Family: Calycanthaceae
Zone:6 - 9
Natural Range: Central and Northern California
Soil: Average, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 5' - 10'
Bloom Time: April to September
Attributes: Deciduous, Red fragrant flowers spring and summer. Yellow fall color.
Notes: Likes plenty of light but protect from the hottest part of the day.
Pot Size: 4" Band Pot
$18.00IN STOCK
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Himalayas
Soil: Moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade
Attributes: Deciduous, 6' 10' tall. Large glossy Hosta like foliage emerges early in the spring in a rosette. Large fragrant white and purplish red trumpet flowers in late spring, early summer. Interesting seed pods in fall and winter.
Notes: Bulb forms offsets, and many seeds, that if unharvested will germinate randomly throughout a garden. The key is to plant bulbs so the top inch is above the soil.
Pot Size: Large Band Pot
$25.00IN STOCK
Family: Betulaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range:Eastern North America
Soil: Average humus rich, well drained
Light: Part shade, sun
Height: 20'
Bloom Time: April
Attributes: Deciduous. Small tree with rounded canopy. Toothed foliage tapering at the tip. Green hop-like flowers and fruit.
Notes: Attractively shaped and graceful, low-maintenance under-story tree for shady gardens.
Pot Size: Medium Band Pot
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Family: Betulaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range:Eastern North America
Soil: Average humus rich, well drained
Light: Part shade, sun
Height: 20'
Bloom Time: April
Attributes: Deciduous. Small tree with rounded canopy. Toothed foliage tapering at the tip. Green hop-like flowers and fruit.
Notes: This selection has stunning fall foliage and fruit. Attractively shaped and graceful, low-maintenance under-story tree for shady gardens.
Pot Size: 1 Gallon Pot
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Family: Betulaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Korea
Soil: Moist, humus rich
Light:part shade, sun
Height: 20'
Attributes: Deciduous. Fine branching with serrated, deeply veined foliage. Good yellow fall color.
Notes: This form was selected for its narrow, columnar growth. Makes a great small specimen tree.
Pot Size: Large Band Pot 2' - 3'
Family: Betulaceae
Zone:4 - 9
Natural Range:Japan
Soil: Average humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun, part shade, shade
Height: 15'
Bloom Time: April
Attributes: Deciduous. Multi-stemmed shrub with a rounded form. Extremely fine and delicate textured foliage. Green hop-like flowers and fruit.
Notes: An attractively shaped, low-maintenance under-story tree for shady gardens.
Pot Size: 1 Gallon Pot
OUT OF STOCKFamily: Bignoniaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range:Southeastern United States
Soil: Average
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 20'
Attracts: Bees, hummingbirds
Bloom Time: May to June
Attributes: Deciduous. Huge, heart shaped acid yellow leaves. White flowers.
Notes: Fast growing as a young tree, slowing with age. Easy to grow tree that is tolerant of many soil types.
Pot Size: 1 Gallon Pot
Family: Rubiaceae
Zone: 4 - 10
Natural Range: North America
Soil: Average, humus rich
Light: sun, part shade
Height: 5'
Attributes: Deciduous. Large fragrant, round blossoms with red fruit. Glossy foliage.
Notes: This is a smaller growing selection.
Pot size: 4" Band Pot
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Pot Size: 1 Gallon Pot 2' - 3' Tall
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Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: China, Japan
Soil: Average, humus rich, well drained
Light: sun, part shade
Height: 20' - 40'
Attributes: Deciduous. Single or multi-trunked, understory tree with a dense, rounded habit. Cordate, round-oval leaves to 4" long. Purple foliage. Fallen autumn leaves smell like burnt sugar.
Notes: Beautiful shape and attractive foliage. This form has purple foliage.
Pot Size: 1 Gallon Pot
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Family: Chloranthaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: Japan
Soil: Average, humus rich
Light: Part shade
Height: 12" - 24"
Bloom Time: March to May
Attributes: Deciduous, serrated leaves. White bead-like flowers.
Notes: A little known woodlander that is great for texture in the shady garden.
Pot Size: Small Band Pot
$15.00IN STOCK
Family: Ranunculaceae
Zone:4 - 9
Natural Range: North America
Soil: Average, moist humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 4' - 6'
Bloom Time: June to August
Attracts: Butterflies
Pest Resistance: Deer, Rabbit
Attributes: Deciduous. Bright green foliage. Tall spikes of fragrant white flowers.
Notes: Vertical accent in the shady garden.
Pot size: 4" Band Pot
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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
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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: Medium Band Pot
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Family: Ranunculaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: Washington, Idaho
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade
Height: 8"
Attributes: Evergreen, glossy green foliage often turning purplish in the winter. Unusual greenish yellow flowers in spring. Slowly spreading rhizome.
Notes: Some patience is needed however for these to fully settle in and show off there nature. Since they are slow to propagate they are only sporadically available. We have found that a good hummus rich soil with lots of loose compost helps get these indispensable evergreen ground-covers off and growing. Related to Beesia and Cimicifuga.
Pot Size: 4" Band Pot
OUT OF STOCKFamily: Asparagaceae
Zone: 8 - 10
Natural Range: New Zealand
Soil: Average, humus rich well drained
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 6' - 8'
Bloom Time: Seasonal bloomer
Attracts: NA
Pest Resistance: NA
Attributes: Greenish-white to purple brown fragrant flowers.
