Asters! More cold hardy than
most sources report.
Once the blooms started here, they just continued in abundance and that
was in quart pots. On Nov. 18th, they were still blooming in the
greenhouse!
Lavender rose wands of flowers. This unusual bulb naturalizes in the rock garden nicely.
Fall Squill has delicate spikes appear in early fall along with Fall
Crocus; foliage dies away by early summer.
SUMMER DORMANT. Excellent hardy bulb. Plant pot another 1" deeper.
I see sources that say that this isn't hardy but we keep it in pots above
ground, outside over winter in Zone 7, so it should easily be hardy to
zone 5. Our original plants came to us when we bought out a
fledgling rare plant nursery. The owner acquired seed from all over
the world but particularly from high altitude locations where possibly our
clone was growing in a colder spot than others.
Beautiful
white bell shaped, nodding flowers in May right after the snow
crocuses. One the best for forcing - just bring a few in from the
garden and pot up inside for Christmas blooms. One to two blooms
stalks with 2-3 blooms per stalk. The thin, grass-like, dark green
leaves emerge from the ground in early spring and are soon followed by the
blooms. Multiplies readily and best in drifts planted near a walk
way so you can see them up close. Definitely one of the prettiest
spring blooming bulbs. 
Scutellaria is a quick-spreading and clump-forming plant with tubular, two-lipped flowers, borne singly or in pairs, on short terminal racemes.
'Arcobaleno' is a seed strain of an interesting European rockery plant with 'skullcap' blooms
in a variety of colors. A branching, short-stemmed, somewhat
woody plant with leaves 1 to 1.5 inches long, ovate, crenate-serrate.
Bilabiate flowers grow in tight racemes sometimes with lower lip in a
contrasting color (usually white or yellow).
Bushy,
upright grower with long, glossy leaves and intense cobalt-blue flowers
from early summer to early autumn.. One of the best. From Mongolia.
Perfect in the rock garden or any well-drained, raised bed.
A Northeastern US Native that gets a 5 Star
Rating from MOBOT! A very tall skullcap with two-lipped, purplish
flowers flowers in summer over toothed, oval medium green leaves.
Square stems are covered with minute white hairs, hence another Common
Name, hoary (hairy) Skullcap (which refers to the skull or helmet shaped
calyx of the bloom. Come up late in spring, so don't go
digging where you planted them thinking they're dead!
Cherry red flowers, low twiggy shrub 4-6" tall, sparsely hairy. Leaves oval, rounded tips, slightly clothed in hairs like stems on short petioles. Seeds black and granular.
From the northeast corner of Mexico but hardy in Zone 6 to 9, mostly sunny to full sun. Beautiful 'hooded' flowers.
Wonderful and hard to find in the trade. Takes our humidity. Zone 6
hardiness per Colorado State.
Firm,
dark green, front-like erect branched leaves on a Fern Ally.
Like all fern and their allies, it doesn't develop blooms and seed but
reproduces by divisions and spore bearing leafy cones (strobili).
From China, this unique plant is a clump forming species. Of
easy culture and very eye-catching. Plant
of the Week for 2-7-03 by Oregon University's Cal Lemke.
THIS IS NOT A SHRUB but can be confused with an evergreen shrub in
summer when it's mature! 
A
new Club Moss for us which is rarely seen for sale and
oh-so-spectacular! Native to Central America, it requires
typical club moss conditions - high humidity, warmish temperature,
low to medium light and moist or well-watered soil. Dark green
upper face of the leaves and ruby red underneath and fantastic
metallic maroon/red sheen -- the same kind of metallic sheen found
in Peacock Moss. Evergreen (well, Ever-Red!) This
is a TINY, almost miniature club moss - not only more beautiful than most but also
much slower.
Versatile fern ally for use as pots, baskets, groundcover for bonsai, mixed bowls or as accents and groundcover for the garden. Gold tips has golden new growth with yellow-green mature tips. A mat-maker of fairly fast spread if sited properly. No direct sun but bright full shade. Mist from stream bed waterfall makes it positively
delirious!
Native to Eastern Asia this is one of the hardiest of the 700 spikemosses. A fern ally that can be used as a deciduous groundcover in full shade but w/ bright light. Creeping around a shady pond or creek is perfect. Can also be used as a houseplant or bonsai cover. Needs moisture in the house. Fabulous
rust hues in Fall and Spring.
