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Japanese falsecypress

This dwarf Chamaecyparis  has a weeping habit and gold to lime green finely-textured needles.

‘Oshu Shidare’ Japanese maple

Meadow cranesbill

Deeply cut plum-purple leaves emerge in spring and stay true to color throughout the season.

Paperbark maple

This slow-growing understory tree has highly ornamental, peeling orange-cinnamon bark.

Bottlebrush buckeye

Large palmate-leaved shrub with showy white 12-inch-tall blooms in summer, followed by smooth-skinned fruit.

Boxwood

This upright, oval, dark green boxwood grows to about 3 feet high and wide.

California incense cedar

This large, conical-shaped tree has dark green flattened sprays of evergreen scale-like leaves.

Leatherleaf sedge

Two-foot-tall, stiff, orange-brown blades curve at the end like a shepherd’s staff.

Siberian iris

Attractive, grasslike leaves to 18 inches long are topped by showy flowers in a wide range of colors.

Japanese stewartia

A multistemmed, deciduous tree with a rounded columnar form, stewartia features stunning bark that exfoliates in strips of gray, orange, and reddish brown once the trunk attains a diameter of…