2021 PLANT LIST 2021 DIXON GARDEN FAIR Annual Spring Sale Offering Rare, Choice & Unusual Plants Friday, April 16, 2021 — 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Saturday, April 17, 2021 — 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Dixon Members Only Preview Sale - Thursday, April 15 12:00 - 7:00 p.m. SHOPPING BY APPOINTMENT DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS · 4339 PARK AVE. · MEMPHIS, TN 38117 2021 DIXON GARDEN FAIR SHOPPING BY APPOINTMENT * DIXON MEMBERS’ PREVIEW SALE: Thursday April 15, 12:00 - 7:00 Sign up online at https://tinyurl.com/DixonPlantSale PUBLIC SHOPPING DAYS: Friday, April 16 - 9:00 - 4:00 Saturday, April 17 - 9:00 - 2:00 Sign up online https://tinyurl.com/DixonPublicPlantSale * To address COVID-19 concerns, the number of shoppers admitted throughout each day will be limited to enable social distancing. To guarantee entry, you should sign up for a shopping time slot in advance. Otherwise, you may have to wait until capacity allows additional shoppers. The Dixon celebrates spring with the Dixon Garden Fair – the gardening event of the season — on April 15! This year’s annual plant sale will offer over 10,000 plants with a focus on rare, choice and unusual varieties as well as essential plants for the Mid-South shade garden. You will also find an extensive selection of herbs, ferns, native azaleas and herbaceous and Itoh peonies. This event has something for plant enthusiasts at all levels and interests – from the beginning gardener to the certified plant nerd. Dixon members will have the opportunity to shop early at the Members-Only Preview Sale April 15 from 12 – 7 p.m. The plant sale is open to the public Friday, April 16 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday April 17 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dixon garden staff, Memphis Area Master Gardeners and local experts will be available to answer your garden- ing questions. Bring Your Wagon Shopping carts will be available, but as those of you who have attended this sale know, we sometimes run out. Bring your wagon and we’ll help you load it with beautiful plants! Contents Plant Sale Highlights Plant Listings Featured Plants ................................................. 3-7 Perennials .................................................... 13-16 Native Azaleas .................................................... 8 Hardy Ferns .......................................................16 Herbaceous Peonies ............................................. 9 Trees and Shrubs ......................................... 16-17 Itoh Peonies ........................................................ 10 Groundcovers .....................................................17 Herbs and Scented Geraniums .......................... 11 Vines ..................................................................17 Caladiums .. ....................................................... 12 Annuals & Tropicals ...........................................18 Herbs and Scented Geraniums ..........................18 Disclaimer: These plants are being offered for sale in good faith, but some may not be available due to unforeseen circumstances. Quantities are limited and not guaranteed for the duration of the sale. 2 Featured Plants. Many of the plants in the sale are available only at specialty nurseries or through mail order. Look for these and other special plants we will have in limited quantities! Iris cristata Arisaema ringens Polygonatum humile Japanese Cobra Lily Dwarf Solomon’s Seal Iris cristata ‘Tennessee White’ Disporopsis pernyi Polygonatum odoratum ‘Ruby Slippers’ Solomon’s Seal Farfugium japonica var. giganteum Salvia koyamae Disporum flavens Tiarella wherryi ‘Dixon Strain’ Yellow Fairy Bells 3 Edgeworthia chrysantha Nepeta grandiflora ‘Summer Magic’ Catmint Lavandula x intermedia ‘Sensational’ Epimedium ‘Domino’ Anemone ‘Spring Beauty White’ Salvia ‘Rockin’ Playin’ the Blues’ Heuchera ‘Wildberry’ Lantana ‘Chapel Hill Yellow’ Fothergilla ‘Redneck Nation’ Colocasia esculenta ‘Black Magic’ 4 Polystichum polyblepharum Tassel Fern Aesculus pavia Baptisia ‘Blueberry Sundae’ Red Buckeye Epimedium x rubrum ‘Galadriel’ Campanula poscharskyana ‘Blue Waterfall’ Thalictrum flavum ssp. glaucum Phlox divaricata ‘Blue Moon’ Penstemon ‘Midnight Masquerade’ Stylophorum diphyllum Canna ‘Cannova Mango’ Yellow Wood Poppy Asteromoea mongolica Ajuga reptans ‘Blueberry Muffin’ Lavandula ‘Sweet Romance’ Japanese Aster 5 Hosta ‘School Mouse’ Eutrochium dubium ‘Little Joe’ Astilbe ‘Delft Lace’ Joe Pye Weed Bletilla ochracea Hardy Chinese Ground Orchid Chelone glabra ‘Black Ace’ Plectranthus ‘Velvet Elvis’ Stokesia laevis ‘Peachie’s Pick’ Campanula persicifolia ‘Takion Blue’ Heucherella ‘Pink Revolution’ Aesculus parviflora Astilbe chinensis var. taquetti ‘Superba’ Bottlebrush Buckeye Kniphofia ‘Fire