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Prices start at : 9.99 USD / each

Includes: 3 each of Black-Eyed Susans and Purple Coneflower.
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Genus: Echinacea purpurea & Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm'
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Colors: Black, Pink, Yellow
Illinois
Chicago
Sneezewort, Sneezeweed Achillea ptarmica
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* So called because the roots were once ground for snuff. * The leaves are used as an insect repellent. Ptarmica yields an essential oil that is used in herbal medicine. * Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked.
  • Height: 2-3 feet
  • Genus: Achillea
  • Crop Year: 1997
  • Quantity: 0.06 lb
  • Lot#: 9701
  • Germination: 71%
Illinois
Chicago
Spicebush, Northern Spicebush, Benjamin Bush, Common Spicebush, Spice Bush, Carencro Bush Lindera benzoin
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Its a native that thrives in shady locations and adds interest year round. * Lindera benzoin ( Wild Allspice , Spicebush , Common Spicebush , Northern Spicebush or Benjamin Bush ) is a flowering plant in the family Lauraceae , native to eastern North...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Common Name: Spicebush, Northern Spicebush, Benjamin Bush, Common Spicebush, Spice Bush, Carencro Bush
  • Species: benzoin
  • Genus: Lindera
Illinois
Chicago
Southern Catalpa Catalpa bignonioides     - Catalpa syringifolia
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Many people grow this tree in the Southern USA just so they can gather the Catalpa worms to use as fishing bait. They are like Catnip for Catfish! It weighs about 28lb per cubic foot.
  • Germination: 91%
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Quantity: 16.65 lb
  • Species: bignonioides
  • Genus: Catalpa
Illinois
Chicago
Christmas Candlestick, Klip Dagga, Lion\'s Ear Leonotis nepetifolia
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* It grows to a height of 3 metres and has whorls of striking lipped flowers, that are most commonly orange, but can vary to red, white, and purple. * Leonotis nepetifolia, also known as klip dagga, Christmas candlestick, or lion's ear, is a species of...
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Botanical Name: Leonotis nepetifolia
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: annual
  • Genus: Leonotis
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 335
  • Height: 3-8 feet
Illinois
Chicago
Common Pawpaw Asimina triloba
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* The flowers are produced in early spring at the same time as or slightly before the new leaves appear. * Edible fruit - raw or cooked. * The fruit can also be used for making preserves, pies, ice cream and other sweet desserts.
  • Quantity: 47.58 lb
  • Germination: 98%
  • Height: 30 feet
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Collection Locale: Ohio
  • Purity: 99%
Illinois
Chicago
Large White Trillium, White Trillium Trillium grandiflorum
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* The erect, odorless flowers are large, especially compared to other species of Trillium , with 4 to 7 cm (1.5 to 2.7 in) long petals , depending on age and vigor. * As a particularly conspicuous forest flower, T.
  • Quantity: 0.07 lb
  • Collection Locale: Minnesota
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 17
  • Genus: Trillium
  • Common Name: Large White Trillium, White Trillium
  • Botanical Name: Trillium grandiflorum
Illinois
Chicago
Live Oak Quercus virginiana
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* Depending on the growing conditions, live oaks vary from the shrubby to large and spreading: typical open-grown trees reach 15 meters (50 feet) in height, but may span nearly 50 meters.
  • Height: 100 feet
  • Family: Fagaceae
  • Genus: Quercus
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
Illinois
Chicago
Great Globethistle, Giant Globe Thistle, Great Globe Thistle, Common Globe Thistle Echinops sphaerocephalus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Plant forming huge clumps with white or grayish spherical flowers 2-3" across, in late summer; rough, thistley foliage, dark green, good for the back of a large border. * It grows in sunny, rocky or brushy places, with more or less mineral rich soils,...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 39
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Genus: Echinops
  • Purity: 98%
  • Collection Locale: Hungary
Illinois
Chicago
Amur Mountain Ash Sorbus pohuashanensis
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* Succeeds in most reasonably good soils in an open sunny position. Dislikes dry soils. * A small tree with compound leaves, white flowers in clusters to 4", 1/4" orange-red fruit; native to northern China.
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Common Name: Amur Mountain Ash
  • Germination Test Type: Cut
  • Seeds Per Pound: 163,440
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Family: ROSACEAE
Illinois
Chicago
Tickseed, Largeflower Tickseed, Large-flowered Tickseed, Coreopsis Coreopsis grandiflora
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* 3" yellow-orange flowers in midsummer; native to southern U.S. * Coreopsis grandiflora is a perennial plant species of the tickseed genus, Coreopsis, in Asteraceae. The common name is large-flowered tickseed.
  • Botanical Name: Coreopsis grandiflora
  • Seeds Per Pound: 390,440
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Crop Year: 2013
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Family: Asteraceae
Illinois
Chicago
Bee Insect Garden
Prices start at : 8.99 USD / each

