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The 2011 Spring Plant Sale | |||
is scheduled for Sat. May14th
& Sun. May15th 10 AM - 4 PM |
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A tentative
listing of plants we plan to have for sale. Specific types
within
categories are subject to change - updates will be done every day or
two prior to the sale. Numbers will also be variable. In spite of rather inclement weather this year, we have managed to get most things accomplished. For pics click here. |
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email us if you have specific "needs" or other queries | |||
Email: willowgarden_ns@hotmail.com | |||
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More-or-Less Representative List of Available Plants / Subject to CHANGE! | |||
NAME | Common Name / Comment | ||
Aconitum (Monkshood) | Purple-Blue shades, early & late | ||
Ajuga sp.(Bugle Weed) | Purple leaf form Use as a ground cover | ||
Allium, purple |
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Anemone, Japanese | pink, vigorous, fall bloomer | ||
Anemone, Japanese | white form,
blooms in September |
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Aquilegia species | Pink or Blue | ||
Aquilegia, 'Irish Elegance' | white with green flecks, | ||
Astilbe | pink,
quite
dwarf |
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Azaleas- | available
in several sizes & colours |
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Azalea- | several species , some late blooming Some R. luteum, a yellow with small florets; R. prinophyllum, has pink flowers. There are a couple of interspecies hybrids. See link for a few pics |
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Begonia grandis |
Unusual tuberous form. Beautiful
foliage
and pink flowers Tubers started for June transplant |
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Buddleia davidii | Butterfly
Bush/ Purple |
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Buddleia davidii | Butterfly Bush, White
Bouquet |
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Buddleia davidii , Lo & Behold Blue Chip | dwarf variety, may be grown in a large planter. May need special overwintering attention. very few | ||
Campanula glomerata, | BLUE Clustered bellflower | ||
Campanula glomerata, | WHITEClustered bellflower | ||
Campanula latifolia | White
bellflower |
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Clematis recta | Herbaceous
form, many white flowers ~July |
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Clematis recta, purpurea | Similar
to above, purple foliage in early season |
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Corydalis lutea | few , yellow | ||
Corydalis nobilis | early blooming yellow, dormant in summer ~ 16-18" | ||
Daylily | selection of
seedlings, mostly yellow, few bi-colour and pink.Good choices for a mass planting. |
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Daylily, Dublin Elaine |
pink, semi-double, quite late.
Great plant. |
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Daylily, Rosy Returns |
Pink, rebloomer, somewhat dwarf. |
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Daylily, 'Pardon Me' |
burgundy-red, sm. florets, late |
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Daylily 'Strawberry Candy' | pink with darker eye zone | ||
Daylily, 'Hyperion' | Yellow, quite a tall plant |
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Daylily, Ice Carnival | white,very floriferous, large florets | ||
Daylily, 'Silk 'n Honey' | Large golden yellow florets, heavy substance | ||
Daylily, 'Strawberry Ice' | late blooming medium Pink | ||
Daylily, unnamed | burnt orange, very floriferous | ||
Daylily, unnamed | Bicolor /
alternate yellow & burgundy flare |
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Daylily, unnamed | dark red, spidery blooms, quite late | ||
Daylily 'Ivory Hybrid' | Ivory with purple ring in throat, medium size | ||
Daylily 'Potentate' | tall, handsome, Burgundy | ||
Daylily, unnamed | Lemon Yellow, large florets. | ||
Daylily, Summer WIne | Lavender shade, mid season | ||
Deutzia | Shrub. June flowering. White |
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Dicentra spectabilis, pink | Old Fashioned Bleeding Heart | ||
Dicentra excimia / pink | fringed Bleeding Heart | ||
Digitalis purpurea | Foxgloves
(mostly pink forms) Tall biennial |
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Doronicum austriacum | Leopard's Bane( tall ,late)Yellow Needs to be dead-headed to prevent excessive "seeding off" | ||
Echinacea purpurea | Purple Coneflower | ||
Echinops exaltatus | Globe thistle, very large plant. Prone to seeding off | ||
Euonymus, variegated | Evergreen Shrub, groundcover type | ||
Euonymus, 'Sunspot' | variegated green with gold centre, quite compact form | ||
Euonymus eleta, Winged Euonymus | shrub renowned for red fall colour | ||
Euphorbia polychroma, | Cushion Spurge | ||
February Daphne | Shrub/ purple. Very early & fragrant | ||
Filipendula sp. | Queen of the Prairie, white, tall, beautiful foliage | ||
Filipendula sp. | pale pink, medium height | ||
Geranium pratense | ex 'Splish Splash', white with violet streaks 2+Ft. | ||
Geranium
sanguineum |
White form, mounding habit |
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Geranium
sanguineum,
striatum |
Pale pink to white with pink
stripes |
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Gooseberry | bears large fruit, that are green when ripe | ||
Herb - Chocolate Mint |
good culinary mint,
best grown in a
container |
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Herb- Ornamental Oregano | Golden
Oregano, attractive foliage |
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Herb - OrnamentalOregano | Hopley's
Purple,
flowers late in season |
