The plant listings follow a consistent format. You will notice that the left column of each description includes the botanic and common plant names. The right column includes growth habit and hardiness zone information, as well as additional information. If you are looking for plants for particular uses or with particular cultural requirements, notice in particular the bold key words before the start of the species descriptions in the right column. The key words dry, moist, and wet refer to the soil conditions which the plant prefers or tolerates. "Moist", as used in the key words, means moist but well drained. Most plants will grow well under such conditions; if there are no key words listed for soil conditions, moist but well drained can be assumed.

Except as noted, plants listed here will usually be shipped in containers, or with a clump of soil. Most perennials will be 4" pot size. Most woody plants will be 4¼" peat pot size.

Plant hardiness is typically given in terms of USDA plant hardiness zones. An online version of the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, (http://www.usna.usda.gov/Hardzone/ushzmap.html) is available. (This is USDA Miscellaneous Publication No. 1475, Issued January 1990.) The American Horticultural Society heat zone map may also be of some interest, although we do not have data on the heat tolerance of our plants.

We have attempted to format listings in a way that makes them easy to use. We welcome suggestions for further improvements to our catalog (or any other suggestions, for that matter).

Complete Plant Listings

If you would like, you can view the entire set of plant listings as a single page. You might want to do this in order to print the entire catalog. Be forewarned that the text plus monochrome images add up to around one and a half megabytes, and the color photo thumbnails could be an additional five megabytes. So will take quite some time to load. Printed, the listings are likely to approach 150 pages in length, so you shouldn't even think about printing the complete listings unless you have a fast printer. You may be better off contacting us and requesting a copy of our print catalog. (However, the on-line catalog may be more up-to-date regarding what plants are currently available, and may contain some plants not mentioned in the print catalog.) If these warnings don't discourage you, click here to view the complete listings in a new window.

The complete plant listings are ordered alphabetically within each category (perennials; grasses and grass-like plants; ferns and mosses; trees, shrubs and woody vines; bamboos). Categories are not explicitly labeled in the on-line listings.