Our Plants
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Common Name: Chinese Abelia
This Abelia is an upright to spreading deciduous shrub native to China and one of the parents of the much more commonly grown hybrid Abelia x grandiflora. It can make a good hedge plant with abundant white flowers in summer and with... |
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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: 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: Ohio Buckeye
Ohio Buckeye is a small to medium, or occasionally large deciduous tree native to the mid-western U.S. It is the tree which gives Ohio the name of the "Buckeye State". The rather large leaves are typical of this genus with fi... |
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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: Dwarf Red Buckeye
Red Buckeye (Aesculus pavia) (which see) is a variable species. This is a more shrubby form which should remain much smaller than they typical form which becomes a small tree. Otherwise similar. ... |
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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: 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: 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: Hummingbird Bush
Hummingbird bush is a deciduous shrub with rather small pointed leaves and orange to red tubular star-shaped flowers attractive to hummingbirds. Flowers occur from late spring until frost. Drought tolerant as it is native to the southwestern U.S. ... |
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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: Variegated Holly Fern
This large fern is a bold and attractive evergreen. The large dark green leaves have a gold stripe down the center of each division. Plant this fern in shade or partial shade with good soil and ample water. It is n... |
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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: 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: Southern Wiregrass
This is a fine textured bunch grass with dense wiry foliage and tall, narrow flowering spikes. It is historically the dominant groundcover in frequently burned longleaf pine forests in the southern U.S. It is now becoming rare because of the loss an...
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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: Milkweed, Swamp
'Ice Ballet' is a white flowered selection of this native perennial milkweed. Flowers are borne at tops of 3-4 foot tall plants. This is a good garden plant for moist sites or for the well-watered perennial border. Easy to grow and attractive to butt...
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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: Cast Iron Plant, 'Asahi'
An old Japanese variety of Aspidistra elatior (which see) that has and air brushed look to the ends of the leaves which terminate with a whitish tip. The name 'Asahi' reportedly means "Rising Sun"....
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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 cultur...
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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: 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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A tough, low-growing, mounding aster bearing flowers of deep lavender blue in late summer through fall. Tolerant of drought and poor soils. ... |
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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: Broombush Falsewillow
This rare semi-evergreen shrub is similar to our common Baccharis halmifolia but quite distinct. In 1979 just before Hurricane Frederick did tremendous damage to the Mobile, Alabama area, we discovered... |
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Common Name: Groundsel Bush
Semi-evergreen shrub Composite with small gray-green toothed leaves. Originally from edges of coastal salt marshes but now widely naturalized inland on sunny disturbed sites. Female plants of this adaptable and salt tolerant shrub produce showy whi...
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Common Name: False Indigo, White
Multi-stemmed perennial with tall spikes of showy white flowers in spring. A great, long-lasting plant for sunny, well-drained sites in the garden bed or border. Several tall white Baptisias with fat seed pods formerly classed as separate species a...
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Common Name: Philippine Violet
Called "Phillipine Violet" but neither Phillipine nor a Violet. Showy blue flowers in late summer and autumn. Perennial in zone 8-9, 4-6 foot shrub in zone 10. In zone 8 cut back plants afterfrost kills the tops. Mound 10 inches of coarse sand ov...
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Common Name: Hardy Pink Begonia
Begonia grandis (evansiana) (pink) is a lovely pink flowered begonia with large pointed leaves with red veins. Flowers in drooping clusters through the summer. A surprisingly cold-hardy perennial begonia from tuber-like roots. Best in rich moist ...
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Common Name: Begonia, Hardy White
Begonia grandis (evansiana) (white) is a lovely white or very pale pink flowered begonia with large pointed leaves with red veins. Flowers in drooping clusters through the summer. A surprisingly cold-hardy perennial begonia from tuber-like roots. Bes...
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Common Name: Blackberry Lily
Perennial with iris-like foliage and tall branched spikes bearing clusters of flowers about 2" across. Flower have 3 petals and 3 almost identical sepals. Flowers are orange and yellow with red spots and are followed by capsules opening to show clus...
