can anyone suggest some decorative plants that can be plced in rooms?

Answer 1

Why don't you go to your nearest Home Depot, OSH, etc.......you'll have to go there anyway to purchase your plants, talk to the plant specialist and ask them what would be best for your enviorment, make your selection of what you like and enjoy!

Answer 2

Hmmm... A design. I would think that you could try out some fake plants, but I woudn't shun organic plants. I happen to have a few in my room, and my dad has a fake one and a real one in his office. But it all depends. if you dont have time to water it, like if your away from your office a lot, Fake's the way to go! However, Organic are great looking, and smell good; Sometimes.

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Answer 3

A bamboo plant is a common sight in many house-holds but its really cute & u can keep it of different sizes at different corners in the house. Try some bonsai plants which donot need direct sunlight & consume little space.

Answer 4

You can use money-plant (either in water bottle or on moss-stick). You can use various bonsai plants also. Please remember that none of the plants is 100% in-door plant, You need to put them in Sunlight atleast once a week for atleast one hour and water it properly. Visit a local plant-nursary and you can get a big variety of indoor plants.

Answer 5

I am thinking opium poppies would be nice. Don't forget to punch holes in the box, or you will soon be growing mushrooms.

Answer 6

Phytus, palms,cactus

Answer 7

A list, too long I know But includes everything, much more than u gambled for...

Flowers & Decorative Plants

Most of the following are old‑fashioned self‑seeding varieties. I probably grew about half of them. The rest come from friends and relatives, total strangers, small seed growers and a few from commercial sources. For other decorative plants see Grains and Seed Crops, and Runner Beans.

ANNUAL FLOWERS

Annual Flowers and Grasses: $2.00 per packet

AGROSTEMMA
CORN COCKLE (Agrostemma Githago), a wildflower from Europe, is a close relative of Lychnis. The single flowers, pink with dark veins, open flat and are about 2" across. The plant’s growth habit resembles that of bachelor’s buttons.

AMARANTHUS
All varieties of amaranth have high protein edible seeds, and the young leaves and shoots can be eaten like spinach. For more amaranth varieties see Seed Crops.

LOVE‑LIES‑BLEEDING or CHENILLE PLANT (A. caudatus) makes a good display: green foliage contrasting with bright red seed heads that hang down to the ground like ropes. Pink seeds.

GOLDEN MAGIC FOUNTAINS (A. cruentus) has tall erect golden panicles.
PIGMY TORCH (A. hypochondriacus) is a smaller version of Burgundy amaranth. It is about 4' tall and has brown seeds.
TWIN TOWERS RED stands about 3' tall with half of that height a very dense spike of small deep red flowers.

AMETHYSTIA
TURQUOISE (A. caerula) is an annual 2' member of the mint family. The purplish plants with tiny metallic blue flowers are sweet scented and dry well.

AMMI
BISHOP’S FLOWER (A.majus) has lacy-white umbels of flowers and feathery compound foliage on 2'-3' plants. Good for cutting.

APTENIA
APTENIA CORDIFOLIA is a South African succulent plant with small bright green heart-shaped leaves. The low growing plants sprawl to 2'-3' and look good in hanging baskets. Small bright pink flowers for most of the summer.

ARGEMONE
WHITE PRICKLY POPPY (A. polyanthemos) has large white single poppy-like flowers on blue-green plants, marked with silver and covered with short spines. Seed may be slow and irregular to germinate. Might try cold stratification.

BROWALIA
BROWALIA (B. americana) is native to South America and a close relative of petunias. The bushy plants are about 1’ tall and are covered with blue flowers (to 1") all summer until the first frost.

BUPLEURUM
THOROUGH-WAX (B. griffithii) resembles an Euphorbia with umbels of yellow flowers surrounded by bright green bracts. The oval leaves appear to be pierced by the stems. Good as a cut flower.

CALENDULA
CALENDULA or POT MARIGOLD (C. officinalis) usually blooms in a mixture of yellow and orange shades. This selection also has some darker shades and contrasting centres. The flowers have been used for centuries in cooking (hence pot marigold), dying and in skin ointments.

CAMISSONIA
SUNFLAKES (Camissonia bistorta) is a low‑growing sprawling plant that is covered with ½" bright yellow, open, cup‑shaped flowers most of the summer. Likes full sun and is drought tolerant.

CELOSIA
COCKSCOMB CELOSIA (C. cristata) is a short (1' or so) amaranth relative with a dense red seedhead that resembles the comb of a rooster.

CENTAUREA
BACHELOR'S BUTTON or CORNFLOWER (C. cyanus) is a slim 2' plant native to Europe where it grows in farm fields (hence cornflower). Flowers are blue, or less commonly pink, light blue or mauve. Self‑seeds easily.

SWEET SULTAN (C. moschata) is taller and more branched than the previous variety, and has large mauve or white thistle-like flowers. THE BRIDE is a white selection of Sweet Sultan.

CERINTHE
HONEYWORT (C. major purpurea) is a striking Mediterranean plant with glaucous (covered with a white "bloom" which can be rubbed off) grey‑green leaves. The blue flowers, yellow at the base, are small but the deep blue bracts are very showy. Tolerates some frost and the plants retain their colour well into the fall.

CHAENORRHINUM
DWARF SNAPDRAGON (C. origanifolium) BLUE DREAM is a compact 6" plant from the Pyrenees. The lilac-blue flowers with yellow throats cover the plants from June to frost.

CISTANTHE
CISTANTHE GRANDIFLORA is a portulaca relative from Chile which forms succulent light green rosettes above which rise 1' stems of large glossy pink single flowers.

CLARKIA
CLARKIA (C. elegans) has tall spikes of double flowers in mixed colours with pink/mauve shades predominating. Likes full sun and is drought resistant. A native of western USA, clarkia was named after Captain Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

DEERHORN CLARKIA (C. pulchella) CONFETTI MIX has slender spikes of pink, lavender and lilac flowers with lobed petals like antlers on a slender upright plant with willow-like leaves.

CLEOME
PINK CLEOME (C. serrulata) is also called spider flower because of its narrow petals and long stamens. The 2'‑3' plants have loose heads of soft pink flowers and self‑sow easily.

CNICUS
BLESSED THISTLE (Cnicus benedictus) has bright yellow 1" flowers on a thistle-like plant to 2', with attractively marbled leaves. Has been used for many medicinal purposes.

CONSOLIDA
LARKSPUR (C. ajacis) is an annual delphinium, a very erect plant about 2' tall with finely divided leaves. The flowers are borne in spikes over a long season. Both the flowers and seed pods are used in dried arrangements. All larkspurs do better if fall seeded. I am offering a PURPLE AND BLUE MIX, and EXQUISITE ROSE, a large flowered double pink.

BLUE CLOUD (C. regalis) is taller than the other varieties and looks like a blue baby's breath but with larger (½") florets. A few plants will probably be pink flowered.

COREOPSIS
COREOPSIS BASALIS ‘GOLD KING’ is a Texas native forming compact plants, about 1' high, with deeply cut leaves. The golden flowers with dark centres cover the plants all summer and fall.

TICKSEED (C. tinctoria) has vivid single yellow flowers with wine‑red centers, and an occasional deep‑red flowered plant. A 2'‑3' self‑seeding plant that is native to the great plains. DWARF RED PLAINS COREOPSIS (C. tinctoria) is a shorter selection of the native species with bright red flowers.

CORYDALIS
GOLDEN CORYDALIS (C. aurea) forms low mounds of pale green finely divided leaves, out of which rise racemes of golden yellow flowers. Annual or biennial which self-seeds in our garden. The plants which pass the winter as a rosette make a good display early in the spring. Those seedlings which come up in the spring bloom summer to fall but generally suffer from the heat of summer. Common on the edge of woodlands and in areas of disturbance throughout Saskatchewan.

COSMOS
PICOTEE COSMOS (C. bipinnatus) has 2" single flowers, white with petals edged in red, to pure red, and finely divided dill-like leaves. Native to Mexico and cultivated since 1799. Direct seed to produce 3' plants that bloom from mid‑summer until frost.

COSMOS SULPHUREUS has bright orange‑red double flowers about 1½" across. I am offering SUNNY RED, a compact variety with flowers in orange‑red shades.

DATURA
Daturas are tall robust plants, usually annuals but some are perennials in warmer climates. The trumpet-shaped flowers are usually large and often scented. All parts of these plants are poisonous. Seed many take several months to germinate, and is greatly helped by treatment with Gibberelic Acid (GA-3), which is available from Gardens North.

TORNA LOCO (D. ceratocaula) is unlike any other Datura I’ve grown. It will grow in shallow water in its native Mexico. The leaves are narrow and oaklike. The fleshy stems grow to about 3' and sprawl on the ground. The large scented flowers are white trumpets with 5 mauve stripes in the throat. They last for less than 24 hours, opening in the evening and closing the next morning, except on cloudy days. Seed very difficult to germinate without GA-3.

