Plant Reference Guide

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1011 N. Woodlawn

Kirkwood, Missouri

63122

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Kalimeris 'Hortensis'

 Kalimeris yomena 'Shogun'

Kalimeris 'Blue Star'

Kirengeshoma palmata

Welcome.  Here you will find descriptions and images of the plants we are offering or have offered in the past.  Plants are listed by their botanical name.  If you are not sure of the name check the Perennial Common Name Cross Reference Guide first.  To learn which plants we are offering this year, along with their sizes and prices, visit Plant Price List. Click on thumbnails for larger images of plants.  

KALIMERIS, Double Japanese Aster: (sometimes referred to as ASTEROMOEA):  sun to partial shade.  Valued for their long blooming period and profuse flowers June through September.   Tolerates damp soil.  Beautiful plants for the perennial border.

integrifolia.  Single one inch daisy like flowers top compact mounds of green all summer.  It loves heat and humidity and breezes through drought like a champ.  2’.

pinnatifida 'Hortensis':  2-3'; semi-double white daisies with pale yellow stamens are produced all summer; airy, light green leaves form an upright, bushy plant.

yomena 'Shogun':  This interesting aster relative starts out with a wide creamy yellow margin eventually fading to a cream color on narrow cut-leaf foliage.  1/2" pale lavender aster-like flowers in early fall.  15".  Sun.

'Blue Star'.  This plant is loved in Europe and for good reason.  It thrives in heat and humidity and breezes through a drought like a champ. Single one inch, pale blue daisy-like flowers on a compact mound of green all summer. Resembles Felicia or Brachycomb - but it's hardy!  It is very easy to grow with hardly any maintenance. Prefers well-drained areas in full sun. A native perennial of eastern North America.  Grows to 18".

KIRENGESHOMA, Yellow Waxbells:  Shrub like plants with erect purple stems.  Maple like leaves, up to 4” in diameter.  Flowers are funnel shaped, 1-2” long of a waxy yellow color. 

koreana:  Up facing yellow flowers open in late summer and fall.  30”

palmata:  2-3'; shrub like plant; bell-shaped pale yellow l l/2" flowers; large maple-like hairy leaves; interesting fruit in fall; rarity for the connoisseur; Japanese native.

KNAUTIA:  sun; great naturalizing species for warm, sunny dry sites including slopes.

macedonica:  2-3’; many tiny dark purple to dark red pincushion-like flowers July to frost.

KNIPHOFIA, Red Hot Poker:  sun blooms in summer; needs a protected site and good well-drained humusy soil; stately plants.

‘Flamenco’.  Mixed colors of white, yellow, orange, red, or shades of all four colors.  Grows to 30”.

KRASCHENINNIKOVIA lanata, Winter Fat.  This 2’ hardy western native shrub has a striking appearance with many stems and abundant 1 1/2” leaves.  The leaves are covered with soft whitish wool even in winter. 

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