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We will grow special orders for your project
For larger projects, please contact us ahead of time to check for availability
- $1.25/plug or $36/tray of 32 plugs - Spring/Early Summer
- $2.50/10cm pots of rooted divisions -
- Large clumps in 15cm/gal/2 gal pots (depending on species and time of year) ($4.99-$12.99)
Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem) 100 Mile
Description: H90-1
30cm, W90-120cm; Grass ? dark green in summer turning tan/red/orange in autumn with silvery seed heads.
Natural Habitat: Full sun; well drained Prairie soils
Where to Use: Prairie, Perennial border, Mass grouping in clumps
Combinations: Sorghastrum (Indiangrass), Silphium (Cup Plant, Compass Plant), Helianthus (Sunflowers), Echinacea, Liatris (Blazing Star), Desmodium (Showy Tick Trefoil), Solidago (Goldenrod), Asters
Bouteloua curtipendula (Sideoats Grama) 100 Mile
Description: H30-60cm, W30-60cm clumps; summer bloom in one-sided racemes
Natural Habitat: Sun; Well-drained Prairie
Where to Use: Prairie, Perennial border
Combinations: Grasses, Sorghastrum (Indiangrass), Silphium (Cup Plant, Compass Plant), Helianthus (Sunflowers), Echinacea, Liatris (Blazing Star), Desmodium (Showy Tick Trefoil), Solidago (Goldenrod), Asters, Rudbeckia
Carex comosa (Bristly Sedge) 100 Mile
Description: H40-80cm, W70cm; bright green leaves, large seed heads like a bottlebrush
Natural Habitat: Sun/Part shade; Wetland edges, Wide range of soils
Where to Use: Moist
soils, Wetland edge, Erosion control; Attracts wildlife
Combinations: Lobelia (Cardinal Flower), Eupatorium (Boneset, Joe-pye Weed), Caltha (Marsh Marigold), Aster puniceus (Swamp Aster), Chelone (Turtlehead), Vernonia (Ironweed), Iris versicolor (Blue Flag), Mimulus (Monkey Flower)
Description: H90cm; drooping seed heads in summer; long grassy leaves
Natural Habitat: Part sun; moist soils; low areas, water side
Where to Use: Moist meadows, moist clearing, naturalizing waterfront, pond gardens
Description: H40-80cm, W70cm; bright green leaves, round spikey seed heads like a mace
Natural Habitat: Sun/Part shade; Wetland edges, Wide range of soils
Where to Use: Moist
soils, Wetland edge, Erosion control; Attracts wildlife
Carex gynandra (Nodding Sedge) 100 Mile
Des
cription: H90-120cm, W90cm; stalks of green drooping seed heads in summer turning tan by autumn
Natural Habitat: Part sun/Shade; Wetland edges, shorelines, ponds, streams
Where to Use: Pond edge, Moist soils with shade, Border with constant moisture
Combinations: Asclepias incarnata (Swamp Milkweed), Mimulus (Monkey Flower), Iris versicolor (Blue Flag), Eupatorium (Joe-pye Weed, Boneset), Other Sedges, Aster puniceus (Swamp Aster)
Carex intumescens (Bladder Sedge) 100 Mile
Description: H80cm; inflated clusters of seeds, grass-like leaves; summer
Natural Habitat: Part shade; moist soils; treed swamps, marsh edges
Where to Use: Moist soils, naturalizing along waterfront, moist woodland
Carex lupulina (Hop Sedge) 100 Mile
Description: H60-90cm, W70cm; bright green
leaves, upright, spikey seed heads
Natural
Habitat: Sun/Part shade; Wetland edges, Wide range of moist soils
Where to Use: Moist
soils, Wetland edge, Shaded moist areas, woods
Combinations: Caltha (Marsh Marigold), Aster puniceus (Swamp Aster), Chelone (Turtlehead), Iris versicolor (Blue Flag), Mimulus (Monkey Flower), Viola (wetland species)
Description: H80cm; spiky seed heads; summer
Natural Habitat: Part sun; moist soils; lake shores; swamps
Where to Use: Pond gardens, waterfront naturalizing, moist soils
Carex muskingumensis (Palm Sedge) 100 Mile
Description: H50-60cm, W70cm; bright green whorled leaves, small cone-like seed cluster
Natural Habitat: Sun/Shade; Stream edges, Flood plains
Where to Use: Moist soils as background or foliage contrast; Feathery leaves create a soft texture; Spreads moderately as a filler
Combinations: Lobelia (Cardinal Flower), Eupatorium (Boneset, Joe-pye Weed), Caltha (Marsh Marigold), Aster puniceus (Swamp Aster), Thalictrum pubescens (Tall Meadow Rue), Vernonia (Ironweed), Iris versicolor (Blue Flag), Mimulus (Monkey Flower)
Carex scoparia (Broom Sedge) 100 Mile
Description: H60 cm; small spikelet seeds heads from grassy clumps; summer and fall
Natural Habitat: Sun/Part sun in moist meadows or shorelines
Where to Use: Meadows, naturalizing moist areas
Carex vulpinoidea (Fox Sedge) 100 Mile
Description: H60cm; greenish yellow spikes in summer and fall
Natural Habitat: Sun; moist meadows
Where to Use: Pond garden, naturalizing in moist areas, shorelines
Chasmanthium latifolia (Northern Sea Oats) EAST N.A.
