In the Southeast corner of the Community Education Garden, a section of Washington native plants segues to a blended home garden of shrubs, trees and perennials. The combination demonstrates ideas for incorporating native plants into an urban landscape, as well as ideas for season-long interest through combinations of perennials for texture, bloom color and bloom time. This area of the garden also demonstrates different irrigation techniques and mulch covers. Some sections are irrigated with inline drip, some with low-flow sprinklers, or micro-sprinklers. Mulches include gravel and bark.
Plants native to Washington may find a place in home gardens in central Washington. Read and download our booklet Native Plants for Home Landscaping from the Native Plants ‘n More Garden (pdf). for details on native plants in our garden and visit them in our garden throughout the seasons to evaluate how they may perform in your garden.
Learn more about native plants in Washington from the Washington Native Plant Society.
This list is current as of March 2026.
Trees marked with “UF” are utility friendly trees, those expected to be short enough at maturity to plant below an overhead utility line.
Fire-resistant plants are noted with 
Trees
- Acer cissifolium -vine leaf maple
- Acer platanoides ‘Crimson Sentry’ – Norway maple – UF: 20 ft x 10 ft
- Amelanchier alnifolia– serviceberry – UF: 20 ft x 20ft
- Chamaecyparis nootkatensis ‘Van den Akker’– weeping Alaska cedar
- Cotinus coggygria ‘Royal Purple’– purple smoke tree – UF: 15ft x 15ft
- Ginkgo biloba ‘Princeton Sentry’ – maidenhair tree
- Larix kaempferi ‘Wolterdingen’ – Japanese larch
- Picea pungens ‘Baby Blue Eyes’ – Colorado blue spruce – UF: 10 ft x 6 ft
- Pinus flexilis ‘Vanderwolf’s Pyramid’ – limber pine – UF: 20-25ft x 10-15ft
- Pinus parviflora ‘Hagoromo’ – Japanese white pine
- Prunus emarginata –bitter cherry
Shrubs
- Artemisea rigida – stiff sagebrush
- Berberis thunbergii ‘Gentry’ Royal Burgundy – barberry
- Chamaecyparis pisifera – golden thread cypress
- Chrysothamus viscidflorus—green rabbit bush
- Cornus sericea ‘ Baileyi’– osier red twig dogwood
- Cornus servicea ‘Flaviramea’ – yellow twig dogwood
- Dasiphora fruticosa — shrubby cinquefoil
- Juniperus x chinensis ‘Old Gold’ – Chinese juniper
- Lonicera involucrata – twinberry
- Philadelphus x virginialis ‘Minnesota’– dwarf mock orange
- Philadelphus x lewisii – wild mock orange
- Physocarpus opulifolius ‘Darts Gold’ – ninebark
- Pinus edulis ‘Farmy’ dwarf pinyon pine
- Ribes sanguineum – red currant
- Rosa woodsia – Woods rose
- Spiraea douglasii – Douglas spirea
- Spiraea japonica ‘Goldflame’ – Japanese spirea
- Spiraea japonica ‘Gold Mound’ – Japanese spirea
- Spiraea japonica ‘Magic Carpet’ – Japanese spirea
- Spiraea nipponica – snowmound spirea
- Symphoricarpus albus – common snowberry
- Viburnum edule – high bush cranberry
- Yucca filamentosa – variegated yucca
Perennials
- Achillea filipendulina ‘Coronation Gold’ – yarrow
- Achillea serbica – Serbian yarrow
- Aethionema schistosum – Persian stonecress
- Agastache – rock anise hyssop
- Amsonia hubrichtii – Arkansas bluestar
- Amsonia tabernaemontana – Eastern bluestar
- Anaphalis margaritacea – pearly everlasting
- Anemone – windflower
- Aquilegia canadenis – red columbine
