Abelia 'Kaleidoscope' has long-lasting, fragrant flowers and variegated foliage in yellow, green, orange and red.

The upright stems of Abutilon 'Biltmore Ballgown' are festooned with dangling two-inch orange bells streaked with scarlet throughout summer.

Abutilon 'Nabob' produces masses of large, rich red, pendulous lanterns from spring through fall.

Amelanchier alnifolia or Saskatoon berry offers tasty blueberry-like fruit and is also in important pollinator plant.

Arbutus menziesii is an attractive evergreen tree with peeling red/brown bark, clusters of fragrant white or pink flowers and edible scarlet fruit.

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, known as kinnikinnick or bear berry, is a slow-growing evergreen native ground cover.

Buddleja 'Buzz Hot Raspberry' is a dwarf, sterile butterfly bush that blooms continuously with fragrant, hot-raspberry-pink flowers.

Buddleja 'Buzz Midnight' is a dwarf butterfly bush that blooms continuously with fragrant, dark purple flowers.

Buddleja Monarch 'Prince Charming' is a mid-sized, long-blooming butterfly bush with huge cones of fragrant, raspberry-pink flowers.

Camellia sinensis 'Large Leaf' is a tea plant from China that produces abundance of shoots to harvest from.

Ceanothus velutinus is a beautiful white-flowered species related to the California lilacs with aromatic foliage.

Clethra alnifolia 'Hummingbird' is a compact shrub with white bottlebrush flowers that are fragrant and nectar-rich.

Clethra alnifolia 'Ruby Spice' is a compact shrub with pink and white bottlebrush flowers that are fragrant and nectar-rich.

Comptonia peregrina, commonly known as sweet fern for its fragrant, lustrous, fern-like foliage, is a super hardy shrub for terrible, infertile soils.

Cornus sericea (syn. stolonifera) is a beautiful native shrub known as red osier dogwood most famous for its red winter stems.

Cytisus x boskoopii 'Boskoop Ruby' is a sterile broom with sprays of fragrant, ruby-red, pea-like flowers.

Cytisus x boskoopii 'White Lion' is a sterile broom with sprays of fragrant, pure white, pea-like flowers.

Cytisus x boskoopii 'Zeelandia' is a sterile broom with fragrant pink, peach, yellow, and white, pea-like flowers.

Daphne 'Eternal Fragrance' has sweet, tropical, baby powder perfume and constant bloom from April to November.

Deutzia 'Yuki Cherry Blossom' is a fuzzy deutzia shrub with pink cherry-blossom-like flowers and green foliage with fall colours.

Dicksonia antarctica, the Tasmanian tree fern, is an impressive specimen and one of the oldest plants in the world.

Elaeagnus commutata is known as silverberry or wolf-willow. Its fruit is rich in vitamins A, C, and E and is popular with birds.

Eucalyptus pleurocarpa is the wonderful tallerack with aromatic silver-blue foliage and attractive seed pods.

Eucalyptus pulverulenta 'Baby Blue' is the wonderful silver dollar of florist shops with baby blue foliage and great fragrance.

Fuchsia 'Checkerboard' has single blooms of white to palest pink with bright red corollas.

Fuchsia 'Debron's Snow Fairy' is a double confection of pink and white with lovely pink stamens.

'Delta's Sarah' is a hardy fuchsia with unique white and purple-blue flowers.

Fuchsia 'Foxgrove Wood' has single blooms of dusky salmon to bright magenta pink with lavender pink to lavender centres.

Fuchsia 'Garden News' has hot fuchsia and light pink flowers.

Fuchsia 'Golden Herald' has red and purple flowers which look fantastic against the golden foliage.

Fuchsia 'Iced Champagne' has double blooms of ivory white with light to bright pink.

Fuchsia 'Little Giant' has dainty flowers with red sepals and corollas on a textural background of small, lance-shaped leaves.

Fuchsia 'Phyllis' is a larger grower with prolific flowers in shades of rose-red with magenta to lavender-purple corollas.

Fuchsia 'Yolanda Franck' has prolific single blooms of white, salmon and orange.

'Kleim's Hardy' has incredible gardenia fragrance and is hardy to minus 18 degrees Celsius! Go figure.

Gaultheria 'Peppermint Pearl' has polished evergreen foliage of deep, verdant green and cheerful, white, edible, winter berries.

Gaultheria shallon or salal is a lovely BC native that offers sweet edible blue-black berries long prized by First Nations peoples.

Hibiscus 'Ardens' is a rose of Sharon with semi-double, lilac-pink flowers, darker centres and maple-like green foliage.

Hibiscus 'Blue Bird' is a rose of Sharon with single, vase-shaped, violet-blue flowers and dark reddish-purple centres.

Hibiscus 'Duc de Brabant' is a rose of Sharon with fully-double, purple-red flowers, darker centres and maple-like green foliage.

Hibiscus syriacus 'Red Heart' is a rose of Sharon with large, single, saucer-shaped, pure white flowers with red centres.

Oceanspray (Holodiscus discolor) offers clouds of tiny creamy white flowers popular with bees and butterflies.

