Zone 5

Liquidambar styraciflua 'Variegata' (VARIEGATED SWEETGUM)

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The leaves of this 30-50' x 25' tree arent only bright in fall but happily striped and mottled with yellow all season. S/M ...

Physocarpus opulifolius 'Tiny Wine' (PURPLE-LEAVED NINEBARK)

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Hardiness zones 3-8 A fantastic and colorful ninebark that can fit into any garden or container! Only 4 tall with tiny dark purplish-bronze leaves that contrast with the bright-white spring flowers. 

Liatris spicata (WHITE BLAZING STAR)

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Hardiness zones 3-9 Like its purple brother, these bright-white 1-2' spikes are an exceptionally good cut flower (fresh or dried), attractive to butterflies, and a lovely addition to the border,...

Picea rubens (RED SPRUCE)

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Hardiness zones 2-7, 8 Reddish-brown bark and shoots give this Northeastern U.S. 60-75' tree its common name of Red Spruce, a long lived and large (to 150' in its native climates) specimen that is a...

Prunus avium 'Lapins' (SWEET CHERRY)

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Hardiness zones 5-9 This wonderful tree is beautiful as well as producing delicious Bing-like cherries! Masses of bright white flowers in the spring become large, dark-red cherries which are firm and...

Liatris spicata (DWARF PURPLE BLAZING STAR)

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Hardiness zones 3-9 Spectacular plants in summer these more petite (1-2' not 3-4') but just as brilliant, bottle-brush spikes of brilliant mauve-pink flowers arise from grassy foliage. S/M 

Platanus acerifolia 'Bloodgood' (LONDON PLANE TREE)

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Hardiness zones 5-9 A beauty of a large park-like tree to 40-80' tall x 30-40' wide, which is handsome, vigorous and with a nice symmetrical form, bright-green palmate leaves that turn a bronzy...

Nyssa sylvatica (TUPELO/BLACK GUM)

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Hardiness zones 3-9 A wonderful and adaptable tree to 30-60' that is much loved by honeybees. With a stately rounded habit and horizontal branching, this wonderful eastern native is found primarily...

Picea pungens (BLUE SPRUCE)

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Hardiness zones 2-7, 8 This popular specimen tree is a blue spruce from seed that has been collected from the Apache National forest in Arizona, where the trees tend to be more blue than green. The...

Metasequoia glyptostroboides (DAWN REDWOOD)

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This awe-inspiring tree was known only as a fossil before being rediscovered in 1941 in Modaoqi, China by forester T. Kan; this fast-growing redwood-like tree can reach 70-100'or more! Wonderful,...

Physocarpus opulifolius 'Summer Wine' (NINEBARK)

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Hardiness zones 3-8 Dark-wine, fine-textured foliage highlighted by pink-white early summer flowers and a more compact (to 5-6') habit recommend this fine border or foundation shrub highly. S/M (not...

Lonicera periclymenum 'G.S.Thomas' (YELLOW-FLOWERED HONEYSUCKLE)

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Plant this vigorous 20' vine near a bench or patio where you can enjoy the wonderful evening fragrance of its creamy-white flowers which mature to yellow (not a trace of pink or purple), the blooms...

Nepeta 'Picture Purrfect' (LOW-GROWING CATMINT)

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Hardiness zones 3-8 Broad-spreading and compact, 'Picture Purrfect' is low-maintenance, beautiful and aromatic. Its periwinkle-purple flowers are larger than typical and when temperatures are...

Physocarpus opulifolius 'Ginger Wine' (NINEBARK)

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Hardiness zones 3-8 Outstanding burgundy-red foliage on this fine upright (to 6') shrub really glow in the summer sun, bright white spring flowers become decorative red seedheads for added interest...

Pinus leucodermis 'syn. heldreichii' (BOSNIAN PINE)

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The Bosnian pine is a delightful and distinctive conifer to 50-80' with dark-green needles in pairs which form very dense foliage on striking upright branches that are decorated with small cones of...

Liriope muscari 'Big Blue' (LAVENDER LILYTURF)

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Lilyturf is a fabulous, low-maintenance groundcover which can thrive in even the most challenging sites. This pretty perennial can tolerate a wide range of conditions from full sun to shade, clay to...

Nepeta faassenii 'Walkers Low' (LOW CATMINT)

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Hardiness zones 3-8 This is a beautiful plant with a confusing name! The 'Low' is for a place in England not the plants growth habit. This is a wonderfully versatile drought-tolerant perennial...

Oxydendrum arboreum (SOURWOOD)

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Hardiness zones 5-9 Sourwood is an excellent shrubby tree from the eastern United States, most commonly in the lower Appalachian Mountains. Generally reaching 20-30' in cultivation it can reach as...

Pinus ponderosa (PONDEROSA PINE)

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Hardiness zones 3-8 The attractive and long-lived Ponderosa Pine is native to the western United States and Canada. Featuring long, dark-green needles bundled in threes and handsome, scaly, plated,...

Pinus jeffreyi (JEFFREY PINE)

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Hardiness zones 4-8 This pyramidal, tall tree 80-120' native to SW Oregon to Baja has short, spreading, sometimes pendulous branches, striking platy cinnamon bark and long gray-green needles, this...

Magnolia virginiana 'Silver Mist' (SWEETBAY MAGNOLIA)

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This eastern North American cultivar is distinguished from the species, by its silvery leaf undersides, which look spectacular in a breeze, its dense canopy and compact conical shape. It blooms...

Lonicera fragrantissima (WINTER HONEYSUCKLE)

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It is truly a winter delight when this gracefully arching 6-15' shrub bears its pretty creamy-white flowers with their irresistible and far-reaching scent! It is perhaps the most penetrating and...

Malus fusca (PACIFIC CRABAPPLE)

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Hardiness zones 4-8 A thicket-forming shrub or small tree with thorny spur branches, this native crab has attractive spring flowers followed by small red-yellow apples. Would make a good bonsai! S/M 

Pinus thunbergii (JAPANESE BLACK PINE)

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Hardiness zones 5-8 Used over the centuries in Japan for bonsai and garden. The Japanese Black Pine is best known for its rugged trunk and thick, slightly-twisted needles and branches. It also...