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This 12-inch tall, semi-evergreen epiphytic fern is dark green with upright leathery fronds that are the crested form of the native polypody, i.e. fronds are bifurcated at the tips. It's a fall grower and summer sleeper looking its very best in winter, which can contribute to making your fern garden vibrant...

This, our native oak develops into a majestic, muscular specimen...if you have 100 years to spare. But, truth be known, it's handsome at any age and would be a wonderful companion to grasses or chaparral plants. The prime constituent of our western Willamette Valley oak savannah, it tolerates winter wet but needs...

Apple-green and ruffly flowers with a yellow throat nest amid puckery leaves. This primula perseveres through several weeks on 10" tall plants. Green flowers can add just the zing that some companion plants lack, and the texture alone is worth the planting. Intrigue your friends and neighbors. Originally a woodland dweller, a polyanthus...

This dependable, old-fashioned, light yellow spring ephemeral has a unique flower form: one bloom inside the other! "Originally, this flower variant was given the name Hose-in-Hose because the form of the flower is reminiscent of the way some Elizabethan gentlemen used to wear their stockings, one inside the other with the...

A maroon-brown primrose with a glowing gold edge and center, 'Spice Shades' blooms February – May. Originally a woodland dweller, polyanthus would appreciate well-draining humus and a little leaf litter to warm it through a freeze. Minimum temperature: -20° F

An easy-to-grow, shade-loving perennial with leaves sheened with silver. Its early spring through mid-spring bloom has short sprays of rich blue flowers and pink flowers, too — a perennial curiosity and continual delight. Mature size: 12 inches tall & slowly spreading to up to 24 inches wide. Minimum temperature: -30° F

Eventually becoming a tall tree and, with age, rounding out a bit (like many of us), this beautiful and intriguing oak appears silvery as the olive-green surface of its narrow, leathery, lance-shaped leaves visually blends with their white indumentum. From the mountainous SW, it is drought-tolerant and would look terrific with manzanita...

If any tree is to be grown for its fabulous textural bark, THIS IS IT! It's a slow-growing but-oh-so-worth-it tree with a round canopy and evergreen leaves. Eventually, it reaches up to 50 ft tall with a trunk that could not have more character. The bark is used for making corks, but you...

Pale, peachy-pink rounded petals are darker lavender-pink toward the edges and center. Blooms May to June. Sweet and petite. No lime, please, for these woodlanders. This plant will go summer dormant. Mature size: Mature size: 6-8 inches tall; politely spreading Minimum temperature: -20° F

Sure to abolish any color deficit, these fragrant flowers come in all hues of the sunset, burnt orange to mellow yellow, blooming on long, light green calyces, March – June. They're adaptable to drought even in summer if established and in shade. Mature size: 8 – 10 inches tall Minimum temperature:...

Easily one of the most superb bark trees to be had, with polished rings of mahogany bark that exfoliate and become sunlit amber-orange shards in the evening light. The leaves are dark green and narrow, and the flowers, opening white from pink buds, bloom early- through mid-spring. But really, it's...

Deep red aging to almost burgundy, these large, cupped flowers are loaded with bright yellow anthers for sparkle. Thick, downy stems are beguiling as are the fluffy seed heads. Easter blooming (Pasque = Easter). Syn. Anemone pulsatilla 'Rubra' Mature size: 1 x 1 ft. Minimum temperature: -20° F

Fantastic large green leaves have prominent ribs and wavy, toothed margins making a small, shrubby tree from northeastern Turkey, Armenia, and the Caucasus Mountains. Its bark is somewhat fissured and gray-brown and its fall acorns appear in clusters of 2–5 at the shoot tips. 8-inch long olive-yellow catkins are significantly showy...

Seemingly airborne swarms of small, elegant, blue tubular flowers bloom in fall on this tall woodland perennial gem from the mountains of Japan. Fall is a terrific time for blue in the garden. The contrast makes the oranges that much more brilliant and the blue more penetrating. And just when so...

This is an elegant candelabra form that completes the classic stream-side or pond-side planting. Clump-forming plants have have blossom stems in shades of crimson up to 2 ft tall! Grow in moist rich soil. Minimum temperature: -30° F

Soft, 8 to 10-inch leaves are deeply and irregularly dissected to the midrib; feathery and silver-green, their downward habit makes a lacy flounce. In favorable conditions—in good, well-draining soil, some summer water, and a somewhat sheltered position—the tree can become dense over time; it's slow-growing but eminently worth the wait. And, rare as...