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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

Pot size:  1 Gallon Pot 3'

Family:  Vitaceae
Zone:  7 - 9
Natural Range:  Eastern and Central North America west to Utah, and south through Mexico, Guatemala and into Chile
Soil:  Average
Light:  Sun, part sun, shade
Height:10' -  30'
Bloom Time:  June to July
Attracts:  Birds
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Woody vine with 5 toothed leaflets to 6" long.  New growth is purplish maturing to green. Greenish white flowers.  Blue-black fruit
Notes:  These are from our 2025 collections in Chile.  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.

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

Family:  Saxifragaceae
Zone:  5 - 9
Natural Range: Japan;  Shikoku, Kyushu
Soil:  Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade, shade
Height:  18"
Bloom Time: June to July
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous.  Clump forming herbaceous perennial with rounded, palmately lobed leaves to about 12" across.  Pale creamy yellow flowers on 18" tall spikes.
Notes: Usually only found in collectors and botanical gardens.  Peltoboykinia are related to Rodgersia and Darmera, and are used to create dramatic foliage effects.  Slightly smaller scale to its relatives.  Do not allow them to dry out in the hot summer

Pot Size: Large Band Pot

Family:  Polygonaceae
Zone:  5 - 9
Natural Range: Himalayas
Soil:  Average, moist humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 3' 
Pest Resistance:  Deer
Attracts:  NA
Bloom Time:  Summer
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Green foliage with pink-red flowers.
Notes:  Best when planted in a large clump or mass.
 
Pot Size: 4" Band Pot

Family:  Polygonaceae
Zone:  5 - 9
Natural Range: Hybrid; PP18344 
Soil:  Average, moist humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 3' 
Pest Resistance:  Deer
Attracts:  NA
Bloom Time:  Summer
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Green foliage with pink-coral orange flowers.
Notes:  Best when planted in a large clump or mass.
 
Pot Size: 4" Band Pot

Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: Mediterranean
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light:  Part shade
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Small rounded leaves with fragrant white flowers tinged pink in winter.
Notes:  Unlike other Petasites this species is more drought and sun tolerant.  A Cistus Nursery Introduction.

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

Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Japan
Soil:  Moist - wet, humus rich
Light:  Part shade
Attributes:  Deciduous, 12” - 24" tall.  Strange frilly blooms late in the winter, often while there is still snow and frost.  Round foliage emerges in the spring, and lasts until fall.
Notes:  This form has purple - burgundy foliage and stems.  As the season progresses the top of the foliage darkens to green.  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:  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

Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: PNW
Soil:  Moist - wet, humus rich
Light:  Part shade
Attributes:  Deciduous, 12” - 24" tall.  Strange frilly blooms late in the winter, often while there is still snow and frost.  New foliage emerges in the spring, and lasts until fall.
Notes:  This form has gold 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: Large Band 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:  Hydrangeaceae
Zone: 4 - 9
Natural Range: PP34,296; CBRAF
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height:  3' - 4'
Bloom Time: May to June
Attracts: Bees
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes: Fragrant creamy white flowers.  Green foliage with yellow variegation.
Notes: Great foliage texture.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:  Hydrangeaceae
Zone: 4 - 10
Natural Range: PNW
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height:  6' - 8'
Bloom Time: May to June
Attracts: Bees
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes: Fragrant creamy white, double flowers.
Notes: Discovered near the Smith River in Del Norte County.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family:  Hydrangeaceae
Zone: 5 - 10
Natural Range: PNW
Soil:  Moist to average, Drought tolerant
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 8'
Attributes:  Deciduous, Numerous, fragrant white flowers in summer.
Notes:  Philadelphus are elated to hydrangeas and are found throughout the northern hemisphere.

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family:  Hydrangeaceae
Zone: 5 - 10
Natural Range: Hybrid
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height:  6' - 8'
Bloom Time: May to June
Attracts: Bees
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes: Deciduous.  Arching branches with large fragrant white flowers with purple center.
Notes: Award of Garden Merit of the Royal Horticultural Society

Pot Size:  Medium Band 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:  Aspleniaceae
Zone: 4 - 9
Natural Range: Europe
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Shade to part shade
Height: 12"
Bloom Time: NA
Attributes: Evergreen, crinkled, wavy margins.  Forms erect-arching clumps of leathery tongue-shaped, bright green fronds.
Notes: A very unique texture.

Pot Size:  4" Pot

Family:  Ericaceae
Zone:  3 - 8
Natural Range:  AZ, AK, WA, OR, CA, MT, ID, WY; AB, BC, MB, SK
Soil:  Humus rich
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  6" - 12"
Bloom Time:  June to July
Attracts:  Bees
Pest Resistance:  Deer, Rabbit
Attributes:  Evergreen.  Slow growing mounding shrub with dark green, needle-like foliage.  Pink to rose flowers.
Notes:Does best in cool soils that are damp, humus rich and sharp/gritty.  Our collection is from Washing Cascade Range.
 
