Umbilicus rupestris ........ PRICE 1@ $8.00

Strange succulent plant; leaves like fleshy umbrellas, tuberous roots, flowers whitish pink in a conical spike this too is known as Navelwort, what is it with the belly button plant thing, first Omphloides verna and now this, fleshy umbrellas; it just creeps me out.

 

Valeriana arizonica ......... PRICE 1@ $6.50

Low cushions of orbicular leaves and fairly dense corymbs of white to pink flowers on 20-30cm stems, this is one of the more widely grown western species.

 

Valeriana phu 'Aurea' ..... PRICE 1@ $6.50

Valeriana phu is the long cultivated source of medicinal Valerian, a mild tranquilizer, phu probably refers to the smell as in phuuuu this really stinks, the plant however is very attractive coming up brilliant gold in spring and eventually turning lime green, its tall to 1.5m with officianalis like clusters of white flowers.

 

Valeriana SCOULERI Ratko 97-290 PRICE 1@ $6.50

Ron’s collections from Scorpion Butte in OR. at 4500’ where it forms foot wide mounds of pale green leaves topped by branching clusters of fragrant pink flowers atop 8-16” stems.

 

Valeriana supina ................ PRICE 1@ $6.50

A gem from the high alpine moist limestone screes and streamsides in the Alps, it forms low mats of ovate foliage with cymes of fragrant pink flowers on 10cm stems.

 

Vancouveria hexandra PRICE 1@ $12.00

A white flowered deciduous species from the Pacific Northwest, like the other species, it needs rich woodland conditions.

 

Vania campylophylla ...... PRICE 1@ $6.50

A strange little crucifer collected from cool limestone screes near Kavussahap Turkey at 2600m, cushions of succulent almost sedum like grayish green foliage and white flowers on 5cm stems it is cute and quite distinct.

 

Verbascum atroviolaceum PRICE 1@ $6.50

From R.M.R.P. atroviolaceum is probably conspecific with phonecium, flat rosettes of smooth foliage and spikes of purple flowers.

 

VERBASCUM HYBRID 'LETITIA' PRICE 1@ $6.50

A sterile hybrid from Wisley with 8” spikes of yellow flowers, its incredibly floriferous, it needs to be frequently propagated as older plants may go monocarpic.

 

Verbascum phoeniceum Mixed Colors PRICE 1@ $6.50

Flat rosettes of green leaves, and showy spikes of flowers, this is one of the most ornamental verbascums with flowers as good as wiedemannianum but much easier.

 

Verbena canadensis 'Lilac Time' PRICE 1@ $6.50

Despite the Sesame Street name this is rather nice, the fragrant lilac flowers are loved by butterflies. It is not as hardy as some of the canadensis forms but survives most years here, If anyone is growing wild types from a northern seed source I’d like to hear from them.

 

Verbena macdougallii ... PRICE 1@ $6.50

A western version of Vervain, meter high plants with deep purple flowers.

 

Verbena peruviana ............ PRICE 1@ $6.50

Flaming red flowers, great in a hanging basket; butterflies love 'em; I always thought it tender but apparently, it will winter around here with protection.

 

Verbena stricta .................. PRICE 1@ $6.50

Hoary Vervain, only 3’ high but strict, this one will mess around with Verbena hastata.

 

veronica

a wonderful genus with a little something for everyone; at one end of the spectrum are the tall border species. Perennials that provide months of color are loved by butterflies and have such an ease of culture that little short of roundup will do them in. At the other end of the spectrum, there are some of the choicest of alpine plants, perfect for troughs, the alpine house, or that special place in the rock garden. In between are many great plants for general rock garden use or for edging borders and what have you. We think we have assembled a wonderful collection that like fine wine needs to be sampled to fully appreciate it.

 

Veronica bombycina ssp bolkardaghensis             PRICE 1@ $6.50

Makes neat mats of intensely silver white foliage, it is perhaps the most lovely Veronica in terms of foliage with china blue flowers, it isperfect for troughs or the alpine house, a treasure from Turkey that's hardy but detests wet.

 

Veronica cinerea original archibald PRICE 1@ $6.50

My favorite Veronica back again after several years absence, gray cushions that cascade beautifully over rocks, misty blue flowers for a long period in summer, from Archibald seed this is the best form I've ever seen, a must.

