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Family: Pineaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range: China, Tibet
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 50' shorter in cultivation.
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Smooth, brown-gray bark.  Dark blue new cones.
Notes: Native to high mountains of 2,400-4,300 m.  Frequently found in pure stands near the tree line.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Fabaceae
Zone:  8 - 10
Natural Range:  Australia 
Soil:  Average
Light:  Sun
Height:  15'
Bloom Time:  Spring
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  Deer
Attributes:  Evergreen.  Fern-like blue-gray foliage that emerges purple.  Bright yellow flowers.  New growth is bright blue-green.  Blue green mature foliage.
Notes: Fast growing large shrub. Frost hardy into the mid teens.  Mulch base.

Pot size: 1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Fabaceae
Zone:  8 - 10
Natural Range:  Australia 
Soil:  Average
Light:  Sun
Height:  15'
Bloom Time:  Spring
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  Deer
Attributes:  Evergreen.  Flattened triangular foliage held close to the stem.  Bright yellow flowers.  New growth is bright blue-green.  Blue green mature foliage.
Notes: Fast growing large shrub. Frost hardy into the mid teens.  Mulch base.

Pot size: 1 Gallon Pot

Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: Taiwan
Family:  Sapindaceae
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: part shade, sun
Height: 15'
Attributes: Evergreen-semievergreen.  Small three lobed leaves with orange to bronze new growth.
Notes:  From our collection in the lush mountains of central Taiwan at around 2200m in elevation.  Rare in cultivation.

Pot Size:  Small Band Pot 8" - 12"

Family: Sapindaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: Japan
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Part shade, sun
Height: 15'- 30'
Attributes:  Deciduous, New growth is bright red, aging green. White and green striped bark.  Leaves are dark green with serrated edges.
Notes:  The heavily patterned bark makes a stunning statement. Use as a future canopy to shade a garden or as a main focal point in a sunny garden.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Sapindaceae
Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: Taiwan
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade, sun
Height: 30'
Bloom Time: NA
Pest Resistance: NA
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Small tree or shrub with green bark, thin papery leaves.  Open or densely branched.  Double toothed, lobed leaves on young shoots, almost un-lobed on mature shoots.
Notes: This seed selection was from a tree that had extra nice leaves with a bit of undulation on the margins.

Pot Size:  Small Band Pot

Family:  Sapindaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: PNW
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: part shade, sun
Height: 12'
Attributes: Deciduous.  Creamy yellow and bright red stems in winter.  Deep green leaves that turn yellow in fall.
Notes:  Great winter bark color.

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Pot size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Sapindaceae
Zone: 5-9
Natural Range: China 
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: part shade, sun
Height: 30 feet tall
Attributes: Deciduous.  Deeply lobed leaves with red-purple foliage.
Notes:  A very attractive and distinct Maple with good foliage color.

Pot size:  1 Gallon pot

Family:  Sapindaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: Acer griseum x Acer pseudoplatanus
Soil:  Average, moist, humus rich
Light: part shade, sun
Height: 10' - 20'
Attributes: Deciduous.  Slightly exfoliating bark.  Three lobed leaves that emerge orange-bronze.  Crimson fall foliage.
Notes:  Unlikely hybrid.  Strong growth and durable.

Pot size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Sapindaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: PNW
Soil: Average, moist, well drained
Light: Part shade
Height: 25'
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attributes: Deciduous.  Pink to dusky rose-purple new growth.
Notes:  A very unique and rare form of Big Leaf Maple.
 
Pot Size: 1 Gallon Pot

Family: Sapindaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Taiwan
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade, sun
Height: 30'
Bloom Time: NA
Pest Resistance: NA
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Smooth, Yellowish-grey bark.  Bronze to red-orange fall foliage
Notes: Found around 2200m in elevation.  Syn Acer rubescens

Pot Size:  Small Band Pot

Family:  Sapindaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil:  Average, moist, humus rich
Light: part shade, sun
Height: 8' - 30'
Attributes:  Deciduous, Four to seven narrow serrated leaflets.  Red and orange fall foliage.
Notes:  Rare and endangered in the wild.  In colder climates Acer pentaphyllum is root hardy, re sprouting from the base making a small multi-trunk tree.

Pot size:  1 Gallon Pot 3-4'

Family:  Sapindaceae
Zone: 4 - 9
Natural Range: Europe
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height:  20'
Bloom Time: NA
Attracts: Bees
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous.  Deeply-dissected leaves.
Notes: This selection has leaves that look similar to Japanese maples.  Very rare.

