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Acer pentaphyllum
Acer pentaphyllum
Price: $10.00 In Stock

Medium Band Pot
This is one of the rarest Maples in wild known only from a very small and threatened population which was recently rediscovered following its introduction to cultivation in the 1930's from a scarce handful of seed. Narrow leaflets in 5's or 7's on a usually shrubby small tree and best in a milder garden. Parent plant thriving in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood.
Azara microphylla
Azara microphylla
Price: $12.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
This is pretty much our default tree whenever anyone asks about a good small tree. This has zero bad habits that we know about it and is a rapid grower with small evergreen leaves and minute yellow flowers that smell heavenly of marzipan or something similarly decadent.
Azara microphylla 'Variegata'
Azara microphylla 'Variegata'
Price: $12.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
A grand small-scale evergreen tree for our area. This is what Boxwood dreams about becoming - much as I dream about being tall and thin, the humble Box envys this Azara with its perfect variegated leaves and tiny yellow flowers packing a big fragrance and all on a small tree frame.
Cephalanthus occidentalis
Cephalanthus occidentalis
Price: $10.00 In Stock

4" Pot
Buttonbush. This shrub to tree-like shrub is quietly unassuming until its summer flowers come on. Perfectly round 1" white balls with long exserted stamens that the bees like sets this apart from just about everything else. Native to the eastern half of North America.
Decaisnea fargesii
Decaisnea fargesii
Price: $10.00 In Stock

4" ($10) or Large Band Pots ($12)
This ain't no ho-hum filler plant. It's got great leaves like an excited Walnut but held high on a bare cane-like trunk. Sure, the flowers blow but we don't grow it for the bloom. Oh no, it is the late season clusters of brilliant blue fat bean pods like blue rubber gloves hung high that jazzes us. Within the pods nestle black flattened seeds cushioned by lots of Decaisnea Gelatin which gives the unopened pods the texture of the fingers of a person drowned but not soon found. Thanks to CSI and Bones, we all know exactly what this feels like.
Eucalyptus glaucescens
Eucalyptus glaucescens
Price: $10.00 In Stock

4" Pot
One of the best of the hardy Eucalypts for our area. This has rounded blue leaves when juvenile and lance shaped leaves when all grown up and responsible. Striking white bark is beautifully displayed with its open growth habit. Loves it dry and is a very fast grower and deer-proof.
Eucryphia moorei
Eucryphia moorei
Price: $12.00 In Stock

4" Pot
Ficus afghanistanica 'Silver Lyre'
Ficus afghanistanica 'Silver Lyre'
Price: $15.00 In Stock

Medium Band Pot
A pretty cool introduction from Cistus Nursery from a batch of seedlings and this stood out with its silvery filigreed leaves. A surprisingly hardy Fig with intriguing foliage and small figs which we have heard rumors of being edible. Insert disclaimer here. We've seen the species growing quite happily in the Cistus display gardens near Portland which attests to its love of heat (they are hot in so many ways) which we don't get here in maritime Port Townsend but which it does have in its native Iran and Afghanistan. Plant this in a hot spot that gets on the dry side - it should love it. We've yet to try it ourselves outside yet although our friend the inimitable Duane West grew the species for years in a pot in his sheltered garden near Sequim until he gave it to us. Next year we'll do it - it's going out!
Garrya elliptica 'Evie'
Garrya elliptica 'Evie'
Price: $12.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
Cupressus abramsiana ssp. opleri
Hesperocyparis abramsiana (Cupressus)
Price: $18.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
Santa Cruz Cypress. One the rarest conifers on the West Coast with the species restricted to just a few isolated sites in the Santa Cruz Mts and one population in Mateo County, California. It is listed as endangered. This is the subspecies opleri as recently described by John Silba although this subspecies is not formally recognized and at this time is considered a synonym. John sent us seeds and these plants are from cuttings from those plants. To further confuse things, this was in the genus Cupressus and then spent a little time in Callitropsis and now is finally in Hesperocyparis but never say never. It looks like this will be a nice addition to the water-wise landscape as its needs are low. This will become a 20' - 25' small tree somewhat oval in shape with russet twigs, attractive rough bark peeling away to show burnished mahogany smooth bark beneath and fine needled light to yellow-green foliage. We haven't trialed it outside here yet but are going to plant out a nice grove this spring. We expect it will be hardy for us as it gets up to 2400' in the mountains down there and hopefully has some genetic memory of colder times in the past.
Ligustrum sp. CGG14046
Ligustrum sp. CGG14046
Price: $20.00 In Stock

