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Shiny fan-like leaflets with purplish-brown and white pitchers with long, whip-like tails. Available for shipping while dormant. Mature size: 1–2 feet tall Minimum temperature: -15° F

This rather recent and native Chinese arrival is a woodland groundcover ginger with large, dark green, evergreen, and deer-resistant leaves. Asarum splendens is a vigorously rhizomatous species and makes a dense carpet of green and silver -mottled hearts. In early spring the large, 2-inch, deeply-cupped flowers of dark purple-brown are a unique and exclamation-eliciting...

Always to remain one of my favored asters because of its elegant dark leaves liberally sprinkled with white, raspberry-pink-centered flowers — profuse tiny delights make a cloud of bloom — a prince of a plant. Stiff, tight, shrubby growth. Starts blooming in late summer and continues well into late October. Our full size...

Extremely large, rounded and lobed leaves accompany arching, white flower panicles June – July (reminiscent of Astilbe). They are at home in the moist woodland border or pond- or stream-side. Make it lush! Slowly spreading. 3 – 4 ft T & W Minimum temperature: -20° F

Triangular, frosty-edged fronds with plum interiors create a jeweled, dense, textural tapestry. Deciduous. Mature size: 18 inches tall & wide Minimum temperature: -40° F

Sweetly scented pink flower spikes are loved by the humble bumblebees, butterflies, and gardeners alike. Clethra seems to be underutilized in the Northwest and for no good reason. It's a well-formed dense shrub, serviceable, reliable, fragrant, AND showy. Mature size: 4 – 6 feet T & W. Minimum temperature: -30° F

Large, 3-inch, violet-pink goblet flowers with a luminous white interior bloom on leafless stems in fall. Bunches of shiny, strappy leaves emerge alone in spring, leaving folks to wonder where the flowers are. Hopefully, they'll discover that in the same spot, come fall, are the flowers, now without the leaves. Perfect...

Evergreen, C. peregrina has fern-like leaves that also smell sweetly of fern. It has an exotic look but is eminently useful as a bank stabilizer or a colonizer in areas of very poor soil. The yellowish-green spring flowers don't amount to much, but the nutlets that they give way to are interesting...

Very stable bold light yellow striping and small white bell flowers in spring; collected in the woods of Potsdam Great Park by Czech Eduard Hachunda - a special plant. Rhizomatous perennial. Mature size: 8-10 in T x 6-8 in W Minimum temperature: -30° F

This is a unique deciduous plant with arching red stems bearing wide, lance-shaped leaves that turn from mid-green to red in fall. Inconspicuous green flowers are followed by clusters of round, fleshy, translucent yellow fruit. Though they look juicy, most of the plant is poisonous so find something less risky to...

Five- to eight-inch deep purple velvet flowers bloom on vines six to eight feet. It wants to dry out between waterings, but not for too long. Group 3 – Flowers only on new wood. Can be cut to the ground in fall or spring. Cut stems 12-18 inches above a growth node...

From Western China, this Codonopsis (sometimes spelled 'Dang Shen') is unusual, subtle, rare, and delicate. Fuzzy, weaving stems support small soft leaves and a bell-flower with a complex and exquisite color that is hard to pin down: pale yellow-green, milky-blue inside, softly striped with purple inside. The root is used medicinally in...

Orange and yellow pea-like blooms bring forth 2–3 inch inflated pinkish-orange pods that demand closer inspection—curious, fun, and ornamental. Long-blooming and airy, this rounded deciduous shrub is also very drought-tolerant. Average soil. Mature size: 7 ft x 7 ft Minimum temperature: 0° F

Chartreuse-green-golden glowing foliage compliments racemes of demure, pendent white bell flowers. Enjoy the fresh fragrance in your spring garden. Thankfully spreading, so make sure it's in an appropriate space for a perfumed and textural carpet, not as aggressive a spreader as some of its relatives. Mature size: 8-12 in T x 3 ft W Minimum temperature:...

Broad, upright, pointed leaves are decorated with narrow yellow pinstripes. A slowly increasing variety for those who'd like the sweet scent of Lily of the Valley in a more polite form. Never fear, it has the usual precious racemes of pendent, fragrant, white bell flowers. (The species is the national flower of...

People always exclaim when they see these two-inch cobalt-blue bells with recurving petals that obligingly bloom from late spring and on into early autumn! This non-vining, multi-stemmed clematis winds its way through a (compatibly colored or perhaps less interesting) shrub, or tied on to a support structure it's a charming addition. Flowers only...