|
Native Wildflowers and Grasses
Items on this page will be picked up Monday, May 17, 2010, where a native plant workshop will also be held. You do not need to attend the workshop to pick up your order. Extra plants will be available to purchase.
To place an order, please use the Order Form and order by March 22, 2010
Native Wildflowers
 Black-eyed Susan - Rudbeckia hirta: 24 to 36" biennial with a brown, domed center is surrounded by bright yellow ray florets. Native to the eastern United States. Freely self-seeds. Thrives in most soils in full sun. Blooms June through August.
 Cardinal Flower - Lobelia Cardinalis: Cardinal flower with its brilliant red blossoms is very attractive to
butterflies and hummingbirds. It grows best in moist, even wet soil in light shade
to full sun. Once established, it usually will re-seed itself. Provides late summer
bloom to the perennial border, wild garden, native plant or woodland garden.
 Foxglove Beard Tongue: 3 to 4’ tall with Foxglove-like blooms of pure white.
Attracts hummingbirds. This perennial prefers full sun to part shade and
average to moist soil. Blooms June to July.
 Hairy Vervain: 24 to 36” drought tolerant plant with strong stems. Small purplish
flowers are borne on tall vertical spikes. A very popular plant with butterflies.
Biennial. Prefers sun and moderately moist to dry soil. Blooms July to August.
 Harebell - campanula rotundafolia: delicate plant 20” tall with stem leaves up to 4” long and less than
1/2” wide, becomes grass-like on the upper part of the stem. Purple/blue
blooms late spring - early fall.
 Interrupted Fern: 2 to 3’ tall grown in medium to moist, even wet soils in part
shade to full shade. In its native habitat, it usually is found in moist, rich,
humus, acidic soils, but happily adapts to much lesser conditions. Wet to dry.
 Joe Pye Weed: 3 to 6’ tall. Lance shaped leaves are arranged in whorls, topped
in late summer with huge round-topped panicles of mauve-purple flowers.
Excellent nectar plants for butterflies. Sun to part sun. Moist to wet soil.
Blooms July to August.
|
|
 Maidenhair Fern: 12-24” tall. Bright green, fingered fronds appear on shiny,
blue-black stems. Grows in moist soil in part to full shade. Low maintenance.
 New England Aster: 3 to 6’ tall making it one of the tallest and most magnificent
of the asters. Bright blue to purple flowers with orange centers cover the upper
half of the plant, and serve as an important late season nectar source for a
variety of butterflies. Very fast growing. Requires fertile soil with adequate moisture. Grow in full sun in average to moist soil.
 Ostrich Plume Fern: 3’ tall. Large, historic fern with leathery dark green fronds.
Leaves turn intense yellow in fall. Prefers a moist to wet soil. Full sun to part
shade.
 Rosinweed 2 to 6’ tall with bright yellow flowers on stems in late summer. Grows
easily from seed, and is at home on a wide variety of soils, from moderately dry
to moist. Excellent for tough clay soils.
 Trillium - Trillium grandiflorum: 10” tall bearing a long-lasting white, three petaled flower that fades to
pink when mature. Excellent for shady borders. Blooms early spring.
 Wild Blue Iris - Iris virginica: 2’ tall with a flower that is light to dark violet and blooms in late
spring. The new foliage has a purple/burgundy color. The flower is the size of
Siberian Iris; about 3 inches.
 Wild Ginger - Asarum canadensis: 4 to 8” tall. Delicate white blooms with lilac/magenta hoods
suspended on 5 stems, glossy evergreen foliage. 10” wide. Prefers shade.
 Wild Lupine - Lupinus perennis: 12 to 24” tall. Flowers in spikes, mostly blue (purple). Blooms from
mid-May through June. Full sun, dry to moist soils. Thrives in well-drained soil,
do not transplant. Attracts hummingbirds.
|
Native Grasses
 Big Bluestem Grass: Andropogon gerardii: growing 3 to 8' tall, thriving on a wide range of soils. From
wet, poorly drained clay to dry open sand. In late August it produces a distinctive
three-parted seed head that resembles a turkey foot. The lush green leaves and
stems change with the first frost to an attractive reddish-copper color that
provides landscape interest well into the winter.
 Little Bluestem Grass: 2 to 3' tall with blue/green foliage turning orange late fall
and winter, stays up-right thru most ice and snows. Grows either in full sun or
partial shade. It prefers well-drained soil.
|
|
 Side Oats Grama Grass: Grows 2 to 2½' tall. A creeping grass that forms a
coarse mat of green foliage with two foot spikes of little oat flowers and fruits.
The culms are light green in spring and later during the fall, they become light
tan. It prefers full sun and dry conditions. This grass grows readily in various
kinds of soil, including those containing clay-loam, gravel, rocky material, and
sand. It is quite drought resistant.
|
Butterfly Kit: 38 plug plants to attract butterflies. Includes design.
Rain Garden Kit: 15 different species
totaling 38 plug size plants. This selection of plants will take higher
water periods and can withstand some drought when the rains don't come.
The kit will include but is not limited to the following: Switch grass,
big bluestem grass, coreopsis, asters, swamp milkweed, coneflowers,
culvers root, ironweed, and bergamot. A design is also included.
To place an order, please use the Order Form and order by April 30, 2010.
|
