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Agastache foeniculum -
BLUE GIANT HYSSOP
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$2.00
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Strong growing member of the mint family with blue flower spikes and anise-scented foliage. A good honey plant whose dried leaves are used for seasoning and making a tea. Very attractive to butterflies and good for its addition of blue to the prairie planting.
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Agastache nepetoides -
YELLOW GIANT HYSSOP
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$2.00
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A stout very upright perennial whose square stems show it is in the Mint Family. Growing to 5-6 feet it is a good bee plant and useful for large cut material.
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Agastache scrophulariifolia -
PURPLE GIANT HYSSOP
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$2.00
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Similar size and uses as the Yellow Giant Hyssop but with flowers purple.
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Allium cernuum -
NODDING ONION
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$2.00
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This charming flower should be used more often. The nodding white flowers age to pink and stand upright as seed begins to set. Tolerating full sun and moist to dry soil, the strongly flavored bulbs may be eaten if parboiled.
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Amorpha canescens -
LEAD PLANT
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$2.00
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A small shrub easily kept under two feet, which is valued for its gray foliage throughout the entire growing season. The curious small blue-purple flowers are borne in 6 inch spikes in June-July. A good accent plant and very hardy–zone 2.
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Amorpha nana -
FRAGRANT FALSE INDIGO
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$2.00
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A dwarf native shrub to only a foot or so with purple flowers in spikes to 6 inches smelling of vanilla. With its fine pinnate leaves and dwarf-habit, this would make a good candidate for bonsai or the front of the border. Very hardy.
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Aquilegia canadensis -
AMERICAN COLUMBINE
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$2.00
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Also known as MEETING HOUSES, this is still one of the most dainty and graceful of the columbines. The nodding flowers have red spurs and yellow sepals, attractive to hummingbirds, on a plant about two feet tall. Quite adaptable, they like to colonize the red raspberries here, making a pleasing combination.
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Aralia racemosa -
AMERICAN SPIKENARD
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$2.00
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A perennial member of this sometimes woody genus with unarmed stems and leaves to about three feet. The thick aromatic roots are used in medicine and the doubly pinnate leaves and large clusters of small greenish flowers give a subtropical effect in the moist shady positions it inhabits. Looks somewhat like a giant ginseng to which it is related. Sometimes called Life-of-Man probably due to the roots like ginseng. HP, zone 3.
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Asclepias incarnata -
SWAMP MILKWEED
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$2.00
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For a damp spot, but like many prairie plants it is adaptable. The two-tone pinkish flowers are very fragrant of vanilla and are produced over a considerable period in summer. As with many milkweeds, it is a good nectar producer and so attracts many butterflies. Rapid growing to three or four feet, it is very pretty and should be used more.
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Asclepias incarnata alba -
WHITE SWAMP MILKWEED
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$2.00
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Similar to the above, but this is the rare white-flowered form.
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Asclepias syriaca -
COMMON MILKWEED
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$2.00
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This came to me as Asclepias exaltata, but I think it probably belongs here–the two are rather similar. Though sometimes regarded as merely a weed, this is a rather handsome architectural plant to 5 feet. It provides its clusters of very sweetly scented mauve flowers in abundance, as well as ample nectar for the bees and butterflies. Native Americans used to collect the nectar as a sweetener–it is also a favorite of the Monarch butterfly and the pods are used in dried arrangements.
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Asclepias tuberosa -
BUTTERFLY MILKWEED
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$2.00
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Probably the most popular of the milkweeds, this makes an excellent garden plant with its orange flowers coming over a long period. Growing to two or three feet, it does well in dry sandy soils as well as those of a richer nature.
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