Fall Plant Sale

We are proud to partner with Healy Horticulture to host a Fall Plant Sale benefiting the newly created Pee Dee Botanical Garden. The plants for sale feature rare, unusual, and exciting selections, some of which are represented in our sensory garden and courtyard plantings. The plant sale will be located in the museum courtyard.

Plant List

Graptopetalum ‘Pinky’ – 4″ – $5
This evergreen, hardy succulent is a great addition to any planted container or low-water landscape. As long as it does not get shaded out, ‘Pinky’ will slowly spread over the ground or spill out of containers.

Tricyrtis x ‘Miyazaki Hybrids’ – Toad Lily – 1 gallon – $8
Ivory white blossoms of this Tricyrtis curl open to display a splattering of purple spots. Fall flowering lends an exotic accent to the border. Roots should not be allowed to dry out. Absolutely sparkles in a woodland environment with rich organic soil. This late blooming shade lover will be the talk of your fall garden.

Eurybia divaricata ‘Eastern Star’ – Woodland Aster – 1 gallon – $8
Woodland Aster is a low mounding perennial with glossy heart shaped or oval leaves. In late summer starry white daisies cover the plant and gleam in the shade. Plants are tough and adaptable, prospering in part shade or shade and in dry or moist soils. This cultivar is more compact than the species with dark glossy stems.

Aster savatieri – Korean Aster – 1 gallon – $8
Japanese Aster is a bone tough perennial for sun or light shade. We have never seen any disease or pest issues and the early fall bloom of white to pale purple flowers is showy and reliable..

Buddleja x ‘Inspired Violet’ – Butterfly Bush – 1 gallon – $8
Sweetly scented, dark purple flowers decorate this seedless Butterfly Bush from midsummer into fall. Flower spikes are huge and they’re carried on stems that reach 4′, growing taller in warmer areas. Butterflies find the blooms absolutely irresistible and swarm around them on warm summer afternoons. Being sterile, the blossoms last longer and the plant is noninvasive.

Canna ‘Thai One On’ – Canna Lily – 1 gallon – $8
This amazing Canna glauca hybrid was brought into the US by Texan Margie Brown, who purchased it sans name from a roadside nursery south of Bangkok. The 6′ tall stalks of glaucous leaves are topped, starting in summer, with peachy-orange buds that open to lovely, somewhat pendant fleshy-pink flowers that are attractive to hummingbirds.

Chrysanthemum x ‘Sheffield Pink’ – 1 gallon – $8
This perennial forms a 2-3’ clump and stems are thick from Sept to frost with flat faced, large daisy flowers of soft apricot pink petals around a sunny yellow center. Full sun, most soils, average water needs, easy to grow. Very low maintenance and floriferous.

Chrysanthemum x ‘Gethsemane Moonlight’ – 1 gallon – $8
‘Gethsemane Moonlight’ is no weakling like many of the garden mums sold today. In addition to its amazing winter hardiness, Chrysanthemum ‘Gethsemane Moonlight’ makes a rapidly expanding 2′ tall x 4′ wide clump topped, starting in early October, with large, 3″, bright yellow
daisies.

Chrysanthemum x ‘Campfire Glow’ – 1 gallon – $8
‘Campfire Glow’ will keep your garden popping into late fall, warming all with its toasty caramel and russet-red coloring. One of the year’s last flowers to bloom, they nourish bumblebees and honeybees that visit. Beautiful cut flowers too!

Erigeron pulchellus ‘Lynnhaven Carpet’ – Fleabane – 1 gallon – $8
This outstanding form of native species E. pulchellus was selected for its relatively large grey- green, pubescent foliage (4″), dense, mat-forming habit and astonishing ability to thrive in a wide range of challenging conditions. In early May, individual flower stalks give rise to lightly tinted lavender flowers with a yellow inner eye. Foliage remains less than 6″ and forms a tight groundcover, while flowering stems top out at just over a foot tall.

Hemerocallis x ‘Autumn Minaret’ – Tall Daylily – 1 gallon – $8
Hemerocallis x ‘Autumn Minaret’ is a very tall, mid-to-late season blooming daylily known for its delicate yellow-orange flowers with a darker eye and its long, slender, yellow-green foliage. It features strong, upright stems that can grow up to 7 feet tall, making it a showstopper in the late
summer and fall garden when it blooms, attracting butterflies and hummingbirds. This dormant variety is easy to grow in full sun and well-drained soil, tolerates heat and drought, and may rebloom for an extended period.

