88775 CAREX MORROWI ICE DANCE CYP HT PRICE: $ 4.00 Tightly clumping "Cream Sedge" forms jewel like tuffets of glossy leathery slim blades with far wider cream-ivory margins than the similarly vigorus 8" tall cultivar 'Variegata.' Z5 treasure for bog, border, or small container. Availability can be limited--check before ordering in quantities.
70109 CHAMAECYPARIS PISIFERA SNOW CUP TH PRICE: $ 5.25 `Mikko' in Japan. Very winterburn tolerant plumosa type--pointed globe of moss-like blue-green foliage with all new growth a bright white. Avoid winter sun in warmer southern climates; always excellent in containers.
81721 GERANIUM DALMATICUM X MACRORHIZUM BIOKOVO GER HT PRICE: $ 4.25 Deeply scalloped tidy leaves with sheen, red toned in fall; clear bright pink flowers with lilac blush. Cantabrigiense does indicate dalmaticum x macrorrhizum parentage--a guarentee to flourish in most garden conditions. Woody much-branched stems, thus excellent rockery or trough plant as well--tolerant of severe exposure, yet always charming and pert.
80010 GLECOMA HEDERACEA VARIEGATA LAB HH CGH PRICE: $ 3.75 "Gill-Over-the-Ground" Small creeping mint with fuzzy kidney shaped leaves & amp; tiny flowers; this clone of "Ground Ivy" / "Alehoof has bright white margins on each leaf. Can be invasive; do NOT allow reversions to proliferate. Also popular in hanging baskets and windowboxes for its dramatic cascading abilities.
88755 HEUCHERA CROWN JEWEL [HYB] SAX HT PRICE: $5.00Not just another in an already crowded field for this very compact hybrid sailed through several terrible torrid summers here nonchalantly sending up wee "Foamflower"clouds of pinked chartreuse flowers over heavy scalloped pewter leaves with a chocolate bronze mask of radiating veins. Many other hybrids did not sail through so well. Compact mounding habit as well as foliage ruffled and elaborately desingned in metalic silver! Tolerates southern summers better than many new hybrids. Very reliable. This is one we decided to keep.
42025 JASMINUM BEESIANUM OLE CGH HH PRICE: $ 6.00 "Rose Jasmine" from Western China. Zone 7 clambering vine with sharply pointed lance leaflets and petite clusters dark rosy pink fragrant blossoms--but must have chill fall and winter in order to initiate the flower buds. Must have full sunlight to perform well. Happy here clambering around in and escaping out of the deep coldframes.
40444 LONICERA NITIDA BAGGESEN'S GOLD CAP HP CGH HH PRICE: $ 3.00 In bright light the tiny ranks of new leaves of this "Prostrate Honeysuckle" remain blond-gold; brilliant against deeper green older foliage of this arching small shrub--wonderful when sheared. Traditional subject for the amateur bonsaist. In cool winter conditions the foliage turns plum purple.
71480 LONICERA YUNNANENSIS PAT'S VARIEGATED CAP HH HT PRICE: $ 4.50 Pat McCracken's selection of this tidy SW Chinese shrub "Honeysuckle" with each pert lf rimmed white. Should be most popular for bonsai lovers. Larger and sturdier than Lonicera nitida 'Silver Beauty'
88585 LYSIMACHIA CONGESTIFLORA GOLDEN HARVEST PRI CGH HH PRICE: $ 4.75 An excellent subtropical "Golden Nosegay" selection with the clusters of bright yellow flowers highlighting the muted golden foliage of this procumbent half hardy perennial; NOT the patented yellow margined form.
80013 LYSIMACHIA NUMMULARIA AUREA PRI HP PRICE: $ 4.75 "Golden Moneywort" Prostrate rooting stems with coin-shaped golden leaves; If wintered, produces yellow "Creeping Jennie" primrose flowers. Popular as bold golden groundcover outside or hanging baskets indoors. "Lloydiella"
80968 NIPPONANTHEMUM (CHRYSANTHEMUM) NIPPONICUM COMM HH CGH PRICE: $ 6.75 Shrubby "Nippon Daisy" from Japan with stout stems studded with thick widely toothed spatulate leaves with a glossy jade quality; big white daisy flowers with bold greenish-yellow eyes late fall. The "Montauk Daisy" while hardy here with good drainage, blooms so late that we grow them in large low mum pots so we can bring them into shelter in the event we suffer an unusually early killing frost; also effective in containers brought into the greenhouse mid fall to prolong the marvelous display. Needs perfect drainage and light mulch to survive the outdoor winters.
