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Evergreen growth is kept thick and low by occasional pruning if desired. Yellow flower clusters bloom in spring, and its fall-reddened, wide leaves are equally, if not more colorful—a handsome, dependable northwest native. Well-draining soil improves appearance and longevity. Mature size: 1-2 feet tall and spreading Minimum temperature: -30° F Featured...

This semi-evergreen perennial has beautiful blue-grey leaves and intriguing, bright green, double cup-shaped inflorescences arranged in an umbel. Long-blooming, late spring to mid-summer, they become evermore pink-maroon with age. Average garden soil is just fine but this clumping perennial needs enough room to be its glorious self. Forms a small trunk...

An exceptional selection named after a gifted gardener, this Honeybush is a reliably hardy, quick-growing South African native. Up to 18 inch-long blue-green leaves have "pinked" edges, and arch like ostrich feathers. The ambiguous leaf color allows for a purplish interpretation depending upon its context. The leaves are especially beautiful when studded with...

This is a joy to see blooming in late spring: whorls of tubular, pink-lipped, white flowers alternate with grass green leaves along upright stems. Blooms are reminiscent of monkeyflower. Easy and rewarding. Mature size: 16 inches T x 24 inches W, clumping Minimum temperature: -10° F

A tall clumping perennial grass, 'Kascade' has reddish stems and bears fluffy, pendant, pink-tinted seed heads in late summer, turning white in winter if left to its own devices. Best with some summer water. Sorry, grasses and sedges cannot be shipped to California. Mature size: up to 7 ft tall Minimum temperature:...

Whorls of pendent, narrowly tubular white flowers with bits of pink and flared openings cascade from 3' stems. Striking! Its prickly foliage has a decidedly fresh scent, much like line-dried laundry! The flowers and the scent are worth the prickles. Pollinated by moths. Clumping. Best grown in full sun with well-drained...

Definitely in our list of top 10 favorite grasses, Deer Grass has extremely fine texture and a fountain effect. (Filamentosa could have been as apt an epithet as rigens.) Stunning and more cascading when covered with frost! Even though it is quite drought tolerant we have seen it quite happy in...

This hardy banana has blazed a trail into the idyllic island in each of us: bold 8-foot long leaves on clumping plants to 15 feet tall. Don't be put off by the occasional tattered leaf; that is the nature and part of the look of banana plants. If you live in...

Delightfully-scented white flowers with small yellow cups bloom in charming clusters of 15-20 flowers per stem. After they've finished blooming, allow 6 weeks for the leaves to photosynthesize and feed the bulb before cutting back. Deer-resistant. Best shipped when dormant, please choose a shipping date between July 1 and Feb 1. It is...

Perennial grass with zestful blades of glowing yellow that grow 18" tall. Self sows lightly, but never a problem. Entertaining container companion. Minimum temperature: -10° F

This is a naturally-occurring hybrid Mimulus from California — a robust perennial with abundant pink flowers that have a darker pink streak mid-petal. It blooms late in spring through late summer, much to the enjoyment of hummingbirds. Prefers well-drained but moist soil. Mature size: 2 feet tall, 3 feet wide. Minimum temperature: -10º F

Springtime yellow-centered flowers with purest white cups, spurs, and sepals, dance like fairies above evergreen* foliage. Leaves emerge mottled in red hues and age to green. E. latisepalum x E. ogisui Mature size: 10-14 inches T, 16-24 inches W Minimum temperature: -20° F *Foliage is cut back for shipping in the late fall...

Leaves are flushed reddish-bronze with light green veins when young but later become a fresh green. Flowers are borne in tallish racemes, with very pretty light sulfur-yellow petals and white sepals and spurs. They face shyly downward from upright stems. Early-flowering. Evergreen.* Mature size: 6-9 in T x 18-36 in W Minimum temperature: -20°...

In spring, tiny, delicate, sweet pink bells cluster above new leaflets with a pinkish cast. They later turn a medium to light green for the summer. Deciduous; mature size: 10 inches T x W Minimum temperature: -20° F

Terrestrial orchid from Japan and cooler regions of northeastern Asia. The 12 to 18-inch inflorescences have flowers in shades of golden-yellow to bronzed-orange with dramatic magenta and gold-veined labellum. Blooms in late spring to early summer. Situate in a cool moist location and amend with organic matter. To protect delicate Epipactis...

Blue-gray leaves and a mist of tan flowers in June play with the wind and last until fall. It's tolerant of variable water conditions and suitable as a garden matrix for wildflowers. Though native to the SW and to southern Mexico, Belize, and the West Indies, it's still very hardy. Up to...