Basket of Gold
Botanical Name: Aurinia saxatilis ‘Gold Ball’ Common Name: Basket of Gold Native Region: Eastern Europe Sun Exposure: Full Sun Description: This popular, spring-blooming perennial forms a mass a cheery yellow blooms above mounds of silver-green, hairy foliage. A fantastic choice for rock walls, crevices and terraces. It’s easy to care for, can tolerant sandy or...
Prairie Smoke Avens – Geum triflorum
Botanical Name: Geum triflorum Common Name: Prairie Smoke Avens Native Region: North America Native Sun Exposure: Part Sun to Full Sun Description: This native, herbaceous perennial produces delicate nodding pink flowers 10-12″ above a soft, serrated mound of leaves. Its common name comes from the look of its seed heads which are perhaps more striking...
Garden Hyacinth
Botanical Name: Hyacinthus orientatlies Common Name: Garden Hyacinth or Dutch Hyacinth Native Region: southwest Asia Sun Exposure: Full Sun Description: Hyacinths produce a highly fragrant, 10 inch stalk of star-shaped flowers above a rosette of blade-like leaves. These plants are usually planted in the fall in the form of bulbs. Each bulb generally produces...
Lungwort
Botanical Name: Pulmonaria sp. Common Name: Lungwort cultivars or Bethlehem Sage Native Region: Native to Europe into Russia Sun Exposure: Partial Shade Description: Lungworts are a hardy woodland perennial characterized by silver spotted leaves. Tubular flowers in shades of purple and/or pink form above the exceptional foliage in early spring. The plant is low-growing, reaching...
Daffodil cultivars
Botanical Name: Narcissus cultivars Common Name: Daffodil cultivars Native Region: Native to Europe, North Africa and Asia Sun Exposure: Full Sun (can be grown with success under deciduous trees as they will have full sun before the trees leaf out) Special Notes: Rodents & squirrels avoid Daffodils as all Narcissus varieties contain lycorine, an alkaloid...
Fringed Bleeding Hearts
Botanical Name: Dicentra ‘Luxuriant’ — Dicentra eximia × Dicentra peregrina Common Name: Fringed Bleeding Heart Native Region: Native to the Appalachians south of Pennsylvania. Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade Special Notes: All parts of this plant are poisonous if ingested Description: This 12-18″ plant sports beautiful cherry-red flowers above ferny silver-green foliage in early spring from early...
