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…
Pieris ‘Cavatine’
We really, really like Pieris. They’re evergreen, deer resistant, relatively low-maintenance shrubs that grow well in part sun to full shade. They even grow well in containers! In short, they’re pr…
Sarcococca
Fragrant Sweetbox
Dark and shady places – like the north walls of a home – can be extremely challenging sites to plant. Sarcococca, or Sweetbox, is an ideal shrub for low-light situations lik…
Polystichum munitum
Western Sword Fern
The sculptural fronds of ferns provide lots of winter interest, and Western Sword Fern is one of the toughest, most drought tolerant, and easiest ferns to grow in the Rogue Valle…
Anemone hupehensis var. japonica (x hybrida)
Japanese Anemone
One of the standout flowering perennials of fall, Japanese Anemone is a refreshing addition to a part shade garden. They begin flowering when most of our summer-blooming perennials…
Helleborus orientalis
Hellebores, also known as Lenten Roses, are one of those perennials you didn’t know you needed – until you see them blooming their hearts out during the dull gray months of late winter and early s…
Heaths and Heathers
Heaths and Heathers
Heaths and Heathers are two closely-related evergreen shrubs that are great additions to the shade or partial shade garden.
Heaths (Erica sp., see photo to the left) have …
Ribes odoratum ‘Crandall’
Here is a stellar plant that is beautiful, fragrant, and delicious – as well as being good for the birds!
‘Crandall’ Blackcurrant is woefully under-utilized, perhaps people haven’t eaten a cu…
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