New & Restocked

Family:Rosaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil:Average, humus rich
Light: Part shade, sun
Height: 6'
Pest Resistance: NA
Bloom Time: Spring
Attributes:Deciduous shrub with pink flowers.  Palmate, cascading foliage.
Notes:Looks a Physocarpus and Ribes sanguineum got mixed together.  From our collections we found growing along a steep canyon with a diverse mix of trees including Salix maginfica.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Boraginaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Turkey
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 8"
Bloom Time:  April to June
Attracts:  Hummingbirds
Pest Resistance:  Deer, Rabbit
Attributes:  Evergreen.  Deciduous. Clumping.  Mounds of deep green leaves with airy sprays of deep blue flowers
Notes:  The photos were taken during a sunset in mid April giving a glowing purple-pink cast.  Charming perennial combining well with ferns, Epimedium and other woodlanders.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Araliaceae
Zone:  3 - 9
Natural Range: PNW
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade, shade
Height: 10'
Attributes:  Deciduous, White - green blooms early summer.  Red fruit in fall.  Very large palmate alternately arranged leaves to more than one foot across.
Notes: A bold foliage plant with a dramatic presence in the garden.  Combines well with other tropical looking plants.  In the wild it grows in moist woodlands along stream-banks.  Related to Ginseng, Aralia, Fatsia, Schefflera.  In warmer climates does best in full shade with even moisture. 

This batch of Devil's club is seed grown and are still on the small side.  Surprisingly seedlings need to be protected from slugs.

Pot Size:  Small Band Pot 

Family:  Oxalidaceae
Zone: 6 - 10
Natural Range: Pacific Northwest
Soil:  Average, moist humus rich, drought tolerant
Light: Shade, part sun
Height:  6"
Bloom Time: May to June
Attracts: Bees
Pest Resistance:  Deer
Attributes: Evergreen.  Rich green leaves with white flowers striped with light pink.
Notes: Great ground cover that will do well in deep shade and summer dry.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Paeoniaceae
Zone: 4 - 9
Natural Range: PNW
Soil: Average
Light: Part sun, sun
Height: 12"
Bloom Time:  April to June
Attributes: Deciduous. Nodding red/purple and yellow flowers.  Grayish green ferny foliage.
Notes:  Needs good drainage.  Best when planted in rock garden setting.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family:  Paeoniaceae
Zone: 4 - 8
Natural Range: Japan
Soil: moist, well drained
Light: part shade
Attributes: Deciduous.  Spring blooming. 2' tall.  Red - pink new growth, pure white flowers with yellow stamen.  Bright red seed case with blue seeds.
Notes:  An easy species that is underutilized in gardens.  Plant in an area sheltered from the hot sun, but not deep shade.
Companion plants: Trillium,  Cypripedium, Cardamine, Erythronium, Epimedium, Paris, Smilacina.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:  Paeoniaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Western China
Soil: Moist, well drained
Light: Part shade, sun
Height: 7'
Bloom Time:  May
Pest Resistance:  Deer, Rabbit
Attributes: Deciduous.  Shrub-like.  Spring blooming. Attractive ferny foliage. Deep yellow flowers with gold anthers. Larger petals and more cup shaped than P. delaveyi.  Large black seeds late summer-fall.
Notes:  Requires little maintenance one established and can be quite drought tolerant.

