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 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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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 Very large, bell paper shaped brown rocoto.  Nice heat and color. More about Rocotos... Are you ready for this amazing black seeded hot pepper from South America.? This hardy...
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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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Figs (Ficus carica)
French variety, name translates to "Collar of the Lady in Black" referring to elegant elongated neck resembling fashionable high collars and jeweled necklaces of French royalty. Self-fertile common...
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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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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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Houttuynia cordata Fish Mint is a herbaceous hardy perennial plant that can grow to 3ft in height and 3ft into circumfrence. Though not an actual mint, the herb is given this name because it roo...
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Our favorite mint. Very very strong minty smell and flavor. Great for making mint water or mint lemonade. Its fills up the garden with a strong mint smell when it is disturbed in any way. It s...
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(S. sisymbriifolium) A unique hardy perennial tomato relative. This spiky plant produces a red berry with uses that vary from chutney to pickles, and even a pseudo cherry pie filling. It goes by ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Herbs, Spices, & Teas
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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Tulbaghia violacea (Society Garlic) - - A clumping evergreen perennial with fat, tuberous roots from which edible garlic flavored blades of grass emerge. From spring into fall, and sometimes lo...
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Beautiful and fragrant downy gray-green evergreen foliage host very intricate lilac blue flowers that can continue blooming until late into the fall. Excellent for attracting butterflies and benefi...
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Persicaria odorata, Vietnamese Cilantro, also known as Rau Ram, is a herb whose leaves are used in Southeast Asian cooking. Other names for this herb include Vietnamese mint, Vietnamese cilantro, ...
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Smallanthus sonchifolius Yacon is a species of perennial daisy traditionally grown in the northern and central Andes from Colombia to northern Argentina for its crisp, sweet-tasting, tuberous roots...
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Yacon is a species of perennial daisy traditionally grown in the northern and central Andes from Colombia to northern Argentina for its crisp, sweet-tasting, tuberous roots. Also known as Peruvian ...
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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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