All Plants
| Type | Botanical Name | Native | Common Name | Description | Height | Light Req. | Zone | Add to My List |
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| Perennial | Clematis ‘Jackmanii Superba’ | Clematis | Covered with a profusion of dark velvety mauve flowers, with a deeper reddish flush along the midrib with greenish-cream anthers. The 4-petaled blossoms are held wide open and measure 5 in. across. Flowers are followed by silky seed heads. Attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds |
10-12' | Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | Primula denticulata ‘Ronsdorf Strain’ | Drumstick Primrose | Balls of clustered flowers in a mix of red, blue, lavender, lilac and white. Prefers woodlands. |
10-12 | Full Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ABELIA mosanensis ‘Sweet Emotion’ | Fragrant Abelia | Clusters of very fragrant, pale pink flowers through spring on a nicely rounded shrub that has good fall color. |
60-72 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ABELIOPHYLLUM distichum | White Forsythia | Fragrant, early spring-blooming shrub with blush-white forsythia-like flowers. |
3-5 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Annual | ABELMOSCHUS manihot ‘Cream Cup’ | Abelmoschus | Fast growing with larger creamy-yellow hibiscus-like blooms. Blooms all summer when dead-headed. |
4-5 feet | Full sun | |||
| Conifer | ABIES alba ‘Hedge’ | Dwarf Silver Fir | A miniature spreader with short light green needles. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Conifer | ABIES balsamea ‘Tyler Blue’ | Blue Balsam Fir | An attractive silver-blue selection with a traditional pyramidal form. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
| Conifer | ABIES balsamea var. phanerolepis | Canaan Fir | A variety of balsam fir from the mountains of Virginia with an attractive pyramidal habit and dark green foliage banded silver beneath. Tolerant of wet soils. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Conifer | ABIES concolor ‘Alfred Hansen’ | White Fir | A new selection with no info to be found online! We’ll let you know when we know 🙂 |
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| Conifer | ABIES concolor ‘Archer’s Dwarf’ | Dwarf White Fir | Slow-growing dwarf with a conical habit and dense, soft, silver-blue needles. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year) 3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | ABIES concolor ‘Blue Cloak’ | Weeping White Fir | A semi-weeping form with a strong main leader. Powder-blue, medium-sized needles. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
| Conifer | ABIES concolor ‘Candicans’ | White Fir | This is probably one of the bluest conifers. Needles are very big and powder-blue. Form is upright and irregular. |
Large (over 12 inches/year) | Sun | 4 | ||
| Conifer | ABIES concolor ‘Compacta’ syn. ‘Glauca Compacta’ | Dwarf White Fir | A very compact, pyramidal form with good blue color. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Conifer | ABIES concolor ‘King’s Gap’ | Dwarf White Fir | A very slow-growing form with lovely soft blue needles and globose habit. Becomes more pyramidal with age. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Conifer | ABIES concolor ‘Swift’s Silver’ | With soft, silvery-blue needles and a tight pyramidal form this white fir will make an elegant addition to the landscape. |
Full sun | 4 | ||||
| Conifer | ABIES concolor ‘Wintergold’ | White Fir | A broadly pyramidal form with soft butter yellow foliage in winter. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
| Conifer | ABIES concolor ‘Z-Mark’ | Dwarf White Fir | Compact and globe shaped with blue needles. Very cold tolerant. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 2 | ||
| Conifer | ABIES grandis x concolor ‘Leuteneggeri’ | Hybrid Fir | Long, very blue needles and a perfect pyramidal shape. 10-year size is considered a borderline dwarf. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
| Conifer | ABIES koreana ‘Alpine Star’ | Dwarf Korean Fir | Dark green foliage with silver undersides, contrasting white buds and a slow-growing habit — what else could you want from a conifer! Forms a flattened globe eventually becoming more spreading. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Conifer | ABIES koreana ‘Aurea’ | Gold Korean Fir | A beautiful gold foliage form with a more compact habit than the species.Form is upright, but irregular. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
| Conifer | ABIES koreana ‘Blue Emperor’ | Compact and a nice pyramidal form with shiny green needles and attractive purple cones. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||||
| Conifer | ABIES koreana ‘Freudenberg’ | Dwarf Korean Fir | A tidy, dwarf form with small green needles. Broad, conical, upright form. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Conifer | ABIES koreana ‘Gait’ | Korean Fir | A slender columnar form with deep green needles that produces a prolific amount of upright purple-blue cones. Semi-dwarf. Clay/wind tolerant. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Conifer | ABIES koreana ‘Golden Glow’ | Dwarf Korean Fir | A low spreading cultivar with chartreuse-yellow needles and an irregular habit. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
| Conifer | ABIES koreana ‘Green Carpet’ | Dwarf Korean Fir | A low, spreading cultivar with rich green foliage. It forms a tidy, flattened mound. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
