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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Food Forest "Spinach" Collection
Basella rubra var Big Round Leaf Large, mild-flavored big round green leaves. The mild flavor makes this malabar spinach equally good cooked or fresh, with a slight citrus or acidic flavor. The lea...
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California Natives
Beautiful large shrub has light green leaves with pink flowers that bloom in early spring. Bark is purplish red and branches have a picturesque crooked pattern. Native Americans used the dark r...
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Fruiting Shrubs and Groundcovers
Capsicum pubescens Marlene Salmon is one of the hottest rocotos. Very large plants develop into apple-sized, salmon colored pods with some striping.  Very beautiful fruit! Are you ready for this am...
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Capsicum pubescens Mini Rocoto Brown is a very beautiful small brown rocoto. Their very productive, small plants produce almost round pods about 1in in diameter. These are juicy and crunchy and ...
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Solanum muricatum var Rio Bamba We mislabeled a few different flats, so all the mislabeled varieties are discounted as mix-up.  They are big and healthy but variety is not 100% confirmed so we are ...
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Fruiting Shrubs and Groundcovers
Moringa is called the "Miracle Tree" or horseradish tree because  leaves, pods, and seeds are edible. Even the roots are edible and taste like horseradish (though some consider the root toxic so do...
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Herbs, Spices, & Teas
Rungia klossii A very popular in Papua New Guinea, Mushroom plant is a fast growing and bushy herb. The leaves have a very "mushroomy flavor" and the leaves can be added to dishes to impart a "savo...
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Zingiber Mioga A beautiful member of the ginger family with tropical foliage. The edible part is the young, premature flower shoot at the base of the plant. This pink/yellow learly flower can be p...
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Capsicum Pubescens We sourced our seeds for these amazing Rocoto Peppers from Smallislandseedco . These perennial peppers are about the size of large olive and are green with a black punching wit...
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Herbs, Spices, & Teas
Green leaves tinged with red are used in teas, salads and iced drinks with an citrus undertone
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Mertensia maritima Native to many a northern coastline on the Pacific and Atlantic, this uniquely briny plant delivers the oceanic taste of oysters, anchovies and mushrooms in its fleshy blue-gree...
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Solanum muricatum. Pepino Dulce is a somewhat hardy tomato relative. The name pepino dulce means sweet cucumber in english and the flavor of the fruit is somewhat like a sweet melon when ripe. Th...
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Solanum muricatum var New Yorker Pepino Dulce is a somewhat hardy tomato relative. The name pepino dulce means sweet cucumber in english and the flavor of the fruit is somewhat like a sweet melon ...
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USDA Organic Pot Size: 4inch Plant Size: 6inch + USDA Hardiness: 9b-11+
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Solanum muricatum var Rio Bamba Pepino Dulce is a somewhat hardy tomato relative. The name pepino dulce means sweet cucumber in english and the flavor of the fruit is somewhat like a sweet melon w...
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We got our mother plant rom Whiskey Hill Farms.  This is a  cultivar found in South America that produces good crops of pear-like fruits over a long growing season, the plant is vibrant green.  Sel...
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Perennial Alliums
Perennial Bunching Onion of Madagascar (tongolo maintso) This is the perennial green onion you will find throughout the Island of Madagascar. It does not produce seeds and is propagated by division...
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Pitiona Oaxaca Lemon Verbena (Lippia Alba), also known as Bushy Lippia and Licorice Verbena, is a part-shade to full sun loving small woody shrub. A Verbenaceae family member, the Pitiona Oaxaca Le...
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Perennial Vegetables
The potato onion (Allium cepa var. aggregatum) is a member of the onion family. It reproduces by division of bulbs, rather than by seed (though it does produce seed some years). They are also known...
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Perennial Vegetables and Herbs
The potato onion (Allium cepa var. aggregatum) is a member of the onion family. It reproduces by division of bulbs, rather than by seed (though it does produce seed some years). They are also k...
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Capsicum pubescens The magnificent Rocoto Arequipa Giant  colossal red pods, each one bigger than the palm of your hand, bursting with thick flesh with a nice moderate heat level.  Can be used to s...
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Food Forest "Spinach" Collection
Basella rubra var Red Malabar Large, mild-flavored green leaves with scarlet stems look terrific climbing up a trellis or fence ! It is also a great indoor plant in a hanging pot.The thick, dark gr...
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Capsicum pubescens (Red) Are you ready for this amazing black seeded hot pepper from South America. This hardy pepper, also known a tree chili has purple flowers, fury green leaves, spicy red frui...
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Capsicum pubescens Red tear dropped shaped small rocoto peppers. We got our seed from our friend Lance in San Francisco, you can see all his unique rocotos by *clicking here* Rocoto in general: A...
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