Hillside Nursery
Wildflowers For Spring
Arisaemas (Cobra Lilies)
Hooded flowers of bizarre and enchanted beautly and elegance, these plants are well known as stately denizens of the shady garden.
Arisaema candidissimum
This is a beautiful species of cobra lily from China. It has very large glossy leaves and a pink striped flower. It comes up late and blooms in late June to July. It will offset quite freely forming a nice clump.
Zones 5-8. 2-3 ft. Moist, well-drained soil. Needs good drainage. Shade to part shade. We are offering 4-year-old corms that will most likely bloom this spring. Read and view more images here.
Arisaema fargesii
Another Chinese species, this plant has very large tripartite leaves and a large maroon striped flowers that look like a cobra's head. It comes up late and blooms in late June to July. It will offset quite freely forming a nice clump.
Zones 5-8. 2-3 ft. Moist, well-drained soil. Needs good drainage. Shade to part shade. We are offering 4-year-old corms that will most likely bloom this spring. Read and view more images here.
Arisaema heterophyllum
This is a fun plant, and it's easy to grow. Here at the nursery, they grow to over three feet tall, looking like cranes with wings in the air and long tongues sticking up out of their mouths. This cobra lily often stays dormant until late May, blooming in mid-to-late June followed by bright red berries in late summer.
Zone 5-8. 3+ ft. Part sun to light shade. Moist, but well-drained soil. These are four-year-old corms that may or may not bloom in the coming spring. Read and view more images here.
Arisaema ringens
An easy-to-grow clump-forming plant with large glossy tropical-looking leaves and a dark purple spathe that looks like the head of a cobra. Spring-blooming. One of my favorites.
Zones 5-9. 20-36 in. Part sun to shade, moist rich well-drained soil. These very large corms will produce blooming size plants. Read and view more images here.
Arisaema sikokianum
Best known of the Japanese cobra lilies, with white golf ball spadix inside a purple spathe. Mid-spring bloom. Cold hardy but needs good winter drainage. Plants offered are blooming size.
Zones 4-8. 12-20 in. Part shade, moist sandy loam, good drainage. Read and view more images here.
Arisaema urashima
This species has broad, multi-divided leaves similar to A. heterophyllum. A dark brown whip-like spadix snakes out of the maroon and white striped spathe. This is an easy plant to grow that will offset freely. Blooms in mid-May here at the nursery.
Zones 5-8. 2-3 ft. Moist, well-drained soil. Needs good drainage. Shade to part shade. We are offering 4-year-old corms that will most likely bloom this spring. Read and view more images here.
Hepaticas (Liverleaf or Liverworts)
Hepaticas are beautiful early spring bloomers that make a nice addition to any woodland garden. Some, like H. acutiloba, bloom before the new 3-lobed leaves emerge, others bloom as the leaves are coming up or after. They are clump-forming and range in color from white to pink to blue and purple. It is hard not to be drawn to them. We certainly are. This season we are delighted to offer several different varieties.
Hepatica acutiloba (Bardwells Ferry Form)
This Eastern US native has 3-lobed leaves that are pointed at the end, giving it its name. The name refers to the seed collection site. The site is unique in the fact that the plants grow there in large mats of hundreds of plants each with thousands of plants growing over a half acre area. Strong growing plants with mostly white and light pastel flowers.
Zones 4-8. 6 in. Full to part shade. Moist, well-drained soil. We are offering good sized plants that will bloom this spring. Read and view more images here.
Hepatica nobilis
This is the European form of Hepatica with deep blue flowers that emerge early in the spring, followed by tri-lobed leaves.
Zones 4-8. 4-6 in. Light shade, moist but well-drained soil. We are offering 4-year-old flowering size plants. Read and view more images here.
Hepatica transylvanica
From the Slavic region of southeastern Europe, this early-flowering hepatica is a true harbinger of spring with its large blue flowers and sizable, almost leathery, five-lobed leaves. It is fast growing and offsets freely. This is one of the largest hepatica species, and makes an excellent addition to a collection.
Zones 4-8. 8 in. Full to part shade. Moist, well-drained soil. Appreciates lime. We are offering good sized plants that should bloom next spring. Read and view more images here.
Cornus canadensis
A slow spreading ground cover with white upright flowers above overlapping whorled leaves. Red berries in late summer. Requires a deep cool mulch. Can form a lush carpet. Our plants are from a seed strain that has proven to be the most vigorous and adaptable form we have grown over the years. Circumboreal.
Zones 3-8. 6-8 in. Shade to part shade, moist acid soil. These are well established 2-year-old plants grown from seed in 3.5 inch deep pots. Read and view more images here.
Iris gracillipes alba
This refined woodland iris from Japan is truly a standout. Forms a ring of grass-like foliage and bears numerous 1.5 inch-widewhite crested flowers in late May. In its native land, it grows on wooded and rocky moutain slopes or forest edges. It adapts easily to the garden, forming a nice clump.
Zones 5-8. 8-12 in. Part sun to shade, garden soil. Blooming size plants grown out in quart pots. Read and view more images here.
Trillium grandiflorum 'Floro Plenum'
We are continuing to offer a limited block T.'Floro Plenum'. These are large well rooted divisions with 1-3 stems that we will be digging out of our stock beds as we fill orders.
This is the rarely offered, fully double-flowered form. Its exquisite blooms have multiple rows of white overlapping petals. It will offset freely, once established.
Zones 3-8. 12-14 in. Part sun to light shade. Moist, rich, well-drained neutral soil. A yearly dusting of lime is beneficial. Large, well-rooted, blooming-sized divisions with 1-3 stems.
Regular Price on these was $60.00 ea. Read and view more images here.
10 or more = $40.00 ea.