Gallon Pot
A species collected at 7150' on Fanjinshan where it was a most attractive evergreen shrub about 7' tall growing at the base of a talus slope beneath a cliff as we climbed up and up. Nice attractive terminal clusters of black fruit were what pulled us off the trail to collect seed. Expect small plumes of white flowers in late spring.
Picea breweriana
Picea breweriana
Price: $16.00 In Stock

Large Band Pot
Pseudopanax ferox
Pseudopanax ferox
Price: $12.00 In Stock

4" Pot
The two winters of 2009-10 and 2011-12 have put a whuppin' on this in most folks gardens around here but some mild sites or protected spots have gotten through with no problem. (Ok, remember what you learned in group. Sit with this and focus on your breathing and be happy for them) Waaaah! An amazing container plant or striking garden plant. This New Zealander is such a nifty example of evolution. The juvenile leaves are like some sort of metal art. Stiffly narrow and held out from the rigidly vertical stem, these are a burnished purple-chocolate with the edges ribbed in sharp protuberances. Once this plant gets 12' or 15' tall, you will be surprised to see that the new leaves are an entirely different shape and color being palmate and green. This is an adaptation to avoid predation by the Moa which were the huge flightless birds that could reach 12' high and were hungry herbivores. The Moa could have used some armor themselves as the Maori hunted them to extinction. We grow ours in a tall container where it has become bona fide garden art and wheel it into the greenhouse for the winter. Our friends Neil and Suzanne have a very tall one against their house in Seattle and we are happy for them.
Pterostyrax hispidus
Pterostyrax hispidus
Price: $20.00 In Stock

Gallon Pot
Fragrant Epaulette Tree. This Styrax relative first ensnared me upon viewing it in fruit in the fall at the UBC Asian Garden where the dried long clusters of seeds while interesting in of itself, tantalized with the promise of the flowers preceding. A later visit in late May made good on that promise and revealed branched airy 8"-10" panicles of pendulous white flowers which were delightfully fragrant. This gets some size with an open rounded crown and likes a good soil that is reasonably moist. These are nice.
Salix sp.
Salix sp.
Price: $10.00 In Stock

4" Pot
Millet spent some time in the Bighorns in Wyoming one summer and was smitten with this shrubby river bottom Willow that has just exceptional glossy leaves for a Willow. Pretty good yellow twigs to boot. Funny how that little twig fell off as she was looking at it and right into the ziploc.
Saxegothaea conspicua
Saxegothaea conspicua
Price: $12.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
Prince Albert Yew. Quite a good conifer allied to Yews but hailing from Chile. This makes very attractive trees in the wild and is fairly slow growing. The bark is good being a flaking purplish brown and looks perfect with the rich green needled foliage. Best in a mild garden and does fine in much of the Puget Sound with the many sheltered woodlands.
Sorbus pseudohupehensis 'Pink Pagoda'
Sorbus pseudohupehensis 'Pink Pagoda'
Price: $10.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
These are seedlings from our much-coveted tree on our border which is a superior selection introduced by the Univeristy of British Columbia. The tree is apomictic which means the seeds are gentically identical to the parent. Blue-green leaves, white flowers and stunning pink fruit in summer.
Syringa komarowii ex DJHC
Syringa komarowii ex DJHC
Price: $12.00 In Stock

4" Pots
Second generation seedlings from a Hinkley collection in Sichuan of this fine Lilac which can be kept as a large shrub or trained up to be a small tree. Pendulous flowers white to pale pink inside with a lavender-pink reverse. Very attractive and trouble free.
Thuja plicata 'Holly Turner'
Thuja plicata 'Holly Turner'
Price: $15.00 In Stock

Quart Pot
A somewhat weeping and mounding form of our native Western Red Cedar which was introduced by our friends at Collector's Nursery. This has a very lax leader and it is best staked for awhile to allow it to gain some height before it is allowed to spill and billow. A striking large evergreen shrub which would be happy in the native garden. Cool natives rule!