Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Symphoricarpos albus

Family: (Caprifoliaceae)

Deciduous shrub to 6′.  Snowberry.  This North America native is thicket-forming, with wiry branches and oblong-elliptic to rounded, opposite, green leaves.  Tiny, bell-shaped, pink flowers bloom in clusters in the leaf axils.  The flowers are followed by bunches of globose berries that begin pale green in colour but ripen to snow-white by late summer to early autumn.  The attractive fruits last into winter, creating a dramatic effect of white berries perched on leafless branches.  Grows naturally on dry, rocky, woodland slopes, banks, and barrens.  Sun.  3 & 6A & Δ

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Trachelium caeruleum

Family: (Campanulaceae)

(A or TP) to 3′.  Blue Throatwort.  Mediterranean.  Large, umbellate clusters on upright stems bear many small, five-petalled flowers dotted with a white exserted style that looks like a tiny white pin.  The flowers are a vibrant violet and lightly scented.  Attractive dark foliage is toothed with purple veins. A long bloomer that makes a great cut flower.  Sun with afternoon shade.  Well-drained soil.  4 & T1

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Cardamine heptaphylla

Family: (Brassicaceae)

(P) to 15″.  Seven-leaved Toothwort.  Central and Western Europe.  This woodland charmer is characterized by the smooth, erect, unbranched stem with few but large ovate-lanceolate and irregularly toothed leaves.  The stem is topped with an inflorescence composed by a cluster of four cup-shaped, broad flowers carried by a long pedicel.  Flowers may be white, pink, or purplish with petals that are somewhat wrinkled.  Blooms from April to July.  Partial shade.  Prefer moist, humus-rich soil. 3 & T1

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Campanula portenschlagiana

Family: (Campanulaceae)

Perennial to 4″.  Dalmatian Bellflower.  Native to the Dalmatian mountains in Croatia.  Small rounded dark green leaves form a closeknit, nearly evergreen mat beneath the long blooming summer display of five-petalled, bell-shaped, violet-blue flowers perched on wiry short branching stems.  It gradually spreads via rhizomes.  A real charmer that can tumbles down slopes or containers and soften any rock’s hard edges.  Sun/partial shade in moist, well-drained soil. 4 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Schivereckia doefleri (syn. Draba doerfleri)

Family: (Brassicaceae)

(P) to 6”.  Eastern Europe. A tough and attractive dwarf cushion with grey-green loose rosettes of oblanceolate, slightly toothed leaves. Four-petalled white flowers in terminal racemes of up to fifteen in late spring.  Long-lasting, buff-coloured seedheads follow.  Sun.  3 & T1

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Verbena hastata

Family: (Verbenaceae)

(P) to 5′.  Simpler’s Joy.  Eastern North America.  Tall, erect stems with a branched inflorescence of tiny, tubular, purplish pink blooms in dense terminal panicles.  The lance-shaped, toothed foliage is rough textured and somewhat coarse in appearance, making this a better candidate for informal plantings.  Blooms July to September.  Sun.  Moist soil.  Sun.  4 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Allium moly

Family: (Alliaceae)

Hardy bulb to 12″.  Golden Garlic.  Southern and southwestern Europe.   Star-shaped, 1/2” diameter, bright yellow flowers appear in loose umbels atop leafless stalks in late spring above with flat, tulip-like, blue-green, basal leaves which appear in 2’s.  Sun.  3 & 6

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Jasione laevis

Family: (Campanulaceae)

(B/P) to 12″.  Shepherd’s Scabious.  Western Europe.  Globose, terminal heads of pale blue, narrow-petalled, pincushion-like flowers on slender stalks arise from densely tufted rosettes of lanceolate, wavy-edged foliage.  Blooms midsummer.  A plant of dry, open grassland and rocky cliffs.  May prove to be biennial, so allow to self-sow.  A charmer.  Well-drained soil.  Sun.  4 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Verbena rigida

Family: (Verbenaceae)

(A/TP) to 2′.  Slender Vervain.  South America.  Abundant clusters of small vibrant purple flowerheads on long-stalked, upright branching stems.  Rough, clasping, oblongate foliage is irregularly toothed.  Full sun and well-drained soil.  3 & T2, cover and keep dark.

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Lychnis coronaria

Family: (Caryophyllaceae)

(P) to 3′.  Rose Campion.  Asia, Europe.  A cottage garden classic.  Tall grey stems with vivid, five-petalled, rose-magenta blooms are borne over clumps of ovate, densely woolly, silver-grey, flannelly leaves.  Blooms June and July.  Sun/partial shade.  Prefers moist soil but will tolerate poor soils with some dryness.  4 & T2