AMANDA’S GREENHOUSE HOURS
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 July - September - 9 am - 6 pm - Closed Monday CLOSED for the season - Oct. 1, 2016 Rt. 215 So PO Box 63 Marshfield, VT 05658 (802)426-3783 [email protected] WWW.AMANDASGREENHOUSE.COM Gift Certificates Available ♥♥♥ Directions from St. Johnsbury and from Barre/Montpelier area (exit 7 or 8 from I-89): Follow Route 2 to Marshfield Village. Turn on to Route 215 towards Cabot. We are on this road, a bit over one mile on the left. The road is curvy and then straightens out into “Gould Flats.” Open farm land is on the right, our place is on the left. Three tall pine trees line the driveway. It is a white house with a green roof. You will see a sign, gardens and greenhouses. Directions from Hardwick/Greensboro area: Take Route 15 east. In South Walden take the right hand turn to Cabot. Drive through the village. Continue on this road to Lower Cabot. The Lower Cabot Store is on the left. You'll pass a cemetery on your left and then a barn on your right. The road straightens out and there will be a sign on the right, "Amanda's Greenhouses," along with gardens, a barn and three tall pine trees.

GREETINGS GARDENERS I write this newsletter without having a firm grip on the future of my business. I’ve always known I would have to slow down eventually, but health issues have forced the decision. I am having open heart surgery in late May. I have postponed it for as long as possible, as I want to get everything growing and in the hands of my trusted friend, Rose Bothfeld, and my other friends and neighbors. Before any of this came to the surface I had ordered all my seeds and rooted cuttings, so we shall forge ahead - business as usual and fingers crossed. Typically I do a lot of custom planting for folks. Bring your containers soon if you want that service please. On the following pages you will find new annuals and perennials I am offering this year. Photos of many of these new plants can be seen at my blog www.amandasgreenhouse.blogspot.com. Annuals and perennials in quart pots remain at $3.99 and most perennials in gallon pots are $7.99. “Kids’ Corner” has had plants for 10 cents each for the last 23 years (limit 5) and that tradition continues. We extend the same price to seniors 65 and older. I am still selling vintage clothing and accessories online and have done a number of trades for gift certificates. I’m happy to consider any swaps. Winter was relatively mild here, yet I managed to freeze my pump, needing a replacement in December. A planned trip to visit my brother in California was derailed because of a snow storm. My son is working towards becoming an RN and will come to Vermont for a visit this spring and practice on his Mom. “Amanda’s Greenhouse” has been in business for 24 years and we are all slowing down. We will not be participating in any farmers’ markets this year, and we are phasing out flowering shrubs. However, my plans are to continue offering a

wide variety of top quality vegetable and flowering plants at reasonable prices. I am fortunate to love both my occupation and my community. Recycling no longer accepts plastic containers from the greenhouse, so the ONLY containers that interest us are the “550 pots” that we use for almost all of our perennials. We certainly look forward to seeing folks this year.

Amanda Sessel Legare

Rose Bothfeld

NEW ANNUAL FLOWERING PLANTS For Photos See http://amandasgreenhouse.blogspot.com/) Calibrachoas were introduced to gardeners in the early 1990s. This plant features loads of small bell-like flowers that resemble miniature petunias. The original species is native to South America, but all calibrachoas are now hybrids and there are hundreds to choose from. Last year I ran out of them (often requested as “million bells” by customers) in the middle of May, so this year I have tripled production as well as introduced new varieties. Their trailing habits make them ideal for hanging baskets, containers or as a small area ground cover. I have had good results with the Noa series of calibrachoas, and this season I have added Noa Cherry Blossom, Noa Sunset, and Noa Mega Pink. Cherry Blossom is white with a hint of red/pink in the eye. Sunset is coppery bronze with a scarlet center.

The Callie series are nice for hanging baskets and I have used them for two years in front of the Cabot Village Store. This year I am adding Callie Dark Blue and Callie White. MiniFamous Neo Cherry Red is a bright red with a darker eye. Calibrachoas do not need deadheading, but they do appreciate fertilizer. I include slow release fertilizer in all of my baskets, but I recommend additional fertilizer once the plants really get blooming. Littletunia White Grace is for people who have not had luck growing calibrachoas (often because of the high PH in their water.) The bloom is smaller than the typical petunia and has the look of a calibrachoa. It has a pale yellow eye. I don’t get excited about black petunias, but a lot of my customers like them, so this year I will add Ray Sunflower Petunia, which has black and yellow stripes. Espresso Frappe Ruby has frilly crimson purple blossoms. Their description says: “These frilled blooms cover the plant so completely the leaves can barely be seen.” OK, I’ll bite. Hells Fruit Punch is an “… intensely fluorescent orange color that can be seen from anywhere in the garden.” We Vermonters enjoy bold and bright colors.