 

Veronica cuneifolia ssp issaurica PRICE 1@ $6.50

Another nice Turkish species making downy mats and 2-3" spires of blue flowers these are from Mojmir’s collections.

 

VERONICA GENTIANOIDES VAR. GLACIALIS             PRICE 1@ $6.50

A very dwarf form of gentianoides, dense cushions of narrow green leaves, and showy blue flowers on scapes only 3-8cm tall, Mojmir got it on Ercies Dagh way up at 2,700m.

 

Veronica hyb. 'Waterperry' PRICE 1@ $6.50

A well-known hybrid, very free flowering, if quickly forms medium sized mounds, one of the best for general landscape use.

 

Veronica incana ‘silbersee’ PRICE 1@ $6.50

Low creeping mats of silvery foliage topped by short spikes of intensely blue flowers, it is perfect for the front of the border.

 

Veronica kelleri ................ PRICE 1@ $6.50

A botanically obscure name the plants look a bit like prostrata.

 

Veronica kotschyana #276 PRICE 1@ $6.50

A sub shrubby species collected by Jurasek from limestone fissures up around 2800m flowers range from violet to bright blue.

 

Veronica kurdica ssp kurdica PRICE 1@ $8.00

Collected by Holubec from Zagros in Iran at 3300m where he found the dwarf mats with sky blue flowers wedged in limestone crevices. Hey, ya gotta like the Kurds with any luck they can take over Iran and Iraq.

 

veronica liewanensis .... PRICE 1@ $6.50

From Betty Blake and one of the better Turkish Veronicas, very free flowering, extremely prostrate mats of tiny leathery green leaves.

 

Veronica longifolia 'Joseph's Coat' PRICE 1@ $6.50

An unstable variegated plant we got years ago from Heronswood, we finally have some that don’t seem reversion prone, a little pagan hoo doo and this thing is solid.

 

veronica oltensis ............. PRICE 1@ $6.50

Turkish and very, very choice. It resembles a miniature liwanensis, with sheets of china blue flowers, it needs care in watering or it may melt.

 

Veronica pectinata rosea PRICE 1@ $6.50

From the shady hills of Byzantium through Asia Minor comes this gem, its velvety hoary foliage and short sprays of large pinkish flowers have long been admired by discriminating gardeners. Pectinata is reasonably easy, but large plants are a bit melt prone if kept too wet.

 

Veronica pinnata 'Blue Feather' PRICE 1@ $6.50

A very distinctive Siberian species with feathery dissected foliage and long spires of ice blue flowers, it is one of the coolest new perennials we are offering for 2007

 

Veronica ponae .................... PRICE 1@ $5.50

Its blue flowered, cute, and apparently much more common in gardens than in the literature; none of the standard references list it.

 

Veronica porphyriana .... PRICE 1@ $6.50

low creeping mats of foliate topped with multitudes of short dense spikes of deep purplish blue flowers. it is the best new veronica we have seen in years.

 

Veronica prostrata 'Aztec Gold' PRICE 1@ $8.00

Prostrata with greenish gold foliage, foliage is nice but the flower color is washed out.

 

Veronica prostrata ‘Ice Blue’ PRICE 1@ $6.50

A selection from the Punnett garden, Dick is very fond of these two despite the fact that they seem a bit mundane compared to much of what he grows.

 

veronica prostrata Dick's wine PRICE 1@ $6.50

He'll need some wine if he hangs around this crazy place for any length of time. An unusual color for veronica, the abundant short spires are produced from low creeping mats; an easy, showy species.

 

veronica pseudocinerea PRICE 1@ $6.50

Also listed as V. thymoides ssp. pseudocinerea; looks a bit like cinerea, what a surprise, another good one from Turkey and seldom offered.

 

Veronica repens 'Sunshine' PRICE 1@ $6.50

Bright yellow flat mats barely ˝” high, Sunshine is more restrained than the species and a most attractive plant.

 

Veronica rotunda .............. PRICE 1@ $6.50

Dark green cushions from a woody base and blue flowers on 10-15cm spikes, a Japanese species these are from Mojmir’s private garden.

