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Zone: 4 - 9
Natural Range:  Hybrid
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: Part shade
Height: 12" - 24"
Bloom Time: Late summer into Fall
Attracts:  Bees
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:Deciduous.  Tall stems with white flowers with purple spotting.
Notes: A Japanese cultivar.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family: Liliaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range: Hybrid
Soil:  Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Shade, part sun
Height: 27" - 31"
Bloom Time:  September to October
Attributes: Deciduous.  Vase-shaped cum with upright stems.  Creamy white, lily-like flowers with burgundy-purple spots.
Notes:A popular selection in the cut flower industry in Japan.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family: Liliaceae
Zone:4 - 9
Natural Range: Hybrid
Soil:  Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Shade, part sun
Height: 12"-24"
Bloom Time:  August to September
Attributes: Deciduous, Fall blooming.  Foliage is heavily spotted with purple.  Tall, upright stems with lavender flowers spotted purple.
Notes: One of the best Tricyrtis for spotted foliage.  In the wild they grow on rocky cliffs in forests and woodlands.  Work well and look good in a hanging basket.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family: Liliaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range: Taiwan
Soil:  Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Shade, part sun
Height: 27" - 31"
Bloom Time:  August to September
Attributes: Deciduous.  Yellow leaf margins.  Reddish purple to blue violet speckled blossoms.
Notes:Excellent perennial for late season color to the shade garden.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family: Liliaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range: Taiwan
Soil:  Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Shade, part sun
Height: 27" - 31"
Bloom Time:  August to September
Attributes: Deciduous.  Clumping with spotted purple foliage with dark highlights.  Tall, upright stems with white and reddish purple spotted flowers.
Notes:This form flowers earlier than most.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family: Liliaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil:  Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Shade, part sun
Height: 12"-24"
Bloom Time:  August to September
Attributes: Deciduous.  Clumping with heavily spotted purple foliage.  Tall, upright stems with yellow and brown spotted flowers.
Notes: One of the best Tricyrtis for spotted foliage.  One of my favorites for always looking great and ease of cultivation.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:  Melanthiaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Eastern US
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Part shade-shade
Height: 12"-20"
Bloom Time:  April to June
Attributes:  Deciduous, Trifoliate leaves with purple, red -  brown mottling.  Yellow blooms in spring.
Notes: Like all Trilliums, this is the first plant that comes to mind when thinking shade garden.  Trilliums will add both foliage and blooms to the early spring shade garden.

Pot Size:  4" Pot

Family:  Ulmaceae
Zone:  4 - 9
Natural Range:  China, Korea, Japan
Soil:  Average, drought tolerant
Light:  Sun, part shade
Height:  3’
Bloom Time:  NA
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  Air Pollution
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Dwarf form with corky bark and small glossy green leaves.  Insignificant, small reddish flowers in summer.  Flat Samara like seeds.
Notes:   Slow growing and often used in rock gardens and bonsai.  

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Ulmaceae
Zone:  5 - 9
Natural Range:  Hybrid; U. glabra and U. plottii or U. minor
Soil:  Average, drought tolerant
Light:  Sun, part shade
Height:  6' - 8'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  Air Pollution
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Dwarf, slow-growing form with dense branching.  Small, finely toothed dark green leaves to 1 1/3" long.  Herringbone pattern along the bark.  Orange to yellow fall foliage.
Notes:   Discovered in Birmingham England in the 1960s. 

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Zone: 3 - 8
Natural Range: Eastern North America
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Part shade, shade
Height: 12" - 16"
Attributes:  Deciduous, 1" - 2" long yellow flowers in spring, blue - green foliage.
Notes:  A rewarding spring bloomer that forms a large clump over time.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:  Colchicaceae
Zone: 4 - 9
Natural Range: Eastern US
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: Part sun, shade
Height:  8" 
Bloom Time: April to May
Attracts: NA
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous.  Wiry stems with small green leaves edged with creamy yellow.  Yellow bell flowers in spring.
Notes: Selection discovered by plantsman Darrel Probst

Pot Size: 4" Band Pot

Family: Ericaceae
Zone:6 - 9
Natural Range: PNW
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: Part sun
Height: 6"
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attributes: Evergreen.  Small white bell flowers with small blue fruit.  Small green leaves.
Notes: Short, spreading shrub.  Native to seasonally moist areas.  This form was collected in Mason County Washington State.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:  Ericaceae
Zone:  8 - 10
Natural Range:  Himalayas
Soil:  Average, moist well drained, humus rich
Light:part sun, shade
Height:  8"
Bloom Time:  March to April
Attracts:  Bees
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Evergreen, small rounded leaves.  Pinkish white flowers with black fruit.
Notes:  Introduced by Steve Hootman of the Rhododendron Species Botanic Garden.  In the wild this species grows as an epiphyte in mossy, rotting logs.
 
