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This is one of those plants you can just feel good about planting, endemic to Idaho and vulnerable in its natural habitat, now is certainly a good time to bolster its ex-situ presence! Plus its a great pollinator plants and pretty cute to boot. Stalks of pretty pale purple flowers and nicely feathered leaves. Great addition to the pollinator meadows that are so rightfully vogue right now. Not commonly cultivated so may be hardy past what we are recommending here

An Arizona collection of this Southwestern Mock Orange which makes an excellent rock garden or low-water subject with its dense shrubby habit and fragrant white flowers. The foliage holds its own as well with a mint-green softness provided by the minute pale hairs which coat each leaf that one could in this case call either peach fuzz or mock-orange fuzz, and which require no need of razoring. 

This plant smells so good in flower that it should be illegal or barring that, taxable. This could help with budget shortfalls because it is frankly addictive. One sniff and the response is "Ooh! Do you have this for sale?" Southwest native remarkable hardy with grape koolaid fragrant white flowers in masses. 

A note on identity: This and other pink blotched small-leaved Philadelphus with an effusive odor are likely P. maculatus despite their having been widely distributed as P. madrensis by us and others in the past

The deciduous Photinia beauverdiana is a loose-limbed, sinuous presence in the garden. White flowers are followed by showy clusters of orange-red fruit which hold their position long enough for a slam dunk combination with the autumnal yellow of the leaves. Kelly was standing on a sloped mossy rock stretching to collect a fruit of this for a friend when he fell, holding the fruit safely aloft rather than using his hand to break his fall, and cracked a rib. From that day on, he has trash-talked this graceful species as "That phucking Photinia". A well-loved punchline lost to its taxonomic repositioning into Pourthiaea, well those 'Pour' taxonomists are just gonna have to suck it up cause we give everything for the bit here.