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| Yarrow |
Zones: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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This is a low-growing perennial with beautiful fernlike foliage. Flat-topped clusters of white flowers rise 6 inches to 21/2 feet above the foliage sporadically from late May to frost. These flowers are excellent cut, either fresh or dry. Because of its graceful and nearly evergreen foliage, Yarrow makes a good texture plant for the front of the perennial garden, and it is a staple in meadows. It requires full sun and tolerates drought well. Given fertile soil, Yarrow will spread rapidly. Keep it in check by annually spading out the wanderers. Cat# 1000 -more info-
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Available: Fall 2010
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| Achillea millefolium 'Apple Blossom' |
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| Yarrow, Apple Blossom |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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'Apple Blossom' Yarrow has blooms that open white and mature to a soft pink. It will grow a little over 2 feet tall in full sun and average soil. Cat# 1073 -more info-
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Available: Currently
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| Achillea millefolium 'Ortel's Rose' |
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| Yarrow, Ortel's Rose |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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'Ortel's Rose' Yarrow has beautiful rose pink flowers. It will grow a little over 18 inches tall in full sun and average soil. Compared to 'Apple Blossom', it is shorter, has deeper pink flowers, and is a stronger grower. It is lovely. Cat# 1552 -more info-
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Available: Currently
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| Achillea millefolium 'Paprika' |
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| Yarrow, Paprika |
Zones: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Paprika Yarrow is an easy to grow perennial with fern-like foliage and a long bloom time. It likes full sun and average soil conditons. Flowers shaped like pie plates are bright red with yellow centers and are on stalks 18 to 24 inches tall. You can prolong flowering by cutting back the plants after the first flowering flush in early summer. The flowers are good for cutting and are attractive to butterflies. Cat# 1001 -more info-
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Available: Currently
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| Achillea millefolium 'Summer Pastels' |
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| Yarrow, Summer Pastels |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Summer Pastels has a beautiful mix of soft colored flowers throughout the summer - salmon, butter yellow, pink, and cream. It won an All-America Selections Award in 1990 for its overall ease of culture and dependability. It grows to about 16 inches in full sun and average soil. It makes a good cut flower. Cat# 1002 -more info-
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Available: Not available
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| Achillea millefolium 'Terra Cotta' |
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| Terra Cotta Yarrow |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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'Terra Cotta' is a selection of our native yarrow that has multicolored flower heads ranging from salmon-peach to pale yellow-orange to terra cotta all appearing at the same time. Flowering is all summer if dead-headed often. About 30 inches tall, foliage silvery. Wants full sun, average to dry soil. Cat# 1431 -more info-
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Available: Not Available
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| Anthea Yellow Yarrow |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Achillea Anthea has beautiful clusters of flat-topped soft yellow flowers in early summer. It is a repeat bloomer when dead-headed. It's silvery foliage has very good mildew resistance making this the best choice for gardens where summer heat and humidity are high. Dense clumps grow about 28 inches tall and a little wider. Give it full sun, average soil, and dryish conditions. Cat# 1398 -more info-
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Available: Not Available
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| Bottlebrush Buckeye |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Though rarely found in the wild, Bottlebrush Buckeye is a large suckering shrub native to moist woodlands of the southeastern coastal plain. In cultivation, given average to moist soil and full sun to part shade, Bottlebrush Buckeye forms a handsome dense suckering shrub colony 10 feet by 10 feet. Typical buckeye leaves are topped in early to mid summer with masses of creamy white flower spikes, each one10 inches long and 4 inches wide. The flower display is outstanding and fall color is often a good yellow. Give this shrub plenty of room as a specimen planting or locate it at a moist wood's edge. When grown in more shade, its aspect will be more open and wispy, and flowering will be quite subtle, but still the effect is beautiful. Cat# 1005 -more info-
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Available: Currently
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| $15.00 each
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| Antennaria plantaginifolia |
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| Pussytoes |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Pussytoes is widely occurring throughout the eastern United States on open, dry, wooded slopes where it forms scattered mats of dark green or silver, 2 to 3 inch long, spoon shaped leaves. In spring, silvery-white, pussy toe shaped clusters of fuzzy flower heads appear on stalks up to 8 inches tall. This little plant is useful as an evergreen groundcover in shady dry places (maybe a wood's edge) where is can form beautiful silvery mats which spread by white runners. New growth tends to be white and changes to dark green over time. Give it some shade, dry, well drained (poor) soil, and NO mulch. Alumroot, Firepink, and Columbine would be natural companions. Cat# 1401 -more info-
