Shrubs and Groundcovers

Shrubs and groundcovers are essential foundation plants that provide structure, texture, and year-round interest while solving practical landscape challenges from erosion control to weed suppression. This diverse category ranges from compact groundcovers just inches tall to substantial shrubs reaching 10-15 feet, offering options for every garden layer and design need. Shrubs create permanent bones in the landscape, defining spaces, providing privacy screening, and offering habitat for wildlife while requiring far less maintenance than perennial borders or annual plantings.

Groundcovers carpet the soil with attractive foliage and flowers, suppressing weeds, preventing erosion on slopes, and creating living mulch that reduces water needs and maintenance. Many species offer multi-season interest with spring blooms, summer foliage, fall colors, and attractive winter forms or evergreen structure. This collection includes both ornamental varieties for beauty and habitat value alongside edible species that provide fruits, nuts, or other harvests while fulfilling landscape functions. Adaptable to various light conditions from full sun to deep shade and diverse soil types, shrubs and groundcovers suit nearly every garden situation. 

"Besides the benefits of food, shade, wood, and clean air, planting trees is an affirmation of the future, a gift to our children and those to come."

- Marc and Corrina

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Shrubs and Groundcovers

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Shrubs and groundcovers are essential foundation plants that provide structure, texture, and year-round interest while solving practical landscape challenges from erosion control to weed suppression. This diverse category ranges from compact groundcovers just inches tall to substantial shrubs reaching 10-15 feet, offering options for every garden layer and design need. Shrubs create permanent bones in the landscape, defining spaces, providing privacy screening, and offering habitat for wildlife while requiring far less maintenance than perennial borders or annual plantings.

Groundcovers carpet the soil with attractive foliage and flowers, suppressing weeds, preventing erosion on slopes, and creating living mulch that reduces water needs and maintenance. Many species offer multi-season interest with spring blooms, summer foliage, fall colors, and attractive winter forms or evergreen structure. This collection includes both ornamental varieties for beauty and habitat value alongside edible species that provide fruits, nuts, or other harvests while fulfilling landscape functions. Adaptable to various light conditions from full sun to deep shade and diverse soil types, shrubs and groundcovers suit nearly every garden situation. 

"Besides the benefits of food, shade, wood, and clean air, planting trees is an affirmation of the future, a gift to our children and those to come."

- Marc and Corrina
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Herbs, Spices, & Teas
Gandana is a type of perennial leek grown in Afghanistan. This leek grows for about 3 years and is cut and come again similar to garlic chives. It also produces seed, which can be used for propagat...
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Fruiting Shrubs and Groundcovers
Capsicum pubescens This is a Bolivian Red Variety.  According to spicemad.com: "In 1994 a Bolivian refugee by the name of Alberto Cerval Jiminez living in Cambridge, England, took seeds from on...
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Capsicum pubescens One of the most beautiful rocoto peppers.  Rich maroon almost chocolate coloring with the shape of a Aji Largo Rocoto.  It is said to be a more vining type rocoto and the peppers...
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Capsicum pubescens Chocolate Rocoto X produces crunchy, juicy pods with medium heat and a slightly sweet, smokey flavor. Said to be a  cross of Ecuadorian Red x Pineapple Rocoto discovered by Susan...
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Allium schoenoprasum A hardy perennial herb. Easy to grow, chives pack a lot of flavor for their compact size. The plants form neat grass-like clumps of tubular leaves that contribute an onion fla...
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Capsicum pubescens A very good Rocoto variety and has funky shaped orangish fruits with some having a tail. High yields of Medium hot pods with a fruity sweet flavour. Rocoto in general: Are you re...
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Capsicum pubescens This newer chocolate Rocoto has deep chocolate pods with great flavour and heat. Plants grow fast and can get very large if not pruned.  Medium sized brown rocoto that come to ...
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Capsicum pubescens Very tasty, very hot, thick fleshed orange Rocoto from highlands of Mexico. The taste is greqt, just a tiny bit of sweetness but lot of flavor. One of the taller rocoto pepper pl...
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Cyphomandra abutiloides A fast growing cousin of the Tree Tomato. Bears small, orange ripening fruits with orange flesh. Will grow 6-10 feet . and works great as a container plant. Hardy to zone ...
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Cyphomandra abutiloides "Dan's Gold" This is a selection we were gifted by friends from the Santa Cruz Rare Fruit Growers in Hollister.  Its nearly identical to the dwarf tamarillo, the highlight i...
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Capsicum pubescens A nice rocoto type variety with great flavor. Good yields of dark red pods with medium heat.  Known as a sweet heat and very high quality. Are you ready for this amazing black se...
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Capsicum pubescens A rare  red variety from Ecuador with only medium to mild heat plants grow very good in most climates with good yields .   Has a nice sweet flavor with a little heat Rocoto in...
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Currants (Ribes spp.)
Vigorous variety is literally covered with bright red flowers in the spring making a most tremendous display! Hardy to zone 6. Ribes sanguineum
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(Allium tuberosum) Sometimes called Chinese chives, garlic chives can be used anyway you use regular chives. They are distinguishable from chives by their flat, broader leaves and nice fragrant whi...
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Capsicum pubescens This orange perennial hot pepper is also known as orange manzano pepper, given that it is the size and shape of an apple under ideal conditions. They are about 2x as hot as Jala...
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Capsicum pubescens Big variety from Mexico with very good growth and high yields.  Fruits are2 1/2 to 3 inches around and 2 inches high. Thick, juicy, with a hint of sweetness.  Are you ready...
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Food Forest "Spinach" Collection
Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus / Blitum Bonus-Henricus Good King Henry is a perennial hardy spinach analog related to quinoa. Leaves can be harvested and cooked like spinach and taste rich. Good Kin...
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An heirloom Japanese, perennial bunching onion; This onion produces year round in moderate climates and divides from the base. Mild and tasty. These are an essential ingredient in Japanese cuisine ...
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Capsicum pubescens A very nice variety from Bolivia with a fruity taste. Fruit are red and on the smaller side. Plants are medium sized and grow very well with high yields of medium heat juicy red ...
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Capsicum pubescens We mixed up our seeds and labels, so we have a deal for you! Perennial Rocoto Pepper either yellow, orange , or red. You wont know till they fruit, so you save and we find a home...
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Mentha x villosa. This spearmint is from Cuba. It is the authentic mint use in making mojitos and it also makes a great seasoning for meats and confections. This strain was brought from Cuba to th...
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Tetragonia tetragonoides While not a true spinach, New Zealand spinach produces leaves that are very similar in flavor. This variety has a high Vitamin C content and can be grown in a range of clim...
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Capsicum pubescens A pointed orange  single to double lobed rocoto with medium heat. Plants have a bushy growth and are heavy producers! Nice looking pepper Are you ready for this amazing black see...
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Perennial Vegetables
Pea eggplant (aka turkeyberry) is a small green eggplant used in African and Southeast Asian Cuisine.  Its slightly bitter and can be perennial depending on where it is grown.  Its has been used as...
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