Pot Size: Medium Band Pot

Family: Paeoniaceae
Zone:  4 - 9
Natural Range: Mediterranean
Soil:  Average, moist humus rich
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  2’
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  Deer, Rabbit
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Pink new growth.  Intense purple-pink flowers.
Notes:  Rarely offered species that is the first to bloom in our Pacific Northwest Garden.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:  Paeoniaceae
Zone: 4 - 9
Natural Range:  China;  Hubei, Shaanxi
Soil:  Average to moist, humus rich
Light:  Part sun
Height:  24"
Bloom Time:  April to May
Pest Resistance:  Deer, Rabbit
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Spring blooming.  Red - pink new growth.  Deep red underside of leaves.  Large white flowers with yellow stamen.  Large, bright red seed case with blue seeds.
Notes:  An easy species that is not often found in cultivation. Plant in an area sheltered from the hot sun, but not deep shade.  A favorite of mine in the garden for both foliage and flower.  Blooms later than P. japonica but earlier than P. obovata.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:  Blechnaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: New Zealand
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade
Height: 3' - 6'
Bloom Time: NA
Attributes: Evergreen, Bright pink to orange new growth turning green.  Ruffled, arching mature fronds.  Separate fertile fronds.  Spreading rhizome
Notes: Grows faster with constant moisture.  All the attributes I search for in ferns yet not often encountered in the trade.  Only a limited number of available plants!  Recently re-classified from Blechum to Parablechnum.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:  Melanthiaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: Himalayas; North India, China
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light:  Shade, part sun
Attributes:  Deciduous, 1' - 2' tall.  Unusual whorled leaves surrounding flowers. Blooms consist of up to 8 green sepals with long yellow thread like petals and a round purple ovary. In the fall a polinated flower will burst open revealing orange seeds.  Rhizomes are very similar to Trillium.
Notes:  The Genus Paris are Asiatic cousins of Trilliums, called the honey - flower family.  Only five species of Trillium are found in Asia while more than 20 species of Paris are found there.  Paris have a combination of whorled foliage and whorled sepals that create textural interest, making them look unusual in contrast to their more familiar cousins.  Paris look especially unique when planted in combination with Cardiocrinum, Podophyllum and Arisaema

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family: Hamamelidaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 15' - 30'
Bloom Time:  February to March
Attributes: Deciduous, large shrub or small tree that develops a patchwork of gray, green and creamy bark with age.  Burgundy fall foliage.
Notes:  Smaller and slower growing than other Parrotia.  A recently described and introduced species to western horticulture.  Originally grown by Roy Lancaster who received cuttings from Mikinori Ogisu of Japan.  Subsequently introduced and distributed in the US by Ozzie Johnson.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family:  Vitaceae
Zone:  7 - 9
Natural Range:  China
Soil:  Average
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:10' -  30'
Bloom Time:  June to July
Attracts:  Birds
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Each leaf has five leaflets to 3" long.  Satin , deep green leaves with silvery veins.  New growth is red-bronze.  Greenish white flowers, blue-black fruit.
Notes:  Very showy climbing vine.

Pot size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Vitaceae
Zone:  7 - 9
Natural Range:  Eastern and Central North America west to Utah, and south through Mexico, Guatemala
Soil:  Average
Light:  Sun, part sun, shade
Height:10' -  30'
Bloom Time:  June to July
Attracts:  Birds
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Evergreen?  Deciduous.  Woody vine with 5 toothed leaflets to 6" long.  New growth is purplish maturing to green. Greenish white flowers.  Blue-black fruit
Notes:  Possibly an introduced species.  We found this species rambling through trees and brush in association with Lapageria, Rhaphithamnus, Azara, Sophora, Hydrangea.  Still young seedlings with several plants and are looking good.  So far they have put turned nice red, orange and purple during the winter.

Pot Size:  Small Band Pot

Family:  Pteridaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: North America
Soil: Well drained
Light: Sun, Part shade
Height: 12"
Bloom Time: NA
Attributes: Evergreen, Blue green fronds with dark purple stem.
Notes: Great for rock gardens.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Zone: 6 - 8
Natural Range: Japan
Soil:  Moist - wet, humus rich
Light:  Part shade
Attributes:  Deciduous, 4' - 7' tall.  Huge round leaves to 4' across.  Strange frilly winter blooms that resemble an ornamental cabbage.
Notes:  This form has huge foliage.  Give them plenty of room to grow.  They do well with lots of bright light, but shade them from the hottest part of the day.  They may wilt in a too hot of a spot but if their roots are kept moist they will bounce up once the day has cooled.  

Pot Size: 1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Thelypteridaceae
Zone: 4 - 9 
Natural Range: Asia
Soil: Moist, humus rich
Light: Part sun, shade
Height: 2'
Attributes: Deciduous.  Feathery leaves, forming colonies by rhizome.
Notes: Soft fuzzy fronds.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:  Thelypteridaceae

Family:  Hydrangeaceae
Zone: 8 - 11
Natural Range: Mexico
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height:  6' - 8'
Bloom Time: May to June
Attracts: Bees
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes: Semi-evergreen.  Fragrant creamy white flowers.
Notes: Like other Philadelphus species this is a nice durable shrub that is quite drought tolerant once established. 

