Our Plants
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Common Name: Sunset Hibiscus
Abelmoschus manihot (Hibiscus manihot) is a perennial in the warmer zones, and an annual elsewhere. It bears large showy yellow Hibiscus-like flowers with a maroon eye. It grows well in warmer areas of the U.S. and is easily grown in any well-drained...
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Common Name: Trailing Abutilon
Abutilon megapotamicum is a slender branched, somewhat vining deciduous shrub with curious showy hanging lantern-shaped flowers with two tone red and yellow parts. Flowering occurs from late summer into fall. Sometimes used for han... |
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Common Name: Flowering Maple
A shrub in warm areas with maple-like leaves and orange mallow-like flowers in leaf axils. A showy, fast grower for a sunny protected spot. Given rich soil and ample water, these plants will thrive during hot summers. May not freeze back every yea...
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Common Name: Variegated Flowering Maple
Abutilon pictum 'Souvenir de Bonn' is a shrub in warm areas. Maple-like leaves are variegated with white. Orange mallow-like flowers in leaf axils. A showy, fast grower for a sunny protected spot. Given rich soil and ample water, these plants will...
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Common Name: Chalkbark Maple
Acer leucoderme is a small, often multi-stemmed deciduous tree. Related to the Sugar Maple is is sometimes classified as Acer saccharum ssp. leucoderme. It usually grows in the understory of hardwood forests on slopes and hillsides with circum-neut...
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Common Name: Red Maple 'Florida Flame'
'Florida Flame' is an excellent clone of our native Red Maple selected by Bob Byrnes of Trail Ridge Nursery in north Florida. This plant is of north Florida provenance and is a good choice for the humid south w... |
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Common Name: Shrub Ohio Buckeye
A rare dwarf form of the Ohio Buckeye found in a few locations in northern Alabama and northern Georgia. Decidious shrub with typical palmately compound leaves and upright clusters of greenish yellow flowers in spring followed by large brown "buckey...
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Common Name: Bottlebrush Buckeye
Wide spreading multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with large palmately compound leaves. Flowers in early summer are long upright white spikes. Showy flowers and bright yellow fall color make this a highly desirable ornamental far beyond it's natural habi...
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Common Name: Late-blooming Bottlebrush Buckeye
Wide spreading, suckering, multi-stemmed open deciduous slow growing shrub. Overall shape is irregular almost stratified in appearance. White bottlebrush flowers appear in summer two to three weeks later than typical for the species. Medium to dar...
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Common Name: Red Buckeye
Clump forming deciduous round topped shrub or small tree with handsome lustrous dark green foliage. Palmately compound leaves emerge very early and may drop in late summer. Produces six inch panicles of showy red flowers in spring which are attract...
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Common Name: Red Buckeye
As with normal Red Buckeye but these are seedlings from a distinct form that flowers several weeks later. Good foliage....
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Common Name: Lily of the Nile, 'Peter Pan'
A dwarf selection of this water loving perennial with narrow green leaves. Blue flowers on tops of 15-18 inch stems. A good poolside plant. Excellent in containers or dig and overwinter inside in colder zones. Native to South Africa....
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A relatively hardy medium size Agave with rosette of stiff spine margined gray-green leaves 2-3 feet long and 2-3 inches wide and with lighter center stripe. Tall center flower spike irregularly produced. Forms many offsets. Plant in well-drained s...
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Common Name: Tung-oil Tree
Tung Oil tree is a medium size deciduous tree. It is ornamental with large (to 10 in) dark green heart shaped or lobed leaves and white to pink flowers in showy panicles in spring. Large inedible seeds are source of tung... |
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Common Name: Wild Nodding Onion
Grass-like leaves and 18 inch tall spkes with nodding umbels of lilac-pink flowers in late spring. Good plants for landscape groupings. Tolerant of rocky slopes and dry hillsides. Our most ornamental native onion. Native to mid-Atlantic states pie...
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Common Name: Sweet Almond Bush
This deciduous shrub with oval toothed leaves can be trained as a small tree in subtropical regions or treated as a die-back perennial in some temperate climates. It has spikes of white fragrant flowers in terminal panic... |
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Common Name: Japanese Alpinia
Low growing perennial ginger. Root hardy and often evergreen in zone 8. Foliage is fragrant when bruised or crushed. Showy reddish flowers mostly hidden in the attractive Canna-like foliage. Given rich soil and ample water, these plants will thri...
