Welcome to my plant wishlist. This list, like all lists, tells a story, and I believe the story you’ll get here is of my evolution as a gardener. Select a category name to see plants of that type. Individual plant names link to more info, and you can view my own brief thoughts by clicking Notes. A bold letter X denotes plants from the list I’ve added to my garden.

Trees→

Shrubs→

Herbaceous Perennials→

Grasses→

Vines→

Annuals→

Here you’ll find a menagerie that have intrigued me for whatever reason, some my whole life, some only recently. In an ideal world, I’d have the perfect site for and access to all these plants — for now, for most of them, I’ll settle for dreaming. I discovered these plants firsthand in nature, in books and magazines, at botanic gardens like the New England Wildflower Society’s fantastic Garden in the Woods, or in catalogs of interesting plantsellers, most notably Forestfarm and Horizon Herbs. If you’re interested in unique plants, I encourage you not only to take a look at my wishlist, but to take advantage of the aforementioned resources. Most of the plants here I link to on the formidable PlantFiles on Dave’s Garden, a resource I find invaluable. Until now, I’ve used this site’s tagging function to maintain my wishlist online.