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Rosaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: W. China
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 15' - 30'
Bloom Time:  May
Attributes: Deciduous.  Leaves are to 5 inches long and are lance-shaped to narrowly obovate with fine, sharp toothed margins.  Bronze new growth with prominent ribbed veining.  White flowers, orange-red fruit.
Notes: Not your usual Photinia with abundant hawthorn-like flowers in spring.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Pinaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Island)
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: sun, part sun
Height: 60', smaller in cultivation.
Attributes: Evergreen.  Gold foliage.
Notes: Grant Hadwin cut this revered tree down in a misguided protest against logging in Canada.  He wondered why people only seemed to care about one tree and not a forest.  A scramble to collect cuttings after the tree was cut down resulted in a few collections.  There was even a book about written about it, The Golden Spruce.  We have a couple of specimens that we have taken subsequent cuttings from.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:  Pinaceae
Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: Western Himalaya, India to Nepal
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Part shade-sun
Height: 30' - 70', Smaller in cultivation
Attributes:  Evergreen, Gracefully weeping, long gray - green leaves.  In the wild grows usually on N. and W. slopes between 2100 - 3600 m.  Pyramidal growth, shiny brown -  purple female cones that are pendulous.
Notes:  One of the most distinct Picea species with incredibly long pendulous branches.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot 8" - 12"

Family: Ericaceae
Zone:7 - 9
Natural Range: Taiwan
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 3' - 6'
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attributes: Evergreen.  Dark green, shiny leaves with numerous, white bell flowers. 
Notes:Great rounded evergreen shrub.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Pinaceae
Zone: 8 - 10
Natural Range: Guatemala, Mexico
Soil:  Moist to dry, humus rich, well drained, drought tolerant
Light: sun, part sun
Height: 60', smaller in cultivation.
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  Deer
Attributes: Evergreen.  Long green needles.  Drooping
Notes: In the wild is often associated with Gaultheria, Liquidambar, Quercus.  Native to the mountains of Mexico and Guatemala from 1000 m - 1500 m above sea level.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family: Pinaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Himalayas
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: sun
Height: 150', much smaller in cultivation
Attributes:  Evergreen, conical crown, blue green leaves to 8 inches long.  Graceful, drooping foliage.  Long cylindrical cones.
Notes:  Rare in cultivation.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

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Family: Platanaceae
Zone:6 - 9
Natural Range: California
Soil:  Average, moist, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 25' - 75'
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attributes: Deciduous, palmate, deeply lobed with small serrated margins.  Erect trunk with mottled white and gray flaking bark.  Yellow fall foliage
Notes:  Naturally found in moist areas near rivers and streams.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Orchidaceae
Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light:  Part shade, Shade
Attributes:  Deciduous, 6” - 8" tall.  Blooms in spring.  Blooms are large, white and yellow throat.  Foliage is rounded with deep pleating.  Each year the previous pseudobulb is replaced by new growth.
Notes:  Mulch pseudobulbs with a good layer of leaves in October-November.  Also works well as a potted plant.  If potted tuck in a cool garage during the winter.  Keep on the dry side but don't allow pseudobulb to shrivel up.

Pot Size:  Large Flowering Size Plants

Family:  Berberidaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: part shade
Height: 1' - 2'
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attributes:  Deciduous.  New growth emerges richly mottled in mahogany. Towards the end of the season the background fades to forest green.  Red flowers in spring.
Notes: This form originated from Emeishan in southern Sichuan province.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:  Berberidaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Hybrid; versipelle x delavayi
Soil:  Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade, shade
Height: 24" - 36"
Bloom Time: April to June
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  Deer, Rabbit
Attributes: Deciduous.  New growth emerges olive green with a bronze cast.  Can sends up several flushes of new growth through the growing season.  Red flowers held between the foliage in spring.  Often re-blooming in the fall.
Notes: This is a very large and upright selection that Andy Navage bred while director of the Horticulture at the Bloedel Reserve.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:  Berberidaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Hybrid; versipelle x delavayi
Soil:  Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade, shade
Height: 18" - 24" 
Bloom Time: April to June
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  Deer, Rabbit
Attributes: Deciduous.  New growth emerges chocolate to orange colored, becoming olive green and cinnamon.  Can sends up several flushes of new growth through the growing season.  Red flowers held below the foliage in spring.  Often re-blooming in the fall.
Notes: Can be a bit variable but these plants have a tall stature with leaves shaped more like delavayi but mostly a solid coloration rather than mottled.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Convallariaceae

Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light:Part shade
Height:12"
Bloom Time: April to May
Attributes: Evergreen, arching, thick textured, deep green foliage with purple stems and small purple flowers.
Notes: Plant in a loose rich soil.  Works well on a stump or in a hanging basket where the flowers can be viewed easily.  Has proven to be a steady and reliable grower.  Limited stock available.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:Asparagaceae
Natural Range: China
Zone: 6 - 10
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Part shade, sun 
Height:  6'
Attributes: Deciduous.  Tall, slender stems with narrow whorled leaves and curled tips used to cling to surrounding vegetation.  Many deep orange bell flowers with a green ring.
Notes:  A unique member of the Solomon's Seals.  This form has been a good sturdy and reliable grower for us.  Also can be found sold in the trade as P. kingianum

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: Himalayas
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Part shade, shade
Height: 12" - 18"
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attributes:  Evergreen, Arching stems with green/white and reddish mottled flowers.  Old foliage has red fruit from previous seasons growth.
Notes: A favorite, smaller species that in the wild grows on tree trunks and stumps.  

Pot Size: 4" Band Pot

Family:Polypodiaceae
Natural Range: Mexico
Zone: 7 - 10
Soil: Average to dry, humus rich, well drained
Light: Part shade
Height:  8"
Attributes: Evergreen.  Thick leathery leaves, uniform fronds.  Shallow creeping rhizome
Notes:  A super cool, hard to find small growing licorice fern from the mountains of eastern Mexico.  Proven to be surprisingly hardy, remaining evergreen with no damage during sustained temperatures below 15 F and being planted in an exposed stump.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:Primulaceae
Zone: 4 - 9
Natural Range: Southeastern Tibet; Tsangpo
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part sun, sun
Height: 47”
Bloom Time: May to July
Attracts:Hummingbirds, Butterflies
Resistant to: Deer, Rabbit
Attributes: Deciduous. Rosette forming. Butter yellow to orange bell flowers a top of the scape. Lightly scented.
Notes:An easy and rewarding perennial that has proven to be shade tolerant and still floriferous.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Rosaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: Western China
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 20'
Bloom Time:  March to April
Attributes: Deciduous.  Glossy reddish-brown bark that peels with age.  Small white flowers.
Notes: The outstanding bark is the main ornamental feature.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Pineaceae
Zone:4 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 15' - 30'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous with needles resembling a true larch.  Slow growing, broadly conical tree with horizontal branching.  Needles appear in clusters on short shoots.  Bright gold fall foliage.
Notes: Not often available.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family:  Juglandaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: Caucasus, Iran, Turkey
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part sun to sun
Height: 30'
Bloom Time: May  to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  Green winged nutlets to 20" long.  Pinnate leaves to 18" long
Notes: Native to Caucasus to northern Iran.

Pot Size:  Small Band Pot

Family:  Styracaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: China, Japan
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part sun to sun
Height: 30'
Bloom Time: May  to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  Multi-stemmed shrub or tree.  Numerous small white flowers held in dangling corymbs.  
Notes: Still quite limited in cultivation

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Styracaceae
Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part sun to sun
Height: 30'
Bloom Time: May  to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  12" long hanging panicles of white flowers.
Notes: A Far Reaches Farm and Steve Hootman of the Rhododendron Species Foundation collection from China.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Polypodiaceae
Zone: 8 - 10
Natural Range: China, Japan, Korea
Soil: Average, humus rich
Light: Part shade
Height: 6" - 8"
Bloom Time: NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Felt covered, fingered fronds. 
Notes: Slow growing, creeping rhizome.  Pyrrosia grow on mossy logs, trees and rocks in the wild.  In the garden Pyrrosia grow well with other ferns in a good loose, rich moist soil.  Works well in pots.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:  Polypodiaceae
Zone: 8 - 10
Natural Range: China, Japan, Korea
Soil: Average, humus rich
Light: Part shade
Height: 6" - 18"
Bloom Time: NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Felt covered, fingered fronds. 
Notes: Slow growing, creeping rhizome.  Pyrrosia grow on mossy logs, trees and rocks in the wild.  In the garden Pyrrosia grow well with other ferns in a good loose, rich moist soil.  Works well in pots.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot