About Ellen Hornig...

Speaker - August 2007 meeting.

Seneca Hill Perennials is a small mail-order nursery located in snowy upstate New York, just south of the great metropolis of Oswego. We specialize to some extent in hardy cyclamen, asclepias, species peonies, hardy aroids, and hardy plants of the Drakensberg of southern Africa; beyond that, we grow what we feel like growing, and that is definitely a moving target. We try not to be seduced into craving “new and different” plants solely for their newness and differentness, reminding ourselves that anything we have not grown is, indeed, new and different to us.

And that's why, in our catalog, you'll find a mix of new and old, tried-and-true and experimental. You'll find classic plants: cyclamen, glaucidiums, selected Primula sieboldii, heirloom irises, gentians and the like. You'll find arums and arisaemas, species peonies, hardy South Africans (dieramas, eucomis, kniphofias and more), asclepias, and bits of this and that. You'll find increasing numbers of US native plants, not because we've gotten religion, but because a lot of them are passed over by gardeners but should not be. You'll find a few things that are there only because we think they might be worth growing (but haven't yet tried them ourselves). We hope that you'll free yourself from the fetters of plant prejudice and, if you've never grown something, consider growing it now, even if everyone else already does.

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