Watsonia meriana produces showy spikes of bright orange, tubular flowers with creamy undersides.

Weigela 'Tuxedo' is a mid-sized ornamental shrub with fragrant, funnel-shaped, white flowers and dark foliage.

Wisteria frutescens 'Amethyst Falls' is a daintier, better behaved version of the Chinese wisteria for small spaces.

'Blue Moon' is an extremely fast growing and super hardy Wisteria for zone 3(!) that blooms up to three times a year.

Gordonia grandiflora is a remarkable semi-evergreen tree with lancolate leaves and fragrant, camellia-like flowers.

Xerophyllum tenax or bear grass is an amazing BC native with white hot torches arising from tough evergreen mounds of grass-like foliage.

Yucca 'Bronze Age' is a blue-green yucca that has deep burgundy bronze colouration in fall and winter.

Yucca filamentosa 'Excalibur' forms rosettes of spiky, strap-like leaves coloured blue-green to powdery blue.

Yucca filamentosa 'Hofer's Blue' forms rosettes of spiky, strap-like leaves coloured in a bold silver-blue.

Zaluzianskya or night phlox has deep pink buds opening to night-fragrant white flowers in multitudes for months. A Phoenix Perennials best seller.

Zanthoxylum piperitum, the Japanese pepper, is an aromatic, spiny shrub with small, yellowish green flowers and scarlet fruits used in Japanese and Korean cooking.

Zanthoxylum simulans, the Sichuan pepper, produces brownish red fruits that have a spicy, numbing effect.

Zanthoxylum simulans, the Sichuan pepper, produces brownish red fruits that have a spicy, numbing effect.

The shampoo ginger, Zingiber zerumbet 'Variegata', has dramatic variegated tropical foliage and cone-like inflorescences.

Ziziphus jujuba, jujube, red date, or Chinese date is a unique fruiting tree. Autumn Beauty is one of the best cultivars.

Ziziphus jujuba, jujube, red date, or Chinese date is a unique fruiting tree. Black Sea is especially sweet.

Ziziphus jujuba, jujube, red date, or Chinese date is a unique fruiting tree. Coco has a coconut-like flavour.

Ziziphus jujuba, jujube, red date, or Chinese date is a unique fruiting tree. 'Lang' is a top cultivar.

Ziziphus jujuba 'Li' is a popular variety with very large, mahogany brown fruit that is sweet, crisp and flavourful.