DESERT THORNAPPLE (D. discolor) has white 4"-6" trumpet flowers with purple throats. Rather short (1 ½’) for a datura with greyish foliage and nodding spiny pods.

LONG SPINED THORNAPPLE (D. ferox) has smaller white flowers and pods with very long spines.
TRUMPET FLOWER (Datura sp.) Has large, lightly scented pure white trumpet flowers followed by spiny pods which split open when mature.
JIMSONWEED (D. stramonium) is a sturdy, fast‑growing annual about 3' tall and almost as wide. The scented white flowers only open at night and are followed by large prickly seed balls. It has been used for centuries for medicinal purposes. Self‑seeds to a small extent here and, as the seeds are very long lived, seedlings will probably come up for a number of years.
DATURA TATULA var. INERMIS has large pale lavender trumpets followed by round spineless egg-shaped pods.

DICRANOSTIGMA
ARISTOCRAT (Dicranostigma Franchetianum) is a well branched 2' plant with grey‑green foliage. The bright clear yellow 2" poppy flowers cover the plant most of the summer, followed by long slim pods similar to those of California poppy.

DICRANOSTIGMA LEPTOPODUM forms a large rosette of leaves divided almost to midrib. From the rosette rise 1½' stems which are almost leafless and somewhat divided. The 1" yellow flowers are almost identical to Aristocrat and are borne liberally most of the summer with some re-blooming in the fall.

DIGITALIS
FOXY (D. purpurea) (AAS 1967) This foxglove blooms the first year from seed and only grows about 3' tall. Mixed colours.

DYSSODIA
DAHLBERG DAISY (D. tenuiloba) is a low (under 1') mound forming plant with finely divided foliage nearly covered by its small yellow daisies. Blooms all summer and fall and likes full sun and dry growing conditions.

ECHINOCYSTIS
WILD CUCUMBER (E. lobata) is a native Saskatchewan vine that grows about 8 feet. In the wild this fast‑growing annual climbs bushes but you might try covering a trellis with it. Leaves are light green, yellowish‑white flowers are followed by prickly seed balls. Seeds need cold to germinate properly. Seed in the fall or very early in the spring, or refrigerate before seeding.

ESCHSCHOLZIA
CALIFORNIA POPPY (E. californica) self‑seeds all over the garden but it is not especially difficult to control. With its cheerful yellow‑orange flowers and finely cut blue‑green foliage, it is a "weed" I can live with. It is one of the earliest flowers in the spring and blooms most of the summer.

SUNDEW (E. caespitosa) has attractive lemon-yellow flowers smaller than those of California poppy. The plants have the same finely cut grey-green foliage but are smaller, making neat mounds under 1' tall.

EUPHORBIA
SNOW-ON-THE-MOUNTAIN (E. marginata) is an upright plant about 1 ½’ tall with insignificant flowers but very showy leaves with clear white margins. Direct seed in the garden as soon as the soil is dry enough to work. Likes full sun and is drought resistant.

GAILLARDIA
FIREWHEEL (G. pulchella) is an annual blanket flower with downy deeply cut leaves. The showy flowers are about 3" across and come in a mixture of yellow/orange/red shades.

GAURA
LINDHEIMER’S GAURA (G. lindheimeri) is perennial in its native Texas but not in most of Canada. This is a slender graceful plant, 2'-3' tall, with a loose spike of tubular rosy-white flowers, blooming all summer and fall.

GLAUCIUM
YELLOW HORNED POPPY (G. flavum) is native to the European seacoast. Each plant is a
mound of dissected silver branching foliage with yellow poppy flowers for most of the summer. It is a very tender perennial so I am hoping it will self‑seed. Seed needs cold stratification.

HELIANTHUS - SUNFLOWER
AUTUMN BEAUTY (H. annuus) produces many 6" flowers in yellow, bronze and mahogany red, with a darker zone. Branching plants to about 7'.

VELVET QUEEN (H. annuus) has dark burgundy red flowers with almost black centres. Branching plants to about 7'.
TEDDYBEAR (H. annuus) has 4"-6" very double golden yellow blooms on plants only about 2' tall.
ITALIAN WHITE (H. debilis) produces many 4" flowers on branching plants to 6'. Flowers have dark chocolate centres, surrounded by a thin ring of yellow, and then pure white outer petals.

HELICHRYSUM
TALL SPLENDID EVERLASTING (H. bracteatum monstrosum) has large double flowers in a good range of colours – red, orange, yellow to white. The most popular flower for drying.
ROSE BEAUTY (H. cassinianum) has loose clusters of pink star-shaped papery flowers on sprawling plants under 1' tall.

HIBISCUS
SIMPLY LOVE is a named variety of H. trionum with open light yellow flowers with dark centers followed by interesting seed pods. Easy to grow from transplants. About 1 ½' tall by 1' wide.

IBERIS
CANDYTUFT (I. umbellata) blooms in white, pink or mauve on about 1' plants. The four-petaled flowers are not large but come in showy heads. WHITE HYACINTH-FLOWERED CANDYTUFT (I. umbellata) has larger pure white flowers on hyacinth-like heads.

IPOMOEA - MORNING GLORY
SCARLET O'HARA (I. Nil) (AAS 1939) has dark wine red flowers profusely produced over a long period. A hardy annual vine to 10' with large heart-shaped leaves.

GRANDPA OTT’S (I. Purpurea) will produce vines up to 15'. Many small (for a morning glory) deep purple flowers with a red star in the throat. Brought from Bavaria to the USA in the 1870's.

HEAVENLY BLUE (I. tricolor) has sky blue flowers shading to golden yellow in the throat. Soak or nick morning glory seeds to promote germination.
FLYING SAUCERS (I. tricolor) is an unusual old variety having white flowers with narrow blue stripes.

LATHYRUS
LATHYRUS ARTICULATUS has pink and white bicoloured flowers somewhat smaller than standard sweet peas. The seed pods are pinched between seeds so that each seed is in its own compartment.

CUPANI SWEETPEA (L. odoratus) is a purple flowered sweet scented variety. It was first mentioned in 1695 by Fr. Cupani, a Franciscan monk, as growing in his monastery garden in Sicily, and 4 years later it was sent to England.

PAINTED LADY (L. odoratus) is a rose and white bi-coloured beautifully scented sweet pea found growing in a patch of Cupani in 1737.
KIND EDWARD VII (L. odoratus) is a crimson flowered, highly scented variety introduced in England in 1903.
GRANDIFLORA MIXTURE (L. odoratus) contains 25 different colours with some bi-coloured and striped varieties. Strongly scented varieties introduced before 1907. They grow 5'-6' tall.
RUSSIAN SWEETPEA (Lathyrus sp.) appears to be a variety of tinga or Tangier Pea (Lathyrus Tingitanus) with much deeper pink flowers.

LAVATERA
ROSE MALLOW (L. trimestris) is a tall (3') sturdy plant with large single pink flowers. It blooms early and continues through most of the summer.
DWARF WHITE CHERUB (L. trimestris) only grows about 1' tall and is covered with pure white flowers.

LEONOTUS
LION’S EAR (L. leonurus) is a member of the mint family, a stiff upright plant around 3’ tall, with whorls of vivid orange flowers.

LINUM
WHITE‑FLOWERED FLAX (L. grandiflorum alba) is a slender 1'‑1½' annual, free flowering over most of the summer. The inch wide pure white flowers only last a day but are replaced each day with others. Direct seed as they do not like their roots disturbed. May self‑seed.

SCARLET FLAX (L. grandiflorum rubrum) is identical to White Flax except for the colour of the flowers. The two flaxes will cross, giving a mixture of flower colours unless they are isolated.

MATRICARIA
GERMAN CHAMOMILE (M. recutita) is a 1'‑2' self‑seeding annual with finely divided leaves. The white inch wide daisies with yellow centres are sweet scented and used to make a relaxing tea.

MATTHIOLA
EVENING-SCENTED STOCK (M. bicornis) has lilac-pink ¾" flowers that open in the evening to scent the air with a powerful perfume. The 1½’-2' plants self-seed so establish a patch near your patio.

NEMESIA
NEMESIA STRUMOSA blooms in a wide range of brilliant colours most of the summer on plants under 1' high.

NICANDRA
SHOO‑FLY PLANT (N. Physalodes) has sky‑blue, inch‑wide bell‑shaped flowers that only open wide in full sun. Unusual papery five‑winged pods are useful in dried arrangements. Vigorous bushy plants are about 3' tall. Start as a bedding plant and will self‑seed. BLACK ROD has deep purple stems and the pods are blushed purple. A bit taller and more slender with somewhat smaller leaves than the preceding variety. SPLASH OF CREAM has green leaves varigated with white.

NICOTIANA
Tobaccos are all started as bedding plants.
FLOWERING TOBACCO (N. alata) is a 3' plant with showy trumpet-shaped flowers in shades from pink to wine-red with perhaps an occasional white.

SWEET-SCENTED WHITE (N. alata) has sweet scented drooping, white flowers with long slender tubes flaring to 1"‑2" wide. Grows to 5' with huge leaves.

AZTEC TOBACCO (N. rustica) has been used ceremonially by Native Americans. Can be used to make an insecticide.
SMOKING TOBACCO (N. tabacum) grows to about 6' and has rose flowers. Leaves may be soaked to make an insecticide. I am offering:
SHIRAZI (IRANIAN) – strong flavoured and early maturing.
HAVANA – fast maturing; seed grown in Wisconsin.
EASTER ISLAND TOBACCO (Nicotiana sp.) Is a short (about 3') early species that has been smoked on Easter Island. The trumpet shaped flowers are shorter than those of most tobaccos and are pale yellow.

NIGELLA
LOVE‑IN‑A‑MIST (N. damascena) grows about 1' tall and has very finely divided leaves. The white or occasionally light blue flowers are unusual but not especially showy. It is grown mainly for its large oval seeds pods which are used in dried arrangements. CRAMER’S PLUM (N. damascena) is a white-flowered cultivar which is grown mainly for its large burgundy pods.

CURIOSITY (N. hispanica) has deep blue flowers and seed pods that resemble a jester's hat.
TRANSFORMER (N. orientalis) has small yellow‑green flowers followed by intricate seed pods for dried use. About 1½' tall.

PAPAVER
All of the annual poppies I am listing here, except Papaver rhoeas, are 2'-3' tall, have grey-green leaves, stiff stems, and large seed-capsules suitable for drying.
PEONY POPPIES (P. somniferum) have very double flowers. I am offering RED, PINK, WHITE and BLACK (or at least very dark maroon) varieties.
THE CLOWN (P. somniferum) has large single flowers, with fringed red petals and a white spot in the middle. Probably not 100% pure seed.
AMERICAN LEGION (P. rhoeas) is a single scarlet poppy with a black or white cross in the centre.
ANGEL WINGS (P. rhoeas) is a single corn poppy in a mixture of pastel shades.

PETUNIA
WILD PETUNIA (P. integrifolia) grows to 8" tall and spreads to 18". Covered with rosy-purple inch-wide trumpet flowers until frost. The cross of this native of Argentina with P. axillaris was the origin of all modern petunias.

PHACELIA
WILD HELIOTROPE (P. tanacetifolia), a native of the western USA, grows 18"‑24" tall, has lavender‑blue flowers and blooms freely throughout the summer and fall. Very attractive to bees and also used as a green manure crop.

POLYGONUM
JAPANESE INDIGO (P. tinctorium) has bright pink flowers in dense 3 ½” spikes on a plant to 3'. The leaves produce a commercial blue dye in the Orient.

RESEDA
MIGNONETTE (R. odorata) is a sprawling 1' annual with tiny inconspicuous flowers that are powerfully fragrant. Grow with showy but less fragrant flowers.

RICINUS
CASTOR BEAN (R. communis) is a tropical tree grown as an annual. It grows 3'-6' in one year with large lobed leaves, and one to two foot clusters of flowers followed by attractive spiny red pods. Soak seeds overnight and start as bedding plants. Seeds are poisonous and source of castor oil.

SALPIGLOSSIS
PAISLEY FLOWER (S. sinuata) is a 1'-2' native of Chile and a member of the Solanum family. It has large funnel-shaped flowers that may be yellow, violet, red or bluish, which are strikingly veined with purple. Blooms all summer and fall.

SALVIA
TEXAS SAGE (S. coccinea) grows 2'-3' tall and is a perennial in its native southern US and Mexico. Has tall spikes of brilliant red blossoms which are very attractive to hummingbirds.

SAPONARIA
SOAPWORT (S. vaccaria) is 24"‑30" tall, has grey‑green leaves and produces large quant-ities of single flowers. I am offering ROSA BELLA, a pink flowered variety. Very good as a cut flower.

SILENE
SWEET-WILLIAM CATCHFLY (S. armeria) grows about 1' tall with greyish-green foliage and dense clustered flowerheads of white, pink or red. Naturalized in Britain since the 1800's.
BALLETJE BALLETJE (S. conica) is a catchfly growing about 1' tall with very small pink flowers. It is grown for its masses of small inflated pods (balletje means 'little ball' in Dutch) which are used in dried floral arrangements.

SILYBUM
ST. MARY'S MILK THISTLE (S. Marianum) Striking rosettes of large glossy, dark green, spiny leaves streaked and marbled with white, followed by 2" wide rose-purple faintly scented flower heads on 4-6' stalks. Very attractive to bees and birds who love the seeds. Has been
used as food and there is great interest in its medicinal properties. Direct seed.

TAGETES
DWARF FRENCH MARIGOLD (T. patula) has been self seeding in my garden for years. The double flowers may be yellow, orange, or bronze and make a good display, especially in the later summer and fall.
SIGNET MARIGOLD (T. signata) LEMON GEM produces a low mound of lacy foliage covered by hundreds of small single lemon‑yellow flowers. The whole plant is lemon scented and the
flowers are a lovely addition to salads. Blooms from early summer to frost. Direct seed or start as bedding plants. RED GEM has red petals with a yellow centre.

TRACHELIUM
BLUE THROATWORT (T. caeruleum) is a perennial relative of Campanulas grown as an annual. The small star-shaped, blue-violet flowers are produced in dense sprays on plants to one foot.

TROPAEOLUM
NASTURTIUM (T. majus) – This Peruvian native has been grown in gardens for a very long
time. The shield-shaped leaves have a tangy, cress-like flavour and are used in salads. Flowers are also eaten and buds and seeds can be pickled. The original nasturtiums were long trailing plants but I’m offering two compact varieties.
EMPRESS OF INDIA has dark bluish-green foliage with flowers of an intense crimson-scarlet and dates back to the late 1800's.
ALASKA MIX has variegated foliage marked with creamy white and flowers in a range of reds, oranges, and yellows.

VERBENA
VERBENA (V. bonariensis) is a tall plant with rigid stems (to about 3') topped by heads of
purple flowers from summer to the first frosts. This perennial, grown as an annual was introduced from South America to England around 1725.

VIOLA
JOHNNY-JUMP-UP (V. tricolor) is an annual or short lived perennial that self-seeds easily. Its
cheerful purple, yellow, and white flowers are among the first to appear in the spring and may bloom off and on until frost.
HISTORIC PANSIES MIX (V. x wittrockiana) comes from the huge collection of historic pansies grown by Kees Sahin, a seedsman from the Netherlands. This mix closely resembles those grown by gardeners 150 years ago.

ZINNIA
PROFUSION WHITE (AAS) is a compact foot high plant blooming until frost, bearing many white flowers with yellow centres.

ANNUAL GRASSES
JAPANESE MILLET (Echinochloa crus-galli var. frumentacea) is about 4' tall with quite tight upright decorative heads. Seed is edible. Needs a long growing season so should be started as a bedding plant.
TEFF (Eragrostis tef) forms graceful clumps spraying out to about 1' high and almost as wide. Seed head is a delicate loose panicle. The small seeds are a staple food in Ethiopia.
PURPLE MAJESTY MILLET (Pennisetum glaucum) has deep purple foliage looking like a small corn plant (to about 4'). There are three or more dense purple seed spikes, up to 1' long, per plant. Young plants are green and full sun develops the best colour.
BROOM-CORN (Sorghum vulgare) has been cultivated for its edible seeds, to produce sugar (from its stalks), and for making brooms (its inflorescence after the mature seeds have been removed). This mix is offered mostly for its brightly coloured seed-heads – gold, bronze, brown, black, burgundy and cream. This tall corn relative is late maturing and, even started as a bedding plant, probably will not mature in Saskatchewan.

Annual Flowers and Grasses – $2.00 per packet

PERENNIAL FLOWERS

Most of these perennials (and a few biennials) are perfectly hardy in Saskatchewan, grow best in full sun, and are easy to start from seed. A few are tender perennials but can be grown as annuals in Saskatchewan if they are started as bedding plants. I am offering an increasing number of Saskatchewan wild flowers, all of which benefit from cold stratification to germinate the seed.

Perennial Flowers and Grasses – $3.00 per packet

ACER
AMUR MAPLE (A. ginnala) is a very hardy small tree (to about 20') native to Asia. The bark is silvery, the leaves are a bit small for a maple, flowers are very small but fragrant. The winged fruits turn red in the summer, and the leaves are a beautiful red in the fall. Sprout seeds in damp peatmoss in fridge or seed outdoors in fall.

ACHILLEA
FERN-LEAF YARROW (A. filipendulina) at 3'-4', is the tallest of the yarrows. The flat-topped golden yellow flower heads are very large and dry easily.
YARROW or MILLFOIL (A. millefolium). I harvested seed from a good cross section of the plants I have been growing here. I am offering a PINK selection and a MIX with flowers from white to a variety of pastel colours.
SIBERIAN YARROW (A. sibirica var. camtschatica) LOVE PARADE is a named variety with large (for a yarrow) soft pink flowers in flat-topped heads blooming all summer and fall, and leaves not as divided as those of A. millefolium.
WOOLY YARROW (A. tomentosa aurea) forms a mat of wooly leaves. Flower stalks under 1' bear flat-topped heads of bright yellow flowers.

ADENOPHORA
LADYBELLS (Adenophora sp.) is a Campanula relative growing to about 3', bearing medium to deep blue bells over a long period.

AGASTACHE
GIANT HYSSOP (A. foeniculum) has tall spikes of lavender flowers on plants to 3'. Dried leaves and flowers make a nice tea. Grows in open woodlands in Saskatchewan. Cold stratify.
WHITE GIANT HYSSOP (A. foeniculum alba) is a white flowered variant of giant hyssop.

ALCEA
ANTWERP (FIG-LEAF) HOLLYHOCK (A. ficifolia) has large single yellow, pink, red, copper
and white flowers in spikes to 5' tall. The plants with large lobed leaves are more vigorous than the common hollyhock (A. rosea). Introduced from Siberia around 1600.
HOLLYHOCK (A. rosea) is a tall biennial or perennial that likes growing against a wall where it can have some support. I am offering a deep red selection, which might have a few other colours with it.
BLACK HOLLYHOCK (A. rosea var. nigra) has single, deep maroon flowers shading to a glossy purple-black.

ALLIUM
ALTAI ONION (A. altaicum) is thought to be the wild ancestor of perennial bunching onions (A. fistulosum). Forms handsome clumps larger than the cultivated species, with large yellowish-white spherical flower heads.
MOUSE GARLIC (A. angulosum) is harvested and consumed in the spring in its native Russia. The flat leaves are bent at the middle rib (hence angulosum). Round mauve flower heads blooming mid-season.
AZURE ONION (A. caeruleum) is a tall early onion with deep sky blue globular flower umbels. A native of Siberia that came into decorative use around 1830.
NODDING ONION (A. cernuum) is native to the foothills and Rockies and is an early summer
bloomer. The flowers are from white to pink to lavender and are borne in clusters atop the stalks which are bent over so that the flowers nod toward the ground. Grows in the prairies of southern Saskatchewan.
ALLIUM CYATHOPHORUM v. FARRERI is an attractive little plant with flat, narrow leaves to about 8" high. Flowers are a deep reddish purple and bell-shaped in a one-sided pendulous umbels.
SMALL YELLOW ONION (A. flavum) has glaucous foliage and loose open umbels of dangling, bell-shaped, straw-yellow flowers. Germinates in 2-3 months at cool temperatures.
ALLIUM HYMENORRHIZUM. An Asian native bearing tight round balls of purplish-pink flowers over a long period in summer.
BLUE-TONGUE LEEK (A. karataviense) is a low growing allium (under 1') with wide attractive blue-green leaves. Spring flowering, each plant produces a large globe-shaped umbel of pink to mauve flowers. Needs cold, then warm, to germinate. One possibility is seeding a flat in the fall and leaving it outside for the winter.
ALLIUM OBLIQUUM is a tall species (2’-3’) from northwest Asia looking somewhat like leeks, with tight spherical yellowish-white flower heads.
OSTROWSKY ONION (A. oreophilum) is a native of Turkistan growing to 6" tall and bearing pinkish purple flowers in June. The 2 linear leaves have withered by flowering time and the entire plant may disappear after flowering to reappear the following spring.
ALLIUM RAMOSUM is native to central Asia and quite similar to Garlic Chives except that the white flowers appear earlier.
ALLIUM SCORODOPRASUM ssp. JAJLAE has numerous rosy-violet flowers in round umbels and flat grass-like leaves.
ALLIUM SPLENDENS looks like a very stiff plant of chives. This far eastern native blooms in July – August.
GIANT CHIVES may be a selection from chives (A. schoenoprasum) or a separate species but it has large showy spherical purple flowerheads and you can use it like chives.
ALLIUM SPECIES MIX contains a number of species I have not been able to identify, with white and mauve to purple flowers and generally vigorous clumps of flat leaves, growing 1'-2' tall. Cold stratify, then keep flat warm for a couple of months.

AMORPHA
INDIGOBUSH AMORPHA (A. fruticosa) is a deciduous shrub to 12" with pea-like foliage and flowers. The flowers are purplish-blue with orange anthers in 3"-6" upright spikes. Grows well in poor dry soil but I don’t know if it is winter hardy here. Fall seed or try stratification.

AMSONIA
WILLOW BLUE STAR (A. tabernaemontana) is a long-lived perennial which may take 2 or 3 years before it first flowers. The plants are 1'-2' tall, neat and upright, with narrow
willow-like leaves. The pale blue flowers are star-shaped and come in clusters. Very drought and cold tolerant.

ANEMONE
ANEMONE x LESSERI is apparently a cross between A. multifida and A. sylvestris. Pink flowers are plentifully borne on erect stems (to 1') above ferny foliage. Likes some shade and moist soil.

ANTHEMIS
GOLDEN MARGUERITE (A. tinctoria) ‘KELWAYI’ has lemon-yellow, 1 ½" daisies in summer
to fall, held above finely cut feathery foliage. About 1 ½' plants that self-seed easily. Flowers used to dye wool.

ANTHYLLIS
LADY’S FINGERS (Anthyllis vulnerararia) is a Eurasian legume with yellow-orange flowers in dense heads on a low sprawling plant with silky pinnate foliage. Good in dry sunny places. Nicking seed aids in germination.

AQUILEGIA
Columbines hybridize easily so the seed of A. caerulea and A. flavescens is not pure. Germination is improved by cold stratification or treatment with gibberellic acid (available from Gardens North). Columbines like partial shade.
COLORADO COLUMBINE (A. caerulea) is a 2' plant with blue and white long spurred flowers.
YELLOW COLUMBINE (A. flavescens) is my tallest columbine with light yellow flowers. Native to the Canadian Rockies.
NORA BARLOW (A. vulgaris) has fully double flowers looking like small dahlias. The flowers are carmine-pink with white-tipped petals and a bit of lime-green.
WOODSIDE (A. vulgaris) is a pink-flowered aquilegia with variegated green and yellow leaves. Select seedlings for variegation.
COLUMBINE MIX contains singles and doubles in blues, white, pink, yellow, etc. including bicolours.

ARNICA
MOUNTAIN TOBACCO (A. montana) has large golden daisies in summer on 1'-2' stalks growing out of a rosette of 8" downy leaves. This plant from the Alps is traditionally used to treat sprains and bruises.

ASCLEPIAS
BUTTERFLY WEED (A. tuberosa) has brilliant orange flowers on 1'-2' downy stems in mid-summer. Cold stratify or seed outside in fall.

ASTER
ALPINE ASTER (A. alpinus) has large purple flowers with yellow centres, and mostly basal spoon-shaped leaves on a plant to 1'. WHITE BEAUTY is a selection with white flowers.
SMOOTH ASTER (A. laevis) has many violet-blue flowers with yellow centres over a long season. Plants form clumps 1'-2' tall. Very widespread on the northern edge of the prairies. Self-seeds easily in the garden. Cold stratify seed.

AURINIA (ALYSSUM)
BASKET OF GOLD (A. saxatilis) has spreading low (under ½') grey-green foliage covered with bright yellow flowers in spring.

BUPHTHALMUM (TELEKIA)
HEARTLEAF OXEYE (B. speciosum) has large yellow daisy flowers on 3'-4' stalks in summer. Has large heart-shaped downy basal leaves.

CAMPANULA
CAMPANULA CARNEA is probably not its name, but this is how it came to me. It is a slender little plant (under 1' tall) which produces blue bell-shaped flowers, the first year from seed.
CARPATHIAN BELLFLOWER (C. carpatica) Forms small clumps about 1' tall that bear china blue, or sometimes white, bell‑shaped flowers over a very long period. Seedlings and young
plants are small and slow growing but may bloom the first year.
CLUSTERED BELLFLOWER (C. glomerata) has large deep violet flowers arranged in globe-shaped clusters around the stem. An upright clump forming plant. WHITE CLUSTERED
BELLFLOWER (C. glomerata alba) is the white-flowered version.
CAMPANULA MAKASCHVILII is a recent introduction from the Causacus. Out of a mound of heart-shaped grey-green foliage rise leafy flower stalks to 1’ bearing white nodding bells.
CANTERBURY BELLS (C. medium) – A 2'‑3' tall biennial that blooms in shades of purple, pink, and white with some doubles. May re-bloom if it is cut back.
PEACH‑LEAVED BELLFLOWER (C. persicifolia) The 2'‑3' plants bear 2" nodding blue or white flowers (with perhaps some doubles) throughout the summer.
CAMPANULA PUNCTATA – A vigorous 1'‑2' bellflower with large tubular bells of creamy- white tinted pink and spotted inside with purple and red, often with bronze‑red stems. Makes a nice ground cover.
HAREBELL (C. rotundifolia) is a graceful plant (to 1') with wiry stems bearing open blue bells through-out the summer until the first frost. Native to the northern hemisphere, including the prairies and park-lands of western Canada.
WHITE GEM (C. rotundifolia) is a selection of the wild harebell with pure white flowers.
ALASKA HAREBELL (C. rotundifolia var. alaskana) is quite a bit larger than the species.
SIBERIAN BELLFLOWER (C. siberica) is a 1'-1 ½' tall plant crowned with many blue bells in late spring and early summer.
CAMPANULA THYRSOIDES is a European native that forms a large rosette of narrow leaves and only sends up its 2' flowering spike the second year. The flowering spike is densely packed with cream-coloured upward facing bells throughout the summer and fall.

CENTAUREA
I have a lot of Centaurea species. I have not been able to identify them all and surely some of them are misnamed.
CENTAUREA ALPESTRIS – A mounding plant to 1½' with dark green foliage and bright purple thistle flowers most of the summer.
CENTAUREA DEALBATA has leaves silvery-hairy beneath and pinkish-purple thistle flowers all summer. Slightly sprawling plants are about 2’ tall.
GLOBE CORNFLOWER (C. macrocephala) – Forms 2'‑4' clumps topped with spherical papery buds which open into 4" yellow thistles which dry well.
MOUNTAIN BLUET (C. montana) is a clump forming 2' plant with deep blue spidery flowers blooming in June and somewhat less throughout the summer.
SHEEP KNAPWEED (C. ovina) is a large statured plant, 2'-3' tall and 2' wide with divided grey-green leaves and many thistle-like pink flowers blooming until frost.
CENTAUREA RUPESTRIS has finely divided greyish foliage topped with pure yellow flowers.
CENTAUREA SCABIOSA is a fairly tall native of the Caucasus with large purple flowerheads and a branching habit. The dried receptacle is quite attractive, silver above with a dark thatched pattern below.
CENTAUREA SPECIES MIX are all robust plants 1'-2' tall with mauve to purple thistle flowers.

CENTRANTHUS
RED VALERIAN (C. ruber) produces spikes of pink, scented flowers on 2' plants with bluish-green leaves.

CEPHALARIA
CEPHALARIA CORNICULATA has large scabiosa-like pale-yellow flowers on stiff-stemmed plants around 3' tall.

CHRYSANTHEMUM
PAINTED DAISY (C. coccineum) is a 2' plant with finely cut foliage and unbranched stems supporting red to pink daisies. Also a source of pyrethrum.

CHRYSOPSIS
HAIRY GOLDEN-ASTER (C. villosa) is a much branched species, 6"-24" tall, with many
narrow greyish-green leaves. Flowers are bright yellow daisies, about 1" across. Common in dry sandy areas throughout the prairies.

CLEMATIS
CLEMATIS BREVICAUDATA is a very vigorous climber to perhaps 20’ with pale yellow flowers in late summer.
BORDER CLEMATIS (C. integrifolia) is a herbaceous variety that can serve as a ground
cover or can climb through a shrub. Blue flowers are nodding and urn-shaped. Mix seed with moist vermiculite and place in a plastic bag at room temperature. Seed will germinate irregularly over a number of months.
WESTERN WHITE CLEMATIS (C. ligusticifolia) is a tall climber (to 20') with ½" white flowers in clusters, followed by feathery seed-heads. Found in coulees and ravines on the southern prairies.
GOLDEN CLEMATIS (C. tangutica) – Bright lemon yellow lantern‑shaped nodding flowers, followed by fluffy silvery seed heads. A vigorous woody climber.
CLEMATIS TUBULOSA is a herbaceous species to about 3’. The fragrant purple-blue flowers are at their best in late summer.
PURPLE CLEMATIS (C. verticillaris) gives a good show of nodding indigo flowers if it is pruned after flowering. It will climb to 10' or can be used as a ground cover. Grows in shady woodlands in the Cypress Hills. Cold stratify.
CLEMATIS SP. LAKE BAIKAL is similar to C. integrifolia but the plant is smaller and blooms later. The blooms are purple, flaring and urn-shaped.

COREOPSIS
COREOPSIS ‘EARLY SUNRISE’ (C. grandiflora) is a compact plant producing large numbers of bright yellow, fully double 2" flowers. May bloom the first year from seed and continues all summer and fall.
COREOPSIS ‘STERNTALER’ (C. lanceolata) is a short cultivar blooming summer to fall with yellow daisy flowers with a red brown circle in the center.

DELPHINIUM
MUSK LARKSPUR (D. Brunonianum) – Light blue-grey inch wide flowers on an 18" plant with divided musk-scented foliage.
CHINESE LARKSPUR (D. chinensis) – Large ultramarine‑blue flowers in loose sprays. 1½’‑2' perennial that is not very long lived but self‑seeds easily.

DIANTHUS
DIANTHUS ACICULARIS is a densely tufted perennial with solitary white to pink flowers on stems to 1'.
AMUR PINK (D. amurensis) forms dense mounds to 1' covered with large (for a Dianthus) reddish‑violet flowers from July to frost.
SWEET WILLIAM (D. barbatus) has been grown in gardens for hundreds of years. The flat topped flower heads are closely packed with single flowers mostly in shades of pink with some bicoloured. Biennial or short lived perennial.
CLUSTERHEAD PINK (D. carthusianorum) – Heads of magenta flowers clustered on the ends of tall (2'‑3') wind‑resistant stems.
MAIDEN PINK (D. deltoides) is a rock garden or ground cover perennial. The plants are up to 1' tall and are covered with white, pink, or red flowers. VAMPIRE has deep red flowers and dark leaves with a purplish cast to them.
DIANTHUS FREYNI has sweet scented 1" pink flowers on short stems in summer. The grassy leaves form a compact blue-green cushion about 3" tall.
DIANTHUS HAEMATOCALYX ssp. PINDICOLA forms a dense cushion of narrow grey-green leaves with flower stems under 1' bearing pink flowers with red-purple toothed calyxes.
DIANTHUS KNAPPII – Sulfur‑yellow flowers in clusters on 1‑1½' stems above grey‑green foliage.
COTTAGE PINK (D. plumaris) is the parent of many named varieties of pinks. The 12"-18" plants have glaucous blue foliage and fairly large scented white to pink flowers.
DIANTHUS SPECIES is a single mauve dianthus that can be treated as an annual but should winter over. Summer blooming on plants about 1' tall.
DIANTHUS ROCK MIX is a selection of small species (up to 8") suitable for the rock garden.

DIGITALIS
YELLOW FOXGLOVE (D. grandiflora) is a hardy perennial or biennial to 2½’‑3' with spikes of light yellow 2" flowers with brown speckled throats.

DRABA – WITLOW GRASS
DRABA RIGIDA forms tight green rosettes from which rise yellow flowers on short stems (to about 3") in very early spring.

DRACOCEPHALUM
DRAGONHEAD (Dracocephalum sp.) is a mint family member with spikes of lovely blue flowers on a rather short plant. Blooms early summer. Short-lived but self-seeds.
DRAGONHEAD (D. ruyschianum) is a native of Europe. Blue flowers cover a mound of fine linear foliage to about 2’ in summer.

ECHINACEA
NARROW-LEAVED PURPLE CONEFLOWER (E. angustifolia) has elegant light-purple flowers with narrow drooping petals and raised centres on sturdy upright plants. Contains an immune system stimulant. Roots are generally harvested after three years. Native to the southern edge of the Canadian prairies. Cold stratify seed.
PURPLE CONEFLOWER (E. purpurea) has large (to 4") purple flowers with drooping petals and a darker raised centre. They bloom in late summer and fall on sturdy 2'‑5' plants. The root is much in demand as an immune system stimulant.

ECHINOPS
GLOBE THISTLE ‘ARCTIC GLOW’ (E. sphaerocephalus) is a tall plant with maroon-red stems, silvery green foliage, and round silver-grey flower-heads which dry well.
GLOBE THISTLE SPECIES MIX – There are probably four species in this mix. Plants are around 3' feet tall with white, grey, blue or steel-blue globular flower-heads.

ECHIUM
ECHIUM RUSSICUM is a borage relative which forms a rosette of large coarsely hairy leaves from which emerge (in the second year) stout spikes of red flowers a foot or so long. Biennial or perhaps perennial.

