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Chaque collection réunit des plantes qui ont du sens ensemble dans un lieu précis : ce qu'elles font, où elles trouvent leur place et comment les agencer sans partir d'un massif vide.
Annabelle hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle') showing large white ball-shaped flower clusters on a rounded deciduous shrub.
Coral bells (Heuchera 'Marmalade') showing a low mound of ruffled coppery-orange foliage characteristic of the Heuchera villosa-derived hybrids.
Collection · 2 plantes
Base de mi-ombre lumineuse
Une plantation de mi-ombre avec structure arbustive et contraste bas de feuillage.
Hortensia 'Annabelle'
Heuchère (clochettes de corail)
English lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) as a broadly mounded, dense subshrub of fine silvery blue-green aromatic foliage.
Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) in bloom, showing pinkish-purple ray petals around a brown-domed central cone on an erect stem.
A full clump of black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm') in a garden bed, showing the dense mounded foliage base topped with golden, dark-centered daisies on branching stems.
Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) mature clump in the green growing season, its upright vase-shaped habit topped by the airy, diffuse open panicles diagnostic of the species.
Collection · 4 plantes
Bordure ensoleillée pour pollinisateurs
Une bordure ensoleillée et durable, avec floraison d'été, têtes de graines et texture verticale en hiver.
Lavande vraie
Échinacée pourpre
Rudbeckie éclatante
Panic raide
A mature butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) clump in a garden bed, showing its bushy mounded habit with several flat-topped orange umbels above a dense whorl of narrow leaves.
Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) mature clump in flower, showing its stout upright reddish stems, broad opposite leaves, and pink-mauve flower umbels with young green pods.
Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) in bloom, showing pinkish-purple ray petals around a brown-domed central cone on an erect stem.
Wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) clump in an open meadow, its several upright square stems each topped by a ragged lavender flower head over toothed mint-family foliage.
+5
Collection · 9 plantes
Bordure native pour pollinisateurs (est des États-Unis)
Une bande native à floraison continue pour les pollinisateurs de l'est de l'Amérique du Nord. Elle couvre le printemps jusqu'aux gelées avec plantes hôtes et nectarifères pour monarques, abeilles natives, colibris et lépidoptères spécialistes. Le little bluestem fournit la graminée de matrice et une plante hôte pour les Hesperiidae.
Asclépiade tubéreuse
Asclépiade commune
Échinacée pourpre
Monarde fistuleuse
Monarde écarlate
Andropogon à balai
Eupatoire pourpre
Héliante à feuilles étroites
Aster lisse bleu
Pineapple (Ananas comosus) - whole-plant habit growing in the ground, the dense ground-level rosette of long, stiff, channeled spiny-margined leaves bearing a single fruit on a short central stalk.
Papaya (Carica papaya) - large, deeply palmately-lobed leaves clustered at the top of the stem, single unbranched, soft fibrous trunk (palm-like habit), cluster of green oval fruits borne directly on the upper trunk below the leaf crown.
Cacao (Theobroma cacao) - cauliflorous orange-ripening pods borne directly on the woody stem, large oblong-elliptic leaves with prominent venation, slender understory treelet habit growing in shaded forest/plantation.
Guava (Psidium guajava) - elliptic-oblong leaves with strongly impressed, prominent pinnate venation typical of guava, opposite, decussate leaf arrangement on a slender reddish-tinged young stem, upright woody seedling/sapling habit with new growth flushing at the shoot tip.
+2
Collection · 6 plantes
Canopée comestible tropicale et patio
Une palette comestible hors gel pour jardins subtropicaux humides et tropicaux : canopée fruitière, cultures de sous-bois, racines comestibles et plantes de patio faciles en bac.
Ananas
Papaye
Cacaoyer
Goyavier
Manioc
Curcuma
English lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) as a broadly mounded, dense subshrub of fine silvery blue-green aromatic foliage.
Rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus) showing dense needle-like aromatic foliage on woody branches.
Garden sage (Salvia officinalis) showing gray-green velvety foliage + spike of lavender summer flowers.
Oregano (Origanum vulgare) showing spreading mat of small aromatic leaves + pink-white flower clusters.
