Category: Sun

A native woodland with an umbrella like leaf. The flower eventually turns into what looks like a small apple. It will grow in both wet and dry woodland conditions. Light:                Full to partial shade Bloom Color:    White Bloom Time:     Late April Bloom Height:   12-16… Continue reading Mayapple

The petite Iris cristata has blooms that range from violet/lavender to nearly white. Because of the short 3-6 in stem on this low-growing plant with a relatively large flower, it appears almost stemless. Although it has a short blooming period, it readily spreads once established – forming colonies of small sword-shaped leaves. It can benefit… Continue reading Iris Cristata

Monarda fistulosa, commonly called Wild Bergamot or Bee Balm , has a lovely violet blossom and distinctively aromatic foliage. It is a familiar component of prairie and savanna communities on all but the wettest of soils. Wild Bergamot is a favorite of butterflies, bees and hummingbirds. Its species name, fistulosa, refers to the tube-like structure… Continue reading Monarda fistulosa

Culver’s Root can offer a strong upright accent to any perennial garden or prairie/savanna. It’s an elegant unbranched plant, reaching heights of 5′ with candelabra-like spikes of white flowers that open from the top down mid-summer.  The small white flowers densely packed together can sometimes take on a purple hue; the contrast of these flowers… Continue reading Culver’s Root

Bradbury’s Monarda Also called Bradbury’s Bee Balm, this Monarda is shorter and more compact than the popular classic prairie plant Monarda fistulosa, or Wild Bergamot.  Bradbury’s Monarda is an excellent choice for home landscaping, tolerating sun and shade conditions and average garden soil. Like all Bee Balm species, it has a wonderful minty smell, is… Continue reading Bradbury’s Monarda

Spotted Monarda Spotted Bee Balm (also called Dotted Mint or Dotted Horsemint) prefers sandy soils and full to part sun. It is an eccentric beauty in form and color with complex blossoms topping 2′ stems in hues of pinkish-purple, green, beige, and maroon. it attracts many beneficial wasps to your vegetable garden who reduced our… Continue reading Monarda punctata

Jacob’s Ladder Polemonium reptans We love this plant in our shade beds. It has lovely ferny foilage and it’s a great companion plant. They maintain a tight clump and will reseed if you go light on the mulch and don’t disturb the area to much. The beautiful blue flower stalks bloom in late Spring and… Continue reading Jacob’s Ladder

This little beauty starts off like a lot of woodlands with just its flowers and then develops its leaves. Found in forest woodlands it is a tough but petite plant. It holds its leaves throughout the summer unlike many of our native woodland plants. We offer the sharp lobed hepatica when we have it. Very… Continue reading Hepatica

Pink Turtlehead Chelone lyoniiBest in cool summer climates in part shade areas. Tolerates close to full shade. Consider pinching back the stem ends in spring to reduce mature plant height, especially if growing plants in strongly shaded areas where they are more likely to need some support. In optimum environments, however, staking is usually not… Continue reading Pink Turtlehead

Joe Pye Weed Joe Pye Weed is a very tall plant, up to 6′ in the best sun/soil conditions, but strong stems support the flowering plant so it rarely needs to be staked (it can overgrow its neighbors though).  These attractive stems are almost all the same color as the dusty rose-colored flowers, which will… Continue reading Joe Pye Weed