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From late summer into autumn, this suckering shrub with glossy green leaves produces long, and long-lasting lavender-purple, downward-pointing flower spikes — a fountain! Just clip off those suckers as a matter of course so that you can enjoy the wonderful flowers. Or plant it where suckers will be okay and you'll delight...

Large, crinkled, asymmetrical leaves (like upside-down teardrops?) colored light olive-green above and reddish-green below form large mounds. Clusters of 1-inch, pink blooms rise above the leaves on reddish-pink stems from mid-summer to early fall. Happiest in shade with regularly moist but not heavy soil, B. grandis will self-propagate by forming...

White to nearly white orchid flowers with a touch of lavender, and pleated lance-shaped leaves: a demure beauty; lightly colonizing depending upon conditions. Mature size: 2 feet tall & 2+ feet wide Minimum temperature: -10° F

What an elegant plant this is, blooming precociously and prolifically, mid- to late spring, with lavender-violet orchid flowers that have a distinctive yellow and purple lip spotted red. Pleated, light green, lance-shaped leaves rise from the base. This plant is hardy, though it looks exotic, and lightly colonizes. With plenty of...

From its namesake in England, Hever Castle, this buddleia has fragrant, pale purple flowers with orange throats May to frost, blooming on new wood. Rest assured, it is NOT self-seeding. The foliage is oblong gray-green, and silver beneath: with the pale bloom, an altogether soft coloring. Prune hard after the...

'Firefly' is a very pretty name, but this heather is really more flamboyant — a flaming torch of brick-red-orange upright spiking foliage throughout the winter, and bright, light green foliage in spring. It's suitable for the most modern garden or the most "traditional." Use it as a colorful punctuation, a geometric planting, or a dramatic...

Native to Northwest shady woodlands (as well as parts of Europe), locals will recognize its elegant habit: Sterile fronds form a flattened rosette in bright green, and narrower, tall, fertile fronds cluster in the center and expire at summer's end. The flatter, wider, rosette remains evergreen to grace winter gardens. 2'...

Large, rose-lavender, orchid-like blooms, and clumping, lance-shaped, pleated leaves are great in the garden or containers. Slowly naturalizing; blooms in mid-spring. Mature size: 2–3 feet tall & up to 2 feet wide Minimum temperature: -10° F

Fantastic clusters of electric lilac-purple bead-like fruit in late fall are conspicuous in garden as well as vase. Deciduous shrub; mature size: 4-6 ft T x W Minimum temperature: -10° F

From Australia, this bright magenta bottlebrush is a selected form of the more cold-hardy species. 'Eleanor' blooms May through June on arching branches of blue-green needled leaves. A Xera Plants selection. Mature size: 6–8 feet tall & 4–5 feet W Minimum temperature: 10° F (will likely resprout from the base of an established plant...

KioKio is a Maori name for this elegant fern from New Zealand. It is especially distinguished by a new growth blush of rusty-orange against bright light green and its only once-divided fronds. With adequate moisture, it will tolerate some sun. 2–3' tall. Minimum temperature: 10° F

'Maupin Glow' is a selection of our native incense cedar found by Greg Rigby in Deschutes County near Maupin, Oregon. A striking display of bright golden yellow new growth contrasts beautifully with the Kelly green older foliage. We have high praise for it in our meadow plantings. Consistent, stable variegation. Mature size:...

Native to riparian areas throughout the NW coastal ranges, Cascades, and the Sierra Nevada. The large, magnolia-like, dusky red flowers always elicit oohs and aahs! Appreciates afternoon shade in hotter areas; not particular about soil. These plants have fast vertical growth. In order to continue shipping these plants, we trim...

Here is an upright and narrow form of Buxus that offers an evergreen exclamation point in the garden. Useful to mark the beginning of a path, either side of a landscape "gateway," as an evergreen matrix for a perennial garden, as a "hinge" where two paths meet or used as a focal point — the...

Provocative clusters of bright, four-inch, red-pink, flaring tubular flowers bloom at the tips of arching stems. Small, evergreen leaves are sparse (at least here in the Northwest)—all the better to see these truly arresting flowers that hummingbirds love as much as we do. Mature size: 6 ft T x W Minimum temperature: 20° F

Another Heather that displays a wide variety of color throughout the year for your viewing pleasure: bronze, gold, and chartreuse in winter and light green with salmon and brick-red in spring. It seems to know that lavender will be the most complimentary flower color, blooming August to October. Partially spiky and...