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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.
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!
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!
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.
Anemonopsis macrophylla
Anemonopsis macrophylla
Price: $10.00 In 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.
Argyrocytisus battandieri
Argyrocytisus battandieri
Price: $12.00 In Stock

Medium Band Pot
A most ornamental and tasteful Broom which is sure to evoke admiring comments from any who are fortunate enough to view it. Silken silvery leaves are the perfect foil for the sumptuous yellow flowers in May and June. Tolerant of glacial till and drier conditions. Not invasive or weedy. This used to be in the genus Cytisus but things change. We actually like this new nomenclature which means Silver Cytisus as it is quite apt.
Arisaema candidissimum
Arisaema candidissimum
Price: $18.00 In 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
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
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 'Ghost'
Athyrium 'Ghost'
Price: $15.00 In Stock

Gallon Pot
This sterile deciduous clumper is a cross between the American Lady Fern and the Japanese Painted Fern. Ghostly gray-green fronds to 3' long shimmers in the shade garden especially when deployed against a dark background. Hardy as all get out and easy - just not too dry.
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.