I like to combine the bright oranges with the dark blue and

purple colors. Cherry Cheesecake ‘Crazytunia’ was very popular last year, so this year I am adding Crazytunia Starlight Blue. The white blooms have contrasting indigo blue edges that give the flowers a star-like appearance from a distance. Xanthos Cosmos is a dwarf compact soft yellow cosmos, and is the winner of the Fleuroselect Gold Medal, Europe's highest honor for a flowering seed variety. It grows to 24 inches. We offer more than 20 varieties of geraniums, including a number of hard-to-find novelties. We also carry more than ten varieties of sun flowers. Jade has lime

colored petals surrounding a light green center and produces 4-5" flowers on well-branched 4' plants. I have always enjoyed making mixed baskets. (This year I went a bit overboard.) Verbenas add a nice contrast in color and form to container plantings and they tolerate dry growing conditions. Verbena Voodoo Star has strong red and white starred flowers. Lanai Deep Purple is a gorgeous trailing verbena and Lascar Mango Orange is coral with a large orange eye. During the winter a good deal of my computer time is spent reading about the results at trial gardens and checking out the highest scoring plants from the previous season. Sunpatiens spreading tropical orange is one of those plants that came out on top in many gardens.

Its variegated yellow and green foliage

serves as a backdrop for the deep clear orange blossom. Cool Wave Blue Skies Pansy is both spreading and hanging. It has blue blooms with a whiskered yellow eye and is described as “the most vigorous pansy of all.”

NEW VEGETABLES Komatsuna is one of Japan’s most popular vegetables. It is a large leafy green and is also called ‘spinach mustard’. Komatsuna has dark green leaves that can be harvested at any stage. The flavor grows stronger and hotter the longer the leaves mature. Perpetual Spinach Chard is mostly grown for the young leaves.  It is similar in flavor to fresh spinach, but is much less sensitive to heat and longer lasting than spinach.

Cucamelon is a cross between a cucumber and a watermelon. It is a grape sized fruit with “flavor more like that of a cucumber with a limey kick.” It is a vigorous climber and picking often is recommended. I have one greenhouse devoted primarily to tomatoes and offer a wide variety of hybrid tomatoes and 25 different heirloom tomatoes. I grew Aunt Molly’s Ground Cherry for the first time last year and was impressed — it produced oodles of yellow marble sized fruits enclosed in papery husks. And it is a pretty plant. Now I read I was supposed to wait for them to fall off the plant (I didn’t.) They were still sweet with a hint of tartness. Red Profusion tomato is an early producer of one-inch tomatoes and is specifically for baskets or containers, because it both mounds and hangs. Sugar Gloss Cherry Tomatoes are new to the market. They grow in long trusses, like Sweet 100’s, but they have a higher Brix rating (measurement of sweetness) than other cherry tomatoes. Paisano is a new paste tomato from Johnnie’s Seeds. They recommend it as a high yielding medium sized plant with “solid and meaty tomatoes with good flavor”. Pandero Romaine Lettuce is a stand out because it has very deep purple leaves with good taste and crunch. It is more compact than the romaines you find shipped to your grocery store. It’s fun to put in a salad with Australian Yellow Leaf Lettuce.

Trigger Crisphead Lettuce from Fedco has good disease resistance

and makes nice big firm heads. I am offering Blacktail Mountain Watermelon which was developed in northern Idaho and is one of the earliest watermelons available. (It is ripe when the tendril that attaches the melon to the stem is dry.) Eowyn Basil is a compact basil with standard sized leaves, good for combined pots and window boxes. Painted Serpent (Striped Armenian) cucumbers have very long fruit with dark green and pale green stripes and excellent flavor. It is

actually a melon and will grow up to 30”, but is best eaten at 8–18". It needs a hot dry growing situation once established. I have read many glowing reviews about its taste, but have no idea what it is really like. I have made six large baskets of the ornamental edible Pikan Strawberry. It has pretty pink flowers which set sweet, mid-size fruits, from late spring through early fall.

NEW PERENNIALS Achillea Strawberry Seductor is a mid-sized upright hybrid yarrow with velvety red blooms and yellow centers. All yarrows are excellent cut flowers. Astilbe Red Charm, unlike most astilbes, has an arching rather than erect bloom rather. It is tall and showy. Baby Blessed Dwarf Bearded Iris has won the highest award for standard dwarf bearded irises, the Cook-Douglas Medal. This sweet little iris produces perfumed, light lemon yellow blossoms with a white beard on short stems very early in the season.  Phlox Stolonifera Homefires is a low growing native phlox that is typically sold for shady areas, but it’s happy, once established, in full sun in my gardens. It is a spring bloomer with bright pink blooms 6" above vigorous, leathery, rounded leaves. Each year the American Hosta Growers Association selects 'the best of the best', and names one variety as "Hosta of the Year". Curly Fries Hosta is the 2016 hosta of the year. It is a miniature to small sized hosta which forms an arching, wiggly clump of extremely rippled, narrow leaves.  This hosta benefits from partial sun, as that brings out the chartreuse foliage. It has lavender flowers in midsummer. Brother Stefan Hosta has been selected as the 2017 hosta of the year. It grows into a giant mound of gold centered foliage with an irregular dark green margin. The leaves are thick and heavily corrugated. It will grow to 28

