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Russian Sage Perovskia atriplicifolia
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* Although research and data is limited, some identified compounds in this plant include thujone, miltirone, oxy-miltirone, tanshinones, camphor, limonene, ?-globulol, trans-caryophyllene, ?-humulene, camphene, ?-pinene, ?-caryophyllene, ?-cadinene, and...
  • Germination: 97%
  • Collection Locale: Illinois
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Genus: Perovskia
  • Family: Lamiaceae
  • Crop Year: 2014
Colorado
Fort Collins
Upright Prairie Coneflower Ratibida columnifera     - Ratibida columnaris
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* It inhabits prairies , plains, roadsides, and disturbed areas from southern Canada through most of the United States to northern Mexico . * A pleasant tasting tea is made from the leaves and flower heads.
  • Common Name: Upright Prairie Coneflower
  • Height: 24-30 inches
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Genus: Ratibida
  • Species: columnifera
  • Botanical Name: Ratibida columnifera
Colorado
Fort Collins
Southern Catalpa Catalpa bignonioides     - Catalpa syringifolia
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It is highly valued for posts and fencing rails, and is also used for interior finishes, cabinet work etc. It is easily raised from seeds which germinate early in the first season.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 88
  • Genus: Catalpa
  • Collection Locale: Ukraine
  • Quantity: 16.65 lb
  • Purity: 99%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 44,069
Colorado
Fort Collins
3-N-1 Rose of Sharon Tree
Prices start at : 6.00 USD / each

Extremely hardy, they thrive in any garden with little care. Profusion of blooms from June through September. Rose of Sharon grows 5-10' tall. You'll enjoy this old-fashioned favorite that bears an abundance of large, hibiscus blossoms in three different...
  • Spread: 6-8'
  • Genus: Hibiscus syriacus
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun, Partial Sun/Shade
  • Colors: Purple, Red, White
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
Colorado
Fort Collins
Fly Honeysuckle, Dwarf Honeysuckle Lonicera xylosteum
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Lonicera xylosteum , commonly known as Fly honeysuckle , European Fly Honeysuckle , Dwarf Honeysuckle or Fly Woodbine is a deciduous shrub. It is one of two honeysuckles native to Britain, the other being the Common Honeysuckle ( Lonicera periclymenum...
  • Purity: 99%
  • Species: xylosteum
  • Family: Caprifoliaceae
  • Genus: Lonicera
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 45
  • Common Name: Fly Honeysuckle, Dwarf Honeysuckle
Colorado
Fort Collins
Hard Fescue, Sheep Fescue Festuca ovina  duriuscula
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* Tolerant of constant cutting, this plant is often grown in lawns. * This is one of the food plants for the caterpillars of several butterflies and moths, including the Gatekeeper and the Meadow Brown.
  • Family: Poaceae
  • Collection Locale: Oregon
  • Crop Year: 2013
  • Seeds Per Pound: 481,240
  • Height: 16 inches
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
Colorado
Fort Collins
Purple Bauhinia, Butterfly Tree, Hong Kong Orchid Tree, Purple Camel\'s Foot, Hawaiian Orchid Tree Bauhinia purpurea
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* A species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae ,native to South China (which includes Hong Kong ) and southeastern Asia * Common names include Hong Kong Orchid Tree, and Hawaiian orchid tree.
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
  • Seeds Per Pound: 1,498
  • Genus: Bauhinia
  • Quantity: 4.33 lb
  • Botanical Name: Bauhinia purpurea
Colorado
Fort Collins
Scarlet Elderberry, Red Elderberry Sambucus pubens     - Sambucus racemosa  pubens
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Fruits are sour and usually not consumed raw by humans, but may be cooked for use in the preparation of wine, jelly and pies. * Tolerates a wide range of soils, but prefers moist, humusy, nutrient-rich, neutral to slightly acidic loams.
  • Collection Locale: New York
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Species: pubens
  • Height: 8-12 feet
  • Crop Year: 2018
Colorado
Fort Collins
Yellowbells, Yellow Trumpetbush Tecoma stans
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

The plant produces pods containing yellow seeds with papery wings. It is drought-tolerant and grows well in warm climates. Yellow Trumpetbush is a ruderal species , readily colonizing disturbed, rocky, sandy , and cleared land and occasionally becoming...
  • Botanical Name: Tecoma stans
  • Species: stans
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 209
  • Common Name: Yellowbells, Yellow Trumpetbush
  • Genus: Tecoma
  • Germination Test Type: cut
Colorado
Fort Collins
Amur Mountain Ash Sorbus pohuashanensis
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

