Our Plants
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Common Name: Chinese Abelia
Upright spreading shrub. Requires pruning, gets leggy. Good butterfly plant. Yellowing flowers caused by high pH soils. A good hedge plant. (See DIR, O&P)...
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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 occurring from late summer into fall. Sometimes used for hanging baskets. This shrub m...
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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 with maple-like variegated 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 d...
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Common Name: Maple, Florida
Acer barbatum (A. saccharum ssp. floridanum)is a small deciduous oval shaped tree related to the Northern Sugar Maple but smaller in all parts. Leaves are whitish beneath. More heat-tolerant than Northern Sugar Maple. Found on fertile, moist, well-dr...
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Common Name: Maple, Chalkbark
Acer leucoderme (A. saccharum ssp. leucoderme)is a small, often multi-stemmed tree, usually growing in the understory on slopes and hillsides in hardwood forests. It makes an attractive ornamental in more open situations. Leaves droop at the tips a...
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Common Name: Red Maple 'Candy Ice'
Acer rubrum 'Candy Ice' is a Woodlanders' introduction found by Norman Beal in Southwest Virginia. Pyramidal in youth, it develops an irregular rounded crown with age. Variegated form with pink, white and green leaves. Sunburns if planted in full ...
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Common Name: Red Magic Flower
Achimenes heterophylla produces very showy bright red tubular flowers in late summer above dark velvety green leaves. A somewhat succulent perennial, forming colonies to about one foot tall from cone-like tubers. Will over winter in the South. Provi...
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Common Name: Monkshood, Wild
Aconitum uncinatum is an ascending or weak climbing perennial with lobbed leaves and terminal racemes of medium blue hooded showy flowers on long stocks in mid to late summer. An uncommom long-lived native for rich moist woodland situations. Poisonou...
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Common Name: Rosy Maidenhair
Horse-shoe shaped upright fronds similar to other "Maidenhair" ferns. New growth is rosy pink. Moist soil with lime or oyster shells added. Mulch in winter. For warmer gardens or as a container plant northward. Naturalized in some parts of zone 9....
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Common Name: Yellow Buckeye
Aesculus flava ( syn. octandra) is a large deciduous tree with typical buckeye characteristics of palmate compound leaves and large smooth nuts. This species has upright terminal clusters of yellowish flowers in spring. Yellow fall color. Bark rath...
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Common Name: Shrub ohio buckeye
rare dwarf form, handsome...
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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 the species. Medium to dark green leav...
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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: Dwarf Red Buckeye
A lower growing form of Aesculus pavia...
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Common Name: 'Peter Pan' African Lily
A dwarf selection 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....
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Common Name: Havard Agave
"Century Plant" with rosette of blue-gray leaves 8-15 inches long and 4-5 inches wide with straight black spine at the tip and recurved marginal spines. Flowering occasionally at multi year intervals. Flower spike reaches 12 feet. A desert plant fr...
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Common Name: Tung-oil Tree
Deciduous ornamental tree. Large (to 10 in) dark green heart shaped or lobed leaves. White to pink flowers in showy panicles in spring. Large inedible seeds are source of tung oil. Formerly grown as a crop in Deep South. Sparingly naturalized ther...
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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....
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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 flowers mostly hidden in attractive Canna-like foliage. In colder areas cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mou...
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Common Name: Evergeen 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....
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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: Nantucket Serviceberry
A rare low-growing, thicket forming stoloniferous shrub on sandy soils in sun. . Mid spring white flowers have shorter petals than most Shadbushes. Edible red fruits. like other Shadbush species. We are indebted to Richard Lynch of Sweetbay Magn...
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Common Name: Shadbush
Upright colonial shrub. Native. Large flowers in the spring followed by blue-purple fruit....
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Common Name: Shadbush or Apple Serviceberry
Upright spreading growth habit. More spreading than Amelanchier species. Thicker glossier foliage for improved summer appearance. Abundant bloom, good orange-red fall color....
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Common Name: Variegated Porcelainberry
Japanese beetle magnet. Woody tendril climber with elegant leaves: green, pink, white variegation....
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Common Name: Arkansas Amsonia
Flowers become almost white as temperatures warm up in the spring. Foliage slightly wider and longer than A. ciliata. Named after a man named Lester Hubrecht....
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Common Name: Louisiana Bluestar
Distinguished by white wool on the undersides of the leaves. Rare....
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Common Name: Dwarf Bluestar
Perhaps a dwarf form of A. tabernaemontana. Small enough for rock gardens. Cutting-grown. This plant originally received from Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA seems to be unknown as a wild plant and records are not clear as to original origin....
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Common Name: Rhazya
Amsonia (Rhazya) orientalis is a European perennial similar in leaf and flower to Amsonia....
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Common Name: Bluestar
Widest leaves. Easy care....
