Zone 6

GOLDENRAIN TREE (Koelreuteria paniculata)

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The dainty, feathery, pinnate foliage emerges a soft, copper color before maturing to bright-green. Unusual, small, star shaped, bright-yellow flowers hang in 15" panicles; when the flowers drop you have a 'golden rain'. Flowers become showy, curious,...

MINI HOSTA (Mini Skirt)

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Thick, wavy leaves of green with margins of yellow form adorable mini mounds 5 inches tall and about a foot wide. Its summer racemes are pale lavender, and stand just a few inches above the colorful foliage. A lovely little plant for full to partial...

WINTER YELLOW JASMINE Jasminum nudiflorum

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These very early-yellow flowers on the yet-winter-naked twigs of this 3-10' shrub seem to hasten spring along; the flowers are not fragrant but are still such a wonderful winter treat! S-PSh/M ...

LITTLELEAF COTONEASTER Cotoneaster microphyllus (Cooperi)

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A very small, dense mound with tiny leaves, untempermental and rewarding for bonsai or rock garden. Late summer, red berries contrast beautifully on the dense mounds. S/M-D Zone 6

YELLOW-FRUITED HOLLY YELIlex opaca (Longwood Gardens)

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A lovely yellow-fruited holly with an interesting history. Originally purchased by F.L. Belin from an unknown man, and planted at Longwood Gardens, by Pierre s Du Pont. Propagation since 1950s. S/M ...

MOPHEAD HYDRANGEA Hydrangea macrophylla (Masja)

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For container, small yard, or front-of-the-border accent, this 2-3' semi-dwarf sport of Alpengluhen not only produces one crop of showy 4-6" red ball- shaped flowers” but often two, along with handsome glossy foliage. S-PSh/M ...

JAPANESE FOREST GRASS Hakonechloa macra (Beni Kaze)

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Creating a graceful, rippling stream of soft-green all summer long and becoming a symphony of reds in the fall when the blades of this 2-3' clumper turn shades of crimson and scarlet. The Japanese translation means 'Red Wind' which seems a perfect...

VARIEGATED HARDY FUCHSIA (Fuchsia magellanica) 'Variegata'

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Hardiness zones 6-9 A striking small shrub whose gray-green leaves are variegated with cream and blush pink, creating a pretty backdrop for the small, pendulous scarlet and purple flowers which dangle along the arching branches. S-PSh/M 

BEE BEE TREE Evodia Tetradium daniellii

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A lovely garden addition in flower and fruit! This medium-sized rounded tree (to 50') has long 9-15"compound leaves and produces flat-topped clusters of small white flowers that are much enjoyed by bees in late summer when many other plants have already...

VERY HARDY FUCHSIA (Fuchsia) 'Riccartonii'

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Hardiness zones 6-9 Perhaps the hardiest variety, this small upright shrub (to 3' x 3') is especially pretty when it produces its small dark-red and purple flowers during much of the summer; your hummers will love it too! S-PSh/M 

YELLOW HARDY FUCHSIA (Fuchsia magellanica) "Aurea"

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Hardiness zones 6-10 This unusual form of the always-enjoyable Hardy Fuchsia (to 2') adds some bright color to a shady picture with its yellow leaves and contrasting reddish stems and tubular flowers. S-PSh/M 

HOSTA "Hadspen Blue"

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Charming mounds of powdery soft-looking, steel blue-gray leaves are thick, remarkably textured and cupped. Its muted tones pair beautifully with variegated and boldly colored cultivars. Summertime brings flower spikes of pale lavender trumpets which...

PUMPKIN ASH Fraxinus profunda (tomentosa)

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This native tree of river bottoms and swamps, mid-west to southeast, becomes a narrow 50-100' tree whose long (to 17") feather-like (compound) leaves are a dark yellow-green; seeds are enjoyed by wildlife. S-PSh/M-W ...

JAPANESE RAISIN TREE Hovenia dulcis

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A handsome small tree (to 35') for lawn or street with pleasing gray-ridged bark and polished dark-green foliage; although the fruit itself isnt edible, its sweetish raisin-like stalk is eaten and used traditionally as medicine in Japan, China and Korea...

HOSTA (Hosta abiqua) Abiqua Drinking Gourd

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Hardiness zones 3-9 Like tiny blue mountain-lakes, the intensely cupped and puckered leaves of this hosta with its white mid-summer flowers make it an attractive and distinctive specimen; (Walden West) 

HELLEBORE Helleborus Honeymoon "Irish Luck"

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Hardiness zones 4-9 Large single flowers of lime green with burgundy centers bloom readily in spring, and may last for 6 weeks! The spent blooms are attractive as well, and will last for weeks as well. They stand 18-24 inches above dark-green...

HELLEBORE Helleborus Honeymoon "Sandy Shores"

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Hardiness zones 4-9 The elegant, single flowers of 'Sandy Shores' are blushed with apricot surrounding their burgundy flecked centers on the interior side, and rosy-pink on the outside. These beautiful, two-toned flowers nod above the contrasting...

GOLD-VARIEGATED RED-TWIG (Cornus sericea) 'Hedgerows Gold'

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Hardiness zones 3-8 Bright and colorful every season of the year! Its deep red stems, eye-catching in winter, are clothed with showy golden-yellow and green variegated leaves in spring-summer, which turn various shades of pink and red for fall. Plant...

CORAL COREOPSIS Coreopsis (Desert Coral)

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Large flowers of dark peachy-coral have deep sienna-red eyes. The blooms just cover this divine perennial all season-long; as soon as one falls another takes its place! With its dwarf 1' mounding habit there is space in every garden for at least a few!...

BLUE CORYDALIS Corydalis (Blue Heron)

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Large cluster of vibrant sapphire-blue flowers over dissected blue-green foliage place this 6-10" mounder a cut above the rest. Lovely in a shady garden where it will bloom spring into summer. PSh-Sh/M Zone 6

RED-TWIG DOGWOOD (Cornus alba) 'Siberian Pearls'

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Hardiness zones 2-8 Its' Siberian hardiness and a profusion of white flowers, followed by white berries, like white (turning blue with age) pearls along the red branches in fall, give this shrub dogwood its name. S-PSh/M-W 

CAMELLIA Camellia japonica (Pink Icicle)

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A vigorous Camellia with beautiful shell pink petals irregularly surrounding many golden stamens. From winter through early spring, clear pink flowers stand out exquisitely against the dark green, glossy foliage. Zone 6

COLUMNAR PLUM-YEW Cephalotaxus harringtonia (Fastigiata)

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The Asian equivalent of the Irish Yew, this erect-branched, 10-15' shrub has 2-3", deep, almost-black green needles densely arranged all around its branches; garden originated and much used in Japan. PSh-Sh/M/GDr ...

GOLDEN NECTAR BUSH (Buddleia weyeriana) 'Golden Glow'

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Hardiness zones 5-9 Long beautiful panicles of fragrant golden-yellow flowers bloom over a LONG late-spring-through-fall season and attract every butterfly, moth around! If you have only one Buddleia, this should be the one. S/M