Name |
Common Name |
Height in inches
|
Color |
Time of Flowering
|
Acorus Calamus |
Sweet Flag |
30 |
Yellow |
July and Aug. |
Acorns gramineus |
Sweet Flag |
30 |
Leaves striped |
July and
Aug. |
(and var. fol.
variegatus) Anagallis tenella
|
Bog Pimpernel |
3–4 |
with Red and
White Pink
|
July |
Arundinaria |
Bamboos |
24–200 |
|
|
(several vars.)
Arundo Donax
|
Great Reed |
100 |
Bluish-green |
|
Astilbe (various) |
Goat's Beard |
20-50 |
Foliage White,
Yellow,
|
May to Sept. |
(see catalogues)
Bambusa Fortunei
|
Bamboo |
20 –30 |
Purple, Rose,
or Crimson Golden Variegated
|
|
aurea Caltha
palustris fl.
|
Marsh Marigold |
12 |
Leaves Double
Rich
|
May to July |
Caltha polypetala |
Giant Kingcup |
20 |
Yellow Golden-yellow
|
May to July |
Cardamine pratensis |
Lady's Smock
or |
12 |
Lilac |
May to July |
fl. pl. Cortaderia
argentea
|
Cuckoo Flower
Pampas grass
|
72 |
Cream or Pink |
Autumn |
Cypripedium
regina ' |
Lady's Slipper |
20 |
Pink and White |
June and July |
(syn. spectabile)
Dodecatheon
|
Orchid American
|
12 |
Purple, Rose,
and |
May and June |
meadia Dodecatheon
|
Cowslip American
|
12 |
White Magenta
|
May–June |
Jeffreyi Epilobium
|
Cowslip Willow
Herb
|
6-70 |
Crimson, Rose,
or |
June to Sept. |
(various) Fritillaria
Meleagris
|
Snakeshead |
10 |
White Purple-rose
and
|
April |
(various) Gentiana
|
Swallow-wort |
24 |
White Pale
Blue
|
August |
Asclepiadea
Gentiana |
Windflower |
5–10 |
Dark Blue |
June–August |
Pneumonanthe
Geum rivale
|
Water Avens |
10 |
Crimson Pink |
May to Sept. |
Gunnera manicata |
Prickly Rhubarb |
80-100 |
Reddish Flowers. |
August |
Gunnera chilensis |
Prickly Rhubarb |
60 |
Foliage Plant
Small Reddish
|
August |
(syn. scabra)
Helonias bullata
|
Stud-flower |
15 |
Flowers. Foliage
Plant Crimson-purple
|
April to May |
Hemerocallis |
Day Lily |
36 |
Apricot Orange |
June–Sept. |
aurantiaca
Hemerocallis
|
Day Lily |
15 |
Yellow and |
May–August |
Dumortieri
Hemerocallis fulva
|
Day Lily |
36 |
Red-brown Tawny
Yellow
|
June and July |
Heracleum villosum |
Cow Parsnip |
60-100 |
White |
June–August |
Hosta (syn.
Funkia) |
Plantain Lily |
18–24 |
Lilac, with |
July–Sept. |
(various) Iris
aurea
|
Yellow Iris |
48 |
Ornamental
Foliage Golden-yellow
|
July |
Iris fulva |
Iris |
20 |
Red-bronze |
June–July |
Iris Delavayi |
Chinese Iris |
50 |
Violet |
July–Sept. |
Iris fcetidissima |
Stinking Gladwyn |
30 |
Bluish-lilac |
Summer |
