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We just love plants that keep us guessing. At first glance, is this one
dead? Would we care if it was? It looks freakin' cool. A New Zealand prostrate groundcover with wiry stems that from gravelly/sandy soils from coastal to subalpine areas. Our plant is from John Massey's private garden at Ashwood Nurseries. Light amber flowers require good knees and sharp eyes.
Crimson Fans. An amazing clone of a hardy Korean species in the Saxifragaceae. The early spring flowers are little pale things which are les amuse-geules for the foliar main course. In sun, the leaves turn a screaming crimson as summer ages especially if briefly and carefully water stressed. Moist.
A hardy and excellent selection from Japan with deeply divided and ruffled
leaves, providing a unique texture for the shade to cool sun garden. Fall color is often a rich
burgundy red. Best coloration in light shade during hottest part of the day. Panicles of pure
white flowers with red-pink centers appear in early to mid-spring.
A very uncommon plant in North America - we have not seen it listed elsewhere - and one we brought across the pond from the lamentably late Michael Wickenden of Cally Gardens in Scotland. This is a much smaller version of this cold hardy species with dense low foliage of nicely deeply lobed leaves. The leaves take on fall color before dormancy and the early spring white flowers are welcome indeed if they escape being frosted.
A very vigorous form from a Quarryhill collection that is much taller and has larger green leaves than any of the others we grow. The usual early spring white flowers in March and April here. We have a just a few of these from division here in late winter and these may not be fully rooted out on early orders.
Very handsome evergreen shrub to small tree in the Myrtle family from Chile where it does get some snow and this is a good sheltered zone 8 plant. Small white flowers in some profusion are followed by attractive berries which have a bit of a wintergreen taste. All legal caveats, disclaimers and lack of labeling for potential allergens apply concerning edibility.
Formerly in the genus Cheilanthes, this dryland fern is found in Mexico, Central America and Argentina and just recently, one site in Brazil. Evergraygreen fronds of fine texture are densely vertical on this smaller fern. Perfect candidate for the rock garden or container for milder gardens - doing well at Berkeley Botanic Garden for example. Thanks to the Fern Madam Judith Jones of Fancy Fronds Nursery for sharing spore.
A rare Myrtle relative from Tierra del Fuego which is quite hardy here and is just the sweetest thing. Evergreen, aromatic leaves and small white flowers in summer which are followed by pink/white, pearly, edible berries that taste like some some exotic perfume. A perfect little plant. Good moist soil in some light shade although it will probably take sun nicely but we just happen to grow ours in shade where it has been a flawless performer.
Dwarf form of Sweet Myrtle that should be a great addition to the evergreen shrub palette here in PT. Hardiness is increased with less water in summer and likes a nice sunny spot - we can do this! Aromatic foliage when crushed with small fragrant white flowers late summer. This has got to be deer resistant although the cute vermin are cultivating a palette for deer-proof food. This will get just 3'-4 tall and rounded and will be happy in drier, hotter sites although it tolerates more consistently moist conditions just fine.
Hoop Petticoat Daffodil. Hard not to like this one with its interesting perspective on what a daffodil flower should look like. Dark green rush-like foliage appears in late winter lengthening its period of interest. Good clumper making lots of new small bulbs. Tolerant of summer dry.
Collected by Floden-Mitchell-Wynn-Jones at Lao Cai, Vietnam at 2050 meters. This rare species is best suited for the naturalistic or wild garden as this makes a large shrub with the branchlets tipped in fingers of small and admittedly insignificant pale white flowers which contrast with the reddish stems and textured rich green leaves. From a purely foliage and stem standpoint, this may be the best in the genus and has good fall color to boot but is still a shrub best suited for botanic gardens or dedicated Asian flora plantaholics. Hardy to zone 8b.
A vigorous shrub outstanding for the wild edge or "natural" garden. A mass of thin kitty-wampus stems but with a general arching cascade effect. Delightful cigarillo shaped pink flowers. Good screening plant for creating a wall of a garden room. Deciduous and easy.
