2022 Wonder Garden Plant Sale

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Online Plant Sale September 1-9! Order pick-up Sept 10, 10-1 at the Wonder Garden!

We’re thrilled to launch our third annual sale of your favorite plants from the Hoffman Wonder Garden. Your purchases during this crucial fundraiser keep us growing and changing. Thank you for your generosity.

This year we’ve got enough plants to sell both online and in-person. We miss human contact!

Come visit us at the WG on Saturday, Sept 10th from 10am-1pm to buy everything we’re offering online and more, including metal works for the garden by Shelly Durica-Laiche of Indio Metal Arts.

While shopping here, you’ll notice we’ve got a few one-of-a-kind painted tools donated to this fundraiser by Oregon artist Mar Goman. Each one pops with color and charm!

Click on a plant image for its name, plant description, and care, as well as available size(s). To purchase the plants, click on the link above each plant group to select your choices in each group and click the “register” button. Once you’ve selected choices from all the plant groups, scroll to the bottom and click “Complete Registration” to complete your transaction.

Make your selections from each of the Plant Groups below. Then scroll to the bottom of the page to the shopping cart to complete your transaction.

Blue & Purple

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Aster

Why We Like This
Arguably it’s beneath our horticultural standards to offer a little purple aster whose parentage is unknown to us but hey, it’s easy, it flowers late, and it spreads like freckles in the sun. Doesn’t respond to sun screen but easy to just dig up and pass over the garden fence.

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun to part shade, average soil, average to little water

1 gallon/$9

Parhebe "Delight"

Why We Like It
Superb little evergreen shrublet for the front of the border: short, wide and sassy in flower with a beguiling bright eye set in a soft violet flower. Blooms for months.

How to Keep It Happy
Rich, well drained soil in full sun to light shade. Zn7b 10º to 5ºF
3.5"/$7

Parhebe Perfoliata

Why We Like It
Like this? No, we LOVE this. Give this blue-leaved shrub a few years and you'll have a 30"x30" upright evergreen mound with leaves that resemble eucalyptus and flower wands of the lightest purple that dip and wave in the breeze.

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun, light water and cut back old stems when they start looking tired. You’ll know when. Zn 7b 10 to 5 F.

3.5"/$8
1 gallon/$14

Felicia "Tight and Tidy"

Why We Like It
The blue marguerite daisy is mostly grown as a impossibly azure annual with a yellow eye but we've seen mounds of it come back year after year in Manzanita. Too cute not to try!

How to Keep It Happy Full sun to very light shade in rich to average soil. Light, consistent summer water. To 20d.

6"/$12

Panicum "Heavy Metal" (Blue Switch Grass)

Why We Like It
We've chucked a lot of ever-expanding grasses but don't take our gorgeous switch grass! 'Heavy Metal's named for its its ever-upright steely blue foliage and late-summer, airy panicles that spray like champagne. 3' + another 2' in flower. Our stock is big and robust. .

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun, little to no summer water. Cut to ground early spring. Zn4a -25º to -30ºF.

2 Gallon/$25

Trachelium caeruleum (Flossflower)

Why We Like It
This gorgeous, frothy, summer bloomer may not last years and years but it's well-worth having as long as it lasts. What a show-stopper! Rich violet umbels teetering on black stems make fabulous cut flowers.

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun, rich well-drained soil, light summer water. Zn8a 15º to 10ºF

1 gallon/$14

Salvia guaranitica 'Black and Blue'

Why We Like It
Deep cobalt blue flowers emerging from black calyxes explain the ‘Black and Blue’ name. This anise-scented sage from South American scoffs at heat; when happy, it’s a powerfully bold 5’ showoff in the late summer garden.

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun, rich, well-drained soil, very regular summer water. Deadhead to extend bloom.

1 Gallon/$12

Nepeta 'Walker's Low' (Catmint)

Why We Like It
Got a black thumb? This catmint (nope, not catnip) is your plant. Incredibly satisfying, easy to grow, with a crazy period of bloom that will make you look like a pro. Wands of purple flowers emerging from good-looking silvery leaves, can’t beat it.

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun, average soil, little summer water. Deadhead in high summer to extend bloom.

1 Gallon/$12

Erigeron 'Cape Sebastian' (Beach Daisy)

Why We Like It
Oh come on, you've got to grow an Oregon beach daisy. The one we have is a larger-flowering selection from the southern Oregon coast, with periwinkle/violet daisies with a yellow center that bloom on an 8" high plant from late spring to autumn.