Pot Size: 1 Gallon Pot 2'

Family:  Sapindaceae
Zone:  3 - 9
Natural Range:  Europe
Soil:  Average, moist well drained
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  15’
Bloom Time:  March to April
Attracts:  Bees
Pest Resistance:  Air pollution
Attributes:  Deciduous, nearly completely rounded small leaves lacking lobes. Wingless fruit.
Notes:  ‘Tharandt’ was discovered at the University of Dresden at Tharandt, Germany.  Rarely grown.
 
Pot size:  1 Gallon Pot 2'

Family:  Sapindaceae
Zone:  3 - 9
Natural Range:  Europe
Soil:  Average, moist well drained
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  15’
Bloom Time:  March to April
Attracts:  Bees
Pest Resistance:  Air pollution
Attributes:  Deciduous, white reticulated variegated leaf.  New growth is nearly pure white.
Notes:  ‘Walderseei’ was discovered in Count Waldersee, Mesendorf Germany in 1900.
 
Pot size:  1 Gallon Pot 3'

Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: Taiwan
Family:  Sapindaceae
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: part shade, sun
Height: 15'
Attributes: Deciduous.  Orange to bronze new growth with serrated leaves with up to 5 lobes.  Crimson to bronze fall foliage.
Notes:  From our collection in the lush mountains of central Taiwan at around 2200m in elevation.  Very attractive smaller growing maple.  Rare in cultivation.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Asteraceae
Zone: 4 - 9
Natural Range: PNW
Soil:  Average, drought tolerant
Light: Sun, part sun
Height:  12"
Bloom Time: Spring to Fall
Attracts: Bees
Pest Resistance:  Deer
Attributes: Deciduous.  Compact aromatic ferny foliage with white flowers.
Notes:Nice short selection made in Sonoma County California.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Ranunculaceae
Zone: 3 - 8
Natural Range: Europe
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light:  Part shade
Bloom Time: Late Summer
Pest Resistance:  Deer, Rabbit
Attributes:  Deciduous, 2' - 3' tall.  Blue-purple blooms in late summer.  Foliage emerges from rhizome very early in the spring or late winter.
Notes:  Great flowers for the cooling days of the end of summer season.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family:  Dennstaedtiaceae
Zone: 8 - 10
Natural Range: Asia
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade, shade
Height:  6"
Bloom Time: NA
Attracts: NA
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous.  Pink new growth.  Tips will root into the ground forming new plants.  
Notes:Late emerging after a cold winter.

Pot Size:  4" Pot

Zone: 4-9
Natural Range:  China;  Himalayan Mountains
Soil:  Average, moist humus rich well
Light:  shade, part shade
Height:  6"-12"
Bloom Time:  NA
Pest Resistance:  Deer, Rabbit
Attributes:  Evergreen, dark purple stipe, red-pink new growth, dark green fronds.
Notes:  Low growing mat forming groundcover fern that can form broad dense stands.  One of the best ferns EVER!!!!!!

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Pot Size:  4" Pot

Family: Sapindaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range:Hybrid; A hippocastanum x pavia
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 20' -  40'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  Golden yellow fall foliage.  Pink flowers with yellow throat.
Notes:  Less susceptible to leaf scorch, leaf blotch and mildew.Flowers at an early age.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot 3'-4'

Family: Lardizabalaceae
Zone:6 - 10
Natural Range: Japan
Soil:  Average to moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 25'
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attributes: Semi-evergreen.  Cream and green colored leaves.  Purple flowers.  Sausage shaped edible fruit when pollinated.
Notes:  Great foliage.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot 3'

Family:  Amaryllidaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: Europe
Soil:  Moist, humus rich,
Light:  Part shade
Bloom Time:  April to May
Height:  6" - 12"
Pest Resistance:  Deer, Rabbit
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Star-like white flowers with green leaves.
Notes:  Native to temperate regions of Europe from Britain east to the Caucasus.  Will naturalize over time.

Pot Size: 4" Band Pot

Family: Betulaceae
Zone: 2 - 9
Natural Range: Alaska to N. California & Rockies to WY
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 10'
Attributes: Deciduous.  Thicket forming shrub with horizontal branching.  Reddish-brown bark turning gray.  Oval, toothed leaves.  Long creamy yellow catkins.
Notes:  A smaller growing native Alnus that is good for wildlife.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family: Asphodelaceae
Zone:7 - 10
Natural Range: South Africa
Soil:  Average, well drained dryer winter
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 6" - 10"
Bloom Time:  June to August
Pest Resistance:  Deer, Rabbit
Attributes: Evergreen.  Coral-orange flowers.  
Notes: Needs a good 6 to 8 hours of direct sun in the cooler parts of its range with a more shade in hotter climates.  Needs good drainage and works well tucked into a rock garden.  We grow ours under the eves on a west facing overhang.

