Pacific Northwest Plants

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    Tea-oil camellia

    Camellia oleifera

    This small tree from China can reach a little over 20 feet tall and about half as wide.

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    Dwarf bluestar

    Amsonia montana 'Short Stack’

    Chalk up another great plant introduction from the folks at Plant Delights Nursery in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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    Fragrant snowbell

    Styrax obassia

    This plant is a small tree or large shrub reaching 30 feet tall and 20 feet wide.

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    Common privet

    Ligustrum vulgare and cvs.

    Privet is a bushy, deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub with oval to lance-shaped dark green leaves.

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    Scotch broom

    Cytisus scoparius

    Scotch broom is an upright, deciduous shrub with slender, arching shoots.

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    Cast-iron plant

    Aspidistra elatior

    This is an ovate, glossy-leaved plant usually grown as a houseplant.

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    Kunth’s maiden fern

    Thelypteris kunthii

    This robust fern with graceful light green foliage on triangular fronds a foot wide grows 3 to 4 feet tall with equal spread.

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    New Zealand wind grass

    Stipa arundinacea

    This evergreen species makes a handsome specimen with narrow, arching foliage that is streaked orange in summer and becomes orange-brown in winter.

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    Double Japanese aster

    Kalimeris pinnatifida

    This upright bushy perennial has softly hairy, mid-green lower leaves to 3 inches long and lance-shaped upper leaves to 1 inch long.

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    Cut-leaved toothwort

    Cardamine laciniata

    Cut-leaved toothwort has sharply cut foliage and single white, lavender, or pink nodding flowers that bloom in early spring.