 

Veronica schmidtiana ..... PRICE 1@ $8.00

Also known as V. senanensis, it is native to Japan, Sakhalin, and the Kuriles, on alpine slopes; low clumps of foliage topped with racemes of thirty or so light bluish purple flowers with darker veins in mid to late summer.

 

Veronica spicata variegata PRICE 1@ $8.00

A streaky variegated form that is unstable but pretty.

 

Veronica subsessilis Blue Pyramid PRICE 1@ $6.50

An attractive border plant from Japan with heavy textured foliage and compact flower spikes, it looks a lot like Sunny Border Blue with lighter blue flowers, minus the hype.

 

VERONICA SURCULOSA Ratko 94-0469 PRICE 1@ $6.50

Shaggy carpets of gray green leaves; like a shorter form of cuneifolia, bright azure flowers on very short racemes, Turkey.

 

Veronica thessala ............ PRICE 1@ $6.50

Tiny cushions of succulent dark green leaves, stemless heads of bright blue cup shaped flowers clustered in little balls at the tips of the shoots, very distinctive and choice, ex Halda (actually the seed packet was labeled campanula oreadum, right on Josef).

 

Veronica thymoides thymoides PRICE 1@ $6.50

A Turkish species very similar to Veronica cinerea except for the indumentum, forming dense mats with blue flowers in short racemes of 4-10.

 

Veronicastrum sibericum PRICE 1@ $8.00

The Russian counterpart of V. virginicum, it is essentially identical except for the flower color, which is bluish purple in sibericum see the excellent photo in v.1 of Rix Perennials.

 

Vinca minor ‘Bowles Variety’ PRICE 1@ $8.00

If one more moron walks up to me holding a Dionysia and asks, “Is this a groundcover” we are going to feed him to the deadly attack Vinca. Its perfect for covering those unsightly disturbed areas where the bodies are buried, not to mention strangling out every other plant except large trees. The green desert at Hidden Lake is an abomination that needs a few gallons of Roundup, and the weird thing is the weed police don’t even seem to make a fuss over it, go figure, think of it as the low blue flowering Kudzu.

 

Vinca minor 'Emily Joy' white PRICE 1@ $6.50

A slightly less rampant white flowered form

 

Vincetoxicum forrestii PRICE 1@ $8.00

Cool stuff as are all things named forrestii.

 

Vincetoxicum steppsum PRICE 1@ $8.00

These dark flowered vining milkweeds are cool but they can weed around so beware, steppsum is new to cultivation

 

Viola keiskei ........................... PRICE 1@ $5.50

Obviously Japanese, large white flowers veined purple on the lower lips as violets go it’s no rosulate but still rather nice.

 

VIOLA PEDATA ........................... PRICE 1@ $6.50

One of the most desirable Violets, dissected leaves and flowers larger than any other native species. Needs sandy soil in sun to light shade, a very special Violet. It is believed to be the preferred food plant of the Great Spangled Fritillary, a beautiful species that has declined to the brink of extinction in Michigan.

 

VIOLA PEDATA bicolor ...... PRICE 1@ $6.50

One of the most beautiful of American wildflowers, the solid color form pales before it, these are from the Ozarks and are sufficiently different morphologically in comparison to the Eastern solid colored forms to make you wonder if they are a separate species.

 

Wahlenbergia oppositifolia PRICE 1@ $6.50

A neat little campanula relative it makes a nice pan plant for the alpine house.

 

Wulfenia baldacii ............... PRICE 1@ $6.50

Rarely encountered in gardens this is native to rocky shaded slopes in northern Albania, it is similar to carinthiaca with attractive spikes of blue flowers over clumps of hairy leaved foliage.

 

Wulfenia carinthiaca ..... PRICE 1@ $6.50

A curious scroph, the genus is named after Franz Xavier Freiherr Von Wulfen, (also famous for Castle Wolfenstein) W. carinthiaca is a cute little plant native to the southeastern Alps with racemes of blue flowers on 10” stems.

 

Wulfenia carinthiaca alba PRICE 1@ $6.50

Evergreen rosettes of foliage give rise to spikes of white flowers, this rare white form is sure to elicit favorable comments in your garden.

 

Yountia yoshinoi ................. PRICE 1@ $6.50

Google comes up blank on the genus as well as the species, I don’t have a clue either but somebody liked it enough to collect seeds.