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Common Name: Crossvine 'Tangerine Beauty'
Crossvine is a high climbing semi-evergreen vine with bright orange trumpet shaped flowers. It is a good flowering vine that climbs high by tendrils and hold-tights and is effective if planted on fence or trellis in sun or se... |
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Common Name: Red Crossvine
Crossvine is a vigorous evergreen or semi-evergreen vine climbing by tendrils or hold-fasts. The leaves on this clone may be narrower and longer than is typical for the species but its main feature is abundant red trumpet shaped flowers... |
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Common Name: Bouvardia, Scarlet
A small shrub with whorls of leaves and extremely showy red flowers in terminal clusters. This is a plant from the southwestern U.S. and Mexico and needs full sun, well-drained soil, and freedom from competing vegetation....
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Common Name: Los Lerios Butterflybush
This is an evergreen shrub with somewhat heart-shaped gray green leaves with lighter undersides. Originally it was collected by Yucca-do Nursery near Los Lerios, Cohuila, Mexico and previously offered by us a "Buddleia sp. "Los Lerios". ... |
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Common Name: Butterflybush, 'Dartmoor'
Possibly a hybrid, this robust selection is a favorite Butterfly bush that has very large, branched panicles of purple flowers which of course attract butterflies. Woody, semi-evergreen shrub south, perennial north. English selecti... |
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Common Name: Butterfly-bush, Attraction
Buddleia davidii 'Attraction' is a more compact shrub than typical for the species and ultimately forms a somewhat rounded outline. Its arching branches are lined with gray-green leaves which have no fall color. Royal red ... |
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Common Name: Butterflybush, 'Lochinch'
'Lochinch' is a hybrid Butterfly Bush blooming on new growth with showy panicles of small fragrant lavender blue flowers that have an orange "eye". This is a vigorous and fast-growing decidous shrub with gray-g... |
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Common Name: Butterfly Bush, 'Miss Ruby'
This striking pink flowered Butterfly Bush is the result of a cross between two different Buddleia davidii x B. globosa varities. It was created by Dr. Dennis Werner at the Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh, North Carolina whi... |
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Common Name: Lindley Butterflybush
Evergreen or semi-evergreen arching shrub with rather lustrous dark green leaves. Flowers occur in upright arching or hanging 3 to 8 inch long panicles and are attractive to butterflies. Plant in sun or semi-shade in good soil that is well-drained....
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Common Name: Mountain Sagewood
A South African evergreen shrub with narrow sage-like leaves. The sweetly scented small terminal spikes of small flowers are creamy white or yellow sometimes with orange centers. Little-known and largely untested in the U.S. the Mountain Sagewood o...
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Common Name: Sageleaf Buttrtflybush
A medium to large South African shrub which has proven surprisenly hardy in trials at Athens, GA. Flowers of pale lavender are not particularly fragrant but Dr. Dirr says: "All visitor's to our trials have become enamored with the foliage". Give this...
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Common Name: Yellow Butterflybush
Hybrid between B. globosa and B. davidii. Better and more vigorous than B. 'Sungold'. Obtained by Dr. Mike Dirr from Crathes Castle Garden in Scotland and named 'Honeycomb'. Purchased as the variety 'E.H. Wilson,'it turned out to be a very differen...
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Common Name: False Buckthorn, Thorne's
Bumelia (Sideroxylon) thornei is a rare small tree with small oval leaves, rather crooked or pendulous thorny branches, and black raisin size fruits. It grows naturally in moist to wet soil but is adaptable and appears to ... |
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Common Name: Florida Bully
Large deciduous shrub or small tree with tough irregular branching habit and small reticulate veined leaves. Tiny greenish white flowers are attractive to pollenators and are followed by small black berries. Found throughout Florida and in scattere...
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Common Name: Pindo Palm
Medium size palm tree with trunk to 1 1/2 feet in diameter. Blue-green pinnate leaves elongate, curving, pinnae regularly arranged or sometimes clustered, ascending from the rachis. Hardiest "feather leaf" palms and commonly planted in the southeas...
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Common Name: Box, Balearic Island
This seldom offered evergreen shrub or small tree is seldom seen in the U.S. It is related to and similar to the familiar Boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) but has larger leaves. It is probably less cold-hardy but perhaps a good choice for warmer climat...
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Common Name: Harland Boxwood
This small boxwood with narrow, bright green leaves and abundant and noticible bloom is apparently the true Buxus harlandii. The boxwoods commonly sold in the South as B. harlandii,&... |
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Common Name: Black Beautyberry
Deciduous shrub somewhat like Callicarpa americana. Branches arching and shiny clusters of small shiny black berries. Collected in Mexico by the late and great Texas plantsman Lynn Lowery and perhaps first offered to widespread market by Woodlanders...
