Distinctive Foliage

Family:  Ranunculaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: China, Japan, Korea
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich well drained
Light: Part sun
Height: 30"
Bloom Time: September
Pest Resistance:  Deer, Rabbit
Attributes: Deciduous, clumping, Glossy basal , large lobed foliage with white bottle-brush like flowers.
Notes: Smaller scale Cimicifuga for the lightly shaded garden.  This form was found on Cheju Island.
Companion plants:  Asarum, Trillium, Epimedium, Cypripedium, Podophyllum

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:  Ranunculaceae
Zone:4 - 9
Natural Range:  North America
Soil:  Average, moist humus rich
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  4'
Bloom Time:  August to September
Attracts:  Butterflies
Pest Resistance:  Deer, Rabbit
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Dark black-purple foliage.  Tall spikes of fragrant pink flowers in late summer to early fall.
Notes: Excellent foliage plant.  Best color when planted in more sun
 
Pot size:  4" Band Pot

Family: Lamiaceae
Zone:7 - 10
Natural Range: EasternAsia
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 10'
Attracts:  Bees, hummingbirds
Bloom Time:  July to September
Attributes: Deciduous.  Tubular, fragrant, white flowers in long cymes.  Small bright blue fruits with red calyx. 
Notes: This form has cream colored margins with dark and light green. 

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot 2' - 3'

Family: Lamiaceae
Zone:7 - 10
Natural Range:
EasternAsia
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 10'
Attracts:  Bees, hummingbirds
Bloom Time:  July to September
Attributes: Deciduous.  Tubular, fragrant, white flowers in long cymes.  Small bright blue fruits with red calyx. 
Notes: This form has cream colored margins with dark and light green. 

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot 2' - 3'

Family: Myricaceae
Zone:2 - 9
Natural Range:   Eastern North America
Soil:  Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 2' - 5'
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attributes: Deciduous shrub with simple, narrow, deeply notched light green to dark olive green leaves to about 4" long.  Yellowish green flowers, burr-like fruit.  Aromatic foliage.
Notes:  Adaptable to a range of soil conditions and can be quite drought tolerant once established.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Pteridaceae
Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: China; Mt. Emie
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: part sun-shade
Height: 24"
Attributes:  Evergreen, clumping, bold green leaves with yellow - lime green striping.
Notes: Unique form of Bamboo Fern.  Get them while they last.
Companion plants:  Asarum, Trillium, Epimedium, Cypripedium, Podophyllum

Pot Size: 4" Band Pot

Family: Cornaceae
Zone: 3 - 9 
Natural Range: Eastern North America
Soil: Average to moist
Light: Part shade
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attracts:  Birds, Butterflies
Attributes: 15' tall.  Small deciduous tree or large multi-stemmed shrub with distinctive tiered and layered horizontal branches.  Fragrant white flowers.  This form has green and white variegation
Notes: One of the most attractive deciduous trees for the woodland garden.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

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Family: Cornaceae
Zone:3 - 9
Natural Range:Eastern North America
Soil:  Average humus rich, well drained
Light: Part shade, shade
Height: 15'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  Yellow edged with darker green variegated leaves.  Creamy white flowers.  Bright fall foliage.
Notes:  Attractive layered look.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family: Cornaceae
Zone:3 - 9
Natural Range:Eastern North America
Soil:  Average humus rich, well drained
Light: Part shade, sun
Height: 15'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  Yellow edged with darker green variegated leaves.  Creamy white flowers.  Bright fall foliage.
Notes:  Attractive layered look.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Cornaceae
Zone:6 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Part sun
Height: 8'
Bloom Time:  Spring
Attributes: Evergreen or Semi-evergreen with thick, glossy, bright green leaves to 3" long that turn purplish in winter.  White bracts surround a center of yellowish-green flowers.
Notes:  This form has cream and yellow variegation.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot 3'

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Cornaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range:China
Soil:  Average humus rich, well drained
Light: Part shade, sun
Height: 15'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  Wide chartreuse yellow border.  Pure white flowers.  Bright orange-red fall foliage.
Notes:  An attractively shaped, low-maintenance under-story tree for shady gardens.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot 3'

Family: Cornaceae
Zone:3 - 9
Natural Range:Eastern North America
Soil:  Average humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 5'
Bloom Time:  Spring
Attributes: Deciduous.  Green foliage with white flowers, blue fruit in fall.  Red and purple fall foliage.  Burgundy stems in winter
Notes:  Compact selection.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family: Cornaceae
Zone:  3 - 9
Natural Range:  Hybrid; USPP 24,812; CBR 4767
Soil: Average, moist, humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 4'
Bloom Time:  Spring
Attracts:  Butterflies, Hummingbirds, Bees
Pest Resistance: NA
Attributes: Deciduous.  Glossy, crinkly foliage with dense, vertical growth habit.
Notes: Cool textural effect!