inches tall by 62 inches wide. “Described by many as the most spectacular hosta they have ever seen!” It has white flowers mid-summer. The down-side of this cultivar is that it is a slow grower, and takes four years to reach full maturity. Delphiniums are usually described as “short-lived.” I have one plant from the ‘Pacific’ series that has been coming back for more than ten years. I love the showiness of tall delphiniums, but I rarely get around to staking them, so many of the flowers end up on the ground. This year I am trying some shorter delphiniums (36 - 48 inches) from the Magic Fountain series. When Delphinium spikes start to look tatty I cut them back to ground level and get a second, somewhat less showy bloom, in the late summer. I always offer red and yellow lupins, but this year for red shades I am trying Morello Cherry which is a bright cherry red. I have a hard time growing lupin in my gardens and I am guessing it is because they like acidic conditions and my soil is very “sweet” (a high PH.) Sedum Kamtschaticum is a tough, reliable ground covering sedum. The foliage looks good all season. Clusters of star-shaped yellow flowers open in the late spring which mature to a bronze. Sedum Kamtschaticum Variegatum is more compact than the species, growing 4 inches tall and 12 inches wide, perfect for the rock garden. The leaves have pretty creamy margins. Sedum Firecracker is a very dense, low-growing sedum with burgundy red foliage. It has pink blooms in late summer. One of my favorite perennials is astrantia (“masterwort”). I like it because it’s a lovely long-lasting cut flower and it’s a plant you don’t see around that much. It’s often listed as a shade pant, but I have always grown mine in full sun. The flowers are like small, perfectly formed cushion flowers. Astrantia Ruby Cloud has raspberry colored blooms. The overall flower size is approximately one inch. The papery bracts remain presentable for months. With 'Summer Storm’ Hibiscus I am told I have finally found a hibiscus that will bloom earlier in the season. This is partially due to the fact that this hibiscus has "indeterminate" buds v. "determinate" buds. In this case flower buds are produced at the nodes along much of the stem, as well as at the tips. This plant

produces large 8 inch, pink flowers with rose veining and a deep magenta eye. The blooms are showcased against the wine purple, maple-like foliage. Stokesia Honeysong Purple is another late bloomer. It has a flower that looks to me like a feathery annual aster. Last fall I admired its vivid purple flowers with a contrasting reddish pink center in a friend’s garden. This is the most upright stokesia I have seen. All Fired Up daylily has an award-winning orange sherbet flower with a huge red eye. Brocaded Gown is a cream yellow daylily with heavily ruffled pedals. Mary Alice Stokes is a fragrant rose daylily with a pink edge.

PERENNIALS We dig the majority of our perennials here and most of the large plants in gallon pots are $7.99. We also have a selection of perennials in 4 and 1/2" pots for $3.99 each. ❍ = Sun

◗ = Part Shade

● = Shade

✄ = Good for Cutting

ACHILLEA (Yarrow) ❍ ✄ ‘Moonshine’: Silver leaves with yellow flowers on 18” stems. ‘Strawberry Seductor’: Mid-sized upright hybrid yarrow with velvety red blooms and yellow centers. ‘Terracotta’: Varying shades of peach on 2’ stems. AJUGA (Bugleweed) ❍ ◗ ● ‘Caitlin’s Giant’: Large purple/green leaves, blue flowers. Good ground cover. ‘Burgundy Glow’: Pretty tri-colored foliage with blue flowers. ALCHEMILLA (Lady’s Mantle) ❍ ◗ ● Vulgaris Mollis: Gray-green leaves form attractive 18” mounds with midsummer sprays of yellow/green flowers. Easy. ALLIUM ❍ ◗ Senescens 'Glaucum': Lilac pom poms on fun circular growth, 8”.

AMSONIA (Willow Blue Star) ❍ ✄ ‘Blue Ice’: 12 - 15” high with more saturated blue than the species. Tabernaemontana: Small blue flowers in late spring on an attractive 3' plant. I use the foliage more than the flowers in bouquets. ANEMONE (Snow Drops) ❍ ◗ ‘Sylvestris': Pure white nodding flowers above the foliage in spring, 15". AQUILEGIA ❍ ◗ (Columbine) ‘Nora Barlow’: Double pink and white on 25 inch stem. ’Spring Magic’: Rose and ivory or blue and white available, pretty 14” tall award winner. ASARUM (Wild Ginger) ◗ Europaeum Pretty shiny round leaves make a lovely ground cover in dry shade situation. Grows in spreading clumps and self-seeds nicely. ARTEMESIA (Wormwood) ❍ ◗ ✄ The silver leaves of these plants complement other perennials. ‘Silver Mound’: 8 - 10” silver domes of foliage. Best in dry poor soil. ‘Valerie Finnis’: Wide silver foliage, vigorous, and nice used in bouquets, 18 - 24". Lactiflora (‘White mugwort’) has green foliage and is grown for it’s panicles of creamy white flowers which are good for bouquets late in the season, 4’ tall. ASTER ❍ ✄ ‘Alma Potschke’: Reddish Pink full daisy-like flowers on 3’ stems. ‘Purple Dome’: End of season blooms of royal purple in 18" mounds. ‘Woods Pink’: Clear light rose single daisies cover the 15” plants. ‘Woods Purple’: Purple flowers with yellow eyes, 10”. ASTILBE ❍ ◗ ✄ Fine in full sun here (as long as the soil's not too dry). Astilbe also brings color into semi-shady areas, but there's a paucity of blooms in deep shade. The flowers are feathery plumes in various shades above attractive foliage and are nice in bouquets. ‘Erica’: My personal favorite. Strong grower and excellent in bouquets, 3’ tall with salmon pink blooms. ‘Fanal’: Early blooming dark red spikes on bronze-