The first fern offering from our North Vietnam collections, this poor fella has been called as many names as even the most bullied of unfortunates from Lepisorus to Neolepisorus to the sci-fi devilry of Neocheiropteris. Through the torrid taxonomic seas it has clung to its floating board of delightful egg-shaped-ness, keeping its ovate epithet intact and acing that old proto-parenting assignment. The bright green egg shaped fronds with a rough papery texture are wholly unique and make for one of the ultimate pot displays or epiphytic wonders (for milder climes). We recently planted one out in our tufa wall and are eager to see how it performs for us here. Very rarely offered anywhere due to its slowness and I have never seen this pure green form offered anywhere stateside. One for the true botanical connoisseurs.
A luscious, tender Nerine sarniensis hybrid worth every effort to overwinter. Related to Amaryllis, this bulb is summer dormant with the leaves appearing in winter and flowering in fall. The flowers are the rich pink of promise speaking directly to the limbic brain, conjuring ancient cave responses as though confronted by sex, ripe fruit or blood. Civilization is but a thin veneer. Basic culture is plant so bulb is partially exposed and let get somewhat dry between waterings and more so when dormant.
Nerines are like having a fall blooming Christmas Amaryllis in the garden except these are hardy to zone 7. Where it is colder, these are a snap to grow in pot and as they flower from leafless bulbs in the autumn, you can enjoy the flowers indoors and after blooming, simply cut off the stem and store them in a cool garage until spring when you can bring them out and the leaves begin to grow.The original Nerine 'Pink Triumph' was given an Award of Garden Merit in 1957 by the RHS and is presumed to be a hybrid of Nerine bowdenii and N. undulata with larger flowers than N. bowdenii and later blooming in December. This original plant may be difficult to near impossible to find as virtually all the 'Pink Triumph' in cultivation are from a Dutch source and incorrectly named. This is not necessarily all bad from a garden worthiness standpoint as this may well be a selected form of N. bowdenii since it blooms earlier in the fall thus not as prone to frost damage plus the Dutch usually select for good increasers of which this certainly is one. The upshot is that while this is incorrectly named, it is going to be a better plant for the garden being hardier, more apt to avoid having its flowers frosted and having very good rich pink flowers. Nerines bring a totally unexpected blast of exotica to the fall garden and look particularly good in Mediterranean style plantings.
Plantsman and bulb expert Jim Fox was staying with friends in England and admiring their fine Nerine 'Quentin' in their border which had a few seed which he passed to us. Mere decades later and - Voila! - we have Quentinlettes. Quentin is highly regarded in England and the offspring are good too. Has overwintered outside in a pot, freezing solid with no ill effects. These single bulbs are not flowering-sized offsets - probably 2 years to bloom - and just potted this August so not yet rooted out, if you're shipping this fall.
Hardy Nerine at least for us in the Puget Sound, this is the seldom-seen Kew form which we received from bulb expert John Flintoff. We've not seen this offered elsewhere. This will have late summer flowers like a small Amaryllis of a luscious pink. Good drainage, mulch if cold winter.
A remarkable arborescent species endemic to the Sierra de la Laguna of Baja California where this grew on a shaded ridge in mixed oak-pine forest at 5800'. This can get over 20' tall with a 10' inflorescence with yellowish to white flowers but that height might be for your child's child's child's child to enjoy - it will take a while! But what a nice generational legacy and it will look perfectly amazing for you in not too many years. A rare seed collection by Far Reaches Botanical Conservancy botanist Dr. Cody Hinchliff. A Far Reaches Botanical Conservancy Offering
A collection by Dr. Cody Hinchliff from the highest reaches of the Sierra de Laguna in Baja, Mexico. This Bear Grass Tree makes impressive trunked specimens in time with equally impressive displays of many creamy white flowers. We can say that these plants have memories of colder times as one of these young plants we planted out in November of 2023 survived handily the beastly arctic blast of several days with temps down to 11F. A rare offering and this will be ideal in sunny dry spots with good drainage with occasional deep watering.
This collection is from nearly 6000' in San Miguel Co., New Mexico and hardy down to Zone 5. This yucca relative makes dense clumps of thin grassy leaves to 3' tall and holds the dense plumes of creamy flowers nestled in the uppermost leaves. The brown seed heads evoke fat cigars. Young plants for dry situations with good drainage.