By Zillis/Lohman – 1988
Isn’t hybridizing amazing? This is a cross between Sum and Substance and Venusta. This small hosta can form patches but remains low growing. The pointy leaves are very dark green, one of the darkest of any hosta, and very shiny. They have a nice heavy substance, like leather, that resists snail damage. Lavender bells appear in July.
$9.00
By Reed – 1999
This one often gets comments from visitors as it is very distinct. It is a dark purple spider with large bright white midribs blending into a large star shaped throat that blends from cream to lemon yellow. Stamens the color of the petals set it off, and it usually has perfect form. It is 34 inches tall with a 7 inch bloom that has a spider ratio of 4:1. A dormant, diploid it holds it’s flowers into the night where the stars simply glow.
$15.00
By Wild – 1975
This lovely dark lily is deep wine red self with a small lime throat. It looks different depending on the light with hints of purple, Burgundy and black. Sometimes it opens wide and other times it pinches and twists. It is a dormant, diploid that is 32 inches with a 5 inch flower which blooms in the early to mid season.
Daylily Fujita Scale
By Bremer – 2004
This really unusual daylily is registered as being a black red to brown blend with a dark maroon eye above a green throat, but I think it has purple hints too. It is one that really looks different depending on the light and is difficult to catch on film. It is 26 inches (66 cm) tall and the bloom is 5.25 inches (13 cm). It blooms mid season and is a semi-evergreen, tetraploid with 16 buds on 3 branches. It doesn’t spot like some dark ones will.
Parentage: Love Call × Paradise Lost
$15.00
Dragon’s Blood Sedum is a rapidly growing, zero maintenance ground cover. It forms a dense mat about 5” tall, of fleshy foliage that is green purple in summer and develop a brighter red purple color in cooler weather. The color is also brighter in full sun though the plant will grow in light shade. Foliage holds its beauty far into fall and early winter here in Wisconsin.
The flowers are a brilliant hot pink in summer. The only thing I do to this plant is to remove the dried flower stems when they are done, but this is not necessary for the health of the plant.
These plants will stand up to whatever nature can dish out from heat and drought to extreme cold and humidity. They don’t bat an eye about poor soil, but will be bigger and even more fleshy if better fertility is provided. They also do fine in containers and will spill over the edge. This is one of the only perennials that will survive the winter in a container here in Wisconsin.
These will arrive bare root. You will get a nice bunch of them. As with most sedums they are very easy to propagate. At least some of the ones that you receive will have roots, plant those but also plant any small or long pieces and they will grow. You need to water then until they are established but after that no supplemental care is needed unless you live in the desert.
The plant is in the middle left of this picture.
$4.00
Penstemon ‘Husker’s Red’
Commonly called Beardtongue, this native plant is a perennial that is fully hardy to zone 3. Mature plants can be 2 feet tall and a foot and a half across. The shiny leaves are dark green/maroon and the undersides are fully colored maroon, as are the stems and flower stalks. It holds its color long into fall, after most things have gone dormant. The beautiful upright stems of lipped, tubular flowers are white to very light pink. Husker’s Red blooms in April to June and then re-blooms until frost if cut back when the first stalks start to go to seed. The white flowers have high contrast with the foliage so the plant is ideal for the moon garden. The plant has the best foliage color, and blooms best, in full sun, but it can take some shade. It’s super easy to care for, just remove old foliage in spring and cut off seed heads in fall if you don’t want self-sowing. It has many other benefits including being deer resistant, drought tolerant once established, and attractive to bees, birds and butterflies. Being the Perennial Plant Association Plant of the Year in 1996 is what brought this plant into the public eye and into our gardens. Penstemon means five stamens in Greek.
$7.00
Ligularia stenocephala – The Rocket; Commonly called Senco or Leopard plant. This is a stately, noble specimen plant with huge leathery leaves. Give this moisture lover room as it can reach heights of 5 feet and easily 5 feet across. The leaves are serrated and deep green on top, with dark maroon/ green on the reverse side and on the stems. We use these huge leaves for making leaf castings. Tall spikes of golden yellow flowers start to climb above the foliage in mid to late summer and are a hummingbird favorite. The plant produces a large number of seeds, but don’t worry, you will not have a million seedlings; the plant is sterile. The plant will do well in part sun to mostly shade and is hardy here in northern WI (zone 4). Ligularia will live in most soils but prefers a rich moist soil. It will tolerate an overly moist soil, but not too much humidity. If the soil is too dry the plant will droop rather than die and in that case will need supplemental watering. There is a light sweet fragrance and the name means sweet smelling roots in Japanese which is where the species is from.
$10.00
This gorgeous specimen plant is brilliant in the back of a shady border or at the ponds edge, and hardy to zone 3. They get 3 feet tall with a 4 foot spread, and heart shaped leaves that can be a foot across. The foliage emerges burgundy with the leaves turning dark green on the top side, but holding their burgundy color on the underside and stems. Golden to orange/yellow daisy-like flowers emerge in July. Desdemona likes wet soil, and will benefit from part to full shade; but really this architectural beauty is quite easy and will do fine in nearly any conditions. They will take some sun and do fine with less than optimal water.
$10.00
By Moldovan – 1984
Daylily Strutter’s Ball
This black-purple beauty opens a multitude of wide 6 inch flowers on a 30 inch tall plant. It is a mid-season bloomer that just keeps going and going due to a very heavy bud set, and the fact that it is a vigorous dormant tetraploid.
$8.00
By Moldovan 1990
Daylily Salieri
30″ ht.5″ flowers – zone 3
Very dark purple with a darker eye zone.
Dormant, tetraploid
Early with extended bloom.
Not the darkest of the darks, but one of the most reliable bloomers.
$8.00
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