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Elegant pale yellow flower spikes bloom from midsummer on and the leaves make an attractive, almost formal evergreen basal rosette. Each floret is bee-sized, and it's a delight to see the bees nestle in for pollen. Clumping to 4 feet T Minimum temperature: 0° F

Narrow, slightly puckered foliage with creamy margins and fragrant fall flowers. Will tolerate light shade and little summer water once established. Smaller size than other Elaeagnus cultivars. Mature size: 5 ft x 5 ft in seven yrs. Minimum temperature: 0° F

A sweet Willamette Valley native, Shooting Stars have purple reflexed petals and a black "mosquito bill" (another of its common names), and pale green leaves in a basal rosette. Tall flower stems carry these spritely, nodding, purple lovelies that can naturalize via seed to create drifts in dappled shade. Summer dormant; so winter...

If you're looking for something strange and intriguing, this is it! Its very long flower spike is said to resemble the flared hood of a cobra, but the leaves are really the more snake-like part. They are upright, smooth, dark green hollow tubes that terminate in a point. Each tube-leaf is ca....

Fronds unfurl with hues of orange-red, colors right out of autumn in New England. Evergreen and clumping. Also adaptable as a houseplant. Mature size: 2 ft tall and wide. Minimum temperature: -20° F Featured on Great Plant Picks: https://www.greatplantpicks.org/plantlists/view/542

Pure white, narrow trumpet-shaped flowers, blooming late summer and into fall, are beautifully set against grey-green leaves. Very drougt-tolerant, it's perfect for sunny slopes, between boulders, in dry creek beds, or over rock walls. Mature size: 10 inches tall, spreads via rhizomes to form a ground-covering mat. Minimum temperature: -5° F

Narrow, dark green evergreen leaves are perfectly matched with rich red stems. In spring, pretty little greenish-white spritzes for flowers are fleeting but lovely _ the foliage and stems are the real prize. Nicely accompanied by manzanita, rock rose, pines, viburnums, heathers, daphne, hebes, hellebores.... This is a commonly underestimated shrub that...

As the cultivar name implies, the fronds and pinnae or leaflets are very linear and are multi-forked at the tips in a finger-like fashion. Imagine almost every leaflet splitting to form lacy tips. Fronds can be up to 4 feet long and the whole fern can form a fountain of fine, fizzy, frothy...

Attractive to birds and butterflies, and blooming spring through fall, this veritably glowing Echinacea has unexpected bright light green rays and a dark green cone! Indulge in the unusual for the most interesting combinations. Mature size: 24 in tall and 18 in wide and clumping Minimum temperature: -40° F

Spikes thick with brilliant red-violet florets ascend through strongly minty leaves in late summer and into fall. In China, its native range includes valley stream-sides, rocky mountains, and dry hillsides. It's a great new bee attractant for us, both honey and bumble! Versatile when it comes to habitat and rare! Think...

Large, deep pink-to-red, velvety flowers bloom late spring to early summer. And glorious fall color as is characteristic of most Enkianthus. Plant it where your rhodies would be happy for ideal conditions. Deciduous shrub; mature size: 6-10 feet tall & 4-6 feet wide. Minimum temperature: -30° F

A rare Chinese species, this Enkianthus has April and May pendent umbels of white, rounded, urn-shaped flowers, the largest of the genus. E. serrulatus will NOT have a regular, vase-shaped form like Enkianthus campanulatus and its cultivars. E. serrulatus will likely grow into an asymmetrical, idiosyncratic, sculptural form — wait and watch...

Dark green leaves with brushstrokes of cream and gold on the outer tips further enhance pendent, star-like white flowers. Mature size: 8–12 in T, clumping. Minimum temperature: -30° F

Emerald congested fronds on a little fern deepen to darker green toward the center. This little fern is very stout and dense, and should be placed where you can keep an eye on it since it's on the small side. Or, plant several for a highly textural shade ground cover. 12" tall....

Nice selection with coppery-red new foliage that is brighter and more dramatic than the species. A beautiful choice for shady borders and adding some color to the woodland garden. Fronds mature to dark green. Also adaptable as a houseplant. Minimum temperature: -20° F

A very tough deciduous shrubs with variegated palmate green and white leaves. Tolerates sun to shade well. Mature size 6 ft tall & wide Minimum temperature: -20° F