The Perennial Set
- Starship Enterprise Iris
We add new species every year just barely avoiding the temptation to get one of every iris that exists. Starship Enterprise was a new species in the early 2000s.
- Black Hellebore
This species, Helleborus x sternii, originally joined our family from the Wells Medina Nursery in February, 1997 ce.
- Bleeding Hearts
The gardens I knew in my earliest years always had bleeding hearts. These were planted in the partial shade area of the Snowball Bed in the mid-1990s and gift us with a few seedlings each year.
- Kerria
We admired this bright yellow plant for years and one day in 2001 ce gerry stopped
to ask that gardener it's name. The gardener promptly and happily gave gerry
some of our own Kerria pleniflora to grow here. It is spectacular attention-getter.
- Copper Classic Iris
We grow more than 30 species of iris which bring spring joy and wonder to our garden visitors every May. Copper Classic grows just east of our cottage in the main Iris Bed.
- "Eroica" Saxifrage
It is when it comes into bloom that this Bergenia
x Eroica is spectacular! It's been growing in the Snowball Bed and has folk names
such as "elephant's ears" and "pigsqueak."