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Abies koreana 'Cis'
Abies koreana 'Cis'
Price: $20.00
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This is an fine selection from Holland of Korean Fir. This is very dwarf - just an inch or less of growth per year and a 10 year old plant might be just 8" high by a 12" across. This makes one of those nice rounded buns which I am inclined to pat and Sue could testify to the veracity of that inclination. Great rock garden plant.
Acer henryi
Acer henryi
Price: $20.00
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Gallon Pot - Pickup at Nursery Only
A nice companion or alternative to Japanese maples. This Chinese species has distinctive trifoliate leaflets which gives it a graceful appearance and makes one wonder however briefly just what the heck it is. A fine small tree to 25 or 30 feet with a rounded oval habit. Fall color is variable from scarlet to yellow. Le'ts hope for red!
Acer monspessulanum
Acer monspessulanum
Price: $25.00
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2 Gallon Pot - Pickup at Nursery Only

Beautiful Maple from the Southern Mediterranean and Northern Africa that loves the sun and is more drought tolerant than most Maples. We have this in our display border and love the ivy-like leaves and pale salmon new growth. The fruits are a showy reddish color. Nice narrow habit.
Aconitum episcopale
Aconitum episcopale
Price: $12.00
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Medium Band 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
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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
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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.
Actaea elata
Actaea elata
Price: $10.00
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This used to be Cimicifuga elata but is now an Actaea and commonly known as Bugbane. This is one of our of natives found in small areas in the Olympics and more widely west of the Cascades in damp lowland forests in southern Washington and NW Oregon. A good plant with broad maple-ish leaves and tall stems with wands of white flowers sometimes tinged in light pink in late summer. This can get 6'-8' tall but most of that is skinny vertical height so while it is tall, it is not bulky. These have their provenance from SW Washington being seed-grown from a plant we got from our friend Diana Reeck at Collector's Nursery.
Adiantum aleuticum 'Miss Sharples'
Adiantum aleuticum 'Miss Sharples'
Price: $10.00
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Small Band Pot  It is easy enough to get a fern with rich, deep green leaves but sometimes that dark shade garden is just crying out for a little contrast and this fern will provide some subtle relief.  A deciduous species that gets just 18"-24" tall with fronds supported by wiry black stems.  A moisture lover, don't torture it in dry shade. 
Adonis amurensis
Adonis amurensis
Price: $20.00
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4" Pot  One of the class acts of the spring ephemeral parade, this very hardy Japanese species starts hitting the stage in February with yellow flower buds and soon followed by finely divided fern-like foliage.  March is when it really happens, at least here in the Northwest, as these cheery buttercup flowers defy the gray skies which born and bred Washington natives miss if we have too long of a stretch of sun, say if we get into week of blue skies.  This is a fine plant for the rock garden or special niche and expect it to go dormant by late spring.  These are nice divisions which have already flowered with sturdy growth and are starting to root out having been potted in late winter.
Adonis multiflora 'Sandanzaki'
Adonis amurensis 'Sandanzaki'
Price: $35.00
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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. We have offered this before under the species name multiflora but our two year old reference may have been out of date which had amurensis merged into multiflora.  It's a cutthroat world of taxonomic botany out there!
Ageratina altissima 'Chocolate'
Ageratina altissima 'Chocolate'
Price: $10.00
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Medium Band Pot
White Snakeroot. A release from the Mt Cuba Center in Delaware and selected for the richly chocolate colored foliage. This is a very hardy perennial and well named because just like sex, chocolate sells. (I've notice that often one leads to the other) Mid to late summer broccoli heads of small white flowers. Low maintenance.
Ajuga incisa 'Frosted Jade'
Ajuga incisa 'Bikun'
Price: $9.00
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Medium Band Pot
Frosted Jade Ajuga.  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.  And for slugs - they do like this one too but really it is mainly the new shoots in early spring so we just keep an eye on the growth and if they are getting nibbled then we go out one or two evenings and inflict bodily harm and don't much about the plant afterwards.
