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Aeonium, Tricolor

Aeonium haworthii 'Variegatum'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 8a 9a 9b-11
Light: Sun-P.Sun to P.Sun
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Late Summer
Common Uses:Container, Houseplants, Ornamental

Add a bold texture and color to your strawberry jar with 3 inch rosettes of glorious green and white striped foliage. In the north, at seasons end, simply cut off some end rosettes (or dig up entire plant) & stick in a sandy mix for carefree houseplants. $ 4.29

Aeonium, Voodoo

Aeonium x 'Voodoo

Cold Tolerance: Zone 10a 10b 11 9a 9b 9b-11
Light: Sun-P.Sun to P.Sun
Height: 8 x18in.
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses:Container, Houseplants, Ornamental

When about 2 dozen, green centered, purple edged, fleshy lobes compete to form a 12 inch rosette, this assertive succulent demands its place as a dramatic focal point in a tropical or African themed mixed container. Be sure to seek out a sophisticated vase to match, so you can enjoy it indoors in the winter as well. It is important not to allow any one branch to grow more than 6-12"" as this will result in flowering and eventual death. Jar-Gem ^TM standout! $ 5.29

Agastache 'Sangria'

Agastache mexicana 'Sangria'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Flowers: Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Butterfly, Culinary, Edible Flowers, Fragrant, Ornamental, Tea

Another hot, yellow-apricot colored, taste of licorice, for cool fruit salads or fragrant, WOW bouquets $ 3.79

Agastache, Apricot Sprite

Agastache aurantiaca

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Flowers: Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Butterfly, Culinary, Edible Flowers, Fragrant, Ornamental, Tea

Try this for your next salad: mixed greens, ripe nectarines (or mandarin oranges), toasted walnuts, "Purple Ruffles Basil" and these subtle citrus/anise, bright orange and yellow flowers. Dress with a fruity viniagrette. Not only tasty, there's the silver foliage and stocky 18" height to admire. Add extra color to the herb garden or even large mixed containers. $ 3.79

Agastache, Sunset or Rootbeer Hyssop

Agastache rupestris

We first saw this delicate, cool summer beauty in Seattle labeled ""Root Beer Plant. This caught our attention, as we have the same common name on a different plant. While not as strongly scented as our Root Beer Plant (Piper auritum), it's fragrance lingers all summer from apricot-pink flowers hovering above finely cut gray foliage. Has definite tea possibilities. $ 3.79

Agastache- Anise Hyssop

Agastache foeniculum

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 3 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Flowers: Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Butterfly, Culinary, Cut Flower, Edible Flowers, Fragrant, Ornamental, Tea

Lavender purple spikes, July through September, are cut fresh or dried for flower arrangements, while anise flavored leaves & flowers make a nice summer tea. Easily grown hardy perennial, but, reseeds if flowers are not removed quickly, which isn't always bad. $ 3.79

Aloe Vera

Aloe barbarensis

Cold Tolerance: Zone 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 3 Feet
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses:Culinary, , Medicinal, , Ornamental

Forget the drug store skin care. Reach for a succulent tip off this medicinal and squeeze out a thick, cooling gell proven to heal burns, minor skin abrasions and rough garden hands. This is a premium medicinal variety, organically grown, originally from the world's largest Aloe grower. Here in Ohio, we plant it in the ground about June 1st and it doubles in size by the end of the summer with nice blue-green spiny leaves, rich in many more ""miracle"" properties than I have room to list here. $ 3.79

Aloe Vera 3-5 YEAR OLD

Aloe barbarensis

Cold Tolerance: Zone 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 3 Feet
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses:Culinary, , Medicinal, , Ornamental

Aloe Vera 5�

Aloe barbarensis

Cold Tolerance: Zone 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 3 Feet
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses:Culinary, , Medicinal, , Ornamental

Alyssum, Alpine Yellow

Alyssum wulfenianum

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a
Light: Full Sun
Height: 2in. X 2 ft.
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses:Alpine Rockery, Container, Garden Railroads, Groundcover, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental

Clusters of warm, golden, Spring flowers sit atop tight little mounds of grey-green, fingernail sized leaves, just as I imagine, the wee folk do. $ 4.29

Alyssum, Dwarf Golden

Alyssum serpyllifolium

""Worth beyond beauty."" While the language of flowers may be referring to its annual ""Sweet Alyssum"" counterpart, this also describes these bright yellow, Spring clusters of flowers atop of ""garden pea"" green, thyme sized foliage. $ 4.29

Angelica

Angelica archangelica

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: P.Sun-P.Shade to Shade Only
Height: 4-6 Feet
Water: Wet
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses:Borders, Butterfly, Culinary, Ornamental

If you desire the largest, boldest herb that you can grow in the shade or a 6 foot tropical for a wet area, consider Angelica. Seeds add a sweet, delicate flavor to soups and stews. Stems are easily candied or add several slivers to your favorite rhubarb recipe. Creamy yellow flowers produce long lasting seed heads followed by the death to the mother plant shortly thereafter. $ 3.79

Angelica, Korean

Angelica gigas

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: P.Sun-P.Shade to Shade
Height: 3 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses:Borders, Butterfly, Culinary, Ornamental, Tea

Unassertive, small leaves scream for this bold, dramatic foliaged neighbor for any shade area. Baseball sized purple clusters on 3' stalks form in 2-3 years, which I suggest you remove during their glory to prevent this herb's demise or the birth of 100 more. Leaf stalks can be candied. This ""Dong Quai herb"" makes a cozy Chinese tea and is a premiere female medicinal. $ 4.29

Arnica

Arnica chamissonis var. foliosa

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1-2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Flowers: Middle Summer
Common Uses:Bees, Groundcover, Medicinal, Ornamental

This North American native is nearly identical in every way to it's well known cousin Arnica montana, with perky yellow/orange daisy flowers on a 6" spreading ground cover, but it is easier to grow. Used in many homeopathic preparations and tinctures, for external wounds. $ 3.79

Basil, African Blue

Ocimum X `African Blue'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 9a 9b-11
Light: Sun-P.Shade
Height: 3 x 2 1/2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses:Butterfly, Culinary, Ornamental