+2
Collection · 6 plantes
Comestibles méditerranéens tolérants à la sécheresse
Une palette comestible sobre en eau, avec herbes culinaires et vigne rustique pour sites chauds, secs et ensoleillés. Les plantes d'origine méditerranéenne prospèrent avec peu de soins; leur principal risque est l'excès d'eau, pas le manque.
Lavande vraie
Romarin
Sauge officinale
Origan
Thym commun
Vigne des renards
Paper flower (Bougainvillea glabra) - a mature plant trained as a dense rounded shrub, showing the whole-plant habit with its dense, thorny, evergreen green-leaved canopy.
Chinese hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis) - large funnel-shaped flower, long projecting staminal column, red throat, glossy toothed leaves.
Sweet thorn (Vachellia karroo) - broad, rounded crown of fine bipinnate foliage typical of the sweet thorn, golden puff-ball flowers densely covering the canopy in summer flush, mature single-trunk tree habit set in its native south african veld/grassland.
A Cape honeysuckle (Tecomaria capensis) shrub with arching evergreen foliage and clusters of slender orange tubular flowers.
+2
Collection · 6 plantes
Écran fleuri de climat chaud
Une palette colorée d écran et de haie pour jardins à gels légers : arbustes fleuris, couleur grimpante, nectar pour la faune et structure de saison sèche.
Bougainvillée glabre
Hibiscus de Chine
Épineux doux
Chèvrefeuille du Cap
Oreille de lion (dagga sauvage)
Plumbago du Cap
Shagbark hickory (Carya ovata) as a mature tree in open lawn, showing the upright single trunk and irregular, rounded crown.
Pawpaw (Asimina triloba) - a mature multi-stemmed understory tree in full summer leaf, showing its broad, rounded, suckering crown of large drooping leaves.
Canadian serviceberry (Amelanchier canadensis) in full spring bloom, with drooping clusters of five-petaled white flowers along branches before leaf emergence.
A mature highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) shrub in a botanical garden, showing the dense, rounded multi-stem habit hung with ripening blue berries.
+4
Collection · 8 plantes
Forêt comestible en strates
Une polyculture comestible empilée verticalement : canopée à noix, sous-bois fruitier, strate d'arbustes à baies, strate herbacée et couvre-sol pour l'est tempéré de l'Amérique du Nord.
Caryer ovale
Asiminer
Amélanchier du Canada
Myrtille à grandes feuilles
Mûrier des Alleghanies
Ciboulette
Persil
Fraisier sauvage de Virginie
A clump of sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum) in garden soil, showing the upright, branching bushy habit and terminal flower spikes of a maturing plant.
Lacinato kale (Brassica oleracea var. palmifolia) showing the characteristic upright rosette of long, narrow, savoyed blue-green strap leaves.
Coral bells (Heuchera 'Marmalade') showing a low mound of ruffled coppery-orange foliage characteristic of the Heuchera villosa-derived hybrids.
Collection · 3 plantes
Jardinières de patio pour la cuisine
Une collection comestible compacte pour bacs, patios et récoltes près de la porte.
Basilic de Gênes
Chou kale lacinato
Heuchère (clochettes de corail)
A mature oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia) in flower - a broad, mounded multi-stemmed shrub studded with upright white panicles above coarse, deeply lobed oak-shaped leaves.
Woodland phlox (Phlox divaricata) showing five-petaled pale lavender-blue flowers on slender erect stems above a low spreading mat of foliage.
Wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) whole plant in rocky-ledge habitat, the airy blue-green compound foliage hung with nodding red-and-yellow spurred flowers.
Foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia) showing characteristic frothy white spring flower spikes above heart-shaped foliage.
+2
Collection · 6 plantes
Lisière boisée de mi-ombre
Une plantation de mi-ombre ou ombre claire pour soleil du matin ou lumière tamisée : natives de lisière boisée de l est nord-américain avec floraison printanière, feuillage durable et structure fougère + arbuste.
Hortensia à feuilles de chêne
Phlox des bois
Ancolie du Canada
Tiarelle cordifolia
Heuchère veloutée
Fougère de Noël
Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) 'Lollo Bionda' cultivar showing loose-leaf rosette of light-green ruffled foliage.
