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A native, this chaparral shrub comes from the dry slopes and woodlands of Southern Oregon and Northern California. A fast-growing evergreen, it can soon reach 10 ft tall, nice as a hedge or screen, or it can stay low and spreading depending on where it is planted. When sheltered it can grow to...

A large climbing rose, 'Antique' has cabbage-type, fragrant, pink, non-stop blooms and glossy, disease-resistant foliage. Minimum temperature: -15° F

Carmine-red 6 – 10-inch(!) flowers bloom in mid to late summer on reddish stems with long, violet-purple maple-shaped leaves that turn brilliant orange in fall. Of course, there is the long, protruding staminal structure typical of Hibiscus, that which distinguishes them and makes them look so exotic. Flowers bloom for only...

A Southern Oregon and Northern California native: Unbelievable, glossy, crimson firecracker blooms with recurving light green tips hang in open pendent clusters May to July. Grassy stems are long and mingle with the flowers, and developing buds are erect at the same time that mature flowers hang down. The complex tips...

Smooth, dark green, crenelated rosettes slowly form extremely compact mounds. Small, white and red speckled blooms float above in early summer. Native to Greece and nearby regions. 4" tall and slowly spreading. Minimum temperature: 0° F

In late spring, pendent white bells line the underside of long, arching stems in pretty pairs, tips flaring. Lush, deeply veined leaves alternate, winging upward. Native to Turkey and into Russia. May ship as bare root divisions. Please choose a shipping date between October 1 and April 1. Mature size: 3 ft T &...

Clouds of ruby-mauve fill the air in August and September above rounded, dense tussocks of fine foliage. As its name suggests, it is indeed undaunted, thriving despite drought, wet, clay, stone, heat, cold, humidity, or deer! It's the robust and long-lived product of a collaboration between the Denver Botanic Garden and...

Spring to frost, single cupped flowers open soft warm yellow, then copper-orange, then watermelon-pink, then rose, creating an ever-changing (mutabilis) mix of colors simultaneously depending upon the maturity of the individual blooms. Owing its burgundy new growth to its Chinese parentage, this rose is very disease-resistant and can be considered...

Large, deeply cut leaves, seemingly dusted with snow, form a large clump that sends up tall spikes of luminous white flowers with pink tips. Early to mid-summer bloom. This veritably glows in the garden. Give it a dark backdrop and it will be a lantern! For arrangements, there is little that is more...

Pretty pink flowers cover dark green to purple-green mounding, evergreen foliage in spring through fall. It's undemanding and would be good as a container plant, or a weed-suppressing ground cover. Keep in mind it's more inclined toward alkaline rather than acid soil, coming from the Mediterranean. Evergreen perennial groundcover; mature size: 6 in...

This verdant woodland jewel is native throughout forested areas of Canada, Oregon and Washington where it creates a charming 6" carpet of diminutive dogwood. Oval, pointed leaves with impressed parallel veins are punctuated by tiny, purple-grey flowers surrounded by their more noticeable, springtime bright white bracts looking like large snowflakes freshly...

Toothed leaves make a cushion covered by a plethora of white to pale yellow, large, narrow, cupped flowers. Compact habit; cooler morning sun preferred. Long-lived and easy. Mature size: 12 – 24" T & W Minimum temperature: -10° F

Upright and vase-shaped in habit with a strong geometry, 'Greenspire' is dense with evergreen, slightly toothed, glossy, leathery leaves. Use it for a screen, a narrow spot, in an Asian garden, for a hedge, or in a formal garden. This is one versatile and handsome plant! Mature size: 6 – 9 feet tall x 3 – 6 feet wide; robust....

A cultivar of the East Coast native highbush blueberry, 'Chandler' produces perhaps the largest of all the berries. They come on in early summer following late spring clusters of white urn-shaped flowers. Equally ornamental, the pretty leaves turn reds and purples in autumn with significant red stems remaining in winter. This...

One of the most impressive Bergenia with HUGE (12-in diameter) rounded, supple leaves with a furry surface ("ciliata") surround short red stalks with clusters of soft pink flowers, each containing a spritz of beautifully protruding white-anthered red stamens — a distinctive feature of this flower. Mid-spring bloom. Serving suggestion: contrast with Hakonechloa grass...

Deep burgundy/black/dark green highly textural leaves spread beneath vertical spires of sky-blue to violet in late spring. Glossy, the leaves glint in the sunlight like the riffled surface of a dark lake in wind—a groundcover mat forms from these spreading, dramatic leafy rosettes. Plants will thrive if shielded from hot afternoon...