Kniphofia uvaria ‘Glowstick’ – Red Hot Poker – 1 gallon – $8
Towering spikes of nectar-rich flowers add vertical intrigue to a sun-loving garden. Columns of bright yellow are long-lasting and repeat blooming. Tolerates drought and heat once established. The slender leaf blades of Kniphofia Glowstick resemble an ornamental grass when not in bloom. Red Hot Poker perennials are low-maintenance bursts of color.

Lysimachia lanceolata ‘Burgundy Mist’ – Loosestrife – 1 gallon – $8
‘Burgundy Mist’ a GroWild Nursery, Tennessee selection of the Eastern North American native lance-leaved loosestrife. It was selected for its new burgundy foliage, compared to the typical green and forms a 2′ tall x 3′ wide patch in 2-3 years, clothed with linear leaves, and topped, starting in July and continuing all summer with small bright yellow flowers. Pollinators like native bees also love the nectar.

Opuntia x ‘Baby Rita’ – Dwarf Cactus – 1 gallon – $8
An exceptional heat-loving dwarf hybrid with brilliant carmine colored flowers in a small padded, purple-skinned prickly pear. Thrives in a range from coast to inland deserts, and even into high altitude mountain areas! Loaded with spring blooms, the blue-grey purple-tinged foliage color intensifies to a vibrant purple in winter.

Rosa x ‘Blush Noisette’ – Old Rose- 1 gallon – $8
As fragrant as ‘Champneys Pink Cluster’, this first rose to bear the Noisette name is charming in its own right. The blush white flowers are cupped and double, appearing frequently throughout the growing season but especially in great abundance in the fall and sporadically in winter. ‘Blush Noisette’ is one of the few Noisettes that maintains a nice bush form while displaying blousy flowers for which Noisettes are known.

Rosa chinensis ‘Mutabilis’ – Old Rose – 3 gallon – $15
A healthy, well-branched shrub, ‘Mutabilis’ will easily grow to 6 feet, making a fine specimen plant whose showy flowers are accented by the bronze color of the new growth. The flowers of ‘Mutabilis’, whose single petals open sulfur yellow, change through orange to a rich pink and finally crimson. Bright, silky flowers of all these colors will often be on display at the same time, looking as if a group of multi-colored butterflies has settled on the bush. This aspect earned ‘Mutabilis’ its common name–”The Butterfly Rose”.

Rosa x ‘Peggy Martin’ – Old Rose – 3 gallon – $15
Peggy Martin, also known as the “Hurricane Katrina rose”, is a vigorous spring blooming climbing rose that can easily reach 15 feet or larger. Promoted as thornless, we find this rose has prickles on the leaves’ backs, while the canes are free of thorns. Its vigorous growth habit, ease of care, and breathtaking spring display makes Peggy Martin a rose even a novice grower can grow and enjoy.

Rosa x ‘Ballerina’ – Old Rose – 3 gallon – $15
One of the best roses for hedging, ‘Ballerina’ produces clouds of small, single, pink roses with white eyes on a compact arching bush with thick foliage. It can be pruned to shape or allowed to spill over naturally. When the leaves begin to thin in the late fall, the entire bush is lit up with tiny orange-red hips like bright Christmas lights. If grown as a climber, this rose will reach 6 to 10 feet.

Hibiscus coccineus – Texas Star – 5 gallon – $20
Texas Star is an herbaceous perennial in the Malvaceae (mallow) family. It is native to the southeastern United States and is sometimes called swamp hibiscus because it is native to marshes and swamps in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. It can grow 6 to 8 feet tall and 2 to 3 feet wide. Flowers of red hibiscus mature in early summer to early fall and are very large and striking, up to 6 inches wide.

Hibiscus x ‘Lilac Crush’ – Hybrid Mallow – 5 gallon – $20
SUMMERIFIC® ‘Lilac Crush’ features large 7-8 inch wide, lilac-pink flowers with a deep magenta eye. The lilac pink petals are generously overlapped with heavily ruffled edges. Standing 5-5.5 feet tall and spreading up to 4.5 feet wide, ‘Lilac Crush’ forms a tall upright columnar habit. The maple leaf-looking leaves are a refreshing green color. Hardy in zones 4-9, SUMMERIFIC® ‘Lilac Crush’ Hibiscus likes to be planted in full sun to part sun locations.

Gardenia jasminoides ‘Kaleidoscope’ – Variegated Gardenia – 5 gallon – $20
This selection of Cape Jasmine is variegated with striking creme colored strips and margins and produces extremely fragrant single white flowers in summer.