Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Aquilegia sp. Double Wine

Family: (Ranunculaceae)

(P) to 3′.  One of our favourite and oldest.  Many petalled flowers with no spurs and a beautiful, pure, rich colour.  Goes with anything.  Sun/partial shade.  4 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Ipomoea lobata (syn. Mina lobata)

Family: (Convolvulaceae)

Annual vine to 10′.  Spanish Flag or Firecracker Vine.  Mexico.  An excellent, vigorous, twining vine with attractive, tri-lobed leaves and single-sided, six-inch long racemes of tubular flowers held on slender red stems.  The flowers gently arc upward and outward, away from the vine, and mature from red to pale yellow, creating a gradient from the top to the base of the raceme. Blooms freely from mid to late summer until frost. The flowers are highly attractive to hummingbirds, butterflies, and other pollinators. A show-stopper on a tripod.  Sun.  1, 2B, 3 & T3

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Campanula medium var. calycanthema Mix

Family: (Campanulaceae)

(B) to 3′.  Cup & Saucer Canterbury Bells.  “Bells that ring from ancient towers, Give their name to summer flowers” – Cicely Mary Barker (1853-1973).

A double-flowered form of the old-fashioned biennial, Canterbury Bells. Plants form a low rosette of green leaves in the first year. The following summer, upright stems bear many large, dangling bells with broad calyces under the “cup” that are the same colour as the cup.  These calyces form a “saucer,” hence the common name “Cup & Saucer” Campanula.  We offer a mix which includes shades from white, through pink, rose, blue and lavender.  Stems are superb for cutting.  If grown in the ground, allow some plants to self-seed, which will produce another generation.  We love to grow our in pots for display.  Late spring to mid-summer blooming.  Moist but well-drained soil.  Sun to partial shade.  4 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Ammi majus

Family: (Apiaceae)

(A) to 3’.  Bishop’s Flower.  Europe, Asia.  A sophisticated Queen Anne’s Lace with large heads of lacy white flowers and deep green foliage.  Great for cutting.  Sun.  3 & T1

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Salvia argentea

Family: (Lamiaceae)

(B) to 3′.  Silver Sage.  Southern Europe, Portugal to Bulgaria.  This biennial or short-lived perennial is grown mostly for its two to three-foot wide silver basal rosettes of woolly, wrinkled foliage in its first year.  However, the two to three foot tall spikes of tubular, hooded, white flowers are attractive too, but the main appeal are the rosettes.  May self-sow gently.  Excellent for gravel gardens and drought-resistant plantings.  Blooms spring to summer.  Full sun.  Average, well-drained soil.  4 & T3

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Veronicastrum virginicum

Family: Plantaginaceae

(P) to 6′.  Bowman’s Root.  Northeast America.  A beautiful plant adorned with eight-inch long spikes of tiny, blue, tubular flowers.  At the base of each central spike exists a second whorl of smaller flower spikes.  This plant makes an exotic and very architectural statement in the garden.  Midsummer.  Sun.  4 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Verbascum chaixii Mix

Family: Scrophulariaceae

(P) to 4′.  A delightful blend of yellow and white.  Very versatile.  Sun.  4 & T1

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Corydalis cheilanthifolia

Family: Papaveraceae

(P) to 18″.  A gorgeous little plant from China with alternate, pinnately compound fern-like leaves and spikes of yellow tubular flowers in spring.  Shade to partial shade.  4 & T1

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Aristolochia clematitis

Family: Aristolochiaceae

(P) to 30″.  This non-climbing herbaceous Dutchman’s Pipe has small apetalous, tubular, greenish yellow flowers that bloom from late spring to early summer in clusters from the leaf axils. Each flower has a straight funnel-shaped tube with pointed, curved upper lips (considerably different in appearance from the curved Dutchman’s smoking pipe-type blooms found on some other species in the genus).  Full sun to part shade.  4 & T3

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Dianthus japonicus

Family: (Caryophyllaceae)

(B/P) to 2′.  Hama-nadeshiko, Japanese Dianthus.  Japan and East Asia.  From lush rosettes of thick, glossy, narrowly ovate basal leaves emerge leafy stalks topped with dense clusters of vivid rosy-purple, five-petalled, toothed blooms.  Extremely floriferous the second year from seed and may be somewhat biennial.  Persistent winter foliage develops attractive, rich burgundy overtones.  Not your typical “Pink.”  Blooms midsummer till fall.  Well-drained soil.  Sun.  4 & T2