Our Conservation Garden Assortment attracts and helps protect nature's hardest workers. Mats are 20"x5'.Attracts natues's hardest workers to the garden. Our seed mats contain the perfect blend of seed to create a beautiful garden and participate in recovering...
Illinois
Chicago
Aaron\'s Beard, Rose-of-Sharonwort, Creeping St. Johnswort, Goldflower Hypericum calycinum
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For the densest cover plants should be cut to ground level each April. A yellow-orange dye is obtained from the flowers. The solitary flowers are 3–5 cm in diameter, a rich yellow, with five petals and numerous yellow stamens .
  • Common Name: Aaron's Beard, Rose-of-Sharonwort, Creeping St. Johnswort, Goldflower
  • Collection Locale: CA
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Height: 1-2 feet
  • Botanical Name: Hypericum calycinum
  • Species: calycinum
Illinois
Chicago
Possum Haw, Possumhaw, Meadow Holly, Deciduous Holly, Swamp Holly Ilex decidua
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

Is less variable than other species of holly". * Distinguishing features of this species are crenate leaf margins and fruiting pedicels that are 2–8 mm long. The pulp is bitter; they contain 3-5 seeds and mature in autumn.
  • Genus: Ilex
  • Purity: 99%
  • Collection Locale: Louisiana
  • Botanical Name: Ilex decidua
  • Germination: 98%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
Illinois
Chicago
Tecate Cypress Cupressus guadalupensis  forbesii   - Hesperocyparis forbesii    , Cupressus forbesii
Prices start at : 11.95 USD / 1 packet

It grows at elevations of 450–1,500 metres (1,480–4,920 ft). * Cupressus forbesii, now reclassified by some as Hesperocyparis forbesii, and with the common names Tecate cypress or Forbes' cypress, is a species of cypress native to southwestern North...
  • Collection Locale: California
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Species: guadalupensis
  • Variety: forbesii
  • Crop Year: 2018
  • Common Name: Tecate Cypress
Illinois
Chicago
Late Lilac, Villous Lilac Syringa villosa
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* White or rosy-lilac flowers in 3-7" clusters, often several to each branch tip, in May; flower fragrance, not intense, resembles privet; very hardy; forms a dense, arching shrub with substantial branches; does well in the U.S. Midwest; native to China.
  • Quantity: 1.49 lb
  • Purity: 98%
  • Collection Locale: Minnesota
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Botanical Name: Syringa villosa
  • Common Name: Late Lilac, Villous Lilac
Illinois
Chicago
Mary Gregory Stokesia Daisy, Stokes Aster
Prices start at : 7.99 USD

Their reliability and durability make them highly recommended garden perennials. Their only downfall is wet soggy winter soils which could cause rot. Super easy and tough. Plants readily multiply into dense clumps.
  • Deer Resistance: Rarely Bothered
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade
  • Grows To: 12-18''H x 18-24''W
  • Container Size: 3.5 inch / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml
  • pH Range: Acidic, Mildly Acidic, Neutral
Illinois
Chicago
Chinese Ginseng Panax ginseng
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* Ginseng has a history of herbal use going back over 5,000 years. * Ginseng is characterized by the presence of ginsenosides. * It has gained an almost magical reputation for being able to promote health, general body vigour and also to prolong life.
  • Height: 2-3 feet
  • Genus: Panax
  • Common Name: Chinese Ginseng
  • Family: Araliaceae
Illinois
Chicago
Cocky\'s Tongue Templetonia retusa
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

