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Glossy, evergreen leaves are very aromatic and used fresh in cooking. This is a medium-sized tree that prefers sun to part sun and average to dry soil conditions. Small yellow flowers produce nut-like fruit. Upright, dense, rounded habit. Mature size: variable size, 20 to 45 ft tall Minimum temperature: 0° F

This short-lived but self-sowing perennial forms an evergreen rosette of heavily felted silver-white leaves. In midsummer, flowers spikes up to 8 feet tall will bear bright yellow saucer-shaped blooms. It judiciously reseeds in the garden happily ever after, so never fear, you'll never entirely lose it, and you will be able...

Colorful leaves of white and green with pink new growth tips are plenty ornamental enough. But then, hidden among the foliage, are white-fringed pink bell-flowers in spring and summer that are fragrant too! Purportedly Queen Victoria liked its unique fruit and so do many others — makes a popular preserve in...

Polished, small, leathery dark green leaves emerge orange and bronze, and clusters of pretty, pale pink urn flowers in spring produce ornamental and edible black fruit in fall. Dense and very attractive (alas, like too many); edible hedge, anyone? Taller in shade. Mature Size: 4-8' ft T x 5 ft W Minimum temperature: 0°...

Bracteata is one of only two species in the genus, Veltheimia, coming from forests and coastal scrub of the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Showy, green-spotted, dusky pink tubular flowers in winter to early spring are arranged on a thick spike much as red hot pokers (Kniphofia). Leaves, though, are broad,...

Viburnum x juddii adds amazing fragrance that will waft generously through your spring garden. It is a heavily blooming and fairly dense deciduous shrub. In full sun, it will make a neat dome. It is quite drought-tolerant once established, a trait that is becoming a must-have for our shrubs here in western Oregon. Our mature...

An evergreen hybrid with lacquered, deeply veined, long and narrow dark green leaves, and flat clusters of fragrant white flowers from pink buds in early spring. Creates a nice, dependable screen with distinctive foliage. Mature size: 8 ft T x W Minimum temperature: -20° F

A distinctive plant from the Cape of South Africa, with semi-evergreen broad, thick, waxy leaves. The pendent, tubular salmon-pink florets bloom in early summer and attract hummingbirds but, thankfully, not deer! Hailing from clay and shale soils, you'll find this plant tolerant of many tough conditions and an easy and rewarding...

Fuzzy, cinnamon-colored crosiers unfurl to become giant, dramatic, draping fronds. The surface of these glossy fronds becomes studded with curious, oval, peach-colored plantlets that, when embedded in sand or soil, will produce more ferns. Such handy propagation. Woodwardia orientalis comes from the moist hillsides of Japan and China. Evergreen in...

An enormous (8 –10'), dramatic candelabra of golden-yellow flower spikes bloom July – September from a base of felted, gray-green leaves! When in bloom it is a dry garden torch, brilliant, tough, easy, and impressive! Reseeds; biennial. Minimum temperature: -20° F

One of the most elegant blooming shrubs, covered with white lace-cap flowers like snowflakes on tiered branch-tops in early spring through late fall. Easy to please. Deciduous shrub; mature size: 7 ft T x W Minimum temperature: -20° F

Why a plant would start blooming in November puzzles us, but its fragrance is most welcome on warm days when we find ourselves out and about. A wide, fountain-shaped, large shrub, its pink blooms come first November-February, and leaves second, deeply-veined with a handsome reddish blush. Mature size: 8-10 ft T x 4-6 ft W in...

Cheerful, yellow, woodland flowers with dark brushmarks naturalize nicely. Although it is a contradiction in terms (yellow violet), nevermind. It is a bright delight and a very pretty woodland groundcover. Mature size: 4-8 inches T; spreading Minimum temperature: -10° F

Interesting lobed and deeply cut leaves can look like some lace from the back of your grandmother's rocker. Sweet, white seeded fruit has been used as a table grape and also a wine grape, but is definitely an ideal ornamental patio grape. A rare French variety. Mature size: 20 feet tall & 15...

Fine, needle-like green foliage forms a compact, vigorous mound. In late summer to fall it's virtually covered in spritzes of violet, crinkled blooms loved by butterflies and hummingbirds. "George W. Letterman, aged 72, a recluse and botanist, died in poverty and attended only by a neighbor in his little cabin at Allenton, thirty...

Large umbels of deliciously fragrant, waxy, white flowers bloom in late spring on this deciduous shrub. Rich burgundy autumn color extends its season of interest. Dive in! A hybrid between V. carlesii and V. macrocephalum var. keteleeri. Mature size: 6-8 ft T x W Minimum temperature: -30° F