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Common Name: Evergreen Ginger
Evergreen Ginger produces many long lance-shaped leaves from the base. Spikes of clear yellow flowers extend above the foliage. Plant in part to full shade in moist fertile soil. From seed Collected in 1998 by Frank Bell above Baoguo Monastery on ...
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Common Name: Serviceberry
Large multi-stem deciduous shrub with small leaves which give good yellow to orange-red fall color. Flowers white in short spikes in very early spring. Very showy in flower. Fruit is raisin size red to purple berry which is tasty and makes good je...
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Common Name: Shadbush
Upright colony forming deciduous shrub. White flowers in the spring followed by blue-purple fruit. An attractive low growing "shadbush" that is much less common in cultivation compared to the larger species and varieties. A good choice for smaller s...
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Common Name: Variegated Porcelainberry
High climbing deciduous woody vine with elegant ivy-like leaves which have green, pink, and white variegation. Climbs by tendrils and can be used to cover unsightly things. Porcelainberry vine produces showy berries that are varied in color as they...
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Common Name: Arkansas Amsonia
This distinctive species of Blue Star native to the South Central U.S. We believe this now popular plant was first made available by Woodlanders. It is a strong perennial forming a large dense clump of upright stems clothed with very narrow leaves w...
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Common Name: Bluestar
This is the Amsonia most familiar to gardeners. This Bluestar has broader oval leaves and the blue star shaped flowers at the ends of the stems typical of the Amsonias. It grows well in deep moist soil in partial shade. Alan Armitage in Herbaceous...
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Common Name: Chalky Bluestem
A strikingly silvery-blue grass which is very ornamental when displayed against a dark background. Grows in a discrete clump. This selection from Marion County, FL by Charles and Alan Webb of Superior Trees, Inc. is similar to our selection 'Valdos...
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Common Name: Yellow Hummingbird Flower
Like Anisacanthus wrightii (which see) but with yellow flowers. This clone from San Antonio Botanic Garden is probably the variety 'Pumpkin' ... |
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Common Name: Madiera Vine
Anredera cordifolia (Boussingaltia basseloides)is a deciduous perennial vine with rather fleshy leaves and sprays of tiny white fragrant flowers. It has tuberous roots and climbs by twining. Will need a winter mulch in areas with colder winter temp...
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Common Name: Devil's Walking Stick
A hardy but very tropical looking small tree with very large compound deciduous leaves atop a tall slender spiny trunk which is often unbranched. The huge round clusters of white flowers borne at the top of the plant are followed by purple fruits. ...
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Common Name: Strawberry Tree
Small tree or large evergreen shrub with urn-shaped pinkish-white flowers in small panicles in fall/early winter. Orange-red strawberry-like fruit. Fruit matures over a year and is present at same time as flowers. Edible but not wonderful ! Slow...
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Common Name: Strawberry Tree Hybrid
Evergreen small tree similar to Arbutus unedo with white bell-like flowers and pink, strawberry-like fruit. On older plants the bark becomes a rich red-brown color. Salt tolerant. Dark green leaves are 1.5 to 4 inches long. Hybrid between A unedo ...
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Common Name: Coralberry
A low shrub with a single stem like a little tree. glossy dark green leaves with wavy edges. Small pink flowers in spring followed by clusters of persistent bright red fruit. A very ornamental plant for the southern garden where it will self-seed in...
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Common Name: Japanese Ardisia
Stoloniferous evergreen groundcover with glossy green leaves and red berries. A choice groundcover plant for well-drained good soil in shade or semi-shade. Needs regular watering. Native to Japan...
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Common Name: Variegated Japanese Ardisia
A variegated form of Ardisia japonica (which see) with silver edged leaves....
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Common Name: Variegated Japanese Ardisia
A variegated form of Ardisia japonica (which see) with light silver-gray leaves with thin white margin....
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Common Name: Variegated Japanese Ardisia
A variegated form of Ardisia japonica (which see). Ardisia japonica 'Nishiki' ('Hokan Nishiki') has gold and pink variegated leaves on new growth....
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Common Name: Variegated Japanese Ardisia
A variegated form of Ardisia japonica (which see) with broad band of yellow variegation in the center of the leaves....
