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Back yard island

The back yard island, hidden from the street, has more wild hairs than the front and side gardens. Besides several trees and shrubs, it's got a windmill (to celebrate my Dutch heritage), a hill (all extra soil from gardening projects finds its way up there) and lots of tall sun-loving plantings including Maximillian sunflower, compass plant, cup plant, big bluestem grass, and giant purple hyssop. Lots of hollyhocks self-seed on the hill, and fight for space with a rambing Virginia rose. I'd say right now this is my favorite part of the garden - low on design, high on attitude!

A view from the back of the island.

Two exuberant late-season bloomers next to each other in the back of the island: bush clover and missouri goldenrod.

Partial list of plants we grow in the back yard island

Abelmoschus manihot (flowering okra)
Acer tataricum ssp. ginnala (Tatarian maple)
Achillea sibirica var. camtschatica 'Love Parade' (yarrow)
Adenophora confusa
Agastache 'Blue Fortune' (hyssop)
Agastache mearnsii (San Luis Mountain giant hyssop)
Agastache scrophulariifolia (purple giant hyssop)
Alcea pallida (eastern hollyhock)
Alcea rosea (hollyhock)
Allium aflatunense (Persian onion)
Allium cristophii (star of Persia)
Amsonia tabernaemontana (blue stars)
Andropogon gerardii (big bluestem grass)
Anemone x hybrida 'Andrea Atkinson' (Japanese windflower)
Angelica gigas (Korean angelica)
Antennaria dioica (pussy-toes)
Antirrhinum braun-blanquetii (hardy snapdragon)
Aquilegia caerulea (Colorado blue columbine)
Aquilegia vulgaris (columbine)
Arctotis fastuosa (cape daisy, monarch of the veldt)
Armoracia rusticana 'Variegata' (variegated horseradish)
Asclepias curassavica (tropical milkweed; bloodflower)
Asclepias tuberosa (butterfly weed)
Aster tataricus 'Jin-Dai' (Tatarian aster)
Aurinia saxatilis (basket of gold)
Baptisia alba (white false indigo)
Baptisia sphaerocarpa (yellow baptisia)
Bupleurum griffithii 'Decor' (thorough-wax)
Calamintha nepeta (nepitella)
Campanula alliariifolia (ivory bellflower)
Campanula makaschvilii
Campanula persicifolia (peach-leaf bellflower)
Campanula species (dwarf blue bellflower)
Campanula takesimana (Korean bellflower)
Cardamine pratensis (cuckoo flower; lady's smock)
Carex buchananii (leatherleaf sedge)
Caryopteris x clandonensis (bluebeard, blue mist spirea)
Centaurea montana (mountain bluet)
Centaurea stoebe ssp. stoebe (spotted knapweed)
Cephalaria gigantea (golden scalehead)
Ceratotheca triloba (African foxglove)
Cercis canadensis (Eastern redbud)
Chelidonium majus (great celandine)
Chrysanthemum hybrids (garden mum)
Circaea lutetiana (enchanter's nightshade)
Clarkia pulchella
Clematis heracleifolia (tube clematis)
Clematis terniflora (sweet autumn clematis)
Colutea orientalis (bladder senna)
Consolida ajacis (rocket larkspur)
Coreopsis tripteris (tickseed)
Cornus kousa (Japanese dogwood)
Corylopsis sinensis var. calvescens (Chinese winterhazel)
Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora 'Lucifer'
Crotalaria sagittalis (arrowhead rattlebox)
Cynoglossum amabile (Chinese forget-me-not)
Datura (angel's trumpet)
Dianthus gratianopolitanus (cheddar pink)
Digitalis ferruginea (rusty foxglove)
Digitalis lanata (Grecian foxglove; woolly foxglove)
Digitalis lutea (straw foxglove)
Digitalis obscura (willow-leaf foxglove)
Digitalis parviflora (foxglove)
Digitalis viridiflora (green foxglove)
Dipsacus fullonum (common teasel; Fuller's teasel)
Dorycnium hirsutum (hairy canary-clover)
Echinacea purpurea (purple coneflower)
Echinacea tennesseensis (Tennessee coneflower)
Epilobium angustifolium (willow orchid)
Epilobium coloratum (purple-leaf willowherb; cinnamon willowherb)
Erigeron speciosus 'Azure Fairy' (fleabane)
Erodium manescavii (heronsbill)
Eryngium 'Blue Jackpot' (sea holly)
Eryngium giganteum (sea holly)
Eupatorium rugosum 'Chocolate' (white snakeroot)
Galega orientalis (oriental goat's rue)
Gentiana dahurica (gentian)
Gentiana tibetica (Tibetan gentian)
Geranium asphodeloides (cranesbill)
Geranium bohemicum
Geranium himalayense 'Plenum' (Himalayan cranesbill)
Geranium pratense (meadow cranesbill)
Geranium x cantabrigiense (mountain cranesbill)
Geranium x oxonianum 'Claridge Druce' (cranesbill)
Geum ponticum (avens)
Geum triflorum (prairie smoke)
Gladiolus
Gomphocarpus physocarpus (pufferfish milkweed; balloon cottonbush)
Hackelia floribunda (manyflower stickseed)
Helianthus angustifolius 'First Light' (swamp sunflower; narrow-leaf sunflower)
Helianthus maximilianii (Maximillian sunflower)
Heliopsis helianthoides (false sunflower)
Hemerocallis hybrids (daylily)
Hesperis matronalis (dame's rocket)
Heuchera villosa 'Autumn Bride' (hairy alum root)
Hibiscus coccineus (scarlet rose mallow)
Hosta hybrids (plantain lily)
Hyacinthus (hyacinth)
Impatiens scabrida
Ipomoea hederacea (ivy-leaf morning glory)
Ipomoea tricolor (morning glory)
Iris domestica (blackberry lily)
Iris graminea (plum-scented iris)
Iris ochroleuca
Iris virginica var. shrevei (Southern blue flag)

