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Small but significant and festive flowers, yellow with large bright red calyces dangle amid pointed dark green leaves—brilliant punctuations against the dark. In the zero-degree temperatures of 2013, it didn't miss a beat here at the nursery. This is one floriferous Brazilian! Hummingbirds love the Abutilons. Collect them all! Adaptable as...

Exhilarating pendent orange flowers bloom profusely on wiry stems all summer long among maple-like leaves! In the Pacific NW (and colder climes) it would love to reside in a movable pot; cut it back to bush it out. Tender shrub; needs summer water; semi-evergreen. Adaptable as a houseplant. Mature size: 4 ft T x W (Responds...

Short, stickery flower spikes of rose-purple and white rise to 16 inches above a rosette of prickly leaves in early and mid-summer. No strangers (or deer) will be nabbing this one out of your garden, but you'll have a wonderfully geometric, highly textural plant with a majestic, long-lasting flower. Bold in the dry...

The larger leaves on this Vine Maple are dark red-purple when they emerge in spring, fading to a coppery-red and green in late summer. The fall color is rich and varied and can give an impression of stained glass when the evening light shines through. This is an upright tree with...

Drooping chartreuse-green leaves have the most gorgeous light purple-red edges in spring. Always a favorite! Mature size: 8-10 ft T x W, rounded canopy Minimum temperature: -10° F

A smallish tall tree with light green leaves heavily speckled with pink and white. It makes, indeed, a floating cloud! Position in partial shade to avoid leaf scorch. Not a fast grower so works well in a small spot or a pot as the loveliest focal point. Plant black Ophiopogon beneath it for exquisite contrast....

Stout, upright branches have avocado-green bark and crinkled, clustered, bright green almost fringed leaves held tightly to the branches. An outstanding vase-shaped specimen tree, suitable for a large container if so desired. Deep red in fall. Mature size: 6-8 ft T x 4-6 ft W in 10 years, eventually 10-15 ft T x 8-12 ft W Minimum...

New spring foliage is a pretty and showy pink infused with flecks of gold as the leaves mature. Toward summer the leaves turn progressively greener. Stocky and rounded, 'Puget Pink' makes a nice small shade tree. Mature size: 20 ft T x W Minimum temperature: -20° F Sorry, we cannot ship Acer pseudoplatanus to New York...

With provocative dark green spiny leaves and exotic vermilion red fall flowers, you'll find a place for this Ethiopian highland native if you enjoy the unusual. Unlike other Acanthus, this one holds its upright form and its leaves look great well into fall. Thereafter it's likely to beautifully skeletalize for additional...

Deeply cut, spiny dark green leaves (the leaves are those on Corinthian capitals) arch dramatically as a backdrop to huge 5' spikes of pure white flowers hooded in mauve. Long-lasting as a cut flower, you can sneak up on it in June-August. Not for the faint of heart, this is one bold...

Tiny, light green rounded leaves form a dense, cute-as-a-button shrub, bright orange and yellow in fall. You can have that vine maple look in a small form that will fit into the tiniest garden. Or, better yet, enjoy it in a container on the patio at your elbow. Mature size: 3 ft T x W in 10...

This choice vine maple selection forms a wider-than-tall foliage "poof" with summer-long reddish-bronze, orange, peach, light yellow, and light green leaf color: autumn throughout summer! Mature size: 4 ft T x 8 ft W Minimum temperature: -20° F

New spring leaves emerge in warm shades of peach-pink, becoming mocha-rose to dusky-purple, and then bronze-green in summer—pleasantly subtle, complex color. Slower in growth than the species. Grafted on Acer macrophyllum rootstock. 0.67 and 1.16 qt trees are usually between 6-12 inches tall, off the top of the soil. Mature...

Commanding center stage, the tri-lobed leaves of this slower-growing cultivar are speckled shrimp-pink when they emerge. Who needs flowers with leaf color like that! For summer they become a still-entertaining marbled white and green. A nearly impenetrable, rounded tree, dense with branches and wine-red twigs, it can be used as an effective...

Thin, papery leaves with 5 narrow, elegant lobes, are blushed with pink and purple and are yellow-orange in fall accompanied by yellow samaras. A truly elegant Chinese maple from forested regions. Mature size: 20–40 ft T x W Minimum temperature: 0° F

Evergreen can be a necessary thing. Being gold can be a provocative thing. 'Ogon' has both and is also tolerant of wet to average soil types. Growth to 1 ft tall and slowly spreading. Makes a perfect punctuation in the garden, good accent in a pot, or visually exciting in a sweeping swath. Minimum temperature: -20°...