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Copious, large, sweetly fragrant single flowers appear in late spring or early summer on the largest Mock Orange that we grow. Teetering on the fence of large-shrub to small-tree for a descriptor. Vase-shaped shrub makes a nice anchor for a perennial bed. Send a Clematis up this multi-stemmed shrub to use its patch of...

July – August sprays of tiny white flowers float over horizontally-held burgundy leaves, each with a tri-colored, deeper burgundy, silver, and light green chevron within. Its color mellows to all green toward the end of its season; meanwhile, it's provocative! Have no fear this one's not a runner! Politely clump-forming. Butterflies appreciate...

Evergreen, interesting, and very pretty, this Phlomis surrounds its stems with soft pink tiered whorls of hooded flowers in mid-summer, and the leaves are a complimentary light grey-green – altogether soft in texture and soft in color. Grows to a compact, manageable size. (Incidentally, the Balearic Islands are off the coast of...

This dwarf ninebark has pink and white spring flowers and dark maroon foliage all season. Petite, dark, and dense. Prune about a third of branches to the ground in early spring to refresh. Mature size: 3 – 4ft T x W Minimum temperature: -40° F

With stunning, bright purple-red new cones and lime-green spring growth, this is a superb small conifer with a lot going for it. Cones mature to brown and needles mature to medium green as weather warms. This is no boring shrub and can be useful as part of your evergreen garden matrix but...

'Tall n Tough' has weathered temperatures down to 0º F without so much as cringing. It is a dense shrub that has deep green, lustrous, oval, evergreen leaves in geometric whorls, and in spring, large clusters of creamy white flowers with a heady orange-blossom fragrance. This plant will work in a looser landscape of other...

In May, a large, white or pale pink flower globe sits atop huge, toothed, lobed umbrella leaves, and later, a large, reddish, oblong fruit hangs below. For best results, grow in bright shade with organically enriched soil and regular summer water. Ships when dormant. Please choose a shipping date between Oct 1 - March 1....

Early summer saturated deep rose-pink flowers attract butterflies, are lightly fragrant, fine-leafed, and evergreen. This compact cushion is at home in dry gravel beds, rock gardens, banks, walls, bright borders or in containers. It's grateful for full sun, or partial shade, with free-draining soil or compost, and will give you...

This ferny dense mat has deep rose-pink, domed, pin-cushion flowers. Anxious to please, P. stylosa will tolerate poor or rich soil, sun or shade, dry or moist conditions! Semi-evergreen; uniquely musky smell; deer-resistant but attracts bees and butterflies. Deadhead if you like to prevent self-seeding. Mature size: 10 in T x 24...

'Globosa Viridis' is a shrubby oval pine, 8' tall by 5' wide—a good alternative to the usual broadleaf evergreen shrub, perfect as a garden anchor or "datum," and excellent as a screening plant or chubby hedge. This is a dense, teddy-bear-of-a-conifer that will handily and completely block an unfortunate view in a really nice way....

Large, semi-double blossoms of pure white emit a light fragrance. One of the showiest Mock Oranges we grow or for that matter, have ever seen. The prolific flowers look like a Camellia from a distance. Mature size: 8 feet x 4 feet wide in 10 years. Minimum temperature: -20° F

Narrow, heart-shaped, almost white, gray felted leaves are unprecedented for contrast! If that weren't enough, golden-yellow, claw-shaped flowers form whorled tiers around the tall stems, early summer – early fall. Mature size: 4 ft T x 3 ft W Minimum temperature: 0° F

One of the easiest to grow of all the exquisite Chinese mayapples, P. versipelle is a sturdy plant perfect for bringing the tropical look to the shade garden. Deeply lobed geometric leaves of glossy green perch atop a solitary 3-foot fleshy green stem. As the plant matures, clusters of fascinating deep red...

Perhaps more robust than 'Kamniski', the species has cream and canary-yellow profuse pea-blossom flowers that cover the plant November to March and sporadically thereafter if watered. It makes a very dense evergreen mound, successfully suppressing weeds. You might end up wanting it everywhere! And it always looks good! Drought-tolerant too, but...

To easily complete your scheme of having something in bloom every month of the year: This low and dense (8" tall), mounding evergreen has bright purple and yellow pea blossoms November to March, and periodically throughout the summer! Always a good-looker and excellent for weed suppression! And a nice wax candle or...

Blue-gray leaves mix well with many other neighbors, and the fuzzy, wine-red, bottle-brush flowers that bob above the foliage enliven the garden from spring through mid-summer. An earlier bloomer than most Sanguisorbas, the pollinators will appreciate this one! Moist, heavy soil is just fine. Mature size: 2-3 ft T & 1-2...