All Plants
| Type | Botanical Name | Native | Common Name | Description | Height | Light Req. | Zone | Add to My List |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PINUS mugo ‘Milky Way’ | Dwarf Mugo Pine | A low, mounding form with white variegation on the needle tips. Best coloration is on the new growth and does best in some shade. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Part Shade | 2 | |||
| Conifer | PINUS mugo ‘Sherwood Compact’ | Dwarf Mugo Pine | Dark green needles form a compact globe. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 2 | ||
| Conifer | PINUS mugo ‘Valley Cushion’ | Dwarf Mugo Pine | A very compact form that grows wider than tall. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 2 | ||
| Conifer | PINUS mugo ‘Wintersonne’ | A compact and dense mugo pine with bright golden color as the temps drop in fall persisting until spring. Best color when planted in full sun. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | 2 | ||||
| Conifer | PINUS nigra ‘Black Prince’ | Dwarf Austrian Black Pine | A low, mounded form with stiff, dark green needles and white buds, which are excellent winter interest. Becomes somewhat more pyramidal with age. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
| Conifer | PINUS nigra ‘Helga’ | Dwarf Austrian Pine | A slow-growing rounded form with rich green needles and prominent buds. Has the appearance of a Japanese Black Pine. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PINUS nigra ‘Pierrick Bregeon’ | Dwarf Austrian Pine | A cross between Pinus densiflora and nigra, very small and flattened globose form with dense branching. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun | 5 | ||
| Conifer | PINUS parviflora ‘Adcock’s Dwarf’ | A dwarf Japanese White Pine that is often used in bonsai and rock gardens. It has a beautiful tiered branching habit. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||||
| Conifer | PINUS parviflora ‘Blue Angel’ (Blauer Engel) | Japanese White Pine | An upright form with very light blue, silvery needles. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
| Conifer | PINUS parviflora ‘Blue Lou’ | Dwarf Japanese White Pine | A dense-growing upright mound with blue-gray needles. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| PINUS parviflora ‘Fukai’ | Dwarf Japanese White Pine | A semi-dwarf broadly pyramidal form with creamy yellow banding on the new growth. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | |||||
| Conifer | PINUS parviflora ‘Fukuzumi’ | Dwarf Japanese White Pine | A good natural Bonsai form with silvery blue-green twisted needles and irregular wide-spreading habit. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
| Conifer | PINUS parviflora ‘Glauca Brevifolia’ | Japanese White Pine | A tall, moderately narrow tree with an open habit and blue-green needles in tight bundles; many persistent cones at a young age. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | Sun | 5 | ||
| Conifer | PINUS parviflora ‘Goldilocks’ | Japanese White Pine | A form with long blue-green needles overlaid with gold. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
| Conifer | PINUS parviflora ‘Hillary’ | Japanese White Pine | Dwarf, narrow, upright pine with irregular branching. Produces beautiful cones, like all Japanese white pines. |
3-4 feet | Full sun | 5 | ||
| Conifer | PINUS parviflora ‘Koru’ | Curved silvery-blue needles cause this small pine to glow in the landscape. It displays irregular branching and a semi-conical habit making it a very interesting addition to the garden. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||||
| Conifer | PINUS pumila ‘Blue Dwarf’ | Dwarf Siberian Pine | Dwarf plant, wider than high, with short incurved blue needles. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PINUS strobus ‘Blue Shag’ | Dwarf White Pine | A Sid Waxman introduction with compact habit and good blue color. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 3 | ||
| PINUS strobus ‘Cortland Rose’ | Dwarf White Pine | A slow-growing, upright selection with short, slightly twisted needles. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | 3 | ||||
| Conifer | PINUS strobus ‘Louie’ | White Pine | Golden foliage all year. Found and introduced by Vermonter Greg Williams. Habit is upright and pyramidal. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PINUS strobus ‘Macopin’ | White Pine | Noted for its excellent cone production this cultivar has an open irregular habit and blue-green foliage. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PINUS strobus ‘Mini Twists’ | Dwarf White Pine | A slow-growing form with soft blue-green twisted needles. Mounding than grows into an upright pyramid. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PINUS strobus ‘Tiny Kurls’ | A dwarf form of our eastern white pine that will for a dense pyramidal shape with twisting blue-green needles. Perfect for smaller gardens. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||||
| Conifer | Pinus strobus ‘Torulosa’ | White Pine | Soft blue-green needles twist and corkscrew giving a fuller more fluffy look. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PINUS sylvestris ‘Albyn Prostrata’ | Dwarf Scotch Pine | One of the best prostrate Scotch pines with needles that remain blue in winter. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 3 | ||
| Conifer | PINUS sylvestris ‘Inverleith’ | Blue-green needles have a creamy-white streaking causing this conifer to glow. An upright and pyramidal growth habit. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||||
