Alpine Currant
$19.00 CAD
Plant for a purpose
Find plants by what you want them to bring to your garden.
Which currant for fruit, flowers or a hedge?
Seven currants grown for different reasons: native fruit and wildlife, spring flowers, or a dense hedge.
American elderberry or a named selection?
Compare a spreading species shrub, two named fruit selections and an ornamental grown for golden foliage.
Red, black or white Nanking cherry?
Three bush cherries with red, black or white fruit.
Hedges and screens
Grow a living boundary, soften a fence or shelter a corner from wind. Choose dense shrubs for clipping, evergreen cover, or a thicket with room to spread.
Dense, rounded growth for a hedge or border.
A drought tolerant living fence or windbreak.
Common Ninebark Plugs
$9.00 CAD
Grows fast and dense; good for a screen.
Hedge Cotoneaster (Cotoneaster lucidus)
$15.00 CAD
Clips into a formal hedge, or grows as a natural screen.
Northern White Cedar (Thuja occidentalis)
$15.00 CAD
Evergreen screen; deer can browse it heavily.
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Amur Maple
$15.00 CADNotify me: Amur Maple
A compact screen for a smaller landscape.
Sloe or Blackthorn
$15.00 CAD
Dense, thorny growth that suckers into a thicket.
Hedge packs · save 20 to 26%
Plant a hedge
Caragana and alpine currant in packs for a hedge, windbreak or border.
Caragana Hedge Pack, 5 plugs
Caragana, 5 plugs · $35.00 ($7.00 each, $9.00 singly)
Alpine Currant Hedge Pack, 3 pots
Alpine currant, 3 pots · $45.00 ($15.00 each, $19.00 singly)
Alpine Currant Hedge Pack, 5 pots
Alpine currant, 5 pots · $70.00 ($14.00 each, $19.00 singly)
For birds and pollinators
Give birds and pollinators food through different parts of the season. Spring flowers, later berries and spreading cover each do a different job.
Deep red spring flowers feed hummingbirds; later berries feed birds. A local trial.
Wax Currant
$19.00 CAD
Flowers for bees and hummingbirds, berries for wildlife.
Skunk Currant
$15.00 CADChoose options: Skunk Currant
A low woodland ground layer for wildlife and native pollinators.
Nannyberry
$15.00 CAD
Spring flowers and blue black fruit for birds; suckers into cover.
Wolf Willow
$9.00 CADChoose options: Wolf Willow
Fruit for wildlife on a spreading shrub that tolerates dry, poor soil.
Virginia Creeper
$15.00 CAD
Fruit for birds and a vigorous climbing cover; needs room and control. Fruit is not edible for people.
Red orange berries attract birds in late summer and fall.
Pussy Willow
$10.00 CADChoose options: Pussy Willow
Early catkins provide pollen for bees on moist or wet ground.
Bunchberry (Cornus canadensis)
$15.00 CAD
A woodland groundcover with red berries for birds and small mammals.
Native fruit worth knowing
Grow fruit shrubs for your kitchen and for wildlife. A mix of flowers, berries and cover makes room for both in the garden.
Dark fruit and wildlife habitat from Manitoba collected seed; berries can ripen unevenly.
Sour red berries and cover for wildlife in a wet or boggy spot.
Crandall clove currant cuttings (Ribes odoratum), shown to illustrate the species.
Clove Currant
$19.00 CAD
Fragrant spring flowers and tart to sweet tart fruit, with shelter for wildlife.
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Sweet tart green fruit and habitat for pollinators and wildlife.
Canadian Gooseberry
$15.00 CAD
Green to reddish fruit on a densely spined shrub that supports wildlife.
August fruit on a native Great Plains shrub.
A compact thicket with black fruit that can remain into winter for wildlife.
Tart red plums for jam and preserves, with food and cover for wildlife.
Wild Raspberry
$12.00 CAD
Fruit from local wild raspberry stands; brighter light generally brings more fruit.
American Elderberry
$12.00 CAD
Fruit for preserves and wildlife cover; use only fully ripe berries cooked, with stems removed.