40679 OPHIOPOGON JAPONICUS GYOKU RYU LIL HP CGH HH PRICE: $ 6.25 Beautiful "Lilyturf" clumps of small very slim blades in tidy upright clumps; the "Jewel Dragon Plant" of Japan. Quite winter hardy in SE Ohio, but often with minor tip-burn. Nonetheless, in our experience, this is still the slowest to spread into a mat, as does not offset as willingly as 'Kyoto Dwarf' with its comparatively much more short and wide leafblades. Diabetes cure in China
40680 OPHIOPOGON JAPONICUS KYOTO DWARF LIL HP CGH HH PRICE: $ 5.75 Marvelous tiny black-green tufts of tight leathery leaf fans--much shorter and much wider "blades" than 'Gyoku Ryu.' This is the choice for underplanting bonsai. Excellent groundcover in your Zen garden.
40889 ROHDEA JAPONICA LIL CGH HP PRICE: $ 10.00 "Sacred Lily of China" Thick dark leathery lance leaves rise in two packed ranks; club-like inflorescence with stubby yellow flowers; excellent pot plant in northern climes, winter hardy in South; typically hardy in our modified Z6b climate, yet sustaining some foliar damage in severe winters.
80861 SAGINIA ARENARIA SUBULATA AUREA CAR HT PRICE: $4.75 "Pearlwort" or "Golden Scotch Moss" mats of glossy bristled lime gold foliage with minute fragrant white flowers. Excellent for rockeries; lovely in containers. "Goldmoss Sandwort" looks quite delicate, but needs a somewhat exposed full sun location to survive a wet winter.
70418 SALIX REPENS BOYD'S PENDULOUS SAL HT PRICE: $ 22.00 Prostrate curving stems; wonderful snaking over a rockery boulder.
83047 SAXIFRAGA VEITCHIANA SAX HH HT PRICE: $ 2.75 The "Red Carpet" groundcover for moist places--thick solid rounded "Mars Red" leaves in profusion, each covered with showy red hair. Hardy here with considerable winter protection and sweet soil--old decaying concrete provides a favorite spot. Please refer to the TROPICALS for offerings of the various cultivars of Saxifraga stolonifera.
80400 SEDUM KAMTSCHATICUM VARIEGATUM CRA HT PRICE: $ 5.00 Mounding Asian stonecrop with crenate-tipped spatulate rubbery foliage richly margined creamy-yellow in spring, fading to ochre in time; flat heads of yellow showy flowers.
81917 STACHYS BYZANTINA HELENE VON STEIN LAB HT PRICE: $ 4.50 Curious "Big Ears"--slowly wide-clustering carpets of large felted silvery-gray leaves maintain bright good color even in some shade; Z 4. Sterile selection originally offered as 'Countess von Zeppelin.'
83038 STACHYS BYZANTINA PRIMROSE HERON LAB HT PRICE: $ 4.75 "Golden Lambs Ear" The richly felted soft leaves emerge chartreuse & primrose yellow (with a hint of upcurl along the margins), gradually fading to wooly silver over green in the heat of summer. With cooler fall, the elegant spring lemonade coloring reappears. Forms a very thickly foliaged mat that looks soft and inviting enough for the gardener to consider taking a brief primrose nap.
88722 VERONICA REPENS GOLDEN CARPET SCR HT PRICE: $ 5.50 Beautiful "Golden Veronica" forms prostrate mats of bright lime yellow foliage topped by tiny blue spikes in the spring. Must have good light and NEVER ever dry out. Will not compete well with more vigorous neighbors.
80466 VINCA MAJOR AUREO-VARIEGATA [SURREY MARBLE] APO HT PRICE: $ 3.50 "Golden Blue-buttons" Showy cultivar of this "Perriwinkle" with long cascading stems ranked with opposite glossy oval leaves, each one centered with golden-mustard variegation. Beautiful blue spring blossoms. "Maculata" in Irish garden books.
80465 VINCA MAJOR VARIEGATA APO HT HH PRICE: $ 3.50 "Urn Plant" Cascading slim stems ranked with pairs of white margined leaves; if has cool winter cycle produces remarkable "Giant Periwinkle" blue flowers. Common florist plant in the days of cemetary urns; it may be dirt common, but still earns a spot in the garden for its ability to be subtle and bold simultaneously.
88582 VINCA MINOR AUREA [GLASSHOUSE WORKS] APO HT PRICE: $ 4.50 Our selection for a solid lime-gold leaf--a form teasingly mentioned in several old catalogues as 'Aurea'--very slow growing.