Late Additions, 2011

Updated 5/4 at 11:10 p.m. We just found out about a few more plants that will be coming from our growers. But the more the merrier!

We're getting to the point where it's hard to put an ID number on the late-arriving plants, so look for them in their section where they would be alphabetically by common name OR at the end of their section. If there wasn't room to squeeze them in alphabetically, you'll find them at the end of the section. They do not have pages on the website -- this is the only spot where these latest additions will be found.

Annuals

Butterfly Bush Buddleia 'Adonis Blue'

Blue-purple flowers, good in containers. 60" In a 5.25 pot $10.00

Cycad Cycas revoluta

Unusual and popular ornamental palm has a rugged trunk, topped with stiff feathery leaves. Often called "living fossils," Cycads have changed very little in the last 200 million years. Easy to grow indoors or out and very long-lived if wintered indoors. 60" In a 1 gallon pot $15.00 Limited quantity

Fruit

F013B Butternut Juglans cinerea

Moist deep loam soils; tolerates drought. Edible nuts. Golden yellow fall color. 40-60'h by 30-50'w, full sun to part shade. Native. In a small plant plug $6.00
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F017B Chestnut, American Castanea dentata

This is the "spreading chestnut tree" of the old popular poem, the one that produces chestnuts you can roast on an open fire. At one time, it made up over a quarter of the virgin forest east of the Appalachian Mountains. 75'h, full sun to part shade. U.S. native. In a small plant plug $6.00
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Perennials

Barrenwort, Epimedium x rubrum (Red Barrenwort)
New growth is red maturing to medium green. Red flowers. Foliage turns reddish-brown in fall. Good for dry shade, with wiry stems and leaves that appear to float above them. Evergreen in all but the harshest winters. To keep it looking its best, this plant should be sheltered from cold, dry winds. In a 1 quart pot, $14.00

P409 Lily, Asiatic, Lilium 'Tiny Padhye' SUBSTITUTION Lilium 'Push Off' 14"h
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Photo courtesy of The Lily Nook

Oregano, Ornamental, Origanum 'Rosenkuppel'

Rose-pink flowers with a long bloom time. Fragrant green foliage, though not strong enough to use in cooking. In a 2.5" pot $1.50

Rare and Unusual

U081B Spider Lily Hymenocallis 'Advance'

Pure white flowers with yellow stripes in the throat in late spring. Grown for its unique sculptural and marvelous fragrance, the 18-24" flower has long, spider leg-like petals extending from the center. Not winter hardy in Minnesota. Full sun to part shade. In a 5.25" pot $10.00
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U060B Calla Zantedeschia, White with green and white spotted leaves

Variegated leaves and white blooms. Full sun to part shade. In a 5.25" pot $7.00
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Roses

Blanc Double de Coubert

Snow-white, fragrant repeat blooms through fall. Spreads by suckers. Disease-free foliage and shade tolerant.

Shrubs and Trees

If there's no catalog number, located at the very end of the Shrubs and Trees section

Snowball, Fragrant Viburnum x carlesii

Valued for their fragrance, the flowers are pink to reddish in bud and then open into white snowballs in late April to early May. Blue-black berries in late summer. Dark green serrated leaves, turns dark red in fall. Rounded, dense shrub with stiff, upright spreading branches.

Dogwood, Red Twig Cornus sericea 'Cardinal'

Developed at the U of M. Yellow branches in summer turn bright red in winter. Dark green foliage, small white flowers, pale blue fruit in August and September, and red-purple fall color.

S114B Rhododendron, Finnish Rhododendron 'Haaga'

Dwarf variety with upright habit and tropical-looking pink flowers. From the rhododendron breeding program at the U of Helsinki, Finland, and tested at the U of M Landscape Arboretum.  3'h by 3'w, part shade. In a 2 gallon pot $34.00
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S040B Cypress, Russian Microbiota decussata

Dwarf dense evergreen. Light green in color changing to bronze in winter. Excellent for shade. 1'h by 6'w, full sun to part shade. In a 2.5 gallon pot for $18.00
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Photo by Mathieu Sontag from the Wikipedia