How to Keep It Happy
Part to full sun, fast drainage, summer water optional. Cut back hard after blooming to keep it tidy and encourage blooms. Zn6a -5º to -10ºF

6"/$11

Penstemon 'Enor'

Why We Like This
What a deliciously dark, dusky and grape-colored penstemon, yum! Flower spikes rise to 30" and keep on coming for months if you remove spent spikes. Foliage awfully pretty as well, glossy and disease resistant.

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun to some shade in well-drained soil, likes some water but by no means a thirsty plant. Zn 7a 5º to 0ºF

6"/$12

Evergreen Foliage

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Libertia peregrinans (Orange Sword)

Why We Like It
We can't get enough of this NZ iris relative with its ever-orange blades of foliage that brighten in sun. Forms little colony clusters but never enough to suit our appetite. Deliciously bright little white flowers on wiry stems.

How to Keep It Happy
Grows in sun (best color) or part shade. Rich, well-drained soils with summer water. Zn 7b 10 to 5 F.

1 Gallon/$14

Arctostaphylos columbiana _Pacific Coast_ sq

Arctostaphylos columbiana 'Pacific Coast'' (Manzanita)

Why We Like It
A new introduction from Xera Plants plants found in the sandy soil near the much-missed CARTM, this is an uber-native manzanita! 6'x6' compact form of the ubiquitous local species known for its deliciously dark, mahogany bark.

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun, fast-draining soil and no water after year 1. Zn 6a -5 to -10 to 5 F.

6"/$22

Arctostaphylos x media 'Xera Pacific' (Manzanita)

Why We Like It
Another uber-native introduced by Xera Plants found right here in the American Legion cemetery! Hard-working, weed-smothering groundcover with small, bright green leaves, paddle shaped leaves on a 2’ by whatever-you-want shrub. Always flawless and SO easy to prune.

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun, fast-draining soil, no supplemental water. Zn 6b 0 to -5 F.

6"/$22

Arctostaphylos 'Sunset' (Manzanita)

Why We Like It
Described as "one of the very best landscape shrubs for Western Oregon," our 'Sunset' has never had a bad day. Simply embarrassing how easy it is to please, and how lovely the payoff: a densely rounded 4x6 shrub with lovely red new growth that's easy to integrate into any landscape as long as the soil's not too good and there's no irrigation. Now THAT'S easy.

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun, no supplemental water. Avoid amended soils. Zn7b 10º to 5ºF

6"/$22

Hebe 'Karo Golden Esk'

Why We Like It
Most people think this is a conifer but the foliage is soft to the touch and the overall effect is more undulating. This mound of light green to chartreuse glows gold in winter and is a tidy 2’ x 2’.

How to Keep It Happy
Sun, some supplemental summer water. Zn 7a 5 to 0 F.

6"/$16

Hebe 'Western Hills'

Why We Like It
Our favorite hebe and that's saying something. Long-lived & handsome 3’ x 3’ shrub, so very happy on the coast, with soft silvery-blue foliage set off by dark stems and white summer blossoms. A must-have!

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun to a bit of shade. Supplemental summer water. Zn 7b 10 to 5 F.

6"/$16

Ozothamnus 'Sussex Silver'

Why We Like This
Among the many NZ plants we covet, this one's for your hottest, driest location (read: thrives on neglect!). And so good-looking, with flowers that start as tight red buds opening into white clusters. An arresting, fine- textured silver shrub that might get 8′ x 6′.

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun, drought tolerant when established. Zn7b 10º to 5ºF

6"/$18

Ophiopogon planiscapus nigrescens (Black Mondo grass)

Why We Like It
If we had the room, we’d use it in drifts, as edging, or as dark seas lapping at the feet of silver, yellow or blue-foliage shrubs. If we had more pots, we’d fill them with the stuff!

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun to some shade with occasional summer water. Zn 5 -10 to -20 F.

1 Gallon/$9

Baccharis magellanica (Inca Gem)

Why We Like It
What a find! We’re crazy about this hard to find, incredibly handsome little shrub from Argentina that loves the coast. Tiny evergreen leaves and a tenacious personality, it stays 4” high but spreads gaily in full sun with little water and tops it all off in late spring with a headful of little cream firecracker flowers.

How to Keep It Happy
Lean soil, fast drainage, very drought-tolerant

4"/$8 1 Gallon/$12

Pittosporum tobira ‘Tall and Tough'

Why We Like It
A truly superb broadleaf evergreen that will reach 6x6 if you're lucky with the kind of shape that never leaves pruning and leaves that look good year-round. And when it flowers in spring? Prepare to swoon.