Pot Size:  4" Pot

Family: Zingiberaceae
Zone: 8 - 10
Natural Range: Eastern Asia
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade
Height: 3' -4'
Bloom Time:  Summer
Attracts:  Hummingbirds
Pest Resistance:  Deer, Rabbit
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Bold, irregular green and creamy yellow and gold striped leaves.  White flowers with yellow and red inner markings.
Notes:  Will survive in zone 7 with some win mulching and protection.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Araceae

Zone:  7 - 9
Natural Range:  India, Nepal
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light:  Part shade
Height:  3'
Bloom Time:  Spring
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  Deer
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Spotted stalk and divided leaf.  Creamy white flowers.
Notes: Likeother Amorphophallus and Arisaema in colder climates tubers can be stored cool and dry during the winter and replanted in spring.

Pot Size: Tuber

Zone: 8 - 10
Natural Range: Texas, Mexico
Soil:  Average, well-drained
Light: Part shade
Height: 1'
Attributes:  Evergreen, Pinnae of 4-7 pairs, alternate, lanceolate.  Separate fertile fronds.
Notes:  In the wild this fern grows on lightly shaded limestone outcrops between 400 and 500 m elevation.  Edwards Plateau and Trans-Pecos Texas.

Pot Size:  4" Pot

Family:  Ranunculaceae
Zone: 4 - 9
Natural Range: Europe
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light:  Part shade, sun
Bloom Time:  March to May
Pest Resistance:  Deer, Rabbit
Attributes:  Deciduous, 6" tall.  White flowers with blue center.  Coarsely toothed and finely divided leaves.  Clumping
Notes:  An early spring bloomer that slowly expands forming a contained clump. Blooms around the same time as many Trillium, Erythronium and Epimedium.

Pot Size:4" Pot

Family:  Ranunculaceae
Zone: 4 - 9
Natural Range: Europe
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light:  Part shade, sun
Bloom Time:  March to May
Pest Resistance:  Deer, Rabbit
Attributes:  Deciduous, 6" tall.  Pure white single flowers.  Coarsely toothed and finely divided leaves.  Clumping
Notes:  An early spring bloomer that slowly expands forming a contained clump. Blooms around the same time as many Trillium, Erythronium and Epimedium.

Pot Size: 4" Band Pot

Zone: 5 - 8
Natural Range: Japan
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light:  Part shade
Bloom Time:  April to May
Pest Resistance:  Deer, Rabbit
Attributes:  Deciduous, 2' tall.  Nodding pale purple flowers with darker purple highlights that hover over ferny foliage.  Summer blooming.  Clumping
Notes:  Elegant and refined perennial for a lightly shady garden.  Looks like a cross between Anemone and Cimicifuga.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: Japan
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Part shade - shade
Height: 18"
Attributes:  Evergreen, Slowly spreading rhizome with shiny dark green, triangular fronds.
Notes:  This is another Arachniodes that slugs actually don't like.  Aracniodes are among the most textural of ferns, playing off more solid fronds

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:  Araliaceae
Zone: 4 - 9
Natural Range: Japan
Soil: Average, humus rich
Light: Part shade
Bloom Time:  Summer
Pest Resistance:  Deer, Rabbit
Attributes:  Deciduous.  3' tall gold-chartreuse foliage and white flowers. 
Notes: A bright form of Aralia that glows in a lightly shaded location.  This is a perennial Aralia that dies to the ground every fall only to regain its size the next spring.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pots

Family:  Ericaceae
Zone: 8 - 10
Natural Range: Hybrid sport
Soil:  Average to dry, well drained
Light: Sun
Height: 15'- 25' 
Attributes:  Evergreen, cream edged green foliage.  Deep coral-pink bell flowers.  Bright orange fruit in fall.
Notes:  Arbutus marina is a hybrid between Arbutus unedo and A. andrachne of Europe.

Pot Size: 1 Gallon Pot 24"

Family:  Fabaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Morocco
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 16'
Bloom Time: May to July
Attracts: NA
Resistant To:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Silvery foliage with bright yellow fragrant flowers. 
Notes:  Fast growing species that can be maintained as a smaller shrub.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Araceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light:  Part shade
Height: 2' - 3' tall
Pest Resistance:  Deer, Rabbit
Bloom Time:  April to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  Tall stalks with whorled, radial leaf with 12 leaflets with drip-tips.  Large pitcher-like green or carmine striped spathe.
Notes:  This seed strain has darker mottling on the spathe.  One of the easiest Arisaema species to grow.