Dislikes dry soils. Tolerates light shade, though it fruits better in a sunny position. * Succeeds in most reasonably good soils in an open sunny position. * A small tree with compound leaves, white flowers in clusters to 4", 1/4" orange-red fruit; native...
  • Species: pohuashanensis
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 67
  • Germination: 77%
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Common Name: Amur Mountain Ash
  • Family: ROSACEAE
Colorado
Fort Collins
Beautyberry, Purple Beautyberry Callicarpa dichotoma
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

* The berries which are small drupes are purple. The fruit provides food for wild life. This species can be found in China and Japan. * The berries are bitter and are unfit for culinary use.
  • Botanical Name: Callicarpa dichotoma
  • Common Name: Beautyberry, Purple Beautyberry
  • Seeds Per Pound: 97,610
  • Purity: 99%
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Crop Year: 2018
Colorado
Fort Collins
Chinese Redbud, Smooth Redbud, Yunnan Redbud Cercis glabra     - Cercis funiushanensis    , Cercis pubescens    , Cercis yunnanensis
Price : CALL

Bark and branchlets grayish black. Petiole 2-4.5 cm; leaf blade often purplish red when young, greenish when mature, cordate or triangular-orbicular, * Open or dense forests, mountain slopes, along valleys near roads, on rocks; 600-1900 m.
  • Common Name: Chinese Redbud, Smooth Redbud, Yunnan Redbud
  • Genus: Cercis
  • Botanical Name: Cercis glabra
  • Family: LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE
Colorado
Fort Collins
Silverbush, Yellow Necklacepod, Yellow Necklace Pod, Silver Bush Sophora tomentosa
Price : CALL

* 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 .
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
  • Species: tomentosa
  • Genus: Sophora
Colorado
Fort Collins
Dill Anethum graveolens
Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

* Depending on where it is grown, is either a perennial or annual herb. * This is common dill that is used in pickles and for flavoring. * In Canada, dill is a favorite herb to accompany poached salmon.
  • Family: Apiaceae
  • Collection Locale: Oregon
  • Height: 16-24 inches
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: annual
Colorado
Fort Collins
Golda Emanis Yellow Foliaged Great Coneflower, Cabbage-Leaf Coneflower
Prices start at : 12.99 USD

He describes it as "chartreuse-green foliage and the normal tall golden yellow flowers. Great in foliage or flower. Read more about Greg Grant's plant selections on the SFA Gardens website here .
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade
  • Soil & Moisture: Average to moist soils. Clay or sand
  • Deer Resistance: Rarely Bothered
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 4,5,6,7,8,9
  • Container Size: Quart / 30 fl.oz. / 887 ml
Colorado
Fort Collins
New Jersey Tea Ceanothus americanus
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* New Jersey tea is a compact, dense, rounded shrub which typically grows 2-3' tall (less frequently to 4'). Also effective as a shrubby ground cover for hard-to-grow areas such as dry rocky slopes and banks
  • Botanical Name: Ceanothus americanus
  • Species: americanus
  • Germination: 99%
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Seeds Per Pound: 108,960
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
Colorado
Fort Collins
Eared Goldenrod
Prices start at : 7.99 USD

Shade tolerant, clump forming and it attracts a variety of pollinators when in flower. An unusual and uncommon native found growing along stream sides and woodlands that is most common in western Louisiana and eastern Texas but is also found in much of...
  • Grows To: 24-36"H when in flower space at 12" apart
  • Soil & Moisture: Moist to average moist soils. Tolerates acid clay soils.
  • Deer Resistance: High
  • pH Range: Acidic, Mildly Acidic, Neutral
  • Native To / Origin: US- west LA, east TX, AR, MS, AL, TN, FL, GA, SC
Colorado
Fort Collins
Baja Red Rose of Montana, Coral Vine
Prices start at : 12.99 USD

It dies to the ground in winter, but faithfully returns from the ground each spring. An easy to grow and drought tolerant heirloom plant. It flowers all summer and fall. This is the selection with the deepest red color, comes from seed collected in southern...
  • Native To / Origin: Mexico
  • Container Size: 3.5 inch / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml
  • Grows To: Vining to 40'
  • pH Range: Mildly Acidic, Neutral, Mildly Alkaline
Colorado
Fort Collins
Perennial Collection
Prices start at : 9.99 USD / each

