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Tight, grey-green foliage rosettes give rise to rose-colored stems with widely-spaced leaves. Tight, dense, clusters of pale pink flower buds open in late summer to mauve-wine flowers. The buds open in a staggered fashion, so the huge flowerheads are bi-colored with pink and wine in the early stages of bloom. Leaves...

A waterfall of ornamental green lace leaves grace this weeping selection made by J.D. Vertrees. Fall colors include a spectrum of autumn orange, red, bright gold, and even dark purple. Mature size: 6 ft tall x 6 ft wide in 10 years Minimum temperature: -20° F

From early summer to late summer, whimsical inflated pale purple-blue buds open into broad, shallow-cupped star flowers with darker blue veining. Its golden fall foliage color is also of merit. From meadows of NE Asia. Mature size: 1.5 ft T x 1 ft W, clumper Minimum temperature: -40° F

Thistle-like purple flowers in upright, loose bunches at the top of tall stems in late summer to early fall. The frilly flowers are large and captivating. I doubt that any of your neighbors will have this in their garden and, if they do, my hat off to them for their keen...

It's hard to sum up all that this Fuchsia has done for us. You need a well-behaved fuchsia for a border: this is your plant. You need something to brighten up the back of your garden bed: this is your plant. 'Jingle Bells' makes a lovely arching mound. You get that signature wild...

A low, dense, evergreen shrub. The oval, serrated leaves have a yellow center with glossy green edges. Tolerant of many soils & conditions. Mature size: 1-2 feet tall & wide Minimum temperature: -20° F

An eye-catching primrose developed from a rare find at a nursery in England in 1999. Unusual undulating lobed leaves form a lush rosette with a dashing sparkler-like flower spike of deep golden-yellow with a striking carmine-red picotee. It blooms for a long time in late winter. Herbaceous foliage will dry back to the ground in winter....

Allium ‘Ostara’ is a cross between Allium karataviense and Allium atropurpureum combining the best qualities of each parent. Reddish-purple globes hover around a foot tall on stocky stems above broad leaves. Retains its foliage better than other allium while blooming. A sun-loving bulb blooming late spring-early summer and then summer dormant. Mature size:...

‘Charmer’ provides true springtime delight with a blanket of rosy pink to magenta blooms in mid-spring atop dense, ferny foliage. Flowers of many petals fade white and have a showy yellow center. Sister to ‘White Splendour,’ these two Anemone blanda selections can be interplanted in a mix, or planted alone for a shock of...

This rock garden dweller has ovate green-blue evergreen leaves and is native to subalpine meadows in Europe and Siberia. Slender stems support umbels of small, yellow pincushion flowers above clumping foliage. Blooms fade to bronze-red with caramel bracts, later developing into seed heads in the fall. Flowers and foliage make...

Vigorous and floriferous, ‘Otsaka’ is one of the oldest mophead varieties with large cream-colored blooms in neutral soil (Creamy blooms have the faintest shade of blue in acidic soils and the softest hint of pink if alkaline). Buds come from old wood, bloom in summer, last into fall, and are...

Commonly called ‘striped squill’ this bulb presents racemes of fragrant frosty white blooms for up to 6 weeks in spring. Each of its six rounded star-shaped petals sports a central blue vein pointing towards a small yellow center. Happy in full sun to part shade and fertile, well-drained, soil. Moist in spring with...

This Amsonia hails from the Korean peninsula--the Asian counterpart to Amsonia tabernaemontana. Clusters of tiny porcelain blue, star-shaped flowers bloom in spring atop multiple stems of willow-like leaves in clumping mounds. As with its North American counterparts, A. elliptica’s foliage turns from a glossy grass green to a lovely yellow sometimes orange...

Rare variety to N. America with cutleaf form and yellow flowers. Collected by nursery owner, Leonard Foltz, during a 2018 trip to Arunachal Pradesh, India with Shayne Chandler and Dan Hinkley. We have not yet trialed this plant outdoors at our location in the Willamette Valley but this species is being...

This excellent Meyer lemon tree produces thin-skinned, juicy fruit. Fragrant white star-shaped blossoms with creamy yellow centers are displayed among attractive glossy rounded evergreen leaves. May be kept in a pot and indoors in a cool sunroom in colder climates (like ours!) as a shrub or small tree. In the right climate, this...

This fantastic hybrid winter heather covers itself in very small deep fuchsia bells in the dead of winter; ushering in the springtime with its long lasting blooms. Tiny green-bronze leaves and clumping habit create a textural and seasonally vibrant ground cover when multiples are planted. Can tolerate poor soils, wind and...