toned foliage, 20”. ‘Glow’: Rose-red flowers bloom midseason 30”. Mars: Violet-rose blooms in early to midsummer, 24”. ‘Purple Candles’: Violet turning light purple. 42” tall, dark green foliage, mid to late summer. ‘Red Sentinel’: Vibrant scarlet-red flowers bloom in midsummer, 22". ‘Red Charm,’: Tall, arching and showy. ‘Visions’: Compact 15" with upright raspberry red plumes. ‘Visions in White’: Large creamy white flowers, 20”. ‘White Gloria: Upright thick white blooms, 24". ASTRANTIA (Masterwort) ❍ ◗ ✄ Major: Many small flowers flushed with pink. ‘Ruby Cloud’: Raspberry colored blooms. ‘Tickled Pink’: Pale pink pedals surround a darker pink center. Astrantia is an excellent long-lasting flower for bouquets. BAPTISIA (False Indigo) ❍ ◗ ✄ Australis: Upright plant with a shrub-like habit once established. Indigo blue flowers on long stems late spring, 3-4'. Excellent cut flower and nice seed pods for fall decorations as well. bBest color in full sun. BRUNNERA (Alkanet or Perennial Forget-me-not) ◗ ● ‘Jack Frost’: Foliage is a veined silver/gray. Macrophylla: Large green heart-shaped leaves with small blue flowers in the spring. -6CAMPANULA (Bell Flower) ❍ Carpatica Clips: Blue bell-shaped flowers, 6 8". Glomerata ‘Freya': Knee-high with violet flowers opening on two-thirds of the stem, making it very showy. ‘Joan Elliot’: Deep purple clusters on 12” stems. ’Takesiamana’: Large tubular lilac-white bells, spotted inside with maroon, held clear of the foliage on this spreading plant, 15”. This last one is very vigorous. CENTAUREA (Perennial Bachelor Button) ❍ ✄ ‘Dealbata’: Pretty shaggy pink flowers, but I grow this one primarily for its attractive silvery foliage. ‘Montana’: Cheerful blue flowers, self-seeding. CERASTIUM Tomentosum (Snow in Summer) ❍ A good ground cover for full sun and poor soil. Small wooly gray leaves with bright white flowers.

CIMICIFUGIA (Snake Root) ❍ ◗ ‘Hillside Black Beauty’: Dark purple black foliage that looks lovely with the white bottle brush blooms in the fall. 4 - 7’. Ramosa atropurpurea: Attractive darker foliage, 6' and higher. Excellent specimen plant. Blooms in late summer. Fragrant. CROCOSMIA ❍ ✄ ‘Lucifer’: Fiery red eye-catching blooms above tall thin leaves. This is the only crocosmia that is hardy for us. Mid/late summer 3’ blooms. DIANTHUS ❍ ‘Zing Rose’: Mats of rose red flowers early summer. DICENTRA (Bleeding Heart) ❍ ◗ Eximia: Delicate foliage, pink flowers, in continuous bloom spring - fall. 12 - 18". Spectablis: (Old-fashioned bleeding heart). Spring blooming. We have the white cultivar as well, but this one is not as vigorous as the traditional pink. Ours all do fine in full sun. DIGITALIS (Foxglove) ❍ ◗ ‘Ambigua’ is the foxglove to purchase if you want a true perennial. This one is a light yellow and more compact than its hybrid cousins. DORONICUM (Leopard’s Bane) ◗ Early compact spring yellow daisy-like flower that grows into a nice clump. ECHINACEA (Cone Flower) ❍ ✄ ‘Pow Wow Wild Berry’: Many bright rose flowers on a compact plant. Purpurea: Deep rose, 3’, long blooming. ‘Tiki Torch' has the standard coneflower shape, but is has large, fragrant non-fading orange blooms. EUPATORIUM (Joe Pye Weed) ❍ ✄ ‘Gateway’ is an excellent late season bloomer, 5-6’ tall with dusky pink flowers. I value this plant for late summer bouquets. Prefers moist soil. EUPHORBIA (Cushion Spurge) ❍ ‘Polychroma’ has yellow bracts which bloom early and persist, but gently fade as the stems elongate to form a 16-inch mound by midsummer.  Self seeds here and there.

