Berries

• Currants – Black (could be Josta) - 5 foot high, spreading, can take shade $5 - $7
• Currants – Champagne – to 7 feet, lots of gorgeous berries. $5 - $7
• Highbush cranberry (Cramp bark) (Viburnum opulus/trilobum) ($5 - 7) 6” and .o.g. Pretty shrubs to 6’, prefer part shade and healthy soil.(1-8)
• Raspberries – unnamed fall bearing (starting in summer!)- very tall, heavy bearing plants $3.00 o.g. (4-8) And Regular summer bearing raspberries $3.00
• Raspberries – Golden Summit – sweet, spreading, tough. ($3)
• Strawberry - Climbing (Fort Laramy) Vigourous plants, nice berries $2.00 each. (B) (5-8)
• Strawberry – Totem Big plants, vigourous, disease resistant, hold berries high. Take an amazing amount of drought. $2.00 each in pot /or bulk sales - $8 dozen, bare root (5-8)
  

I will be carrying some wild berries (huckleberry etc) off and on.

Perennial Onion Varieties

• Chinese or garlic chives – (A. tuberosum) $4 Much the same flavour as garden chives with a showier, white flower. (3-8)
• Chives – the classic, good in eggs and salads, good for circling fruit trees. $3
• Egyptian (walking onion) $3 grows plantlets on top, good for cutting greens. (B) (4-9)
• Welsh (perennial green) onion (Allium fistulosum) $3, plant these once and let them spread. When they reapar next spring, begin snipping of the onion greens for salads. Spread about 3 fold a year. (S) (B) (4-8)

Perennial Herbs
(Mostly 4” pots for $3 – some larger priced $5 and up)
Note: I am highly supportive of home use of medicinal herbs, but suggest each reader do their own research using the Latin names provided, so that there will be no confusion as to properties and uses. I also sell fresh or dried herbs for home ticture preparations.

• All or Self heal (Prunella vulgaris) Low, weedy, will spread easily) (4-8)
• Anise Hyssop – good bee plant, excellent in teas.
• Comfrey var. Bocking #14 – bred for high allantoin content so superior medicinal. Seedless $4 and $6 Elecampane (Inula spp). $6 Large, sunflower-like growth, huge leaves. (B)(S)(3-8)
• Ladies mantle (Alchemilla vulgaris) $4 Medicinal or not, great showy garden plant for sun and shade. (S)(3-8)
• Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) Popular and easy to grow, a mild sedative that is great in teas. (B) (S) (5-9)
• Lemon Verbena – delightful for the teapot, garnish, or just to smush your nose into – $4 and $6. Protect well in winter, or bring it inside.
• Lovage (Ligusticum) a giant perennial celery-type plant, good for part shade. $4 and $6 (B)(S)(5-8)
• Fennel (Foeniculum) Mine is the bronze variety – stately, feathery, adaptable medicinal that is also good chopped into a salad $3 and $5 (5 – 11)
• Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium) Single and double flowered (5-8)
• Grass – sweet vernal/vanilla (Anthoxanthum odoratum) (3-10)
• Grass – sweet (Hierochloe odorata) Used in ceremonies. (3 – 9) $4
• Horehound (Marrubium vulgare) Silvery foliage, used in cough medicine. (4-8)
• Monarda (bergamot, bee balm) – $4 My favorite herb, pretty, tall, tea plant, flowers great in salads, flowers great in salad. (B) (4-8)
• Motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca)- fabled birthing plant. Tall, prickly, good for bees.
• Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) tall, eerie with its silver colouring, used in moxibustion (4-10)
• Oregano – Golden –Beautiful glow for an understory position, but will take full sun. $4
• Oregano - Greek (Origanum vulgare hirtum)– this is the white flowering, strongly scented plant that is dried for winter tomato sauce/oregano oil. $3 and $5
• Oregano – wild Pink/purple flowered type, not so strong, tough as hell, great for bees. $3 - $5
• Parsley Garden type (Petroselinum) $2 Your basic tasty garnish! (6-8)
• Pennyroyal – (Mentha pulegium) -low sprawling plant, good in tea.
• Peppermint (Mentha x piperita) The famous flavouring (5-9)
  
