Download FREE PLANTS FALL 2010

FREE PLANTS FALL 2010
Dianna Visek 367-5027
Please bring plastic grocery bags, pots, buckets, trays or other containers to carry
your plants.
For sun or part sun:
Tiger lilies: true lilies, 4-5’ tall, orange flowers with black dots
Obedient plant: 2-3’ tall with pink flowers in summer. Spreads in moist soil.
Silver king artemesia: silver foliage, 3’ tall, good for wreaths
Lance leaf Coreopsis: gold flowers over a long season in summer
Joe Pye weed: 6-8’ tall native, large lavender flower umbels loved by butterflies
Herrenhausen oregano: ornamental oregano with purple flowers, groundcover
Upright Sedum: 18” tall, bright pink flowers
Groundcover Sedum: 3 varieties, 2 with yellow flowers, one with pink
Catmint: grey-leafed groundcover with purple flowers over a long season
Lamb’s ears: furry silver leaves with pink flower spikes
Mintucha: variety of oregano
Gold Net Honeysuckle: twining vine with scented flowers
Spirea: bush with pink flowers
Zebra mallow: 3-4’ tall cottage garden plant with pink striped flowers
Spiderwort: 2-3’ upright with blue flowers, also crimson spreading variety
For part sun to part shade:
Variegated porcelain vine (Ampelopsis): twining vine with interesting lobed
leaves, white variegation and dark berries
Anise hyssop: licorice-flavored perennial herb, edible lavender-spike flowers
and leaves, 3’ tall, attractive to butterflies
Purple coneflower: native, purple daisy-like flowers
Painter’s palette (Tovara virginiana, aka Persicaria virginiana): 18”-2’ tall,
highly variegated leaves with spikes of small coral flowers, self-seeds readily
Columbine: double blue flowers, plus a couple of the native yellow and red
Northern sea oats: native grass with beautiful drooping seed panicles. 2’ in
shade, 4’ in sun. In sun, it may self-seed vigorously.
Beebalm (Monarda didyma): 3 varieties: magenta, purple or red
Lemon balm: lemon-flavored herb, self-seeds if allowed to flower
Feverfew: deeply cut bright green leaves, yellow & white daisy-like flowers
Celandine poppy: mounded plant, deeply lobed leaves & bright yellow flowers
Liriope: groundcover, grass-like leaves & lavender flower spikes in summer,
good over bulbs
Fringed bleeding heart: deeply cut blue-green foliage, pink flowers
Carex: variegated, clump-forming grass-like leaves
Perennial ageratum (Eupatorium coelestinum): 1’ tall, blue flowers in late
summer, spreads with runners and may self-seed. Better-behaved in shade.
Meadow Rue (Thalictrum aquilegifolium): 2-3’ tall columbine-like leaves with
clouds of lavender-pink flowers in late spring. Can self-seed.
Golden lysmachia: low groundcover with yellow leaves. Likes moist soil.
Mint: various flavors
For full shade to part shade:
Hostas: 3 kinds: large bluish green 4’ across; medium green 3’ across; small
yellow 2’ across
Lily of the valley: good groundcover, fragrant white flowers
Solomon’s seal: 3 varieties: true, false and variegated; woodland plants
Sweet woodruff: good groundcover, whorled leaves, white flowers in spring
used in May wine
Yellow corydalis: blue-green lacy foliage, yellow flowers over a long season,
self-seeds
Ostrich ferns: 2-4” tall depending on conditions. Spreads via rhizomes.
Brunnera: perennial forget-me not. Heart-shaped leaves, blue flowers in spring.
Lamium White Nancy: variegated groundcover
Wild ginger: rounded leaves, great groundcover for shade
Bulbs:
Scilla: small vibrant blue flowers in spring
Next spring: I expect to divide Siberian iris, some ornamental grasses, an
Annabelle-type hydrangea and some yellow dwarf iris.