Hydrangea arborescens 'Candybelle Bubblegum' is a dwarf smooth hydrangea with domed white and pink umbels.

Hydrangea arborescens 'Candybelle Marshmallow' is a dwarf smooth hydrangea with domed palest salmon pink mopheads.

Hydrangea arborescens 'Pink Pinchushion' is a pink smooth hydrangea with domes of fuzzy pink and white fertile flowers.

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Akadama' has amazing flowers that open deep pink and age to red.

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Double Down' is a unique, double flowered, mophead with blue or pink flowers.

The most beautiful Hydrangea in the world? The gorgeous 'Miss Saori' won Plant of the Year at the 2014 Chelsea Garden Show.

'Soeur Therese' is a classy mophead hydrangea with icy white florets growing on full size plants to six feet tall.

Hydrangea macrophylla Cherry Explosion is an exceptionally hardy cultivar with a profusion of cherry-red lacecaps.

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Firefly' is a compact, bigleaf hydrangea with semi-double blooms of reddish pink and cream.

Hydrangea macrophylla Kimono is a compact, bigleaf hydrangea with semi-double blooms of wine red and white atop burgundy foliage.

Hydrangea macrophylla L.A. Dreamin' 'Lindsey Ann' blooms on new and old wood in a range of flower colours all at the same time.

Hydrangea macrophylla Starfield offers superb fully double blue or pink florets in large, textural mopheads.

Hydrangea paniculata 'Candle Light' has large conical flower heads in creamy white that slowly age to gorgeous pinks.

Hydrangea paniculata 'Wim's Red' offers creamy white cones that age to pink then rich, glowing red.

Hydrangea paniculata Confetti is a dwarf cultivar with lightly scented, lacy cones of white flowers turning to baby pink.

Hydrangea paniculata Dragon Baby is super compact with cones of green and white aging to rich pink.

Hydrangea paniculata Early Evolution is a sweet, extremely dwarf panicle hydrangea with early masses of clustered flowers.

Hydrangea paniculata Little Fresco has incredible flower power for such a compact plant.

Hydrangea paniculata Little Spooky is perhaps the most compact of all paniculata at just 2 feet high and wide!

Hydrangea paniculata Magical Lime Sparkle offers dense, conical flower heads in cream and green.

Hydrangea paniculata Skyfall is stunning compact cultivar with large, conical heads of elongated, creamy white petals.

Hydrangea serrata Pink Dynamo is a stunner with glowing pink lace cap flowers atop rich burgundy-black foliage.

Hydrangea serrata Tuff Stuff Red is a sturdy, reblooming mountain hydrangea with deep pink and chartreuse lacecaps.

Lagerstroemia Barista 'Cherry Mocha' has burgundy stems and semi-glossy burgundy foliage topped with cherry red flowers.

Lagerstoemia Barista 'Dark Roast' has rich, glossy, deep burgundy leaves topped with fuchsia pink flowers.

The bay tree or bay laurel (Laurus nobilis) is more delicious in soups and sauces when picked fresh from your own plant!

Lonicera caerulea 'Aurora' is a haskap or honeyberry selected for its high production of large, sweet berries.

Lonicera caerulea 'Boreal Beast' is a haskap or honeyberry said to have remarkable flavour either fresh or frozen.

Lonicera caerulea 'Boreal Beauty' is a haskap or honeyberry with very large, rounded fruit with delicious flavour.

Lonicera caerulea 'Boreal Blizzard' is a haskap or honeyberry with delicious fruit 2-3 times larger than other cultivars!

Lonicera involucrata is a non-climbing shrubby honeysuckle with large, oval leaves and pairs of tubular yellow flowers.

Mahonia aquifolium, the Oregon grape, is a native evergreen shrub with thick, dark green, holly-like leaves and yellow flowers.

Mahonia nervosa has emerald green, windmill-like leaves and canary yellow spring flowers and waxy blue berries.

Mahonia repens is a very adaptable, native, woodland ground cover with bright, canary-yellow blooms.

Mitraria coccinea has firey orange flowers and evergreen foliage on red stems perfect for the shadier parts of the garden.

Morus 'Dwarf Everbearing' is a black mulberry suitable for container growing with continuous fruiting all season.

Musa basjoo, the hardy japanese fibre banana, is reportedly ground hardy to zone 5 (but don't tell anyone in Ontario!).

Oemleria cerasiformis is a BC native known as Indian plum or osoberry. It blooms early in the spring with fruit in early summer.

Paeonia lutea hybrid 'High Noon' has fragrant, golden yellow flowers and stamens.

Paeonia x suffruticosa 'Bai Xue Ta', also known as White Snow Tower, is a tree peony with pure white  flowers.

Paeonia x suffruticosa 'Ling Hua Zhan Lu' is a tree peony with large, lavender pink flowers and yellow stamens.

Paeonia x suffruticosa 'Lu He Hong', also known as Shandong Red Lotus, is a tree peony with large,  double, rosy-pink flowers.

Paeonia x suffruticosa 'Rou Fu Rong', also known as Pink Hibiscus, is a tree peony with large, double, pink flowers.