GERANIUM (Cranesbill) ❍ ◗ Ingwersen: A good ground cover, will tolerate light shade. Soft pink flowers on bright green leaves. ‘Johnson’s Blue’: Blue, cup shaped flowers will bloom on 15” stems for a long time, beginning in June. ‘Max Frei’: Compact plant with red/purple blooms. ‘Rozanne’: Long flowering violet blue blooms, 18”. GEUM (Avens) ❍ ‘Queen of Orange’: Early blooming bright orange flowers on 14” stems. ‘Totally Tangerine’: Long blooming tangerine orange flowers. 30”. GRASSES ❍ Calamagrostis brachytricha: (Korean Feather Reed Grass) blooms late summer with 4’ high bottle-brush plumes. The form is upright and arching . The blooms are good for bouquets. Miscanthus ‘Northwind’ Panicum: (Switch Grass) is a pretty 4’ upright grass with blue green foliage. Foliage turns golden yellow in the fall. 'Silberfeder': Large, feathery plumes 6 to 8 feet tall stand up well above the clump of foliage all winter in my garden. ‘Heavy Metal’ Panicum: Pretty upright switch grass that is 40-50” high and does not flop over. HELLEBORUS (Lenten Rose) ◗ ● ‘Ivory Prince’: Early spring upright creamy white flowers. HELENIUM (Helen’s Flower or Sneezeweed) ❍ ✄ ‘Red Jewel’: Late season clusters of brick red blooms, Color remains consistent as flowers age. 2-3’ tall. Easy. HELIANTHUS (False Sunflower) ❍ ✄ ‘Happy Days’: Dwarf 24” variety. Its golden yellow blossoms have an anemone-like center. HELIOPSIS (False Sunflower) ❍ ✄ ‘Asashi': Compact plant with fully double, yellow button-like flowers. ‘Summer Sun’: Semi-double to double, bright yellow. Good cut flower and very long blooming, midsummer. 24 - 36”. HEMEROCALLIS (Daylily) ❍ See end of perennial listings. HEUCHERA (Coral Bells) ◗ ❍ ‘Berry Timeless’ Profuse blooms of dark pink flowers. ‘Palace Purple’: Mahogany purple leaves all season with sprays of small

white flowers in the summer. (The original dark-leafed heuchera, and still one of the best.) HOSTA ❍ ◗ ● Ideal plant for shade although here in Vermont many of them are fine in full sun. Lily-like flowers, handsome leaves for borders, edging or "specimen" plants. Unless otherwise noted, all the flowers are lavender in color. ‘Abba Dabba Do’: Starts out with green leaves and develops a bright yellow edge, 60” X 28”. ‘August Moon’: Heart shaped chartreuse leaves on vigorous, mounding plant. ‘Blue Jay’: Nice blue leaves with white flowers. ‘Blue Mammoth’: Blue green leaves are 12” across and the plant can reach 5’wide. ‘Blue Mouse Ears’: A charming dwarf hosta, 8”. ‘Brother Stefan’ : A giant mound of gold centered foliage with an irregular dark green margin. The leaves are thick and heavily corrugated. It will grow to 28 inches tall by 62 inches wide. ‘Captain Kirk’: Splashy yellow gold centers on each leaf, 18”. ‘Curly Fries’: A miniature to small sized hosta which forms an arching, wiggly clump of extremely rippled, narrow leaves.  This hosta benefits from partial sun, as that brings out the chartreuse foliage. It has lavender flowers in midsummer. ‘Drinking Gourd’: Dark, blue-green seer suckered leaves with white flowers. ‘Fan Dance’: Golden leaves with a dark green edge. ‘First Frost’: Medium sized host with blue leaves and creamy yellow borders. It was the “Hosta of the Year” for 1910. ‘Gold Drop’: Neat mound of 10” high leaves. ‘Gold Standard’: Light green leaves turn gold by summer (the more sun the more yellow) with dark green margins, 25". ‘Grand Prize’: Award winner boasting green leaves with extra wide bright gold margins. ‘Halcyon’: One of the most popular blue hostas. 18”. ‘June’: Medium sized plant with bluish leaves and irregularly shaped creamy gold centers. Award winner. ‘Liberty’: Thick blue green leaves have wide yellow margins. 2’ wide. ‘Minuteman’: I think an improvement on ‘Patriot’ - darker green leaves and brighter white edge. Medium sized. ‘Morning Light’: Thick leaves , streaked green margin, pale yellow center. Medium sized. ‘Paradigm’: Large size with bright gold leaves and a wide blue-green margin that streaks into the center. Variegation intensifies in late Spring. ‘Pilgrim’: Large gray/green leaves with creamy yellow margins which turn more ivory colored with time. ‘Platinum Tiara’: 14" X 12", white margin with extremely bright chartreuse center.

‘Prairie Sky’: Compact plant with soft powdery blue leaves. ‘Praying Hands’: Medium sized plant with folded dark green crinkled leaves. ‘Stiletto’: Wavy green leaves with thin white border edging. Purple flowers. (12”) ‘Twilight’: Large creamy gold margins on dark green leaves with a heavy substance, 20". ‘Whirlwind’: Creamy white center turns green by midsummer. ‘Wide Brim’: Green center with wide irregular lighter margins. IRIS (Siberian) ❍ ✄ These iris do best in a moist situation, or at least started with plenty of water. Once established they are fine in most soils. ‘Butter and Sugar’: White with light yellow centers, 25 “. ‘Caesar’s Brother’: Dark violet blue blooms - the quintessential Siberian iris, 40”. ‘Summer Skies’ : Light blue, 35”. LEUCANTHEMUM (CHRYSANTHEMUM ) (Shasta Daisy) ❍ ✄ ‘Becky’: Long-blooming with large, sturdy flower heads, 36”. ‘Brightside’: Similar to Becky, but is grown from seed. ‘Clara Curtiss’ rubellum: This is the "fall mum" which always comes back year after year here. It grows in drifts. Pink daisy flowers with yellow eye, 2'. LIATRIS (Gayfeather) ◗ ❍ ✄ Spicata, We have both the rosy-purple or white flower spikes, 3’, growing from mounds of grass-like foliage. Very Easy. (Grown commercially as a cut flower.) LIGULARIA ◗ ‘The Rocket’: Large bold leaves with 40" yellow spires. ‘BrittMarie Crawford’: Broad maroon leaves with bright daisy-like orange flowers in late summer. Color is best on Britt-Marie if in full sun. The ‘Rocket’ needs afternoon shade. LONICERA (Trumpet Honeysuckle) ❍ ‘Dropmore Scarlet’ : A multi-stemmed vigorous vine with trumpet-shaped orange/red flowers, much loved by hummingbirds. This one has been bone hardy for us. LUPIN ❍ ‘Gallery Red’, ‘Gallery Yellow’ and ‘Morello Cherry’. MONARDA (Bee Balm) ◗ ❍ ✄ Mint-scented leaves, the flowers attract hummingbirds, but not deer. ‘Jacob Cline’: Red flowers on mildew resistant

