Snake's Head Fritillary
Fritillaria meleagris
These dainty bell-shaped flowers in shades of maroon and white with faint checkered patterns perch atop slender arching stems. They prefer to be grown in cool moist sites.
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Location: Upper Garden
Snapdragon
Antirrhinum majus
This colorful cool season annual is a charmer in the middle of the flower border during the spring and fall.
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Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
A tall, brash plant with chrome yellow flowers brightens the summer border. Easy to grow, it tolerates a wide variety of conditions, although a haircut in the spring will prevent flopping later.
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Snowdrop
Galanthus nivalis
Sweet white flowers naturalize easily in lawns or garden beds. This early bloomer is known for poking through the snow as early as February.
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Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
Spiderwort has grassy foliage and interesting purple blossoms, but tends to flop after flowering. It does best in shady locations and benefits from a good haircut after blooming.
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Spinach
Spinacea oleracea
Spinach is a low-growing leafy green which is ideal in salads, but can also be prepared in soups, stews, or as a cooked green. It is a cool season crop, prone to bolting when summer temperatures get too high.
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Stinking hellebore
Hellebore foetidus
Don’t let the name fool you, as stinking hellebore’s evergreen foliage and clusters of drooping, bell-shaped, greenish-white flowers emerging from pale green bracts are a much-needed spot of color in the winter woodland garden. Established plants will readily self-seed to form colonies if flowers are allowed to dry on the plant. All parts of the stinking hellebore- leaves, stems, and roots, are poisonous.
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Stock
Matthiola incana
This clove-scented flower flourishes in cool weather and makes an excellent cut flower.
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Strawberry Bush
Euonymus americanus
This airy woodland shrub looks unassuming until it sets its brilliant red fruit in the fall, when it earns its many common names.
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Summersweet
Clethra alnifolia
This dense suckering shrub tolerates wet soils and shade. In late summer it bursts into bloom, with long panicles of fragrant white flowers, followed by attractive yellow fall color.
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