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This is a true jewel and one we always look forward to seeing in the fall when the tabletop sized patch of low dense dark green leaves are alight with outrageous large white daisy flowers. Talk about contrast with so many of the hot colors of Autumn! In taxonomic flux, we previously offered this as Nipponanthemum nipponicum. The white flowers take on some pink-lavender tones as they age and all looks quite good over the dark green foliage.

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Barnardia japonica (syn. Scilla scillioides)

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Barnardia japonica (syn. Scilla scillioides)

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Fricking taxonomists - we were so happy with Scilla scillioides. Choice and seldom offered Chines/Japan/Korean bulb that flowers in late summer with 10"-15" stems of Scilla-like pinkish-lavender flowers without the distraction of its grassy leaves. Pretty cool and easy naturalizer that we can finally offer.

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Roscoea scillifolia f. atropurpurea

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Roscoea scillifolia f. atropurpurea

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We quite love the Roscoea clan and we have a special affection for this one which challenges for top honors as having the smallest flowers in the genus. Why would I want the small flowered one you ask? Because these small orchid-like flowers are an intensely colored black-maroon like a Lapin Cherry reduction dessert sauce is why.

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Reineckea carnea 'Jinfo Jewel' MD 10-171

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Reineckea carnea 'Jinfo Jewel' MD 10-171

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A distinctly smaller form with wider and shorter leaves than any of the dozen or so clones we grow. This was found on the summit of Jinfoshan where it was growing in deep moss on top of hard limestone Stegosaurus outcrops in a miniature stone forest. We thought this might be a new subspecies at least but DNA puts it squarely in R. carnea. The scented pink and white flowers are much more visible in this form than in the typical range of the species and we felt it merited a clonal name.

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Polygonatum prattii - Tetraploid Form MD 12-15

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Polygonatum prattii - Tetraploid Form MD 12-15

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Scented Solomon Seal. Our collection from 10000' of this vigorous form of the species identified for us by Dr. Aaron Floden. We have other collections of this species which get just 3" tall but this collection gets near 3x that. The expected soft-pink bells are scented which is an endearing, if subtle, attribute.

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Anemone nemorosa 'Blue Beauty'

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Anemone nemorosa 'Blue Beauty'

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Soft pale blue flowers on this clone which we brought in from the UK a few years ago. This species seems a necessary part of the spring woodland garden and the twiggy rhizomes will in time form a dense floriferous carpet with flowers backed by deeply segmented green leaves.

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Hosta 'Little Aurora'

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Hosta 'Little Aurora'

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This is a gleaming bit of sunshine carried into your shadowed shade garden and released. The cupped leaves to just 5" high bring more light to their bit of turf than their size would suggest. The small light lilac flowers are nice but incidental because with this Hosta it is all about the glow.

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Bergenia 'Ballawley'

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Bergenia 'Ballawley'

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Large green leaves in summer becoming muted somber puce in winter. This either heightens or lessens Seasonal Affective Disorder depending on how much you like puce. We do, so when we struggle emotionally with the unrelenting gray, a stroll by Ballawley keeps us briefly but firmly tethered. Tall rich pink flowers.

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Primula denticulata - mixed colors

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Primula denticulata - mixed colors

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Seedlings of this Drumstick Primrose from a red or "Rubin" flowered selection which will undoubtedly be all over the map in flower color as long as that map runs from point blue to point red since we cleverly have this growing near a blue denticulata. The older we get, the more we know and the less able to act on it apparently! Pedigree aside, these bastard children will easily become accepted members of the garden's upper crust through sheer perseverance and irrefutable beauty.. If yours turns out red, feel free to call it 'Rubin Selection'.

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Anemone nemorosa 'Pink Carpet'

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Anemone nemorosa 'Pink Carpet'

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This uncommon wood anemone clone offers pale pink flowers to bring light to the dark of the shade garden. One of our Scottish acquisitions of which we have a scant few to share. Will live up to its name in time.

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Commelina tuberosa

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Commelina tuberosa

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Striking blue flowers emerging one per day from clusters of buds held in a clasped purse=like sheath. The flowers open in the morning and close in the afternoon. The purity of blue is unrivalled. Loves full sun and fairly drought tolerant and reseeds nicely to create a showy clump.

