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No plants are 100% deer resistant. The deer generally leave these plants alone, but when there's not enough to eat, they might get nibbled. Also, fawns will taste everything.
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Aconitum episcopale
Aconitum episcopale
Price: $12.00 In Stock

4" Pot
Rollicking twining Monkshood from China that delights in scrambling up into shrubs or onto thin trellage. Although a fine and aristocratic perennial, it remains devoid of snobbery embracing chainlink as if it were ornate wrought iron at an Antebellum mansion. Dusky lavender flowers in late summer and fall are hugely welcome. This is totally herbaceous dying completely back after flowering only to reemerge in spring bigger and better than before. The climbing Aconitum we find just a little confusing as to proper identity so the caveat here is this is the name which came with the plant some years back. If we really dig, we might trace this back to a Diana Reeck collection in Yunnan in 1996 but that is best guessing. Nice blooming-sized plants.
Aconitum sp. vining CGG14028
Aconitum sp. vining CGG14028
Price: $12.00 In Stock

Small Band Pot
Our collection from one of the highest points in the Wumingshan during the Chongqing-Guizhou-Guangxi Expedition in the fall of 2010. We had reached as far as we could on the trail following the western ridge and as we paused to take in one last panoramic view of the lesser peaks arrayed before us, we looked down and there sprawling atop the scrub was this climbing Monkshood. Seed heads were larger than we expected and it has been with anticipation that we have waited for this to bloom which a few did this fall. The flowers are of good size with a bit of variation from soft lavender to mostly a very pleasant medium blue. One seedling is a strange double with the overlapping petals reduced to an Elizabethan collar around the business parts. Now there's a collector's plant! Let us know if yours turns out to be something unique and we'll dicker. Perennial herbaceous vine to 8'-12' dying back in late fall. These are flowering size.
Adiantum hispidulum
Adiantum hispidulum
Price: $10.00 In Stock

4" Pot
Rosy Maidenhair Fern. Quite a lovely and adaptable fern nicely at home here in Zone 8 gardens or Zone 7b with mulch for winter protection. Or a good houseplant if mulching isn't your thing. The new growth has salmon tones and matures to a nice green. This is evergreen unless it is in a colder garden. One of our very favorite customers turned us onto this so thanks Virginia!
Ajuga incisa 'Frosted Jade'
Ajuga incisa 'Frosted Jade'
Price: $9.00 In Stock

Medium Band Pot
A rare Ajuga the likes of which you may have never seen. We all are familiar with the utilitarian carpeting-with-abandon slug magnet ubiquitous in gardens everywhere. This is a different critter altogether and resembles Bugleweed about as much as a Bichon Frise does a Junkyard Dawg. Stays put in a clump with erect stems to 16" with showy leaves of white, green and cream and intense violet blue flowers. This has been one of the most asked about plants in our shade garden and when we say what it is, the answer usually is "That's an Ajuga? Do you have it?". It is completely deciduous as well which is another mind boggler.
Aster 'Coombe Fishacre'
Aster 'Coombe Fishacre'
Price: $9.00 In Stock

Large Band Pot
Award of Merit Aster from England which makes a profuse cloud of small lavender white flowers in large billowy display. This is pretty nice as far as Asters are concerned and we just let it do it's thing out on our border. As we don't cut it back in early summer to make it bushy, this becomes a nice 4' tall bit of unfettered glee in late summer.
Aster 'Kylie'
Aster 'Kylie'
Price: $10.00 In Stock

Large Band Pot
Award of Merit Aster from England which makes a profuse cloud of small pale pink flowers in large billowy display on arching stems. Nice tall stems and thin fine-textured leaves adds to the whole package. Pretty exceptional in the realm of Asters and one which Carol Klein calls "an immensely pretty plant". 'Kylie' is also a rare interspecific hybrid between Aster novae-angliae 'Andenken an Alma Potschke' and Aster ericoides 'White Heather'. We know Asters have been segregated into a bunch of unpleasant sounding genera but we're not there yet.
Aster 'Mary's White'
Aster 'Mary's White'
Price: $15.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
Choice white Aster that our friend Jim Fox got from Beth Chatto and shared a wee bit with us. This was found at the Beth Chatto nursery by Beth's daughter Mary and we are guessing that it must be pretty damned good to be named such. We hope to introduce Aster 'Canela' and 'Callie' next year after our own daughters. 'Mary's White' has a good constitution with sturdy stems and good-sized white flowers not surprisingly.
Aster 'Vasterival'
Aster 'Vasterival'
Price: $9.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
Our thanks to one of horticulture's good guys, Jim Fox for bringing us a plant of this lovely Aster from one of his trips to the UK.  We'll have to go with him some time to learn how to balance plant shopping and carousing but now that we think on it, all of us regard plant shopping as carousing..........we can't be getting old - no, we're just wiser.  After all, that Aster will still be there in the morning.  This was named for Princess Sturdza's garden at Le Vasterival in France and that should be recommendation enough.  Neither pink nor lavender but firmly positioned in that descriptive Bermuda Triangle of the in-between which allows it to mingle effortlessly with a broad palette of colors.  A vigorous grower to 5' with deep royal plum colored stems and flowers for weeks in September.
Aster aff. yunnanensis MD97
Aster aff. yunnanensis
Price: $12.00 In Stock