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family:  Argophyllaceae
Zone:  7 - 9
Natural Range:  New Zealand
Soil:  Average
Light:  Sun
Height:  5'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  Deer, Rabbit
Attributes:  Evergreen.  Yellow flowers.  Red-orange berries.  Small gray leaves and zigzagging stems.
Notes:This unusual shrub evolved this way as a defense against the now extinct Moa birds.
 
Pot size:  1 Gallon Pot

Pot Size:  Round Quart

Family:  Hamamelidaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Japan
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 8' - 12'
Bloom Time: March to April
Attributes: Deciduous, shrub.  Bright greenish-yellow flowers early spring.  Large rounded leaves that turn shades of yellow in fall. 
Notes:  Corylopsis gotoana has obovate leaves with short-awned teeth and smaller flowers than C. glabrescens, but are about the same length as the petals.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pots

Family:  Hamamelidaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Japan
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 8' - 12'
Bloom Time: March to April
Attributes: Deciduous, shrub.  Bright greenish-yellow flowers early spring.  Large rounded leaves that turn shades of yellow in fall.. 
Notes:  Corylopsis gotoana has obovate leaves with short-awned teeth and smaller flowers than C. glabrescens, but are about the same length as the petals.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pots

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family: Hamamelidaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Japan, China
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 4' - 8'
Bloom Time: March to April
Attributes: Deciduous, shrub.  Bright yellow flowers.  Splashy lemon yellow foliage.
Notes:  Sometimes sold as Corylopsis spicata 'Aurea' or 'Ogon'

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

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Family: Hamamelidaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 10' - 12'
Bloom Time: March to April
Attributes: Deciduous, shrub.  Bright creamy white flowers late winter, early spring.  New growth is deep purple.
Notes: Originally came from Hilliers Gardens.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family: Betulaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Europe
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 15'
Bloom Time: March to April
Attributes: Deciduous, shrub.  Unique red colored, cutleaf foliage. 
Notes:  Upright-spreading growth habit.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family: Betulaceae
Zone: 4 - 8 
Natural Range: Europe
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 10'
Bloom Time: February to March
Attributes: Deciduous, shrub.  Rounded, multi-trunked shrub with twisted and spiraling branches.
Notes:  Great winter interest.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family: Cupressaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range: Japan
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 10' - 30'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Dense foliage.
Notes: Foliage starts tight and looks like a Giant Sequoia.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

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Family: Cupressaceae
Zone:6 - 9
Natural Range: Japan
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 10' - 30'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Creamy yellow tipped foliage.  Especially intense on new growth in spring.
Notes: Foliage looks like a fern or moss.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

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Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: Bhutan; Eastern Himalayas, Northern India; Arunachal Pradesh
Family:  Cupressaceae
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun
Height: 40', much smaller in cultivation
Attributes:  Evergreen, medium sized tree with graceful, pendulous sprays of blue-green, flattened leaves.
Notes:  In the wild it grows at moderately high altitudes of 1,250 - 2,800 m.

Pot Size:  Small Band Pot

Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Taiwan
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light:  Part shade, shade
Attributes:  Deciduous, 12” - 18" tall.  Blooms in spring. White petals, white with red-pink markings on the pouch, flat fan - like pleated foliage, reminiscent of an Elizabethan collar.
Notes:  Well established clumps can have more than 100 individual stems, each with a bloom.  This species is closely related to Cyp. japonicum.  In the wild Cyp. formosanum grows in cool temperate mountains of Taiwan.  An easy grower that settles in quickly and fast to multiply.  Large blooming size rhizomes.

Pot Size: 1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Dryopteridaceae
Zone: 7 - 10
Natural Range: Asia
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade to shade
Height: 24"
Bloom Time: NA
Attributes: Evergreen, Dull green fronds with 3 to 6 pairs of stiff pinnae
Notes: A unique looking fern for the temperate garden.

