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Great Plant Pick: agave-leaf sea holly
The distinctive foliage perennial adds architectural structure to the garden, and is drought-tolerant.
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Great Plant Pick: Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Ayesha’
This shrub’s flowers are unforgettable, especially with a background of dark green conifers. Bit it’s thirsty in summer,…
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Great Plant Pick: Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Kosteri’
This Hinoki cypress is graceful and beautiful, and is very drought-tolerant once established.
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Great Plant Pick: Clematis ‘Rooguchi’
This charming, non-twining vine is ideal for tight situations, and does well in a container.
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Great Plant Pick: Soft shield fern
Once exotic and much sought-after, this plant is now widely available and a treat for almost any garden.
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Great Plant Pick: Chinese fringe tree
This reliable and easy to grow small tree is covered with clusters of fringed white flowers in early…
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Great Plant Pick: orange honeysuckle
Its orange trumpets announce spring is here, and hummingbirds are irresistibly drawn to it.
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Great Plant Pick: zig-zag bamboo
This is one of the very best garden bamboos, and it won’t take over your entire yard.
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Great Plant Pick: Rhododendron ‘Girard’s Fuchsia’
This hardy shrub looks great under spring flowering cherries or dogwoods.
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Great Plant Pick: Epimedium × perralchicum ‘Fröhnleiten’
This German cultivar is a superb ground cover for the Northwest garden.
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Great Plant Pick: Acer palmatum ‘Shindeshojo’
This Japanese maple puts on its most vibrant colors in spring rather than fall.
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Great Plant Picks: Longleaf lungwort
This well-mannered, low-growing garden plant adds pops of color to shady areas.
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Great Plant Pick: yellow trillium
These choice woodland wildflowers will reward your patience with beautiful flowers and a citrus fragrance.
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Great Plant Pick: Magnolia denudata
Creamy white flowers cover the lily tree in spring. Later on in summer, it’s an excellent shade tree.…
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Great Plant Pick: Narcissus ‘Jack Snipe’
This beautiful miniature daffodil heralds the imminent arrival of spring.
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Great Plant Pick: Golden Sword variegated yucca
This easy-to-grow shrub provides strong structural relief to perennial gardens and evergreen color to winter gardens.
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Great Plant Pick: Cryptomeria japonica “Sekkan-sugi”
If you love golden foliage, the golden Japanese cedar is for you. When planted against a dark green…
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Great Plant Pick: Hart’s Tongue fern, Fimbriatum group
With unique fronds that are delicately fringed along the edge of the leaf blade, it’s a distinctive perennial…
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Great Plant Pick: Acer tegmentosum “Joe Witt”
This Manchurian snakebark maple boasts beautiful highly striped white bark that brightens the shade garden.
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Great Plant Pick: Fatshedera lizei ‘Annemieke’
This unusual plant is a rare hybrid between Fatsia japonica and Hedera helix (English ivy).