Pot size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Ericaceae
Zone:  2 - 8
Natural Range:  Hybrid
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  12"
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attracts:  Bees
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Evergreen leaves with white flowers and copious amounts of bright red fruits.
Notes:  A great ornamental that is also a tasty edible and can be enjoyed made into Jam.
 
Pot size:  Quart Size Pot

Family:  Ericaceae
Zone:  5 - 8
Natural Range:  Hybrid;  PP22,105
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  10"
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attracts:  Bees
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Evergreen leaves with white flowers and copious amounts of bright red fruits.
Notes:  A great ornamental that is also a tasty edible and can be enjoyed made into Jam.
 
Pot size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Berberidaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range:  PNW
Soil:  Average to must humus rich, drought tolerant
Light:  Shade, part shade
Height:  12" - 18"
Attributes:  Deciduous, three lobed leaves with up to thirty white flowers with petals that stick back.
Notes:  This is an Epimedium relative that looks very similar.  In a moist garden they will form large colonies over time.  Best given room from smaller perennials or divided regularly.

Pot Size:  4" Pot

Family: Berberidaceae
Zone:7 - 9
Natural Range: Southwestern Oregon and Northern California
Soil:  Moist to summer dry, humus rich, well drained
Light: Shade - part sun
Height: 12'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Pest Resistance:  Deer, Rabbit
Attributes: Evergreen. Glossy leaves turning bronze in more sun.  Inside-out, white flowers.  Stoloniferous.
Notes: Not as dense growing or fast to spread out as Vancouveria hexandra.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:Adoxaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil:Average, humus rich
Light: Part shade, sun
Height: 8'
Pest Resistance: Deer
Bloom Time: April to May
Attributes:Deciduous shrub with white flowers and reddish orange fruit.  Red fall foliage.
Notes:From our collections in SW Sichuan.  Found growing with Rosa, Stachyurus, and Rhododendron.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:Adoxaceae
Zone: 4 - 9
Natural Range: Korea, Japan
Soil:Average, humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 6'
Pest Resistance: Deer
Bloom Time: March to April
Attributes:Deciduous, upright, slow-growing shrub. Red buds and white flowers and reddish orange fruit.  Red fall foliage.
Notes:Very fragrant flowers.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family:Adoxaceae
Zone: 8 - 10
Natural Range: China
Soil:Average, humus rich
Light: Part shade, sun
Height: 10' - 15'
Pest Resistance: Deer
Bloom Time: May to June
Attributes:Evergreen shrub with large green leaves and white flowers followed by dark purple-black fruit.
Notes:From our collections in SW Sichuan.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:Adoxaceae
Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil:Average, humus rich
Light: Part shade, sun
Height: 4'
Pest Resistance: Deer
Bloom Time: April to May
Attributes:Evergreen.  Gray-brown bark.  Lustrous, leathery, linear-lanceolate leaves with raised midvein.  White flowers in umbel-like cyme.  Small metallic blue fruit.
Notes:A hard to find cultivar with an attractive and refined appearance.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family: Adoxaceae
Zone:  5 - 9
Natural Range:  Hybrid; USPP 29,573; CBRAF
Soil: Average, humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 4' - 8'
Attracts:  Birds
Pest Resistance: Deer
Bloom Time:  Spring
Attributes: Deciduous shrub with large white flower clusters in spring, bright orange berries in fall.  Orange-red fall foliage.
Notes: Fist Orange berried Viburnum.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family: Adoxaceae
Zone:6 - 9
Natural Range:China
Soil:  Average humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 8'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attributes: Evergreen, elongated leaves with distinct light colored midrib.  White flowers and black berries.
Notes:  Rare broad-leaf shrub for the temperate garden.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family: Adoxaceae
Zone:  5 - 9
Natural Range:  Hybrid
Soil: Average, humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 4' - 6'
Attracts:  Birds
Pest Resistance: Deer
Bloom Time:  Spring
Attributes: Deciduous shrub.  White flowers, green berries turning pink and blue.
Notes: Good berry production even without another nearby pollinator.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family:  Vitaceae
Zone:  5 - 9
Natural Range:  Hybrid
Soil:  Average, moist humus rich
Light:  Part sun
Height:  30'
Bloom Time:  July to August
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous.  New growth emerges with a flush of burgundy, then developing more burgundy-red as the season progresses.
Notes: Great Plant Picks
 
