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Acaena microphylla
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ca$ 3.75 |
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| A compact, low growing ground cover with small compound blue-green to copper coloured leaves. Small spherical flower clusters are followed by soft red burrs to 2cm across. Although these burrs look quite spiny, they are in fact soft. |
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Alchemilla erythropoda
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ca$ 4.25 |
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| This clumping perennial has 7-9 lobed blue-green leaves and produces cymes of yellow-green flowers in spring. 8-12 inch height/spread. Makes a lovely groundcover. |
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Alchemilla mollis
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ca$ 4.00 |
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| This clump-forming perennial has rounded, shallowly lobed hairy leaves that are blue-green in colour. Cymes of greenish-yellow flowers are produced in summer. 24-30 inch height and spread. |
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Amelanchier alnifolia
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ca$ 4.15 |
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| This deciduous shrub has oval leaves that turn bright red or yellow in autumn. Bears pure white flowers in racemes up to 3 inches long in late spring, followed by small purple-black fruit. Height and spread 12 feet. With a sweet nutty taste, the fruits have long been eaten by Canada's Aboriginal... |
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Aronia melanocarpa
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ca$ 4.50 |
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| Growing to 1.5m this Aronia is somewhat smaller than the closely related Aronia arbutifolia but still manages to put on a show most seasons. The summer flowers are small but plentiful among the mid to dark green leaves, and are followed by black shiny fruit that can persist well into the winter. |
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Chaenomeles japonica
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ca$ 3.25 |
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| This spreading, deciduous shrub bears abundant clusters of orange to red flowers in early spring, followed by yellow-flushed-red fruit. Height 3 feet; spread 6 feet. |
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Cotoneaster splendens
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ca$ 3.95 |
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| This deciduous shrub has arching branches and rounded glossy green leaves that turn red in fall. In early summer, pink-suffused white flowers appear, followed by round orange fruit. Height 6 feet; spread 8 feet. |
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Crataegus douglasii
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ca$ 3.75 |
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| Large shrub or small tree with thorny branches that bears white corymbs of flowers in spring, followed by black fruit. Fruits were a food source for Native American peoples; thorns were used as fish hooks. |
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Crataegus pinnatifida
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ca$ 3.75 |
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| This small to medium sized tree covers itself in pink blooms in the spring, which at 1.5cm (3/4 of an inch) are large for the genus. The rich red berries persist well into the winter, providing a feast for the eyes, and later for the birds. |
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Cydonia oblonga
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ca$ 3.75 |
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| Cydonia, named after the town of Cydon in Crete, is an ancient fruit that never seems to have caught on much in North America. A large shrub or small tree to 6m (20ft) the Quince is an excellent choice for almost any garden. The aromatic fruit has a vaguely citrus-like scent and is rich in pectin... |
