25 TOP-PERFORMING GARDEN PLANTS TREES 1. Acer rufinerve ‘Erythrocladum’ 2. Lagerstroemia ‘Natchez’ (‘Osage’, ‘Tuscarora’, ‘Hopi’)

SHRUBS 3. Arctostaphylos ‘Austin Griffiths’ 4. Cornus sanguinea ‘Midwinter Fire’ 5. Edgeworthia chrysantha (‘Akebono’) 6. Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Arnold Promise’ (‘Diane’) 7. Hydrangea aspera Plum Passion 8. Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Snow Queen’ (‘Munchkin’, ‘Sike’s Dwarf’) 9. Mahonia x media ‘Charity’ (M. eurybracteata ‘Soft Caress’) 10. Rosa sericea ssp. omeiensis f. pteracantha (aka R. pteracantha) 11. Salix ‘Swizzlestick’, Salix ‘Flame’ 12. Stachyurus salicifolius

PERENNIALS 13. Agapanthus ‘Blue Leap’ (‘Joyful Blue’) 14. Allium ‘Summer Beauty’ (‘Millennium’, ‘August Confection’) 15. Amsonia hubrichtii 16. Carex testacea; (C. flacca ‘Blue Zinger’, C. tenuiculmis ‘Cappuccino’) 17. Euphorbia polychroma ‘Bonfire’ (E. rigida, E. ‘Purple Preference’) 18. Gaura lindheimeri ‘Whirling Butterflies’ 19. Kniphofia ‘Timothy’ (K. ‘Shining Sceptre’, ‘Mango Popsicle’) 20. Melianthus major ‘Antonow’s Blue’ 21. Molinia caerulea ‘Variegata’ 22. Sedum telephium ‘Red Cauli’ (S. ‘Matrona’) 23. Scabiosa ochroleuca 24. Yucca filamentosa ‘Color Guard’ 25. Zauschneria californica ‘Bowman’ (Z. ‘Silver Select’)

Bob Hyland Hyland Garden Design LLC 1114 SE Clay St., Portland, OR 97214 518-929-0699; www.hylandgardendesign.com Instagram: hylandgardendesign Facebook: Hyland Garden Design Presentation: Feb. 8, 2018

Layering a Garden: Strategies, Decisions and Plant Selections 1. Degree of slope; building elevation: berms, sunken gardens 2. Layering on flat ground 3. Raised beds & planters, elevate plants 4. Pots 5. Are you going to change grades, cut and fill… or work with what you’ve got. 6. Establishing a background, mid-ground, foreground 7. Good plant forms; even with a controlled hand 7. Punctuating plantings with spikes, spires …. Kniphofia, allium, agapanthus, Eryngium, 8. Good knitters & fillers… Gaura, Scabiosa, Carex, Schizachyrium, 9. Spillers… Geum, Cotoneaster, Arctostaphylos,