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* A sprawling plant unless staked, perhaps best for romping through a semi-wild border; small blue flowers in considerable numbers in midsummer; full sun or part shade, persistent once established; native to China.

The leaves are spirally arranged, 3-7 cm long with a 1.5-6 cm long petiole. * Twining vine with 4 inch dark sky-blue flowers. Seed used by Aztecs as a hallucinogen. The flowers are trumpet-shaped, 4-9 cm diameter, most commonly blue with a white to golden...

* Hardier than green-leaved types. Acer palmatum preers a sunny, airy spot except for in the midday heat where it needs shade. Japanese Maple produces magnificent fall color and is very hardy and flexible branches making it an ideal specimen for bonsai.

* Veratrum nigrum ( Black Hellebore ) is a medicinal plant and poisonous plant native to Asia and Europe . In China, it, and other false hellebore species are collectively called "li lu".

Eupatorium has recently undergone some revision and has been broken up into smaller genera. It includes all the purple flowering North American species of the genus Eupatorium as traditionally defined.

* A small variety with deeply cut red leaves. * The crimson fall color is stunning.

* Spiraea japonica is a deciduous, perennial shrub native to Japan, China, and Korea. * Plants can be grown as a low hedge. * Clusters of rosy-pink flowers are found at the tips of the branches.

* The bulb is eaten cooked. Used like potatoes or as a thickener in soups. A starchy and slightly sweet taste. Common names include, Turk's Cap Lily , Turban Lily , Swamp lily or American Tiger Lily .

* The cooked leaves can be used as a potherb. * A tincture of the plant is somewhat astringent, demulcent, laxative and tonic. The erect lower portion of the stem is smooth, but the curved branching inflorescence is covered in glandular hairs.

It thrives in full sun in ordinary garden soil. Native to moist prairies and sedge meadows. * Liatris spicata , the dense blazing star or prairie gay feather , is an herbaceous perennial plant native throughout most of eastern North America .

* The bulb is eaten cooked. Used like potatoes or as a thickener in soups. A starchy and slightly sweet taste. Common names include, Turk's Cap Lily , Turban Lily , Swamp lily or American Tiger Lily .

* A horticultural annual grown for it big palmate (roundish) leaves, up to 3' wide; full sun, adequate drainage; can become a 40' tree in tropical areas. * The whole plant is very poisonous, even one seed has been known to be lethal to children.

Prefers a moist heavy soil. It requires a deep rich soil with plenty of moisture. * The Globe-flower ( Trollius europaeus ) is a perennial plant of the family Ranunculaceae . Does well in a bog garden.

Inflorescence goes to four feet in length which is covered with many deep to pale pink flowers, four cm across. * The plant was introduced from Central Asia in 1874 and is popular in gardens.

* The young seed heads are used as a condiment, they are hot and acrid. * Papaver orientale ( Oriental poppy ) is a perennial flowering plant native to the Caucasus, northeastern Turkey, and northern Iran.

The species is highly variable with respect to its pitchers, with plants in some localities reaching almost 1 metre in height, while in others, plants can be diminutive (such as the seldom seen 30 cm high dwarf form encountered at Garcon Point in Santa...

Like all the Sarraceniaceae, it is native to the New World . This conflicts with the hardiness rating of 7 (temperatures down to between -5 and -10°c) given in . Plants require continuously moist conditions in a loose compost of sphagnum peat, live sphagnum...

Since the 18th century, the roots have been collected by "sang hunters" and sold to Chinese or Hong Kong traders, who often pay very high prices for particularly old wild roots. The plant's forked root and leaves were traditionally used for medicinal...

* The leaves are alternate, bipinnately compound leaves; with a ovate shape and a pinnate venation, they have a green color usually and turns yellow in fall, measuring between 5-10 cm long.The flowers are small and yellow with a touch of red at the base,...

Occasionally one uses leafy, fragrant boughs of Silver Birch to gently beat oneself in a sauna. * The bark is used to make drinking vessels, canoe skins, roofing tiles etc. The boughs are called vihta or vasta.

* Amaranthus cruentus is a common flowering plant species that yields the nutritious staple amaranth grain . * The seeds are very small but easy to harvest and very nutritious. * The mild-flavoured leaves (cooked as a spinach) are rich in vitamins and...

It typically grows 20-30' tall by 12-15' wide, but may reach 50' tall in its native habitat. It is noted for its graceful form, large heart-shaped leaves, scaly fissured bark, large fruiting catkins and large winter buds.

* Eutrochium fistulosum (Eupatorium fistulosum), also called Joe-Pye weed, Trumpetweed, or Purple thoroughwort, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to eastern North America, in southeast Canada and throughout the eastern and central...

* A shrub with smooth bark, dark green spreading branches and pendulous and pubescent twigs. * Pendulous clusters of golden-yellow flowers; trifoliate leaves; bushy, usually low-branched and spreading; much grown throughout Europe; native to central ans...

* Common Hogweed ( Heracleum sphondylium ) is an herbaceous biennial plant of the family Apiaceae , which grows in the prairies of Eurasia. Umbelliferous plants are so named because of the umbrella-like arrangement of flowers they produce.

* Hydrangea paniculata , commonly known as the panicled hydrangea , is a species of Hydrangea found in eastern China , Korea , Japan , and Sakhalin . * The bark is used to make Japanese paper.

* Acanthus balcanicus, is an endemic herbaceous perennial plant in the genus Acanthus, native to the Balkan peninsula, up to Dalmatia. * An erect, clump-forming perennial which features pale pink to white flowers enclosed in spiny, reddish-purple bracts...