It is covered in red flowers in the winter and spring. * Templetonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. They are native to Australia. * It will also tolerate more moist conditions if it is given well drained soil.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 15,890
  • Crop Year: 2015
  • Genus: Templetonia
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 17
  • Family: Leguminosae
  • Quantity: 0.04 lb
Illinois
Chicago
Rose of Sharon Hedge
Prices start at : 5.29 USD / each

Plants may have single or double blooms. Mixed colors only. These hardy, erect-branching shrubs will grow 5-10' tall for an informal privacy screen or can be trimmed for a neat, colorful hedge.
  • Colors: Mixed, Pink, Red, White
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Max Height (feet): 10
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun, Partial Sun/Shade
  • Genus: Hibiscus syriacus
Illinois
Chicago
Chinese Plum Yew, Chinese Cowtail Pine, San Jian Shan Cephalotaxus fortunei
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

It is native to northern Burma and China, but is sometimes grown in western gardens where it has been in cultivation since 1848. * Bark dark red-brown, peeling in strips. * Substances from the plant have shown anticancer activity.
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Botanical Name: Cephalotaxus fortunei
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 9
  • Germination: 77%
  • Purity: 99%
  • Quantity: 2.57 lb
Illinois
Chicago
Silverbush, Yellow Necklacepod, Yellow Necklace Pod, Silver Bush Sophora tomentosa
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* A shrub or small tree; silvery throughout, with compound leaves and pale yellow flowers in pendulous clusters to 6", each 3/4" wide; pods to 6"; native to seashores of the Old World tropics .
  • Common Name: Silverbush, Yellow Necklacepod, Yellow Necklace Pod, Silver Bush
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
  • Species: tomentosa
Illinois
Chicago
Coast Trillium, Pacific Trillium Trillium ovatum
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

This is not to be confused with the typical pinkness observed as the petals age. Associated understory plants include swordfern, vanilla leaf, violets, redwood sorrel and salal. * Near California shores, it is common under coast redwood.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 62,652
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Family: Liliaceae
  • Germination: 98%
  • Quantity: 0.1 lb
Illinois
Chicago
Large White Trillium, White Trillium Trillium grandiflorum
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* The erect, odorless flowers are large, especially compared to other species of Trillium , with 4 to 7 cm (1.5 to 2.7 in) long petals , depending on age and vigor. * As a particularly conspicuous forest flower, T.
  • Collection Locale: Minnesota
  • Family: Liliaceae
  • Botanical Name: Trillium grandiflorum
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Species: grandiflorum
  • Genus: Trillium
Illinois
Chicago
Native Purple Cone Flower
Prices start at : 6.99 USD

An excellent cut flower that can last for up to a week in a vase. These seedlings originated from a vigorous native Louisiana population of this beautiful perennial. A superb butterfly nectar plant! Masses of large pinkish-purple daisy-like blooms are...
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade
  • Native To / Origin: US
  • Deer Resistance: Rarely Bothered
Illinois
Chicago
Blue Porterweed
Prices start at : 8.99 USD

I would be surprised to find a plant that produces a more continuous supply of nectar rich flowers from summer to frost, even most Lantana has to catch its breath from time to time during the heat of summer.
  • Grows To: 3-4'H x 2-3'W
  • Fertilizing: Spring-frost or year round in warm, frost free conditions.
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun
  • pH Range: Acidic, Mildly Acidic, Neutral
  • Native To / Origin: American Tropics
Illinois
Chicago
Faber\'s Maple ACER fabri
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

It wmay survive in zone 7, but a cold winter could do it in. The lanceolate leaves are glossy and evergreen. The new growth and samaras are bright red. * Acer fabri (Faber's Maple) is a species of evergreen maple tree native to Vietnam and central to...
  • Crop Year: 2013
  • Common Name: Faber's Maple
  • Botanical Name: ACER fabri
  • Quantity: 1.89 lb
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Family: Sapindaceae
Illinois
Chicago