Excuse it's leggy nature in pots. Give it room in the garden. It transforms into a mound of dark green leaves with purple veins & flower spikes. Culinary quality of Opal Basil, although stronger, with a hint of sweet camphor. Go easy! Best basil for indoors. Born at Companion Plants, Athens, Ohio. $ 3.79

Basil, African Blue, Variegated

Ocimum X `Variegated African Blue'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 9a 9b-11
Light: Sun-P.Sun
Height: 3x 2 1/2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses:Culinary, Ornamental

Claude Monet might have wept upon seeing its pastel presentation of white, lime, and dark green leaves. Almost as vigorous growth as ""African Blue"" with slighty milder flavor. Breathtaking in the herb garden. Don't assume, you'll feel the same way about it on your plate. We received this marvelous mutation from Scott Kresge (Emily Mae Garden Shop in Pen Argyl, PA). Thank you, Scott! $ 3.79

Basil, Aussie Sweetie

Ocimum x citriodora 'Aussie Sweetie'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 3 - 4 x 2 feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses:Culinary, , Ornamental

""Thanks for the Memories""

For those of you who don't read the cultural requirements below, this one gets 3-4 feet tall! Susan describes it as ""One of the most complex basil aromas and the strongest. The first sniff is loaded with cinnamon & has the background of allspice and cloves. Pumpkin Pie spice comes to mind."" And may we add it's just as good in a Cincinnati style spagetti sauce. Identical to Richters' ""Lesbos Basil"". $ 3.79

Basil, Cinnamon

Ocimum basilicum `Cinnamon'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1 x 1 � Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses:Bees, Borders, Culinary, Edible Flowers, Fragrant, Ornamental

Green leaves with red veins and purple stems plus flowers from pink to purple, create such beauty, we'd grow it even if we couldn't flavor fruit, pancakes, and chili with its cinnamon touch. $ 3.29

Basil, Cuban

Ocumum basilicum 'Cuban'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 8a 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses:Butterfly, Culinary, Ornamental

It's a perfect 1-1/2 foot globe of spicy basil flavor laced with a touch of mint. Mark admits to being disappointed initially with this variety, as it does not like a cool greenhouse, but man did it take off during the summer. We sheared it once in August and by October it still had not flowered. This was definitely the most frost tolerant of any basil we grew last year. $ 3.79

Basil, Miniature Purple Well -sweep

Ocimum basilicum `Minimum Purpurascens Well Sweep'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to P.Shade-Sun
Height: 6-9in.
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses:Bees, Culinary, Garden Railroads, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental

Adorable miniature from Cyrus Hyde at Well-Sweep Herb Farm. Adding great tasting basil flavor has never been easier thanks to striking, purple, tiny leaves. Simply crumble over pizza, salads or fish. $ 3.79

Basil, Pesto Perpetuo

Ocimum x citriodorum 'Pesto Perpetuo'P.P.#16261

Cold Tolerance: Zone 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 3 - 4 x 2 feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses:Culinary, Ornamental

$ 3.79

Basil, Pixie

Ocimum basilicum 'Pixie'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 6 to 9in.
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses:Container, Culinary, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental

""Thanks for the Memories""

Revered miniature from Tom DeBaggio. Vivid purple, tiny leaves with classic basil flavor for crumbling in salads, green beans, and vinegars. Although not as small as "Miniature Purple," it's still at home in railroad landscapes, faery garden containers, or windowsill herbs. Chop up leaves and flowers to add to your next goat cheese dish. $ 3.79

Basil, Purple Ruffles

Ocimum basilicum `Purple Ruffles'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1-2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses:Bees, Borders, Container, Culinary, Ornamental

Large purple leaves with ruffled edges and pink flowers create this striking, pleasantly mild, addition (so add generously) to veggies and salads. "Golden Oregano, Tri-Color Sage, Purple Ruffles" and any rosemary will make a magnificent display. We mulch with grass clipping to create a nice contrast. $ 3.29

Basil, Red Rubin

Ocimum basilicum `Red Rubin'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1-2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses:Culinary, Ornamental

This was bred to be less variable in color and it succeeded, with fewer plants reverting to green. Protect this one from heavy, frequent rains. It's a purple version of large leaf basil, albeit pink buds, and literally luminates a fruit salad, stir-fry, salsa, or even eggs. $ 3.29

Basil, Rick�s Aussie Purple

Ocimum x citriodora

Cold Tolerance: Zone 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 3-4 feet x 2 feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Late Summer
Common Uses:Culinary, Ornamental

New in 2006

Wavy, wine colored foliage much like 'Ebony Wonder' meets the tall columnar growth of 'Aussie Sweetie'. This will be Mark's 2006 topiary project, which, if half as pretty as 'Ausie Sweetie' topiaries, will surely grace many church weddings and elegant reception halls! $ 3.79

Basil, Spicy Globe/Bush

Ocimum basilicum 'Spicy Globe'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 6-9in.
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses:Bees, Garden Railroads, Container, Culinary, Hedges/Shrubs, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental

Miniature green leaves adorn this truly bonsai basil, and it's slow to flower. Pick young buds & leaves for a mild basil taste in salads, grilled steak, fish, and pork. Long ago, in Italy, basil on windowsills advertised availability. Hey bachelors,- it's a perfect container basil or a cute, front row hedge. $ 3.29

Bee Balm, Blue Stocking

Monarda fistulosa`Blue Stocking'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Shade
Height: 2-3 Feet
Water: Normal Wet
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer
Common Uses:Borders, Butterfly, Ornamental

Who cares if it is last to flower, 3 to 4 weeks after Gardenview Scarlet. Its dark pink or blue purple blooms are unusually intense, but, do not eat camphor-like flowers! They taste awful to us, but oh how they show off delphiniums! $ 3.79

Bee Balm, Coral Reef

Monarda didyma 'Coral Reef'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Shade
Height: 3-4 Feet
Water: Wet
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses:Borders, , Butterfly, , Ornamental

Neon, coral pink flowers crescendo on top 2-1/2 to 3 feet tall stems, usually in July. Coming out of Morden Research Station, it's no surprise that it is also mildew resistant as are most new 'Monarda offerings. $ 3.79