Iris xiphium (Dutch iris)
Isodon excisus
Kitaibela vitifolia
Knautia arvensis (blue buttons)
Kniphofia uvaria (red hot poker; torch lily)
Koeleria glauca (blue hairgrass)
Lathyrus latifolius (perennial sweet pea)
Leonotis leonurus (lion's ear)
Leonurus cardiaca (motherwort)
Lespedeza thunbergii (bush clover)
Levisticum officinale (lovage)
Liatris ligulistylis (meadow blazing star)
Lilium (lilies (various species and hybrids))
Linaria dalmatica (broadleaf toadflax)
Linaria purpurea (purple toadflax)
Linum lewisii (blue flax)
Lupinus latifolius var. parishii (Parish's lupine, broadleaf lupine)
Lupinus luteus (European yellow lupine)
Lychnis chalcedonica (Maltese cross)
Lychnis coronaria (rose campion)
Lychnis x arkwrightii 'Vesuvius' (Arkwright's campion)
Lysimachia minoricensis
Malus sargentii (Sargent's crab apple)
Miscanthus sinensis 'Morning light' (maiden grass; Chinese silver grass)
Nepeta sibirica (Siberian catmint)
Oenothera glazioviana (red-sepal evening primrose)
Ononis repens (restharrow)
Papaver amurense (poppy)
Pardancanda norrisii (candy lily)
Patrinia scabiosifolia 'Nagoya' (camel's cover)
Paulownia tomentosa (Chinese empress tree)
Peltoboykinia grandiflora
Persicaria virginiana 'Painter's palette' (painter's palette)
Phacelia bolanderi (blue-flowered grape-leaf)
Phlox divaricata (wild blue phlox)
Phlox paniculata (garden phlox)
Phlox x arendsii 'Ping Pong'
Plantago asiatica 'Variegata' (variegated plantain)
Prunella grandiflora (self-heal)
Prunella hyssopifolia
Prunella laciniata (cutleaf self-heal)
Pulsatilla vulgaris (pasque flower)
Pyrus calleryana (Bradford pear; callery pear)
Rabdosia longituba (trumpet spurflower)
Ratibida columnifera (prairie coneflower; Mexican hat)
Ratibida pinnata (drooping or grey-head prairie coneflower)
Ridolfia segetum (corn parsley, goldspray)
Rosa 'New Dawn' (climbing rose)
Rosa canina
Rosa virginiana (Virginia rose)
Rubus thibetanus 'Silver Fern' (ghost bramble)
Rudbeckia maxima (giant coneflower)
Ruellia humilis (hairy wild petunia)
Salvia algeriensis (Algerian sage)
Salvia argentea (silver sage)
Salvia glutinosa (Jupiter's distaff)
Salvia pratensis Haematodes (meadow sage)
Salvia sclarea (clary sage)
Salvia verticillata (lilac sage)
Sassafras albidum (sassafras)
Scabiosa stellata (starflower pincushions)
Schizachyrium scoparium (little bluestem)
Scutellaria diffusa
Sedum 'Autumn Joy' (showy stonecrop)
Sedum ternatum (woodland stonecrop; wild stonecrop)
Seseli gummiferum (moon carrot)
Sida elliottii (Elliott's fanpetals)
Silene dioica (catchfly)
Silphium laciniatum (compass plant)
Silphium perfoliatum (cup plant)
Silphium terebinthinaceum (prairie dock)
Silybum marianum (Mary's thistle, milk thistle)
Sisyrinchium angustifolium (narrow-leaf blue-eyed grass)
Solanum atropurpureum (malevolence)
Solanum virginianum (kantakari; Surrattense nightshade)
Solidago canadensis (Canada goldenrod)
Solidago species (goldenrod)
Sphaeralcea incana (gray globe mallow)
Spiraea japonica 'Goldflame' (Japanese spirea)
Stokesia laevis (Stokes' aster, cornflower aster)
Symphyotrichum lateriflorum 'Lady in Black' (Michaelmas daisy)
Symphyotrichum oolentangiense (skyblue aster)
Syringa vulgaris (lilac)
Tanacetum balsamita (costmary)
Teucrium chamaedrys (prostrate and upright germander)
Thalictrum flavum ssp. glaucum (yellow meadow rue)
Thalictrum rochebrunianum (lavender mist meadow rue)
Tinantia erecta (widow's tears)
Tradescantia virginiana (spiderwort)
Tropaeolum majus (nasturtium)
Tulipa greigii 'Pinocchio' (tulip)
Vaccaria hispanica (cow cockles; cow soapwort)
Verbascum blattaria (moth mullein)
Verbascum nigrum (dark mullein)
Verbascum phoeniceum 'Violetta' (purple mullein)
Verbesina alternifolia (wingstem)
Vernonia noveboracensis (New York ironweed)
Veronica 'Waterperry Blue' (speedwell)
Veronica schmidtiana (speedwell)
Viola sororia f. priceana (confederate violet)
Vitex negundo (chastetree)
Xanthoceras sorbifolium (yellow horn)
Zizia aptera (heart-leaved alexanders)
Zizia aurea (golden alexanders)

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Last modified: October 08, 2004
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