plants, 4’ tall. ‘Marshall’s Delight’: Clear pink, 3’ tall. ‘Purple Rooster’: Darker than other purple monardas, excellent mildew resistance, 3’. ‘Raspberry Wine’: Clear wine red flowers , 24 - 36" with dark green foliage. All are excellent cut flowers. NEPATA (Catnip or Catmint) ❍ ◗ ✄ ‘Souvenir D'Andre Chaudron’: A Siberian nepeta with large violet blue flowers, 3' tall and long blooming. Lovely in a bouquet. After blooming I cut these back and get a strong second bloom. ‘Walker’s Low’: 12” tall and 3’ wide at maturity. Gray-green leaves. PEONIES ❍ ✄ We have a selection of double reds, whites and pinks. PERSICARIA POLYMORPHA ❍ This plant looks like an astilbe crossed with a shrub. Some think it looks like a lilac. It is 5’- 7‘ tall with creamy white blooms. Very long blooming, and give it space. PHLOX Carolina (Tall garden phlox) ❍ ‘Miss Lingard’: Mildew resistant early blooming white phlox. Often called the “wedding phlox” it blooms here late June. 30”. PHLOX Paniculata (Tall Garden Phlox) ❍ ✄ ‘David’: Free flowering, disease resistant white blooms. 40”. ‘David’s Lavender’: Deep lavender pink with same disease resistance as David. ‘Laura’: Fuchsia purple flowers with a starry white center on 24 - 30" stems. ‘Minnie Pearl’: Early blooming, shorter (18”) white phlox with excellent disease resistance. ‘Nicky’: Dark violet and very fragrant, 35”. ‘Starfire’: The most popular red tall summer phlox. I have trouble with mildew with this one. ‘Wendy House’: Fuchsia purple blooms on 20” stems, excellent mildew resistance. PHLOX subulata (Creeping Phlox) ❍ ‘Emerald Pink’: Compact, long flowering pink. ‘Blue Emerald’: Compact pale blue. ‘Candy Stripe’: Cheerful pink and white-striped bloom. POLEMONIUM (Jacob’s Ladder) ❍ ◗ ‘Heavenly Habit’: Early blooming lavender blue with pretty foliage. ‘Stairway to Heaven’: Ferny leaves strongly

edged in creamy white. Light violet blue flowers. New leaves continue to appear all season. POLYGONUM (Fleece Flower) ❍ ◗ ✄ Bistorta superba: Rose pink spikes. Vigorous, 24". POLYGONATUM (Solomon’s Seal) ◗ ● We have both the taller 3’ species and the shorter polygonatum variegatum. Arching stems with dangling tubular white flowers. PULSATILLA Vulgaris: (Pasque Flower) ❍ Early blooming lilac-colored blooms which give a second show with its attractive tufted seed heads. 12”. RUDBECKIA (Black-eyed Susan) ❍ ✄ ‘Goldsturm’: Dependable deep yellow, black cone. Easy, showy and long-blooming. We offer numerous other "perennial" rudbeckias which are annuals for us, including ‘Indian Summer’, ‘Cherokee’, and ‘Prairie Sunset’, all excellent as cut flowers. SALVIA (Garden Sage) ❍ ✄ ‘East Friesland’: Vivid purple 18” spikes. ’May Night’: Long bloomer provides dark violet blue flowers, 20”. SANGUISORBIA ❍ ✄ Canadensis: Creamy white "bottle brushes" topping a 4' plant. Pretty foliage all season and the flowers are welcome for fall bouquets. SEDUM ❍ ‘Autumn Joy’: Classic 20” fall sedum. Gray fleshy leaves topped with broccoli-like heads of copper pink buds. Cauticola: Fall blooming pink flowers over blue-green, pink edged foliage, 3 “. ‘Firecracker’: Sedum Firecracker Dense, low-growing sedum with burgundy red foliage and pink blooms in late summer. Kamtschaticum: Rich green scalloped leaves, orange-yellow flowers in June, the dried flowers also make a nice display. 4 - 5". Kamtschaticum ‘Variegatum’: 4 inches tall and 12 inches wide with nice variegated leaves. Sieboldii: Fleshy blue foliage with pink flowers in fall, arching stems, 8”. SIDALCEA (Miniature Hollyhocks) ❍ ‘Purpetta’: Deep pink flowers on upright stems about 30 inches tall.

