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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: Berberidaceae

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:  1 Gallon 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:  Large 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 round 2" Pot

Family: Asparagaceae
Zone:6 - 9
Natural Range: Vietnam
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: This is a collection made by Dan Hinkley from Vietnam.  Smaller growing than thibetica.  Tidy perennial that in the wild can be found growing on shady mossy rock faces or in damp meadows.

Pot Size:  Small Band 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