Arugula (Eruca vesicaria) growing as a low basal rosette of irregular, pinnately-lobed green leaves with a large terminal lobe and several small lateral lobes.
Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) growing as a low basal rosette of broad, dark-green, slightly savoyed leaves.
A clump of sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum) in garden soil, showing the upright, branching bushy habit and terminal flower spikes of a maturing plant.
+4
Collection · 8 plantes
Massif de salades et fines herbes
Un massif compact de verdures à couper plusieurs fois et de fines herbes culinaires pour récolter près de la cuisine : feuilles de saison fraîche, basilic de saison chaude et base de vivaces aromatiques.
Laitue cultivée
Roquette
Épinard
Basilic de Gênes
Coriandre
Aneth
Persil
Ciboulette
Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) mature clump in the green growing season, its upright vase-shaped habit topped by the airy, diffuse open panicles diagnostic of the species.
Little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium) clumps in a garden bed, showing the species' upright, fine-textured blue-green vase-shaped growing-season habit.
Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) mature clump in flower, showing its stout upright reddish stems, broad opposite leaves, and pink-mauve flower umbels with young green pods.
A full clump of black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm') in a garden bed, showing the dense mounded foliage base topped with golden, dark-centered daisies on branching stems.
+4
Collection · 8 plantes
Natives résilientes au réchauffement (est de l'Amérique du Nord)
Une palette de natives de l'est nord-américain favorables aux pollinisateurs, avec de larges plages de rusticité et de vastes distributions natives. Conçue pour les jardiniers qui veulent une plantation capable d'encaisser des zones plus chaudes sans perdre sa valeur pour la faune.
Panic raide
Andropogon à balai
Asclépiade commune
Rudbeckie éclatante
Monarde fistuleuse
Eupatoire pourpre
Rudbeckie laciniée
Aster de Nouvelle-Angleterre
Tamarind (Tamarindus indica) - single woody trunk supporting a tree habit with a broad, spreading crown, fine, feathery alternate-pinnate foliage of many small leaflets, dense green canopy showing the evergreen, leafy crown form.
Baobab (Adansonia digitata) - massive swollen water-storing bottle-trunk with a large hollow at the base, sparse crown of stout tapering branches fanning out like roots in the air (the 'upside-down tree' silhouette), solitary tree in open african savanna habitat among smaller acacias.
Marula (Sclerocarya birrea) - broad, rounded/dome-shaped spreading crown typical of a mature savanna marula, single sturdy grey-barked trunk dividing into heavy ascending main branches, dense canopy of fine compound foliage set in open red-soil grassland savanna.
Guava (Psidium guajava) - elliptic-oblong leaves with strongly impressed, prominent pinnate venation typical of guava, opposite, decussate leaf arrangement on a slender reddish-tinged young stem, upright woody seedling/sapling habit with new growth flushing at the shoot tip.
+2
Collection · 6 plantes
Ombre comestible tropicale sèche
Une palette structurante et comestible de climat chaud pour forêts sèches saisonnières, savanes et jardins hors gel qui ont besoin d ombre, de valeur alimentaire et de reprise après sécheresse.
Tamarinier
Baobab
Marula
Goyavier
Manioc
Oseille de Guinée
A green-season spicebush (Lindera benzoin) in its native woodland understory, showing the loose, open, multi-stemmed branching and alternate obovate leaves.
Wild ginger (Asarum canadense) - a clump rising from a mossy forest floor, paired heart-shaped leaves on fuzzy petioles arching over the maroon jug-shaped flowers nestled at ground level.
Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) showing characteristic white multi-petaled flower wrapped in a rounded leaf.
Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica) showing pendulous pink-to-blue bell-shaped flower clusters above smooth blue-green foliage.
+3
Collection · 7 plantes
Sous-bois de pleine ombre
Une communauté de sol forestier pour ombre profonde sous canopée fermée : arbuste de sous-bois, couvre-sols étalants, éphémères de printemps et grande fougère, natives de l'est nord-américain qui attendent faible lumière et sol de feuilles.
Lindera des bois
Gingembre sauvage
Sanguinaire du Canada
Mertensie de Virginie
Podophylle pelté
Fougère autruche
Tiarelle cordifolia