Pot size:  Medium Band Pot

Family:  Brassicaceae
Zone:  3 - 8
Natural Range:  Japan
Soil:  Average, moist
Light:  Part sun, shade
Height:  12"
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attracts:  Bees
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Semi-evergreen mounding habit.  Glossy, rounded leaves with prominent veins.  White flowers in spring.
Notes:  Does best in cool climates.
 
Pot size:  Quart Pot

Family:  Caprifoliaceae
Zone:  4 - 9
Natural Range: Hybrid;  USPP23,781; CBR 4655
Soil:  Average, moist, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 3'
Bloom Time: June to July
Attributes: Deciduous shrub with dark red, wavy leaves and spreading habit.  Purple-magenta flowers.
Notes: 2018 Landscape Shrub of the Year.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family:  Fabaceae
Zone:  4 - 9
Natural Range:  Japan
Soil:  Average, moist humus rich
Light: Sun
Height:  10' - 25'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Fragrant purple-mauve-white flowers in dangling racemes to 4' in length.
Notes: Old Japanese cultivar with a dramatic curtain of flowers.
 
Pot size:  Medium Band Pot

Family:  Fabaceae
Zone:  4 - 9
Natural Range:  Japan
Soil:  Average, moist humus rich
Light: Sun
Height:  10' - 25'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Fragrant purple-blue flowers in dangling racemes.
Notes: This cultivar has cream and green speckling.
 
Pot size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:Araliaceae
Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: Hybrid; Fatsia japonica x Hedera helix or hibernica
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade
Height: 4'
Attributes:  Evergreen,  Palmate light green and green variegated leaves. 
Notes: Hybrid made around 1910.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Theaceae
Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: Hybrid; Franklinia alatamaha x Gordonia lasianthus
Soil:  Moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade
Height: 6' - 10'
Attributes:  Semi-evergreen.  Inter-generic hybrid between Franklinia and Gordonia.  Two inch white flowers.
Notes:  Introduced by Thomas Ranney at NCSU.  Combines hardiness of Franklinia with the cultural ease of Gordonia.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range:  Hybrid
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 4'
Bloom Time:  April to May
Attracts:  Bees, Birds, Butterflies
Pest Resistance:  Deer
Attributes:  Evergreen.  Serrated foliage with yellow flowers.
Notes: Found as a rogue seedling in a batch of Mahonia aquifolium seedlings at Miethke Nursery in the 50's.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family:  Cupressaceae
Zone: 7 - 10
Natural Range: Vietnam
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part sun to sun
Height: 50'
Bloom Time: NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Pyramidal, becoming irregular and flat-topped with age.  Juvenile and transitional foliage present. 
Notes: Recently discovered species named in 2002, resulting in a new genus of Xanthocyparis.  Only a few hundred trees remain in the wild.  In its native habitat X. vietnamensis grows in mixed forests between 1,060 - 1180 m elevations.  Should prove to be much hardier.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:  Melanthiaceae
Zone: 3 - 9
Natural Range: PNW
Soil:  Average to dry, humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun, shade
Height: Foliage is 12" - 18", flower spikes 5'
Attributes:  Evergreen, narrow silvery leaves in arching tufts.  White flowers in conical raceme.  Late spring, summer.
Notes:  Will grow in full shade but flowers better in full sun.  This is a great foliage plant but is supper slow to propagate from seed!

Pot Size: Deep 2" Pot

Family: Asparagaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil:  Average
Light: Part sun, shade
Height: 8"
Bloom Time:  February to March
Attributes: Evergreen, clumping.  Low growing foliage radiating from a central point.  Fragrant, white flowers rising above the foliage.
Notes: Tidy perennial that in the wild can be found growing on shady mossy rock faces or in damp meadows.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:  Ulmaceae
Zone:  5 - 9
Natural Range:  Eastern Asia
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light:  Sun, part shade
Height:  15'
Bloom Time:  March to April
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous.  White speckled variegation surrounding a green center.  Yellow and orange fall foliage.
Notes:   Graceful tree with a vase-shape with age.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot