Hosta ‘The King’

Hosta ‘The King’

Family: Asparagaceae (Asparagus Family)

      

·      Hardiness Zones:  3-9

·      Height: 20 inches

·      Spread: 43-47 inches

·      Bloom Time: July

·      Bloom: lavender lily-like booms

·      Light: part to full shade

·      Soil: average

·      Moisture: average, consistent

·      Use: shade and woodland gardens, borders, containers

·      Care: easy; clumps may be divided in spring or fall

·      Concerns: slugs, not deer resistant

·      Native to: genus native to Japan and Korea

·      Notes: large, heart-shaped, moderately-corrugated blue-green leaves, edged and jetted with yellow which fades to cream; rabbit resisitant; salt tolerant; black walnut tolerant

·      Supplier: The Flower Factory

·      Teaching Garden Location & Code: Shade Garden F196

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Veronica teucrium ‘Trehane’

Golden Speedwell ‘Trehane’

Family: Plantaginaceae (Plantain Family)

      

·      Hardiness Zones:  4-8

·      Height: 6-8 inches

·      Spread: 8-12 inches

·      Bloom Time: May to July

·      Bloom: short navy-blue spikes

·      Light: full sun to part shade

·      Soil: average, well-drained

·      Moisture: medium; drought tolerant

·      Use: rock gardens, borders, ground cover, container

·      Care: protect from hot afternoon sun; deadhead throughout the growing season or shear back in midseason to encourage later blooms; divide crowns every 2 to 3 years in early spring 

·      Concerns: no serious insect or disease problems; root rot may occur in wet, poorly-drained soils

·      Native to: genus native to Europe

·      Notes: dense clumps of creeping foliage with bright gold leaves; deer and rabbit resistant

·      Supplier: The Flower Factory

·      Teaching Garden Location & Code: Rock Garden C247

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Sempervivum ‘Rubrum Borch’

Hen and Chicks ‘Rubrum Borch’

Family: Crassulaceae (Orphine Family)

 

      

·      Hardiness Zones:  4-9

·      Height: 5 inches

·      Spread: 5 inches

·      Bloom Time: July to August

·      Bloom: rose-pink 3 inch rosettes

·      Light: full sun

·      Soil: poor to average soil; can adapt to a variety of soil types, they perform best in gritty soil

·      Moisture: low water needs, dry, well drained, does not like wet soil

·      Use: alpine or rock garden, container, ground cover; particularly effective when planted in the cracks and crevices of stone walls or walkways

·      Care: easily increased by removing small baby rosettes in a new location at almost any time

·      Concerns: no serious insect or disease problems

·      Native to: hybrid cultivar

·      Notes: rosettes of deep purple-red shiny leaves in tight clumps; maintains color year-round; blooms attract butterfies and bees; rabbit and deer resistant; salt tolerant

·      Supplier: The Flower Factory

·      Teaching Garden Location & Code: Rock Garden C244

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Sedum telephium ssp. ruprechtii

Stonecrop

Family: Crassulaceae (Orphine Family)

      

·      Hardiness Zones:  3-9

·      Height: 12-16 inches

·      Spread: 12-16 inches

·      Bloom Time: August to September

·      Bloom: showy 3 to 4 inch flower heads of tiny yellow-white star-like blooms with pink edges age to pink and then to burgundy-brown

·      Light: full sun

·      Soil: average to gritty, well-drained; does well in shallow, rocky soils of poor fertility

·      Moisture: dry to medium, drought tolerant

·      Use: containers, borders, group plantings, rock and pollinator gardens

·      Care: low maintenance; propagate by division every 2-3 years in early spring or by stem cuttings in summer 

·      Concerns: no serious insect or disease problems; will produce weak floppy growth in too much shade or overly-rich soil

·      Native to: subspecies native to northeastern Europe

·      Notes: succulent perennial forming semi-upright mounds of unbranched stems with bluish-bronze, elliptic, fleshy, flat, and coarsely-toothed leaves; attracts butterflies and bees; rabbit resistant; salt tolerant

·      Supplier: The Flower Factory

·      Teaching Garden Location & Code: Pollinator Garden C140

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