Visiting Dragonfly Farms Nursery

After having a wonderful time at the Bloedel Reserve sale and enjoying a great brunch, Alison and I decided to visit Dragonfly Farms Nursery about which I've previously posted here and here. This place never looks the same two years in a row as Heidi,  Dragonfly's proprietress loves to change things around.  I love this nursery (o.k, I've never met a nursery I didn't like.) Dragonfly's combination of unusual (forgot to take a picture of the small potted grove of wollemia nobilis for sale.) plants, beautiful workhorses, and fabulous garden art make this place truly special.   

I wonder what kind of reception this thing gets?

Nothing unusual here but sempervivums & succulents always make me smile!

I nearly bought an Agave utahhensis but passed.

Can anyone ever have too many dragons in his/her garden? 

Heidi loves evergreens and they're growing on me.  Look at the great combination of shape, size, texture here all acheived with evergreens and  a couple of berberis. 

Mahonia's red foliage looking especially nice.

 

 

Chaenomeles  (flowering quince) 'Pink Storm'  looking rosey!

Spadus shovelarianum 'flore pleno' is the double flowered  form of this beauty which is sometimes confused with Cast Iron Plant.  This is one of the longer-blooming plants available and is surprisingly winter hardy in all zones.

Whenever I see Fritillaria imperialis in bloom, I swear to buy a few when the bulb catalogs come out but always forget. 

This purple stem/orange bloom combination is so lovely in the garden at Dragonfly!  This is going to be the year that I remember to plant some!

 

Face it, these guys are cute!  They could all come home with me!  I don't know where I'd put them...

Here is Alison delighted to find a primrose with leaves that match the brown of her sweater with blooms that match her top.  You can see the flower color better in the next picture.

Is this a designer plant? 

Here's what I picked up at Dragonfly:

 

I had to get one of the primroses pictured above that matches Alison's outfit.

 

Epimedium wushanense

 Persicaria 'Purple Fantasy' which looks fabulous now but will probably look way to much like a lot of the other persicarias I already have later in the season.  Syneilesis aconitifolia which I promise to treat better this time. Cynara baetica ssp maroccana and a couple of double red poppies.  the sempervivum, ceanothis and other stuff came from other green adventures.

Scilla peruviana.  Another that I keep telling myself to order when the bulb catalogues arrive but keep forgetting.

 Another common plant that I've been looking for but haven't seen it at it's usual haunts at the box stores, Pieris japonica 'Mountain Fire' I love the bright new growth which retains that color for quite a while.  I now have another one of what the dangerous one might call "an old lady shrub."

By the time we were done with this nursery, all of us were tired and decided to head home.  However, there were a couple more nurseries on the way home and my car seems to automatically drive into the parking lot of any place that sells plants.