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun to part shade, no summer water once established. Protect from deer for its first 2-3 years, then you're good to go. Zn7a 5º to 0º

6"/$18

Cistus 'Bennett's White' (White Rockrose)

Why We Like It
We regularly drag visitors over to see this cistus when it's in bloom because the flowers might as well be make-believe. Seeing in believing! Huge, 4" wide pure white flowers with showy central yellow stamens on an extremely handsome dark green shrub with cinnamon-colored stems. Easy to prune to keep it to a compact 4x4

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun, lean soil, no supplemental water. Zn8a 15º to 10ºF

6"/$16

Red & Orange

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Anemanthele (New Zealand Wind Grass)

Why We Like This
Showy sprays of multi-colored hues, hence its other common name, pheasant tail grass. Fabulous fall color. Adds useful volume to garden beds all year long. Gets big fast!

How to Keep It Happy
Sun and occasional watering. Zn 8a 15 to 10 F.

1 Gallon/$10

Cuphea 'Strybing Sunset' (Orange Bunny Ears)

Why We Like It
Manna for the hummers. 20" little summer bloomer covered in beautiful orange/yellow blossom with dots of purple to entice sippers. Yes, it'll freeze to the ground in winter but bounce back up like a bunny in June.

How to Keep It Happy
Sun, quick-draining but rich soil, moderate water. Zn 8a 15 to 10 F.

3.5"/$8

Kniphofia thomsonii (Apricot Orange Torch Lily)

Why We Like It
This is a whole different kind of red hot poker, with slender, elegant flowers that glow like sunrise on stalks that can reach 4'. Great for cutting but you'll break a few hummers' hearts.

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun. So easy to grow, you'll make lots of friends giving pieces away. Zone 7a 5 to 0 F

1 Gallon/$15

Dahlia 'Forncett's Furnace'

Why We Like This
Fiery, life-affirming, bold orange flowers! Don't even think of lifting this one for fear of cold or rot, no need. A tough dahlia that will reach 5' if spoiled. A gorgeous color for the summer through fall garden.

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun, rich well-drained soil, regular summer water. Like all dahlias, slug alert as foliage emerges in spring. Zn8a 15º to 10ºF

6"/$16 2 Gallon/$25

Penstemon kunthii

Why We Like It
A little semi-evgn shrublet to 2' with delicate narrow leaves and upright spikes of intensely magenta-red tubular flowers. It's a Mexican native but lucky us, very happy on the coast. .

How to Keep It Happy
Good drainage, summer water and a nice hot sunny spot. Zn7a 5º to 0ºF
6"/$12

Pelargonium sidoides (1 gal)

Why We Like It
Google this one and you’ll have found a remedy for all sorts of respiratory ailments. We prefer to grow it for its felted cushion of gray-green leaves and its dainty burgundy flowers that dance on long thin stems. Lovely in a pot or front of a flower bed.

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun, average soil, regular summer water and deadhead.

4"/$8 1 Gallon/$12

Dicliptera subulata

Why We Like It
Also known as the Uruguayan firecracker plant, this is one for the sunny summer garden. Tubular flowers of unapologetic brightness burst from mounds of velvety gray foliage. Needs to get hot before blooming begins, then can last more than a month.

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun to morning shade, rich well-drained soil, no summer water once established. Zn8a 15º to 10ºF

3.5"/$8

Zauschneria (Epilobium) ‘Bowman’

Why We Like It
This California fuchsia makes the color of Dicliptera look demure. What a fabulous plant this has been for us, scattering its ferny gray green foliage around in full sun without threatening any adjacent plant, until it outcompetes any and all with a color that makes the hummingbirds blush.

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun, no supplemental water. Zn7b 10º to 5ºF

3.5"/$8

Alstroemeria 'The Third Harmonic'

Why We Like It
It's been three years since we planted this classic cut flower (perish the thought we cut ours, how else could we entertain you?) and we're besotted. Bright orange, 30" high and long-blooming, this selection stays nicely clumped and will not run amok.

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun, rich soil, summer water for full rewards. Speaking of which, rock the base of the stems to remove the stalk rather than cutting it. They don't like cutting! Zn6a -5º to -10ºF

6"/$16

Yellow, White & Pink

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Alchemilla alpina (Dwarf Lady's Mantle)

Why We Like It
Well-behaved, snug little ground with elfin charm that self-seeds reliably but is never a pest. Petite dark green leaves have delicate silver margins and soft hairy undersides with clustered chartreuse flowers perched on short stems.

How to Keep It Happy
Appreciates partial shade to look its best as summer slides into fall. Zn 4 -30 to -20 F.

4"/$5

Dianthus caryophyllus ‘Chomley Farran’ (Carnation)

Why We Like It
The cool blue/gray foliage of this dianthus seems innocent enough, providing pleasant color contrasts with neighboring plants most of the year. But then, SHA-ZAM! A Turkish-delight, freakish confection erupts as the flowers open into pink/purple/gray swirls to dazzle the eye and pitter-patter the heart. Beware!

