The shopping has begun (not that it ever really stops)

Clematis ‘Pixie’ was a surprise find at The Gardener's Choice in Tigard (a Portland suburb). Andrew had an errand to run nearby so I zipped over to the nursery and found this!I was feeling all sorts of nostalgic about my historic trips to Joy Creek, Means and Cistus (the Highway 30 Trifecta as dubbed by Peter). So even though Joy Creek is no longer, since I had enough time after leaving Cistus I drove on out to Means. My journey was rewarded with 7 pots of sempervivum and a pot of black mondo grass for less than $40, not bad!
Cistus had several Pyrrosia lingua 'Eboshi' on hand, and since I'm still recovering from how harsh this winter was on my pyrrosia collection, I said yes please!
Ditto for a Pyrrosia lingua 'Variegata'.
Especially since there looks to maybe be more than one growing tip? We shall see... 
I held strong against purchasing more aspidistra, well, until I caved and went back and grabbed a couple. Winter was rather harsh on my aspidistra as well and I really wanted to bump up their presence in the garden. This one is Aspidistra tonkinensis 'Spotty'.
And Aspidistra typica 'Old Glory'...
My final Cistus buy, Liriope muscari 'Silvery Sunproof'.
These next few plants are from Little Prince of Oregon Nursery (LPO), check out that combo! 
This is kind of like an unboxing video where the recipient is all gushing and excited about the gift plants they're unpacking, except I ordered these and went down to LPO and picked them up. Even better in my book cause they're all plants I want! 

Here Tricyrtis formosana 'Samurai' and Saxifraga stolonifera. Click on that link to see the crazy bloom on the toad lily (tricyrtis) which is a bonus on top of that already fabulous foliage. Also I've never seen Saxifraga stolonifera as big as these plants are!
There are several pots of Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens' and Sedum spathulifolium ‘Carnea’.
Several jovibarba...
Another blechnum, this one B. brasiliense, aka Brazilian tree fern. I love that colorful new foliage! This one's not hardy outdoors here in Portland, so I'll have to treat it as a patio plant, protected over the winter.
You might also be interested to know the fine folks at Little Price are carrying bromeliads now. They sent me home with a sampler pack to try out; included are Neoregelia ‘Cotton Candy’, Neoregelia ‘Red Waif’ and Neoregelia ‘Royal Burgundy’.
I also left with a houseplant, Philodendron mamei (Silver Cloud)...
I love a big unfurling leaf...
 

And the bumpy bits along the stem are pretty cool too, I tried to find a name for this phenomenon but failed. Thanks so much for the plants LPO!
After leaving LPO, since I was down south of town, I stopped in at Bauman's Farm and Garden, not realizing their Gardenpalooza celebration was set to kick-off the next day. They were offering dwarf cavendish bananas (Musa acuminata 'Dwarf Cavendish') for just $5! I bought three. 
I had been thinking I needed to buy a few canna lilies to provide some tropical "je ne sais quoi" in the garden this year, but hey, when you stumble upon $5 bananas who needs cannas?

Speaking of tropical (looking), I spotted this Echium fastuosum ‘Star of Madeira’ at Thicket Nursery and grabbed it quick like. I haven't grown one of these in awhile and it will make a great filler for a spot that's open thanks to winter's destruction.
Just one more, Salvia africana-lutea...
I've wanted this plant for awhile, mainly because I've drooled over the interesting brown blooms on Kris' blog Late to the Garden Party. It's a Zone 9 plant, so not hardy here, but I chatted with the guy who checked me out at Portland Nursery where I bought it and he's successfully over wintered it in a container, so maybe that's what I'll do. 

Here are a a few blooms just getting started.

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