| Common
name |
Scientific
name |
Variety |
Family |
Notes |
| Redbud | Cercis canadensis | Fabaceae | Planted May 2007 to keep watch over Jazz and Libby. |
| Common
name |
Scientific
name |
Variety |
Family |
Notes |
| Garnet laceleaf maple (Japanese maple) | Acer palmatum dissectum | Garnet | Sapindaceae | Cute but not really getting as big as I'd hoped. Should eventually be 10-15 ft. tall. Leaves get dry, burned edges in July. |
| Japanese
maple |
Acer
palmatum |
Sango-kaku |
Sapindaceae |
Farmer's Market,
planted
5/2005. Lost some branches winter 08-09 but rebounded. |
| Columbine
(pic2) |
Aquilegia
canadensis |
Ranunculaceae |
CBG plant sale
5/2004. Lots
of flowers in 2005. Naturalizing. |
|
| Goatsbeard | Aruncus dioicus? | Rosaceae | not sure if this is dwarf or full-sized; roughly 36" tall | |
| Tickseed Coreopsis | Coreopsis grandiflora | Early Sunrise | Asteraceae | Double yellow flowers |
| Lanceleaf Coreopsis | Coreopsis lanceolata | Baby Sun | Asteraceae | Single flowers with red near center |
| Burning bush | Euonymous alatus | Celastraceae | Love this bush! Some tendency to get aphids on the growing tips; I usually control by just snipping the tips off. | |
| Geranium (Cranesbill) | Geranium maculatum | Johnson's Blue | Geraniaceae | Barely hanging
on. |
| Daylily | Hemerocallis | Stella d'Oro | Hemerocallidaceae | Along foundation
- 4x. Divisions from other parts of garden, moved here July
2009. |
| Hosta | Hosta | Plain green | Liliaceae | |
| Hosta | Hosta | Blue-edged lime green | Liliaceae | Moved to part
sun 2009 - poor thing is tiny and about to vanish. |
| Star of Bethlehem | Ornithogalum umbellatum? | Hyacinthaceae | Barely alive.
Divided in
2004. Flowered in 2005 but leaves
are v. floppy. Rabbits generally eat it before it can bloom. |
|
| Rose | Rosa | ? Pink | Rosaceae | Was here when we bought the house. Huge and healthy despite much adversity (porch construction and painting). Neighbors always stop to admire. Blooms in June. Never had a problem with black spot. |
| Coral bells | Heuchera |
Saxifragaceae |
CBG plant sale 5/2004 | |
| Coral bells | Heuchera | Cherries Jubilee |
Saxifragaceae |
CBG plant sale
5/2004. This
is the one to the left of the
columbine, w/purplish leaves. |
| Foamy bells | Heucherella | Kimono |
Saxifragaceae |
CBG plant sale
5/2004. Moved
5/2005 b/c not doing very well. |
| Jacob's ladder | Polemonium |
Touch of Class |
Polemoniaceae | Home Depot 9/2008 |
| Lilac |
Syringa
vulgaris |
Oleaceae |
Farmer's Market,
planted
5/2005 |
|
| Spirea |
Spiraea
japonica |
Shirobana |
Rosaceae |
2; one moved
from wayback,
one
moved from north edge. Both are volunteers and keep dropping seedlings
in the sidewalk cracks. |
| Weigela |
Weigela
florida |
Ruby Queen |
Caprifoliaceae |
x2.
CBG plant sale
5/2006. Has purplish-green foliage and pink flowers.
Cut back hard July 2009 to try to get them more rounded. |
| Lungwort |
Pulmonaria |
'Trevi Fountain' | Boraginaceae |
Division from shade
garden. Purple flowers. |
| Lungwort | Pulmonaria | Boraginaceae | Pink flowers. Purchased summer 2006 from perennial vendor at farmer's market on Daley Plaza. Nice foliage but flowers don't really open up. | |
| Bugloss | Brunnera macrophylla | Jack Frost | Boraginaceae | Farmer's Market August 2008. Thought it was dead but came back mid-2009. |
| Hosta | Hosta | So Sweet | Liliaceae | Home Depot July 2009. Of the three hostas around the Jap. maple, it's the closest to the front. |
| Hosta | Hosta x fortunei | Marginata-alba | Liliaceae | Home Depot July 2009. Two behind jap. maple. |
| Astilbe | Astilbe chinensis | Visions | Saxifragaceae | Home Depot July 2009. Near the neighbor's wall. Impulse buy with big fat inflorescences! |
| Catmint | Nepeta faassenii | Walker's Low | Lamiaceae | Lowe's July 2009. Two along foundation. |
| Hosta | Hosta | Pearl Lake | Liliaceae | Home Depot July 2009. Three under burning bush. Cool blue-green leaves. |
| Common
name |
Scientific
name |
Variety |
Family |
Notes |
| Anise hyssop |
Agastache |
Blue Fortune |
Lamiaceae |
From Botanic
Garden, July
2005.