• Pokeroot (Phytolacca Americana) $4 and $6
• Primula – Good ground cover in shade, edible leaf/flower, good for sleep.
• Red Clover (Trifolium pretense) Growing in medicinal importance – research this plant! (3-8)
• Santolina – (Santolina chamaecyparisus) Not that medicinal but cool looking (6-8)
• Spearmint (Mentha spicata) Another tough groundcover that is great in teas (5-9)
• Sage (Salvia officinalis and Purpurea)– Garden and Purple – The purple is now recommended as the better medicinal, but would look funny in stuffing! $3 and up
• Skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora) $4. Spreads well. (B)(S) (3-8)
• Southernwood (Artemisia abortanum) Good scent, great mythical uses! (5-9)
• Tansy (Tnecetum vulgare) Tall pretty bug repellent (4-9). $4
• St. John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum) Tall, clumping plant that spreads easily by root. (B)(4-8)
• Valerian (Valeriana officinalis) loves a dappled meadow, incredible scent on the wind (4-9)
• Variegated balm (Melissa officinalis) A pretty, bright glow for an understory situation, in a perfectly useful plant (S) $4
• Variegated mint (Mentha sauveolens varigata)– gorgeous, tall, great for arrangements and to light up a shady corner. (6-8)
• Vervain (Verbena officinalis) $4 Tall, spindly, spreads quickly.(B)(4-8)
• Woodruff (Galium odoratum) Good goundcover for shade, good in calming tea (5-9)
• Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) tall, showy, tough (3-9)
• Yarrow – (Achillea millefolium) Tough, drought tolerant plant which spreads easily. Excellent “nurse” plant around sickly trees – I’ve tried it. (B)(3-8)

Edible Tubers

• Apios Americana or Indian potato, native to Eastern woodlands but grows fine here in BC. Chains of underground tubers. $5 for 2 tubers (spring only) or $3 for a rooted tuber.(3-8)
• Bunium (Bunium bulbocastanum) $5 for 4” Pig nut/Earth chestnut. All parts edible, especially the tuber. Fodder plant as well as a medicinal. Very strong and persistent.
• Cinnamon Yam (Dioscorea batatas) This year’s batch will be ready in fall $4. 5” pot. While many have been losing their tubers over winter, the trick for me seems to be that mine are always raised up in boxes. These take several years to produce a large tuber, but meanwhile are a lovely vine (15 feet). They prefer some fertility and can take up to full sun.(5-8) (Sorry – winter kill – order for late fall)
• Chinese Artichoke (Stachys affinis) $5 o.g. Small edible tuber harvested in spring and fall, mild, refreshing radishy texture. Rampant spreader! (B) (5-8)
• Dutch Mice (Lathyrus tuberosus), $4 for 4” pot. This small tuber overwinters and reproduces quite easily and sends up a delicate short vine, with a cluster of tiny, magenta, scented, orchid like flowers. Seems fine from part shade to full sun. (?6-8)
• Mashua (Tropaeolum tuberosum) Staple food of the Incans, this perennial nasturtium has an edible tuber (apparently an acquired taste) and edible leaves. Very late flowers. Climber. $8 6” pot.
• Sunchokes/Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus) Red, tan or white. Order tubers October through April or potted plants in summer (10 tubers $5 or $5 for potted plants)
  Also: mid to late fall through spring - sample packs of Haida potato or Marc Warshaw Quebec Heirloom - $3)

Hedgerow

• Black Chokeberry – Aronia melancarpa
• Cherry prinsepia – more of a shrub, seems to prefer part shade  $10
• Willows – erosion control, basketry, good in damp areas. I have:
• Black maul (Salix triandra) as well as what has been described as “Golden” willow ( S. alba – Vitellina)  famous for medicinal bark and Contorta  is now available. $8 and up
  

Fruit Trees
Sold out of what little I had, but still have a few of the following:

• Black Elderberry (Sambucus nigra) – Fast growing, attractive, low mainenance – and the flowers and berries are medicinal as well as just plain edible. Two improve yield. ($8 - $12 (1-8)
• Fig – Brown turkey - $8 o.g. (4 with protection to -8)
• Toffan Tree Quince – a single trunk tree rather than shrub $8 and up.

Comfrey

• Comfrey var. Bocking #4 and #14 - Special sterile seeded variety (won't spread): A long lived, fast growing (to 1.5m)hardy broadleaved multifunctional perennial: High Nitrogen leaves (5%) good Potassium and some Phosphorus too. Substitute for seaweed/greensand as it is like a micronutrient "pump" with its deep spike roots. Uses: compost activator (plant beside compost), garden border(keeps back invasive grasses), quick acting nitrogen fertilizer substitute (it has the NPK), fast decomposing mulch, weed fighting companion plant for fruit trees. Good plant for Organic and Permaculture folks. Prices: 4" -$4 6"-$7 one gallon-$10.
• Bocking #14 is available – bred in Russia for high allantoin content for healing bruises and other wounds. Also sterile seeded.
  

