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Acis (Leucojum) autumnale
Acis (Leucojum) autumnalis
Price: $9.00 In Stock

Small Band Pot
One of the sweetest little bulbs imaginable! Summer dormant with dainty white flowers on 6" stems appearing in Aug into Sept. This grows in Portugal, Gibraltar and Morocco and is just as happy growing with our native Madrona (Arbutus menziesii) here as it is Olives back home. Grassy foliage up in fall and winter.
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 japonicum
Aconitum japonicum
Price: $10.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
Monkshood. This is a fine wildflower from Japan making attractive clumps with cowled dusky lavender flowers. This has been an easy doer increasing easily and the clumps are a snap to divide if you want more. And we always do. This not one for the sunny garden but best in morning sun or light shade. This doesn't get tall staying under 3' and isn't anything to worry about staking. Just a quietly lovely plant except for the unfortunate derisive comments it hurls at passing deer as it is completely unpalatable. Fortunately this commentary lies outside the range of human hearing so there is little chance of offending invited guests.
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.
Adonis multiflora 'Sandanzaki'
Adonis multiflora 'Sandanzaki'
Price: $35.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
Choice rarity from Japan with stunning very early spring flowers. This is a delectable spring ephemeral ideal under deciduous shade where it can bloom in the sun and be shaded later in the season so quite happy in half shade. 'Sandanzaki' means "triple blooming" in Japanese. Growing all these different plants is giving us an odd smattering of different languages beyond our mainstays of ordering a beer and asking for the bathroom. Quite impervious to cold but is a real sissy when it comes to slugs so check on it! This makes an impressive plant in a pot as well. We've seen photos of full pots of this in flower on the show benches in the UK and it is breathtaking. This is sometimes seen under the species name amurensis.
Agapanthus 'Timaru'
Agapanthus 'Timaru'
Price: $16.00 In Stock

Large Band Pot
Lily of the Nile. New selection from New Zealand and we're tickled to have enough to list. This is one of the hardier Agapanthus and is a nice compact semi-evergreen plant to 30" - it will be deciduous for us most winters though and like all Agapanthus is best mulched in winter to keep frost from the crown. If you are good plant steward and do mulch it then you will be rewarded by a good display of superb dark blue flowers which have a very long bloom period from July to October. Good drainage yet moist in full sun. Very highly regarded in the UK and these could not be any larger in their pots. We would have up-potted them but we don't ship 3 gallon size.
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.
Albuca aurea
Albuca aurea
Price: $8.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
A very fun South African bulb which can be overwintered outside given good drainage in the winter and a nice mulching to keep it snuggy and warm. Or perfectly easy to grow in a pot and then store in the garage. Lots of yellow and green starry flowers - easy from seed!
Allium thunbergii 'Ozawa'
Allium thunbergii 'Ozawa'
Price: $9.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
Here is a little Japanese bulbous plant that will add some late summer glitz to the rock garden or special foreground planting niche. Not shy about blooming, this will strut its stuff with round purplish flowerheads on 10" stems which sends our friends the Butterflies and Bees into quiet delirium.
Allium thunbergii DJH 272
Allium thunbergii DJH 272
Price: $10.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
A Dan Hinkley collection from Japan of this fine mid to late summer blooming Allium species. Good richly colored purple flowers are freely produced on this densely clumping little dude. Good in containers and great in the rock garden or special little niche.
Bomarea 'Fred Meyer'
Alstroemera isabellana
Price: $10.00 In Stock

4" Pot
We got this from Maggie at Western Hills some years ago and finally can offer this goody. She said this was a hybrid by noted California breeder Fred Meyer between the vining Bomarea and the non-vining Alstroemeria and we have sold it in the past as Alstroemeria x Bomarea 'Fred Meyer' and more recently as Bomarea "Fred Meyer".  The great thing about putting a plant on the internet is that all sorts of smart people read about it and very nicely suggest the correct name.  This is a surprisingly hardy Brazilian species and Fred Meyer collected in Brazil quite extensively.   Good cut flower with long clean stems. We've had this growing happily outside for years and going through single digits in winter with mulch.
Alstroemeria 'Glory of the Andes'
Alstroemeria 'Glory of the Andes'
Price: $10.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
This is a very desirable Peruvian Lily which has 3' stems bearing fragrant vivid gold flowers daubed in the interior with maroon. The cream-edged foliage is just a bonus. Spreads slowly but steadily so as not to be scary. Great cut flower but pull the stems rather than cutting as they will last better. Not for dry gardens.
Alstroemeria ligtu ssp. incarnata
Alstroemeria ligtu ssp. incarnata
Price: $12.00 (Out of Stock)

Quart Pot
This is a very ornamental Alstroemeria in shades of pink we have grown from wild-collected seed.  This is native to central Chile where it grows at mid-elevations approaching timberline.  It is perfectly hardy for us in the new USDA Zone 8 and should handle lows of single digits with a nice blanket of mulch.  Sizable flowers grouped in an umbel and like all Alstroemeria, possessing a good vase life if you are prone to cutting which we are not.  Quite honestly, we rarely have flowers in the house and absolutely no houseplants.  We do allow plant books but otherwise it is a refugium from the burgeoning phyto-fecundity jungle of the nursery and gardens.  We may have to replace the staff Felco pruners with machetes.  Can you tell it is spring when we are writing this?
Anemone nemorosa 'Green Fingers'
Anemone nemorosa 'Green Fingers Group'
Price: $7.00 In Stock

4" Pot
A bewitching Wood Anemone which is more petite than some clones. This makes a dense carpet sample of coarse ferny foliage and small white flowers with a purplish reverse.  So just what sets this apart from the all the other white selections?  The working parts of the flower, the stamens in particular, have become thickened and greenly tumescent which I find rather appealing.   The degree of this unabashed happily concupiscent display varies from flower to flower and so is perhaps best to just refer to it as "Green Fingers Group'.  Regardless of the nomenclature, I know I am equally happy to see it bloom each spring.
Anemone nemorosa 'Original Blue'
Anemone nemorosa 'Original Blue'
Price: $7.00 In Stock

4" Pot
Anemone nemorosa 'Royal Blue'
Anemone nemorosa 'Royal Blue'
Price: $7.00 In Stock

4" Pot
Large lavender blue flowers with a darker reverse grants this little slowly creeping Wood Anemone its own small fiefdom in the shade garden while it is in bloom. Very pretty indeed. Of course by mid summer the peasants and serfs rise up with scythes and cudgels to reclaim their land but next year the glorious cycle of rule and revolution is repeated.
Anemonella thalictroides Green Hurricane
Anemonella thalictroides Green Hurricane
Price: $16.00 (Out of Stock)

4" Pot
Totally fun selection which manages to combine class, whimsy and garden merit in one small package. This little tuberous gem just gets better with each successive year making nice clumps with lots of flowers if you can keep from dividing them like we do! Light green double pinwheel flowers.
Anemonopsis macrophylla
Anemonopsis macrophylla
Price: $10.00 (Out of Stock)

4" Pots
A refined shade plant that would grace any plant connoisseur's garden yet is perfectly happy to hang with us average Joes. Leaves evoking Anemone and pendant flowers combining pastels and lavenders in an understated parasol of exquisite design and dimension. A plant wasted on the masses so let's keep it to ourselves. It has been pleasingly tough and durable in our shade garden.
Aralia californica
Aralia californica
Price: $9.00 In Stock

4" Pot
These are plants grown from our seed collection up 8 Dollar road in the Siskiyous Mountains in southern Oregon. This was growing on a shaded bench above a small stream with Darmera peltata below it in the stream edge and Lilium pardalinum ssp. vollmeri sprinkled about. This adds a tropical punch to the temperate garden getting large compound leaves on a big plant 6'-8' tall. Nice white powder puffs of flowers followed by black fruit in late summer. This is a herbaceous perennial so the whole impressive array disappears for the winter. You'll hear us mention this again but mulching for winter protection in cold areas is a good thing.
Arisaema candidissimum
Arisaema candidissimum
Price: $18.00 (Out of Stock)