Bee Balm, Jacob Cline

Monarda didyma

Improvements in bee balms always include an emphasis on ""Powdery Mildew,""a disease that's relatively harmless or at least controllable, but definitely unsightly. Siting ""Bee Balms"" in part sun but away from a North exposure, where the dew takes hours to dry in the morning, helps. So does choosing this very mildew resistant herb with huge red flowers and vigorous growth. $ 3.79

Bee Balm, Mahogany

Monarda x media 'Mahogany'

Rare, mahogany flower color that is suited to a more natural setting rather than a perky pastel border. $ 3.79

Bee Balm, Marshall Delight

Monarda didyma

You may wonder with all the fuss over mildew resistance, why even choose a ""Bee Balm."" One look at these rich pink, confetti flowers that just happen to add a sweetness, found in no other herb, and your next Summer fruit salad will seem naked without it. Don't panic that it's also resistant to ""Rust."" I'm telling you, it's well worth a try. $ 3.79

Blue-Eyed Grass, Devon Skies

Sisyrinchium angustifolium 'Devon Skies'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun to P.Sun
Height: 6in.
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer to Late Fall to Late Spring
Common Uses:Alpine Rockery, Borders, Container, Garden Railroads, Groundcover, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental

New for 2009
Flanked at the base of a mini arbor, these 6""clumps, dressed up with ""look-at-me"" sky blue flowers, carry you away into a anti- super-sized kingdom, each time you give them a glance. Additionally, the sterile flowers have a very long bloom time - well into August which is when I was first drawn to them. $ 4.79

Blue-Eyed Grass, Dwarf Purple

Sisyrinchium angustifolium 'Lucerne'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to P.Sun
Height: 8in. x 6in. wide
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer to Late Fall to Late Spring
Common Uses:Alpine Rockery, Borders, Container, Garden Railroads, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental

I am not a grass at all, rather a fine leaved, dwarf, iris-like perennial with super long flowering time. There are species of this plant native to almost every continent yet it is relatively unknown in the garden. Very easy to grow and admire. $ 4.79

Blue-Eyed Grass, Dwarf Yellow

Sisyrinchium californicum

Cold Tolerance: Zone 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b-11
Light: Sun-P.Sun to P.Sun
Height: 12 to 14in.
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Early Fall to Early Spring to Early Summer to Late Summer
Common Uses:Borders, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental

Grows taller than Dwarf Purple and Dwarf White with broader leaves and bright, sunshine-yellow, miniature, iris flowers. Like it's S. striatum cousin, it enjoys moist soils. Non-stop flowers brighten our greenhouse even in December as it blizzards outdoors. Should do even better in southern Florida and California gardens. Combine with Blue Star Creeper and Elfin Herb for blooming wetlands! $ 4.79

Blue-Eyed Grass, Quaint & Queer

Sisyrinchium `Quaint and Queer'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to P.Sun
Height: 10in.
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer to Late Spring to Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Alpine Rockery, Borders, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental

We love the name and its stylish maroon red with yellow throated flowers that arrive in late spring or early summer. Combine those with its slim, dark green, grassy foliage and you've got a tasteful pairing of ""country meets city"" for most of the summer. $ 4.79

Borage

Borago officinalis

Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1-2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer
Common Uses:Bees, Borders, Culinary, Ornamental

Need a quick cucumber substitute? Make space (about a 3' spread) for an endless summer display of baby blue, star-shaped flowers. Harvest just opened blooms and small, non-prickly leaves, for a cucumber flavor in cool salads or V-8 drinks. $ 3.29

Burnet, Mini Silver

Acaena saccaticupula

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a
Light: Full Sun to P.Sun
Height: 2in. groundcover
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Sandy
Common Uses:Alpine Rockery, Garden Railroads, Groundcover, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental, Walk About

Check out ""Burnet, Mini Red"" but substitute foliage as pure silver leaves. You need a break from our endless ""miniature this and thats"" and a simple description seems appropriate for this graceful, cooperative player. $ 4.29

Butterflyweed \ Bloodflower

$Butterflyweed \ Bloodflower$
Asclepias curassavica

Cold Tolerance: Zone 10a 10b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 2-4 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer to Late Summer
Common Uses:Butterfly, Ornamental

Irrepressible orange and red star flowers in 4" clusters caught customers' attention all summer. This easy to grow, South American species, is also a favorite of Monarch Butterflies in the garden or any large mixed container. We combined this with Sweet Potato `Blackie' - WOW! $ 3.79

Butterflyweed \ Pleurisy Root

Asclepias tuberosa

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 1-2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Borders, Butterfly, Medicinal, Ornamental

One of the most important plants you can buy to help save the Monarch Butterfly and give yourself a beautiful, bright orange, hardy perennial simultaneously. The dried powdered roots can be decocted to make a powerful expectorant and when combined with Angelica archangelica was used to treat Pleurisy. Once established, it will not transplant well. $ 4.79

Butterflyweed, 'Gay Butterflies'

Asclepias tuberosa 'Gay Butterflies'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 10a10b9a9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 2-4 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses:Butterfly, , Ornamental

Irrepressible orange and red star flowers in 4" clusters caught customers' attention all summer. This easy to grow, South American species, is also a favorite of Monarchs in the garden or any large mixed container. We combined this with Sweet Potato `Blackie' - WOW! $ 3.79

Calamint, Alpine

Calamintha nepeta var. nepeta

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: P.Shade-P.Sun to P.Shade-P.Sun
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Early Fall to Early Summer to Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Borders, Culinary, Edible Flowers, Ornamental

The ideal perennial! Low maintenance,(i.e. no dead heading) with a perfect mound of delicate, sweet tasting, lilac-blue flowers that spoil us from June until after a fall freeze. It's true! Foliage has sweet minty fragrance, but it does not trespass like a mint. Essential as a faery garden plant. $ 3.79

Calamint, Snow White

Calamintha nepeta var. nepeta 'Snow White'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Shade to P.Shade-Sun
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic
Flowers: Early Fall to Early Summer to Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Borders, Butterfly, Culinary, Edible Flowers, Ornamental