 

Yucca aff. nana................... PRICE 1@ $12.00

Bradshaw’s collections from San Juan Co Utah at 6600’ rosettes are smaller than harrimaniae however, the flowering stems are a bit taller and the seed is nearly twice the size of harrimanii I think you can drop the aff and just call it nana

 

Yucca nana.............................. PRICE 1@ $12.00

A microform of Yucca harrimaniae it was given species status in 1998 these are from Han’s tissue cultured stock.

 

Yucca glauca ....................... PRICE 1@ $15.00

A very architectural plant with rosettes of slender stiff leaves 60cm x 5cm and creamy white flowers on meter high stems.

 

Yucca harrimaniae ex alplains PRICE 1@ $12.00

A very dwarf species small enough for the rock garden, harrimaniae is affectionately known as the Doll House Yucca. These are from Bradshaw’s collections in Utah

 

Yucca harrimaniae ratko 04-468 PRICE 1@ $12.00

A clustering multiple rosetted form collected by Ratko from sandy washes in the Escalante River drainage in Garfield Co Utah at 6340’ two foot stems bear fleshy globose flowers that are yellowish white tinged with purple above clusters of glaucous rosettes.

 

YUCCA RECURVAFOLIA ‘GOLD RIBBONS’ PRICE 1@ $15.00

Sean Hogan’s selection with rather soft leaves centered in gold and a grayish green margin, with age it will trunk up.

 

zantedeschia aethiopica ‘croburgh form’ PRICE 1@ $8.00

Pure white Calla these are supposedly the hardiest type.

 

Zauschneria garrettii .. PRICE 1@ $8.00

The hardiest of all the Zauschnerias Dick has had this for years however he never remembers to propagate us any. These are from Bradshaw’s offerings from Utah at 6300’, the masses of scarlet orange flowers are amazing, I do not understand why this is not more widely grown.

 

ZAUSCHNERIA CAna SSP. LATIFOLIA Ratko 95-509             PRICE 1@ $6.50

Collected at 8,150’ in the San Gabriel Mountains, Ron collected this unusually compact form from steep granite slopes where the finely hairy foliage cascaded in mats of dark silvery green, which were covered in late summer by the 2” intensely red tubular flowers. Punnett has grown Zauschnerias in the garden for years and this high altitude form has an excellent chance of wintering.

 

Ziziphora

Easy and long lived these central Asian mints are popular tea plants, and coming home to a hot mug of Ziziphora tea with a pat of butter floating on top after a hard day of wolf hunting on horseback, lugging a fifteen pound Berkut (the big golden eagles they hunt with) is Mongol tradition. You can now enjoy this treat at home, minus the yurts, Berkut, rancid Yak butter and so forth, or better still just plant them in your rock garden and enjoy the flowers and daydream about the eagle you will never get to hunt with.

 

Ziziphora aff. przewalskii PRICE 1@ $6.50

Halda is quite taken with these little tea plants; they are easy, forming broad aromatic mats, aff. Przewalskii has soft foliage and according to Ender smells like pond scum with maybe just a hint of rancid Yak butter.

 

Ziziphora aff tomentosa JJH 970950cimg3500m           PRICE 1@ $6.50

Halda collections from 3500m, near Bolshoj Cimgan, Uzbekistan, from dolomitic rocks where it forms grayish green hairy mats with heads of lilac purple flowers, our resident Ziziphora expert says it smells like Pizza.

 

Ziziphora clinopodioides PRICE 1@ $6.50

Perhaps the showiest species and certainly the one most commonly encountered in gardens, it is native from Turkey and the Caucasus through Central Asia and down through Afghanistan to Iran and Iraq, sub-shrubby low mats with dense heads of mauve-lilac flowers. Ender says it smells like peppermint.

 

Ziziphora pushkinii ........... PRICE 1@ $6.50

Mojmir found this growing in the sandy gravely soils of the Caucasus in the Elbrus region at 3200m compact woody based cushions with 10-20cm leafy stems bearing heads of pink flowers.

 

Ziziphora swertzovii Halda #209 PRICE 1@ $6.50

Halda’s 1999 collections from hot dry rocks in the Hissar Range in Uzbekistan at 1800m Joseph considers this the best tea plant in Central Asia and don’t forget the attractive low gray cushions topped with pink flowers.