Family: Hamamelidaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: Northern Iran
Soil: Average, humus rich
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 15'
Bloom Time: February to March
Attracts: NA
Pest Resistance: NA
Attributes: Deciduous. Upright and columnar selection even with age. Yellow and red fall foliage. Flaking bark with maturity.
Notes: Great Plant Picks
Pot Size: Large 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
IN STOCK
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
$15.00IN STOCK
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
IN STOCK
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 gold to chartreuse, maple-like foliage. White flowers often tinged pink.
Notes: Brilliant foliage.
Pot Size: Large Band Pot
Family: Pinaceae
Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: Mexico
Soil: Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Part shade-sun
Height: 30' - 75', Smaller in cultivation
Attributes: Evergreen, Medium sized, blue green needles.
Notes: Native to northwest Mexico into the Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains. Growing at elevations of 2300-3200 m, along stream-sides and in mountain valleys. Endangered in the wild.
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
OUT OF STOCKFamily: 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
OUT OF STOCKFamily: 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
OUT OF STOCKFamily: 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
OUT OF STOCKFamily: 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
$20.00IN STOCK
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
OUT OF STOCKFamily: 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
OUT OF STOCKFamily: 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: 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: Medium Band Pot
OUT OF STOCKFamily: 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
OUT OF STOCKFamily: 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
OUT OF STOCKFamily: 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: Pinaceaeae
Zone: 8 - 10
Natural Range: Mexico
Soil: Average, humus rich, drought tolerant
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 20' - 45'
Bloom Time: NA
Attracts: NA
Pest Resistance: Deer
Attributes: Evergreen. Blue green needles with broad crown, irregular branching
Notes: Reported to be one of the rarest trees.
Pot size: Small Band Pot
OUT OF STOCKFamily: Pinaceaeae
Zone: 8 - 11
Natural Range: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador
Soil: Average, humus rich, drought tolerant
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 50’
Bloom Time: NA
Attracts: NA
Pest Resistance: Deer
Attributes: Evergreen. Tall, strait trunk. Young trees have open pyramidal crown.
Notes: In the wild Pinus maximonii grows at moderately high altitude between 600 - 2,400m.
Pot size: Small Band Pot
OUT OF STOCKFamily: 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
OUT OF STOCKFamily: 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
IN STOCK
Family: Pinaceaeae
Zone: 9 - 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, erect trunk, spreading branches forming rounded crown. Rough, scaly bark. Needles in fascicles of 4-5 persisting for 2-3 years.
Notes: The national tree of Honduras. In the wild it is found in the mountains at elevations of 2,000 - 2,400m
Pot size: 4" Band Band Pot
OUT OF STOCKFamily: Pinaceaeae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: Japan
Soil: Average, humus rich, drought tolerant
Light: Sun, part sun
Height: 10’
Bloom Time: NA
Attracts: NA
Pest Resistance: Deer
Attributes: Evergreen. Curved blue green needles. Cones formed at the branch tips.
Notes: This form is smaller and slower growing than the species.
Pot size: 1 Gallon Pot
Family: Pinaceae
Zone: 8 - 10
Natural Range: Southern Europe
Soil: Moist to dry, humus rich, well drained, drought tolerant
Light: sun, part sun
Height: 40', smaller in cultivation.
Attributes: Evergreen. Grows with a distinct umbrella like canopy when mature. Reddish gray bark.
Notes: This is the true Pine Nut tree. About $20 a pound for the tasty nut. You too can harvest your own Pine Nuts in nearly a lifetime.
Pot Size: 1 Gallon Pot
OUT OF STOCKFamily: Pineaceae
Zone:7 - 10
Natural Range: California
Soil: Average
Light: Sun
Height: 50'
Bloom Time: NA
Attributes: Evergreen. Needles from 3"-6". Grayish bark with brown ridges. Crown often windswept and irregular.
Notes: The type variety occurs naturally only at three localities on the coast of central California. These plants are from seed collected near Santa Cruz.