A nearly perfect perennial that flowers June until freeze. It needs zero care to maintain an impeccably round mound of delicate, sweet tasting, pure white flowers. Foliage has a subtle, minty fragrance, but it does not spread invasively. The white version of Alpine and an essential faery garden plant. $ 3.79

Calocephalus, Cushion Bush

Calocephalus brownii

Cold Tolerance: Zone 8a 8b 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to P.Sun
Height: 12 x 12in.
Water: Normal- Dry
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses:Garden Railroads, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental

Plants like this silver foliaged tumble-weed separate the passionate collectors from those with a casual interest in unique plants. It's easier to tell that it's alive vs. say the ""Skeleton Plant"", I give it that. Still, it's such a great contrast with its linear, jointed form that I really shouldn't belittle it. $ 4.79

Catmint, Creeping

Nepeta mussini (faassenii)

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Early Fall to Early Summer
Common Uses:Bees, Borders, Ornamental

Our #1 recommended hardy perennial to plant under and in between roses. Small white-gray, fine toothed leaves form a 2 feet wide by 12"" high PERFECT mound, covered with blue flowers in June and occasionally in the fall. Although stronger and more pleasantly fragrant than common catnip, it doesn't attract any of our neighborhood cats, so it remains untouched. Plant several together in rock gardens, to take advantage of the relaxing, swaying ocean of rare, soft blue color. $ 3.79

Catmint, Six Hills Giant

Nepeta x 'Six Hills Giant'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 2 1/2 x 5 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer to Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Bees, Borders, Ornamental

This is ""Creeping Catmint"" on steroids! 2 1/2' mounds of sky blue flowers, make a dramatic show planted between delphiniums, foxgloves, and other spikes. $ 3.79

Chaste Tree, Cutleaf

Vitex negundo

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 4 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer
Common Uses:Borders, Medicinal, Ornamental

This general purpose female herb is sheer elegance in pure blue, 5"" flower spikes which devour plants in July. In northern Ohio, perennial shrub dies back to ground each winter, but grows into small 12' trees, zone 7 or warmer. Pepper-corn sized seeds have been used in the past to reduce female sexual desire (and ""hot flashes"") - hence the name. You choose whether you want to stand clear or attack it, but seriously, respect its power and do your own research. $ 5.29

Chinese Arum, Miniature

Pinellia ternata

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b-11
Light: P.Shade-P.Sun to Shade
Height: 4- 12in. groundcover
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses:Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental, Shade

Miniature "Jack-in-the-Pulpit" is what comes to my mind initially when I admire this wonderful wet and woodland groundcover. Can become invasive if allowed, which can be a good problem. It is not consistently winter hardy in northern Ohio, but could be in area micro-climates. Contains ephedrine which is used in Chinese medicine for a variety of ailments. Great shade fairy garden plant! $ 5.29

Chives, Curly

Allium senescens var. `Glaucum'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 4in.
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Flowers: Early Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Container, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental

You have to see this quirky, miniature, curly, blue-leaved ""Allium"" for yourself. It is too sweet for rock gardens or small pockets. 2"" baby pink blossoms flirt with bees on top of 3-4"" stalks in June or July. Should be sprinkled sparingly due to a strong onion flavor. $ 3.79

Chives, Garlic

Allium tuberosa

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Flowers: Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Butterfly, Culinary, Cut Flower, Edible Flowers, Ornamental

Imagine: pristine, tall, white, 2"" globe, flower clusters in August. Also called ""Flat leaf Chives"" for their wider leaves; Add a mild garlic flavor, by simply sprinkling bits of flowers over chicken, Caesar salad, omelets and bread. I mean what doesn't need a dash of garlic? $ 3.79

Chives, Onion/Garden, Jupiter

Allium schoenoprasum 'Jupiter'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Flowers: Early Summer
Common Uses:Butterfly, Culinary, Cut Flower, Edible Flowers, Ornamental

Mulberry Creek introduced and named this for its huge!, dark purple flowers with a large red center, that reminded us of the spot on our solar system's 5th planet. Foliage remains upright and stately for a year long harvest. Astronomically and horticulturally - big news! $ 3.79

Chives, Onion/Garden, Solaris White

Allium schoenoprasum 'Album'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun
Height: 1 foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Flowers: Early Summer to Late Spring
Common Uses:Butterfly, Culinary, Cut Flower, Edible Flowers, Ornamental

One of Mark's ""Holy Grails"". We finally found seed for this White Garden Chive and selected out the best flowering seedlings from which to multiply. Great tasting ""Onion Chive"" flavor flowering in late spring with other Garden (Onion) Chives. $ 3.79

Chives, Onion/Garden, Venus

Allium schoenoprasum 'Venus'

In honor of the second planet, we introduced this pink REPEAT bloomer. With a savory onion flavor, you might be inclined to add it to deviled eggs or tuna salad. $ 3.79

Cinquefoil, Yellow Creeping

Potentilla neumanniana

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 2-4in. groundcover
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy
Flowers: Early Summer
Common Uses:Alpine Rockery, Butterfly, Garden Railroads, Groundcover, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental, Walk About

Everyone has seen the overused ""Potentilla"" in a landscape but imagine a petite version. The bright yellow 3/8"" single rose flowers reveal it's membership in the rose family. Because it is a slow spreading groundcover, it's an icon in our winter windowsill gardens with a rosemary tree and a lemon thyme. $ 4.29

Coleus, Mini Red-Leaf

Coleus x 'Cantigny Royale'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 9b 9b-11
Light: Sun-P.Sun to Shade
Height: 12 x 12in.
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses:Bonsai, Garden Railroads, Houseplants, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental, Topiary

In autumn, there are few rivals to this red maple tree mimic in a miniature railroad or landscape due to its dark red, 1"" leaves. While it is a ""Coleus,"" by the time it matures into a 12"" form, it can easily be trained into the shape of a mini tree. $ 4.29

Columbine, Faerie

Aquilegia flabellata 'Cameo'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Sun-P.Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 3in. x 4
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Flowers: Early Summer to Late Spring
Common Uses:Alpine Rockery, Butterfly, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental

Like ""Little Lanterns Columbine"", the flowers are almost standard sized, however, the height is shrunk to about 3"" tall, one of the smallest known cultivars. This is a mixture of different flower colors, that rise no more than 3 or 4 inches and will slowly re-seed themselves around the garden. As columbines go, these are long lived and cute! $ 4.29

Columbine, Little Lanterns

Aquilegia canadensis 'Little Lanterns'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Sun-P.Sun to Shade
Height: 10in. x 6
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Flowers: Early Summer to Late Spring
Common Uses:Alpine Rockery, Bedding Plant, Butterfly, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental

This delicate, literally 1/2 sized version of our native eastern Columbine blooms in its second year. Lucky for you, we've grown them for over 12 months, so these should flower for you this summer with reds and yellows about the size of native Columbine on 10"" stems. $ 4.29

Coprosma, Benton's Gold

Coprosma X kirkii 'Benton's Gold'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 9a 9b-11
Light: Sun-P.Shade to Shade
Height: 2' x 2'
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Common Uses:Bonsai, Container, Garden Railroads, Houseplants, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental, Topiary

Gold and green blotched, spoon-shaped foliage suggests the name for this mini, tropical, woody tree. Its gray trunk is particularly interesting for bonsai enthusiasts. Great little plant from New Zealand. $ 4.29

Corydalis - Fumitory, Little Yellow

Corydalis cheilanthifolia

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a
Light: P.Shade-P.Sun to Shade
Height: 4in. x 8in. wide
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Early Spring to Early Summer to Late Spring
Common Uses:Bedding Plant, Butterfly, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental, Shade

This faery find is often mistaken for a dwarf fern, until bright yellow flowers bloom with the first crocus and continue until late spring. The seed will politely spread to a soft groundcover in any shady area- even dry. Perfect companion to ""Faery Ferns, Primroses, and mini Hostas. $ 5.29

Cuban Oregano, Compact Grey

Plectranthus sp

Cold Tolerance: Zone 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun
Height: 6-8in.
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Loamy
Common Uses:Culinary, Ornamental

Survivor Series: A favorite cooking variety of the local Puerto Rican community; Leaves look just like our ""Vick's Plant,"" except they are more gray and stems are very compact, forming a mound (as opposed to long and trailing), however the flavor is more minty-oregano & the scent, less ""Vapor Rub. $ 3.79

Cuban Oregano, Golden Ruffle

Plectranthus (Coleus) amboinicus 'Golden Ruffles'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 9a 9b-11
Light: Shade
Height: Spreading to 4'
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses:Baskets, Culinary, Houseplants, Ornamental

How about a "Survivor" for the shade? In fact, that's where it'll produce the best color. Much like the "Variegated," but, with a warmer gold and green variegation and scalloped edged, thick leaves that "wave like a football stadium cheer." (Mark,-the king of bad metaphors) More ornamental, than flavorful, which must've been lost during the selection process. $ 3.79

Cuban Oregano, Marble Ruffles

Plectranthus marginata 'Fosteri' sport

Cold Tolerance: Zone 9a 9b-11
Light: Sun-P.Shade
Height: spreading to 4 Foot
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses:Baskets, Ornamental

Another ""survivor"" boasting dark green & chartreuse leaves, scalloped edges and a minty-oregano flavor, like Golden Ruffles. However, the color holds up to full sun. Actually shimmers as a groundcover carpet with red coleus growing up through it. Make a terrific ""Survivor Series"" basket by combining it with any of the Ice Plants and Society Garlic"". $ 3.79

Cuban Oregano, Variegated

Plectranthus (Coleus) ambionicus

Cold Tolerance: Zone 9a 9b-11
Light: Sun-P.Shade to P. Shade
Height: 5 feet Trailing
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses:Baskets, Culinary, Groundcover, Houseplants, Ornamental

One of the best basket plants we've ever grown: it is hard to kill and tasty too! We admit it. We'd forget to water our own baskets on the porch for a week, but it was no problem. Use fresh in Mexican cooking as you would oregano. Break apart a large fleshy leaf and add to a chicken salad along with pineapple sage. The green and white variegation is a joy to use in the landscape, mixed container, moss basket or as groundcover. Makes great sunny window houseplant. $ 3.79

Curry Plant

Helichrysum italicum (angustifolia)

Cold Tolerance: Zone 10a10b6a6b7a7b8a8b9a9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 6-12in.
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses:Borders, Fragrant, Ornamental, Potpourri

Ornamental narrow gray leaves adorn this upright growing plant. We got it because it smells great, but it's at home as a white foliage feature in our moonlight garden. Has tiny bright yellow buds from July to September. Delightful curry scent, but don't confuse it with curry powder: a blend of cumin, turmeric, & assorted Mid-East spices. One of our retail customers uses it to flavor vinegar. $ 3.79

Curry Plant, Dwarf

Helichrysum italicum microphyllum

Cold Tolerance: Zone 7b 8a 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 4-6in.
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses:Bonsai, , Culinary, , Garden Railroads, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental, , Topiary

A true miniature form of ""Curry Plant"", which is perfect for miniature container gardens, bonsai, and rockeries. Tiny, short needled leaves are easily pruned into mini hedges. Know someone with an outdoor model railroad? What a darling, fragrant addition! $ 3.79

Delphinium, Dwarf Electric Blue

Delphinium grandiflorum 'Blue Butterfly'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Sun-P.Sun to P.Shade-Sun
Height: 12in. x 6
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer to Middle Spring to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Alpine Rockery, Borders, Butterfly, Fragrant, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental

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Picture electric blue butterflies dancing in your flower beds, altitude 1 foot high! Grown for 7 years in upright, unearthed, land tiles at the entrance to the greenhouse, it never fails to stop customers in their tracks. Re-blooms throughout the growing season. Will re-seed sparingly for years of enjoyment. Longer life than its taller delphinium cousins. $ 4.79

Dianthus, Grey Stone

Dianthus simulans

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun Only
Height: 2in. x 5
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Sandy
Common Uses:Alpine Rockery, Garden Railroads, Groundcover, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental

The foliage is so tiny and compact, that this Dianthus, as the name implies, appears as a blueish-gray rock that (not) only a collector could love. Super hardy with well drained soil. Occasionally surprises us with pink spring flowers. $ 4.79