Planted in front of trellis to replace a Salvia nemorosa. Lavender
flowers. 36". Not doing great in 2009 but hopefully will
rebound. |
| Sky-blue aster |
Aster azureus (aka Aster oolentangiensis) | Asteraceae | Volunteer from
the one in the
wayback, moved here May 2006 |
|
| Mum | Chrysanthemum | Gretchen |
Asteraceae | Orange flowers. The only mum that I've managed to keep alive for multiple years. |
| Clematis (pic2) | Clematis | Rouge Cardinal | Ranunculaceae | |
| Clematis | Clematis | ? Purple (not jackmanii) | Ranunculaceae | A very exuberant
grower,
forms a dense shrub of vines that
covers everything else planted nearby. I attempted to rip this out fall
2005 but it just came back. Doesn't flower much. |
| Pale purple
coneflower |
Echinacea
pallida |
Asteraceae |
WPPC
(Wildflower Preservation
and Propagation Committee) purchase 5/2006. Thought it was
gone
but I think the leaves are present, 2009. No flowers.
Should I move it? |
|
| Purple coneflower | Echinacea purpurea | Asteraceae | Grown from seed
planted
around 1996. Reseeds readily in
inconvenient places. |
|
| Witch
hazel |
Hamamelis
virginiana |
Hamamelidaceae |
CBG purchase
5/2006.
Replaced rose (below) at corner of garage. |
|
| Ox-eye sunflower | Heliopsis helianthoides | Asteraceae | CBG purchase
5/2004; flowered
in 2005 and every year after. Needs to be staked.
Dropping seedlings all over. Pinch back hard mid-summer. |
|
| Daylily | Hemerocallis | Stella d'Oro | Hemerocallidaceae | Lots of these;
dividing and putting in other places |
| Daylily | Hemerocallis | ? (red) | Hemerocallidaceae | Divided in 2004 and moved part to south foundation |
| Blazingstar | Liatris spicata | Purple | Asteraceae | Moved May 2006;
needs dividing. Last bit in corner by witch hazel, not doing
well. |
| Phlox | Phlox |
Polemoniaceae | Pink. Fairly
robust in 2005;
flowering in July. No idea where
I got these. |
|
| Rose
(pic2) |
Rosa | ? Magenta | Rosaceae | This
rose was planted next to
the patio when we bought the
house in 1995. We
dug it up and moved it, and by some miracle it survived. Bloomed
continuously into Nov/Dec every year. Extremely susceptible to black
spot and had to be sprayed often, though it usually lost most of its
leaves by the end of the growing season anyway. By 2004, the leaf loss
was taking a toll and it came back smaller and weaker every year. In
2006, I gave up and dug it out. I leave it here as an
obituary to
a gorgeous plant that was with this house for at least one decade and
probably many years before that. |
| Black-eyed Susan |
Rudbeckia |
Summerblaze |
Asteraceae |
Division from
north edge
garden |
| Spirea | Spiraea japonica | Shirobana | Rosaceae | Flowers in
various shades of
pink fading to white. Tends
to reseed. |
| Spirea | Spiraea x bumalda | Anthony Waterer | Rosaceae | The hot pink one |
| Speedwell | Veronica spicata | Sunny Border Blue | Scrophulariaceae | Bumblebees love this
plant. I moved it a short distance in May 2005 and it has recovered. |
| Drumstick allium | Allium | Liliaceae | ~2007 | |
| Aster | Asteraceae | From Lora spring 2009. Was IDed as a heartleaf aster. Another is in the South Edge garden. Has lavender flowers. | ||
| Pincushion flower | Scabiosa columbaria | Butterfly Blue | Dipsacaceae | A great plant that looks right at home among the
prairie plants despite being non-native. New one from Lowe's 2009.
These are cute but they don't live very long. |
| Aster | Asteraceae | From Mary - spring 2009. Fuschia. | ||
| Sweet William | Dianthus | Caryophyllaceae | 2008. Fuschia. MOVE - crowded by coreopsis. | |
| Coreopsis | Coreopsis | Asteraceae | 2008 Daley Plaza farmer's market. Label said Red Shift but it's definitely not. Flowers are all yellow - looks like a moonbeam but the foliage is wrong. Blooms all summer/fall. |
| Common
name |
Scientific
name |
Variety |
Family |
Notes |
| Giant purple
hyssop |
Agastache
scrophulariaefolia |
Lamiaceae |
WPPC purchase
5/2006 |
|
| White marsh milkweed | Asclepias incarnata | Ice Ballet | Asclepidaceae | CBG purchase
5/2004. Barely
alive in 2005 - when it gets a
little bigger, move away from the sedum. Bloomed summer 2006
and thereafter. Move to sunnier spot? |
| Butterfly weed | Asclepias tuberosa | Asclepidaceae | Late to sprout
in spring.
Volunteer right at edge of sidewalk needs to be moved, but be careful
b/c it has a taproot. Collect seeds. |
|
| Sky-blue aster |
Aster azureus (aka Aster oolentangiensis) | Asteraceae | A volunteer from the parent in the wayback garden | |
| Coreopsis | Coreopsis
lanceolata |
Baby Sun | Asteraceae | May actually be
cross between
lanceolata and grandiflora |
| Purple coneflower | Echinacea purpurea | Asteraceae | ||
| Moonshadow euonymous | Euonymous fortunei | Moonshadow | Celastraceae | Yellow and green variegated. Mostly covered by viburnum. Being afflicted by the Evil Euonymous Scale. |
| Forsythia | Forsythia suspensa? | Oleaceae | Must
be vigilant with pruning or we won't be able to get to our garage.
Blossoms for a shorter time than others in the
neighborhood. Barely blossomed at all in 2006. |
|
| Daylily | Hemerocallis | Stella d'Oro | Hemerocallidaceae | |
| Balloon flower |
Platycodon
grandiflorus |
Sentimental Blue |
Campanulaceae |
Home Depot
9/2008. Bloomed July 2009. |
| Bee balm
(pic2) |
Monarda didyma | Violet Queen | Lamiaceae | Divided in
spring 2005, put a
clump in wayback. |
| Foxglove beardtongue |
Penstemon digitalis |
Scrophulariaceae |
CBG purchase
5/2006, bloomed
2006. Dropped a seedling that bloomed 2009. |
|
| Phlox |
Phlox
paniculata |
Pink Flame |
Polemoniaceae |
Home Depot 9/2008 |
| Black-eyed Susan | Rudbeckia | Summerblaze | Asteraceae | Lots of this.
It's the
black-eyed susan with the pointed
leaves. Long-lasting, fairly short (less than 12 inches). |
| Sweet black-eyed
Susan |
Rudbeckia
subtomentosa |
Asteraceae |
WPPC purchase
5/2006, bloomed
2006 and thereafter. DIVIDE |
|
| Stonecrop | Sedum spectabile | Autumn Joy | Crassulaceae | |
| Snowmound spiraea | Spiraea | Snowmound | Rosaceae | Gorgeous. Careful with pruning so it stays casual. |
| Spirea | Spiraea | Rosaceae | Low-growing,
yellow-green
leaves, with pink flowers. Being
crowded by yucca. Attempted to move it in 2005 but roots were
too
tough. |
|
| Arborvitae | Thuja occidentalis | Cupressaceae | Hides the A/C
unit. Becoming
a very nice shrub but I have to
beat the snow off with a broom if the snow gets too heavy. |
|
| Snowball
bush |
Viburnum opulus | Sterile | Viburnaceae | 2 of these. Very
susceptible
to aphids at the growing tips.