Pot Size: 1 Gallon Pot
$22.00IN STOCK
Family: Pinaceae
Zone: 5 - 10
Natural Range: California
Soil: Moist, humus rich, well drained, drought tolerant
Light: sun, part sun
Height: 45'-100', much smaller in cultivation.
Attributes: Evergreen, long gray needles giving a ghostly appearance. Massive, heavy symmetrical, dull brown, resinous cone. Distinct look among Pines.
Notes: Collected in Northern California along the Trinity River.
Pot Size: 1 Gallon Pot
Family: Pinaceae
Zone: 8 - 10
Natural Range: Taiwan
Soil: Moist to dry, humus rich, well drained, drought tolerant
Light: sun, part sun
Height: 60', smaller in cultivation.
Attributes: Evergreen. Short, dark green needles
Notes: In the wild Pinus taiwanensis grows along the Central Mountain Range at altitudes of 750 - 3000 m.
Pot Size: 1 Gallon Pot
Family: Pinaceaeae
Zone: 8 - 9
Natural Range: Mexico; Western Chihuahua, Northern Coahuila to Southeastern Chiapas
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 rounded, dense crown.
Notes: In the wild it is found in the mountains at elevations of 1,500 - 3,000m
Pot size: Small Band Pot
OUT OF STOCKFamily: Pineaceae
Zone:8 - 11
Natural Range: SouthernMexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua
Soil: Average
Light: Sun
Height: 50'
Bloom Time: NA
Attributes: Evergreen. Needles to 7" long. Narrow crown with numerous horizontal branches densely clothed with foliage at the tips.
Notes: In the wild Pinus techumanii grows in the mountains of Mexico and central America at elevations between 450m and 2900m.
Pot Size: 1 Gallon Pot
OUT OF STOCKFamily: 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
OUT OF STOCKFamily: Pinaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil: Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Sun
Height: 80', much smaller in cultivation
Attributes: Evergreen, conical crown, blue green leaves to 11 inches long. Graceful, drooping foliage. Long cylindrical cones.
Notes: Rare in cultivation. Predominantly grows at 600 - 3000 m elevation on the high plateaus of Yunnan but extending north into Sichuan and south into Myanmar. 1 gallon size plants.
Pot Size: 2 Gallon Pot 2' - 4'
Family: Anacardiaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: China to Philippines
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 30'
Attributes: Deciduous tree with oval rounded crown. Compound, pinnate foliage to 10" long with 10 to 12 leaflets. Bright reddish-pink new growth, yellow, orange and red fall foliage.
Notes: Great foliage.
Pot Size: Medium Band Pot
$15.00IN STOCK
Family:Pittosporaceae
Zone: 7 - 10
Natural Range: China, Japan, Taiwan
Soil: Moist, humus rich
Light: Part shade, sun
Height: 15'
Attributes: Evergreen. Narrow, wavy leaves to 7" long. Formed in whorled clusters of 3-6. White flowers.
Notes: Textually interesting and reliably hardy shrub that is still relatively uncommon in cultivation.
Pot Size: 4" Band Pot
OUT OF STOCKFamily: 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: Platanaceae
Zone:6 - 9
Natural Range: Arizona, New Mexico and south into Mexico
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.
Notes: A stunning and quite rare native Sycamore.
Pot Size: Medium Band Pot
Family: Podocarpaceae
Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: New Zealand
Soil: Average
Light: Sun to part sun
Height: 24"
Bloom Time: NA
Attributes: Evergreen. Olive green needles.
Notes: A New Zealand conifer found on both the North and South Island. Found in montane and alpine slopes and is often found growing in open grassland scrub fields. These are seed grown.
Pot Size: Small Band Pot
OUT OF STOCKFamily: Salicaceae
Zone: 1 - 9
Natural Range: Canada to Mexico
Soil: Moist, well-drained, humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 20' - 50'
Attributes: Deciduous. White bark, deep green leaves that quake in the slightest breeze and bright golden yellow fall foliage.
Notes: Typically growing in large groupings of the same clone.
Pot Size: Medium Band Pot
$15.00IN STOCK
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