STACHYS (Lambs’ Ears) ❍ ‘Betony’: Sturdy lavender rose flowers 18” above a nice clump. Easy. ‘Fuzzy Wuzzy’: Classic silver foliage which forms a dense carpet of soft silver leaves. Once established, very drought resistant. STOKESIA (Stoke’s Aster) ❍ ‘Honeysong Purple’: Vivid purple flowers with a contrasting reddish pink center

THERMOPSIS (False Lupine) ❍ ✄ ‘Carolina’: Flowers look like yellow lupines, but the plant is much taller at 3-5 feet and it is trouble free, colonizing nicely. TRADESCANTIA (Spiderwort) ❍ ◗ ‘Sweet Kate’: Violet blue blooms contrast with gold foliage on 12" plants (NOT invasive). ‘Zwanenburg Blue’: Pretty lavender to blue blossoms with yellow stamens.

DAYLILIES (All $7.99) These reliable plants withstand neglect. Ours grow best in full sun and I have found them to prefer average to moist soil, rather than dry, sandy soil. ✚ = Tetraploid, which means they have twice as many chromosomes. E = Early, M = Midseason, and L = Late

RED ➞ PURPLE SHADES Bill Fall: Vibrant red 6” bloom. 25” ✚ M. Charles Johnson: Bright cherry red blooms. 24” ✚ EM. Chicago Apache: Intense scarlet red with ruffled edges. 30” ML. Cape Cod: Ruffled burgundy 4.5” blooms, 34” EM. Dressed to Kill: Coral deep rose 4.5” bloom with yellow throat. 28” ML. Grand Guru: Deep 5.5” Burgundy red blooms, 29” tall. ✚ EM. Grape Velvet: Velvety dark purple, small lime eye. 5” bloom. 24” M. Highland Lord: Red wine 5” semi-double. ✚ 22” M. Mary Alice Stokes: Fragrant 5.5” red-rose ✚ 25” M. Moses Fire: Double red 6” blooms with faint gold edge. 22” M.

New Note: 5” red. 26” E. Red Ribbons: Red spider daylily, 8” ribbon like blooms, 42” M. Ruby Spider: Impressive 8” spider bloom ✚ 34” EM. Siloam David Kirchoff: Pretty 3.5” orchid-peach flowers with a pencil thin, purple eye zone and purple watermark around a green throat. 16” M. Siloam Paul Watts: Red with green throat. 4.5” bloom, 18” M. Strutters Ball: Cranberry purple 5” bloom with a lemon green throat. 30” EM. Trahlyta: 6” bloom award winner. Gray violet with a dark purple eye zone and a green throat, very fragrant. 30” M. PINK/ROSE SHADES Addie Branch Smith: 4.5” orchid rose flower with a dark purple eye. Dark green foliage. 30” M/L. Baby Blues: Pale lavender, pretty etched eye. 3” bloom. 20” M. Barbara Mitchell: Perfectly formed pink 6” bloom. 20” M. Beautiful Edging: Lovely ruffled pale pink edging on creamy light yellow pedals. 22” M. Brilliant Circle: Cream pink, rose/red eye, 3.5” blooms that pack a punch visually. 28” M. Camden Ballerina: 3.5” rose/pink blooms. 16” EM. Dublin Elaine: Light double pink, 5.5” blooms. 36” E. Jolyene Nichole: Rose/pink blend. 6” bloom on 15” scape. M. Holiday Song: Vibrant pink blend with scarlet eye. 4” bloom on 22” M. Made to Order: Light pink, rose eye 4”. Stands out in garden. 26” EM. Olallie Mac: Baby pink/melon 5” blooms. 32”, L. Orchid Corsage: Huge (7.5”) pink lavender blooms with a yellow star center. 40” ML. Pink Embers: Salmon pink 6” bloom on 19” scape. EM. Prairie Blue Eyes: (In my eyes) a dusty lavender rose. 5” blooms, 28” M. Siloam Double Classic: Prize-winning fully double peachy pink with “pie crust” edges. 15” EM. Siloam Baby Talk: 2.5” pale pink blooms with deep rose eye. 15” EM. Siloam Jerome Pillow: Orchid Bi-tone 2.5” bloom. 18” ML. Scatterbrain: Light peach pink 6” double blooms. 32” M. Stella’s Ruffled Fingers: Pale pink bloom that reblooms like its parent plant, 'Stella de Oro’. Wineberry Candy: Soft pink/peach petals with wine purple eyezone. 27” M.

