New plants from a trip north...

I always hope to make a summertime trip up to Seattle to see friends, but as I get busy the trip gets pushed back and back—September or October are much more likely. This year's trip was last weekend, luckily fellow Portlander Mary DeNoyer posted a link to the RSBG Catalogue on Facebook right as I was finalizing my plans. I was THRILLED to see they were offering the dwarf maidenhair, Adiantum aleuticum var. subpumilum RSBG so I put in a request. Pick-up was arranged at the garden nursery, rather than having it shipped.A couple of pics from the garden...

And of my plant...
I am so excited! I was pretty sure I'd get a couple of small fronds in a 4" pot, but no... this is a nice hefty half-gallon. Yay!
Another plant caught my attention at the nursery, Xanthocyparis vietnamensis (Vietnamese Cypress). At first I thought it might have been a Cunninghamia lanceolata 'Glauca'...
But then I saw this! What the what?
From Plant Delights: "Eventually to 30'+, the foliage resembles a thujopis at maturity, although the juvenile foliage is quite feathery." Yep. That 30'+ part helped me walk away.
The next day my friend Erin and I visited the Kruckeberg Botanic Garden in Shoreline, WA, just north of Seattle. I'd never been and wasn't sure what to expect, but was intrigued when I learned they had an onsite nursery: MsK Nursery.


I almost had to buy this small Yucca nana, I mean just look at it! It's like the puppy at the pound who has those big sad eyes.
Such a photogenic nursery location.
Wouldn't you know. Dammit. I wanted to go in!
Here's my small haul, minus the Adiantum aleuticum var. subpumilum already shown. On the far right are a pair of Antennaria dioica 'Rubra' from MsK Nursery...
On the far left, bottom corner (above) is a tiny Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Chirimen’/ Hinoki Cypress that I picked up at a plant swap/book giveaway/meet up of people from a PNW Plant group on Facebook.