Over the next year we will be updating our library of Cultivation Notes. Many of these notes are simple scans of past documents. These older notes will be reviewed and updated. Our goal is to provide a more useful web based resource.
1987-2013
This collection of Cultivation Notes began accumulating with the very first edition of the RIWPS Newsletter published in 1987. The authors of the Cultivation Notes deserve our warmest thanks for giving so generously of their time and expertise to help make better gardeners of all of us.
- Amelanchier canadensis
Shadbush - Amelanchier spicata
Dwarf Shadbush - Anemone quinquefolia
Wood-anemone - Anemonella thallictroides
Rue-anemone - Aquilegia canadensis
Wild Columbine - Aralia nudicaulis
Wild Sarsaparilla - Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Bearberry - Arisaema triphyllum
Jack-in-the-Pulpit - Aronia arbutifolia
Red Chokeberry - Asclepias incarnata
Swamp-milkweed - Asclepias tuberosa
Butterfly Weed - Aster acuminatus
Whorled Wood Aster - Aster divaricatus
White Wood Aster - Aster novae-angliae
New England Aster - Aster novi-belgii
New York Aster - Baccharis halimifolia
Groundsel-tree - Betula lenta L., Betula alleghaniensis Britt
Black Birch, Yellow Birch - Caltha palustris
Marsh Marigold - Carya ovata
Shagbark Hickory - Cephalanthus occidentalis
Buttonbush - Chelone glabra
White Turtlehead - Cornus florida
Flowering Dogwood
- Dicentra eximia
Wild Bleeding Heart - Epigaea repens
Trailing Arbutus - Eupatorium spp
Joe-Pye Weed - Fern Propagation
- Ferns
- Gentiana clausa
Meadow Closed Gentian
Meadow Bottle-gentian - Gentianopsis crinita
Fringed Gentian - Geranium maculatum
Wild Geranium
Wild Cranesbill - Halesia tetraptera
Carolina Silverbell - Hamamelis Virginiana
Witch Hazel - Hepatica nobilis
Hepatica - Hydrastis canadensis
Goldenseal - Ilex verticillata
Winterberry - Juncus tenuis
Path Rush - Kalmia latifolia
Mountain Laurel - Liatris scariosa
New England Blazing Star
Northern Blazing Star - Lilium superbum
Turk’s Cap Lily - Lindera benzoin
Spicebush - Liriodendron tulipifera
Tulip-tree - Lobelia cardinalis
Cardinal Flower - Lupinus perennis
Wild or Sundial Lupine - Lycopodiaceae
Mosses: How to start
a moss garden
- Lysimachia terrestris
Swamp Candles - Mitchella repens L.
Partrige-berry - Natural Propagation
- New Plants From Soft Wood Cuttings
- Panicum virgatum L.
Switchgrass - Penstemons
Beard-tongue - Polygonatum biflorum
Solomon’s Seal - Propagating Woody Plants by Cuttings: Confessions of a Fraud
- Prunus maritima
Beach plum - Quercus ssp
Native Oak Trees - Rhexia virginica
Meadow-beauty - Rhododendron ssp.
Native Azalea Species - Sanguinaria canadensis
Bloodroot - Sassafras albidum
Sassafras - Schizachyrium_scoparium
Little Bluestem - Select Native Shrubs
- Solidago sempervirens
Seaside Goldenrod - Swida alternifolia
(Syn. Cornus alternifolia)
Alternate-leaved Dogwood - Swida sericea
Red-Osier Dogwood, Red Twig - Symplocarpus foetidus
Skunk Cabbage - Tiarella cordifolia
Foamflower - Trillium
- Vaccinium corynthosum
Highbush Blueberry - Vaccinium macrocarpon Ait.
Cranberry - Vernonia noveboracensis
New York Ironweed - Viburnums: Native Shrubs for the Home Landscape
- Viola pedata
Birdfoot Violet