Purdue Extension Service

Vanderburgh County, Indiana

Demonstration Gardens Plant Lists

The following lists are plants needed by the various garden chairpeople.  Most of these are for the MG Display Garden at the Evansville State Hospital, but some are for other sites.  Please contact the people listed if you have plants you can share.

MGDG Shade Garden

Hostas (Various Types)

Ferns (Various Types)

Astibille

Hardy Geranium

Helleborus

Lungwort

Grasses (Pontyail , Coolio, Ect)

Heuchera (Cora Bells)

Toad Lily

Climbing Hydrangea (Need Start)

Bleeding Hearts

Forget-Me-Nots

Spiderworts (Widows Tears)

Tiarella (Foam Flower)

Impatients

Contact:  Kay Haller, Dave Hames, June Schwengel, Charlotte Critchfield, Diane Orange

MGDG Alpine Garden, Garden in the Round

name

cultivar or common name

quantity

ALPINE GARDEN

Coreopsis

‘Moonbeam’

3

Pulsatilla vulgaris 

pasqueflower

9

Stachys byzantinum 

lambs ear

5

Penstemon pinifolius 

5

Agastache 

any named cultivar

3

Helianthemum nummularium or lumulatum 

rock rose or sun rose

3

Sempervivum tectorum 

hens & chicks

9

Saxigraga 

any named evergreen cultivar

5

papaver poppies 

any named cultivar

7

Acanthus sinposus 

bear's breaches

1

portulaca 

moss rose

12

Saponaria ocymoides 

soapwort

3

miscanthus calamagrostis 

‘El Dorado'

3

Miscanthus sinensis 

‘Little Zebra'

9

Festuca  

‘Boulder Blue' or other blue

12

Bulbs we will need this fall:   

dwarf narcissus bulbs 

named cultivar

36

crocus 

named cultivar

60

"species" tulips 

named cultivar

36

GARDEN IN THE ROUND

Tithonia rotundaflora 

mexican sunflower

seed

Liriope muscari

lily-turf

24

Sedum

‘Fulda Glow'

24

Stachys byzantinium

lambs ear

48

Contact:   Jane Rexing

Mesker Zoo Garden

Rudbeckias 

Purple cone flowers

 Hostas

 Jacob Cline red bee balm

 ferns

 coral bells

 daylily assorted colors

Contact:   Paul Bienhaus

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