All Plants
Type | Botanical Name | Native | Common Name | Description | Height | Light Req. | Zone | Add to My List |
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Conifer | PINUS mugo ‘Slowmound’ | Dwarf Mugo Pine | The ideal mugo — a dark green dense mound. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 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 ‘Zundert’ | Gold Mugo Pine | Bright green foliage turns striking gold in the winter. Habit is dwarf and rounded. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Full Sun/Part Shade | 2 | ||
Conifer | PINUS nigra ‘Bambino’ | Dwarf Austrian Black Pine | Tight, rounded, mounded habit; very dwarf and very slow growing; long thin, green needles. Sometimes called ‘Gaelle Bregeon’. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
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 ‘Komet’ | Austrian Pine | An excellent vertical accent with upward growing branches and narrow habit. Attractive dark green needles from white buds. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Full 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 ‘Bergman’ | Japanese White Pine | Long, twisted blue-green needles on a dense, irregular and upright plant. Red pollen cones. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | 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 Giant’ | Japanese White Pine | An upright pyramidal form with recurved gray-blue 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 | ||
Conifer | PINUS parviflora ‘Burke’s Bonsai’ | Dwarf Japanese White Pine | Short, blue-green needles on an open, upright dwarf. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Conifer | PINUS parviflora ‘Catherine Elizabeth’ | Dwarf Japanese White Pine | A form with short, blue-green needles and rounded habit. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
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 | ||
PINUS parviflora ‘Glauca Nana’ | Dwarf Japanese White Pine | A dwarf form with upright, irregular growth habit and short blue-green needles in tufts. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | |||||
Conifer | PINUS parviflora ‘Kinpo’ | Dwarf Japanese White Pine | A slow-growing form with dark blue-green needles and an irregular picturesque habit. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | Sun | 4 | ||
Conifer | PINUS parviflora ‘Negishi’ | Japanese White Pine | A slower-growing form with twisted blue-green needles and upright habit. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Conifer | PINUS parviflora ‘Shimane’ | Japanese White Pine | Variegated needles gold & green. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | Sun | 5 | ||
Conifer | PINUS parviflora ‘Tempelhof’ | Japanese White Pine | A vigorous upright form with blue-green needles and cones at a young age. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Conifer | PINUS peuce ‘Pacific Blue’ | Macedonian Pine | Beautiful long, thin blue needles on a dense-growing upright pyramid. An Iseli Nursery introduction. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Conifer | PINUS ponderosa ‘Dixie’ | Ponderosa Pine | This cultivar has the same long green needles of the species, but its habit is dwarf and rounded. We’ve had a Ponderosa pine growing here for several years and the needles are quite amazing! |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | 5 | |||
Conifer | PINUS pumila ‘Dwarf Blue’ | 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 pumila ‘Jeddeloh’ | Dwarf Siberian Pine | A flat-growing, wide-spreading form with bluish needles. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Full Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
Conifer | PINUS pumila ‘Chlorocarpa’ | Dwarf Siberian Pine | A dense low spreader with greenish cones growing 2 feet tall by 3 feet wide in 10 years. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 2 | ||
Conifer | PINUS strobus ‘Angel Falls’ | Weeping White Pine | A narrow weeper if staked, otherwise forms a cascading mound. An improvement of P. strobus ‘Pendula’ — denser and slower growing. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
Conifer | Pinus strobus ‘Blue Clovers’ | Eastern White Pine | Very blue needles with a slight twist. |
large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 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 ‘Glauca Nana’ | Dwarf White Pine | A dense, mounded form with blue-green foliage that grows wider than tall. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 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 ‘Niagara Falls’ | Weeping White Pine | This compact, weeping form boasts many draping branches and long, two-tone needles. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year) | Sun | 3 | ||
Conifer | PINUS strobus ‘Pendula’ | Weeping White Pine | Graceful weeping tree with soft-textured blue-green needles. Grows as wide as tall. |
Large (over 12 inches/year)over 12 feet in ten years. | Sun | 3 | ||
Conifer | PINUS strobus ‘Sea Urchin’ | Dwarf White Pine | Soft blue-green needles on a dense-growing globe. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
PINUS strobus ‘Shaggy Dog’ | Dwarf White Pine | A spreading form with an irregular, somewhat upright habit. |
Dwarf (3-6 inches/year)3-6 feet in ten years. | 3 | ||||
Conifer | PINUS strobus ‘Shaggy Dog’ | Shaggy Dog White Pine | A dwarf, spreading, selection of eastern white pine. Branching is uniform and layered. The soft needles are medium green in color and shorter than many consider to be typical of the species. Eventually will become broadly pyramidal. |
Dwarf 1-6 inches/year (1 to 5 feet in 10 years) | Full Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
Conifer | PINUS strobus ‘Squiggles’ | Dwarf White Pine | The name says it all! A miniature globose mound with blue-green twisted needles. |
Miniature (less than 3 inches/year)Less than 3 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
Conifer | PINUS strobus x ayachuite ‘Domingo’ | Hybrid White Pine | Densely pyramidal in shape, a relatively fast grower, and richly blue-green in color. Needs less pruning to keep its shape. It has long, soft, blue green needles. Drought resistant. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year) 6-12 feet in ten years. | Full 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 ‘Gold Coin’ | Scotch Pine | A cultivar with almost translucent, glowing yellow needles in winter. Form is upright and dense. |
Intermediate (6-12 inches/year)6-12 feet in ten years. | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
Conifer | PINUS 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 | ||
Perennial | PLATYCODON grandiflorus ‘Double Blue’ | Balloon Flower | Double flowers of violet-blue with darker veins opening from rounded buds resembling balloons! Blooms all summer and is a long-lived perennial. Attracts butterflies Great cut flower Deer resistant |
22-24 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Perennial | PLATYCODON grandiflorus ‘Florist Pink’ | Balloon Flower | Large shell pink bell flowers on tall stems in midsummer. Inflated buds that open into star-shaped, single, pink blossoms. Remove faded blooms to encourage fresh buds to form. Because they come up very late in the spring, consider planting tulips or daffodils beside the clump to mark the location. Deer resistant |
26-28 inches | Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
Perennial | PLATYCODON grandiflorus ‘Florist White’ | Balloon Flower | Large white bell flowers on tall stems in midsummer. inflated buds that open into star-shaped, single, white blossoms. Remove faded blooms to encourage fresh buds to form. Because they come up very late in the spring, consider planting tulips or daffodils beside the clump to mark the location. Deer resistant |
26-28 inches | Full Sun/Part Shade | 4 | ||
Perennial | PLATYCODON grandiflorus ‘Mariesii’ | Balloon Flower | Compact-growing violet-blue bells emerge from balloon-like buds in midsummer. Lovely with coneflowers and Rudbeckias. Remove faded blooms to encourage fresh buds to form. Because they come up very late in the spring, consider planting tulips or daffodils beside the clump to mark the location. Great cut flower Deer resistant |
18-24 inches | Full Sun/Part Shade | 3 | ||
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 | ||
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 |