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): Primula japonica 'Alba'

Family: (Primulaceae)

(P) to 18″.  A candleabra-like inflorescence of tiered white blossoms arranged in whorls along the stem.  Leaves are sphathulate, quite long and irregularly toothed.  A spring-blooming charmer for the woodland or pond edge.  Moist soil.  Partial shade.  4 & T2

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): 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

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): 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): Syneilesis aconitifolia

Family: (Asteraceae)

(P) to 2′.  Shredded Umbrella Plant.  Japan.  Wonderful foliage plant very reminiscent of Aconitum, with woolly, peltate, deeply divided leaves.  Clusters of small, fluffy pink flowerheads atop stiff, dark stems.  Intriguing.  Partial shade.  4 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Semiaquilegia ecalcarata

Family: (Ranunculaceae)

(P) to 16″.  False Columbine.  A native of eastern Asia with exquisite mauve-purple, bell-shaped, nodding flowers resembling spurless Columbines.  A delicate addition to the woodland.  We have ours self-sowing nicely around the troughs near the Gardeners’ Bothy.  Blooms in late spring.  Sun/partial shade.   4 & T2