Dance’ 6 Baptisia ‘Lemon Meringue’ Phlox ‘Jeana’ Dianthus ‘Pink Fire’ Salvia x guaranitica ‘Bodacious Rhythm & Blues’ Ipomoea noctiflora 'Giant White' Trachelospermum jasminoides ‘Madison’ Moonflower Vine Confederate Jasmine Silene caroliniana ‘Short and Sweet’ Centranthus ruber ‘Coccineus’ Lonicera sempervirens ‘Major Wheeler’ Honeysuckle Athyrium otophorum Eared Lady Fern 7 Native Azaleas This year we are pleased to have a wide selection of native azaleas from Ernest Koone of Pine Mountain, GA. Ernest is the largest propagator of native azaleas in the U.S. Our selections will provide you with blooms from spring to fall. Rhododendron canescens Rhododendron austrinum ‘Kate’ Rhododendron flammeum R. flammeum‘ Walter Ligon’ R. flammeum ‘Magenta Rose Flame’ Rhododendron alabamense Rhododendron atlanticum ‘Marydel’ Rhododendron colemanii Rhododendron viscosum Rhododendron arborescens Rhododendron prunifolium Rhododendron serrulatum 8 Herbaceous Peonies Herbaceous Peonies are the best known type of peony. They are disease resistant perennial plants that enhance the structure and beauty of any garden and produce some of the best cut flowers available. They bloom during the transition from spring into summer. The shining green leaves remain throughout the sum- mer, die back to the ground in winter and reemerge each spring. Herbaceous peonies require little care and live for generations. ‘Burma Joy’ ‘Coral Charm’ ‘Dayglow Rose’ ‘Firelight’ ‘Pink Hawaiian Coral’ ‘Nancy Nichols’ ‘J.H. Wigell’ Monsieur Jules Elle ‘Sword Dance’ ‘Petticoat Flounce’ ‘Topeka Garnet’ ‘Krinkled White’ ‘Kansas’ ‘Scarlet O’Hara’ ‘Lancaster Imp’ ‘Ma Petite Cherie’ ‘Peach Strudel’ 9 Itoh Peonies Intersectional Peonies, also know as Itoh, are a hybrid created by crossing a tree peony with an herbaceous peony. These peonies produce tree peony flowers and leaves on plants that behave like herbaceous peonies, dying down to the ground in winter and reemerging each spring. A ma- ture plant may produce 50 or more dinner-plate sized flowers on strong short stems that do not require staking. They reach peak bloom near the end of the herbaceous peony bloom. Each plant can remain in bloom for 3-4 weeks with new buds continually opening over this period. They will grow to three feet tall and wide and continue to improve with age. ‘First Arrival’ ‘Julia Rose’ ‘Scarlet Heaven’ ‘Canary Brilliants’ 10 11 Caladiums! We are delighted to offer a choice collection of fancy leaf and strap leaf caladium bulbs. All varieties will grow well in filtered shade or afternoon shade with morning sun. Also, as noted by the several varieties are tol- erant of all day sun! 12 Perennials BOTANICAL NAME CULTIVAR COMMON NAME Adenophora liliifolia Ladybells Agastache Blue Boa Hyssop Ajuga reptans Blueberry Muffin Ajuga Alcea rugosa Russian Hollyhock Alchemilla mollis Thriller Lady’s Mantle Amsonia tabermaemontana Storm Cloud Blue Star Blue Ice Anemone Spring Beauty White Windflower Antennaria plantaginifolia Pussy Toes Aquilegia canadensis Red Columbine Arisaema kiushianum Japanese Cobra Lily Arisaema ringens Japanese Cobra Lily Asarum splendens Evergreen Ginger Asarum splendens Quick Silver Evergreen Ginger Asteromoea mongolica (AKA Japanese Aster Kalimeris pinnatifida) Astilbe Delft Lace Astilbe Astilbe chinensis Little Vision in Pink Astilbe Pumila Astilbe chinensis var. taquetii Superba Astilbe Baptisia Blueberry Sundae False Indigo Lemon Meringue Begonia Pegasus Begonia Bletilla ochracea Chinese Butterfly Hardy Chinese Ground Orchid Campanula carpatica Rapido Blue Carpathian Bellflower Campanula persicifolia Takion Blue Peach-leaved Bellflower Campanula poscharskyana Blue Waterfall Serbian Bellflower Carex osimensis Everillo Japanese Sedge Centranthus ruber Coccineus Red Jupiter’s Beard Chelone glabra Black Ace White Turtlehead Chelone lyonii Hot Lips Pink Turtlehead Tiny Tortuga Chrysanthemum Dixter Pink Hardy Mum Convallaria majalis Bordeaux Lily of the Valley Crocosmia George Davison Crocosmia Lucifer Cynara Porto Spineless Cardoon Dianthus Maraschino Pinks Pink Fire Digitalis ambigua Carillon Dwarf Yellow Foxglove Digitalis grandiflora Yellow Foxglove Digitalis mertonensis Strawberry Foxglove Disporopsis pernyi Evergreen Solomon’s Seal Disporum flavens Yellow Fairy Bells Echinacea paradoxa Yellow Coneflower Echinacea purpurea Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea Mellow Yellows Purple Coneflower Epimedium Domino Fairy Wings Epimedium grandiflorum Rose Queen Fairy Wings Epimedium rubrum Galadriel Fairy Wings Eutrochium dubium Little Joe Joe Pye Weed Farfugium japonica var. giganteum Farfugium Ficus pumila Fig Ivy Filipendula rubra Venusta Queen of the Prairie 13 Perennials BOTANICAL NAME CULTIVAR COMMON NAME Fragaria Lipstick Ornamental Strawberry Gentiana True Blue Gentian Geranium maculatum Wild Geranium Helleborus x iburgensis Dorothy’s