Pot size:  Small Band Pot

Family: Rosaceae
Zone:3 - 9
Natural Range:Hybrid
Soil:  Average humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 5'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Compact, mounded cultivar with dark purple red maple-like foliage.  White flowers often tinged pink. 
Notes:  Rugged and stunning foliage plant

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family: Rosaceae
Zone:3 - 9
Natural Range:Hybrid
Soil:  Average humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 5'
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Compact, mounded cultivar with gold to chartreuse, maple-like foliage.  White flowers often tinged pink. 
Notes: Brilliant foliage.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family:  Pinaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Part shade-sun
Height: 30' - 75', Smaller in cultivation
Attributes:  Evergreen, medium sized, blue green needles.
Notes: Growing at elevations of 1600-3800 m.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Pinaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Part shade-sun
Height: 30' - 75', Smaller in cultivation
Attributes:  Evergreen, medium sized, blue green needles.  Pendulous branchlets.
Notes: Usually grows in pure stands but is occasionally found mixed with Abies sibirica.  Growing at elevations of 1200-3500 m.

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: Pineaceae
Zone:5 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 50'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Gray, irregularly flaking bark.  Upward facing, short needles.  Yellow-brown seed cones to 3" long. 
Notes: Mixed mountain forests from elevations between 1400m to 2800m.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon 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:Hydrangeaceae
Natural Range: China;  China
Zone: 7 - 9
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Part shade
Height:  10' - 20'
Bloom Time:  July to September
Attracts:Bees
Attributes: Evergreen.  Self clinging vine with large clusters of small creamy-white flowers.  Dark green, leathery foliage.
Notes:  Looks cool climbing up a tall evergreen tree.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:  Pinaceaeae
Zone:  7 - 10
Natural Range:  Mexico, Central America
Soil:  Average, humus rich, drought tolerant
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  50’
Bloom Time:  NA
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  Deer
Attributes:  Evergreen.  Single-trunked tree with horizontally spreading branches and pyramidal crown.  Bluish green silvery, soft needles with slightly drooping habit.
Notes:  In the wild it is found in the mountains at elevations of 1,900 - 3,500m

Pot size: Small Band Pot

Family:  Pinaceaeae
Zone:  9 - 11
Natural Range:  Mexico, Central America
Soil:  Average, humus rich, drought tolerant
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  50’
Bloom Time:  NA
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  Deer
Attributes:  Evergreen.  Broadly conical with spreading branches.  Needles in groups of two to five. 
Notes:  This variety has blue-green needles.

Pot size: 4" Band 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:  Medium Band Pot

Family:  Pinaceaeae
Zone:  8 - 11
Natural Range:  Mexico; Sierra Madre Occidental
Soil:  Average, humus rich, drought tolerant
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  50’
Bloom Time:  NA
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  Deer
Attributes:  Evergreen.  Dark green needles of five and seven per fascicle.
Notes:  In the wild Pinus durangensis grows at moderately high altitude between 1,500 - 2,800m

Pot size: 4" Band Pot

Family:  Pinaceae
Zone:  7 - 9
Natural Range:  China
Soil:  Average, drought tolerant, well drained
Light:  Sun, part sun
Height:  40'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Straight trunk and level branches with dense upright branchlets.  As the tree ages it develops a flattened top.
Notes:  In the wild Pinus hwangshanensis grows at elevations of 600-3'400m above sea level in mixed temperate and montane forests and sunny ridges.
 
Pot size:  Medium 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 - 11
Natural Range: CentralMexico
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 50'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Needles to 12" long.  Crown is broad and rounded with dense branches. 
Notes: In the wild Pinus montezumae  grows in the mountains of Central and South Mexico where the climate is temperate at elevations between 1200m and 3600m.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family: Pineaceae
Zone:3 - 9
Natural Range: PNW
Soil:  Average
Light: Sun
Height: 50'
Bloom Time:  NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Straight crown becoming broad and flattened.  Bark is smooth, becoming furrowed.  Cones maturing in 2 years
Notes: Occurs in the mountains of western north America

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family:  Pinaceae
Zone: 8 - 10
Natural Range: California
Soil:  Average, well drained, drought tolerant
Light: sun
Height: 40' - 80'
Attributes:  Evergreen.  Straight or contorted trunk with rounded or flattened irregular crown.  Needles are borne with two per fascicle.  Needles to 6" inches long.
Notes:   Native from sea level to 300m , occurring along the coast and on Santa Cruz Santa Rosa  and Guadalupe islands Islands.

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot