New Vermont Perennials - SALE

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I am rebooting my blog to plug my sale of perennials in 4.5 inch pots - three for $10.  These are all new perennials for me and I am planting them now with plans to dig and sell next year for $8.99 each.  I have more than I need for next year, so I can offer surplus plants now at the sale price,  mix and match as you wish.

SILVER STAR DIANTHUS

First there is “Silver Star” dianthus.  My other dianthuses (dianthi ?) overwinter fine here.  I can’t guarantee this one until next spring when we see how the field-grown plants survived.  It has a fragrant double white bloom with a cherry red eye and is deer and drought resistant.

BLUE MARVEL SALVIA

Another new perennial I am trialing  is “Blue Marvel” salvia.  It is a dwarf salvia with large, plump 12-inch high violet blue flowers.  It attracts pollinators and is deer resistant.

        

RUNNING WITH SCISSORS PHLOX   

                                                      

                                               MCDANIEL's CUSHION  PHLOX

I have two new creeping phlox - Running with Scissors” and “McDaniel’s Cushion.”    “Running with Scissors” is a violet pink and it has that name because the split pedals resemble childrens’ training scissors.  It is fragrant and deer resistant.  "McDaniel’s Cushion" has a bright rose pink bloom and the foliage is more pointy than Scissors.

GRAND PARADE MONARDA

"Grand Parade" Bee Balm is a compact cultivar (12 - 18”) and White Flower Farm describes it as “exceptionally hardy and mildew resistant.”  It has lavender/purple blooms.

MONCH ASTER

“Monch” Aster blooms earlier than fall asters with lavender blue flowers. It grows 2 - 3 feet.

Among the other perennials in the sale are:
Lacy Blue Russian Sage
Echinacea (cone flower) Magnus
Sedum kamtschaticum 
Phlox paniculata - Laura
Phlox paniculata - David
Sedum - Autumn Joy
Anemone Pulsatilla
Baptesia
and Sidalcea - Party Girl

DAYLILY SALE - Buy Three - fourth one FREE -

Daylilies are ON SALE - one free for every three that you buy at $7.99 each.  (Your choice, of course.)  A few are sold out for the season, but below are photographs of some of the many still in stock.  These are large field-dug plants in gallon pots.

Dublin Elaine 

Condilla 

Lilting Lavender

Buttered Popcorn

Golden Chimes

Holiday Song

Crimson Shadows

Trahlyta

Siloam Betty Woods

Siloam David Kirchoff

Respighi

We are closed Monday and open every other day - 9 am - 5 pm.

Perennial SALE

Buy two - get the third one free.  At the regular price of $3.99, 

that makes three of them $2.66 each.

They are nice healthy hardy plants in 4.5 " pots.  Most have been overwintered.

Achillea ‘Moonshine’ (Yarrow - yellow)

Alcea ficifolia ‘Antwerp’  (Hollyhock  ‘Antwerp’)

Anemone sylvestris (Snowdrop anenome)

Aruncus (‘Goats Beard’)

Aster - Purple Dome

Aster - Woods Light Blue

Aster - Woods purple

Baptisia australis  (‘False Indigo’)

‘Blue Clips’ Campanula

Clematis ‘Sweet Autumn’

Perovski atripilicifolia   (‘Russian Sage’)

Phlox paniculata ‘Peppermint Twist 

Phlox paniculata ‘Star Fire’

Salvia ‘May Night’

And there are others!

Vermont Perennial SALE - $2.50 each

How is it possible that I have gone since March without posting anything?  I see other growers writing just about every day.  I'm simply too busy.  It has slowed down now and I find myself with a surplus of perennials in quart pots.  They have all been overwintered and will bloom this year, but it is next year that they will really show their stuff.

You know the saying about perennials?  "First year they sleep, second year they creep, third year they leap."  They are creeping now, getting ready to leap.   And they are all on sale for $2.50 each!

I have plenty of one of my favorites - sidalcea.  This is often called a miniature hollyhock.  I started them from seed last year and here's a photo from the seed company.

