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Osmunda cinnamomea (Osmundaceae)

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Common name: Cinnamon fern

Size, form, texture: can reach up to 6 ft in height, robust habit, deciduous fern

Hardiness, origin, native ecology: native to Eastern North America, native plant, likes being near water, or waters edge, will grow in seasonally inundated ground with moisture

Bud, foliage, flower and fruit characteristics: similar foliage to Ostrich fern, but is more densely populated with stems, builds stems quickly, cinnamon coloured fronds emerge from sterile fronds, particularly nice in spring when new growth emerges. Contrast of fertile and infertile fronds attractive in the landscape.

Cultural and maintenance requirements and appropriate uses in the landscape:  One of the best behaved of this family, goes well with willows, poplars, and ostrich fern.

Inula helerium (Asteraceae)

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Common name: elecampane

Size, form, texture: height 3-6 ft, spread 2-3 ft,

Hardiness, origin, native ecology: zone 3-7, easier plant than magnifica, prefers moist, well drained soils in full sun to part shade.

Bud, foliage, flower and fruit characteristics: yellow interesting attractive blooms in July to September, long blooming period, sunflower like yellow flowers, hairy coarse, toothed foliage.

Cultural and maintenance requirements and appropriate uses in the landscape:  Very attractive and interesting plant in masses. Cheerful flowers and massing foliage. Good in herb gardens, borders, wildflower gardens, or cottage style gardens.

Oenothera biennis (Onograceae)

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Common name: Common Evening Primrose

Size, form, texture: up to 7 ft tall, usually shorter, upright stems.

Hardiness, origin, native ecology: biennial, hardy, can survive in a variety of locations, prefers sandy soils, in open location with average moisture.

Bud, foliage, flower and fruit characteristics: Moths pollinate at night in drier parts of BC, sizeable rosette of leaves, sends up flowering shoot, can be weedy, basal leaves different from smaller leaves up stem, sticky, 4 sepals fused at tips which is the calyx, soft yellow flowers, ovary at base of flower, lanceolate, willow like leaves.

Cultural and maintenance requirements and appropriate uses in the landscape:  Oil commonly prescribed in natural medicine for mood disorders in women. Considered weedy but worth cultivating due to beauty.

Sedum sexangluare (Crassulaceae)

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Common name: watch-chain stonecrop

Size, form, texture: height 0.25-0.5 ft, spreading sedum,

Hardiness, origin, native ecology: zone 3-9, easy to propagate, full sun, dry to medium soil, can tolerate drought and  bit of shade and moisture, but thrives in sandy well drained soils.

Bud, foliage, flower and fruit characteristics: green and copper foliage, sedums, 5 petals, 5 sepals multiples of 5. All flower branches lie flat, increased sun exposure and dryness increases rustiness on leaves. Yellow blooms in June to August.

Cultural and maintenance requirements and appropriate uses in the landscape: good ground cover, likes top of wall, or slope, grows well in pots. Very easy to propagate, looks good in between cracks of rock wall.

Lysimachia clethroides (Primulaceae)

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Common name: gooseneck loosestrife

Size, form, texture: height 2-3 ft, spread 2-4 ft, upright rhizomatous, clump forming perennial, colony forming.

Hardiness, origin, native ecology: grown well in average, well drained soil in full sun to part shade, likes moist rich soil in sunny location, less aggressive if grown in drier soil with part shade.

Bud, foliage, flower and fruit characteristics: blooms late spring to early summer, racemes curve like goose neck giving it its name, many tiny white flowers on terminal racemes, ovate, lancolate medium green foliage. Tip of flower ascends, flowers for fairly long.

Cultural and maintenance requirements and appropriate uses in the landscape: can be aggressive, used often as a cut flower. Creates movement in the landscape.

Papaver somniferum (Papaveraceae)

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Common name: opium poppy

Size, form, texture: upright habit, 3-4 ft tall, Native to South eastern Europe and Western Asia.

Hardiness, origin, native ecology: annual, prefer hot, dry, sloping ground with no organic mulch, small seeded plant so needs open ground uncovered where seed can germinate right at surface of the ground.

Bud, foliage, flower and fruit characteristics: Serrated, deeply lobed, interesting bluish green leaves, cut stems exude milky latex, flower can be variety of colours, typically red, white, and purple with dark spot at base of flower. long flowering period, “pepper shaker” fruit sprinkles seeds then plant dies. Poppy’s self sow in preferred conditions.

Cultural and maintenance requirements and appropriate uses in the landscape:  Grown for three reasons: opium (in this case needs a lot of heat), poppy seeds, and typically grown for attractive flowers. Can be difficult to purchase, typically passed on as seeds.

Erigeron karvinskianus (Asteraceae)

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Common name: Mexican daisy, Spanish daisy

Size, form, texture: carpeting, rhizomatous, woody perennial, height 6-12 in, spread 1-3 ft.

Hardiness, origin, native ecology: tolerates extensive drought in the summer, grow in fertile well drained soils, likes full sun to part shade.

Bud, foliage, flower and fruit characteristics: blooms for three months, flowers emerge pink then turn white, attractive flower colour combination. Hairy greyish green foliage

Cultural and maintenance requirements and appropriate uses in the landscape: good in window boxes, hot ledges, rock gardens, zeros capes. Could be interesting paired with hardy ice-plant, known as flea bane due to compound that is off putting to insects. Self seeds, can be aggressive but not problematic.

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