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Ilex aquifolium 'Post Office' (SELF-FRUITFUL HOLLY)

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Hardiness zones 7-9 Found near our local post office, this isolated (as far as we can tell) 10-15' shrub produces prolific berries every year (without a partners help?) handsome shiny spiked foliage...

Magnolia biondii (CHINESE WILLOW-LEAF MAGNOLIA)

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This gorgeous and rare 30-50' tree blooms very early in spring (late-February). The early blossoms give it the pretty name of 'Hope of Spring'. A delightful tree from China, it produces an abundance...

Monarda 'Sugar Buzz® Blue Moon' (BEE BALM)

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Hardiness zones 4-8 This compact hybrid fills out its space in the garden nicely, yet without aggression. It is covered in lavender-blue blooms, with purple bracts, in mid-late summer, attracting...

Forsythia 'Kumson' (GOLDEN BELLS)

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Hardiness zones 5-8 STUNNING! in leaf as well as flower, the leaves of this gracefully arching shrub are brilliantly, vividly etched with a network of silver veins; handsome yellow flowers join the...

Helleborus Winter Jewels® 'Peppermint Ice' (HELLEBORE)

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Hardiness zones 4-9 The large, fully double, lotus-like, picotee flowers on this beauty are light pink with deep pink edges and reddish veins on its undersides. These impressive, nodding blooms stand...

Origanum rotundifolium (ORNAMENTAL OREGANO)

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Hardiness zones 5-9 Bees and butterflies love this fragrant mound of chartreuse foliage with lilac pink summer flowers and mauve calyxes, which continue to share their color long after the flowers...

Helleborus Winter Jewels® 'Cotton Candy' (HELLEBORE)

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Hardiness zones 5-9 These profuse, elegantly double, soft cotton-candy pink flowers are such a treat in the early spring garden. A sign that winter is almost over! Evergreen foliage is...

Mahonia aquifolium (OREGON GRAPE)

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Hardiness zones 5-9 Bright-yellow fragrant flowers in early spring bring rich dusty-blue fruit clusters that make a wonderful jelly. Thick glossy dark-green compound leaves which turn red to bronze...

Variegated Hosta "Pocket of Sunshine"

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Hardiness zones 3-9 The distinctly cupped and corrugated leaves of this cute little Hosta start out with chartreuse centers in the spring, which become brighter yellow as summer approaches, with...

Helleborus Winter Jewels® 'Ruby Wine' (HELLEBORE)

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Hardiness zones 4-9 Burgundy wine red, velvety,single flowers with dramatically contrasting white stamens bloom from late winter into spring. Dark green, leathery foliage is 12-14 inches tall, while...

Firmiana simplex (CHINESE PARASOL TREE)

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Hardiness zones 7-9 This is truly a tree that has to be seen to be believed! This 30-50' tree has huge (up to one foot across!)lobed leaves which are bright-green above a slightly fuzzy below. Summer...

Fargesia rufa 'Green Panda' (CLUMPING BAMBOO)

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Hardiness zones 5-9 Very cold hardy (to 15 below 0F) and vigorous, this beautifully fountain shaped and entirely non-invasive clumper (to 8' x 8') features non-curling leaves and reddish culms making...

Laburnum anagyroides (GOLDENCHAIN TREE)

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Hardiness zones 5-8 In late spring 4-8" pendulous, wisteria-like clusters of golden-yellow pea flowers hang like golden chains from all along the branches of this superb 15-20' tree. Its beautifully...

Helleborus Winter Jewels® 'Amber Gem' (HELLEBORE)

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Hardiness zones 4-9 The incredible double golden-yellow flowers are brushed to the tips with red like a ripe apricot, giving the blossoms an exquisite amber coloration. The gorgeous blooms arise from...

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Izu no hana' (LACECAP HYDRANGEA)

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Hardiness zones 6-9 This UNIQUE lace-cap surrounds its deep-pink center flowers with large pink double florets, each floret containing 14-16 sepals rather than the usual 4 Add dark glossy foliage a...

Helleborus × hybridus 'Pink Spotted Lady' (PINK SPOTTED LENTEN ROSE)

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Hardiness zones 4-9 Flowers of soft pink spotted with deeper rose pink very early in spring top the elegant mound of 12-15" tall evergreen foliage. PSh-Sh/M 

Helleborus Winter Jewels® 'Slate Double' (HELLEBORE)

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Hardiness zones 4-9 A beautifully nodding and floriferous hellebore with double, slate-gray, late-winter to spring flowers standing 18-22 inches tall and spreading about 2 feet. PSh-Sh/M 

Mini Skirt (MINI HOSTA)

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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...

Cotoneaster microphyllus 'Cooperi' (LITTLELEAF COTONEASTER)

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Hardiness zones 5-9 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 

Helleborus orientalis (HELLEBORE)

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Hardiness zones 4-9 The ideal groundcover for deciduous shrubs and trees, this classic perennial provides the gardens with welcome winter flowers whose wide-open faces nod for many months above...

Gardenia jasminoides 'Kleims Hardy' (HARDY GARDENIA)

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Hardiness zones 7-10 You can enjoy the exquisite jasmine perfume of the lovely pure-white single flowers of this compact 3-4' "survivor" indoors OR outdoors; hardy to zone 7; the species is used for...

Helleborus Winter Jewels® 'Black Diamond' (HELLEBORE)

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Hardiness zones 4-9 This dramatically toned Hellebore blooms in late winter-early spring with large, single, cup-shaped flowers of saturated, deep eggplant purple to charcoal black petals. They stand...

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Masja' (MOPHEAD HYDRANGEA)

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Hardiness zones 5-9 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...

Cupressocyparis leylandii 'Gold Rider' (GOLD LEYLAND CYPRESS)

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Hardiness zones 5-9 Among newer selections by far the best is Gold Rider (van Gelderen) a slow-growing Dutch introduction that retains the brilliant golden color of its feathered sprays well during...