2009 Great Plant Picks: The list
Published 12:19 am Thursday, February 19, 2009
PERENNIALS AND BULBS
Collection of arisaema (cobra lilies)
Arisaema candidissimum
Arisaema consanguineum
Arisaema ringens
Arisaema sikokianum
Arisaema triphyllum
Collection of groundcover campanulas (bellflowers)
Campanula “Birch Hybrid”
Campanula portenschlagiana
Campanula portenschlagiana “Resholdt’s Variety”
Campanula poscharskyana
Campanula poscharskyana “Blue Waterfall”
Campanula rotundifolia
Collection of cyrtomium (holly ferns)
Cyrtomium caryotideum
Cyrtomium falcatum
Cyrtomium fortunei
Cyrtomium macrophyllum
Cyrtomium falcatum “Rochfordianum”
Dichelostemma congestum (ookow)
Dichelostemma ida-maia “Pink Diamond” (pink firecracker flower)
Collection of echinacea (cone flowers)
Echinacea purpurea “Bravado”
Echinacea purpurea “Magnus”
Echinacea purpurea “White Swan”
Echinacea purpurea “Leuchtstern” Bright Star
Collection of euphorbia (Mediterranean spurge)
Euphorbia characias subspecies wulfenii “John Tomlinson”
Euphorbia characias subspecies wulfenii “Lambrook Gold”
Euphorbia characias subspecies characias “Humpty Dumpty”
Collection of groundcover hardy geraniums
Geranium × cantabrigiense and its cultivars, “Biokovo,” “Cambridge,” “Karmina”
Geranium macrorrhizum and its cultivars, “Album,” “Bevan’s Variety,” “Czakor,” “Ingwersen’s Variety”
Collection of miniature narcissus (daffodils)
Narcissus “Jack Snipe”
Narcissus “Tete-a-tete”
Narcissus “February Gold”
Collection of tricyrtis (toad lilies)
Tricyrtis “Sinonome”
Tricyrtis “Taipei Silk”
Tricyrtis “Tojen”
Tricyrtis formosana “Gilt Edge”
Tricyrtis formosana “Samurai”
Collection of tritelia (fools onion)
Triteleia “Corrina”
Triteleia laxa “Queen Fabiola”
Triteleia ixioides “Starlight”
Penstemon “Blue Midnight”
Collection of groundcover sedums
Sedum “Bertram Anderson”
Sedum cauticola, “Lidakense”
Sedum cyaneum
Sedum kamtschaticum var. ellacombianum
Sedum ewersii
Sedum kamtschaticum
Sedum kamtschaticum “Variegatum”
Sedum kamtschaticum “Weinstephaner Gold”
Sedum kimnachii
Sedum (Rhodiola) pachyclados
Sedum pluricaule var. ezawe (“Island of Sakhalin”)
Sedum selskianum
Sedum sieboldii
SHRUBS &VINES
Abelia × grandiflora, “Mardi Gras” (variegated abelia)
Caryopteris × clandonensis “Dark Night” (bluebeard)
Caryopteris incana “Jason” Sunshine Blue (golden bluebeard)
Cotoneaster cooperi (Cooper’s cotoneaster)
Cotoneaster glaucophyllus (gray leaf cotoneaster)
Cotoneaster salicifolius “Repens” (spreading willowleaf cotoneaster)
Forsythia “Fiesta” (variegated forsythia)
Hydrangea “Preziosa” (mophead hydrangea)
Collection of hydrangea macrophylla (lacecap hydrangeas)
Hydrangea macrophylla “Blaumeise”
Hydrangea macrophylla “Lanarth White”
Hydrangea macrophylla “Mariesii Lilacina”
Hydrangea macrophylla “Mariesii”
Hydrangea macrophylla “Mariesii Perfecta”
Kalmia latifolia “Keepsake” (mountain laurel)
Mahonia repens (creeping Oregon grape)
Prunus laurocerasus “Mount Vernon” (dwarf English laurel)
Collection of evergreen azaleas
Rhododendron “Blue Danube”
Rhododendron “Girard’s Crimson”
Rhododendron “Girard’s Fuchsia”
Rhododendron “Glacier”
Rhododendron “Hardy Gardenia”
Rhododendron “Herbert”
Rhododendron “Hino-crimson”
Rhododendron “Hinode-giri”
Sarcococca ruscifolia (sweetbox)
Spiraea betulifolia “Tor” (birch-leaf spirea)
Weigela florida “Alexandra” Wine and Roses
Weigela florida “Variegata” (variegated weigela)
Yucca filamentosa (Adam’s needle)
Yucca flaccida (Adam’s needle)
Yucca recurvifolia (curve-leaf yucca)
Clematis “Betty Corning”(viticella clematis)
Hedera colchica “Dentata Variegata” (variegated Persian ivy)
TREES AND CONIFERS
Acer shirasawanum “Autumn Moon” (autumn moon maple)
Asimina triloba (pawpaw)
Catalpa bignonioides “Aurea” (golden catalpa)
Chamaecyparis pisifera “Filifera Aurea Nana” (dwarf golden threadleaf cypress)
Cladrastis kentukea (yellowwood)
Fagus sylvatica “Rohanii” (cutleaf purple beech)
Fargesia murielae (umbrella bamboo)
Gymnocladus dioica (Kentucky coffee tree)
Magnolia × loebneri “Leonard Messel” (pink Loebner magnolia)
Magnolia virginiana “Jim Wilson” Moonglow (sweet bay magnolia)
Quercus frainetto (Hungarian oak)
Quercus phellos (willow oak)
Thujopsis dolabrata “Nana” (dwarf hiba cedar)
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