Great Plant Picks for the Pacific Northwest

Pawpaw

Asimina triloba

3-5" green-yellow fruit with banana custard-like flavor, some say they are best after being frozen. Produces fragrant purple flowers in spring. A small native, normally understory tree, and is the caterpillar host plant of the Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly. Seedling grown. Plant two different varieties or seedlings for pollination. Item# 786.

USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 6,7,8

Grows To: 20'H x 20'W

Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, AM sun in S regions

Quart Pot / 30 fl.oz. / 887 ml

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Peach Perfection® Abelia

Abelia x grandiflora 'SRPabeper' PP30954

It's like having fall color year round! The new growth of Peach Perfection® Abelia offers shades of orange and copper that matures to bright yellow and chartreuse on reddish stems on a compact plant. Spring and summer bring clusters of large bell-shaped, nectar rich, white flowers that draw butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds. The clusters of long-lasting sepals darken to contrasting shades of pink adding to the continuous show of color this reliably tough semi-evergreen shrub has to offer. Provide Peach Perfection® Abelia with a full to mostly sunny position in most any well-drained soil for the best color and optimum flowering. Item# 11474

USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 6,7,8,9

Grows To: 3-4'H x 3-4'W

Outdoor Light: Full sun, Mostly sunny, Part sun, Part shade

4.5 inch Pot / 20 fl.oz. / 591 ml

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Purple Smoke Baptisia, Wild Indigo

Baptisia x 'Purple Smoke'

Dark sturdy spikes are covered by smokey purple pea-shaped flowers with a darker purple eye in mid to late spring. Purple Smoke Baptisia can produce over 100 of the sturdy 2-3' high flowering stems once mature. An accidental hybrid of our native Baptisia alba and B. australis and one of the oldest cultivars on the market, it received top marks in the 2012-15 Baptisia Trials at Mount Cuba Center of 46 different cultivars, seemingly garnering the compact habit from B. australis and the smokey colored stems of B. alba. Baptisias are naturally durable, pest and disease resistant, long-lived perennials and could be considered the Lupine of the South. They make an excellent addition to a sunny perennial or cut-flower garden that is drought resistant, deer resistant, adaptable, easy, and long-lived. Images courtesy of AG 3, Inc, all rights reserved. Item# 11451

USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 4,5,6,7,8,9

Grows To: 2-3'H x 3-4'W

Outdoor Light: Full sun, Mostly sunny, Part shade

3.5 inch Pot / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml

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Setsugekka Sasanqua Camellia

Camellia sasanqua 'Setsugekka'

Large, 4-5" wide, fragrant, semi-double flowers of the purist white with wavy petals and a contrasting boss of golden yellow stamens shine like spotlights against the foil of deep green glossy foliage. Flowering begins early in the season in October continuing into December, with a few flowers into early January. Setsugekka Sasanqua Camellia has a vigorous moderately upright habit that rounds out with at maturity. This dense foliage of this large evergreen shrub lend it to use as a specimen, screen, hedge, or even a small evergreen tree form. The Sasanqua Camellias are tolerant of full sun to part sun conditions. Provide an average moist, average to well drained, moderately fertile, acidic soil rich in organic matter and an organic mulch for optimum vigor and flowering. Item# 10183

USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 7B,8,9,(7A?)

Grows To: 8-10'H x 4-6'W eventually to 10-12'H x 8-10'W

Outdoor Light: Full sun, Mostly sunny, Part shade, AM sun, Part sun, Filtered shade, Bright shade

4.5 inch / 20 fl.oz. / 591 ml

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Walker's Low Catmint

Nepeta racemosa 'Walker's Low', N. x faassenii 'Walker's Low'

Wispy spikes of lavender-blue flowers are produced from mid-spring to fall atop the gray-green foliage of this easy to grow mounding perennial. Walker's Low Catmint was one of the top rated Catmints in trials at the Chicago Botanic Gardens and was one of only four cultivars to receive a five star rating. Drought, deer, disease, and pest resistant as well as a treat for your favorite feline! Provide this durable perennial with a well-drained, preferably sandy or gritty soil, good air circulation, and a full to mostly sunny location for optimum vigor and flowering. The dainty tubular flowers attract a variety of pollinators! A Missouri Botanic Gardens Plants of Merit award winner, a Great Plant Picks for the Pacific Northwest selection, and an RHS Award of Garden Merit winner! Item# 10909

USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 4,5,6,7,8

Grows To: 24-30"H x 24-36"W

Outdoor Light: Full sun, Mostly sunny, Part shade, Afternoon shade in hot climates

3.5 inch Pot / 16 fl.oz. / 473 ml

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Willowleaf Eastern Bluestar

Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia

Only one of two Amsonia species to receive a 5-star rating in the Chicago Botanic Gardens trials! Showy clusters of light blue star-shaped 1" wide flowers are produced in spring atop sturdy stems cloaked in dark green willow-like foliage. The Willowleaf Eastern Bluestar has the same basic habit and growth requirements of the more common Eastern Bluestar, Amsonia tabernaemontana var. tabernaemontana, but with larger showier flower clusters that seem to cover the plant, a neat dense vase-shaped habit, and clean disease resistant foliage. An easy to grow, clump-forming native perennial that is tolerant of wet to average moist soils preferring a full to mostly sunny site in the garden and landscape. The flowers of Bluestars attract butterflies and hummingbird moths. Images courtesy of North Creek Nurseries, all rights reserved. Item# 11945

USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9

Grows To: 3-4'H x 3-4'W

Outdoor Light: Full sun, Mostly sunny, Part shade, Part sun