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A Cody Hinchliff wild collection of this long-blooming Arizonan salvia. The long wait to see what species this would be when it flowered was well rewarded with white centered indigo flowers ensconced by particularly dark calyces that received unanimous approval from the staff. Extremely hardy, to at least zone 6, and with all the usual benefits of sage, pollinator magnet, drought tolerant, deer resistant, fragrant foliage etc. 

The ticklingly named Prawn Sage (unexpected culinary pairing or wizened crustacean?) sports prawn red flowers typical of the genus but with the added flair of attractively felted leaves highlighted by a bright white underside. These were wild collected by Ben Kamm of Sacred Succulents as a part of his effort to source and distribute ethnobotanical plants of the Andes. To that end they like it dry and sunny, the hardiness is also a bit limiting but these are easily grown from cuttings to provide a self-perpetuating supply of annuals in colder climates

A collection from the Northernmost part of the range (Arizona) for this Salvia which reaches all the way down to Central America or just into Northern Mexico depending on where you draw taxonomic lines. An evergreen species, though best cut back in our climates, with hot pink flowers that are gently fuzzy on the upper lip like a pubescent teen, only attractive and charming rather than disconcerting and in need of guidance. Perennial in at least Zone 8 if not slightly lower and can be used as an annual in colder climates.

Double Blood Root. One of the great ephemeral spring flowers with double white waterlily flowers and bold gray-green rounded leaves. Beloved woodlander from the Midwest and the double form is especially covetous. These are at or near flowering-sized divisions and will settle right in your garden.

This was an incidental find as we botanized along a small stream in a rich deciduous forest sprinkled with a remarkable variety of broadleaf evergreen shrubs.  We had a hard time looking above the ground as it was a scatter garden of Ophiopogon, Asarum, Reineckea, ferns and more Hepatica henryi than we ever imagined seeing.  There was a small Sanicula out of flower but we hoped it would be the blue-flowered Sanicula coerulescens which we have grown for many years, although the leaves on this looked a bit different.  Once we flowered the seedlings, we were delighted with the blue flowers and said "Another form of Sanicula coerulescens"!  But then it kept growing and eventually was not unlike a foliar basketball in the garden which is so not coerulescens! Far Reaches plant locksmith, Silas, worked the Sanicula key and with ample caveats that there are few good comparative images online, pronounced it may be Sanicula orthacantha.  Rare or absent in cultivation despite it ranging from India through China into Vietnam and Cambodia.  Shade and moist.  Zone 6 or lower.