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Common Name: Red Chokeberry 'Brilliantissima'
Thicket forming deciduous shrub with persistant red fruit. Fall color equal to or superior to burning bush. Adaptable to well-drained or wet soils. This selection has perhaps waxier more lustrous leaves than typical for species. Good ornamental. ...
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Common Name: European Ginger
Evergreen groundcover with glossy heart shaped leaves. Flowers inconspicuous at ground level. Urn shaped. Best in somewhat cooler areas with good soil, shade or semi-shade, and adequate moisture. Spreads and forms colonies....
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Common Name: Pawpaw
Tropical looking deciduous small tree. Large leaves have distinctive odor when crushed. Largest native edible fruit. Perishable banana-like fruit in mid-summer has custard like pulp and large seeds. They are relished by raccoons and many people. S...
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Common Name: Cast Iron Plant
An evergreen groundcover with broad dark green leaves all arising directly from the ground. A great plant for very dark or shady corners and once used as a container plants in almost impossible environments hence common names. Fleshy flowers are vi...
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Common Name: Speckled Cast Iron Plant
Smaller than typical Cast Iron Plant and with myriad small white spots on dark leaves (hence name). According to Plant Delights this is properly 'Ginga' but is more commonly called 'Milky Way' This interesting evergreen groundcover should have cult...
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Common Name: Climbing Aster
A most unusual Aster as it is a vine or very scandent shrub with woody stems which do not die back in winter. Abundant late season flowerheads are about 1" diamenter. The ray flowers are blue to purple with yellow disc flowers. It occurs in scatter...
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Common Name: Georgia Aster
Large bushy perennial Aster with abundant large flower heads with violet ray flowers. Somewhat like Aster grandiflorus but sometimes considered a variety of Aster patens.. This is a rare plant in the wild and known from relatively few localities in ...
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Common Name: Aster 'Bluebird'
A selection of our native Smooth Aster made by Richard Lighty at Mt. Cuba Center in Deleware. Large vase shaped clumps bear abundant 1"+ flower heads with violet blue ray flowers surrounding golden disc flowers. This good perennial for the bed or b...
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Common Name: Aster 'Raydon's Favorite'
A dense bushy plant smothered in fall with large blue-purple flowers. A selection from the former Holbrook Farm Nursery in N.C. A fine garden plant for sunny border with well-drained soil. Aromatic foliage. Native to dry prairies and rocky slopes...
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Common Name: Jundai Tartarian Aster
Tatarian Aster is a rugged, easy to grow, late bloomer. This selection is lower growing than species. Although native to Siberia this plant is suited to long dry sunny fall in the south. Rarely requires stalking.&nb... |
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Common Name: Lady Fern
Athyrium filix-femina (asplenioides) is an easy to grow lacy deciduous fern. Likes shade and humus rich moist soil. Native to Europe and Asia...
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Common Name: Dwarf Lady Fern
A dwarf form of the Lady Fern (which see). Delicate light green leaves, dense. Easy to grow and perfect for shady spot where small fern is needed....
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Common Name: Japanese Painted Fern
Athyrium nipponicum (goeringianum) 'Pictum' is a cool gray-green and silvery deciduous groundcovering fern. Best color when they receive some direct sunlight, preferably in the morning but like most ferns they should be planted in rich humusy and mo...
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Common Name: Chinese Aucuba
A rare Chinese relative of the common Japanese Aucuba. Perhaps first offered in U.S. by Woodlanders. Evergreen shrub with broad coarsely toothed leaves with a few yellow dots. Possibly not as cold hardy as the Japanese species. Use in shady or se...
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Common Name: Golddust Plant
An evergreen shrub with rather large leathery leaves which in this clone are very heavily splashed with yellow. We obtained this male clone a few years ago from Dr. Michael Dirr who was then working with and evaluating a number of Aucuba varieties w...
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Common Name: Northern Japanese Aucuba
Evergreen shrub with leathery dark green leaves. Female plants produce red berries. A compact, small leaf form presumably the form from the colder sections of the range in Japan. Surviving 4 degrees F in 1994 at the U.S. National Arboretum. As with...
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Common Name: Aucuba, Narrow-leaf
Evergreen shrub with narrow serrated leathery leaves. It was originally received from U.S. National Arboretum as Aucuba himalayica but may be a form of Aucuba japonica |