Quart Pot
One of the most sought-after Jack-in-the-Pulpits with simple large leaves and the flowers of sweetly scented virginal white. I'm not sure I can use 'virginal white' to describe a flower sporting a spadix but I guess eventually the twain shall meet. The spadix is the appendage inside the flower or spathe if you want to get botanical. This is one of the latest of the Arisaemas to poke its nose out in the spring and we invariably start worrying about it and just as we are about to do exploratory troweling, we notice growth buds breaking the surface. These are nice bulbs which probably need another year to flower. This species increases beautifully from offsets so in a few years you will have a nice little grouping.
Arisaema speciosum "Himalayan Giant"
Arisaema speciosum "Himalayan Giant"
Price: $9.00 In Stock

4" Pots
These are young seedlings ( with bulbs about the size of a quarter) of this superior form of a Himalayan species known only from a small population in Sikkim. This is larger in stature in all aspects than the typical species with its purplish hooded flowers being up to 2x larger than normal. The big trifoliate leaves are held by wonderfully reticulated stems. This form was named 'Himalayan Giant' by Tony Avent. This likes a moist rich soil but no water-logging and appreciates a good mulch to keep frost from the bulbs in colder areas. In our shade garden where every square inch is coveted space, we get double duty from our planting of this Arisaema speciosum by interplanting with Corydalis solida. The Corydalis is very hardy and is planted above the Arisaema and blooms in early spring and then goes dormant politely disappearing just as the Arisaema starts to make growth in late spring.
Arisaema triphyllum 'Starburst'
Arisaema triphyllum 'Starburst'
Price: $10.00 In Stock

4" Pot
Newer selection from Virginia which has leaves intricately detailed in white veining. Excellent increaser with very good vigor and one of the best foliage forms of the triphyllums. Pale green/white flowers are a bit ghostly and are a treat in the quiet of early morning. Very hardy - Trillium/Primrose conditions. Naturally small bulbs.
Asarum canadense 'Eco Choice'
Asarum canadense 'Eco Choice'
Price: $9.00 In Stock

Quart Pots
Seldom offered selection by Don Jacobs of Eco Gardens, this has exceptional vigor and and very dense growth habit. Really an ideal groundcover for that small area if you are going for the monoculture look as this is going to own its little piece of ground. But not in a bad way - our patch is finally big enough to share. Nice under taller perennials such as Leucosceptrum or shrubs. Heart shaped deciduous leaves shade funny small urn-shaped brownish flowers. A denizen of the moist northern woods, this is a good addition to the shade garden and seemingly tough as nails given moist shade.
Asarum marmoratum
Asarum marmoratum
Price: $10.00 In Stock

Medium Band Pot
Siskiyou Wild Ginger.  This is a little gem found only in the Siskiyou and Cascade mountains in far southern Oregon and rarely in far northern California.  A little clumper which doesn't make spreading mats like the more familiar Asarum canadense or A. caudatum but makes a dense mound of glossy foliage often well-marbled in silver.  Small reddish purple flowers are interesting to people like us.  We've seen this species many times tramping in the botanical wonderland that is the Siskiyous and have seen it growing in shaded dry forests as well as perhaps most freakishly, happily in sheer rock faces in sun where you would expect to find Penstemon growing.  One of those sights that wreaked havoc with our preconceptions of just where such a plant should be most happy.
Asarum splendens 'Quicksilver'
Asarum splendens 'Quicksilver'
Price: $10.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
This is a dandy spreading evergreen Chinese wild ginger with delectable silver splashed bold leaves and beefy (up to 3"!) flowers of purple-brown tempered by a little cream. This came through 9F here with nary a whimper. Great in containers or the moist woodland/shade garden. Hi-ho!
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!