I use them a lot in bouquets.  We also have echinacea 'magnus' (coneflower), delphiniums, perennial sweet peas, Nora Barlow aquilegia (columbine) and loads more.  Here's a photo of our creeping phlox for sale.

And the Jacob's Ladder on sale is particularly robust.  The pretty foliage is some of the first you see in the spring. 

We are open every day EXCEPT for Monday, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Daylily (Day Lily) SALE - Three or more - $6 each

Daylily IS one word, but spell check does not agree ... so for those searching, I'll use both approaches.

Once you catch the daylily bug and realize the vast choice of colors and forms, you start to have favorite hybridizers. One of my favorites is Pauline Henry of Siloam Springs, Arkansas.  Her daylilies do wonderfully in northern Vermont.  She registered 490 plants during a period of 37 years and she died in September, 2000, at the age of 92.

I sell ten different 'Siloam' daylilies and have more growing in the fields for future sales.  Here are four of them.

Siloam Double Classic (above) won the 1993 Stout Award, 

the highest honor given to any daylily. 

Siloam Paul Watts

Siloam Baby Talk

Siloam JeromePillow

I have hundreds of different daylilies,  all large clumps in gallon pots and now all offered at $6 a pot, if you purchase three or more.  And if you want just one, they are still on sale at $6.99 each.

Vermont Daylily Sale

I grow more than 100 varieties of daylilies and they are all sold at the same price, $6.99.  This includes some really special cultivars that initially cost me around $50 a pop.  The season has begun and the sale is on (buy five, get the sixth one free, YOUR choice).  I have found that the price of $6.99 is already a sale compared to many places.  Here are some of the blooms I noticed yesterday.

Charles Johnson

Marked By Lydia

 Burning Inheritance

Sunday Gloves

And here is a partial list of my daylilies, sorted by color:

RED / PURPLE SHADES

Baby Blues: Pale 3” lavender bloom.  20” M.  

Challenger: VERY tall red. 48” L.

Charles Johnson:  Bright cherry red blooms.   24” : EM.

Chicago Apache: Intense scarlet red with ruffled edges.  30” ML.

Chicago Weathermaster: Purple 6” blooms.  20” EM.

Chris Salter: Award winning  6 inch  medium lavender blooms with ruffled yellow edging.  Tet  26”. : EM

Cranberry Cove:  Cranberry red, 4.5” blooms, 28” tall. EM.

FlyCatcher:  Red 7.5” blooms,  yellow eye.  32” L.

Gus Blankenship:  Red blooms, 6”. 28” : EM.

Highland Lord:  Red wine 5” semi-double.  22” :  M.

Howard  Goodson:  Dark bluish red 6” bloom with a bight yellow/green throat.  28” : M.

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Moonlight Masquerade:  Cream w/ purple eye.  5.5” bloom, 26”.  : M

Red Ribbons: Red spider daylily, 8” ribbon like blooms,  42” M. 

Ruby Spider: Impressive 8” spider bloom : 34” EM.

Siloam David Kirchoff:  Pretty 3.5” orchid-peach flowers with a pencil thin, purple eye zone and purple watermark around a green throat.  16” M.

Siloam Grace Stamile:  Fragrant red blooms with darker eye. 14” EM.

Siloam Red Ruby:  Red blooms with yellow green throat.  18” M.

Siloam Paul Watts:  Red with green throat.  4.5” bloom,  18” M

Siloam Plum Tree: 4 “ deep purple bloom, small yellow throat.  24” EM   

Strutters Ball:  Deep purple with small green yellow throat.   26” M. 

Trahlyta:   6” bloom award winner  grey violet  with a dark purple eye zone and a green throat - very fragrant.  30” M.  

Wayne Johnson: Award winner.  Early blooming  6” semi- double cherry red daylily. 28” M.  

Woodside Ruby:  Ruby red 4” blooms.  34” M.

PINK/ROSE SHADES

Addie Branch Smith: 4.5” rose flower with a purple eye. 30” M/L.

Butterfly Kisses:  Ruffled Lavender peach 8” blooms.  32”  EM

Camden Ballerina:  3.5”  rose/pink blooms. 16”  EM.

Brilliant Circle:  Cream pink, rose/red eye, 3.5” blooms.  28” M . 

Decatur Pie Crust :   5" salmon pink with nice ruffles. 24”    M

Dance Ballerina Dance:  6” Apricot pink bloom, : 24” M.

Doll House:  Pink-lavender.  Ruffled pedals. 27” M.

Dragon’s Eye:   Pastel pink 4” flower, red eye zone, green throat. 24”  M/L.

Dublin Elaine:  Light double pink, 5.5” blooms.  36” E.

Exotic Echo: Pink ruffled 3” bloom w/ burgundy eye. Heavy bloomer   M

Eruption: Vivid cherry red 6.5” bloom.  30” ML.

Lavender Showstopper:  An early blooming tetraploid.  Ruffled edges on  5.5” purple eyed flowers. 40” E.

Little Bee:  Late blooming miniature daylily (2” )   Tangerine, rose, apricot blend, 16”  L.

Made to Order:  Light pink, rose eye 4”. Stands out in garden.  26” EM.

Our Diane:  Pink bitone 4.5” blooms.  22” EM.

Olallie Mac:  Baby pink/melon  5” blooms.  32”, L.

Orchid Corsage: Huge (7.5”) pink lavender blooms with a yellow star center.  40” ML.   

Pink Embers:  Salmon pink 6” bloom on 19” scape.  EM

Prairie Blue Eyes: (In my eyes) a dusty lavender rose.  5” blooms, 28” M.

Siloam Double Classic:  Prize-winning double pink. 15” EM.

Siloam Baby Talk:  2.5” pale pink blooms with deep rose eye.  15” EM

Siloam Little Girl: 3 and 3/4” round lacy pink bloom.  18” M. Scatterbrain:  Light peach pink 6” double blooms. 32”  M.

Smoky Mountain Autumn: Dusty rose blend 5.5” bloom.  Award winner. 18”  M.

South Seas:  Tangerine coral.   30” ML . 

Spritual Corridor  Fragrant orchid lavender 6” bloom with a cream blending to chartreuse eye. Cream/picotee edge”  25” :.

 YELLOW / ORANGE SHADES

Autumn Daffodil:  Broad flared yellow petals, 46” L.

Bold Tiger:  Bright orange blooms w/ red eye.  28” M.

Burning Inheritance: Red orange 5” bloom.  :  M. 

Buttered Popcorn: Strong yellow fragrant 6” blooms.  32” ML

Condilla:  Tidy double, gold blooms, award-winner. 20” M.  

Decatur Cutie:  Yellow w/ Red Halo,  2.75” blooms, 20”  E.

Doodlebug:  Soft lemon bloom with a dark eye.

Evening Bell:  Ruffled pale yellow award winner.  5” blooms on 28” scape.  : EM

Happy Returns:  Long blooming light yellow.  3 1/4” bloom, 22” M.  

Holiday Delight: 6 1/4” blooms, maroon eye zone over brilliant orange red petals.  28” : M.

Kindly Light:  Classic yellow spider daylily. 28” M.

Marked by Lydia:  8” yellow bloom with purple striping, spider.  29” E.

Primal Scream:  Orange/tangerine bright 7.8” bloom.  34”  L.

Nina Winegar: Golden yellow spider.  Fast grower, heavy bloomer  narrow twisting pedal.  3’ M. 

Stella de Oro:  Award winning 12” golden  yellow blooms all summer.

Suzie Wong:  Consistent ruffled, pale yellow.  24” E.

Todd Monroe:  Buff-colored  3 1/4” blooms with rose eye zone 20” E.  

Tuscawilla Tigress:  Flashy 7” inch orange blooms.  25”  EM

(Near) WHITES and variations on that theme

Gentle Shepherd: 5” white bloom, Probably the whitest daylily, but delicate substance.  29”.  EM.

Joan Senior :  6” near white  curved bloom, 25”. EM.

Mokan Butterfly  Bright purple eye shown off against a pale (almost white) lavender) 5” bloom. 36”.  E

Nanuq:  Near white with a yellow green throat 5” bloom, 27”   ML .