- Aquilegia flabellata – blue columbine
- Antennaria neglecta – rosy pussytoes
- Asclepias tuberosa — orange butterfly weed
- Balsamorhiza sagittate – arrowleaf balsamroot
- Baptisia australis var. minor – blue false indigo
- Blechnum spicant – deer fern
- Centranthus ruber – Jupiter’s beard
- Ceratostigma plumbaginoides – hardy plumbago
- Coreopsis verticillata – threadleaf coreopsis’
- Dianthus deltoides –’Confetti Deep Red’
- Dianthus gratianopolitanus – ‘Neon star’
- Echinacea purpurea ‘Magnus’ – purple coneflower
- Echinacea purpurea ‘White Swan’ – white coneflower
- Echinacea tennesseensis ‘Rocky top’ –Tennessee coneflower
- Erigeron compositum – Northern or heartleaf buckwheat
- Erigeron filifolius – threadleaf daisy
- Eriogonum heracleoides – creamy or parsnip-flower buckwheat
- Erigeron linearis– thread-leaf fleabane
- Erigeron niveum – snowy buckwheat
- Erigeron strictum – strict buckwheat
- Eriogonum heracleoides – creamy buckwheat
- Eriogonum umbellatum – sulphur buckwheat
- Eriophyllum lanatum – woolly sunflower
- Fragaria virginiana – wild or blueleaf strawberry
- Gaillardia aristata ‘Amber Wheels’ – blanketflower
- Geranium ‘Rozanne’ – hardy geranium
- Hemerocallis ‘Judith’
- Heuchera cylindrica – roundleaf alumroot
- Heuchera cylindrica – lava alumroot
- Heuchera sanguinea – ‘Coral Forest’ – coral bells
- Hyssopus officinalis ‘Aristatus’ – dwarf hyssop
- Illamna rivularis – mountain hollyhock
- Iris pallida ‘Variegata’ – variegated iris
- Lavandula angustifolia – lavender
- Lewisia Columbiana – Columbia lewisia
- Lewisia tweedyi – Tweedy’s lewisia
- Linum lewisii – blue flax
- Lupinus polyphyllus – big leaf lupine
- Monardella odoratissima – mountain coyote mint
- Oenothera caespitosa – tufted evening primrose
- Penstemon davidsonii – Davidson’s penstemon
- Penstemon fruticosus – shrubby penstemon
- Penstemon pruinosus – Chelan penstemon
- Penstemon richardsonii – cut-leaf penstemon
- Penstemon strictus – rocky mountain penstemon
- Phlox grayii – pink phlox
- Phlox subulata ‘Snowflake’ – creeping phlox
- Pulsatilla vulgaris – pasque flower
- Rudbeckia alpicola – Wenatchee Mt. coneflower
- Salvia dorrii – purple sage
- Salvia nemorosa – woodland sage
- Salvia reptans – West Texas sage
- Sedum spectabile ‘Neon’ – stonecrop
- Sedum telephium ‘Purple Emperor’ – stonecrop
- Solidago dansolitlem ‘Little Lemon’ – goldenrod
- Sphaeralcea munroana – orange globe mallow
- Symphyotrichum ericoides ‘Monte Cassino’ – heather aster
- Symphyotrichum foliaceum – leafy bracted aster
- Symphyotrichum lateriflorus ‘Lady in Black’ — calico aster
- Trillium
Groundcovers
- Arcostaphylos uva-ursi – kinnikinnick
- Potentilla neumanniana ‘Nana’ – alpine cinquefoil
- Phedimus spurius – stonecrop
- Sedum reflexum ‘Angelina’ – sedum
- Sedum spurium ‘Tricolor’– sedum
- Thymus serpyllum – creeping thyme
Grasses
- Bouteloua gracilis ‘Blonde Ambition’ – blue grama grass
- Festuca idahoenis – Idaho blue bunch grass
- Koeleria macrantha -prairie junegrass
- Leymus cinereus – basin wild rye
- Miscanthus sinensis ‘Morning Light’ – morning light maiden grass
- Muhlenbergia reverchonii ‘Autumn Embers’ – muhly grass
- Pseudoroegneria spicata –blue bunch wheatgrass
Vines
- Clematis ligusticifolia – western white clematis