Includes: 3 each of Black-Eyed Susans and Purple Coneflower.
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Zones: 3-9
  • Genus: Echinacea purpurea & Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm'
Colorado
Fort Collins
Chinese Redbud, Smooth Redbud, Yunnan Redbud Cercis glabra     - Cercis funiushanensis    , Cercis pubescens    , Cercis yunnanensis
Price : CALL

Bark and branchlets grayish black. Petiole 2-4.5 cm; leaf blade often purplish red when young, greenish when mature, cordate or triangular-orbicular, * Open or dense forests, mountain slopes, along valleys near roads, on rocks; 600-1900 m.
  • Botanical Name: Cercis glabra
  • Height: 15-30 feet
  • Family: LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE
  • Genus: Cercis
Colorado
Fort Collins
Maackii Amur Honeysuckle, Amur Honeysuckle Lonicera maackii
Price : CALL

It is listed as an endangered species in Japan. , rare), Korea , and southeastern Russia ( Primorsky Krai ). It has escaped from cultivation and become naturalized in New Zealand and the eastern United States ; in the forests of the latter, it has become...
  • Genus: Lonicera
  • Common Name: Maackii Amur Honeysuckle, Amur Honeysuckle
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Botanical Name: Lonicera maackii
Colorado
Fort Collins
Purple Porterweed
Prices start at : 6.99 USD

In the warmer parts of zone 8B we find that the larger growing Porterweeds, like Lavender, Coral, and Purple, occasionally return from the roots in late spring if well mulched. The textual version of the link is here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3430612/
  • Grows To: 3-4'H x 3'W
  • Fertilizing: Spring-frost or year round in warm, frost free conditions.
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 10,11, (9A-9B?)
  • Pruning: Not needed except to remove spent flower stems though it's not required, pinch to improve branching.
  • Container Size: 3.5 inch / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml
Colorado
Fort Collins
Pin Oak Quercus palustris
Price : CALL

The acorns are 1/2"; the tree grows quickly; needs acid soil, is subject to chlorosis and likes full sun. The leaves are deeply lobed, pointy 3-6" and turn winey red, russet-red or bronzy in fall.
  • Family: FAGACEAE
  • Genus: Quercus
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Common Name: Pin Oak
Colorado
Fort Collins
Lo\' & Beholdtm Blue Chip Jr. Butterfly Bush, Buddleja
Prices start at : 12.99 USD

The blue gray foliage is an added bonus on this new sterile Butterfly Bush or Buddleia. Lo' & Beholdtm Blue Chip Jr. Butterfly Bush makes a great addition to the garden and landscape but this one is compact enough for containers too.
  • Native To / Origin: Gardens-USA, JC Raulston, Dr. Dennis Werner
  • Deer Resistance: Rarely Bothered
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 5,6,7,8,9,10,11
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Mostly sunny
  • pH Range: Acidic, Mildly Acidic, Neutral, Mildly Alkaline, Alkaline
Colorado
Fort Collins
Bat Face Cuphea, Tiny Mice Cuphea, Georgia Scarlet Batface Cuphea, Mickey Mouse Plant
Prices start at : 6.99 USD

Provide a well-drained soil with full to mostly sun for the best results. An excellent choice for hummingbirds, mixed containers, hanging baskets, and in mass plantings. Batface Cuphea, or Georgia Scarlet Batface Cuphea, is a tough and reliable low mounding...
  • pH Range: Mildly Acidic, Neutral, Mildly Alkaline
  • Soil & Moisture: Average to dry, well-drained soils. Do not overwater.
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun
  • Container Size: 3.5 inch / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml
  • Grows To: 12-24''H x 24-36''W
Colorado
Fort Collins
Chinese Astilbe Astilbe chinensis
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

* Astilbe chinensis is a herbaceous plant with alternate, pinnately compound leaves, on thin stems. * The flowers are purple, borne in summer.
  • Botanical Name: Astilbe chinensis
  • Genus: Astilbe
  • Quantity: 0.12 lb
  • Species: chinensis
  • Purity: 97%
  • Family: SAXIFRAGACEAE
Colorado
Fort Collins
Rose of Sharon Hedge
Prices start at : 5.29 USD / each

Rose of Sharon is lovely all through the growing season. Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds. Mixed colors only. Order today and receive strong healthy 1-2' one year old shrubs. These hardy plants are welcome in any landscape.
  • Max Height (feet): 10
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun, Partial Sun/Shade
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Zones: 5-9
  • Genus: Hibiscus syriacus
Colorado
Fort Collins