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This is the hardiest of the Eucryphia species and it has gone through some seriously bad times here and bore all with affable equanimity. These are cutting-grown from a plant we salvaged from Leo Hitchcock's Seattle garden. A deciduous species with trifoliate green leaves and surprisingly large showy white flowers in latter summer. Very Choice.
A. villosa is widely grown in the rock garden world and widely distributed in the world at large. This variety however is something a little more uncommon, and with the distinction amidst other varieties of being stoloniferous, reaching out red hairy tendrils tipped by a colonial rosette produced by the mothership. This sort of imperial behavior is rightly shunned in modern geopolitics, but quite welcome in the garden. This is particularly true when each silver fuzzy rosette which composes the expanding territorial mat produces it profusion of hot pink, yellow-eyed flowers. A great beginner rock or crevice garden plant which is easily shared or divided and spread around.
An Arizona collection by FRBC board member Cody Hinchliff of this excellent and underutilized perennial. In exchange for a hot sunny spot and top-notch drainage you will receive plentiful returns in the form of deer-resistant drought-tolerant finely textured foliage with a crown of fiery red corollas. This collection is particularly late-flowering extending the season for both you and your local hummingbirds to a time not particularly known for such saturated blooms. Not for those with wet summers.
What do an alpine Gesneriad and G.O.A.T tennis player Novak Djokovic? Well they are both national symbols of Serbia and also show a remarkable propensity to bounce back when they are all but counted out of continued life. In Ramonda's case this means it can be almost completely dehydrated and still recover to full vigor making it a great crevice or rock garden subject. We don't have much point of comparison to the claims of elephantine proportions on this particular clone we brought over from the UK but we do know that the ruffled leaves and bright purple flowers bring us outsize joy.
One of our treasured Hepatica selections rarely offered due to jealous hoarding and nature's snail-like pace. These woodland delights are one of our favorites, so much so that they have a whole house dedicated to their culture! This form features petals washed in a pale lilac with purplish venation creating a watercolor effect and lending some intricacy to the normally simple flowers.
One of our treasured Hepatica selections rarely offered due to jealous hoarding and nature's snail-like pace. These woodland delights are one of our favorites, so much so that they have a whole house dedicated to their culture! This form is particularly petaliferous (a Far Reaches Farm linguistic original) with "botanical blue" flowers rimmed in white.
Sunflowers are one of those iconic flowers that always seem to captivate and this Western US native bundles that bundle of symbology into a delightful little package of only about 2 ft tall that comes back every year. For those in the east this is like a Silphium in miniature. The all-edible composition also means that it was a useful food and medicine source for the local Salish peoples as well as other First Nations of the West Coast. It’s large range is evidence of its ease and adaptability so no need to be too fussy just pop this baby front and center and sit back to enjoy the sun.
When you think Hydrangea you mayyyy think climber if you are particularly nutty botanophile, but certainly unlikely. I can all but guarantee you that you aren't thinking both climber and native to Chile, but here we are with one that fits just that bill. Glossy evergreen leaves and plumes of white to pale-yellow flowers composed almost entirely of fertile florets. Rare in the UK and nearly non-existent in the US, this is one to cure those made nauseous by the endless sugar-sweet hybrids churned out by the big nurseries and breeders that represent the genus in common parlance.
Our first offering of this fairly new species (2009) of leatherwood first described by our friendly neighborhood taxonomist Dr. Aaron Floden of Missouri Botanic. Surprisingly attractive fuzzy oval leaves on a fairly airy shrub. Flowers are diminutive and yellow-green but slightly larger than the more commonly seen Dirca palustris and with a slight sweet fragrance. Let just say it how it is, this is unlikely to be the plant most asked about on garden tours, but it is very charming in its way and wins the approval of the trifecta of myself, Kelly, and Sue a very rare recommendation in its favor. Dirca to me embodies all that is great about Eastern woodlands when seen through the eye of a expatriate of the area. These plants are seed grown from the type locality and the only Kansas population in a range that centers around the Ozarks.
Coming to us from ace rock gardener Kathy Allen of Oregon, and native to the Caucasus this forms a nice spreading clump of evergreen lightly ruffled heart-shaped leaves before putting out flowering stems of up to 2 feet covered in star-shaped bells of white. Happy in a well drained rock or crevice garden setting.
A Cistus-introduced selection of this superb species which is nearly worth drilling into your neighbor's walls or delving into that abandoned meth lab house down the street for, Probably a novel experience for you PNW'ers. Regardless of your Appalachian bonafides the rich burnished look of the leaves and buds of this are definitely worth their weight in semi-precious metal. Adds extra year round value to the exquisite smelling pure white flowers of the species.
One of the largest blueberry species in the wild and easily in the upper echelons for evergreen foliage as well with its silvery veins and glossy long tipped leaves. Fruits are a dark reddish-black and we can't say how palatable. Likely to need a relatively mild or sheltered spot, and normal blueberry culture.