Dormant Bulbs

Family:  Araceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Bhutan. India
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, Well drained
Light:  Part shade, Sun
Bloom Time:  May to June
Pest Resistance:  Deer, Rabbit
Attributes:  Deciduous, 1'-2' tall. Spathe is dark brown - carmine and purple, with white - greenish yellow, striping, resembling snake skin. Long brown whip like spadex.  Bloom time is around April - May. Large, glossy trifoliate leaves with thick veining.  These go dormant quickly after blooming.
Notes:  Arisaema griffithii var. pradhanii is an unusual species growing in Rhododendron forests, and alpine meadows at about 9,000 ft elevation.

Dormant Bulbs  

Family:  Araceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Eastern Himalayas. China. Bhutan. Northeast India
Soil: moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: part shade
Height: 12" -  24" tall
Bloom Time:  June to July
Pest Resistance:  Deer, Rabbit
Attributes: Deciduous. Blooms spring to early summer.  Brown and white mottled pseudostem.  Carmine and white striped inflorescens.  Long whip like spadex. Large glossy trifoliate leaves with impressed veins on the upper side.
Notes:  Arisaema speciosum grows in cool forests that are subject to winter frost and snowfall.

Dormant Bulbs

Family:  Rosaceae
Zone: 3 - 8
Natural Range: Hybrid
Soil:  Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade, shade
Height:  10" - 18"
Bloom Time: April to June
Attracts:  Butterflies, Bees
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous.  Sprays of white flowers, low mounds very fine fern like foliage.
Notes: A new smaller growing Goatsbeard that works well with other woodland perennials.  

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family: Asparagaceae
Zone:7 - 10
Natural Range: China, Japan
Soil:  Average
Light: Part sun
Height: 2' - 3'
Bloom Time:  Spring
Attributes: Evergreen.  Clumping growth with broad, glossy leaves spotted with creamy specks.
Notes:Aspidistra are slow growing but are extremely durable, tolerating shade, dry soils.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Cupressaceae
Zone:  7 - 10
Natural Range: S Chile, S Argentina
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 25' - 50'
Attributes:  Evergreen, short trunk and narrow crown.  Red-brown bark, peeling in threads.
Notes:  Native to the Valdivian temperate rain forests and drier steppe-forests of central-southern Chile and Argentina.

Pot Size:  Small Band Pot

Family:  Salicaceae
Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: Chile and Argentina
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Sun, Part sun
Height: 15'
Bloom Time: January to February
Attributes: Evergreen.  Small, glossy green leaves.  Gracefully layered branching.  Vanilla fragrant yellow flowers.
Notes: Attractive, narrow upright, layered growth.

Pot Size: Large Band Pot

Family: Apiaceae
Zone:4 - 9
Natural Range: Chile, Argentina
Soil:  Average, gritty well drained
Light: Sun
Height: 2"
Bloom Time:  Summer
Attributes: Evergreen.  Dense rounded mounds of glossy dark green, rosettes. Yellow flowers in summer.
Notes:  In the wild the clumps are extremely dense, making perfect rounded patches among rocky areas.

Pot Size:  4" Pot

Family:  Begoniaceae
Zone:  8 - 11
Natural Range:  India
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light:  Part sun, shade
Height:  18"
Bloom Time:  Fall
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  Deer
Attributes:  Deep green leaves with burgundy undersides.
Notes: Eye-catching coloration.  Great in containers.  This species originated from the forests of Northeastern India.  Mulch crown in fall.

Pot size: 1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Begoniaceae
Zone: 7 - 10
Natural Range: China
Soil: moist, well drained
Light: part-shade, shade
Height: 18"
Bloom Time: September to November
Attributes: Evergreen to deciduous. Red stems with dark green foliage speckled with silvery white.  Pink flowers.
Notes:  A showy species.  Mulch crown in colder zones. A Shayne Chandler collection.  This cultivar is also known as 'MonShayne'

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family: Berberidaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range:  China, Tibet
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 6' - 12'
Bloom Time:  March to May
Attracts:  Bees, Birds, Butterflies
Pest Resistance:  Deer
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Abundant hanging clusters of yellow flowers followed by pink fruit.  Bright red fall foliage.
Notes: Introduced by Cistus Nursery.  More compact when given full sun.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot