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Pot Mature Name Price Common Light P=PerennialSoil qt=quart; 1g=1 gallon PS=Part Sun; Sh=ShadeDescription sz ht S=Shrub; T=Tree Sunvillea™ Dwarf Salmon-pink flower bracts, spring thru summer. Diminutive size with mounding habit that works well in terrace Tr Bougainvillea 'Kasumi' $9 qt Sun Dry/Moist 1-3' Bougainvillea containers. Drought tolerant once established. 1.5-2 feet wide. Must be wintered indoors. Striking late blooming sage from Brazil that grows upright to 6' tall; statuesque. Velvety, reddish purple stems PS Salvia confertiflora $9 1 g Red Velvet Sage Sun Dry/Moist 5-6' laden with fuzzy vermilion colored flowers. September-November. Hardy Zone 9. Unusual evergreen geophyte native to South Africa. Sword-shaped, pleated leaves & bright orange rhizomes. Wachendorfia PS $9 qt Red Root Sun Moist 3-6' Dense cylindrical panicles of starry golden-orange flowers with dark marks on lower petals. Zone 8-9. May- thyrsiflora August bloom. 2-3 feet wide. Actaea japonica 'White (Cimicifuga) From the founders of We-Du Nursery via Dale Hendricks comes this first time offered perennial with P $16 1 g Bugbane, baneberry S/Sh Moist 2.5' Lightning' upright flower spikes (12-15") with clear white flowers in autumn. Rare in gardens. Recognizably rosy flowers and bluish foliage form from the late & great Seneca Hill Perennial Nursery, founded Dicentra cucullaria Dutchman's P $12 qt PS/Sh Moist 6-12" by Ellen Hornig, who grew very distinctive plants she collected from plant connoisseurs. A spring ephemeral that (Blush pink form) Breeches disappears before summer arrives so plant where nearby plants take over space. Epimedium Barrenwort, Fairy Stunning, wine-purple flowers w.white spur tips in spring, appear before new leaves. Drought tolerant P grandiflorum 'Pierre's $16 1 g PS/Sh Dry/Moist 1-1.25' Wings groundcover. Named for Pierre Bennerup of Sunny Border Nurseries who shared w.Darrell Probst. Purple' Epimedium Barrenwort, Fairy Epimedium guru Darrell Probst introduction. Purple-chocolate tinted new leaves emerging in spring with light P xyoungianum 'Royal $16 1 g PS/Sh Moist 1' Wings lavender flowers mid-spring. Foliage fades to green. Strong growing groundcover. Flush' Persicaria long Deep red flower spikes midsummer-late fall furnish long lasting show. Dynamite in combo with grasses, P amplexicaulis 'Fat $12 Fleece Flower Sun/Sh Moist/Wet 2.5-3' qt Amsonia, and many others. Tough plant. New from Belgium Persicaria breeding program. Domino' Callicarpa americana American Native beautyberry with light pink fruit, a distinct departure from any other selection available. Clear yellow fall S $35 1 g S/PS Moist 5-8' 'Welch's Pink' Beautyberry foliage. Wine Spritzer Callicarpa dichotoma Green foliage heavily spritzed w.cream complemented by wine-colored new stem growth. Lavender summer S $45 1 g Variegated Sun/PS Moist 6-12' 'Shiji Murasaki' flowers, bright purple fruit that last fall-early winter. Foliage is main display. Beautyberry Rare in the wilds of China, even rarer in cultivation. Fragrant, creamy white funnel-shaped flowers surrounded S Emmenopterys henryi $35 1 g Emmenopterys Sun/PS Moist 15-25' by large white bracts, summer. Be patient, may take many years to flower. Hydrangea aspera Large leaved hydrangea has new spring growth that emerges deep burgundy. Huge mauve-pink laecap flowers S $35 1 g Hydrangea Sun/Sh Moist 3-5' 'Burgundy Bliss' top the stout stems in summer. Color best when planted in dappled (high) shade. Rhodoleia henryi Broadleaved evergreen member of witch hazel family, w.emerging bronze foliage that turns rich green. Vibrant, S $45 3 g Henry's Rhodoleia Sun Dry/Moist 4-6 'Scarlet Bells' 2-3 inch diameter rose-pink to red flowers March-April. Hardy to Zone 7, possibly 6. A close relative of Styrax (snowbell) but much rarer, with 1-inch, bell-shaped white flowers and yellow stamens S Sinojackia xylocarpa $35 1 g Jacktree S/PS Dry/Moist 10-15 in spring. Small pendulous fruits in fall; yellow autumn color. Syn. Damacanthus indicus. Odd little deciduous woody subshru native to China with congested twisted stems S Smilax nana $35 qt Dwarf Greenbrier Sun/Sh Dry/Moist 1 and stoloniferous habit but not invasive in the least. A plant to stump the experts. Stewartia Native. Typically a large, multi-branched shrub growing nearly as wide as tall. 2.5-3.5 inch diameter white S $45 1 g Silky Stewartia PS/Sh Moist 10-15' malacodendron flowers (July) have violet filaments and blue anthers. Very difficult to find plant. PS=tender perennial; P=perennial; S=shrub; Tr=tropical qt=quart; 1g=1 gallon PS=Part Sun; Sh=Shade.