| Conifer | PINUS sylvestris ‘Mitsch’s Weeping’ | A weeping and spreading for of Scotch Pine with interesting contorted branches and needles. Older plants will display peeling orange bark. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||||
| Conifer | PINUS x schwernii ‘Wiethorst’ | Schwerin Hybrid Pine | A dwarf selection from a cross between P. strobus and P. wallachiana. Soft green needles with a silver reverse. Forms a broad upright pyramid. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
| Tree/Shrub | PLATANUS occidentalis | Sycamore | Beautiful native tree with alternating patches of white and light brownbark. Habitat is along stream banks or near water. |
40 feet or more | Sun/Part Shade | 5 | ||
| Perennial | PLATYCODON grandiflorus ‘Fairy Snow’ | Balloon Flower | Dwarf form with white flowers veined in blue. Late to emerge in the spring. |
12-14 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | PLATYCODON ‘Pop Star Blue’ | Balloon Flower | Huge balloon flowers on dwarf plants are a sweet pink blooming all summer. Attracts butterflies Deer & rabbit resistant |
6-8" | Full Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | PLATYCODON ‘Popstar Pink’ | Balloon Flower | Balloon-shaped clear pink buds open to huge blooms on compact plants bloom all summer. |
6-8" | Full sun | 3 | ||
| Annual | PLECTRANTHUS collides ‘Mini Variegata’ | Cuban Oregano | Felted, semi-succulent gray-green foliage is edged in cream and is highly aromatic. Trailing stems to 2 feet long. Great in containers. |
10-12 inches | Full Sun/Part Shade | Overwinter Indoors | ||
| Annual | PLECTRANTHUS fosteri ‘Green on Green’ | Swedish Ivy | Thick, soft, velvety leaves are green and edged in lime. |
22-24 inches | Sun/Part Shade | Overwinter Indoors | ||
| Annual | PLECTRANTHUS fosteri ‘Marginatus’ | Swedish Ivy | Very large leaves of dark velvety green with white edges and heavy scalloping on an upright bushy mound. |
28-30 inches | Full Sun/Part Shade | Tropical | ||
| Annual | PLECTRANTHUS ‘Troy’s Gold’ | Swedish Ivy | Compact grower with gold leaves randomly in green. |
Full Sun/Part Shade | Overwinter Indoors | |||
| Annual | PLECTRANTHUS ‘Velvet Elvis’ | Swedish Ivy | Fuzzy deep green leaves with a deep purple underside sport many sprays of lavender flowers in late summer. |
12-24" | Full Sun/Part Shade | Overwinter Indoors | ||
| Perennial | PODOPHYLLUM hexandrum ‘Majus’ | Himalayan Mayapple | A clump-forming mayapple with pink upward-facing cup-shaped flowers in early spring, before the brown, marbled leaves are fully developed. Followed by four-inch egg-shaped seed pods. |
18-20 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | PODOPHYLLUM peltatum | Mayapple | Native wildflower with unique lobed leaves and red fruit in August. |
18 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||
| PODOPHYLLUM ‘Spotty Dotty’ | Asian Mayapple | Large, lobed umbrella-shaped leaves are chartreuse with bizarre chocolate spotting. Large garnet flowers are clustered under the foliage. Worth a try in sheltered Zone 5 gardens. |
16-18 inches | Part Shade | 6 | |||
| Perennial | POLEMONIUM boreale ‘Heavenly Habit’ | Jacob's Ladder | Large blue, lightly fragrant flowers with white centers appear on upright stalks in spring. Glossy fern-like foliage forms a compact mound. |
10-12 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | POLEMONIUM caeruleum ‘Brise d’Anjou’ | Jacob's Ladder | ‘Brise d’Anjou’ boasts beautiful cream-and-green variegated foliage all season. Violet-blue flowers appear from late spring to early summer. This variety of Jacob’s ladder prefers rich, consistently moist, well-drained soil and cooler climates. |
12" | Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | POLEMONIUM reptans | Jacob's Ladder | This woodland native bears delicate light blue flowers over a tidy mound of ladder-like foliage in late spring. |
12-18 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | POLEMONIUM reptans ‘Touch of Class’ | Jacob's Ladder | A selection from our native Jacob’s Ladder with purported better variegation, hardiness and vigor than P. ‘Stairway to Heaven’. Silvery blue spring blooms. |
14-16 inches | Sun/Part Shade/Shade | 3 | ||
| Perennial | POLYGONATUM cryptanthum | Hidden Solomon's Seal | Interesting species with a pair of small cream bells hidden under a pair of yellow-green bracts. |
14-16 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | POLYGONATUM odoratum ‘Variegatum’ | Variegated Solomon’s Seal | Green, edged in white, variegated foliage with reddish stems. Attractive arching habit and small dangling bells in spring. |
8-10 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||
| Perennial | POLYGONATUM humile | Dwarf Solomon’s Seal | Very dwarf form spreading slowly with white flowers in late spring. Nice small scale groundcover. |
6-8 inches | Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||
| POLYGONATUM odoratum ‘Byakko’ | Variegated Solomon’s Seal | Red stems with leaves that emerge solid green, then the half closer to the stem turns creamy white. Reasonably vigorous for a variegated plant. |
14-16 inches | Part Shade/Shade | ||||
| Perennial | POLYGONATUM odoratum ‘Carlisle’ | A much more distinct variegation than on the one known as ‘Variegatum’. Wide margins of creamy-white on slowly spreading stems. Dangling bells of white in spring. |
Part Shade/Shade | 4 | ||||
| Perennial | POLYGONATUM ‘Prince Charming’ | Hybrid Solomon's Seal | This hybrid between P. biflorum and P. humile is covered with small white bells on arching stems in the spring. Forms a dense mat of blue-green foliage. |
12-14 inches | Part Shade | 4 |