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A beauty with lilac standards and violet blue falls sometimes with marbling. A deep violet halo encircles deep yellow signals and white styles. Mid-season bloom. Mature size: 3.5 ft T Minimum temperature: -20° F

1-inch orchid-like dark purple flowers appear summer-fall. Soft, dark green, serrated leaves. Foliage may be removed for shipping. Plants will regenerate new foliage from the tuberous root system. Mature size: 2 ft T x 3 ft W Minimum temperature: 20° F

Endemic to the Mount Talmalpais area of California. Plant height is variable, in its native range, it can be found growing as a small and mounding bush to a 6-foot shrub. Attractive white flowers are a magnet for hummingbirds and early pollinators. Mature size: under evaluation Minimum temperature: ° F - under evaluation

Evergreen, C. peregrina has fern-like leaves that also smell sweetly of fern. It has an exotic look but is eminently useful as a bank stabilizer or a colonizer in areas of very poor soil. The yellowish-green spring flowers don't amount to much, but the nutlets that they give way to are interesting...

This west coast native has reddish-pink bark, a leathery felted leaf with sometimes a pinkish margin, and blackish fruit. It's great for hedges, screens, or to help create an evergreen anchor for your garden. 15'x15' and good-looking!Minimum temperature: 0° F

This vigorous and deciduous climber has glossy palmate leaves reminiscent of perennial monkshood. Clusters of non-showy greenish flowers in late summer give way to bluish fruits which mature to a showy yellow and orange in fall. Best berry production (and that is what it's all about) is in full sun. This...

Fabulous pyramidal winter flame of gold with tawny amber tips. This one really lit my fire the first time we met. Slow-growing conifer. Mature size: 6 ft T x 3 ft W in 10 yrs Minimum temperature: -20° F

In early spring, plentiful reddish whips are simply covered with creamy yellow catkins. This shrub has an upright habit reaching heights of 12ft and can be used for streambank restoration, riparian buffers, and privacy hedges. Beloved by pollinators and humans alike. Formerly known as ‘S365’ this fast-growing hybrid willow is...

If you didn't before, now you know there is such a thing as a dwarf bog birch. It has nearly round, toothed small leaves on fine branches, and its cute catkins are profuse and short. Everything about this birch is diminutive. Leaves in fall are light yellow and peach and it will...

From woodlands and streambanks of central China, this "lace-cap" is a mix of creams and whites — a center froth of tiny cream-gold beads and white florets on the periphery that dangle upside down (like they're jumping ship) — wonderfully curious. Large, flat, heart-shaped leaves are, for the most part, held horizontally...

Rigid, broadly elliptic evergreen leaves are washed with pewter, and dainty, porcelain-light-blue forget-me-not flowers bloom in spring. Intriguing and rare, it comes from Mt. Emei in Sichuan, China, collected by Dan Hinkley. It will increase slowly by stolons to form a polite and lovely colony. (syn. Trigonotis cavelleri) Mature Size: 8 inches...

Large, deeply dissected, deep bronze-burgundy leaves with bright green veins. New growth is often pinkish; fall color is a range of yellow-orange-red. Upright form. Mature size: 8-10 feet tall & wide in 10yrs Minimum temperature: -20° F

Incredibly hardy, this Asparagus comes from Russia and is an ornamental, delicate, twining vine 15' tall/long with significant orange berries if it's happy. Its golden fall color is stupendous, a veritable beacon if trained on a tuteur! Minimum temperature: -40º F

Large, waxy grey-green leaves. Cone-shaped blooms w/ white bracts on 1 ft stems in spring-fall. Spreads in moist soils; stays clumped in dry soils. Can look messy in fall/winter so cut it back to clean up. Mature size: 6 in T; spreading or clumping depending on moisture. Minimum temperature: -30° F

A fountain of thick, light green, lance-like leaves launches shocking red flower spikes in early summer. Multitudes of red-pink, pendent, tubular blooms appear to have been dipped in light green. And they'll bring the hummers in droves. Does best with some summer water. Mature size: 5 feet tall & 3 feet wide. Minimum...

Red-orange spring leaf color becomes glossy-green in summer, followed by absolutely brilliant reds in fall. A deciduous tree, broadly pyramidal, hands-down handsome. Mature size: 30-40 ft wide x 15-25 ft tall Minimum temperature: -20° F Featured on Great Plant Picks: https://www.greatplantpicks.org/plantlists/view/1795