For 30 years, Log House Plants in Cottage Grove, Oregon, has been known as a
pioneering wholesale grower that starts trends and inspires excitement about new
plants.
Log House supports the finest Northwest retail nurseries with rare plants,
innovative labeling and educational materials that keep gardeners coming back
for more.
This season, for the second year, Log House world exclusive offerings will be available to
discriminating gardeners throughout the U.S. and Canada through a new plant
liner program called PLANT CURIOSITIES. We have made these plants available to specialized
growers/garden centers. Check our website for an outlet
near you.
Our PLANT CURIOSITIES are
extraordinary! These varieties are all exceptionally hardy perennials that
exhibit outstanding performance and flower form. Log House Plants named
and introduced each plant in the PLANT CURIOSITIES program while working closely
with hybridizers all over the world. They are available only from us. See
below for plant descriptions.
We look forward to bringing you new world exclusives each year. Our
mission is to support independent retail nurseries with exquisite plant material.
Echinacea purpurea
'Doppelganger' TM
PURPLE CONEFLOWER
‘Doppelgänger’
offers a spectacular summer display of double-decker cone flowers. Above the
reflexed rosy purple petals, a second flower emerges atop the vivid orange
central cone.
This extraordinary double flower forms reliably as the plant
matures (by the second year). Flower arrangers prize this unusual perennial for
its unique structure and lively color. The name means “double walker” and
refers to the psychological shadow self that partners each being. A sturdy sun
lover, this 30" plant thrives in natural gardens, beds and borders and
makes a curious cut flower. Long lived and easy to grow,
‘Doppelgänger’ is hardy to zone 3.
Primula x tommasinii 'YOU and
ME' Series
F:1 HOSE-IN-HOSE PRIMROSE
This rare
two-layered primrose blooms in sparkling shades of burgundy and purple, rose and
pink, white and cream, as well as yellow, red laced, and burgundy laced. Popular
in Elizabethan times, hose-in-hose primroses carry pairs of identical flowers
curiously nested one inside the other. The name refers to a style affected by
courtiers who wore two pairs of long stockings (hose) at once, folding down the
outer pair to reveal the inner.
First described in Gerard’s Herbal in 1597, hose-in-hose
primroses are among the oldest documented garden flowers. In the late 1800’s,
Gertrude Jekyll’s selected white and yellow Munstead hose-in-hose primulas
were famed for hardiness and persistent, colorful bloom.
Over the next century, hose-in-hose primroses all but
disappeared from commercial horticulture. A few ardent collectors preserved
hose-in-hose color strains by vegetative propagation, but each plant yielded
only a few offspring and disease progressively weakened the old stock.
In the 1930’s and 40’s, Florence Bellis, an Oregon
plantswoman was breeding the revolutionary Barnhaven hybrids. Though she
developed the first more or less reliable hose-in-hose seed strain, she never
achieved better than a 50% success rate with it. Over the past 15 years, a Czech
breeding program refined and improved the Bellis seed strain to produce the new
F:1 Hose-in-Hose primula seed, available exclusively through Log House Plants in
North America.
Primula x tommasinii ‘YOU and ME’ is a free flowering
hose-in-hose double primula that constantly blooms from February to June, in
eight sparkling clear colors. This 12" partial shade lover is the hardiest
known primrose, flourishing in zone 4. Divide this long-lived perennial every
4–5 years and it will perform vigorously for many years.
Primula polyanthus 'Penumbra' TM
SILVER LACED PRIMROSE
The first silver
laced primula to be commercially available, ‘Penumbra’ is a dramatic
companion for the old fashioned gold laced primrose that has been available for
centuries.
Named for the
curious slim edge of cool light that shows around the moon during an eclipse,
‘Penumbra’ grows to 10" and is heavenly in woodland gardens. Fragrant
‘Penumbra’ flowers from February to June and is hardy to zone 4.
Delphinium elatum ‘Chocolate’
TRUE ENGLISH DELPHINIUM
For the connoisseur, a new English delphinium in delectable chocolate shades! Watching each plant bloom is like opening a box of the finest assorted chocolates. Tall graceful spikes are filled with highly varied flowers in blends of velvety deep brown, lighter cocoa, and ivory, each bloom uniquely veined, picoteed, or stipled, with even an occasional cherry-pink or blue undertone. Bees range from deep, dark near-black to striped brown-and-white to bright minty green. The overall effect of the Chocolate
Delphinium is a vision of sweet creamy white chocolate with smooth milk and rich dark chocolate swirled throughout. The elegant flower spikes are excellent for cut flower arrangements, or use the long-stemmed individual florets for small handheld bouquets.
Bred for their unique color, exquisite form, and sturdy stalks, these superior hybrids are very early and floriferous, with numerous slender stems on strong canes and an amazingly long flowering season, from early June through July with a second flowering in the fall. Chocolate Delphinium will thrive in a sunny but not baking hot site with moist, rich,well-drained limey soil. Plants grow 6-8 feet tall and have outstanding winter hardiness. Zone 3-10.
Salvia officinalis
CURLY
SAGE
Each
leaf edge is uniformly curled making this the most unusual landscape and
culinary sage ever seen. World exclusive through Log House Plants.
Please call us at 800-564-4115 or e-mail
us at info@loghouseplants.com to receive a brochure or
wholesale ordering information. Gardeners can check our list of retail outlets
or growers/garden centers that carry PLANT
CURIOSITIES locally.
