Scabiosa caucasica ( Spielarten Pincushion Flower )

Scabiosa caucasica is a lovely perennial with a clumping form and grayish-green, lance-shaped, 6 inch long, basal leaves and slender, pinnatified stem leaves. Summer borne flowers of Spielarten are solitary, up to 3 inches wide, blue with bluish-white or sometimes […]

Scabiosa caucasica ( Perennial Pincushion Flower )

Scabiosa caucasica is a lovely perennial with a clumping form and grayish-green, lance-shaped, 6 inch long, basal leaves and slender, pinnatified stem leaves. Summer borne flowers are solitary, light blue or purplish-blue, up to 3 inches wide. The name pincushion […]

Scabiosa caucasica ( Clive Greaves Pincushion Flower )

Scabiosa caucasica is a lovely perennial with a clumping form and grayish-green, entire, lance-shaped, 6 inch long basal leaves and slender, pinnatified stem leaves. Summer borne flowers of Clive Greaves are solitary, purplish-blue, up to 3 inches wide. The name […]

Scabiosa atropurpurea ( Dwarf Double Pincushion Flower )

Scabiosa atropurpurea is a branching, wiry-stalked, upright annual with entire or serrated, medium green, up to 5 inches long, spoon-shaped basal leaves and pinnatified stem leaves. Dwarf Double produces a combination of white, pink, blue, and deep purple, double, fragrant […]

Scabiosa atropurpurea ( Blue Cockade Pincushion Flower )

Scabiosa atropurpurea is a branching, wiry-stalked, upright annual with entire or serrated, medium green, up to 5 inches long, spoon-shaped basal leaves and pinnatified stem leaves. Summer borne flowers of Blue Cockade are fragrant, solitary, purplish-blue, 2+ inches wide. The […]

Saxifraga longifolia ( Saxifrage )

This is a ligulatae (one of the 5 Saxifrage categories) saxifrage with a single rosette of linear, lime-encrusted silver leaves, 2 1/2 inches to 4 1/2 inches long. After 3 or 4 years, it produces a large pannicle of up […]

Saxifraga cochlearis ( Snail sanifrage )

In early summer the species, cochlearis bears 15 to 25 and up to 60 rounded white flowers 1/2 inch with occasionally red or yellow spots. This evergreen has monocarpic rosettes of spoon shaped green leaves with lime edges. The cultivar, […]