{"title":"Brown\/Tan Flowering Plants","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch3\u003eOur Favorite Brown Flowering Perennials\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBaptisia 'Cinnamon Candles' - We love baptisias, and this PDN introduction is one of our favs. Starting in spring, spikes of bicolor gold and chocolate flowers emerge atop the foliage.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eCarex divulsa - While you may not consider sedges flowering perennials, several species of carex produce tufts flowers that are tan or brown. They also make great host plants for a variety of pollinators.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePennisetum alopecuroides 'Foxtrot' - One of our favorite fountain grasses, Pennisetum 'Foxtrot', forms marvelous bluish-pink plumes that become tan as they age.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eDasylirion leiophyllum - Native to the Guadalupe Mountain range in New Mexico, this sotol forms spikes of tan flowers that resemble torches made of oatmeal.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"nassella-tenuissima","title":"Nassella tenuissima","description":"\u003cp\u003e(aka: Stipa tenuissima) We truly love this Southwest US native grass. The delicate, narrow foliage of Nassella tenuissima forms a delightfully wispy, deer-resistant clump that makes us think of President Trump's coiffure...we shall overcomb. The 2' tall, wispy tan plumes blend nicely with the foliage in late spring...a very cute ornamental grass! The shallow-rooted Nassella tenuissima will often seed near the mother clump, so if you get a few too many babies, simply get out the Progestin...we mean Roundup\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWatch our \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/iGEFUvd2e5Q?si=eeC-YqX1NnC2GzgE\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePlant Spotlight\u003c\/a\u003e video for more information. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Delights Nursery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":21000162181,"sku":"258","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1527\/8799\/files\/Nassella-tenuissima.i-258.s-21864.r-1.jpg?v=1791812892"},{"product_id":"asarum-splendens","title":"Asarum splendens","description":"\u003cp\u003eSplendid indeed! Asarum splendens is a vigorous and superbly easy-to-grow Chinese wild ginger that makes a great evergreen groundcover for the woodland garden. The large, dark green, deer-resistant leaves (evergreen to 10 degrees F) are heavily adorned with silvery mottling throughout. Asarum splendens is a vigorously rhizomatous species, spreading underground to 6' wide in 10 years. In early spring, you will also love this one for the large 2\" flowers of dark purple...one of the finest members of the ginger family. Our original stock came from China, via both Jim Waddick and Barry Yinger.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eMaintenance:\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn the woodland garden, Asarum splendens needs no maintenance once established. It spreads widely via underground rhizomes, and once established is almost impossible to eradicate. This isn't a problem unless it's planted too close to other smaller, more defenseless woodland perennials.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch3\u003eGrowing Conditions:\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca title=\"See our Asarum collection\" href=\"https:\/\/www.plantdelights.sbs\/collections\/asarum-wild-ginger-plant-hexastylis\"\u003eAsarum\u003c\/a\u003e grows best in a rich moist, woodland soil, but is also incredibly drought tolerant, growing in extremely dry soils once established. As you can imagine, the growth rate is much slower in drier soils. 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No leaves, just evergreen slender, upright steel blue stems to 22\"...not leaning either to the right or left. The winter interest and color combinations possibilities of this architectural 2' wide specimen are endless! We grow this wonderful clumper in regular garden soil, or in a bog, or in an aquatic garden...incredibly versatile!\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Plant Delights Nursery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":21000688837,"sku":"924","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1527\/8799\/files\/Juncus-patens-Carmans-Grey.i-924.s-65068.r-1.jpg?v=1791553270"},{"product_id":"carex-lanceolata-silk-tassel-japanese-sedge","title":"Carex lanceolata Silk Tassel","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarex 'Silk Tassel' has long been our favorite sedge, but we've always doubted it was identified correctly. In 2023, our crack taxonomic staff determined it to actually be a selection of the Asian Carex lanceolata. The wispy, narrow foliage has a narrow white center, which gives this tight 10\" tall x 2' wide clumper a silver sheen in the garden--somewhat like a 70-year-old with a mop-top cut sans hair coloring. We have found this amazing sedge to perform much better in full sun, although it grows okay in open shade. Everyone who sees this clumping carex can't leave without it. This gem came to the US via a 1970s Barry Yinger expedition to Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Plant Delights Nursery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":21000945669,"sku":"1197","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1527\/8799\/files\/Carex-lanceolata-Silk-Tassel.i-1197.s-67086.r-1.jpg?v=1789404041"},{"product_id":"sauromatum-venosum","title":"Sauromatum venosum","description":"\u003cp\u003e(aka: Sauromatum guttatum, Arum cornutum, Typhonium venosum) This tropical-looking aroid is a relative of arisaemas. In spring, the peculiar inflorescence (flower head) is the first sign of life...it's just life from another planet. Each sauromatum flower stalk is 3' tall and only 1\" wide. As it unfurls, the inside of the spathe is patterned with a rich violet and yellow...the ultimate in weird! A month later, a giant hand-shaped leaf, to 2' across, emerges from the bulb on a very mottled, green and black stem. After flowering, a unique seed head (resembling a 2\" round alien space object) forms at the base of the leaf. Eventually, sauromatum corms multiply and make a nice colony...of weird plants.