These vines do not produce edible fruit, but their beauty is certainly food for the soul. Let them drape and climb their way into your landscape with elegance, fragrance, and color. We offer large well rooted vines in one gallon pots.
(3 or more $8.50; 5 or more $6.00/Each) An upright grower with long clusters of beautiful deep red flowers. Grows 8-10' tall. USDA Zones 7-9 or lower in sheltered places.
3 OR MORE $10.00/EACH This old time rugosa hybrid has pure white, semi-double blooms with an intense fragrance. The leathery, wrinkled, dark green foliage is disease resistant. Large orange-red hips follow blooms. 5' x 4'. Plant 3' apart to make a great hedge.
(Gunnera manicata) Very similar to its cousin, this Gunnera is from the mountains of Brazil and Columbia. It is also known as giant rhubarb. It may grow even a little larger but is a little less winter hardy taking temperatures down to 14° F. Grow it like its Chilean cousin. One Gallon Pot.
These are seedlings from 3000 feet up in the coastal mountains of Chile where they grow as 6Æ tall understory bushes in ôalerceö Chilean cedar forests. The beautiful flowers have red sepals and a purple corolla though as seedlings they will be variable. The edible fruit is purple when ripe and is favored in making marmalade. Like other hardy fuschias they would benefit from a winter mulch in colder winter areas. Select two to insure pollination. Estimated USDA Zones 7-9. Give them partial sun (full sun in cool summer areas is fine!) and a well drained, moist soil out of drying winds. One gallon pot.
(Hydrangea macrophylla 'Vienna Ramars') This hydrangea has very unusual eye catching variegated flowers of white and blue in acid soil or white and red/pink in alkaline. This European selection only grows to 2-3' tall and wide but its sturdy stems allow it to support loads of long lasting gorgeous flowers. USDA Zones 5-9. One gallon size.
(Paulownia tomentosa) It is a very fast growing dense shade tree for the Pacific Northwest and other areas with mild winters. It is hardy in USDA Zones 7-10. The wood is extremely valuable and has many uses. In colder parts of its range, for the first few years, the new growth dies back each winter but tremendous summer growth more than compensates. In Japan, the wood is traditionally used to make dowry chests and other furniture. Each spring, the tree is covered with clusters of trumpet shaped two inch long fragrant flowers that are lilac blue; a display of spectacular beauty. They provide good bee forage in the spring. Young trees grow best if given a lot of water in summer. Even young trees have two foot diameter heart shaped leaves.
This upright shrub grows to 8' tall and produces showy golden yellow flowers in early spring. From Canada, it has vibrant flower color. It is a reliable plant for the North. USDA Zones 3-8
(Salix caprea) You know spring is finally here when put the first of the pussy willow branches in a vase. Before leafing out, this plant produces an abundance of fat, woolly, pinkish gray catkins about one inch long. It can be kept to shrub size by cutting it to ground every few years and letting it resprout. Untended it can grow to 15-25 ft tall. USDA Zones 4-9. rs.
Native to the lower altitudes in Tibet, this shrub is also called Chocolate berry, this is an amazing edible ornamental. Golden Lanterns has brightly colored golden heart shaped leaves, with reddish new growth and pendulous white and burgundy colored flowers. In the South it's a beautiful year round upright shrub to 6' tall but in the north it dies back to the ground each winter and resprouts. It is hardy to Zone 6 if mulched. In late summer and early fall it produces lots of small round green berries that turn dark purple when ripe. They have a flavor akin to bitter chocolate. It likes well drained soil and attracts butterflies and bees. USDA Zones 6-10. One gallon pot.
This is a new dwarf buddleia male sterile hybrid that doesn't produce pollen or many viable seeds, so it's not invasive. Yet it has the fragrance and butterfly appeal of traditional varieties. The bush grows to only 2-3 feet tall. Enjoy its beautiful blue colored blooms from mid summer through fall without deadheadings. It's frost tolerant and easy to grow in full sun and well drained soil. One gallon pot.
