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Serious business here. Martin Grantham of San Francisco hybridized the Mexican seemanii and the Chilean serratifolia to take these two evergreen climbing Hydrangeas to another level of plant nerd necessity in this vigorous child of an inspired horticultural round of matchmaking.

When you think Hydrangea you mayyyy think climber if you are particularly nutty botanophile, but certainly unlikely. I can all but guarantee you that you aren't thinking both climber and native to Chile, but here we are with one that fits just that bill. Glossy evergreen leaves and plumes of white to pale-yellow flowers composed almost entirely of fertile florets. Rare in the UK and nearly non-existent in the US, this is one to cure those made nauseous by the endless sugar-sweet hybrids churned out by the big nurseries and breeders that represent the genus in common parlance.

We understand if you have written off Hypericum entirely as a genus, but try not to judge this fella by the sins of his forefathers he's really quite an interesting chap once you get to know him. Eschewing the promiscuity and vigorous advances that has given its family a bad name this species native to Spain's Balearic islands stays quite small and contained, it maintains the redemptive golden flowers you know but the leaves are transformed into minute, lustrously evergreen ones that are not dissimilar to a crinkle-cut fry in silhouette. The stems add to the textural feast of the leaves with their scaly texture. Wants sharp drainage and makes a good rock garden or sandy spot addition.

Alpine ferns, full-sun ferns, NZ ferns are all underrepresented in US cultivation. This species and even more broadly this genus are completely unrepresented as far as I can tell. Named the thousand-leaf fern for its finely divided appearance, it can be found high in the mountains of Aotearoa scrambling in between rocks where it forms dense low clumps, a habitat betrayed by its distinctly fuzzy texture. Happy in sun with sharp drainage and though its considered semi-evergreen it goes dormant for us in the greenhouse during winter and will likely doubly do so with outside temps. Hard to say on hardiness given the scarcity but we are betting on 8a at least.