\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Plant Delights Nursery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":21001021509,"sku":"1315","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1527\/8799\/files\/Sauromatum-venosum.i-1315.s-65555.r-1_22c0cafa-81fb-4d17-b8c5-bc838d68c0d1.jpg?v=1786115993"},{"product_id":"osmunda-cinnamomea-cinnamon-fern","title":"Osmunda cinnamomea","description":"\u003cp\u003e(aka: Osmundastrum cinnamomeum) The deciduous US native Osmunda cinnamomea can be found in every state east of the Mississippi River...and Texas and Oklahoma. The stately, upright, 3' tall clumps of osmunda thrive in moist soils but also grow well under typical garden conditions...a great large foil in woodland settings. The fertile fronds of Osmunda cinnamomea arise in spring just above the sterile foliage as phallic, cinnamon-colored spikes in the center of the clump. In moist soils, a happy clump of cinnamon fern can reach 3' tall x 3' wide, although very old clumps in ideal conditions have been known to reach 6'...one of our finest US native plants. Recent DNA work shows that Osmunda cinnamomea is only distantly related to other osmunda ferns like Osmunda regalis and some taxonomists have moved it to another genus, Osmundastrum.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eMaintenance:\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eCinnamon fern requires no maintenance in the garden as long as it's planted in the proper location.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch3\u003eGrowing Conditions:\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca title=\"Cinnamon fern\" href=\"https:\/\/www.plantdelights.sbs\/collections\/osmunda-cinnamon-fern\"\u003eCinnamon fern\u003c\/a\u003e prefers a moist to seasonally waterlogged soils. Although it is also tolerant of garden soils with average to slightly dry soils, it will not grow nearly as tall. Although typically found in light shade to dense woodlands, it will grow fine in a few hours of full sun as long as the soil moisture is good.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch3\u003eGarden Value:\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eCinnamon fern is incredibly stunning as a specimen plant, especially when the fertile fronds arise from the center of the clump in early spring. 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The drought-tolerant, 8\" wide, symmetrical clumps of soft green, needle-like foliage resemble Justin Bieber's hair, back in the day...sort of like a pettable green porcupine. 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Each 2' wide clump resembles an upside-down dish of 3-day-old blue spaghetti after rigor mortis has set in. We have found this to grow equally as well in typical, even dry garden soil. We love it both as a solitary specimen as well as in a massed planting.\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Plant Delights Nursery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":21025036869,"sku":"2925","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1527\/8799\/files\/Juncus-inflexus-Afro.i-2925.s-68065.r-1.jpg?v=1791913086"},{"product_id":"aristolochia-fimbriata","title":"Aristolochia fimbriata","description":"\u003cp\u003eAristolochia fimbriata is a really cool deciduous groundcover Dutchman's pipe that spreads out to 2'. The prostrate little green stems are clothed with medium green rounded leaves, each highlighted with dramatic silver veining. The cute, little, 1\" long, yellow and brown flowers resemble miniature elephant trunks and are produced along the stem all summer. In winter, the stems retreat back to the base so there are no invasive problems with this gem! The only \"ornamental\" downside is that aristolochia is a delicacy for pipevine swallowtail butterfly larvae in midsummer...less foliage, but more butterflies!\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis delicate little trailer grows from a 6\" long carrot-like taproot. It must store enough food to allow regrowth of new stems after being eaten by pipevine swallowtail butterfly larvae. It is likely that the larger a planting of pipevine plants is, the more likely that they will be utilized by Pipevine Swallowtail Butterflies. So don't plant just one, plant masses of them. You will get plenty of time to enjoy the beautiful foliage and the occasional flower and then the miracle of caterpillars becoming butterflies and the knowledge that you supported a native butterfly and fellow traveler on this planet.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe fruit of this species are fascinating as well, opening from the top of the fruit they resemble the gondola of a hot-air balloon.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a very low maintenance plant, requiring only a sunny location with average drainage. It will tolerate a dry site. It completely disappears in winter, returning each spring. Propagation is by seed.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSome species of Aristolochia are known as birthwort, as some were used to assist birth. Aristolochia means \"well born\". 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In 7-9 years (temperate climates), Cycas taitungensis forms a large rosette of stunning 5' long, dark green, plastic-like fronds circling the leg-sized trunk which can eventually reach 10' tall. While the foliage will burn back at 20 degrees F, all of our plants resprouted during their annual late spring flush, from 7 degrees F in 2009. 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The only drawback was the fading of the leaf variegation in warm weather. Arundo 'Peppermint Stick', imported from the Shanghai Botanical Garden by the late plantsman Greg Speichert, solves that with striped leaves just as vivid in summer as in spring. Arundo 'Peppermint Stick' forms sturdy 12' tall canes, adorned with wide green and white striped leaves. In fall, the clumps are topped with 18\" tall bronze-colored plumes. Arundo may get too large for small gardens, but it is NOT an invasive plant (displacing natives in functioning ecosystems), since it neither runs or produces viable seed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInteresting factoid:Arundo donax is the source of reeds for wind instruments.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eArundo donax is also a great cut for flower arrangements, both the foliage in new growth, or all summer long, as well as the glorious large flower heads in fall. 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We're not sure what else mutated, but it has been a shockingly good grower in our heat and humidity, where it forms an 18\" tall x 2' wide clump of bright gold foliage that takes on significant red highlights as the plants age...especially when they receive some early morning sun. Rich moist soil gives the best results.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eMaintenance:\u003c\/h3\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHakonechloa 'Sunflare' is a very low maintenance perennial. In spring, before the new foliage emerges, we like to trim back the old brown foliage, but that's about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIf your clump gets large enough that you'd like to divide and spread it around, this is best done in fall and winter. Just keep in mind that this is a patented selection, so propagation is technically not legal. 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