Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Syneilesis intermedia coll. DJHT 99104

Family: Asteraceae

(P) to 2′.  Japan.  Purchased from Heronswood Nursery in 2001.  Wonderful foliage plant very reminiscent of Aconitum, with woolly, peltate, filigreed leaves.  Clusters of small, fluffy pink flowerheads atop stiff, dark stems.  Intriguing.  Partial shade.  4 & T2

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Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Cuphea salvadorensis

Family: Lythraceae

(TP) to 5′.  Salvadoran Cigar Flower.  Central America.  A large, shrubby perennial producing tubular, red-orange flowers with green tips that attract hummingbirds.  Overwinter indoors.  Ours reliably goes out every year planted in the Order Beds.  Blooms summer into fall.  Sun to part shade.  Moist, well-drained soil.  4 & T3

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Salvia forsskaolii

Family: Lamiaceae

(P) to 3+’. Indigo Woodland Sage. Balkan peninsula, Bulgaria to Turkey. This plant was named after Finnish explorer Peter Forsskål, a student of Carl Linnaeus.  Large basal clumps of textural green foliage give rise to long, branched flowering stems with whorls of showy, bi-lipped, violet-blue flowers with white streaks on the lower lip.  A great Salvia for open woodland plantings.  Blooms summer into early autumn.  Full sun to part shade.  Moist, well-drained soil. 4 & T3

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Michauxia tchihatchewii

Family: Campanulaceae

(B) to 4′.  Catherine Wheel Flower. Turkey.  In its second year, from low rosettes, this interesting bell-flower relative produces four-foot bristly stems with hanging, inflated buds.  Candelabras of unique, white, nodding flowers with reflexed petals and prominent, protruding pistils follow.  Sure to grab every visitors’ attention.  Blooms mid-summer.  Full sun.  Moist, well-drained soil.  4 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Callicarpa dichotoma var. albifructa

Family: Lamiaceae

Hardy shrub to 6′.  China and Korea.  White Fruited Beauty Berry.  Callicarpa dichotoma is, according to Dirr, the “most graceful and refined of the species.”  It is also the most cold-hardy.  This variety has white berries instead of typical purple and may get a bit taller than the typical form.  Sun to partial shade.  PC- 4 weeks, 3 & T1

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Chrysanthemum weyrichii

Family: Asteraceae

(P) to 12″.  Japan and Kamchatka.  A welcomed fall bloomer with its large light pink, yellow-eyed daisies on branched stems.  An added bonus are the fleshy, deep green mats of palmately divided, five lobed foliage.  A loose, cushion-forming ground-cover for the rock garden.  Late summer to fall blooming.  Full sun and well-drained soil.  3 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Diervilla sessilifolia

Family: Caprifoliaceae

Hardy shrub to 5′.  Southern Bush Honeysuckle.  Eastern North America and southwards to Alabama.  A charming, tough, native shrub.  Opposite leaves with veins flushed red and a reddish tinge to the stems.  The flowers are sulphur yellow, tubular, and split halfway into five equal petals that curl outward.  These grow in bunches from the axils of the topmost sets of leaves, much like the true honeysuckles.  Blooms summer to early fall.  Sun.  3 & T1

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Campanula zangezura (syn. Symphyandra zangezura)

Family: Campanulaceae

(P) to 10″.  Armenia.  A delightful, short-lived perennial for the rock garden.  Slender, wiry stems with pendulous, violet-blue bells in sparse terminal racemes.  Dark green serrated foliage.  Sun/partial shade.  4 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Geranium phaeum

Family: Geraniaceae

(P) to 2′.  Mourning Widow.  Europe.  Essential “mood” plant for the colour-themed garden.  Distinctive, dark purple to almost black flowers with a delicate, pale white centre ring.  The nodding, reflexed blooms appear from late spring to summer over soft green, deeply toothed, seven to nine-lobed leaves often marked with maroon or reddish spots.  Forms a large sturdy clump with a woody rhizome.  Self-sows nicely when happy.  Sun/partial shade.  3 & T1

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Cypripedium parviflorum var. pubescens

Family: Orchidaceae

(P) to 18″.  Yellow Lady’s Slipper.  Native to the Northeast.  Easily recognizable flowers formed by a clear yellow, inflated pouch, framed with four long, slightly twisted, reddish brown sepals.  Each stem is clasped by three to four alternate, softly hairy, mid-green leaves ribbed with deep parallel veins.  A treasure in our Woodland.  Moist, slightly acidic soil.  Partial shade.  4 & T2

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