Narrow-leaved Coneflower (Echinacea angustifolia)

Narrow-leaved Coneflower (Echinacea angustifolia)Hardy, herbaceous perennial Description: Rosy purple, daisy like flowers on 2 to 3 foot stems in summer. Medium green, strap like leaves. Habit: Mound like habit to 2 feet wide with flowers stems up to 4 feet tall Culture: Prefers full sun or light shade and well drained garden loam. Avoid burying the crown with mulch. Hardiness: Cold hardy to USDA Zone 4 Origin: North America Attributes: Drought tolerant, Deer resistant, Attracts bees and butterflies

We'll get you started with five delicious vegetable varieties from the Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants: Rouge Demi-Longue de Chantenay Carrot

wiry-forked stalk

While serving as President George Washington's secretary of state (1790-1793)

and was included by Thomas Jefferson in a list of "Objects for the garden this year" in 1794

in 12-inch conical clusters

With the end of the War of 1812

wearing what-ever he liked best

Habit: Forms a clump to 2 feet tall and with a similar width

With a broad native range from New Brunswick south to North Carolina and west to Arizona

Sweet Bay Laurel (Laurus nobilis) arrives in a 1 quart pot

31 of the 516 documents in this volume are letters exchanged by Jefferson and John Adams

never truly understood in all his complexity