Berries Attract Wildlife
Mahonia ‘Soft Caress’
Threadleaf Mahonia
If you’re looking for a compact, easy care evergreen shrub that provides year-round interest – and will thrive in a dry shade garden – consider Mahonia ‘Soft Caress’!
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Mahonia species
Being a local native plant, Mahonias can take both our winter wet and summer dry, and can be very drought tolerant once established. Their thick leathery leaves and spiny edges also make them unpa…
Ribes sanguineum ‘King Edward’
‘King Edward’ Red Flowering Currant
Flowering currants are one of the glories of the early Spring garden, with their cascades of brightly-colored flowers and soft green, scalloped leaves. And one o…
Blackberry ‘Triple Crown’
‘Triple Crown’ Blackberry
‘Triple Crown’ Thornless Blackberry will surprise you with its vigor, the size of its berries, and the length of its harvest season.
Blackberries are one of the easier ber…
Lycium barbarum
Goji Berry
Also known as ‘Wolfberry’, the Goji Berry is widely recognized as a superfood – with high nutrient and anti-oxidant properties – makes a great addition to your edible landscape. Both the…
Arbutus unedo ‘Compacta’
Compact Strawberry Tree
Compact Strawberry Tree is one of our favorites for so many reasons: it can tolerate sun or shade, is drought tolerant, provides fall flowers for the hummingbirds, has lon…
Prunus lusitanica
Portuguese Laurel
Evergreen hedges are a great way to create a privacy screen, a windbreak, or even a ‘green wall’ to use as a backdrop for a selection of vibrant, colorful selection of shrubs and …
Rhus ‘Gro-Low’
Rhus aromatica ‘Gro-Low’ is another one of those plants we like to feature here in our Plant of the Week column, because it checks all our boxes: a native plant; deer resistant and drought tolerant…