YELLOW ➞ ORANGE SHADES All Fired Up: Orange sherbet bloom with large red eye. ✚ E. Beautiful Edgings: Creamy yellow 7” bloom with ruffled rose edge. 30” M. Betty Warren Woods: Award winning creamy yellow 4.5” bloom. 24” M. Bitsy: Dainty 2” lemon yellow flowers. Long blooming. 30” M. Brocaded Gown: Cream Yellow heavily ruffled blooms 26” EM. Burning Inheritance: Red/orange self. 5.5” bloom 28” ✚ M. Buttered Popcorn: Loads of 6” butter yellow fragrant flowers. 32” ✚ M. Chimes: Unusual daylily - often compared to a freesia bloom. 3” brilliant yellow blooms . 46” M. Condilla: Tidy double, gold blooms, award-winner. 20” M. Decatur Cutie: Yellow w/ Red Halo, 2.75” blooms, 20” E. Fire Breathing Dragon: Double red orange blend with gold throat. 28” ✚ M. Going Bananas: Blooms heavily during the summer. Lemon Yellow 4” blooms. 19” M - L. Hyperion: Canary yellow, extremely fragrant 5” bloom. This daylily has been in cultivation for more than 80 years. 40” M. Happy Returns: Repeat blooming light yellow 3 1/4” blooms all summer, 22” M. Holiday Delight: 6 1/4” blooms, maroon eye zone over brilliant orange red petals. 28” ✚ M. Lemon Lily: Pale yellow, sweetly scented flowers bloom early in the summer. This cultivar was originally a gift from a Cabot “old-timer”. Marked by Lydia: 8” yellow bloom with purple striping, spider. 29” E. Primal Scream: Orange/tangerine bright 7.8” bloom. 34” L. Nina Winegar: Golden yellow spider. Fast grower, heavy bloomer narrow twisting pedal. 3’ M. Stella de Oro: Award winning 12” golden yellow blooms throughout summer. Stella’s Ruffled Fingers: A pale pink reblooming cousin to the above Stella. The 3.5” bloom is on 19” scapes. Steeple Jackie: Many 3.5” blooms on 4- 5 foot scapes. L. Todd Monroe: Buff-colored 3 1/4” blooms with bright fuchsia eyezone and green throat. 20” E.

(Near) WHITES and variations on that theme Gentle Shepherd: 5” white bloom, Probably the whitest daylily, but delicate substance. 29”. EM. Joan Senior: 6” near white curved bloom, 25” EM. Moonlit Masquerade: Ivory Cream 8” bloom, dark purple eye. ✚ 26” EM. Wedding Band: Creamy white with pale yellow highlights. 5.5” bloom. 26” M.

GENERAL PERENNIAL PLANT GUIDE Plants for ROCK GARDENS Plants that ATTRACT BUTTERFLIES Arabis Ajuga Campanula (the 'Clips' series) Aster Joe Pye Weed Geum Pulsatilla vulgaris Buddleia Coreopsis Phlox subulata (Creeping phlox) Echinacea (Cone flower) Sedum Iberis Rudbeckia Monarda (Bee balm) Sempervivum (Hens and chicks) Liatris Shasta daisy Stachys (Lambs’ ears) Thyme Summer Phlox Sedum

LONG BLOOMING Plants Viola ‘Purple Showers’ Dicentra eximia Geranium sanguineum Heliopsis 'Summer Sun' Hemerocallis (Daylily) 'Stella de Oro' and 'Happy Returns' Lady's mantle Nepata Russian Sage Rudbeckia ‘Goldsturm’

Plants with FRAGRANT Echinacea (Cone flower) Cimicifuga Polygonatum (Solomon's Seal) Dianthus Hemerocallis (Daylily) (See listing - many) Peonies Monarda (Bee balm) Nepata (Catmint) Pansies (most) Summer phlox

FLOWERS

Plants that tolerate SHADE

GROUND COVERS

Ajuga Astilbe Aegopodium (Beware!) Bleeding heart Brunnera Ajuga Hemerocallis (Daylily) Cimicifuga Geraniums Hostas Iberis Hosta Jacob’s ladder Lamium Lamiastrum Lady’s mantle Lamium Polygonum bistorta Lamiastrum Ligularia Sedum (dwarf types) Monarda Primula Vinca Minor Creeping Phlox Pulmonaria Tradescantia European Ginger Stachys European Ginger Helleborus Thyme Cerastium Ligularia Heuchera Plants tolerant of DRY, SUNNY LOCATIONS Achillea (Yarrow) Ajuga Artemesia Cerastium phlox) Centaurea (Bachelor buttons) Coreopsis Dianthus Echinops (Globe thistle) Euphorbia (Cushion spurge) Heliopsis (False sunflower)

Malva

Poppies Phlox subulata (Creeping Rudbeckia Sedum Shasta Daisy Sempervivum (Hens and chicks) Stachys (Lambs’ ears) Thermopsis

Good CUT FLOWERS Achillea (Yarrow) Heliopsis (False sunflower) Aconitum (Monkshood) Liatris (Gayfeather) Artemesia (for foliage) Aster Lupine Malva Astilbe Astrantia Lysimachia (Gooseneck) Baptesia Chrysanthemum Monarda (Bee balm) Crocosmia (Lucifer) Peony Thermopsis Delphinium Sidalcea Dicentra (Bleeding heart)

DEER RESISTANT Plants Ajuga Anemone Artemisia Aster Astilbe Baptesia Bleeding Heart Brunnera Fern Cimicifuga Cone Flower Coreopsis Chelone Dianthus Echinops European Ginger Geranium Geum Heuchera Helleborus Helenium Ligularia Monkshood Pulmonaria Geranium Peonies Rudbeckia

Plants that TOLERATE MOISTURE Aconitum (monkshood) Astilbe Brunnera Chelone Cimicifuga Daylily Joe Pye Weed Helenium Hosta Iris (all BUT bearded) Salvia Shasta daisy Lysimachia Monarda Siberian Iris Tiarella Primula Pulmonaria Veronica Yarrow Tradescantia Trollius