Peacock Moss is possibly the most beautiful ground cover in the woods. Semi-evergreen, lacy foliage -- like a cross between an upright moss & a fern. The metallic blue, almost
iridescent sheen, in a flicker of sunlight, will stop you in your tracks! From China. Needs a rich, moist but well-drained soil. Provide protection the first winter.
If you like Aquilegia, then
you love Semiaquilegia ecalcarata! The Chinese Native grows in mossy
woodland area and looks quite it's relative, the columbine, but the
flowers are spurless. Violet-purple to burgundy blooms
wave airily above deeply lobed forest green foliage and purplish stem
(unlike Aquilegias) from May to June. 
Gorgeous foliage plant. There's really nothing else quite like it. Great in hanging baskets or in the garden. An evergreen Mexican perennial. Somewhat drought resistant. Another plant more hardy than people realize, Tony Avent says to 0 degrees but the top dies back or goes dormant in winter. MUST have superbly drained soil to overwinter
outside at that temperature..
Carolina Catchfly is found in sandy woods, slopes and rock outcrops in the Southeast, not just Carolina! Clusters of 5-Petaled, strong pink (occasionally white) 2" wide flowers appear for a very long time sitting 2" above the leaves. Ideal for the rock garden and loves
limey soil. The blooms of wherryi are larger than the species. Don't fertilize. They like lean soil.
Over-fertilizing makes them short lived.
AKA, Lychnis dioica, Melandrium dioicum. Common on woodland edges in many states but not a native.
In nature, flowers are male or female. A
male without females does not set seed but just blooms and blooms and blooms -- usually from May through Fall.
Foliage forms neat, rounded 'bushettes' sporting 3/4" blooms in shades of
rose. The interesting British site First
Nature describes it as having 'Dense flower masses that last all
summer". It is a British native. Vegetatively
propagated from a male plant rather than seed grown. 
Fire pink which is really red is a striking sight whether you come across it around a bend in the woods or in your own garden where, with care, it's even more spectacular. The red tubular flowers are a favorite of the ruby-throated hummingbird, who has impeccable taste in flowers!
If
the red form of Silene doesn't work for you and the pink form below isn't
quite right, how about 'Emma's Blush'. New to the trade in 2006, it
might be just the color you need. Same great characteristic's as
it's relatives just pale, blushing pink.
Like
the red species, two listings above, but this is the VERY rare pink form.
A medium pink, the tubular flowers are a favorite of hummingbirds.
Almost impossible to get seed to germinate but worth the trouble! A big, bold, back-of-the-border plant with incredible perfoliated leaves that hold rain like a cup. From midsummer to autumn, bears yellow daisy like flowers up to 3" across. Grows in average soil, but moist, heavy, best. Also neutral to alkaline best.
This iris relative is semi-evergreen with linear leaves to 7" long. In summer, broadly winged stems bear a succession of star-shaped, dark-veined, bright yellow flowers. Self-seeds freely, so it's doesn't matter that it's short-lived. Not
as hardy as some but wonderful where it will grow.
Grass like foliage w/ bright yellow flowers in early summer over 8-16" iris-like foliage, which is appropriate, since it's in the Iris family. The unique thing about this one is the yellow bloom
most are blue & it's extremely rare. Listed as hardy only to
zone 8, it grows at the J.C. Raulston Arboretum which is Zone 7.
Similar to Solomon Seal but with distinctly different flowers, that look like white Astilbe
blossoms at the end of the pink stemmed branches, followed by bright red berries.
Easy to grow; colonizes. Takes several years to reach mature size. Tolerant of drought.
A must for the woodland garden.
We
couldn't have said it better than Sandra Mason U. of IL Extension Office
in her online Homeowner's Column (9/15/01): 
Showy, prolific sprays of summer blooms THAT DO NOT CAUSE HAY FEVER -- that's ragweed. In Europe, they know better & are wild about this plant! This is a choice, dwarf, groundcover form & it's well-behaved.
