Dodecatheon JEFFREYI Ratko 98-209 PRICE 1@ $8.00

The largest Dodecatheon Ron has offered; huge scapes to 30” arise from rosettes of 18” leaves, immense clusters of 24 or more flowers with white corolla tubes, the color extending into the petals and gradually shading from lavender pink to violet at the tips, this thing is a monster.

 

Dodecatheon meadia golaith PRICE 1@ $8.00

A large selection from Germany, it can reach 30” in height when in bloom, with big heads of white shooting stars.

 

Dodecatheon meadia rote farben PRICE 1@ $8.00

Another German selection this time with red flowers which are somewhat unusual in media, I wouldn’t be surprised to find they are actually hybrids.

 

Dodecatheon pulchellum PRICE 1@ $8.00

A widespread and quite variable species pulchellum generally has rich deep pink flowers on medium sized plants, these are seeded from good German garden forms and should be nice.

 

Doronicum orientale (caucasicum) 'Little Leo’ PRICE 1@ $6.50

A dwarf form from Germany with semi-double long petaled golden daisy flowers to 8cm across on compact 35cm high plants, it is very early blooming and a welcome addition to the spring bulb display

 

Dorycnium hirsutum ........ PRICE 1@ $6.50

Erect, bushy, silky-hairy, lotus-like shrublets 30-50cm tall with dense rounded heads of pink pea flowers, native from Portugal to Turkey on dry rocky alkaline sites.

 

Dorycnium RECTUM ............. PRICE 1@ $6.50

Pink flowered sub shrubby pubescent legume, 12-18" tall it is from Southern Europe.

 

Draba

Drabas create one of the first big shows in the spring rock garden; it is always a treat to watch the bees picking out flowers emerging from the melting snow.  Below you will find easy and indestructible forms for the open garden as well as fuzz balls choice enough for your best lump of tufa or trough. Try potting a few in show pans in the manner of the Europeans, even non rock gardeners will turn their heads.

 

Draba acaulis #194 ............ PRICE 1@ $8.00

Much like a dwarfer Draba mollissima it is fantastic but wet sensitive and not easy, these are wild collections from Jurasek.

 

Draba aizoides ....................... PRICE 1@ $6.50

An excellent yellow Draba making hard cushions of bristly deep green rosettes topped by fragrant yellow flowers on short scapes very early in spring. Ours are mobbed by honeybees each spring when there are still patches of snow on the ground. 

 

Draba aizoides ex Euroseed PRICE 1@ $6.50

As above but from Mojmir’s collections at 3300m in the Sierra Nevada of Spain, stiff rosettes, good yellow flowers, this is easy and a rock garden classic.

 

Draba athoa euroseed 233 PRICE 1@ $6.50

Native to only a few mountaintops in Greece, Mats of spiny broadish rosettes and little yellow crosses on 3-inch stems Mojmir collected these at 1900m in the Killini mts of Greece.

 

Draba athoa v leiocarpa PRICE 1@ $6.50

A minor variant of the above.

 

Draba aurea (cuspidata) PRICE 1@ $6.50

Similar to aizoides with bright yellow flowers and stiff rosettes forming tight never relaxing clumps also with more hair on the sexual parts.

 

Draba brunifolia ssp olympica #19 Jurasek          PRICE 1@ $6.50

Beautiful dwarf dense cushions of rosettes with stiff ciliate margined linear leaves 3-4mm long and 3-7 large dark yellow flowers on 1-2cm scapes, a Jurasek collection from the stony eroded hills of Ulu Dagh at 2300m.

 

Draba bryoides imbricata   Ex Sisk.( rigida bryoides)            PRICE 1@ $6.50

This form makes a hard dome of tiny narrow leaved rosettes, yellow flowers on inch high thready stems, an outstanding trough plant and much easier to grow than the fuzzy ones. I've seen numerous plants under this name and this Siskiyou clone is among the best, though perhaps not as fine as the tightly imbricated form Betty Blake grew nor the Holubec forms, I would probably have placed it as D. rigida bryoides.