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Available: Not available
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| Pussytoes |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Pussytoes is widely occurring throughout the eastern United States on open, dry, wooded slopes where it forms scattered mats of dark green or silver, 2 to 3 inch long, spoon shaped leaves. In spring, solitary, silvery white, pussy toe shaped fower heads appear on stalks 4 to 5 inches tall. This little plant is useful as a groundcover in shady dry places where is can form beautiful silvery mats which spread by white runners. New growth tends to be white and changes to dark green over time. Give it some shade, dry well drained (poor) soil, and NO mulch. Alumroot, Firepink, and Columbine would be natural companions. Cat# 1225 -more info-
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Available: Not available
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| Pussytoes, Shale Barrens |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7
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The Shale Barrens Pussytoes is restricted to dry, shaly barrens of the mountains of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Delaware where it roots into rock crevices and forms thick mats of small silver leaves. Spreading slowly by runners, over time it will form beautiful silvery mats in dry, partly shady, poor soil. In spring, silvery white, pussy toe shaped clusters of fuzzy flowers appear on stalks up to 15 inches tall. Alumroot, Firepink, and Columbine would be natural companions. Cat# 1267 -more info-
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Available: Not Available
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| Dutchmans Pipe Vine |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Dutchmans Pipe is a common vine in moist southern Appalachian hardwood forests in coves and along stream banks easily twining 20 to 30 feet high. It has been popular as a porch screen for ages because it is fast growing, has large heart shaped leaves, and has odd little flowers. The two inch pale brownish purple flowers are pipe shaped or s-shaped with a widely flaring triangular "mouth" perfect for catching careless flies. The curious looking early summer flowers are borne sparsely among the wide leaves. Try it on a trellis for screening or let it ramble among shrubs and trees. It likes good moist soil and can take either shade or sun. Cat# 1016 -more info-
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Photo courtesy of Missouri Botanical PlantFinder
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Available: Not Available
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| $12.00 each
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| Pink Swamp Milkweed |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Pink Swamp Milkweed looks a lot like Butterfly Weed except that the mid-summer flowers are rosy pink and plants have a succulent texture. Growing about 3 feet tall, this perennial needs full sun and can take, but does not require, boggy conditions. It is a butterfly magnet. Cat# 1018 -more info-
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| Purple Milkweed |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Occurring widely in the northeast in thickets, open woods, and fields, Purple Milkweed is similar to common Milkweed except that it has much deeper rose pink flowers and more pointed leaves. Plants form clumps 2 to 3 feet tall and wide and have stout straight stems topped by beautiful mid-summer rosy purple flower balls. Of course, butterflies LOVE their nectar and monarch butterfly caterpillars love their leaves. Easy to grow in dry, poor to average soil, in full sun. Plants may seed in and form colonies. Cat# 1433 -more info-
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Available: Currently
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| Butterfly Weed |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Butterfly Weed has striking brilliant orange flowers which color our fields in early to mid summer. The flower clusters may be up to 11/2 feet wide, and established plants may form clumps 3 feet wide and 2 feet tall. This perennial does best in full sun and a dry, well-drained location. It would make a good accent plant in a dry spot in the perennial border, natural area, or meadow. Butterfly Weed with its long tap root resents being moved and it is late to break dormancy; so give it a permanent spot and be patient in the spring. Butterfly Weed flowers are excellent as fresh cut flowers. And of course, they are magnets for butterflies. Cat# 1019 -more info-
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| Asclepias tuberosa 'Hello Yellow' |
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| Butterfly Weed, Hello Yellow |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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If you do not love the color orange (dare I suggest that in the midst of University of Tennessee Volunteers country?), then maybe the yellow Butterfly Weed, 'Hello Yellow', would appeal to you. Its flower colors range from lemony yellow to tangerine/yellow. Since these plants are seed grown, we don't know until they flower just exactly which shade of yellow they'll be. In all other respects, 'Hello Yellow' is just like orange Butterfly Weed - great for a sunny, dry, well drained spot. Cat# 1327 -more info-
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Available: Not Available
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| Aster, Blue Wood |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Common in the woods of the southeastern mountains and surrounding areas, Blue Wood Aster is a lovely fall blooming aster for shade or sun. Like the White Wood Aster, it can help bring fall color to the wood's edge with its many branched inflorescences of 3/4 inch pale lavender-blue and yellow flower heads. Give it good soil and let it naturalize with Indian Pink, Alumroot, native Azaleas, and Green and Gold. In shade, it will sprawl somewhat to 3 feet in length, and in sun it will be fairly upright and up to 3 feet tall. In our sunny fall garden, it forms clouds of soft lavendar/blue flowers intermediate in height between bright yellow fall sunflowers and the short blue/purple Wild Ageratum. It's a beautiful combination. Cat# 1022 -more info-
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Available: Not available
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| Aster cordifolius 'Avondale' |