Paeonia x suffruticosa 'Wu Long Peng Sheng' is a tree peony with large, double, dark pink flowers and yellow stamens.

Paeonia x suffruticosa 'Xin Ri Yue' / 'Ri Yue Jin' is a tree peony with large, double, rosy-red flowers and yellow stamens.

Paeonia x suffruticosa 'Yin Hong Qiao Dui', also known as Silver Red, is a tree peony with double, coral-pink flowers.

Paeonia suffruticosa 'Hana-kisoi' is a tree peony with fragrant, light pink flowers with deep pink surrounding the golden stamens.

Paeonia suffruticosa 'Kamada-nishiki' has fragrant, lavender-pink flowers with dark splotches around the golden stamens.

Paeonia suffruticosa 'Kao' has red to magenta-red flowers with golden stamens.

Paeonia suffruticosa 'Renkaku' is a tree peony with pure white flowers with golden stamens.

Paeonia suffruticosa 'Shima-nishiki' has variably red and white striped flowers with golden stamens.

Paeonia suffruticosa 'Shimadaijin' has purple-magenta flowers with golden stamens.

Philadelphus 'Snowbelle' is a hardy shrub with deliciously fragrant, double white flowers.

Pacific ninebark (Physocarpus capitatus) is a medium-sized to large shrub with dome shaped clusters of white flowers.

Prunus fruticosa x cerasus 'Cupid' is a super hardy, dwarf, late harvesting cherry tree/shrub with very dark, sweet fruit.

Prunus fruticosa x cerasus 'Juliet' is a dwarf, late harvesting cherry tree/shrub with very dark red fruit.

Prunus fruticosa x cerasus 'Romeo' is a dwarf late harvesting cherry tree/shrub with dark red fruit.

Prunus fruticosa x cerasus 'Valentine' is a dwarf late harvesting cherry tree/shrub with bright red fruit.

Rhododendron 'Bloombux' is a dwarf evergreen shrub with soft pink flowers and glossy green leaves.

Rhododendron 'Capistrano' has large, pastel-yellow flowers with frilly edges and muted, deep green foliage.

Rhododendron 'Cherries and Merlot' has leaves amazing burgundy-purple-red undersides and red flowers.

Rhododendron 'Cherry Cheesecake' has beautiful white flowers with dark red flecks and lightly ruffled bright pink edges.

Rhododendron 'Landmark' has large trusses of dark pink flowers with red specked throats and dark bronze winter foliage.

Rhododendron 'Minnetonka' has light purple to pink flowers with yellow-green specks from red-violet flower buds.

Rhodoendron catawbiense 'Royal Resilience' has glowing lavender-pink flowers and great disease resistance.

Ribes sanguineum is a critical BC native for the rufous hummingbird who follow its blooms on their northward migration.

Rosa acicularis, the wild rose, is the provincial flower of Alberta with lovely, single, fragrant pink flowers and nice rose hips.

Rosa nutkana, known as the Nootka, bristly, or wild rose, is native to western North America from Alaska to California.

Rosa woodsii is a native rose with many common names: Wood's, interior, common wild, mountain, pear-hip, and prairie rose.

Rubus 'Raspberry Shortcake' from the Bushel and Berry line is a thornless, dwarf, container raspberry with lots of sweet red berries.

Rubus fruticosus x idaeus 'Tayberry' is a blackberry/raspberry cross with large crops of delicious, dark purple fruit.

Rubus idaeus 'Honey Queen' is the hardiest of yellow raspberries and deliciously sweet.

Salix integra 'Flamingo' is a fast-growing willow with spectacular colour from variegated white, green and pink foliage.

Sarcococca humilis Winter Gem has red buds and sepals which give the fragrant blooms a bicolour effect.

Spiraea douglasii or hardhack is a BC native offering very showing spires of pink pink fuzzy flowers popular with pollinators.

Symphoricarpos albus, the common snowberry, is a lovely BC native shrub with clusters of pure ivory white berries.

Symphoricarpos doorenbosii 'Pinky Promise' is an ornamental shrub known as snowberry valued for its late season pink berries.

Syringa meyeri Flowerfesta Purple is a reblooming, dwarf lilac producing larger-than-average purple, very fragrant, dense panicles.

The Chilean guava, Ugni molinae, has evergreen variegated foliage and tasty ruby red fruit.

Vaccinium ovatum is a handsome BC native plant known as evergreen huckleberry that offers edible fruit.

The red huckleberry (Vaccinium parvifolium) is a lovely BC native for shade with an open, ethereal form and bright red fruit.

Vaccinium vitis-idaea 'Red Candy' is a dwarf, compact lingonberry or partridgeberry with white flowers and tasty, tart red fruit.

Viburnum edule, the highbush cranberry, offers tart red berries that make delicious jellies and pies.

Weigela 'All Summer Peach' is a compact reblooming shrub with glowing peach, pink, and yellow tubular flowers.

Weigela 'All Summer Red' is a compact reblooming shrub with bright red tubular flowers from spring until autumn.