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To create a truly unique garden environment:
~ Browse our on-line catalogue for individual plants to pick up at your local garden centre (see WHERE TO BUY)
~ check out the books which detail Pacific Northwest Native gardens on the RESOURCES page
~ select from a colour-coded package below at your local garden centre (see WHERE TO BUY)
The NATS Naturals ... Naturally! family of packages:
GREEN - species that thrive in an often moist or well-drained and partially
to fully shaded area such as a forest or woodland. (Dicentra Formosa,
Smilacina stellata, Blechnum spicant, Mahonia nervosa, Vaccinium parvifolium
and Acer circinatum, for example.)
TAN - plants often found in the conditions common to grassland-meadows
or roadsides. Usually comprised of well-drained to dry soils in full sun to
partial shade. (Achillea millefolium, Allium cernuum, Lupinus polyphyllus, Sedum
spathulifolium, Ribes sanguineum, Rosa nutkana, and Mahonia aquifolium, for
example.)
PURPLE - a specialty category, further subdivided into three groups:
Bog- wet and often acidic soils (ex. Kalmia microphylla, Ledum groenlandicum
and Viola palustris)
Mountain- exposed, rocky soils in a more extreme climate (ex. Castilleja
minata, Phyllodoce empertriformis and Tsuga mertensiana)
Shoreline- maritime climate, with sandy, well-drained soils, salt spray and full
sun exposure (ex. Lupinus littoralis, Fragaria chiloensis, Arbutus menziesii
and Rosa rugosa)
BLUE - riparian and wetland areas, characterized by wet or evenly moist
soils (Aruncus sylvester, Heracleum lanatum, Cornus sericea, Myrica gale and
Athyrium filix-femina for example)
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