Hessei Cotoneaster is a highly ornamental plant that can tolerate neglect and poor soil. This deciduous shrub is just starting its fall color with maroon to purple foliage. When the leaves drop the architectural stems will hold their red berries in winter. In late spring the plant is covered with …
Winter is coming! We've got one of our personal favorites as our plant of the week! Peppermint Pearl Wintergreen is an evergreen groundcover that gets up to 8 inches tall and 12 inches wide. They have an elegant pink-white flower that form in early to mid summer, red leaves upon …
Sango Kaku Japanese Maple is best known for its bright red stems, and its small size. The Sango Kaku Maple is an absolute showpiece in a small, partly shaded yard. The small leaves emerge pinkish yellow in the spring, mature to a lime green, then produce yellow orange fall color …
Calamagrostis ‘Karl Foerster’ is a summer wonder grass, tall and stately, perfect for back of the perennial bed. The flower spikes emerge white in summer and turn burgundy in the fall. They hold up to wind and rain, so their spikes often look good until February before needing to be …
Orange Rocket Barberry adds both structure and color to the year-round landscape. Berberis are extremely easy care plants in our Pacific Northwest climate; they are tolerant of salt and pollution, need minimal supplemental watering, and look better unpruned. Orange Rocket has a unique shape getting 4-5’ tall and only 2-3 …
Are you ready for some year-round color!? We have the plant for you, this week’s plant of the week is the Gold Splash Wintercreeper. It has evergreen foliage and a 2-foot by 2-foot growing habit that thrives in part shade (4-6 hours of sun exposure). Gold Splash is disease …
The landscape is looking pretty bleak right now! What you need is a colorful golden evergreen grass while you wait for spring. Evergold Japanese Sedge grass is just so versatile! Evergold looks good spilling over a walkway or rock garden to soften the hardscape. It is fantastic in a pot …
Looking for a boxwood alternative? Gembox Inkberry Holly is a new introductions by Proven Winners. Gembox Inkberry Holly is evergreen, grows in sun or part sun, and is slow growing so won’t require the same pruning as a boxwood to look tidy. Most of all its disease resistant, so …
Go native! These are beautiful right now with their grey foliage and graceful stems, the tiny flower buds bring the promise of their real draw. The white berries are highly decorative through fall and winter, though not toxic, they are not tasty to birds or humans. Native to the Pacific …
Summer Wine Ninebark is a gracefully arching shrub with maroon-purple foliage and lightly fragrant pale pink blooms. Summer Wine Ninebark is an extremely low maintenance shrub in our climate, it is drought tolerant when established, and no pruning is necessary, unless to harvest the branches to add to flair to …