Control by cutting tips off - okay since it needs trimming anyway. Left
one is getting crowded but too big to move. |
| Yucca | Yucca filamentosa | Agavaceae | Flowered for the
first time
in 2003 with a ~6 foot panicle
and ~15 fruits
(septicidal capsules). Evidence of yucca moth larvae exit holes in
capsule walls. In 2004, whole plant looked dry and unhealthy; cut off
all leaves, and have several young plants in June 2004. Try moving one
or more to the front yard. |
|
| Geranium | Geranium | Geraniaceae | Wild-collected summer 2009 from forest preserve. | |
| Switchgrass | Panicum virgatum | Poaceae | Native from MCCD plant sale - 2007? Bloomed 2009. DIVIDE | |
| Geranium | Geraniaceae | From Mary - spring 2009. Fuschia. | ||
| Orange coneflower | Echinacea | Sunset | Asteraceae | August 2008, Farmer's Market |
| Black-eyed Susan | Rudbeckia hirta | Goldsturm | Asteraceae | August 2008, Farmer's Market |
| Turtlehead | Chelone lyonii | Hotlips | August 2008, Farmer's Market. Blooms late summer into fall. | |
| Blazingstar | Liatris spicata | Kobold | Asteraceae | August 2008, Farmer's Market |
| Brown-eyed Susan | Rudbeckia triloba | Asteraceae | Daley Plaza farmer's market, 2009. Blooms late summer into fall - so cute! | |
| Astilbe | Astilbe | Saxifragaceae | Catalog purchase ~2006? Move! | |
| Cardinal flower | Lobelia cardinalis | Campanulaceae | Daley Plaza farmer's market July 2009. Should like the shady conditions near the fence? |
| Common
name |
Scientific
name |
Variety |
Family |
Notes |
| Clematis |
Clematis |
Jackmanii |
Ranunculaceae |
Planted early
(1996?) and
very successful. |
| Carolina
allspice/ Sweetshrub |
Calycanthus floridus | Calycanthaceae |
From CBG, planted June 2005. Has flowered every year since 2006. Needs a good trim. | |
| Purple coneflower |
Echinacea
purpurea |
Asteraceae |
||
| Dutch irises |
Iris
hollandia |
Iridaceae |
Planted Oct 2006
from Van
Bourgondien x25. One (!) came up in 2009 - a yellow one. |
|
| Salvia | Salvia nemerosa | May Night | Lamiaceae | Lowe's June 2009 |
| Gaura, Appleblossom grass | Oenothera lindheimerii | Siskiyou Pink | Onagraceae | Farmer's Market August 2008. Blooms summer and fall in a sloppy fountain of pink and white flowers. |
| Artemisia | Artemisia | Asteraceae | Home Depot summer 2009 - present from Mark | |
| Daylily |
Hemerocallis |
Hemerocallidaceae | Small yellow
flowers with red
centers. Moved from south edge 2009. |
|
| Daylily
(pic2) |
Hemerocallis | Hemerocallidaceae | Huge waxy yellow flowers that don't look real. Was an unlabeled bargain from Home Depot, don't know what variety is it. Moved from south edge 2009. | |
| Salvia | Salvia nemerosa | East Friesland | Lamiaceae | Home Depot July 2009 |
| Shasta daisy | Leucanthemum superbum | Snowcap | Asteraceae | Home Depot July 2009 |
| Salvia | Salvia nemerosa | Sensation Rose | Lamiaceae | Home Depot July 2009. Shorter, pink |
| Butterfly bush | Buddleia | Blue Chip | Scrophulariaceae | Home Depot July 2009. A dwarf butterfly bush with purple flowers. Planted at the base of the Jackmanii, which is about the same color. |
| Common
name |
Scientific
name |
Variety |
Family |
Notes |
| Japanese painted fern | Athyrium nipponicum | Dryopteridaceae | Very
low-growing, purplish
tinge to leaves. |
|
| Bleeding heart | Dicentra spectabilis | Fumariaceae | Moved to shade
garden in
2004. Kept getting trampled by dogs. Reviving, did nicely in 2009. |
|
| Hosta | Hosta | Gold Standard | Liliaceae | |
| Hosta | Hosta | Wide Brim | Liliaceae | |
| Hosta |
Hosta |
Liliaceae |
||
| Ostrich fern? | Matteuccia struthiopteris | Dryopteridaceae | ||
| Cinnamon fern | Osmunda cinnamomea | Osmundaceae | ||
| Rhododendron |
Rhododendron |
Roseum Elegans |
Ericaceae |
Planted June
2004; from
Frank's. Lavender flowers in June.