Chicago
Botanic Garden 'Best Plants'
A clump
forming, well-behaved Goldenrod with small variegated leaves and unique
large LIGHT YELLOW flowers in late summer/early Fall. The boldly
splashed and dusted with gold leaves add interest all season but are
exceptionally lovely in spring. Distnictive zig-zag or
crooked stems bend back and forth at 45 degree angles. 
Brilliant golden showers of flowers in early Autumn. In this form, flowers
flare out above the leaves, like fireworks, for a spectacular display.
Goldenrods do NOT CAUSE
HAY FEVER -- they're not wind pollinated -- it's Ragweed that causes Hay
fever. This is a great plant and combines beautifully with so very many
Fall blooming Perennials. Chicago
Botanic Garden 'Best Plants' and shown in the
above photo.
Dwarf Goldenrod introduced by Mt. Cuba Center. From attractive rosettes of deep green leaves arch strong stems loaded with radiating racemes of golden yellow. Well behaved and drought tolerant, with dense foliage that makes an excellent ground cover in 1 year set 15" apart.
Chicago
Botanic Garden 'Best Plants'
'Little Lemon'
has dense racemes of the lightest yellow-flowering Goldenrod in the
trade. The dwarf size reaching 8-10" in bloom and very free
branching habit makes this a great addition to the Fall perennial
border. Blooms for several weeks in August and September and if
cut back for another flusher later. A hybrid of natives.
A prized Southeastern wildflower rarely offered for sale. Delicate, carmine-and-yellow flowers bloom in the heat of summer, continuing from July to September. Native to shaded woodland areas but adapts to full sun if given adequate moisture. This neat, slender plant grows 12 to 24" tall. 
This hardy native orchid bears slender spikes of vanilla-scented white
flowers in summer. Flower stalks rise 18 to 24 in. tall above a basal clump
of grassy leaves. While it prefers moist soil in sun it's perfectly happy in
average moisture in part shade.. Absolutely stunning in bloom. Delaware native is propagated here at the nursery. Smells like Jasmine.
One of the best perennials we've seen in a while. Soft-hairy, emerald foliage bears spikes of red, tubular flowers with flaring lips from mid-summer to frost. Easily grown, blooming the first year from seed. Fairly rare & highly recommended. THIS PERENNIAL IS DESTINED FOR GREATNESS!
Similar to species with Intense Coral Red blooms above soft, hairy
foliage. Deadheading promotes continued bloom AND actually
improves foliage as well. A select form of a US Native.
Foliage on basal rosette is rippled lettuce green with scalloped edges. Dense spikes of pink flowers 1 1/4" long from EARLY SUMMER to EARLY AUTUMN! This is a great, unknown plant that's hard to beat for length of bloom.
Heat tolerant perennial with HUGE LEAVES. Excellent groundcover or front of the border. Strong clumping habit. Divide every 2-3 years if not used for groundcover. Leaves resist rot like the species. Few flowers. Holds up well to heat & humidity but needs well-drained soil.
A NON-FLOWERING (rarely flowers) type used for silvery foliage effect in front of border or as a ground cover.
Doesn't 'MELT' in summer heat and humidity like the species. Never looks good in pots in the greenhouse --it's too humid
and they get too crowded -- but looks fabulous in the garden.
A nice border plant with 2-3" long heart-shaped leaves and flower spikes of white, pale, rose, etc. Our variety is purple. A good bee plant. Mat forming perennial with 4-sided, hairy stems and oblong, deeply veined, regularly toothed leaves. Used
externally in herbal circles for wounds. 
Deep pink blooms (occasionally white) in dense
spikes over glossy, dark green leaves over a very long season from
July through September. Leaves are evergreen in warm
climates. Showy flowers are of primary interest in this
species unlike it's cousin, Lamb's Ear. Synonymous with and
sometimes sold as S. densiflora.) Appreciates PM shade in hot
climates. Spreads by stolens, plant 12-18" apart for
polite ground cover.
A creeping mat with neat, crinkled green leaves shaped like a long traingle, 1/2" wide and 1 1/4" long, which forms evergreen clumps. The leaves are very aromatic when crushed. White flowers on short stems. Easy & useful for enhancing other late flowering plants such as sedums. Very,
very, very, very long bloomer!
Stachys minor 'Lavender' 
This plant is unheard of outside of China! We purchased it as a parent plant from China as Phlomis medicinalis, which it wasn't. Finally, using Harvard records & line drawings dating back to 1938 & using a magnifying glass to see hairs on leaves & bloom, we got the correct ID!