Notes: Small single trunk with 5" wide leaves.
Pot Size: Small Band Pot
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
OUT OF STOCKFamily: Cornaceae
Zone:2 - 8
Natural Range:North America
Soil: Moist humus rich
Light: Part shade, shade
Height: 4" - 8"
Bloom Time: May to July
Attributes: Semi-evergreen. Elliptic, glossy green leaves to 2" long formed in a false whorl at the top of a stem. Flowers are surrounded with white bracts. Clusters of red berries in late summer.
Notes: Extremely attractive ground-cover once established. Needs to be planted in the same type of soil as Rhododendrons and other Ericaceous plants.
Pot Size: 4" Pot
Pot Size: 1 Gallon Pot 3'
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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'
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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
OUT OF STOCKZone: 2 - 9
Natural Range: Europe
Soil: Moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade, sun
Attributes: Deciduous, 12” - 18" tall. Blooms in spring. Dark purple flowers in a dense spike. Foliage is mottled.
Notes: Dactylorhiza are among the most rewarding and care free orchids both for the orchid collector and the gardener. They will multiply fast when kept moist and not too shady. Once a plant has settled in it is one of the few that readily self sow seed easily.
Pot Size: Small Band Pot
OUT OF STOCKFamily: 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
OUT OF STOCKFamily: Thymelaeaceae
Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: China, Japan
Soil: Average
Light: Part sun
Height: 4'
Bloom Time: February to March
Attracts: People, Hummingbirds
Pest Resistance: Deer, Rabbit
Attributes: Deciduous. Deep pink buds with pale pink, fragrant flowers before foliage emerges.
Notes: Lovely fragrant early blooming shrub. Likes some sun but protect from baking hot sun.
Pot size: 1 Gallon Pot
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Pot size: 1 Gallon Pot
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Family: Nyssaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil: Moist, humus rich
Light: part shade, sun
Height: 10'
Bloom Time: April to May
Attributes: Deciduous, slow growing tree with unusual papery, white bracts that act like flowers. This form is much more narrow and will flower as a small tree.
Notes: Plant as a specimen tree.
Pot Size: 1 Gallon Pot
Pot size: 1 Gallon Pot
Pot Size: 4" Band Pot
$22.00IN STOCK
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
OUT OF STOCKFamily: Papaveraceae
Zone: 3 - 9
Natural Range: Pacific Northwest
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich well drained, drought tolerant
Light: Part sun, shade
Height: 14"
Bloom Time: April to September
Attracts: Hummingbirds, Butterflies
Pest Resistance: Deer, Rabbit
Attributes: Deciduous, spreading, Green fern-like leaves. Heart shaped deep wine-red flowers. Sporadically flowers all season.
Notes: This selection of bleeding heart is valued for is rich flower coloration. Looks lovely when mixed with the typical pink form of D. formosa.
Pot Size: Medium Band Pot
$15.00IN STOCK
Family: Colchicaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil: Moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade
Height: 2' - 4'
Bloom Time: May to June
Attributes: Deciduous. Bamboo like growth with upright clump-forming habit. Olive green, narrow leaves. Purple bell flowers in spring. Dark blue fruit late summer into fall.
Notes: This form is always deciduous in the nursery.
Pot Size: 4" Band Pot
OUT OF STOCKPot Size: Large Band Pot
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Family: Dryopteridaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: Europe
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade-shade
Height: 4" - 8"
Attributes: Evergreen, lanceolate fronds with tight, curled look.
Notes: Great for the foreground of a shady garden.
Pot Size: 4" Band Pot
Family: Ranunculaceae
Zone: 3 - 9
Natural Range: Eastern United States, Southern Ontario
Soil: Moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade
Height: 4" - 8"
Bloom Time: March to April
Attributes: Deciduous, spring ephemeral. Delicate Thalictrum - like foliage. White Anemone-like flowers.
Notes: Planted in our damp woodland garden. Also Known as Isopyrum biternatum.
Pot Size: 4" Band Pot
$18.00IN STOCK
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Family: Araliaceae
Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: Taiwan
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part sun, shade
Height: 10' - 20'
Bloom Time: September to November
Attributes: Evergreen. Deeply lobbed palmate foliage. White flowers, black fruit.
Notes: This form has deeper cut leaves. Perfectly at home in the Pacific Northwest.
Pot Size:1 Gallon Pot
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Pot Size: 4" Band Pot
$15.00IN STOCK
Family: Ericaceae
Zone: 3 - 8
Natural Range: Hybrid; Hokutotakaji-001 PP30,515
Soil: Average, humus rich
Light: Part sun, shade
Height: 10"
Bloom Time: June to July
Attracts: Bees
Pest Resistance: Deer, Rabbit
Attributes: Evergreen, glossy leathery leaves. Woody groundcover. White-pink urn shaped flowers. White berries turning pink in Autumn.
Notes: Selection with white berries. Creeping groundcover native to the woodlands of Eastern North America.
Pot size: Quart Pot
Family: Ginkgoaceae
Zone: 4 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil: Average, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 10'
Bloom Time: NA
Attracts: NA
Pest Resistance: NA
Attributes: Deciduous, small tree with upright, columnar growth. Golden-yellow and green striations, evening out towards summer.
Notes: Smaller growing than the species.
Pot Size: 1 Gallon Pot
$40.00IN STOCK
Pot Size: 4" Band Pot
$18.00IN STOCK