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): Thalictrum pubescens

Family: Ranunculaceae

(P) to 7′.  King of the Meadow.  Eastern US and Canada. This native beauty has tall panicles of apetalous flowers with white, thread-like, stamens that form a cloud-like fluff and tower over blue-green, Columbine-like leaves.  The foliage turns bright yellow in the fall.  Use in the back of borders, native gardens, and moist woodlands.  Blooms spring to summer.  Shade to part shade.  Medium to wet, well-drained, organically rich soil.  3 & T1

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): Digitalis grandiflora

Family: Plantaginaceae

(P) to 3′.  Yellow Foxglove.  Central Europe to Turkey and Siberia.  Showy spikes of two-inch, tubular, soft yellow, open bells have speckled brown throats.  Leafy stems from a basal rosette of dark green, finely-toothed leaves are attractive too. Blooms late spring to early summer. A lovely addition to the woodland garden.  Sun to partial shade.  4 & T2

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): 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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Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Corydalis ophiocarpa

Family: Papaveraceae

(P) to 18″.  Serpent-Pod Fumitory.  Eastern Himalayas.  This treasure forms clumps of bronzy, blue-green, fern-like foliage from which emerge racemes of tubular, cream-coloured flowers with reddish purple tips.  Dangling seed pods follow; they resemble little green eels or serpents, hence the common name.  A vigorous and attractive architectural plant, which self-sows gently when happy.  Blooms May onward.  Sun to partial shade.  4 and T1.

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Rodgersia aesculifolia var. henrici

Family: (Saxifragaceae)

(P) to 4′.  Tibet and Northern Burma.  The beautiful, broad, bronze-tinted, palmate leaves are deeply veined and crinkled.  Sturdy flower stalks produce branching heads of small, pale pink flowers.  The flowers are actually five sepals joined at the base into a short, dark pink calyx, petals are absent, ten showy stamens, and a prominent superior ovary comprised of two pistils fused at the base.  In midsummer the flowers turn reddish as they age.  The fruits of many-seeded capsules are attractive and long-lasting.  Moist soil.  Partial shade.  5 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Corydalis nobilis

Family: (Papaveraceae)

(P) to 2′.  Siberian Corydalis.  Siberia, Xinjiang and Kazakhstan.  This treasure has established itself in the gravel under the benches in our End House and we are delighted.  We look forward to planting it along the woodland edge.  Succulent, upright, pale green, glaucous stems are densely covered with delicate, pinnate leaves.  Primrose yellow, purple-brown tipped flowers are arranged in dense terminal racemes and bloom for long periods.   Carl Linnaeus, in search of Lamprocapnos spectabilis (Bleeding Heart), was mistakenly sent seeds of C. nobilis.  Growing those seeds in Linnaeus’ Hammarby Garden in Sweden led to the introduction of the plant to Europe.  Sun to partial shade.  3 & T1 & Δ