ERIGERON
OREGON FLEABANE (E. speciosus) is a summer bloomer about 2' tall with large (1 ½") mauve or pink flowers with yellow centres.
This is a mix of two FLEABANE DAISY species. They’re both spring bloomers with the 6" flower stocks rising out of mounds of finely divided hairy leaves. The flowers have many narrow petals, mauve on the earlier and white on the later species, and yellow centres.
This PINK FLEABANE DAISY blooms mid-summer with the short stocks rising out of neat rosettes of entire leaves.

ERIOPHYLLUM
WOOLLY SUNFLOWER 'POINTE' (E. lanatum) forms mounds of grey foliage with masses of yellow daisies over a long season. This is a European selection of a western North American native.

ERYNGIUM
FLAT SEA HOLLY (E. planum) BLAUKNAPPE is a 2' plant with branching wiry stems, toothed leaves, and rounded steel-blue flower heads with narrow spiny bracts, of a deeper blue than the species. Good dried flower.

ERYSIMUM
WALLFLOWER (Erysimum sp.) Is a pink-flowered multi-stemmed species around 1' tall.

EUPHORBIA
CUSION SPURGE (E. polychroma) is a neat mound forming plant to 18". In the spring it is almost covered with bright yellow flowers.

GAILLARDIA
BLANKET FLOWER (G. aristata) – This clump forming plant with its large yellow daisies with orange-red highlights is one of our showiest native species. Grows on dry prairies.

GALEGA
GOAT’S RUE (G. officinalis) is a wildflower of southern Europe. The tall plants (3" or so) form clumps of bright green pinnate foliage with long-stalked clusters of mauve pea-like flowers.

GENTIANA
GENTIANA BURSERI is a robust plant to 3' with elongated basal leaves. The yellow flowers are in axillary whorls. Native to the mountains of Western Europe.
CROSS GENTIAN (G. cruciata) is a European native with leathery basal leaves and dark blue flowers in terminal clusters. Summer blooming on plants about 1' tall.

GERANIUM
MEADOW CRANESBILL (G. pratense) forms clumps of branching stems of deeply cut foliage. Open violet-blue flowers, about 1" across.

GEUM
THREE-FLOWERED AVENS (G. triflorum) is a very common spring flower on the prairies. The plants are about 1' tall with finely divided leaves and usually 3 pinkish-purple flowers per stem, followed by persistent feathery seed-heads.
GEUM SP. is an avens with single orange flowers.

GYPSOPHILIA
BABY'S BREATH (G. paniculata) can become a weed as it is long‑lived, very hardy, and self‑seeds. But it makes a beautiful display of small white flowers which dry very well.

HEDYSARUM
AMERICAN HEDYSARUM (H. americanum) is about 2' high with pinnate leaves, and pinkish pea flowers on a long raceme. Common in semi-open prairie and open woods.

HELIANTHEMUM
ROCK ROSE (H. canum) is a low growing (under 1') sprawling woody plant with single yellow flowers all summer.

HELIOPSIS
FALSE SUNFLOWER (H. helianthoides) has bright golden yellow flowers on long strong stems from July to September.

HESPERIS
SWEET or DAME'S ROCKET (H. matronalis) is a short lived perennial or self‑seeding biennial. Leaves form a grey‑green carpet out of which rises a 12"‑18" stalk covered with small scented mauve flowers. Blooms in the early spring and well into the summer.

HIERACIUM
ORANGE HAWKWEED (H. aurantiacum) forms a rosette of downy leaves out of which appear flowering stems (under 1') of brilliant orange-red flowers from spring to fall.
MOUSE‑EAR HAWKWEED (H. pilosella) is a stoloniferous perennial to 1' with felty grey foliage which makes a nice groundcover. Lemon‑yellow 1" flowers, striped purple on the back, all summer.

HYPERICUM
HYPERICUM ASCYRON is an erect St. John’s Wort about 2' tall with quite large (2") open
single yellow flowers.
ST. JOHN'S WORT (H. perforatum) – A compact 1' ‑1½' plant producing large numbers of single bright yellow flowers over a long season. Used medicinally for nervous disorders and healing painful joints and muscles. Does not always overwinter here.
HYPERICUM RICHERI is a more compact, more decorative plant than H. perforatum.
WOOLY ST. JOHN'S WORT (H. tomentosum) is a clump forming species to 3', with grey hairy foliage and yellow flowers in summer.

HYSSOPUS
HYSSOP (H. officinalis) – Has many spikes of dark blue flowers and is very attractive to bees. Antiviral and respiratory system medicinal plant.
HYSSOPUS SERAVSHANICUM appears to be the same as the above but you will get some plants with white flowers as well as the usual blue ones.

ILLIAMNI
MOUNTAIN HOLLYHOCK (I. rivularis) – This BC native forms a bush about 4' tall. The large pink saucer-shaped flowers are in racemes and bloom all summer and fall.

INULA
SWORDLEAF INULA (I. ensifolia) forms a dense clump of long, pointed leaves and stiff unbranched stems topped with bright yellow flowers to about 2' tall. May bloom the first year from seed.
ELECAMPANE (I. helenium) – A member of the daisy family growing 4'‑6' tall and topped with 4" yellow flowers in the summer and fall. Dried root used in cough preparations and as an aid in digestion.
INULA HIRTA – A small (1'‑1½') Inula with golden yellow flowers. As it has a gently creeping rootstock it can be used as a well‑behaved ground cover.

IRIS
IRIS CARTHALINIAE is a narrow leaved blue flowered species. Lightly cover seed and alternate between cold and warm stratification for germination.
JAPANESE IRIS (I. ensata) is a tall iris with large flowers. This selection has white flowers with yellow. Likes a lot of moisture.
WESTERN BLUE FLAG (I. missouriensis) has bright lilac-blue flowers with darker veins on slender stems to 2' and grass-like leaves. Likes a moist place to grow. Seed germinates over several months at cool temperatures. Light helps.
YELLOW FLAG (I. pseudacorus) makes 2' tall clumps of swordlike leaves with pale yellow flowers. In the wild it grows near the water and will be twice as tall as in our dry garden. The seed needs light to germinate and should give about 50% germination in 2-12 weeks at room temperature. It self-seeds here so you could try fall seeding.
SIBERIAN IRIS (I. siberica) forms attractive clumps of grass-like foliage with flowers often in shades of blue. Will not bloom unless it has adequate spring moisture. Needs light to germinate. Keep flat warm several months, then try oscillating temperatures.
BUTTERFLY IRIS (I. spuria) has narrow leaves and pale flowers, white with some yellow and blue. Lightly cover seed and alternate between cold and warm stratification for germination.

IXIOLIRION
IXIOLIRION is a bulb producing a tuft of narrow grass-like leaves, with lavender-blue flowers produced in clusters on slender 1' stems in June. May germinate in 1-2 months cold, then warm for further germination.

KNAUTIA
KNAUTIA MACEDONICA is a close relative of Scabiosa, with maroon scabious-like flower heads on a much branched 2' plant.

LAVATERA
TREE LAVATERA or TREE MALLOW (L. thuringiaca) is a native of Europe, with a woody base and soft hairy sage green foliage. Soft pink mallow flowers in a branching spike on plants to 5'.

LIATRIS
SPIKE GAYFEATHER or BLAZING STAR (L. spicata) has rosy‑purple flowers in long dense spikes over a long season.

LIGULARIA
SIBERIAN LEOPARD PLANT (L. sibirica) is a tall (4'-5') bold plant that likes some shade and moist soil. Makes a mound of large leaves with racemes of yellow daisy flowers in summer.

LILIUM
PRAIRIE LILY (L. philadelphicum) is our provincial flower, with 1-3 large orange-red flowers per stem. Was widespread in Saskatchewan but now much reduced by agriculture. Warm stratify in damp vermiculite in plastic bag. Plant seeds that have developed a root and a leaf. At least 3 years from seed to bloom.

LIMONIUM
SEA LAVENDER (L. latifolium) – Immense masses of elegant panicles of dainty lavender flowers in mid-summer. Good for drying.

LINUM
GOLDEN FLAX (L. flavum) is a clump forming plant to about 1' with large leaves for a flax and 1" clear yellow flowers.
PERENNIAL BLUE FLAX (L. perenne) – Forms large clumps with many stalks covered with bright blue flowers. The flowers open early in the morning and have usually shed their petals by mid‑afternoon, and repeat this pattern all summer.

LOTUS
BIRD'S FOOT TREFOIL (L. corniculatus) is a perennial whose branches lie flat on the ground and cover an area 2'‑3' in diameter. The plants are covered with small yellow pea flowers throughout the summer. The tough low growing plants might make a good ground cover.