Vines

• Grapes - Hoelder, Pinot Noir, Sylvania (champagne), and White Riesling. Two red table grapes. Red seedless $5 (2-8). “Lost tag sale” either Himrod (green seedless) or Cabernet Sauvignon wine vines $3.00.
• He Shou Wu (Fo-ti – Polygonum multiflorum) Chinese medicine plant $5 and up
• Honeysuckle (nameless, but great scent, good for hummingbirds) $4 and up.
• Hops (humulus lupulus) Nugget – Vigourous vine to cover fences and archways, which will then produce clusters of dramatic, papery cones. Do amazingly well in shade $5 - $7 o.g. (B)(3-8)
• Mashua (Tropolaeolum tuberosum) Perennial nasturtium from the Andes. Edible leaves and flowers, tuber is considered edible by some. 5$ per tuber (spring) $8 for rooted tuber (early summer)(7?-8)

Miscellaneous Plants

• Artichokes – don’t overwinter in mucky ground - you may get a treat next year! $4 and $6
• Cicely (Myrrhis odorata) $4 - 6”and $6 o.g. A fern-like licorice flavored shade lover, all parts edible. (B)(S)(3-8)
• Campanula – $3 Bellflower or Harebell, although I now call them Hairballs, to my fellow gardeners’ distress. I pinch leaves into my mixed salads. Roots also edible. (1-8)
• Corn salad – (Valerianella locusta) low, small spring and fall salad green, spreads from seed so clear mulch away from base and let “mother” die down after seeding. Plant will reappear in fall. $3 (S) Self seeding annual
• Garden and French Sorrel (Rumex acetosa) $4 – Dependable perennials, they do get mangy in summer but leaves are good in mixed salad ffor much of the year. (B)(S)(4-8)
• NEW “Seedless” sorrel – forms a nice rounded mass which will not produce messy seedheads – good flavour, too, $4
• Green Gumbo (Malva moschata) Norwegian mallow, use leaves to thicken soups or raw in salads. Self sows. $4 (S)(4-8)
• Good King Henry (Chenopodium Bonus Henricus) $4 – Historic potherb, should be allowed to establish, then use young shoots in spring. Tough perennial – good tucked in as a knee high filler plant for shorter shade lovers. (S)(3-8)
• Horseradish (Armoracia rusticana) - the plant of fame, $4 Plant in a pot or deep box if you are afraid of it spreading too quickly. (B) (just try to kill it!)(3-8)
• Joe Pye Weed (Eupatorium spp) $6 o.g. tall growth, dramatic in late summer. (3-8)
• Leaf Celery (Apium graveolens (secallium?) $3. When this plants goes to seed, save and replant! Lower care than those grown for stalks, good in soups etc. (2-8)
• Perennial sunflower (Helianthus maximiliani) Edible shoots and good deer fence! $5
• Pokeroot (Phytolacca Americana) $4 and $6 Keep away from kids! (5-9)
• Sea onion (Ornithogalum caudatum) - bring this potted plant inside for winter. Otherwise, can be used as a much more dramatic although slightly less effective aloe vera $3 (8)
• Siberian miners lettuce and Miners lettuce (Montia or Claytonia) $3.00 – both miner’s lettuces will reseed through your yard and reappear at will. Both supply enough small, crisp leaves throughout winter to make up for their summer disappearance. (S)
• Violets (Viola odorata) – leaves and flowers good in mixed salads. Research shows plant to have tumor reducing properties. $3 (S)
  – $3 great bee plant. (6-8)

Plants of Interest (Used More For Effect than Productivity)

Plants for beauty, for collectors, or just for those “rare plant” snobs

• Cherry prinsepia (Prinsepia sinnensis) – more of a shrub, seems to prefer part shade $10
• Fo – Ti (Polygonum multiflorum) $4 Quick growing vine, Chinese “Elixer of life” of legand. (8)
• Rubus tricolour - $8 and $12 for o.g. or t.g. Well planted, this makes a great understory plant which will wrap around the base of buildings and fences. Evergreen. Low yielding – better for effect, but what a great effect!
• Sea Kale (Crambe maritima) Used since antiquity. The Romans preserved it in barrels for sea travel. Cabbagy plant with thick, plastic looking leaves. Blanched and eaten raw or cooked. Another plant interesting for its own visual merits. 4” - $5 – order ahead and I will do root division twice a year.
• Teasel (Dipsaucus sativus) this prickly beast needs a corner of its own, but is dramatic and an excellent bee plant. $3