Shade Trees
Katsura (Cercidiphyllum)
Red Maple 'October Glory' or 'Red Sunset' (Acer rubrum)
Sourwood (Oxydendrum)
Flowering Trees
Flowering Pear (Pyrus)
Japanese Snowbell (Styrax)
Kousa (Cornus) Full Sun Only
Redbud 'Forest Pansy' (Cercis)
Stewartia
Conifer Trees
Alaska Cedar
Chamaecyparis 'Blue Surprise'(good for narrow space, but need height)
Deodar Cedar (Cedrus)
Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendedron)
Incense Cedar (Calocedrus) (columnar good for screening)
Juniper 'Skyrocket'(good for narrow space, but need height)
Leylandii Cypress (Cupressocyparis)
Mt Hemlock (Tsuga)
Yew 'Brownii' (Taxus)
Many Dwarf Conifer Too Many to List Here
(Do not plant spruce of any kind!!!)
Many pines for example Ponderosa grows east of the mountains but here just too wet!!
Here in PNW try Shore Pine and Scotch Pine
Large Shrubs -Deciduous
Chokeberry (Aronia)
Doublefile Viburnum
Ninebark 'Diabolo' (Physocarpus)
Paperbark Maple (Acer griseum)
Red Flowering Currant (Ribes) most other native shrubs
Smoke Tree (Cotinus)
Barberry 'Crimson Velvet' or 'Rosy Glow'(Berberis)
Weigela (all)
Witchhazel (Hamamelis)
Coralbark Japanese Maple
Willow 'Hakuro Nishiki'
Large Shrubs - Evergreen
Silverberry 'Maculta' (Elaeagnus)
Osmanthus 'Goshiki'
Strawberry Bush (Arbutus)
Ceanothus 'Victoria’
Choisya
Escallonia
Barberry 'Willian Penn' (Berberis)
Aralia (Fatsia japonica)
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Medium Deciduous Shrubs
(3 to 5 feet tall)
Japanese Spirea 'Shirobana'
Japanese Spirea 'Little Princess'
Oakleaf Hydrangea 'Pee Wee' or 'Sikes Dwarf'(Hydrangea quercifolia)
Shrub or Landscape Roses
Virginia Sweetspire (Itea)
Medium Evergreen Shrubs
(3 to 5 feet tall)
'Rainbow' Leucothoe
Cranberry Cotoneaster 'Tom Thumb'
Dwarf Pieris 'Cavatine' or 'Prelude'
Hardy Fuchsia (Fuchsia magellanica)
Heather 'Spring Torch'
Heavenly Bamboo 'Bar Harbor' (Nandina)
Hebe (many)
New Zealand Flax (Phormium)
Rockrose (Cistus)
Sarcococca
Skimma japonica
Ornamental Grass (most low maintenance - list my favorites here)
Acornus 'Ogon'
Blue Oat Grass (Helictotrichon)
Fountain Grass 'Hameln' ( Pennisetum)
Japanese Forest Grass 'Aureola'(Hakkonechloa)
Japanese Variegated Sedge (Carex)
Maiden Grass 'Morning Light' (Miscanthus)
Moor Grass 'Vareigata' (Molina)
(Avoid Blue Fescue too wet in PNW)
Ferns
(those listed here are surprisingly drought tolerant and evergreen)
Korean Rock Fern (Polystichum)
Long-Eared Holly Fern (Polystichum)
Sword Fern (Polystichum)
Tassel Fern (Polystichum)
Perennial and /or Groundcover
Rockcress (Arabis)
Aster (dwarf varieties like Wood's Series)
Bergenia
Black Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia)
Candytuft (Iberis)
Daylily 'Stella d Ora' (Hemorcallis)
Epimedium 'Sulphureum'
Phygelius
Shasta Daisy (Leucanthemum)
Hellebores
Wallflower 'Bowles Mauve' (Ersysium)
Snow-in-Summer ( Cerastium)
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