Dianthus, Tiny Rubies

Dianthus gratianopolitanus 'Tiny Rubies'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun to P.Sun
Height: 2in. x 12in. spreading
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Sandy
Flowers: Early Summer to Late Spring
Common Uses:Alpine Rockery, Bedding Plant, Butterfly, Garden Railroads, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental

Commonly grown alpine because of it's easy culture. Bright ruby-pink faerie flowers smother the bluish grass foliage in spring. Can eventually form a 2 foot across mat. $ 4.29

Double Daisy, Red

Bellis perennis 'Rominette Red'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: P.Sun- P.Shade to Full Sun
Height: 3in.x 6
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer to Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Alpine Rockery, Butterfly, Container, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental

These are the red, double english daisies that were carefully illustrated along with the faeries of Cicely Mary Barker. Each spring, 3-4"" mounds of dark green leaves appear followed by 6"" tall, double red daisy flowers during the summer. Divide and share every other year to prevent rotting. $ 4.29

DWARF CONIFER- White Cedar, Top Point

Chamaecyparis thyoides 'Top Point'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 4in. x 18in. wide
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Common Uses:Bonsai, Garden Railroads, Hedges/Shrubs, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental

Tired of ""Alberta Spruce"" christmas trees? This true dwarf form adapts to average, moist soils and offers bright green needled leaves.

$11.99

Echeveria, Perle Von Nurnberg

Echeveria x 'Perle von Nurnberg'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 8a 8b 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 8in. x 8in.
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Sandy
Common Uses:Jar-Gems TM, Container, Ornamental,

Succulent, antique red leaves (pads) are gathered into beautiful rosettes. When we put together combinations in strawberry jars, I appreciate the larger leaves and warm red color against the cascading ""Ice Plants,"" and tufts of ""Drabas."" White flower stalks enter each Spring. $ 4.79

Echeveria, Perle Von Nurnberg 5 in.

Echeveria x 'Perle von Nurnberg'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 8a 8b 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 8in. x 8in.
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Sandy
Common Uses:Jar-Gems TM, Houseplants, Container, Ornamental,

Succulent, antique red, broad leaves (pads) are gathered into beautiful rosettes. When we put together combinations in strawberry jars, I appreciate the larger leaves and warm red color against the cascading ""Ice Plants,"" and tufts of ""Drabas."" White/pink flower stalks enter each spring. $12.00

Echeveria, Queen Mother's 5 in.

Echeveria pulvinata

Cold Tolerance: Zone 9a 11 3a 3b 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b-1
Light: Sun-P.Sun to P.Sun
Height: 12in. x 12
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses:Jar-Gems"""""""" TM, Container, Ornamental

A gift from Mary, a customer of ours who "acquired" it from the Queen Mother's personal garden. We love it since it blooms from Christmas through April, indoors. Flowers last for weeks, especially when held in a cool- cold window. Great plant for small containers on a hot sunny deck which should be brought indoors when your overcoat comes out in the fall. $12.00

Echeveria, Topsy Turvy

Echeveria 'Topsy Turvy'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 8a 8b 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 8in. x 8in.
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Sandy
Common Uses:Jar-Gems TM, Container, Ornamental,

Got a friend with a black thumb? Encourage them to try Echeverias. This one is particularly interesting. In Ohio, we bring them indoors, find a sunny spot, neglect the watering and we're rewarded with wavy blue rosettes now and orange-red, bell flowers hung from sheperd hook flower stalks each Summer, after we kick them out. Plant in terra cotta pots or strawberries jars to bring out their flower color even more. $ 4.79

Echeveria, Topsy Turvy 5 in.

Echeveria 'Topsy Turvy'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 9a 9b-11
Light: Sun-P.Sun to P.Sun
Height: 12in. x 12
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses:Jar-Gems"""""""" TM, Container, Ornamental

Echinacea, Paradox Yellow

Echinacea paradoxa var. paradoxa

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 3-4 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Borders, Butterfly, Medicinal, Ornamental, Tea

The paradox of this ""Purple Coneflower"" is that it's yellow! This refreshing early summer blooming perennial has the classic rosette plant from which emerge majestic daisy-like flowers. Has many of the same medicinal components as E. angustifolia. $ 3.79

Echinacea, Pastel Pink

Echinacea pallida

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 2-4 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Borders, Butterfly, Medicinal, Ornamental, Tea

Considered by many, to be the most medicinally active species of all the ""Purple Coneflowers"" and suspected to be sold in Europe as E. angustifolia. Subtler beauty than E. purpurea, with pale, pink, droopy, more narrow flowers petals, and just as potent. $ 3.79

Echinacea, Purple

Echinacea purpurea

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 2-3 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Butterfly, Cut Flower, Medicinal, Ornamental, Tea

We chose this herb as part of our logo because of its beauty and multiple use: the quintessential herb. 4"" large, purple, daisy shaped blossoms are held upright on sturdy stems. ""Echinacea,"" is one of America's favorite medicinal herbs for the colds and flu. You can imagine my face when Mark pointed to the newly purchased Vodka saying "" It's for medicinal purposes,"" but he wasn't kidding. He made a tincture by stuffing a canning jar with coneflower leaves and filled it with 100 proof Vodka. We placed it in the closet and shook it daily for two weeks. Tasted awful, but seemed to work for us and we take it by the dropperful. We use it ONLY at the onset of symptoms, or when we're exposed to ""snotty"" folks, then we quit taking it, within 3 weeks. Pick leaves before it flowers and harvest flowers in their peak. Some folks believe the roots are the most therapeutic, but we've used all parts, in their prime. $ 3.79

Echinacea, Tennessee

Echinacea tennesseensis

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 3-4 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses:Butterfly, Cut Flower, Medicinal, Ornamental, Tea

This Echinacea does not stop flowering. We predict that this species, which was almost dug to extinction, (and was placed on the National Endangered Species list) will become one of America's most popular flowering perennials. What a great medicinal herb too. It is similar to Echinacea angustifolia in its medicinal chemistry. Smaller flowers than other ""Purple Coneflowers"", but the petals on this variety turn upright and are darker purple rather than droopy and washed out. $ 3.79

Elderberry, Black

Sambucus canadensis

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Sun-P.Shade to P. Shade
Height: 10 Feet
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer
Common Uses:Bees, Borders, Culinary, Edible Flowers, Hedges/Shrubs, Medicinal, Ornamental, Tea