4" Pot
A very attractive introduction by us from Yunnan if we do say so. Broad lightly hairy leaves in a dense clump with lots of large soft lavender daisy flowers fringed heavily in very fine petals surround a prominent dark "cone". Doesn't re-bloom - just does it right the first time. We would welcome having the right name on this!
Aster cordifolia 'White Chief'
Aster cordifolia 'White Chief'
Price: $12.00 In Stock

Large Band Pot
Our buddy Jim Fox brought us a bit of this new Aster cordifolius hybrid from England and upon checking the 2011-2012 RHS Plantfinder, we see it has only one source which is the National Collection for Asters at Old Court Nurseries. We were quite pleased by this as you might imagine and also pleased to see that we can still bust into a reasonable Snoopy dance. We carefully nurtured this treasure and as soon as it got some size, we immediately cut it to bits to be able to offer it to you. We have no garden experience with this yet due to the repeated decapitations but anything described as having "clouds of small white flowers in October" works for us. A tall grower to 6' unless you kneecap it in June to make it shorter and bushier. We tend to go tall.
Aster ericoides 'Pink Cloud'
Aster ericoides 'Pink Cloud'
Price: $9.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
This repetitive lauding of our friend Jim Fox for bringing us cool Asters from the UK could become wearisome and we promise to stop after just a few more.  This selection of Aster ericoides was granted the Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society and in the UK this is the horticultural equivalent of being knighted.  We are unlikely to be knighted anytime soon but we can have this distinguished Aster in our gardens.  This is a lower and bushier plant getting just 3 feet high but that 3 feet is a glorious billow of thousands of small light pink flowers in the fall once it reaches maturity.
Aster novi-belgii 'Autumn Rose'
Aster novi-belgii 'Autumn Rose'
Price: $10.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
An uncommon Aster brought to us from the UK by that warp and weft of the NW horticultural scene, Jim Fox. Jim has passed along many treasures to us and we are happy to spread the love. This is a vigorous and floriferous plant with Fall flowers of a good rosy pink on 4' stems and nothing says Fall to us like.........well, really, it is the yellows and oranges and reds that we think of but why not shake up tradition a little? Listed by only two nurseries in the 2011-2012 RHS Plantfinder.
Aster novi-belgii 'Blue Eyes'
Aster novi-belgii 'Blue Eyes'
Price: $10.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
Uncommon and exceptional selection brought back from England for us by that discerning horticulturist and Northwest garden icon Mr. Jim Fox whose eye for beauty is well known among the NW cognoscenti. He can stray to the flamboyant trashy but not in this instance. Big rich blue flowers.
Athyrium niponicum 'Apple Court'
Athyrium niponicum 'Apple Court'
Price: $12.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
English selection of this Japanese Painted Fern with lovely cresting and a bit of curling to the fronds and detailed markings of green and silver and purple shades. Another fab fern that provides texture and color spring into fall before going dormant and deciduous for the winter.
Athyrium niponicum 'Regal Red'
Athyrium niponicum 'Regal Red'
Price: $12.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
Fantastic selection of the Japanese Painted Fern with silvery fronds with slightly curved pinnae and interiors vividly marked in purple and burgundy. This has good vigor and good clump of this is actually pretty much regal. We've been fighting the fern bug for years but it has finally gotten a good grip on us. This blazes all spring and summer into early fall and then being deciduous and sensible, disappears for winter.
Blechnum spicant
Blechnum spicant
Price: $15.00 In Stock

Gallon Pot
Our native Deer Fern needs little introduction. At least to us who are natives also! One of the best of our native plants and a first-rate fern which can go toe-to-toe with the best ferns from the rest of the world and quite able to hold its own. A nice mid-sized fern with evergreen handsome narrow fronds with dark vertical sterile fronds as an accent on mature plants.
Callistemon pallidus
Callistemon pallidus
Price: $12.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
From the venerable plant at the UW Arboretum comes these promising youngsters. The plant at the UW has weathered every fluke weather event in the last 20 years and emerged unscathed. Narrowly yet densely upright with pale yellow-white bottle brush flowers and evergreen needlish leaves.
Callistemon pallidus 'Eleanor'
Callistemon pallidus 'Eleanor'
Price: $12.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
Bottlebrush. This is a selected form of the more cold hardy species and has 5" magenta bottlebrush flowers. This would thrive against a hot south wall and will tolerate a range of soils including fairly wet. Evergreen and so far not munched by deer. We've had this freeze to the ground in the disaster that was November 2010 but it regrew from the base. Our plant was growing in rich soil and was still in active growth when it got hammered. Leaner conditions going into fall will impart more cold tolerance.
Callistemon pityoides 'Corvallis'
Callistemon pityoides 'Corvallis'
Price: $12.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
Bottlebrush. Fun and very hardy selection that has willowy and twisting branchlets sporting 2" light yellow flower brushes on the branch tips all pointing willy-nilly for a wild Medusal effect. Length of bloom is longer on older plants so it is true that some things get better with age. I feel that way about Sue and another month o the diet, she'll feel the same about me.. Happy in nearly any soil and happiest with regular water. Not deer fodder.
Callistemon viridiflorus
Callistemon viridiflorus
Price: $12.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
A comparatively cold hardy Bottlebrush that gets to be a large shrub with lots of chartreuse yellow vivacious flowers in May and June. This has a willowy texture with the foliage taking on maroon tints in winter and with age gets great white corky bark. Will take dry but better with water. Deer hate it.
Cassinia x ozothamnus
Cassinia x ozothamnus
Price: $12.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
This is thought to be an intergeneric hybrid between 2 of New Zealand's shrubby daisies. This gives a fabulous textural addition to the Mediterranean garden like some happy marriage of heather and rosemary. Small white flowers cluster at the tops of the stems. Good drainage, tolerant of some dry.
Ceanothus x 'Gloire du Versailles'
Ceanothus x 'Gloire du Versailles'
Price: $12.00 In Stock

4" Pot
A very hardy Ceanothus granted the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit. If you are going to name something the Glory of Versailles then it had better be good! A deciduous shrub to 6' or 7' high or more and 5' or so wide with soft powder blue panicles of scented flowers mid summer into fall. C. americanus and the Mexican C. coeruleus are its parents.
Corydalis 'Rainier Blue'
Corydalis 'Rainier Blue'
Price: $10.00 In Stock

Medium Band Pot
Corydalis leucanthema 'Silver Spectre'
Corydalis leucanthema 'Silver Spectre'
Price: $10.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
Lovely tuberous species from China and very easy to grow in the shade garden. "Very easy" isn't nursery-speak for "Aggressive Thug" but is an accurate portrayal of an attractive plant which increases at just the right pace and rewards you with silver toned leaves and soft lilac flowers. Don't be shocked when it goes dormant in summer - all part of it's natural life cycle and completely expected. Pairs naturally with ferns of any sort.
Corydalis omeiana
Corydalis omeiana
Price: $10.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
Choice species (as seen in our shade garden) collected by NW Plant Wunderkind Riz Reyes on Mt Emei in Sichuan. This species is often confused with Corydalis elata in the trade. This selection is quite vigorous with red highlighted new growth and spires of icy blue flowers. Moist.
Corydalis scouleri
Corydalis scouleri
Price: $10.00 In Stock

4" Pots
One of our beloved natives colonizing rich bottomland along the shoulders of woodland streams. This has succulent delicate ferny foliage of fresh green looking very munchable (Please Don't) foliage and small terminal flower clusters of pink cornucopias. There is a beautiful colony growing in a seep among some very big trees just yards from the beach along the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Such a setting. Moist to darn near wet. This is a spreader so give it room or give it a defined moist spot as it doesn't do dry. In the right spot, there is nothing to compare.
Delosperma deleeuwiae
Delosperma deleeuwiae
Price: $9.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
Hardy Ice Plant and yes, it is pronounced de-lew-ee-ay just like you were thinking. This is from a Josef Halda collection from high elevation in Lesotho, South Africa. It may even be hardier than Zone 5. Large and lively (how I like to think of myself) magenta pink flowers fairly cover the plant in early summer. Takes dry and very happy in Denver.
Dierama 'Lancelot'
Dierama 'Lancelot'
Price: $10.00 In Stock

4" Pot
This is a tall and sturdy Fairy Wandflower whose clear pink bells show that it has Dierama pulcherrimum in it's parentage. Evergreen foliage except in tough winters. Decent drainage and moist to occasional deep drinks suits this fine. 'Lancelot' is perfect in our windy town where the pink flowers dance gaily on the wiry stems with the slightest breeze. Deer resistant too!
Dierama 'Merlin'
Dierama 'Merlin'
Price: $12.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
The dark purple bells on this Fairy Wandflower do indeed appear to have been divined by sorcery and the Magick Artes. So dark that the flowers can but be the manifestation of unspoken desire - "Oh I wish so for a truly dark Dierama" As the Sorcerer's Horticultural Apprentice, we oblige. Evergreen thin blades of leaves and wiry flower stems to 6' with these amazing dangling bells. These are nice plants we've grown on here at the nursery for over a year so they are well established which is important with Dierama.
Dierama 'Miranda'
Dierama 'Miranda'
Price: $10.00 In Stock

Small Band Pot
Miranda is such a nice departure from the prevalent pinks as she has light amethyst pendulous bells flouncing on tall stems in the heat of summer. Evergreen bladed foliage as long as winter is not howling madness in which case it will be deciduous. This likes reasonable soil and reasonable moisture in summer because she's a level-headed sort.