The Lesser White Snakeroot is at home in dry forests of the Eastern USA. Its populations are declining there due to destruction of its habitats. In some states it is already regarded as endangered species. Native Americans use the plant for medical purposes, while we are more interested...

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 `Jungle Beauty` is a selection of our native bugle that grows a bit larger and which spreads heavily. Its foliage is dark green with a brown flush, the flowers are dark blue. This variety is the right choice for spots were you need a robust grownd cover.

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This Hollyhock belongs to a `strain`, that is to say it is propagated by seed and the resulting plants look quite alike but there is always some slight variation. Its flowers are very double and their colour can be anything from yellow-apricot to yellow-orange. It was bred...

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A Lady`s Mantle with a tendency to spread, therefore very suitable as a ground cover. It does well in moist and dry soil.

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Gentian violet is a very rare colour in the garden and for sure it is no colour anyone would expect with a leek. Gentiane-Leek shows excactly this colour, but that is all it got in common mit gentiane. It forms low matts (about 10 cm high) and looks like extremely thin chives. Its flowering...

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When horticulturist do not look closely, they often cause a mess. So it happened with this leek, that became better known with the present enthusiasm for herbs and vegetables. Usualy it is sold as Allium odorum, but this name is an invalid synonym for Allium ramosum. Allium ramosum however is not cultivated, nor in its home China nor anywhere else. What we really have here is Allium tuberosum, one of the most important alliums for cooking in China and ...

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A windflower of moist meadows and forests in Western China. In our nursery it does well at the margins of the pond and also in moist soil in full sun to partial shade. Since it flowers it summer, it closes the gap between the flowering season of the springflowering wood anemones and the Japanese anemones of the autumn.

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This windflower is one of the last to flower in spring, and in some years it will produce a second flush in autumn. It performs very well in the mixed border, but it develops into a real show stopper if kept in moist soil at the edge of a pond. It is at in the eastern Himalayas, where it can be found along rivers and other wet places.

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Not long ago the Snowdrop Windflower was a very common plant in many regions of Central Europe, but today its populations went down dramatically or disappeared completely. In this case it is not only the destruction of its habitats (semi-arid grassland) that causes the decline of this species, but it also showed that ...

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The range of this thimbleweed is divided into two regions without connection. One is in Alaska and the other one separated by several mountain ranges and thousands of kilometers on the eastern coast of Northamerica. It grows along riversides and on gravel banks and on similar places where its roots...

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Alexanders is native to the north-east of the USA. It grows in all kinds of wetlands, mainly only really wet soil. Since it becomes quite large, it is a plant for larger water features when it can be used in the background. If it is well watered, it will also grow in an ordinary border. The stalks of...

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Flowers of Aquilegia vulgaris var. stellata do not resemble Columbines but semi-double Clematises. In this variety the petals are of pinkish red and surround a yellow center, they really look like small suns. Since we propagate this variety by seed variation in the colour is possible.  

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This is the Columbine native to Central Europe. Its foliage is nicely divides and in early summer it bears dark blue flowers. Like all Columbines it hybridizes with other Columbines. We try to keep them separated but the odd seedling is always possible.

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We have mentioned before that Columbines easily hybridize with other Columbines. In a nursery you have two possibilities to deal with this problem. Either you do not propagate from seed and get new plants only from cuttings (not easy with Columbines), or you create a socalled `strain` that is propagated ...

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This Columbine came only recently to cultivation in Europe. It is named after the place where it was discovered, the village of Yabe on Kyushu, Japan. Like the rest of Japan also Kyushu is almost completely covered by mountains. Down on the foothills they grow tea plants and further...

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One of the most remarkable British nurseries is `Plantworld` in Devon. The name is to be taken literally, for the plants in this nursery are planted in geographic order. When you visit the nursery, you take a world tour. `Plantworld` specialised in many genera, among them...

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There got to be some Columbines in every self-respecting cottage garden. But - as one my botany teachers did put it - 'there is a horticultural problem with Columbines. Other genera tend to hybridize. What Columbines do in this respect can only be described as promiscuity.'  If you grow...

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This variety was created by Plant World Nursery in Devon. Strictly speaking it is not a variety but a strain, since it is propagated by seed and the seedlings do show slight variation (but their colours are always orange, yellow and red). Its not only the colour that makes this Columbine...

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Alpine Arnica is a well known medical plant but it is very difficult to keep in the garden. If your soil is not completely free of lime you need not bother a try. Also commercial herb farmers have great difficulties to grow Alpine Arnica. Even today most Arnica is collected in the...

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The perfect plant for lazzy gardeners. It needs almost no care at all and nethertheless it will perform very well. Its flowers are pale pink and they are vanilla scented. It is in bloom from mid summer to autumn. If you manage to be not that lazzy and cut back the spent flowers the plant will reward...

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