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Kalimeris integrifolia

 

 Kalimeris yomena 'Shogun'

 

Kalimeris 'Blue Star'

 

Kirengeshoma palmata

 

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 ‘Daisy Mae.’  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.

‘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".

‘Variegata.’ Beautiful creamy gold and white variegated foliage is a great addition to any sun garden. Between July and September lavenders daisy like flowers bloom. Height 2’, spread 3’.

 

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”

palmata2-3'; 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 Field ScabiosaSun; great naturalizing species for warm, sunny dry sites including slopes.

macedonica2-3’; many tiny dark purple to dark red pincushion-like flowers July to frost.      

‘Mars Midget.’  Ruby-red petals with white stamens. Flowers early summer into fall. Height 16”.

‘Thunder and Lightning.’  Cream white and green variegated leaves. Deep violet blooms in mid to late summer.  Height 12-18”.

 

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

rooperi.  Boasts broad, squatty  exquisitely patterned flower heads.  Starts yellow at the bottom fading to a bright orange at the top.  Blooms late summer into fall.  Height 48”.

‘Fire Dance.’ Coral red and yellow flower spikes are produced from early through late summer. The foliage is a low-growing thick clumps of narrow arching blue-green leaves. Great for container gardening and smaller gardens. Height 20”, spread 20”.

‘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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