Bloomed in 2005 but only one inflorescence at a time, for unknown
reasons. by 2009, reliable annual bloomer. |
| Lungwort |
Pulmonaria |
'Trevi Fountain' | Boraginaceae |
Purchased summer
2006 from
perennial vendor at farmer's market on Daley Plaza. Very
vigorous
so far. |
| Columbine
(pic2) |
Aquilegia
canadensis |
Ranunculaceae |
Self-sows.
Seeds are from front garden. |
| Common
name |
Scientific
name |
Variety |
Family |
Notes |
| Drumstick allium | Allium | Liliaceae | ||
| Bigleaf Aster |
Aster
macrophyllus |
Asteraceae |
Planted May
2005, from
Prairie
Nursery. Bloomed well since 2006. |
|
| Butterfly bush | Buddleia davidii | white | Loganiaceae | The original bush, parent of the ones in the wayback. A gift from a relative several years ago. |
| Mum |
Chyrsanthemum |
Spicy Cheryl |
Asteraceae |
Orange flowers.
From Farmer's
Market, May 2005. |
| Coreopsis | Coreopsis
lanceolata |
Baby Sun | Asteraceae | |
| Purple coneflower | Echinacea purpurea | Asteraceae | ||
| Bottle gentian |
Gentiana
andrewsii |
Gentianaceae |
WPPC purchase
5/2006. Gone? |
|
| Daylily | Hemerocallis | Red Magic | Hemerocallidaceae | where is it? |
| Daylily | Hemerocallis
fulva |
Hemerocallidaceae | Wild, orange. Lots. |
|
| Coral bells | Heuchera
micrantha |
Palace Purple |
Saxifragaceae | Divides easily. |
| Coral bells | Heuchera sanguinea | Chatterbox | Saxifragaceae | Try reseating this in the ground; seems to be heaving itself out of the soil. |
| Hosta | Hosta | Liliaceae | green and white | |
| Blazingstar |
Liatris
spicata |
Asteraceae |
||
| Lily | Lilium | Asiatic lilies | Liliaceae | A handful planted here and there |
| Loosestrife (pic2) | Lysimachia punctata | Primulaceae | Yellow flowers in the axils of the whorled leaves. Pretty but tipsy - needs to be tied to the fence. | |
| Ninebark |
Physocarpus
opulifolius |
Summer Wine |
Rosaceae |
From Botanic
Garden, planted
July 2005. To fill in area where lilies are fading. 5' x 5'. Cut back hard to encourage fuller shape. |
| Stonecrop | Sedum spectabile | Autumn Joy | Crassulaceae | |
| Spirea | Spiraea
japonica |
Shirobana |
Rosaceae | Volunteer from garage garden |
| Common
purple lilac |
Syringa
vulgaris |
Purple |
Oleaceae |
Planted 2004.
Flowered in
2006. |
| Meadowrue |
Thalictrum dasycarpum |
Ranunculaceae |
CBG purchase
5/2006. Tall, blooms like crazy. DIVIDE. Is this
monoecious? Had male flowers but also seems to have fruits in
fall. |
|
| Solomon's seal | Polygonatum biflorum | Ruscaceae | From Mary - spring 2009. Alive? | |
| Hosta | Hosta | June | Liliaceae | Lowe's 2009 |
| Toad lily | Tricyrtis | Empress | Liliaceae | Farmer's Market Sept. 2009 |
| Violet | Viola | Heartthrob | Violaceae | Purple and green variegated leaves. Daley Plaza farmer's market, July 2009. Sits in front of greyhound statue. |
| Common
name |
Scientific
name |
Variety |
Family |
Notes |
| Coreopsis | Coreopsis lanceolata | Asteraceae | Seeds fall into
cracks in
sidewalk - VERY annoying. |
|
| Purple coneflower | Echinacea purpurea | Asteraceae | Moved here from front in 2004. | |
| Daylily |
Hemerocallis |
Hemerocallidaceae |
Division of the
purple-red
one from the wayback. |
|
| Rose of Sharon | Hibiscus syriacus | Malvaceae | Very pretty
double fuschia
flowers. Tends to get pretty
floppy, esp. when in bloom (begins in late July). |
|
| Blazingstar | Liatris spicata | Asteraceae | Moved here from front in 2004. GONE? | |
| Peony |
Paeonia | Paeoniaceae | This was here when we bought the house. I don't really like peonies but keep it anyway. Gave up on tying plants each year, surrounded with permanent fence. White with a tiny touch of pink. | |