Allium karataviense subsp. henrikii
Allium karataviense subsp. henrikii
Price: $15.00
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Bulbs
One of the choicest Alliums to be had which was found east of Tashkent in the mid 90's and named by Janis Ruksans for Henrik Zetterlund. Like a regular Allium karataviense but so much better in all aspects. Larger and broader blue-green leaves and bigger flower heads of rich rose. Good drainage & summer dry.
Allium nevskianum
Allium nevskianum
Price: $10.00
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Bulbs
A must-have for those smitten by the ornamental onions and this rarity will not disappoint. From hot and stony Afghanistan and Tadjikistan, this resembles the excellent Allium karataviense but is larger in all parts with bigger flowers of deeper pink. Gorgeous paired leaves.
Allium thunbergii DJH 272
Allium thunbergii DJH 272
Price: $10.00
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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.
Allium sp. CGG 14029
Allium wallichii
Price: $10.00
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Small Band Pot
Our collection at 9000' from the summit of highest peak in the Wuming Shan in SW China. This Allium was prevalent in the grazed grass and scrub summit with tall 12"-20" scapes and nice 2"+ half dome pink flowers. The local minority people harvest the bulbs for food. This was the first Western botanical foray to this mountain.
Alnus glutinosa 'Imperialis'
Alnus glutinosa 'Imperialis'
Price: $15.00
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4" Pot
Awesome Cutleaf Alder. This selection of this European species makes our own native Alnus rubra weep in envy. The extreme ornament of the foliage makes us weep as well but with tears of joy. Rapid growth in rich moist bottomland, slower in average settings.
Anemone nemorosa 'Green Fingers'
Anemone nemorosa 'Green Fingers Group'
Price: $7.00
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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 'Royal Blue'
Anemone nemorosa 'Royal Blue'
Price: $7.00
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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.
Anemone x lipsiensis
Anemone x lipsiensis
Price: $9.00
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4" Pot
One of the quiet stars of our shade garden is this cross between rich yellow Anemone ranunculoides and white Anemone nemorosa. The result is a vigorous small scale shade loving groundcover with profuse primrose yellow flowers. Perfect as a planting under larger plants. Moist.
Anemonella thalictroides Green Hurricane
Anemonella thalictroides Green Hurricane
Price: $15.00
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Small Band 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
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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.
Angelica atropurpurea
Angelica atropurpurea
Price: $9.00
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Medium Band Pot
Good purple-foliaged selection from seed we begged from Nita Jo Rountrees lovely garden. There needs to be at least one umbel in every garden and why not this one? Muted purplish foliage and light purplish-pink flowers in nice heads on tall stems give this an assertive yet graceful vertical presence. Easy.
Anisodus tanguticus
Anisodus tanguticus
Price: $10.00
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Interesting member of the Solanaceae which we collected in Bita Hai in Yunnan. Totally dormant in winter, this bursts forth in late spring and rapidly makes a multi-stemmed plant up to 5' high with curious nearly waxy 1.5" pale greenish flowers like upturned spittoons. This stumps everyone.
Aquilegia chrysantha var. chaplinei
Aquilegia chrysantha var. chaplinei
Price: $10.00
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Quart Pot  This bewitching little Columbine hits me at some visceral level every time it flowers.  The fine blue-green foliage is perfect with the narrow yellow flowers and their impossibly long spurs.   Being childless, I can only imagine seeing your little blonde daughter in her first Easter dress and shiny new shoes - it is that kind of feeling.
Aralia californica
Aralia californica
Price: $9.00
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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
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4" Band 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.
Aruncus aethusifolius
Aruncus aethusifolius
Price: $10.00
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Dwarf Goat's Beard. One of the top perennials of all time. Tightly packed ferny foliage and short dense plumes of white flowers in early to mid summer. Hardy as all get out and completely trouble free. If you screw this up then we beg you - please give up gardening. Just not very dry, that's all.
Asarum canadense 'Eco Choice'
Asarum canadense 'Eco Choice'
Price: $9.00
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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 caudatum
Asarum caudatum
Price: $9.00
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Our selection from the California Redwoods of a large-leafed and vigorous clone of Wild Ginger. This sports large glossy green leaves which mask the sizeable brown starfish flowers hidden underneath. We always like surprises. A dense big groundcover in shaded rich moist soil.