This hardy small tree is loaded with 5"" white flower clusters in early summer which turn into small black tasty berries, rich in Vitamin C and used to make wine, jelly, and pies. Flowers can be used in a tea for colds, as a face wash, or battered and deep fried. Leaves can comfort minor bruises. Berries are best in pies (See our recipe) and immune building syrups, especially safe for children. The prime component of ""Sambucol"" (childrens' syrup) sold in health food stores. $ 5.29

Elderberry, Madonna

Sambucus nigra 'Madonna'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Sun-P.Sun to P. Shade
Height: 10 feet
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer
Common Uses:Bees, Culinary, Edible Flowers, Hedges/Shrubs, Medicinal, Ornamental, Tea

Oddly enough, 'Madonna' exhibits a golden variegation as opposed to the white color on Variegated Elderberry. Otherwise, it is the same. Because of its overall warm appearance, it is a welcome backdrop for wildflowers or English Cottage gardens. Native elderberries, run amuck, may have scared gardeners away from their beauty. You have nothing to fear with this magnificent shrub. $ 5.29

ELFIN HERB

Cuphea hyssopifolia

Cold Tolerance: Zone 9a 9b
Flowers: Early Fall to Early Summer to Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Bonsai, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental, Topiary

Years ago Ben asked Mark, "What da name of dat pretty flower?" He told Ben who responded as any 3 year old would, "Why?" "Because," Mark said,"fairies like to use the flowers as pretty little hats and then elves, who like to play tricks, fly by and snatch the flowers right off the fairies' head and get them to chase the Elfin."

These are very easy plants to grow, thriving in full shade to partial sun. As well suited to mixed containers as bedding plants. After one growing season, you can create an amazing bonsai tree by simply removing the lower leaves. Faerie nice!

Elfin Herb, 5 in. Assorted

Cuphea hyssopifolia `Alba'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 8a 9a 9b-11
Light: Sun-P.Shade to Shade or Full Sun
Height: 12in. x 12
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Early Fall to Early Summer to Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Baskets, Bonsai, Garden Railroads, Hedges/Shrubs, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental, Shade, Topiary

A radiant white version of other Elfin Herbs; Leaves are slightly darker and more narrow, and the entire plant is more compact. Tolerates both sun and shade better than �Purple.� Try it in a magical moon garden.

P.S. Surely a faerie folk lengend by now. $11.99

Elfin Herb,Assorted Colors

Cuphea hyssopifolia 'Baby Pink'

As promised in 2003, here is a delicate ""pink"" version of the popular miniature tropicals that railroaders and faerie gardners admire. Like all of the ""Elfin Herbs"", it can grow as well in full shade or partial sun. However, flower color and quantity is better with at least some direct sun during the day. Great houseplant under some fluorescent lights for year round flowering! $ 4.29

Ephedra, Joint Fir

Ephedra refeliana

Cold Tolerance: Zone 11 5a 3a 3b 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun Only
Height: 3in. x 6
Soil: Sandy Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Middle Spring
Common Uses:Alpine Rockery, Garden Railroads, Groundcover, Medicinal, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental

Sorry, but there is no buzz, or sinus relief from this dwarfed version. Instead you will enjoy its miniature ""Wild Horestail-like"" pipes, stacked on top of one another, with summertime red berries smothered in btween. Needs great drainage in winter. $ 4.79

Erigeron-Fleabane, Tiny

Erigeron scopalinus

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b
Light: Full Sun to P.Sun
Height: 3/4in. x 12in. wide
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy
Flowers: Early Spring to Early Winter to Late Winter to Middle Fall
Common Uses:Alpine Rockery, Garden Railroads, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental

We suggest you plant this ""Bellium/ Mini Daisy since it is strikingly similar in appearance, yet it blooms in the Fall, during mild Winters and Spring, which if the ""off season"" for ""Bellium."" That combination allows you to enjoy the white daisies nearly year round. $ 4.79

Erodium, Charm

Erodium chamaedryoides 'Charm'

Cold Tolerance: Zone b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b-11
Light: Sun-P.Sun to Full Sun
Height: 5in. x 8in.
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses:Alpine Rockery, Container, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental, Walk About

As this is the largest of our Erodiums and most free blooming, it is easier to see the resemblance to perennial geraniums, its distant cousins. In this catalog where big isn't neccesarily better, there's still room for this in a railroad landscape, larger container or the edge of a perennial border. $ 4.79

Erodium, Double Rose

Erodium chamaedryoides 'Dark Eyes'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 6b 7a 7b 8a 9a 9b-11
Light: Sun-P.Sun to Sun-P.Shade
Height: 2in. x 4
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Early Fall to Early Spring to Early Summer to Early Winter
Common Uses:Alpine Rockery, Bonsai, Container, Garden Railroads, Houseplants, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental

I spied it in a winter window-sill container with a rosemary tree and asked, ""Is that a true dwarf true geranium?"" ""Nope,"" Mark replied, ""but it is related"". Loves the same cultural conditions as rosemary (with a different texture), and rarely stops showing off its adorable bright pink, red streaked, fully double flowers. Hardy to only Zone 6 (with snow protection), it is ideal for indoor containers, flowering all winter. $ 4.79

Euonymus, Japanese Variegated

Euonymus japonicus 'Microphyllus Variegatus'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b-11
Light: Sun-P.Sun to Full Sun
Height: 3 ft. x 14in. wide
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Late Summer
Common Uses:Bonsai, Borders, Container, Hedges/Shrubs, Houseplants, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental, Topiary

Eventually, this will outgrow a containerized landscape (figure about 1 foot each decade), but until it does, it fills the role as an upright, dwarf tree with roughly 1/2"" variegated leaves. As it matures, put it out in a railroad or other pocket in the garden reserved for specimens you enjoy close by. Even beginners can prune and shape it, so it's a great starter bonsai. $ 4.79

Faerie Fern \ Brass Buttons

Leptinella (Cotula) squalida

Cold Tolerance: Zone 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 9a 9b-11
Light: P.Shade-P.Sun to Shade
Height: 2in. groundcover
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer
Common Uses:Garden Railroads, Groundcover, Houseplants, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental, Shade, Walk About

