Plant Profile: White Baneberry (Actaea pachypoda)
Karen Also known as doll’s eye, this herbaceous perennial is native to eastern North America where it thrives in the rich, moist soil of deciduous woodlands. It is a member of…
Plant Profile: Goat’s Beard (Aruncus dioicus)
This shrub-like herbaceous perennial, also known as bride’s feather, is native to North America, and northern Europe and Asia where it grows in moist woodlands. It is a member of…
Plant Profile: Rosa ‘Ispahan’
With fragrant mid-pink flowers this Damask rose is one of the favorite old garden roses of many distinguished rose growers. Clusters of up to fifteen large double roses are produced…
Plant Profile: Siberian bell Flower (Campanula poscharskyana)
This herbaceous perennial is native to the northern Balkans. It quickly spreads from the root crown by prostrate stems to form an attractive ground cover and will cascade down a…
Plant Profile: Golden Columbine (Aquilegia chrysantha)
This herbaceous perennial is a native of southwestern United States including parts of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah were it grows in moist places in sheltered canyons. It…
Plant Profile: Hairy Goldenaster (Heterothece villosa)
Hairy goldaster, is a herbaceous perennial native to North America from Canada to southern California, east to Texas, Nebraska, and Wisconsin. It grows in open sunny dry sites forming clumps…
Plant Profile: Rose ‘Great Maiden’s Blush’
Also known as ‘Cuisse de Nymphe Emue’, this old alba rose has pale pink petals that fade to white on the edges. The cupped flowers are borne singly or in…
Plant Profile: Twinleaf (Jeffersonia diphylla)
A native of North America, twinleaf is found in damp woods on limestone soil from Ontario, Canada, south to Georgia and Alabama, and northwest to Iowa and Minnesota. It is…
Plant Profile: Sneezewort (Achillea ptarmica)
A native of Europe and western Asia, sneezewort is a rhizomaceous perennial that spreads and naturalizes if the soil is good. It is a membet of the aster family, Asteraceae,…
Plant Profile: Skunkleaf Polemonium (Polemonium pulcherrimum )
This clump forming perennial is native to western North American from Alaska to California and into Arizona and New Mexico where it grows in dry rocky areas of mountains from…