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Gunnera magellanica

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Gunnera magellanica

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A diminutive relative to the more familiar Jurassic Gunnera. This has a creeping habit making a low dense groundcover with rounded leaves. Herbaceous, the new leaves emerge in late March to April. It does flower albeit in the most insignificant manner with small pinkish brown feeble attempts. Loves a rich moist soil - mulch if bitter cold.

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Roscoea tibetica f. albo-roseus

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Roscoea tibetica f. albo-roseus

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This is a little charmer from a Diana Reeck collection in Yunnan which is quite short to just a few 6" tall but with very lovely pinkish and white flowers. When we see this bloom it takes us back to those same woods where saw this same species a year after Diana collected its seed in 1996, This is a sturdy little fellow increasing each year by offsets and reseeding a bit. We're terribly fond of this one.

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Ophiopogon cf. umbraticola MD 15-13

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Ophiopogon cf. umbraticola MD 15-13

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We grow an unreasonable amount of different Ophiopogon or mondo grass species and varieties. Unreasonable because they mostly just fuse together into one globular grassy ball in the mind due to their lack of distinguishing characters. The forbidden blue jelly beans of this particular collection are vivid as ever. Wild collected umbraticola is good enough already but if that's what this is then it is a particularly fine form with a large profusion of both flowers and fruits, with the latter being on the larger side of those we have encountered. Being called "dwarf" must have given these a Napoleon complex that led them to excel in other areas...

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Begonia sp. MD12-74

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Begonia sp. MD12-74

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Our collection from southern China in an area little botanized by westerners. Green palmata-type leaves are admittedly unremarkable but the leggy red stems which bear these leaves and pink flowers aloft, lissome limbs gleaming like Chihuly glass. This has handled a hard Seattle winter with a bit of bark mulch.

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Bergenia purpurascens

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Bergenia purpurascens

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Plants from wild seed of this Himalayan Bergenia species that we seem incapable of having too many different collections of. Its easy to see why when the red flushed new leaves arrive. Those leaves are smaller than other species and form a nice low mat with dark pink flowers in the Spring.

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Coprosma rugosa

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Coprosma rugosa

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An unusual member of this New Zealand endemic genus, shrubby evergreen with extremely fine needle-like foliage that varies in color from dark green to russet tones of gold and brown. The fascinating fruit are sheeny, translucent, pale purple to dark blue berries. Can grow to a dense and yet airily architectural mass of 5ft. Fairly hardy as it hails from sub-alpine zones, should manage alright in Zone 8 and up.

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Carex macrocephala

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Carex macrocephala

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Ahh the beach, sun, salt, spray and....botanizing? What can we say we can't help ourselves, and locally when doing some beachside botanizing what is likely to draw you in is that perfect beach body, hairy and bigheaded, that's right we're talking Carex macrocephala, the big-headed sedge. Normal grassy sedges have edges leaves but with far more flower power than your average Carex. Rare in cultivation so sandy and well-draining if you want to be safe, but will likely tolerate a wide range of conditions like its brethren.

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Hepatica nobilis 'Cremar'

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Hepatica nobilis 'Cremar'

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Choice selection with ruffled heavily marbled leaves and light pink flowers. You normally grow Hepatica for the early spring flowers and any foliar enhancement is pure gravy but with Cremar, flowers bow their heads to the majesty of the leaves. Quite a choice plant and does well in light shade with decent drainage.

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Iris 'Scramble'

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Iris 'Scramble'

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We are pleased to be the first to introduce this excellent Sibirica Iris to North America. We were visiting John Grimshaw, plantsman extraordinaire and Director of the Yorkshire Arboretum, and walking about his home garden when he asked if we would like a bit of an Iris he had named with lovely scrambled egg flowers of yellow and cream. We said yes, of course because while we might be comparatively brutish colonists, we ain't without a certain native wit. Very floriferous on a shorter plant with flowers well-displayed. When Cotswold Garden Plants first introduced this in the UK in 2011, John mused on his blog about how nice it would be to receive a voluntary royalty which he could use to help fund the educational needs of a Maasai child he is sponsoring. School doesn't get less expensive as you get older so we are going to give $5 from each plant sold back to John.

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