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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: Hummingbird Bush
Deciduous shrub. Orange tubular star-shaped flowers attractive to hummingbirds occur from late spring until frost. Drought tolerant. Good patio plant. Pale shredding bark adds winter interest. No obvious disease or insect problems....
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Common Name: Madiera Vine
Anredera cordifolia (Boussingaltia basseloides)is a deciduous perennial twiner with rather fleshy leaves and sprays of tiny white fragrant flowers. Tuberous roots. Provide winter mulch....
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Dense evergreen shrub or small tree similar to, and related to, the classic Laurel or Bay Tree. Aromatic foliage. Native to Canary Islands. Grown from seed obtained from Portugal. Sun, well-drained soil....
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Common Name: Wild Columbine
The familiar red-flowered Columbine. A good garden perennial for fertile soil that is not too acidic. A beautiful vigorous grower on the right site. Perennial but seeds itself around....
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Common Name: Variegated Holly Fern
Plant is evergreen to 10 degrees F. Provide good soil and ample of water. Shade or partial shade. Leaves dark green with gold stripe down center. Naturalized near Savannah River in Aiken County SC. A bold and attractive evergreen fern....
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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: Coralberry
Glossy dark green leaves with wavy edges. Small pink flowers in spring followed by clusters of persistent bright red fruit. Pinch back when young to promote bushiness. Colony-forming low evergreen shrub. A very ornamental plant for garden or conta...
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Common Name: Ardisia, Japanese
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....
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Common Name: 'Hakoukan' Variegated Japanese Ardisia
White and silver-green leaves. Groundcover....
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Common Name: 'Ito-Fukurin' Variegated Japanese Ardisia
Light silver-gray leaves, thin white margin. Groundcover....
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Common Name: 'Nishiki' Variegated Japanese Ardisia
Ardisia japonica 'Nishiki' (Hokan Nishiki) has gold and pink variegated leaves on new growth....
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Common Name: 'Hinode' Variegated Japanese Ardisia
A large and vigorous plant with broad band of yellow variegation in the center of the leaves....
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Common Name: Southern Wiregrass
This is a fine textured bunch grass with dense wiry foliage and taller flowering spikes. It is historically the dominant groundcover in frequently burned longleaf pine forest in the southern U.S. It is now becoming rare because of the loss and conve...
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Common Name: Chokeberry, Red - 'Brilliantissima'
Thicket forming deciduous shrub with persistant red fruit. Fall color equal to or superior to burning bush. Adaptable. This selection has perhaps waxier more lustrous leaves than typical for species. Good ornamental. Use in borders, bankcovers...
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Common Name: Yakushima Ginger
Spectacular evergreen shiny marbled leaves....
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Common Name: Wild Ginger, Chinese
One of the largest growing of these wonderful evergreen groundcover plants for woodland gardens. This species has large leaves beautifully mottled with silvery markings. Vigorous and rhizomatous. Has only recently become available in the US....
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Common Name: Milkweed, Swamp
A white flowered selection of this native perennial milkweed. Flowers borne at tops of plants. A good garden plant for moist sites or for the well-watered perennial border. Easy to grow....
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Common Name: Dwarf Pawpaw
Similar to commom pawpaw but with smaller leaves, flowers and fruits. Shrub or rarely a small tree. Grows on drier sites, usually woodlands. Self-sterile, must plant more than one for fruit....
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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. P...
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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: Cast Iron or Iron Plant
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Common Name: Cast Iron Plant Cultivar
Smaller than typical Cast Iron Plant and with myriad small white spots on dark leaves (hence name). Probably somewhat less hardy. Evergreen groundcover....
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Common Name: Aster, Climbing
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: Aster, Georgia
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 at Mt. Cuba Center in Deleware. Larte vase shaped clumps bear abundant 1"+ flower heads with violet blue ray flowers surrounding golden disc flowers. Excellent foliage....
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Common Name: Fanny's Aster
Reliable late-bloomer. Mounding. Wet meadows, bogs, marshes....
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Common Name: Lady Fern, 'Lady in Red'
Selection of the Lady Fern with nice red stems. Lady Fern is easily grown in humus rich moist soil in shady locations. Lacy texture and very soft lovely new growth. Dies to ground in winter....
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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....
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Common Name: Lady Fern, Dwarf
A dwarf form of the Lady Fern. Delicate light green leaves, dense. Easy to grow and perfect for shady spot where small fern is needed....
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Common Name: Fern, Japanese Painted
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....
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Common Name: Lady Fern, 'Ghost' Hybrid
A cross between Lady Fern and Japanese Painted Fern. Strong grower. Will bring a silver accent to your shade garden. Originated in cultivation....
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Common Name: Aucuba, Chinese
A rare 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 semi-shady...
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Common Name: Aucuba, Northern Japanese
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 called "longifolia". As with other Aucuba it should have shade or semi-shade a...
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