Nannyberry
$15.00 CAD
Sweet blue black fruit for preserves and birds, on a suckering shrub.
Hackberry
$9.00 CAD
Sweet fruit that can hang into winter and feed birds and mammals.
Unusual fruit to try
Make room for a fruit you have not grown before. These give you different flavours and uses, with the variation and pollination needs of seedlings kept in mind.
Sweet, slightly tart red berries for eating fresh or drying.
Cherry Prinsepia (Prinsepia sinensis)
$15.00 CAD
An uncommon fruit shrub with tart, cherry like fruit.
Aron’s purple black fruit is used for juice and preserves; these seedlings can vary.
Quince Seedlings
$12.00 CAD
Try fruiting quince for preserves; these seedlings can vary in fruit and growth.
Tatarian White Mulberry
$12.00 CAD
Explore white to pink mulberries; seedlings include male and female plants. Plant only where ecologically appropriate.
Sea Buckthorn Seedlings
$12.00 CAD
Tart fruit for juice and preserves; fruit requires both sexes, and these seedlings’ sex is unknown.
Sloe or Blackthorn
$15.00 CAD
Small blue black fruit on a dense, thorny thicket.
Tough sites
Plant for the ground you have when a spot is dry, sandy or poor. These shrubs bring flowers, shelter or fruit to those sites; some need time to establish.
Wolf Willow
$9.00 CADChoose options: Wolf Willow
Tolerates sandy, dry and poor ground; spreads for windbreaks or erosion control.
A drought tolerant shrub for a windbreak or living fence.
Crandall clove currant cuttings (Ribes odoratum), shown to illustrate the species.
Clove Currant
$19.00 CAD
Fragrant flowers and fruit on canes that tolerate drought and alkaline soil.
Cherry Prinsepia (Prinsepia sinensis)
$15.00 CAD
Tolerates poor soil and drought once established.
Wax Currant
$19.00 CAD
Flowers and wildlife fruit for dry, rocky slopes; being evaluated here.
Wet or shady corners
Use a wet or shaded corner for woodland cover, flowers or wildlife. Match the plant to the moisture and light it needs.
A low, spreading shrub for bogs, wet woodland and stream margins.
Skunk Currant
$15.00 CADChoose options: Skunk Currant
A low woodland ground layer for wildlife and native pollinators.
Pussy Willow
$10.00 CADChoose options: Pussy Willow
Tolerates wet ground and suits a rain garden or naturalized planting.
Bunchberry (Cornus canadensis)
$15.00 CAD
A spreading groundcover for cool, moist, acidic soil in shade.
Mountain Maple
$9.00 CAD
A small understory maple for cool, moist woodland conditions.
Shade and specimen trees
Plant a tree for shade, autumn colour or a focal point. Choose a compact tree for a smaller space, or leave room for a larger crown.
Hackberry
$9.00 CAD
Sweet fruit that can hang into winter and feed birds and mammals.
Ohio Buckeye
$12.00 CAD
Rounded shade and dense foliage; drought can scorch leaves. Seeds are poisonous.
Paper Birch
$9.00 CADChoose options: Paper Birch
Fast growth and white peeling bark, with seeds and buds for wildlife.
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Amur Maple
$15.00 CADNotify me: Amur Maple
A compact specimen tree with red and orange fall colour.
Mountain Maple
$9.00 CAD
A small understory maple for cool, moist woodland conditions.
A specimen tree with red orange berries that attract birds.
Flowers and fragrance
Bring scent and spring colour close to a path or sitting place. Fragrant lilacs and currants offer different flowers, with hummingbirds drawn to Twisp River’s red clusters.
Common Purple Lilac
$15.00 CAD
Strongly fragrant purple flowers in late spring.
Pink Lilac
$16.00 CAD
White and pink flowers from a lilac growing on our farm.
Crandall clove currant cuttings (Ribes odoratum), shown to illustrate the species.
Clove Currant
$19.00 CAD
Fragrant yellow spring flowers, followed by late summer fruit.
Deep red spring flowers for hummingbirds; a local trial.