Lake Wilderness Arboretum Foundation

www.lakewildernessarboretum.org 22520 224th Ave SE Maple Valley (425) 413-2572 Contact:  info@lakewildernessarboretum.org Featuring: Magnolia virginiana var. australis ‘Henry Hicks’      (semi-evergreen Southern Southern Sweet Bay cultivar) Agapetes ‘Red Elf’ (who would have guessed?) Podocarpus ‘County Park Fire’ Picea sitchensis ‘Papoose’ (making the case for certain Sitka spruce cultivars in the small to very small garden)

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Robyn’s Nest Nursery

Robyn’s Nest Nursery 14324 206th St. SE Snohomish, WA 98296 360-668-6409 Contact: khengel822@frontier.com Robyn’s Nest Nursery is a small nursery specializing in hostas, hardy ferns, astilbes and other shade perennials. They are introducing a new fern, Polystichum munitum ‘Sword Play’, a crested version of our native Sword fern.

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Colvos Creek Nursery

www.colvoscreeknursery.com 20211 Vashon Highway SW Vashon Island, WA 98070 206-749-9508 Contact: colvos@gmail.com Featuring: Northwest natives trillums – T. ovatum penstemons – P. serrulatus, P. heterophyllus, perhaps other native species. tiger lily (Lilium columbianum) vine maple (Acer circinatum) coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) yerba buena (Satureja douglasii) columbine (Aquilegia formosa) silktassel ( Garrya elliptica) goatsbeard (Aruncus dioicus) […]

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Elemental Plants

Treeslivehere.com 13008 -37th Ave NE Seattle, WA  98125 206-518-1855 Contact: davidbiek@clearwire.net Featuring a range of trees and shrubs, emphasizing PNW native species and plants from compatible zones. Elemental Plants propogates almost all of their stock from seeds and cuttings that they collect. At the Spring Plant Sale, look for their Alpine Coneflower – a Wenatchee […]

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Taking Root Nursery

www.takingrootnursery.com 15527 81st Ave. NE Kenmore, WA 98028 425-488-9796 www.takingrootnursery.com Contact: knowsbetter1@comcast.net Taking Root Nursery specializes in top quality, cool and unusual plants. They offer a huge selection of perennials with more than 100 varieties of hostas alone. Shade perennials are one of their specialties so check out their booth for super cool plants. You’ll […]

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Overland Enterprises

www.overlandent.com 12611 4th S.W. Seattle, WA 98146 206-246-5584 www.overlandent.com Contact: meoverholt@aol.com Mark and Susan feature rare and unusual rock garden perennials, epimediums, hostas, small trees and shrubs, and woodland plants like trilliums.

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Species R. valentinianum

Compact shrubs to 4 ft. Flowers (March-April) are bright yellow. Very distinct dark hairy leaves and richly colored flowers on a tender shrub. Found growing on cliffs and stony slopes from 9,000 to 12,000 ft. NE Burma, China.

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