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Heliopsis sp. | tall, yellow | ||
Hibiscus | shrub, pink or white, blooms late in the season. | ||
Hosta sieboldianna | Large, crinkly blue-green leaves | ||
Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle', & 'Grandiflora' | Shrub, white flowers. 'Grandiflora' has very large blooms | ||
Hydrangea grandiflora 'PeeGee' | Large conical trusses. White changing to pink in late summer. Very few! | ||
Hydrangea, Endless Summer | Blue or Pink depending upon soil pH | ||
Hydrangea macrophylla, 'Nikko Blue' | large blue blooms, plant needs quite a protected site. | ||
Hydrangea grandiflora var.? Floribunda | exact name unknown, very similar
to PeeGee, bigger florets in the truss |
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Hydrangea serrata 'Bluebird' | quite hardy , flat blue truss mid summer, few | ||
Iris, bearded | a short
early
Purple, short Yellow, mid ht. Violet |
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Iris, bearded | Edward of Windsor, early peach | ||
Iris, bearded | Immortality, white with a hint of blue | ||
Iris ensanta | Japanese iris, later than others. White with purple streaks. Tolerates a wet location | ||
Siberian Iris- Blue , White | Blue | ||
Siberian Iris-
'Pink Haze' |
lovely pink form, a few only |
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Siberian Iris- 'Velvet Ruffles' |
Purply-blue |
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Iris Pseudacorus,, Yellow Flag Iris | tall yellow, moisture loving, vigorous | ||
Iris variegata | yellow with brownish streaks, quite compact | ||
Kerria , japanese | Shrub, Orange flower, attractive green stems | ||
Kolwitzia (Beauty Bush) | Tall shrub, blooms late June/ Pink | ||
Lady's Mantle(Alchemilla sp.) | good foliage plant, chartreuse flowers | ||
Lamium- 'White Nancy' | ground cover , white flowers/semi-shade | ||
Leucothoe fontaneisiana, Drooping Leucothoe | Spreading evergreen shrub, wider than tall. Handsome leathery foliage, white flowers in spring. | ||
Lilac, purple | Shrub | ||
Lilium martagon | Pink, very early bloom | ||
Lilium 'Tiger' | Tall, orange | ||
Lily of the Valley | Aggressive ground-cover | ||
Lobelia siphilitica, Great Blue Lobelia | Blue, late summer. Prefers rich, moist soil. May be a few of the white form | ||
Lysmachia clethroides | Goose-neck loosestrife, white. Watch it doesn’t wander. | ||
Lysmachia | Yellow loosestrife, not a spreader. | ||
Magnolia - various | TREE, a few only | ||
Miscanthus sinensis 'Floridus' | Handsome giant grass. ~9Ft. Modest spread. A warm weather grass that is perfectly hardy, but may not bloom. Slow to emerge. | ||
Monarda didyma | Bee Balm / Red, Pink , Pale Pink | ||
Nepeta faessinii | catmint, blue slightly spreading , low form. Handsome companion for roses. | ||
Oenothera | Evening primrose/ Yellow | ||
Papaver
orientalis |
Oriental Poppy/ red. | ||
PEONY | A selection of peonies grown from
seed. Not all ID'd wrt color. Not many this year. |
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Peonia suffruticosa var. spontanea | Tree peonies, seed grown. About 4 years old. Bloom time unknown...a few only | ||
Phlox |
mixed colours, plus specific
colors below |
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Phlox |
Red, White, Bluish |
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Phlox | Late blooming PINK | ||
Phlox | med. pink, light blotch | ||
Phlox | Fuchsia | ||
Plum trees | Purple Italian type | ||
Pulmonaria | Bethlehem Sage / early Pink/Blue flowers on spotted foliage | ||
Rhododendron carolinianum | Evergreen, med-leaf. Appleblossom pink-white flower | ||
Rhododendron hybrids | semi-mature
plants grown from seed, exact colors mostly unknown. Many grown for good
foliage. This years plants are quite large and well budded. They do have the disadvantage of having been crowded, but they will look less leggy in a year. |
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Rhododendron mucronulatum, | Deciduous, very early/ Pink | ||
Rhododendron mucronulatum , v. taguetti |
Dwarf, pink, early |
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Rhubarb | Good heavy roots from our "patch" | ||
Rose selction is limited wrt to numbers, perhaps only a couple of most. | |||
Rose, 'Blanc de Coubert' | Hardy white shrub | ||
Hardy Pink rambler | semi-double
pink flowers |
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Rose,
'Henry Hudson' |
hardy
shrub,
pale pink buds open white |
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Rose,
Dorothy Perkins |
pink
rambler,
vigorous. late |
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Rose, 'Goldbusch' | peachy
flowers, spreading shrub, could use support |
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Rose, 'Koningen von Danemark' | Old variety, quartered pink flowers, fragrant | ||
Rudbeckia subtomentosa | sweet brown-eyed Susan, tall/late | ||
Scilla siberica | Blue, spring blooming bulb, naturalizes with ease. | ||
Sedum | Autumn Joy' Pink plus a variegated foliage form | ||
Sedum | Yellow. Low creeping form | ||
Solomon's Seal | Shade
loving,
white bloom, interesting foliage form Spring |
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Spirea 'Anthony Waterer' | Shrub. Fuchsia flower/Short | ||
Stachys byzantina | Lamb's Ears / gray foliage | ||
Sweet Woodruff | low growing ground cover, small white flowers, spreads quite rapidly | ||
Trollius | Globeflower, yellow early bloomer | ||
Viola,Johnny Jump Ups | viola | ||
Viola, early purple | First viola to bloom, may be used as a groundcover | ||
Vinca minor | Ground-cover , blue flowers | ||
Wiegela , dark red | Shrub, early summer bloom | ||
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Last Updated on May 10, 2011 | |||
By Sharon Bryson | |||
Email: willowgarden_ns@hotmail.com | |||