 

Draba dedeana ....................... PRICE 1@ $6.50

I have high hopes for these, the rosettes are large and very hard looking as good as any stiff Draba I have ever grown; Mojmir collected them from rock crevices at 1500m near Cuenca Spain, where they form hard cushions of spiny rosettes 10cm across. They are not wet sensitive, indeed for such a choice Draba culture is positively easy, flowers are white and the best forms have huge broad petaled flowers, not the squinny narrow crap you get from the seed exchanges, Mojmir described these as large flowered, and I am waiting anxiously for the first flowers this winter. At its best dedeana is the finest of the white flowered Drabas.

 

Draba hispanica ................... PRICE 1@ $6.50

Collected by Holubec, who based on his bryoides collections has exquisite taste in Drabas; he collected these from limestone crevices in the Sierra Nevada at 1900m. A long time favorite of mine, the rosettes of long leaves are quite distinct although in this form they are broader than most forms I have grown in the past, flowers are bright yellow on 3-5cm stems, this is one of most elegant of the non fuzz ball Drabas.

 

Draba ossetica v racemosa PRICE 1@ $8.00

The best new Draba we have seen in a long time this started making the rounds a few years ago, a tight mound of fuzzy foliage that rivals Draba acaulis, excellent white flowers on short scapes it is destined to become a classic.

 

Draba rigida #858 ................ PRICE 1@ $6.50

The real thing with flattish small rosettes Jurasek collections and quite unlike bryoides.

 

Dracocephalum botryoides PRICE 1@ $6.50

One of the gems, tiny gray hairy pinnatisect leaves form dense mats, erect 6" stalks of lavender pink flowers, Caucasus.

 

Dracocephalum peregrinum 'Blue Dragon' PRICE 1@ $6.50

Bushy 30cm clumps of foliage and abundant fat violet blue gaping flowers.

 

Dracocephalum ruyschianum PRICE 1@ $6.50

Nordic Dragonhead (sounds kinky) to 16"-24", and forming neat bushlets of attractive foliage. Lovely blue flowers but a little to large for even the biggest rock garden but tidy plants

 

drosanthemum HISPIDUM PRICE 1@ $6.50

One of the most exciting new plant introductions, like a miniature Delosperma cooperi, perfect for troughs, should be fairly hardy if kept dry. We donated a few of these to the local rock garden society sale & they were scarfed up immediately. Everyone who has seen it wants it, it blooms continuously, absolutely amazing.

 

Dudleya cymosa ssp. PUMILA Ratko #96-225          PRICE 1@ $5.50

Ratko calls it the best form he has seen with a candelabra of bright orange-red flowers with a thick almost translucent texture on short stems; 2" rosettes range in color from a glaucous silvery blue dusted with white powder to a maroonish olive green, Collected in California at 2,400’, he claims its a hardy form.

 

Dudleya cymosa ssp. pumila Ratko’s 96-226         PRICE 1@ $5.50

Definitely the hardiest form collected at 7,200', 2-3 inch candelabras of bright Zauschneria red flowers on short stems; 2" rosettes are a glaucous silvery blue dusted with white powder, Collected in California at 7,200'.

 

Dudleya edulis 03 247 ..... PRICE 1@ $6.50

Tired of barbequed goat tacos how about Kiviak, a traditional Eskimo Christmas feast that is sure to get you talked about, it takes a bit of planning. First, kill a seal (clubbing is best as you want no holes in the skin) skin it out through the mouth to produce a seal shaped bag. Find some nesting Auks (Puffins or seabirds can work) stuff the seal with whole birds (feathers and all) along with their eggs and some seaweed. Sew up mouth and bury for eight months or so, Dig it up and scrape out the resulting goop. Kiviak is great but it needs a little something extra we suggest you garnish it with Dudleya edulis before serving. You’ll need something special for desert to get the taste out of your mouth, we suggest fully ripe Durian.

 

Dugaldia hoopsii ................. PRICE 1@ $6.50

A RMRP offering of this orange sneezeweed collected in the Sangre de Cristo Mts in damp subalpine meadows at 10,400’, Punnett X’ed it in the seed list, what can I say yellow orange coneflowers, maybe Dick knows something I don’t.