| Russian sage | Perovskia atriplicifolia | Lamiaceae | Moved here from
front in
2004. Remember to cut back every year. |
|
| Potentilla | Potentilla fruticosa | Goldfinger yellow | Rosaceae | Cut back hard in
early 2004
b/c encroaching on sidewalk. One of two is doing badly. |
| Speedwell |
Veronica
spicata |
Sunny Border Blue |
Scrophulariaceae |
Moved from front
in 2004 GONE |
| Hops |
Humulus
lupulus |
Cannabaceae |
From the UIC
Pharmacy garden
tour, August 2008 |
|
| Iris | Iris | Iridaceae | Divisions from Grandma Jean, September 2009 |
| Common
name |
Scientific
name |
Variety |
Family |
Notes |
| Common milkweed |
Asclepias
syriaca |
Asclepidaceae |
Grown from seed
from Prairie
Nursery, planted 2003? Naturalized. |
|
| Sky blue aster | Aster azureus (aka Aster oolentangiensis) | Asteraceae | Lovely pale lavender flowers. Bloomed in fall 2003,
first
year. Very vigorous; cut back hard in
summer. Reseeds fairly readily. |
|
| Aster |
? |
Asteraceae |
Slow grower, planted fall 2003. On garage
side.
Tiny white flowers, low grower (~12-16 in.).
Ericoides or
ptarmicoides? |
|
| Aster |
? |
Aster. |
Pink flowers, over
an inch
across. Several of these, both sides. Blooms late
in season
when other asters are done. |
|
| Blue false indigo | Baptisia australis | Fabaceae | Flowered for the first time in 2006 and every year
thereafter. |
|
| Butterfly bush | Buddleia davidii | Scrophulariaceae | Three seedlings from original white bush; one is purple (!). Most shrubs are dead but still some seedlings in 2009...moving up near house. | |
| Black
snakeroot/
bugbane/ cohosh |
Cimicifuga (Actaea) racemosa | Ranunculaceae | Relocated fall
2002 from shady spot. Flowered for first time
in 2003. Unfortunately was crammed in behind prairie dock.
Moved 2009 closer to fence. |
|
| Clematis
(pic2) |
Clematis | Henryi | Ranunculaceae | Starts growing very early in
spring. Huge gorgeous white flowers. Likes to pull its
trellis
over. On new, stronger trellis in 2009. Earwigs eat
the petals. |
| Lily of the Valley | Convallaria keiskei | Convalliaraceae | Leftovers from previous owner of house. Scattered all
over.
Am slowly eradicating. |
|
| Coreopsis | Coreopsis lanceolata |
Baby Sun |
Asteraceae | |
| Redtwig dogwood | Cornus sanguinea ? | Cornaceae | Nice round shrub, ~7 feet high,
but needs
a lot of maintenance to keep it off the path. Have watched robins perch
on it and pull off the white berries one by one. Should be cut down
hard every spring but sometimes I don't and it gets scraggly. |
|
| Cotoneaster | Cotoneaster apiculatus ? | Rosaceae | Tiny bit of root must have survived from plants that died years ago. Makes nice foundation for clematis. | |
| Purple coneflower | Echinacea purpurea | Asteraceae | ||
| Rattlesnake master | Eryngium yuccifolium | Apiaceae | Planted in 2003? Flowered for first time in
2004.
Getting crowded by prairie dock but not sure if I can move it.
GONE REPLACE |
|
| Queen of the Prairie | Filipendula rubra | Rosaceae | Flowered for first time in 2003. Have to tie the
flowering
stalks to the fence to keep them upright. Spreading into neighbor's
garden. Japanese beetles like to eat the flowers. |
|
| Downy sunflower |
Helianthus
mollis |
Asteraceae |
HUGE, spreading;
tends to tip
over badly late in summer. Give chunks away next spring? |
|
| Daylily | Hemerocallis fulva |
Hemerocallidaceae | wild orange | |
| Daylily | Hemerocallis | Carousel Princess | Hemerocallidaceae | Purplish-red. Massive plant but not
aggressively
spreading. Maybe move chunks to around the patio? |
| Chameleon plant | Houttuynia cordata | Chameleon | Saururaceae | Very pretty ground
cover, but aggressive. Am trying very hard to eradicate it.
