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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,...

BREWER'S SPRUCE Picea breweriana

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Hardiness zones 6-8 Rare and beautiful, this small-medium conical tree with graceful pendulous branches looks like a majestic green fountain. S/M-GDr 

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...

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...

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...

Magnolia grandiflora 'D. D. Blanchard' (EVERGREEN MAGNOLIA)

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Hardiness zones 7-9 In addition to its sweetly fragrant white globe flowers, this special southern Magnolia has leaves that are glossy on the top but a showy rusty-orange on their undersides, a...

Pittosporum tobira 'Variegatum' (VARIEGATED MOCK ORANGE)

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The bold lustrous gray-green leaves of this 6-8' shrub are attractively edged in creamy-white making a showy, compact mound of evergreen foliage highlighted in spring by delightfully...

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...

Pinus attenuata (KNOBCONE PINE)

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Hardiness zones 7-9 In poor soil disdained by other pines, this adaptable 30-60' tree happily forms an open, irregular crown made of deep-green 4-5" needles. Its distinctive cones need fire to open,...

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 halepensis (ALEPPO PINE)

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This lovey and distinct pine from the Mediterranean region is drought-tolerant and can quickly colonize disturbed areas. As such, it is often used for reforesting in warmer areas. Generally reaching ...

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...

Pinus pinaster (CLUSTER PINE)

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Hardiness zones 7-9 This 90-120' tree is densely planted in France where its tapped (like a rubber tree) for its high-turpentine-resin sap; reddish, deeply-fissured bark curved, 7-10" needles and...

Mahonia fortunei (CHINESE MAHONIA)

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Hardiness zones 7-9 Distinctive, narrow, matte-green leaflets radiate out on this unusual, narrow upright shrub 5-8' tall. Sweetly-scented, bright, lemon- yellow flowers appear in autumn, borne in...

Magnolia virginiana (SWEETBAY MAGNOLIA)

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Hardiness zones 5-10 The glorious southeastern U.S. native can be incredibly variable in growth habit. In northern climes, it tends to reach 15-20' with a suckering multi-stemmed habit. In southern...

Monarda didyma 'Sugar Buzz® Rockin Raspberry' (BEE BALM)

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Hardiness zones 4-8 Clumps of vigorous, well-branched stems hold large, deep raspberry-purple blooms for weeks, from mid to late summer, attracting pollinators of all types. The fragrant, deep-green...

Monarda 'Sugar Buzz® Grape Gumball' (BEE BALM)

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Hardiness zones 4-9 The vibrant magenta blooms of this compact hybrid form a bright dome on strong, well-branched stems, over its dark-green, fragrant foliage, in mid-late summer. A striking choice...