LYCHNIS
ALPINE CAMPION (L. alpina) has pink to rosy purple flowers in clusters very early in the spring. Tufted hardy perennial to 1' with narrow leaves.
MALTESE CROSS (L. chalcedonica) is an old‑fashioned garden perennial growing 2'-3' high and having dense showy heads of scarlet flowers.
ROSE CAMPION (L. coronaria) is a self‑seeding biennial. It grows 24"‑30" high and has light grey woolly leaves and bright pink flowers.
LYCHNIS KIUSIANA was sent to me without any description and I cannot find it in the literature so it will be a surprise plant.
SIBERIAN CATCHFLY (L. siberica) forms a neat mound of narrow leaves out of which rise 8" flowering stalks topped with pink flowers.
LYCHNIS x ARKWRIGHTII is a short catchfly with dark green shaded purple foliage and orange-scarlet flowers with notched petals.

LYCIUM
CHINESE WOLFBERRY or KEDO (L. chinense) is a small shrub related to tomatoes, that has been quite hardy here for a number of years. The slender branches have small mauve tubular flowers along their length all summer. The orange-red teardrop shaped fruits (sweet and
edible) are more showy than the flowers, hanging from the branches from August to freeze-up. Apparently the leaves are used as greens or to make tea.

MALVA
MUSK MALLOW (M. moschata) has deeply cut foliage and 2" rose pink single flowers on
plants to about 2'. Cold stratification may help germination.

MALVASTRUM
SCARLET MALLOW (M. coccineum) is native to the dry prairies but is especially noticeable in disturbed areas where it can form large patches. Low growing (under 1") with divided grey leaves and scarlet to brick-red open single flowers. Cold stratify seed.

NEPETA
CATNIP (N. cataria) is mildly mint flavoured and very attractive to cats. The masses of small white flowers, on 2'-3' plants, make it a good bee plant.
CATMINT (N. x fassenii) has grey leaves that are highly scented and blue flowers in loose racemes. It grows about a foot high and makes a nice groundcover.
BLUE INFINITY (N. transcaucasica) has tall spikes of violet-blue flowers over a long period on 3' plants.

OENOTHERA
The evening primroses are native to the Americas. They like full sun and dry growing conditions. They are quite variable but many of them are sprawling or low growing. They are
covered with open single flowers most of the summer, usually bright yellow and less often pink or white. Many of them are perennials but, as they come from farther south, they are not winter hardy here and must be treated as annuals.
YELLOW EVENING PRIMROSE (O. biennis) forms a rosette of leaves out of which rises a 2'‑3' flowering spike covered with showy yellow single flowers. It is a native Saskatchewan biennial which will bloom the first year if it is started in early spring as a bedding plant. A medicinal oil is extracted from the seeds, and the roots can be eaten like parsnips.
MISSOURI EVENING PRIMROSE (O. missouriensis) has enormous showy yellow 3"‑6" wide flowers from July until frost. Sprawling plant to about 1' that has thrived here through 2 winters. Has huge seed capsules with broad wings.
PALE EVENING PRIMROSE (O. pallida) INNOCENCE is started indoors and treated as an annual. The large fragrant flowers are white with a touch of pink. Much branched plants to 1 ½’.
OENOTHERA ‘SUNSET BOULEVARD’ has upright branching plants to about 1 ½’ covered with open orange flowers darkening to almost red.

ONOBRYCHIS
HOLY ALPINE CLOVER (O. montana) comes from the mountains of central Europe. It has arched racemes of bright pink flowers.

ONOPORDUM
SCOTCH THISTLE (O. acanthium) is a spectacular plant, with web-like silvery hairs on sturdy branching stems, topped by deep pink-purple thistle flowers. A 3'-6' biennial which will bloom the first year if started early.

ONOSMA
GOLDEN DROP (O. stellulatum) is a borage relative to 1' with coarsely hairy grey-green leaves and pale lemon-yellow tubular flowers in early summer.

OXYTROPIS
EARLY YELLOW LOCOWEED (O. sericea v. spicata) is a low-growing species with hairy pinnate basal leaves. The yellow pea flowers are in short spikes on 1' stalks. Grows on dry prairies in southwest Saskatchewan and blooms in May and June. Scarify seed.

PAPAVER
ALPINE POPPY (P. alpinum) This selection has a lovely mix of white and pastel colours on plants ½’ to 1’ tall. All the leaves are basal and the slender naked stems each bear a single flower.
PAPAVER LISAE bears single orange flowers on 1’ stalks. Leaves are long with rounded teeth and form a basal rosette.
ICELAND POPPY (P. nudicale) is a short-lived perennial that self-seeds. Pale green foliage and large silky flowers, usually in yellow, orange, or white, on the ends of slender 1' long stems. MATADOR ICELAND POPPY produces large scarlet flowers all summer.
ORIENTAL POPPY (P. orientale) forms a mound of coarse hairy leaves with stems to 2' bearing large red flowers with dark blotches in the centres. Spring/early summer blooming.
SPANISH POPPY (P. rupifragum) has semi-double 1"-2" orange flowers at the end of 2' stems all summer long. Most of the grey-green hairy leaves are in a basal rosette about 8" across. This perennial blooms the first year from seed. Some plants overwinter and there is some self-seeding.
PAPAVER SENDTNERI is similar to Spanish Poppy but the plants are smaller and the pale orange flowers are single.
PAPAVER SUAVEOLENS is similar to Iceland Poppy but all the blooms are in various shades of yellow, from early summer to freeze-up.
PAPAVER TAURICOLA is from the Taurus mountains of Turkey and not readily available. The 1'-2' plants have finely divided grey-green leaves and are covered with pale orange flowers throughout the summer. Probably a biennial.

PENSTEMON
YELLOW BEARDTONGUE (P. confertus) grows to about 2' with narrow leaves. The yellow flowers are in dense clusters on an interrupted terminal spike. Common in dry areas in southwest Saskatchewan.
YUKON PENSTEMON (P. gormanii) forms low mounds (to about 1’) of glabrous green foliage topped by large, showy lavender-purple flowers.
SMOOTH BLUE BEARDTONGUE (P. nitidus) is a prairie native with grey-green leaves
and sky blue flowers on 1' stems in late spring. Cold stratify.
SLENDER BEARDTONGUE (P. procerus) grows near sloughs and bluffs and in openings in woodlands in the parklands and prairies. The dark blue flowers are borne on 1' stems in early summer. In time the plants will form large colonies. Cold stratify.

PETALOSTEMON
PURPLE PRAIRIE-CLOVER (P. purpureum) forms small clumps around 1' tall with finely divided leaves. The red or purple flowers are in dense cylindric terminal spikes. Common on dry prairie.

PETRORHAGIA (TUNICA)
TUNIC FLOWER (P. saxifraga) is a mound forming plant to about one foot. Has small pale pink flowers with notched petals and grass‑like leaves. Like a short pink baby's breath.

PHLOMIS
JERUSALEM SAGE (P. tuberosa) is a tall (4'-6') stiff upright plant. Blooms prolifically all summer with whorls of rosy-purple flowers.

PHYSARIA
BLADDER POD (P. alpestris), a native to the Rockies, has rosettes of silvery downy leaves and racemes of bright yellow flowers in summer, followed by inflated, bladder-like seed pods.

PHYSOCHLANIA
PHYSOCHLANIA ORIENTALIS is a low growing tuberous perennial that appears to be hardy here. It shows signs of growth in the second half of April and is in full bloom by May 1. For about two weeks the plants are covered with clusters of ½" purple-blue trumpet flowers. This Solanum family member is used medicinally in Asia much like henbane. Germination takes place over several months.

POLEMONIUM
JACOB’S LADDER (P. caeruleum) is an upright plant to about 2’ with ferny foliage. Flowers may be sky-blue or pure white.
POLEMONIUM LANATUM is shorter than the previous species and only has sky-blue flowers.
I am offering two Jacob’s Ladders, both native to the Rocky Mountains, with open blue flowers and attractive pinnate (fern-like) foliage. POLEMONIUM PULCHERRIMUM forms mounds of foliage (under 1') with cup-shaped blue flowers in clusters in spring and occasionally throughout the summer. Self-seeds to a limited extent. POLEMONIUM VISCOSUM has taller
(1'-1 ½’) more upright plants with deeper blue more funnel-shaped flowers., Native from the Canadian border south so it is not as reliably perennial here.
YELLOW JACOB’S LADDER (P. pauciflorum) is a mound of ferny foliage about 1' high with long tubular pale yellow flowers. A perennial that might not be hardy here. If you ordered a yellow flowered Polemonium last year and I didn’t send it, let me know and I will send you a packet.

POTENTILLA
WHITE CINQUEFOIL (P. arguta) is an erect plant about 2' tall with pinnate leaves, most of them basal. The white flowers, in a rather dense inflorescence, are larger than most of the
yellow-flowered species. Common throughout the prairies.
BRANCHED CINQUEFOIL (P. effusa) has greyish woolly leaves and yellow flowers on plants about 1' high. Grows on the dry prairie in southwest Saskatchewan.
WOOLLY CINQUEFOIL (P. hippiana) is a showy prairie species, found mostly in the southwestern part of Saskatchewan. The woolly pinnate leaves are mostly basal. The numerous yellow flowers are in a terminal cyme on about 2' stems.
ROUGH CINQUEFOIL (P. norvegica) is a sprawling plant spreading to about 2', with bright green leaves and small bright yellow flowers. It came into my garden all by itself and produces a lot of seed, so deadheading is recommended. Common in this area.