Description: H90-120cm, W80cm, grass with wide spikelets turning pink/tan in autumn
Natural Habitat: Sun/Light shade; River banks
Where to Use: Meadow, Perennial border; Seed heads provide interest from summer through winter; Excellent contrast with flowering perennials
Combinations: Amsonia (Bluestar), Gillenia (Bowman's Root), Heliopsis (False Sunflower), Gentiana (Bottle Gentian), Asters, Echinacea, Rudbeckia (Coneflowers)
Elymus canadensis (Canada Wild Rye) 100 Mile
Coming Spring 2012
Hierochloe odorata (Sweet Grass) 100 Mile
Description: H60cm; grass, seeds in early summer; fragrant leaves
Natural Habitat: Sun; moist soils in meadows and Prairie
Where to Use:
Can spread aggressively by rhizomes so locate it in a naturalized area
or grow in deep containers; leaves tend to flop in summer; harvest
leaves in summer/fall; grow from division or seeds (low germination
rate)
Hystrix patula [=Elymus hystrix] (Bottlebrush Grass) 100 Mile
Description: H90-120cm, W40cm; grass with bristle seed heads maturing in summer
Natural Habitat: Part sun/Shade; Woodland edges, Clearings; Moist to average soils
Where to Use: Woodland, Shade garden; Background clumps for part shade Perennial bed
Combinations: Podophyllum peltatum (Mayapple), Viola conspersa (Dog Violet), Actaea (Baneberry), Thalictrum dioicum (Early Meadow Rue)
Juncus canadensis (Canada Rush) 100 Mile
Coming Spring 2012
Description: H100cm, W40cm; bright green tubular stems, flower structures part way up stems; summer
Natural Habitat: Sun/Part Sun; Water edges, constantly moist soils, Shallow water
Where to Use: Wetland, Pond garden, Moist soils with some shade
Combinations: Carex (Sedges), Iris versicolor (Blue Flag), Asclepias incarnata (Swamp Milkweed), Pontederia (Prickeral Weed)
Description: H60cm, spreading clumps; brown seed heads; summer/fall
Natural Habitat: Sun; Moist meadows, ditches, Shoreline
Where to Use: Moist meadows, naturalizing shorelines, Pond edge (in containers - it can spread aggressively)
Combinations: Carex (Sedges), Iris versicolor (Blue Flag), Asclepias incarnata (Swamp Milkweed), Eupatorium, Rushes (Scirpus spp.)
Description: H90-120cm, W60-90cm; Blue-green grass with open panicles in summer
Natural Habitat: Dry prairies, Meadows
Where to Use: Prairie, Meadow, Perennial border; Grows in clumps; Often has good summer/fall colour and attractive seed heads in winter; May self sow with less aggressive plantings
Combinations: Echinacea, Pycnanthemum (Mountain Mint), Sorghastrum nutans (Indiangrass), Silphium (Compass Plant, Cup Plant), Aster novae-angliae (New England Aster), Liatris (Blazing Star), Monarda (Wild Bergamot), Asclepius tuberosa (Butterfly Weed)
Schizachyrium scoparium (Little Bluestem) 100 Mile
Description: H30-90cm, W30-50cm; upright grass with silvery seed heads
Natural Habitat: Sun; Prairie, Meadow, Fields; Variety of soils
Where to Use: Prairie, Meadow, Perennial border, Naturalized areas, Bank stabilization; Good fall colour and winter interest
Combinations: Other grasses, Echinacea, Rudbeckia (Coneflower), Ratibida, Coreopsis tripteris (Tall Tickseed), Helianthus (Sunflower), Baptisia (False Indigo), Dalea (Purple Prairie Clover), Asters
Schoenoplectus acutus (Hardstem Bulrush) 100 Mile
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Description: H2m; tall, stiff, dark green stems; drooping spikelets of cinnamon brown; summer
Natural Habitat: Sun; Marshes and shorelines; Forms colonies by underground rhizomes
Where to Use: Naturalized shorelines, Ponds
Scirpus atrovirens (Green Bulrush) 100 Mile
Coming Spring 2012
Des
cription: H120cm, W60cm; Grass-like stalks and leaves with a loose nodding head of fuzzy cinnamon seeds
Natural Habitat: Sun/Part Sun; Wet to moist Meadows and Wetland edges
Where to Use: Pond edges, Moist Meadows or naturalized areas; Erosion control - seed heads remain ornamental into the winter
Combinations: Carex (Sedges), Verbena hastata (Blue Vervain), Salix (Willows), Eupatorium (Joe-pye Weed, Boneset)
Scirpus pendulus (Rufous Bulrush) 100 Mile
Description: H80cm; drooping spikelets of cinnamon brown above grassy foliage; summer
Natural Habitat: Sun; Moist meadows, Ditches, Stream banks, Wetlands
Where to Use: Moist meadows, Naturalized shorelines, Pond edges
Combinations: Monkey Flower (Mimulus), Blue Flag (Iris versicolor), Other Bulrush (Scirpus), Rushes (Juncus), Sedges (Carex)
Sorghastrum nutans (Indiangrass) 100 Mile
Description: H90-150cm, W70cm; grass maturing in late summer
Natural Habitat: Sun/Part sun; Tallgrass Prairie, Meadows, Woodland clearings
Where to Use: Prairie, Meadow, Perennial border (specimen clumps)
Combinations: Grasses, Silphium (Cup Plant, Compass Plant), Eryngium yuccifolium (Rattlesnake Master), Helianthus (Sunflowers), Echinacea, Liatris (Blazing Star), Desmodium (Showy Tick Trefoil), Solidago (Goldenrod), Asters
Typha latifolia (Cattail) 100 Mile
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Description: 2-3m; wide, tall leaves, dark brown seed head; summer
Natural Habitat: Sun; Marshes, Wetlands
Where to Use: Naturalized shorelines; can spread aggressively and form large patches; not suited for pond gardens - may be grown in large containers