Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Deutzia crenata var. nakaiana

Family: (Hydrangeaceae)

Perennial shrub to 2′, spreading to 4′.  Japan, Southeast China.  Dwarf Deutzia.  A pretty compact, shrub with rich green leaves, turning purple-red in autumn. Panicles of star-shaped white flowers.  Perfect for the rock garden or front of the border.  Blooms June to July.  Full sun. Very hardy.  4 & 6 & T3

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Asclepias syriaca f. leucantha

Family: (Apocynaceae)

(P) to 5’. White Milkweed. Eastern North America. A unique and striking form of the Common Milkweed.  Many umbellate cymes of fragrant, five-petalled flowers.  The petals are light green with white margins, the bright white corona consists of five hoods with beaks. Discovered this season colonizing in a relatively undisturbed border. This beauty is equally as supportive to pollinators as the more common pink form. Blooms June to August.  Sun.  4 & T1

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Indigofera kirilowii

Family: (Fabaceae)

(P) to 3′.  Kirilow’s Indigo.  Korea, northern China, southern Japan.  A suckering deciduous subshrub featuring compound, pinnate, bright green leaves and rose-pink, pea-like flowers arranged in dense racemes. Graceful Wisteria-like blooms and fine-textured foliage make for a showy display from early to midsummer with intermittent rebloom through autumn.  The bright green foliage turns a golden yellow in fall.  Performs well in mixed borders or as a foundation plant.  Hard winters may kill stems to the ground, but the plant blooms reliably on new growth each season.  Sun.  2B & 3, D & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Cestrum nocturnum

Family: (Solanaceae)

(TP) 13′. Lady of the Night. Central America and West Indies.  A night-blooming evergreen shrub with slender arching branches of glossy green, elliptic to oblong leaves. A steady show of one inch long, creamy white to pale green, five-petalled tubular flowers bloom in axillary or terminal panicles. The flowers open at night and perfume the air with an intoxicating jasmine-citrus aroma.   The flowers are pollinated by moths and other night-flying insects resulting in ¼ inch long, ovoid to oblong, white berries.  Lady of the Night is an incredibly useful plant for us – we grow several in clay pots.  We also plant youngsters in the Flower Garden and the Order Beds for their summer display and amazing fragrance on our evening rambles. Sun. 3 & T3

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Edraianthus graminifolius

Family: (Campanulaceae)

(P) to 4″.  Grassybells.   Southeastern Europe.  This low-growing Campanula relative forms a cushion of narrow, grass-like foliage from which emerge short stems bearing many terminal clusters of upward facing, five-petalled, violet-blue bells. Thrives in lean gritty soil and tight rocky spaces and has proven to be reliably cold hardy for us.  Blooms May through June.  Sun.  4 & T2

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Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Lamium orvala

Family: (Lamiaceae)

(P) to 2′.  North Italy to the Balkans.  Beautiful and distinctive, and always attracting comment.  Forms bushy clumps of handsome, toothed leaves with whorls of reddish pink, lipped, large blooms that peek out in May and June.  Well-drained soil.  Partial shade.  4 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Isodon longitubus (syn. Rabdosia longituba)

Family: (Lamiaceae)

(P) to 4′.  Trumpet Spurflower.  Native to deciduous forests in Japan.  A late blooming autumn delight for dappled shade.  This mint family perennial sends out arching stems of fresh green, lance-shaped, deeply veined leaves with serrated edges.  Stems are topped with one-foot long airy panicles covered with many one-inch long, pendulous, blue-purple, tubular flowers.  This beauty is always blooming brightly on our October, Autumn Colour Walk.  Perfect in the woodland in a semi-shaded location. Partial shade.  4 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Salvia reptans

Family: (Lamiaceae)

(P) to 4′.  West Texas Grass Salvia.  Texas, Mexico, Guatemala.  Typical Salvia flowers with five united petals; the lower three are vivid cobalt blue, the upper two are pale blue to white in colour.  Flowers appear in whorls along the grass-like willowy stems with aromatic, needle-like foliage.  As is the case with most Salvias, hummingbirds, bees and butterflies are attracted to the nectar-rich flowers. Blooms late summer to early fall.  Well-drained soil.  Sun.  4 & T2

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Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Lobelia siphilitica Pink Form

Family: (Campanulaceae)

(P) to 3′.  A very attractive and rare pale pink form of the native Great Blue Lobelia.  Clear pink, sometimes white, inch-long, fan-shaped flowers with small, white stamens bloom on dense racemes from July to September.  Moist soil.  Sun/partial shade.  3 & 6A

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Asparagus schoberioides

Family: (Asparagaceae)

(P) to 3′. Siberian Asparagus. Far East Asia. This delicately textured perennial, though edible, is largely grown for its ornamental value in a garden setting. Arching stems of fine needle-like light green foliage provide an airy, ethereal presence. Tiny white flowers in summer are followed by bright red fruit in fall when the foliage turns golden yellow. Asparagus plants are typically dioecious and therefore both male and female plants are required for fruit production. Our plant was purchased from Seneca Hill Nurseries in 2007. It is planted in the Grass Garden where it has been producing fruit happily for at least the past 10 years. Just lovely. Sun. 2B, 3 & T3