| Conifer | ABIES koreana ‘Horstmann’s Silberlocke’ | Korean Fir | Needles are twisted to show silver undersides. Unique! Forms a compact pyramid. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
| Conifer | ABIES koreana ‘Vengels’ | Dwarf Korean Fir | A dwarf, narrow, upright form with open branch structure silver-blue-green foliage. Its seed cones are purple-blue in color and uniquely persistent, with new growth needles emerging from the cone itself- most curious! |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 5 | ||
| ABIES koreocarpa ‘Hurricane Blue’ | ||||||||
| Conifer | ABIES lasiocarpa arizonica ‘Glauca Compacta’ | Dwarf Rocky Mountain Fir | Needles are an attractive blue-gray. Bark is very light colored. Upright, compact habit- even more compact than ‘Glauca’, reaching only about 5 feet in 10 years. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year) 3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
| Conifer | ABIES lasiocarpa ‘Blue Waterfall’ | Weeping Rocky Mountain Fir | A narrow, weeping form with silvery blue foliage. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Conifer | ABIES lasiocarpa ‘Glacier Blue’ | Dwarf Blue Rocky Mountain Fir | A slow-growing blue cultivar — descriptions vary but forms a miniature to dwarf pyramid. Syn. with ‘Glacier Blue’. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
| Conifer | ABIES lasiocarpa ‘Schneider’ | Dwarf Rocky Mountain Fir | A very slow-growing blue-needled form with an upright habit. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Conifer | ABIES nordmanniana ‘Golden Spreader’ | Caucasian Fir | A low spreader with bright golden yellow foliage. Appreciates some shade. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Conifer | ABIES nordmanniana ‘Petra’ | A mini fir that grows to only 4″ tall & 12″ wide. Bright green new growth of soft needles. |
Full sun | 4 | ||||
| Conifer | ABIES nordmanniana ‘Silver Del’ | Nordmann Fir | Slow growing narrow form with cream colored variegation. |
4-8 feet | Full sun | 5 | ||
| Conifer | ABIES procera ‘Glauca Prostrata’ | Dwarf Noble Fir | A low-growing conifer with soft, silvery blue needles. Though only growing to 2 feet tall, it can reach 6’ feet wide making it a lovely evergreen groundcover. Make sure to cut out any vertical leaders to maintain its prostrate form. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 5 | ||
| Annual | ABUTILON ‘Linda Vista Peach’ | Abutilon | Upright grower with peach colored bells and a red calyx. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | ||||
| Annual | ABUTILON pictum ‘Victory’ | Abutilon | Trumpet-shaped bright yellow flowers. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | ||||
| Annual | ABUTILON ‘Victorian Lady’ | Flowering Maple | An upright grower with soft, dangling double pink bell flowers over maple-like foliage. |
3-4 feet | Tropical | |||
| Annual | ABUTILON x ‘Biltmore Ballgown’ | Flowering Maple | Yellow bells with bright orange veining. |
24-36" | Full Sun/Part Shade | Overwinter Indoors | ||
| Annual | ABUTILON x Burgundy | Abutilon | Large deep burgundy flowers. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | ||||
| Perennial | ACANTHUS spinosus | Bear's Breeches | Spikes of white flowers backed with dark red bracts in the summer. Impressive, deeply cut, dark green, thistle-like foliage. Makes a great architectural accent. Needs excellent drainage in the winter. |
3-4 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER griseum | Paper Bark Maple | Beautiful, exfoliating cinnamon bark and good fall color. Needs a protected site in Vermont. Adaptable to different soils and clay tolerant. |
15-20 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER griseum x maximowiczianum ‘Cinnamon Flake’ | Cinnamon Flake Hybrid Maple | Vigorous hybrid with a rounded canopy and striking cinnamon-colored flaking bark. Trifoliate leaves turn beautiful shades of red and orange in the fall. |
20-25 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER japonicum ‘Aconitifolium’ | Full Moon Maple | Unique monkshood-like leaves with beautiful seed pods in spring and wonderful reddish purple foliage in fall. Forms a small, spreading tree. |
8-10 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER japonicum ‘Green Cascade’ | Full Moon Maple | Very finely cut green leaves. A graceful and weeping habit forms a mound with brilliant fall foliage. |
7 feet | Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER japonicum ‘Branford Beauty’ | Full Moon Maple | Unique monkshood-like leaves on a low wide-spreading tree. |
4 feet high by 10 feet wide | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER japonicum ‘Taki No Gawa’ | Full Moon Maple | Large orbicular leaves turn fantastic flaming shades in the fall. Forms a broad-crowned upright tree. |
12-15 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER japonicum ‘Vitifolium’ | Full Moon Maple | A cultivar with lobed, grape-leaf -like foliage that emerges bronze, matures to green and turns back to beautiful sunset shades in the fall. |
10-15 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | ACER palmatum ‘Amber Ghost’ | Japanese Maple | Pink to amber spring foliage is highlighted by darker veins. The leaves mature to deeper amber then turn fiery red and gold in the fall. A Buchholz Nursery intro. |
10-12 feet | Sun/Part Shade | 5 |