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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:  Medium Band Pot

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: California
Soil:  Average, well drained, drought tolerant
Light: sun
Height: 30'
Attributes:  Evergreen.  Large seed cones similar to Pinus sabiniana.
Notes:  Native to elevations of 300-2,100m, usually found on dry rocky slopes and ridges among oaks.

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: Pineaceae

Zone:8 - 10
Natural Range: Mexico, southeast Arizona and southwest New Mexico
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 50'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Needles to 5" long.  Ovoid seed cones are solitary or in whorls of 2-5.  The sheath around the needle fascicles is shed as the needles expand.
Notes:  The natural range is primarily in Mexico that extends into the United States.  In the wild Pinus leiophylla grows between 1600m and 3000m altitude.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Pinaceaeae
Zone:  7 - 10
Natural Range:  China, Taiwan
Soil:  Average, humus rich, drought tolerant
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  50’
Bloom Time:  NA
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  Deer
Attributes:  Evergreen.  Thick grayish-brown bark.  Soft, drooping needles.
Notes: In the wild grows from near sea level to 2,000 m above sea level.

Pot size: 1 Gallon Pot

Family: Pineaceae
Zone:8 - 10
Natural Range: Himalayas
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 50'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Evergreen. Red-brown, thick and deeply fissured bark.
Notes: The large fruiting cones are exceptionally striking. Grows in the mountains 450-2300m elevation. 

Pot Size:  2 Gallon Pot 2' - 4'

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: Poaceae
Zone:7 - 9
Natural Range:China, Japan
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: Part shade
Height: 18" - 24" 
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes:  Silvery white new growth.
Notes:  Slow growing bamboo that is best with a bit of shade.

Pot Size:  Large Band 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: Poaceae
Zone: 7 - 9 
Natural Range: Chile
Soil:Average, well drained
Light: Sun
Height: 18"
Pest Resistance: NA
Bloom Time: June to July
Attributes:Blue-green mounding foliage.  
Notes:Growing among rocky well draining soil among perennials and ferns.  Nice foliage with seed heads having a purple tinge along the base.

Pot size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Podocapaceae
Zone: 8 - 11
Natural Range: South Africa
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height:  10' - 25'
Bloom Time: NA
Attracts: Bees
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  5-7" long, shinny, blue-green needles that droop.
Notes: Very graceful drooping growth habit.Reported to be the hardiest of the South African Podocapus taking temperatures down to around 15 degrees. 

Pot Size:  5 Gallon Pot 4-5'

Family:  Berberidaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Hybrid; delavayi x versipelle
Soil:  Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade, shade
Height: 18"
Bloom Time: April to June
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  Deer, Rabbit
Attributes: Deciduous.  New growth emerges chocolate colored, becoming mottled with olive green and cinnamon.  Sends up several flushes of new growth through the growing season.  Large red flowers held below the foliage in spring.  Often re-blooming in the fall.
Notes: Exclusive KIGN first offering of this good performing clone.  Puts up new growth several times during the season, unlike some varieties.  More compact and denser growth than either of the parents.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

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: California 
Zone: 6 - 10
Soil: Average to dry, humus rich, well drained
Light: Part shade
Height:  12" - 15"
Attributes: Evergreen.  Finely divide fronds.  Shallow creeping rhizome
Notes:  Summer dormant, growing fronds autumn.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon 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:  Dryopteridaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: Northern Africa, Western Asia, Southern Europe
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: Shade, part shade
Height:  18"
Bloom Time: NA
Attracts: NA
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Very finely dissected fronds that radiate horizontal from the crown.
Notes: More delicate and smaller in appearance than the typical species.

Pot Size:  4" 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: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Japan
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 8'
Bloom Time:  February to April
Attributes: Deciduous.  Small shrubby cherry with twisted branches.  Numerous small pinkish white flowers with dark center.
Notes: Great smaller growing cherry.  Works well in pots.

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

Family:  Polypodiaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Asia
Soil: Average, humus rich
Light: Part shade
Height: 6" - 18"
Bloom Time: NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Green blade-like fronds with contrasting underside of the frond.  Orange felt like sori that cover the entire frond.   This form has fronds with dark green and light green striping. 
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.  Shelter from the afternoon sun.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:  Polypodiaceae
Zone: 8 - 10
Natural Range: China, Japan
Soil: Average, humus rich
Light: Part shade
Height: 6" - 8"
Bloom Time: NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Felt covered, fingered fronds. 
Notes: Slow growing, creeping rhizome.  This selection has wavy edges.

Pot Size:  4" Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: Colorado; Hybrid; macrocarpa x gambelii
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 15' - 30'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous. Small, blue tinged foliage.  Fall foliage turns to red-mahogany late in the season.
Notes:  Beautiful southwest native oak.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot 2' - 3'

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range: Asia
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 45'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous.  Long serrated leaves.
Notes:  Fast-growing oak species that can produce acorns at age 6 or younger. 

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:7 - 9
Natural Range: California, Baja
Soil:  Average, drought resistant
Light: Sun
Height: 40'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Furrowed, thick bark with age.  Broad crowns.  
Notes:  Quite often branchless up to 20 feet high with large branches extending diagonally upward.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:6 - 10
Natural Range: Southern California and Baja California
Soil:  Average, drought tolerant
Light: Sun
Height: 5' - 10'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Evergreen, Shrubby with leathery texture.  Gray-green foliage.
Notes:  Beautiful southwest native oak.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:7 - 10
Natural Range: Mexico, Southwest US
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 8' - 25'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Thick, woolly leaves with pinkish new growth.  
Notes:  A Cistus Nursery introduction from a collection made in Nuevo Leon Mexico. Stunning species Oak.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:7 - 10
Natural Range: Mexico, Southwest US
Soil:  Average, dry
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 15' - 30'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Narrow leathery leaves with green upper surface and whitish underside of leaf.
Notes: Stunning species Oak.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range: Eastern, Central US
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 30'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous, conical to rounded crown.  Glossy, green leaves.  Yellow to red-brown fall foliage.
Notes: Easy to grow and durable species.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:7 - 9
Natural Range: Portugal, Spain, Morocco
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 30'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Semi-evergreen.  Fissured brownish-grey bark.  Yellow-orange new growth. turning grey-green leaves.
Notes: Tolerant of many soil types and is quite drought tolerant once established.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:3 - 9
Natural Range: United States
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 30'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous.  Rather large and deeply cut lobed leaves.
Notes:  This form is a stand out in leaf shape.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Fagaceae
Zone:6 - 9
Natural Range: South-central United States
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 40' - 80'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous.  Red, orange, peach fall foliage. 
Notes:  Good fall foliage.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot