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Looking for a plant or product you read about in one of Jan’s recent garden columns? Start by asking at your local nursery or garden center if they can get it for you. For a free plant-finder service, see http://plantinfo.umn.edu. Here’s additional help:
Flowering Maple (Abutilon) Summer Sherbert seeds: Burpee (800/888-1447, www.burpee.com) Bella seeds: Thompson & Morgan (800/274-7333, www.tmseeds.com)
Autumn Revolution bittersweet Independent garden centers. See www.baileynurseries.com to find a retailer near you.
Meadow rues (Thalictrum) Lavender mist meadow rue, Kyushu meadow rue, and yellow meadow rue: Ambergate Gardens (877/211-9769, www.ambergategardens.com) Busse Gardens (800/544-3192, www.bussegardens.com) Black Stockings: Klehm’s Song Sparrow Farm & Nursery (800/553-3715, www.songsparrow.com)
Sweet Joanne penstemon This perennial is a Blooms of Bressingham plant. See www.BloomsofBressingham.com for a retail store near you or order from High Country Gardens, 800/925-9387, www.highcountrygardens.com
Lo & Behold Blue Chip butterfly bush Sold by garden centers that carry Proven Winners Color Choice shrubs. To find a retail source near you, see www.provenwinners.com. A mail-order source is White Flower Farm (800/503-9624, www.whiteflowerfarm.com).
Cold-hardy Salad Crops Arugula, mustard, spinach, and a salad mix called mesclun are widely available wherever garden seeds are sold. A selection of uncommon greens such as corn salad and miner’s lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata) from Johnny’s Selected Seeds, 877/564-6697, www.johnnyseeds.com.
Dwarf Fruit Trees Mail-order sources for dwarf fruit trees which provide information on selecting rootstocks include Raintree Nursery (800/391-8892, www.raintreenursery.com) and Edible Forest Nursery (608/782-3443, www.edibleforestnursery.com).
Berries Prime-Jim, Prime-Jan and Illini Hardy blackberries: Indiana Berry & Plant Co., 800/295-2226, www.inberry.com. Heritage fall-bearing raspberries widely available at local nurseries. Also mail-order catalogs, including Indiana Berry & Plant Co., listed above. Tristar and Tribute day-neutral strawberries widely available at local nurseries. Also mail-order catalogs, including Indiana Berry & Plant Co., listed above.
Hardy Grapes for the Midwest Swenson Red, Edelweiss: Raintree Nursery, 360/496-6400, www.raintreenursery.com
Floating Row Covers Available at most garden centers. Mail-order catalogs with a variety of different types: Peaceful Valley Farm & Garden Supply (888/784-1722, www.GrowOrganic.com) Territorial Seed Company (800/626/0866, www.territorialseed.com)
GreenCure See www.greencure.net for a store finder. Mail-order sources include Charley’s Greenhouse & Garden (800/322-4707, www.charleysgreenhouse.com) and Wormsway (800/274-9676, www.wormsway.com).
Shade-tolerant Shrubs Klehm’s Song Sparrow, 800/553-3715, www.songsparrow.com Bluestone Perennials, 800/852-5243, www.bluestoneperennials.com Bush honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera): Bluestone Perennials, 800/852-5243, www.bluestoneperennials.com Forest Farm, 541/846-7269, www.forestfarm.com
Native Shrubs New Jersey tea (Ceanothus americanus) and leadplant (Amorpha canescens) Prairie Nursery, 800/476-9453, www.prairienursery.com Bluestone Perennials, 800/852-5243, www.bluestoneperennials.com Clove-scented currant (Ribes odoratum) and leadplant (Amorpha canescens) High Country Gardens, 800/925-9387, www.highcountrygardens.com
Chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa) Raintree Nursery, 360/496-6400, www.raintreenursery.com: Species, Viking, Nero, & dwarf Forest Farm, 541/846-7269, www.forestfarm.com: Species, Viking, & Autumn Magic Nature Hills Nursery (402/934-8116, www.naturehills.com Autumn Magic, Iroquois Beauty
Angel’s trumpets Datura seeds: The Fragrant Path, P.O. Box 328, Fort Calhoun, NE 68023, catalog $2, www.fragrantpathseeds.com. Brugmansia plants: Logee’s Tropical Plants (888/330-8038, www.logees.com
Late-blooming Perennials Bottle gentian: Seeds or plants from Prairie Moon Nursery, 866/417-8156, Toad lily and azure monkshood plants: Forest Farm, 541/846-7269,
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