PRIMULA
CORTUSA PRIMROSE (P. cortusoides) has a basal rosette of light green wrinkled leaves with pink flowers held above the leaves on 1' stems. It blooms in May and does not like direct sun.

PSORALEA
INDIAN BREADROOT (P. esculenta) is a densely hairy plant generally under 1', growing from a large starchy edible root. This member of the pea family has small blue flowers in a dense spike. Grows throughout the prairies. Cold stratify seed.

PULSATILLA
PASQUE FLOWER (P. vulgaris) has large open violet-blue flowers in spring, followed by silky feathery persistent seed-heads.

RATIBIDA
YELLOW CONEFLOWER (R. columnifera) The flowers have drooping yellow petals and a brown columnar centre. One of our more attractive wildflowers, it is quite happy in a garden and will self-seed. The semi-dried disk flowers are edible but rather chewy. Common on dry prairie throughout south-central and southwestern Saskatchewan.

SALVIA
SALVIA NEMEROSA ssp TESQUICOLA – A hardy perennial salvia, clump forming, up to 3' tall with long spikes of dark violet-blue flowers.
ROSE QUEEN SALVIA (S. superba) has rose flowers in 9" spikes from June to Sept. on 2' plants.

SANGUISORBA – BURNET
SANGUISORBA MENZIESII has dark green pinnate leaves and deep maroon flowers in a large dense terminal spike on plants to 3'. A wildflower from Alaska.

SAPONARIA
BOUNCING BET (S. officinalis) has large pink flowers in dense clusters from July to September. A 1'- 2' perennial from Asia whose root is used medicinally.

SCABIOSA – PINCUSHION FLOWER
SCABIOSA CAUCASICA has long-stemmed pincushion-like round flower heads of a vivid blue colour all summer long.
SMALL SCABIOUS (S. columbaria) is a British wildflower to about 1’ tall with lilac to pink flowers.
SCABIOSA OCHROLEUCA is an erect plant (to 2 ½’) with greyish foliage bearing many pale yellow pincushion flowers from early summer to freeze-up.

SEDUM – STONECROP
SEDUM MIX – All Sedums are succulent plants good for ground covers or in rock gardens. I grew a sedum mix and gathered a bit of seed. There should be yellow and pink flowered
varieties, and some with green, blue-green, or variegated foliage.

SEMPERVIVUM
HEN AND CHICKS (Sempervivum sp.) are succulent hardy evergreen perennials with dense rosettes of fleshy leaves, forming offsets of tiny rosettes, the "chicks." Starry flowers on short leafless stalks in a variety of colours.

SENECIO
CUT-LEAVED RAGWORT (S. eremophilus) is a leafy-stemmed species with a stout, 2'-3' often purplish stem. Numerous yellow daisies in compact terminal clusters. Grows in woody areas across the prairies.

SIDALCEA
PRAIRIE MALLOW (S. malviflora) is a clump-forming plant, 2'-4' tall with deeply divided leaves and spikes of rosy-red mallow-type flowers blooming in late summer.

SILENE
SILENE DINARIA forms a rosette of shining, almost leathery, dark green leaves about twice as long as they are wide. The almost leafless flower stalks appear in June with clusters of single ½" white flowers.
NOTTINGHAM CATCHFLY (S. nutans) bears many white flowers with long, deeply divided petals. Blooms in early summer and many rebloom if cut back or given sufficient water. A bushy plant to about 2’.
SILENE PUSILLA is a low growing plant (under 1'), a mound of strap-like leaves with short flower stalks bearing white 5-petaled flowers with notched petals.

SISYRINCHIUM
BLUE-EYED GRASS (S. montanum) grows to 1' tall with narrow grass-like leaves and small bright blue flowers in late spring. Grows in meadows and moist places in western Canada.

SOLIDAGO
GOLDEN ROD (S. canadensis) has small yellow flowers, densely packed in a pyramid-shaped inflorescence. Blooms August – September on 2' plants. Widespread throughout the prairies.

STACHYS
CHINESE ARTICHOKE (S. affinis) – This mint relative makes a low mound of green leaves out of which rise spikes of purple flowers to about 1'. The plants produce small white edible tubers.
LAMB’S EARS (S. byzantina) is grown mainly for its thick mat of densely white-woolly leaves. The pink or purple flower spikes are small.

STYLOPHORUM
WOOD POPPY (S. diphyllum) has light green foliage and open bright yellow flowers borne
over a long season. Likes moist ground in semi-shade but will tolerate full sun.

SYMPHYANDRA
SYMPHYANDRA HOFMANNII has large white nodding bell-shaped flowers in leafy panicles. Short lived perennial or biennial to 2' which will probably self-seed. Grow in sun or shade, and is tolerant of dry soil.
SYMPHYANDRA ZANGEZURA grows in sub-alpine zones in the Caucasian Mountains. Flowers all summer, blue bell-shaped flowers on slender stems rising from mounds of rounded and toothed leaves. Biennial or short lived perennial.

TOWNSENDIA
LOW TOWNSENDIA (T. sericea) is an almost stemless plant – a rosette of narrow leaves and white or bluish daisies, 1" – 1 ½" across, almost covering the leaves in spring. Found in the very southwest of Saskatchewan and Alberta.

VALERIANA
VALERIAN (V. officinalis) has domed heads of delicate white to pink scented flowers on 3'‑4' plants. Likes full sun and moist soil. The highly aromatic roots are used to make a sedative. Valerian is a host for parasitic wasps that are helpful in the garden.

VERBASCUM
NETTLE-LEAVED MULLEIN (V. chaixii) forms a large rosette of grey-green leaves and spikes of yellow or white flowers with purple centres.
DARK MULLEIN (V. nigrum) grows about 3' tall, half of which height is the slim spikes of yellow flowers which bloom all summer.

VERONICA
SPIKED SPEEDWELL (V. spicata) is an upright plant to 1 ½' with dense racemes of bright blue flowers in summer.
VERONICA SPICATA ssp INCANA is somewhat shorter than the species with silvery-grey foliage.

ZIZZIA
HEART-LEAVED ALEXANDERS (Z. aptera) is an erect plant 1'-2' high with long-stalked heart-shaped basal leaves and bright yellow flowers in compound umbels. Early spring bloomer. Common in moist places on the prairies.

ZONE 2-3 MIX comes from GARDENS NORTH so I do not know what treasures you will find here. A generous packet of hardy perennial flower seeds.

Perennial flowers: $ 3.00 per packet

PERENNIAL GRASSES

BIG BLUESTEM (Andropogon gerardii) was the dominant grass of the Tall-grass Prairie, the moister areas of the Great Plains. A 4'-6' clump-forming grass that gets off to a slow start each spring. Has grey-green leaves turning bronze-red in autumn, and airy purplish flowers shaped like a turkey-foot. Grows in the moister eastern part of the Saskatchewan prairies.

SIDE-OATS GRAMA (Bouteloua curtipendula) is a clump-forming grass to about 2' native to the dry prairies. The flower head is a one-sided arrangement of spikelets along the stem.

GIANT WILD RYE (Elymus cinereus) is a tall coarse clump-forming grass to 6' tall with flower spikes to 12" long. Grows occasionally in southern Saskatchewan.

BLUE FESCUE (Festuca ovina v. glauca) forms spiky silver-blue mounds of foliage.

SWEET GRASS (Hierachloe odorata) is a vigorous 1'-2' plant growing rapidly in spring with broad light-green leaves and golden panicles. Burnt like incense by native peoples. Spreads far too agressively for general garden use. Common in the Parklands. Rub the tiny seed out of the husk for better germination.

SWITCH GRASS (Panicum virgatum) is another 4'-8' Tall-grass Prairie variety. It has grey-blue leaves and feathery masses of green to pink flowers, and colours up beautifully in the fall. Remains showy throughout the winter. Grows in the moister eastern part of the Saskatchewan prairies.

LITTLE BLUESTEM (Schizachyrium scoparium) is a 1'-3' late season clumping grass. Foliage changes colour from grey-green to purple to rich red in the fall. Erect growing and topped by wispy inflorescences. Cold stratify for 3 months. Widespread on the prairies or in marsh areas in Saskatchewan.

FEATHER GRASS (Stipa capillata) has stiff, erect, grey-green narrow leaves in a dense clump. The narrow panicles with long twisting awns rise 1'-2' above the leaves, blooming in late summer.
PONY TAILS NEEDLE GRASS (Stipa tenuissima) is similar to the preceding species but with softer foliage that sprays out gracefully and long straight awns.