Pot Size:  Small Band Pot

Family:  Dryopteridaceae
Zone: 7 - 10
Natural Range: Asia
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade to shade
Height: 1' - 2'
Bloom Time: NA
Attributes: Evergreen, glossy green leaves with 5 - 18 pairs of pinnae.
Notes: A unique looking fern for the temperate garden.

Pot Size:  Small Band Pot

Family:  Dryopteridaceae
Zone: 7 - 10
Natural Range: Asia
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade to shade
Height: 1' - 2'
Bloom Time: NA
Attributes: Evergreen, glossy green leaves with 5 - 18 pairs of fingered pinnae.
Notes: A unique looking fern for the temperate garden.

Pot Size:  Small Band Pot

Family:  Dryopteridaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Eastern Asia
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade to shade
Height: 24"
Bloom Time: NA
Attributes: Evergreen, Dull green fronds with 12-26 pairs of stiff pinnae
Notes: A unique looking fern for the temperate garden.

Pot Size:  4" Pot

Family:  Asteraceae
Zone: 7 - 10
Natural Range: Mexico and Central America
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 15'
Bloom Time: November to December
Attributes: Deciduous.  New emerging attractive pinnate foliage on semi-woody stems.  Pink flowers opening in fall.
Notes:  A massive growing species Dahlia that needs a warm fall to flower in colder climates.  Reported to grow up to 30' in the wild.  Mulch the base well with leaves in the fall.

Pot size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Daphniphyllaceae
Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: China, Taiwan
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light:  Part shade, sun
Attributes:  Evergreen, 12' tall.  Large glossy leaves.  Red stems.  Previous seasons leaves persist for several years, drooping down.  Small flowers, showy blue fruit in winter.  Immature leaves are glaucous.
Notes:  Multi-stemmed stately shrub that adds an exotic touch to the lightly shaded garden.  Specimens have been grown in the PNW for more than 20 years but still not well known in gardens.  Seed grown not sexed.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Pot size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Nyssaceae
Zone:6 - 9
Natural Range:China
Soil:  Average humus rich, well drained
Light: Part shade, sun
Height: 20'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  Chartreuse mid-rib ringed by deep green.  White flowers resembling doves perched in a tree.
Notes:  Rare variegated form.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Nyssaceae
Zone:6 - 9
Natural Range:China
Soil:  Average humus rich, well drained
Light: Part shade, sun
Height: 20'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  Irregular stripes of light green and dark green variegation.  White flowers resembling doves perched in a tree.
Notes:  Rare variegated form.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:Araliaceae
Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: South Western China
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: part shade, sun
Height: 15'
Attributes:  Evergreen,  Single leaf with wavy margins.  Unusual green flowers and black fruit.
Notes: Supper cool and reliably hardy shrub that is still relatively uncommon in cultivation.  Closely related to Metapanax delavayi.  Younger leaves are singe and as they mature they turn into three lobed leaves.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Pot Size: Large Band Pot

Family:  Iridaceae
Zone:  7 - 10
Natural Range:  South Africa
Soil:  Average, moist, well-drained
Light:  Sun
Height:  2' - 5'
Bloom Time:  June to August
Attracts:  Bees
Pest Resistance:  Rabbit
Attributes:  Evergreen.  Clumping grass like foliage.  Tall stems with pink-purple bell flowers.
Notes: Graceful iris relative that can take some time to establish and resents being disturbed once settled in.
 
Pot size:  Medium Band Pot

Pot size:  Medium Band Pot

Pot size:  4" Band Pot

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family:  Berberidaceae
Zone: 4 - 8
Natural Range: Japan
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade, shade
Height: 2"
Attributes:  Deciduous, White flowers in spring, blue fruit when pollinated in fall.  Large lobed leaves.
Notes:  Very closely related to Podophyllum.

Pot Size: 1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Hamamelidaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: China, Japan
Soil: Average, humus rich, well drained
Light: part shade
Height: 6'
Attributes: Deciduous. New leaves emerge light yellow, turning mint color.
Notes:  Slow growing

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Hamamelidaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: China, Japan
Soil: Average, humus rich, well drained
Light: part shade
Height: 6' - 10'
Attributes: Deciduous. 3" heart shaped leaves with cream-white variegation.  Brilliantly colored fall leaves that are shaped like a redbud.
Notes:  One of the showiest fall colored shrub, yet is still infrequently encountered in gardens.  Plant in an area that is mostly shady with a few hours of direct sun. The fall display has colors ranging from green - blue - red - yellow.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot