Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Amsonia tabernaemontana -- Jule: May 2005

I first saw this beauty in someone's backyard on a garden tour. It was spectacularly blue. My friend J. took a photo of it and sent it to me so I could research its identity. It can be grown from seed, per the Thompson Seed Catalog, apparently with a little experience. This year it was introduced into Native Prairie Nursery's catalog of Wisconsin native perennials. When the privacy fence goes up in my back yard I will plant some of these against it, interspersed with dwarf Canadian spruce, serviceberry bushes, and a Russion sage or two.

Jule: May 2005