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| Aster, Avondale Wood |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 3
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Avondale Wood Aster is a selection of the wild type which is common in the woods of the southeastern mountains and surrounding areas. It is a lovely fall blooming aster for shade or sun, and can help bring fall color to the wood's edge with its many branched inflorescences of 3/4 inch pale lavender-blue and yellow flower heads. Avondale is more compact and a more prolific bloomer than the species. Give it good soil and bright light. Use it in masses for a beautiful fall display Cat# 1509 -more info-
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Available: Not Available
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| Aster ericoides 'Snow Flurry' |
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| Aster Snow Flurry |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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Heath Asters love dry, well-drained soils, in sun to part shade. They form evergreen clumps of needle shaped foliage and literally cover themselves with thousands of 1/2 inch white with yellow centers, many-petaled, daisy-like flowers from early to late fall. This one, 'Snow Flurry', is really neat because it only grows 12 to 18 inches tall and 3 feet wide, forming low, dense, spreading mounds. A natural for the front of the dry garden or to drape over a wall or to spread out onto a walkway, Heath Aster also feeds the fall butterflies. A real winner all the way around. Cat# 1328 -more info-
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Available: Currently
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| Smooth Aster |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Smooth Aster is a favorite of ours because of its soft blue flowers and attractive glaucous, blue-green foliage. It forms stiffly arching stems to 4 feet tall that are covered with loose open heads of 1 inch, violet-blue-with-yellow flowers from late summer into fall. The foliage is smooth, low clumping, and is very disease resistant. This is a very easy aster for average soil in full sun. It would be a knock-out with Boltonia, Little Bluestem, Seashore Mallow, and Hairy Sunflower. Cat# 1024 -more info-
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Available: Currently
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| Aster, Bristly |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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This tough little Aster is often found in open sandy woods and rocky stream beds where it withstands seasonal flooding and drought. Its natural range is from southern Ontario and New Brunswick to Texas and Florida. It would be a good candidate for dry, exposed places with good drainage. It forms stiff, rounded clumps 9 to 18 inches tall topped by clusters of one inch, blue to violet aster flowers with yellow centers in the fall. The dark green shiny leaves look like Yew leaves. Bristly Aster never fails to attract attention because it looks like a flowering Yew. We recommend pinching Bristly Aster in early June to keep it extra bushy. Just shear the top half off like a clump of grass. Cat# 1026 -more info-
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Available: Not available
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| Aster, New England |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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New England Aster produces masses of 1 to 3 inch flower heads with showy deep violet, blue, or pink rays and prominent yellow centers. Plants may grow up to 4 feet tall or more and equally as wide. Grow in fertile, moist soil in full sun to partial shade. Good for middle or rear of perennial border or a meadow. Flowering peaks in early July, but goes on for a good 2 months. Cat# 1027 -more info-
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| Aster, Aromatic |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Aromatic Aster is stiff, and bushy (up to 4 feet) with light violet flower rays. Pale green leaves when crushed have a spicy smell. Grows naturally in dry, open areas with somewhat alkaline soil but would be suitable for a dry spot in the middle of the garden border, in a natural setting, or you could use it as a flowering hedge. Flowering persists from early fall until hard frosts. This one is an absolute knock-out in flower. Try it where it could drape over a wall or bank. Reduce its height by half in early summer and it will be even denser and shorter. One of our all-time favorites. Cat# 1029 -more info-
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Available: Currently
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| Aster oblongifolius 'October Skies' |
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| Aster, October Skies |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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Aromatic Aster is one of our all-time favorites. It just cannot be beat for long lasting fall color or ease of culture. Its dwarf variety, 'October Skies' is just as good but only half as high. So use this one when you want a low spreading dense mound instead of a medium height mound. Cat# 1329 -more info-
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Available: Not Available
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| Aster oblongifolius 'Raydon's Favorite' |
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| Raydon's Favorite Aromatic Aster |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Raydon's Favorite is a selection of our great Aromatic Aster that was discovered in Texas. It has all the wonderful characteristics of the species but this one is even more densely and darker flowering. A mass planting in full sun, would be spectacular in the early fall.
Raydon's Favorite is stiff, and bushy (up to 4 feet) with dark violet flower rays. Pale green leaves when crushed have a spicy smell. Grows naturally in dry, open areas with somewhat alkaline soil but would be suitable for a dry spot in the middle of the garden border, in a natural setting, or you could use it as a flowering hedge. Flowering persists from early fall until hard frosts. This one is an absolute knock-out in flower. Try it where it could drape over a wall or bank. Cat# 1511 -more info-
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