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun, fast-draining soil, medium water. Zn 5b -10 to -15 F.

1 Gallon/$12

Origanum 'Xera Cascade' (Flowering Oregano)

Why We Like It
Masses of cascading violet/pink blossoms produce a frothy effect for months. We have several of these 1’x2’ ornamental oreganos spilling down a slope, a great way to show off everything about it.

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun, some water, low maintenance & high reward. Zn 6a -5 to -10 F..

3.5"/$8

Rosa glauca (Blue-leaved Rose)

Why We Like It
An heirloom rose that we love for its flawless foliage even more than its flower, this coast-loving big blue mound of loveliness is entirely pest-free. Expect simple pink blossoms in spring and deep red-purple hips.

How to Keep It Happy Full sun, average to rich soil and some summer water. Prune to desired shape after blooming. Zn 4a -25 to -30 F.

3 Gallon/$25

Senecio candicans 'Angel Wings'

Why We Like It
Brilliantly white felted leaves shimmer on a 14” x 18” tiered plant that goes with everything. Though touted as drought-tolerant, we find it likes summer water to look its best. In the ground, or in pots, this is a feast of foliage for the garden.

How to Keep It Happy
Full or part sun, perhaps very bright shade. Zn 8b 15 to 20 F.

1 Gallon/$17

Nicotiana (white, fragrant)

Why We Like This
Sweetly fragrant bright white flowers on this summer classic, bringing a touch of swooning romance to the nighttime garden. With luck, it’ll seed itself around (that’s a good thing).

How to Keep It Happy
Best in rich, well-drained soil with summer water.

1 Gallon/$9

Schizostylis coccinea (River Lily)

Why We Like It
A classic late summer to early spring coastal confection, Schizostylis [Hesperantha] coccinea begins life as grassy clumps which, after months of waiting, explode with satiny, 6-petaled flowers that will spread if happy.

How to Keep It Happy
Sun to part shade in well-drained soil, likes some summer water.

4"/$5

Salix var. yezoalpina (Creeping Alpine Willow)

Why We Like It
A collector’s item for sure, this is a 1’x5’ groundcovering willow with big, downy leaves, irresistible spring catkins and a willow’s tendancy to claim real estate, all the better to show off its cool bark, intriguing habit and dramatic presence with age. Got a big rock garden? This one will bring you fame.

How to Keep It Happy
Sun to light shade, average to lean soil, summer water

1 Gallon/$16

Coreopsis 'Zagreb' (Threadleaf Coreopsis)

Why We Like It
Add this to Nepata for the black-thumbed among you to build confidence and wow friends. Ferny foliage topped with irrepressibly cheery yellow flowers, never higher than 18" but wider, bushier and more impressive every year.

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun, average soil, no summer water once established.

1 Gallon/$9

Diplacus grandiflorus (Slender Monkey Flower)

Why We Like It
What a sweet, easy to grow CA monkey flower! We planted ours in July and it's sailed through summer delighting all with sips of soft apricot blossoms. We're told it can get 30"x30" if happy and we intend to do our best.

How to Keep It Happy
Full sun, average to rich well-drained soil. Light summer water will increase bloom. Zn7b 10º to 5ºF

6"/$15

Painted Tools

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Lopper

Why We Like This
Our irresistible Painted Tools display at the corner of Division & Laneda has been stopping traffic since it went up last year. So much oohing and aahing! Lucky for us, tool artist and WG friend Mar Goman has donated several of her one-of-a-kind pieces to our fundraiser so that you, too, can delight in how much color, warm and humor they add wherever you display them.

How to Keep It Happy
Though each acrylic-painted tool is polyurethaned, we take ours in for the long, wet winter to prolong their lives..

$70

Hoe

Why We Like It
Our irresistible Painted Tools display at the corner of Division & Laneda has been stopping traffic since it went up last year. So much oohing and aahing! Lucky for us, tool artist and WG friend Mar Goman has donated several of her one-of-a-kind pieces to our fundraiser so that you, too, can delight in how much color, warm and humor they add wherever you display them.

How to Keep It Happy
Though each acrylic-painted tool is polyurethaned, we take ours in for the long, wet winter to prolong their lives.

$80

Big Rake

Shovel

Cultivator

Why We Like It
Our irresistible Painted Tools display at the corner of Division & Laneda has been stopping traffic since it went up last year. So much oohing and aahing! Lucky for us, tool artist and WG friend Mar Goman has donated several of her one-of-a-kind pieces to our fundraiser so that you, too, can delight in how much color, warm and humor they add wherever you display them.

How to Keep It Happy Though each acrylic-painted tool is polyurethaned, we take ours in for the long, wet winter to prolong their lives.

$65

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