2009 Great Plant Picks: The list

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PERENNIALS AND BULBS

Collection of arisaema (cobra lilies)

Arisaema candidissimum

Arisaema consanguineum

Arisaema ringens

Arisaema sikokianum

Arisaema triphyllum

Collection of groundcover campanulas (bellflowers)

Campanula “Birch Hybrid”

Campanula portenschlagiana

Campanula portenschlagiana “Resholdt’s Variety”

Campanula poscharskyana

Campanula poscharskyana “Blue Waterfall”

Campanula rotundifolia

Collection of cyrtomium (holly ferns)

Cyrtomium caryotideum

Cyrtomium falcatum

Cyrtomium fortunei

Cyrtomium macrophyllum

Cyrtomium falcatum “Rochfordianum”

Dichelostemma congestum (ookow)

Dichelostemma ida-maia “Pink Diamond” (pink firecracker flower)

Collection of echinacea (cone flowers)

Echinacea purpurea “Bravado”

Echinacea purpurea “Magnus”

Echinacea purpurea “White Swan”

Echinacea purpurea “Leuchtstern” Bright Star

Collection of euphorbia (Mediterranean spurge)

Euphorbia characias subspecies wulfenii “John Tomlinson”

Euphorbia characias subspecies wulfenii “Lambrook Gold”

Euphorbia characias subspecies characias “Humpty Dumpty”

Collection of ground­cover hardy geraniums

Geranium × cantabrigiense and its cultivars, “Biokovo,” “Cambridge,” “Karmina”

Geranium macrorrhizum and its cultivars, “Album,” “Bevan’s Variety,” “Czakor,” “Ingwersen’s Variety”

Collection of miniature narcissus (daffodils)

Narcissus “Jack Snipe”

Narcissus “Tete-a-tete”

Narcissus “February Gold”

Collection of tricyrtis (toad lilies)

Tricyrtis “Sinonome”

Tricyrtis “Taipei Silk”

Tricyrtis “Tojen”

Tricyrtis formosana “Gilt Edge”

Tricyrtis formosana “Samurai”

Collection of tritelia (fools onion)

Triteleia “Corrina”

Triteleia laxa “Queen Fabiola”

Triteleia ixioides “Starlight”

Penstemon “Blue Midnight”

Collection of groundcover sedums

Sedum “Bertram Anderson”

Sedum cauticola, “Lidakense”

Sedum cyaneum

Sedum kamtschaticum var. ellacombianum

Sedum ewersii

Sedum kamtschaticum

Sedum kamtschaticum “Variegatum”

Sedum kamtschaticum “Weinstephaner Gold”

Sedum kimnachii

Sedum (Rhodiola) pachyclados

Sedum pluricaule var. ezawe (“Island of Sakhalin”)

Sedum selskianum

Sedum sieboldii

SHRUBS &VINES

Abelia × grandiflora, “Mardi Gras” (variegated abelia)

Caryopteris × clandonensis “Dark Night” (bluebeard)

Caryopteris incana “Jason” Sunshine Blue (golden bluebeard)

Cotoneaster cooperi (Cooper’s cotoneaster)

Cotoneaster glaucophyllus (gray leaf cotoneaster)

Cotoneaster salicifolius “Repens” (spreading willowleaf cotoneaster)

Forsythia “Fiesta” (variegated forsythia)

Hydrangea “Preziosa” (mophead hydrangea)

Collection of hydrangea macrophylla (lacecap hydrangeas)

Hydrangea macrophylla “Blaumeise”

Hydrangea macrophylla “Lanarth White”

Hydrangea macrophylla “Mariesii Lilacina”

Hydrangea macrophylla “Mariesii”

Hydrangea macrophylla “Mariesii Perfecta”

Kalmia latifolia “Keepsake” (mountain laurel)

Mahonia repens (creeping Oregon grape)

Prunus laurocerasus “Mount Vernon” (dwarf English laurel)

Collection of evergreen azaleas

Rhododendron “Blue Danube”

Rhododendron “Girard’s Crimson”

Rhododendron “Girard’s Fuchsia”

Rhododendron “Glacier”

Rhododendron “Hardy Gardenia”

Rhododendron “Herbert”

Rhododendron “Hino-crimson”

Rhododendron “Hinode-giri”

Sarcococca ruscifolia (sweetbox)

Spiraea betulifolia “Tor” (birch-leaf spirea)

Weigela florida “Alexandra” Wine and Roses

Weigela florida “Variegata” (variegated weigela)

Yucca filamentosa (Adam’s needle)

Yucca flaccida (Adam’s needle)

Yucca recurvifolia (curve-leaf yucca)

Clematis “Betty Corning”(viticella clematis)

Hedera colchica “Dentata Variegata” (variegated Persian ivy)

TREES AND CONIFERS

Acer shirasawanum “Autumn Moon” (autumn moon maple)

Asimina triloba (pawpaw)

Catalpa bignonioides “Aurea” (golden catalpa)

Chamaecyparis pisifera “Filifera Aurea Nana” (dwarf golden threadleaf cypress)

Cladrastis kentukea (yellowwood)

Fagus sylvatica “Rohanii” (cutleaf purple beech)

Fargesia murielae (umbrella bamboo)

Gymnocladus dioica (Kentucky coffee tree)

Magnolia × loebneri “Leonard Messel” (pink Loebner magnolia)

Magnolia virginiana “Jim Wilson” Moonglow (sweet bay magnolia)

Quercus frainetto (Hungarian oak)

Quercus phellos (willow oak)

Thujopsis dolabrata “Nana” (dwarf hiba cedar)

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