Stoloniferous with varying bloom color - pale pink, pink to light purple. Beautiful
& seems tough as nails! We are the only source in the country
for this plant.
Bulbous perennial that looks like a Yellow Crocus in Fall. 1 1/2" goblet-shaped yellow flowers. Narrow, lance-shaped, deep green leaves to 12" long. From Spain and Afghanistan.
A very pretty plant, grown best on warm gravelly soils but not fussy.
Flowers freely but rarely sets seed. It is thought by some to be the
Biblical 'Lilies of the Field', as it grows abundantly in Palestine.
Interesting article at Suite
101 on what they call "arguably the best Fall flowering bulb for
the garden".
A
classic - blue with a white center. 2-3" wide fluffy deep sky
blue flowers on erect stems growing 12-18" tall and an 8" tall
evergreen rosette. 'Blue Danube' is very erect and doesn't flop as
some do. Good drought tolerance. Appreciates winter mulch in
the the colder parts of its range.
An
incredible look for a Stokesia! Blooms start white in mid-May,
gradually changing thru shades of gradually darkening lavender finally
ending in purple. During this time new white blooms are forming so
at any given time, all 5 distinct colors are present -- the Color
Wheel! An introduction from the best brothers in the trade -- Saul
Brothers of Atlanta. Deadhead to promote continued bloom and
remember, no winter waterlogged soil for Stokesias. Drought
tolerant.
Unusual lacy, cornflower-like flowers at the stem tips. Evergreen, basal rosettes. Highly decorative border plant & good cut flower. Takes summer heat or winter cold w/ ease. Needs well-drained soil. Klaus Jelitto
features HUGE 4" powder blue blooms. Superb!
Uniquely colored Stokes Aster -- Yellow blooms just keep on coming if deadheaded. Great cut flowers, beautiful in the border, evergreen and huge flowers. Introduced by Niche Gardens. This is such a color breakthrough for Stokes Asters.
A
selection of one of our best Native Plants - Stoke's Aster. The
bloom starts out initially light blue, becoming darker blue, then bluish
purple to reddish purple and finally dark hot pink. Deadhead to keep
it blooming all summer and remember, no waterlogged winter soil for this
drought tolerant beauty.
Broad, lance-shaped green leaves with white midveins. Prefers moist, well-drained soil but established plants tolerate poor, dry soil. Maroon fall color. Long-blooming if kept deadheaded. Silver moon has large, silvery white flowers.
Broad, lance-shaped green leaves with white midveins. Prefers moist, well-drained soil but established plants tolerate poor, dry soil.
Long-blooming if kept deadheaded. Wyoming has large, blue flowers.
Wyoming self-seeds a lot which is either what you want in a groundcover or
not. Others we have seem to self seed less.
AKA, Celandine Poppy has basal rosettes of large, lobed, hairy leaves. Bears open cup-shaped flowers UP TO 4" ACROSS. It's color is rare in the shade garden during the spring. Ornamental seed capsules & pretty foliage. Self seeds but quite easy to pull up. Often dormant in summer.
Symphyotrichums
Shiny green crinkled leaves, early spring flowers are pale yellow. Good groundcover. From the Caucasas. Contains certains alkaloids & should not be taken internally. One of the prettiest & smallest of the comfrey. We quickly
sold out
last year, this plant is so charming. Seldom seen in the trade.
A form of the species with
many clear blue nodding flowers that look especially attractive with
yellow blooming spring flowers. Spreads by undeground stolons and
will eventually form a dense, weed resistant ground cover. Site
carefully because like all stoloniferous plants, it does continue to
spread.
A mature skunk cabbage may spread 4' across & provide interesting early flowers & arresting leaves up to 2' long on 1' petioles. Plants are long lived & maintenance-free. In summer, they look like a huge hosta. Bold & eye-catching. Must have wet soil year round
(although, honestly, several of our parents are quite a bit upland of the
actual water filled bog. Their deep roots must be reaching down to the
water table in the nearby creek.)
These are 2nd year seedlings which, when happy, grow fairly fast.
Please note, they often go summer dormant as young plants AND as mature
plants if it gets dry. 
