High-Performance Plants for Shade with Dan Hinkley

Take a tour with this renowned plantsman through his garden filled with interesting treasures

Plants — all creature count on them for natural selection , but their immeasurable value goes well beyond nutriment . innovative human being have been enamored by their beauty for thousands of years — seeking , collecting , and cultivating these botanical wonder for their bewitch qualities . If you ’re a nurseryman , you know all too well that the eagerness for amazing plants is existent . And thanks to illustrious Washington - state - free-base plantsman Dan Hinkley , most nurseryman need to look no further than their local garden center for new and exciting selections .

For more than 25 years , Dan has been move around the globe in search of high - carrying out plants for function in garden heavy and small . For garden designers , Dan ’s plants are invaluable throughout the landscape painting , adding awe-inspiring texture , colour , and forms . In this telecasting , interior decorator Courtney Olander baby-sit down with Dan to talk about some of his preferred plants , which are available in the Dan Hinkley Collection , offer since 2007 by Monrovia — North America ’s pass grower of premium landscape gardening plants .

You ’ll also get a behind - the - scenes search at Dan ’s secret garden , Windcliff , and his propagation glasshouse , and you ’ll take heed about some of the expeditions he took to find specialty plants .

Here is a listing of just some of the works you ’ll see and learn about :

Sunny Daze Japanese Arthur Stanley Jefferson Laurel ( Aucuba japonica‘MonHinsuru ’ , Zones 8–10 )

Camouflage Variegated Japanese Aralia ( Fatsia japonica‘Variegata ’ , Zones 7–10 )

Winged Phoenix hardy schefflera ( Schefflera heptapleurum‘Monhinschf ’ , Zones 7–10 )

Goldfinger hardy genus Schefflera ( Schefflera heptapleurum‘Hingdfn ’ , Zones 7–10 )

Beesia ( Beesia deltophylla , Zones 6–8 )

Jurassic Velociraptor ribbon fern ( Pteris cretica , Zones 7–9 )

Red - riffle mukdenia ( Mukdenia rossii‘Crimson Fans ’ , Zones 4–9 )

architectonic begonias ( Begoniaspp . and cvs . , Zones 8–11 )

For more entropy about the Monrovia Dan Hinkley Collection , go to :

www.monrovia.com/about-dan-hinkley

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