Smells bad/spicy when broken. |
| Rough blazingstar |
Liatris
aspera |
Asteraceae |
From Prairie Nursery. Planted May 2005. | |
| Prairie
blazingstar (pic2)
(pic3) |
Liatris pycnostachya | Asteraceae | Moved in 2005 due to construction. Where is
it now?? |
|
| Moneywort or Creeping Jenny | Lysimachia nummularia | Primulaceae | Gorgeous
yellow flowers, tolerates trampling. Invasive. Comes and
goes...2009 was a good year. |
|
| Bee balm |
Monarda
didyma |
Lamiaceae |
Division from north
edge, May
2005. Taking over the world. DIVIDE |
|
| Bee balm |
Monarda fistulosa |
Lamiaceae |
From CBG plant sale 5/2004. Moved 5/2005.
Looks bad. Try moving again? |
|
| Wild
quinine (pic2
w/butterfly) |
Parthenium integrifolium | Asteraceae | Flowered for first time in 2003. Very reliable. Blooms
in
June, butterflies love it. GONE |
|
| Phlox |
Phlox |
Polemoniaceae |
Where did I get this?? |
|
| Black-eyed Susan | Rudbeckia hirta | Asteraceae | Grows as an annual. Self-sows. None in 2008,
maybe one in 2009. Plant new seeds? |
|
| Little bluestem grass | Schizachyrium scoparium | Poaceae | Several of these - volunteers or did I plant them?!
DIVIDE |
|
| Prairie dock | Silphium terebinthinaceum | Asteraceae | Immense. Flowered in 2003, 2005. Keep lower
leaves cut back, tie up flower stalks. |
|
| Ohio goldenrod | Solidago ohioensis | Asteraceae | Is it still there? GONE |
|
| Showy goldenrod | Solidago speciosa | Asteraceae | Moved in 2004 and doing well so far. Moved again in
2005, and
bought a second one (Prairie Nursery). Between witch hazel
and trellis. |
|
| Indiangrass | Sorghastrum nutans | Poaceae | Slow to green in spring. Huge (~7 ft high) and gorgeous. Divide! | |
| Prairie dropseed | Sporobolus heterolepis | Poaceae | There were two of them... the one on the south flowered
in
2004 for
first time. Where is the other one? GONE - replace!! |
|
| Prairie
spiderwort (pic2) |
Tradescantia
bracteata |
Commelinaceae |
From Prairie
Nursery. Planted
May 2005. Purple, 1-2'. Spreading. |
|
| Spiderwort (pic2 pic3) | Tradescantia ohioensis | Little Doll | Commelinaceae | Does much better in sun than it did in the front garden. |
| Viburnum (pic2) | Viburnum lantana | Mohican | Caprifoliaceae | A $5 end-of-season bargain that is doing well.
Keep lower branches cut back. |
| Golden
Alexanders (pic2) |
Zizia aurea | Apiaceae | Cute spring-bloomer. From Art and Linda's, 2003?
Self-sowing all over the place. |
|
| Goldenseal | Hydrastis canadensis | Ranunculaceae | From Lora - spring 2009 | |
| Goldenrod | Solidago rugosa | Fireworks | Asteraceae | From Lora - spring 2009 (not sure where I planted it) |
| Prairie smoke |
Geum triflorum | Asteraceae | From Lora - spring 2009 (gave me 3 but not sure any survived) | |
| Obedient plant | Physostegia virginiana | Lamiaceae | From Mary - spring 2009 | |
| Phlox | Polemoniaceae | From Mary - spring 2009 | ||
| Bee balm | Monarda | Lamiaceae | From Mary - spring 2009. Fuschia. | |
| Dwarf coreopsis | Coreopsis auriculata | Nana | Asteraceae | Lowe's July 2009 |
| Tickseed | Coreopsis | Little Sundial | Asteraceae | Home Depot July 2009. Red centers. |
| Penstemon | Penstemon x mexicali | Pike's Peak Purple | Scrophulariaceae | Daley Plaza farmer's market July 2009. Full sun |
| Carpathian harebell | Campanula carpatica | Pearl Deep Blue | Campanulaceae | Daley Plaza farmer's market July 2009. Sun-pt shade |
| Yellow coneflower | Echinaceae paradoxa | Asteraceae | Daley Plaza farmer's market July 2009. Full sun |
