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Item Name / Source Description, Height x Width # of Seeds Cost
260 Genista horrida
cult. ex Spain
A dense mound of silvery foliage grows to 1 to 2 feet high in as many years. Nice, soft yellow flowers are pleasing to the eye.
10
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096 Gentiana acaulis
cult.
Famous brilliant blue spring blooming gentian of the Alps. A standard no garden should be without. 2" x 4" Picture
25
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1863 Gentiana algida
Summit Co. CO, elev. 12,200'
Upward facing greenish-white trumpets with purple streaks nestle in strappy, bright-green leaf clusters. A sure sign that snow will be flying soon in the high country. 4" x 5" Picture
25
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2268 Gentiana clusii var. violacea
cult
Large purple trumpets seated on lovely rosettes of evergreen leaves, in early spring. 3" x 4" Picture
15
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2118 Gentiana lagodechiana
cult. ex Caucasus
Royal blue fringed and pleated flowers at the ascending tips and along prostrate stems. Blooms earlier than G. septemfida and keeps blooming well into fall. 7" x 12"
25
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1613 Gentiana parryi
Summit Co. CO, elev. 11,900'
An extremely showy western subalpine. Several plump, royal blue trumpets top stems of broad, leathery leaves. Easy and long lived in cultivation. 12" x 6" Picture
25
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542 Gentianopsis thermalis
Albany Co. WY, elev. 10,500'
Intense violet blue tubes, nearly 2 inches long, flare to 4 fringed petals on delicate plants. Grows in moist, cool areas. Very desirable annual gentian. 8" x 4" Picture
50
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2618 Geranium magniflorum
cult. ex South Africa
High alpine geranium from Lesotho with extremely finely divided dark green mats of foliage that is essentially evergreen. Masses of luminous lavender pink flowers in late spring and sporadically through summer: one of the toughest, most distinctive and beautiful geraniums. Like a hardy G. incanum. 8" x 14" Picture
12
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2620 Geranium pratense 'Midnight Reiter'
cult.
Extraordinary dark leaved border gem from the garden of the late Victor Reiter. Seedlings are somewhat variable, but quite lovely in their own right, mostly with quite dark foliage as well. 10" x 10"
10
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2638 Glaucium cf acutidentatum
cult. ex Turkey
Received as Glaucium acutidentatum and is closest to it, lacking only the definitive gray sepals. Trim blue-green foliage produces an amazing mound of hundreds of bright orange flowers from early summer through frost. A very showy perennial here, a must for the xeriscape. 24" x 12" Picture
25
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