A miniature looking creeping fern! Slightly felted, green, fern-like leaves creeping just under the soil to form a thick carpet with curious yellow ""Brass Buttons"" blooms. Ferns are a traditional Faerie Garden plant that symbolizes imagination. Superlative groundcover, even a lawn substitute, between stepping stones in loose shady areas. $ 4.29

Faerie Fern, Mini

Letinella (Cotula) minor

Cold Tolerance: Zone 3b 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 9a 9b-11
Light: P.Shade-P.Sun to Shade
Height: 3/4in. groundcover
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer
Common Uses:Garden Railroads, Groundcover, Houseplants, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental, Shade, Walk About

Even smaller leaves and lower growing than other faerie ferns with all the same uses, just tiny! All of the """"Faerie Ferns"" thrive in small containers and miniature landscapes and especially suited to outdoor railroad and faerie gardens. All appreciate extra water during a particularly sunny spell. $ 4.29

Faerie Fern, Platt's Black

Letinella (Cotula) x 'Platt's Black'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 6a 9b 3a 3b 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 9a 9b-11
Light: P.Sun-P.Shade to Shade
Height: 1 1/2in. groundcover
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer to Middle Spring
Common Uses:Jar-Gems"""""""" TM, Garden Railroads, Groundcover, Houseplants, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental, Shade, Walk About

Inch long, medium sized leaves are more dainty and finely textured than previous selections. Throw in some sunshine, they are jet black! In a little more shade they grow bicolored green with black tips. Grow over crushed white stone for best effect. Petite yellow buttons form in spring! We received an email that this plant's proper name is 'Platt's Black' after Kaila Platt, not 'Pratt's Black'. Once again we humbly apologize and shake our heads at the nursery industry for spreading bad names like rumors. $ 4.29

Faerie Fern, Tiny Tim

Letinella (Cotula) gruveri

Cold Tolerance: Zone 7a 7b 8a 9a 9b-11
Light: P.Shade-P.Sun to Shade
Height: 1/2in. groundcover
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer
Common Uses:Jar-Gems"""""""" TM, Garden Railroads, Groundcover, Houseplants, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental, Shade, Walk About

If the leaves were any smaller, we'd throw in a free magnifying glass! It looks just like ""Faerie Fern, Mini"" with bright green, frilly leaves, only smaller. Perfect for railroad gardens and a child's mini landscape adorned with a set of dinosaurs. $ 4.29

Fennel, Bronze

Foeniculum vulgare `Bronze'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 2-4 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Butterfly, Culinary, Edible Flowers, Medicinal, Ornamental, Tea

This beauty need not provide anything useful, but boy does it ever! Imagine fine feathery foliage with a bronze-red cast, tickling yellow hued ""Queen Anne Lace""-like flowers above. Does not produce a bulb but leaves and stems are tasty, finely chopped, added to salads, fish, and soups. A tea from the leaves or seeds eases our indigestion. After seeds begin to mature, cut entire stalks. Hang them upside down in a paper bag to finish ripen, and avoid self-seeding all over the garden. $ 3.79

Fern, Japanese Regal Red Painted

Athyrium niponicum 'Regal Red'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 9a 9b-11
Light: P.Shade-P.Sun to Shade
Height: 8-18in.
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses:Container, Groundcover, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental, Shade

Most ferns enjoy various degrees of shade and this one's no exception. The light green, feathered foliage and plum blushed stems, veins and undersides wash out and may get crispy whenever it's sited in afternoon sun. Instead plant this improved "Perennial Plant of the Year" in light shade where only morning sun is welcome. $ 4.79

Fern, Korean Rock

Polystichum tsus-simense

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 9a 9b-11
Light: P.Shade-P.Sun to Shade
Height: 8-18in.
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: No
Common Uses:Alpine Rockery, Borders, Groundcover, Houseplants, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental, Shade

Call it a miniature ""Boston Fern"" that's as comfortable as a houseplant as it is outdoors in the shade garden, year round, here. Small size and durablity lends itself to terrariums and shade gardnes even in southern Canada. $ 4.79

Feverfew

Tanacetum parthenium

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Flowers: Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Bees, Borders, Medicinal, Ornamental

Clusters of 1/2"" white daisy flowers reach 6"" above green, deeply lobed leaves that forms a 2 foot tall by 2' wide rosette. Customers have tried fresh leaves hidden in a mayonnaise sandwich (to mask bitterness) for reducing the severity & frequency of migraines. $ 3.79

Feverfew, Mini Pompom

Tanacetum parthenium 'Plenum Florum'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Shade
Height: 2 feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer to Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Bees, Borders, Ornamental

We love medicinal herbs which are exceptional. Just being among them, heals our soul. Lilliputian white ""pompoms"" adorn this charming herb early summer through fall. We grow it from cuttings to insure fully double flowers, which seed grown plants cannot reliably produce. $ 3.79

Foxglove, Chocolate

Digitalis parviflora

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Shade
Height: 2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Bees, Borders, Butterfly, Cut Flower, Ornamental

Milk chocolate-red flowers look good enough to eat- but don't. You couldn't squeeze in another flower between the narrow, glossy green leaves on sturdy stems. Seed stalks are dried for outrageous flower arrangements. $ 3.79

Foxglove, Dwarf Amber

Digitalis obscura

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Shade
Height: 15in.
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Late Summer to Middle Summer
Common Uses:Bees, Borders, Butterfly, Cut Flower, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental

Narrow dark green leaves and amber yellow flowers that have red spots on the "throat" result in a tidy, 15 inch foxglove and a solid choice for the front of a perennial border. Bloomed most of the summer and beyond, begging to be dried or stuck fresh into a pumpkin for Halloween arrangements. $ 3.79

Foxglove, Garden Apricot

Digitalis purpurea 'Apricot'

Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Shade
Height: 3 - 4 feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Flowers: Middle Summer
Common Uses:Bees, Borders, Ornamental

Need a tall, stylish wind tolerant beauty in your garden? Well this is it. All three ""Garden"" Foxglove varieties put on a colorful summer show, and re-seed themselves loyally. $ 3.79

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