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Common Name: American Beautyberry
Deciduous multi-stemmed shrub with rather large coarsely toothed velvety opposite leaves. Flowers small purple in clusters around stems at leaf nodes and followed in late summer by showy clusters of BB sized purple berries. Sun or semi-shade in aver...
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Common Name: Beautyberry 'Bok Tower'
Like Callicarpa americana (which see) but with white berries. This selection from Polk County, FL by Jonathan Shaw, former director of Bok Tower Gardens is late flowering and fruiting. Perhaps the best white-fruited selection for the Deep South but ...
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Common Name: Bodinier Beautyberry 'Profusion'
Excellent Dutch cultivar of this Chinese deciduous shrub. Upright arching branches and bronze-purple new growth which turns pinkish purple in fall. Abundant small purple berries in sizeable clusters. Will fruit as a young plant. Full sun for best...
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Common Name: Beautyberry 'Purple Issai'
Purple Beautyberry is, according to Dirr, the "most graceful and refined of the species". It is also the most cold-hardy. This selection fruits heavily as a young plant and abundant small violet berries follow small lavender pink flowers. Plant in...
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Common Name: Variegated Purple Beautyberry
'Splashy' is a deciduous shrub with arching branches, small pink flowers, and abundant clusters of small purple berries. This selection introduced from Japan by our friend Ted Stephens of Nurseries Carolinana is highly variegated with irregular wh... |
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Common Name: White Fruited Asiatic Beautyberry
Callicarpa dichotoma is, according to Dirr, the "most graceful and refined of the species". It is also the most cold-hardy. This variety has white berries instead of typical purple and may get a bit taller than the typical form. Callicarpa dichotom...
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Common Name: Taiwan Beautyberry
This Beautyberry is a large deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub native to Taiwan and little known in the U.S. It has large, 10-12 inch long fuzzy leaves and clustered small white berries. It is a striking novelty shrub for mild clima... |
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Common Name: Beautyberry Hybrid
A spontaneous hybrid Beautyberry we grew from seed collected from one of our large-leafed subtropical Callicarpa pilosissima. The pollen parent could be any of a number of other Callicarpa species in our collection. This plant has rather felty corr...
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Common Name: purple poppymallow
Sun loving spreader with bright purple cup-shaped blooms from spring through summer....
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Common Name: Bottlebrush Pink
Evergreen shrub with arching to pendulous branches. Leaves dark green lance like along stems. Flowers terminal pink "bottlebrushes". This relatively cold hardy bottlebrush is unusual in that it has pink flowers freely in mid-summer. Native to Austral...
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Common Name: Bottlebrush 'Clemson'
A small to medium sized evergreen shrub with bright red "bottlebrush" flowers. It survived outside for years at Clemson, SC., an area generally considered too cold for these Australian plants. Introduced by Ted Stephens of Nurseries Caroliniana who...
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Common Name: Bottlebrush Cultivar
Medium, arching, evergreen shrub with bright red "bottlebrush" flowers in late spring. Originally offered by us as C. sieberi, but that species should have yellow flowers. Has proven winter hardy in Raleigh, NC.
A showy plant for sunny or semi-sha...
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Common Name: Heather 'Gold Haze'
Heather is an upright branching, small evergreen ground cover plant with dense, leafy branches that can form a mat. It is a plant that likes a cooler climate and a moist but well-drained acidic soil that is sandy and low in fertility. This golden t...
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Common Name: Sweet Shrub
Upright colony-forming deciduous shrub with dark maroon 1-2" flowers with many sepals and similar petals. Renouned for its fruity fragrance but not all plants have fragrant flowers or they are not consistently fragrant. A woodland plant but suited ...
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Common Name: Sweetshrub 'Athens'
(AKA 'Katherine') As with the species Calycanthus floridus (which see) but flowers yellow and with good fragrance. One of several clones which have been found with yellow flowers. 'Athens' was provided to Dr. Mike Dirr by Jane Symmes of the now def...
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Common Name: Sweetshrub 'Venus' Hybrid
Deciduous shrub with glossy dark green leaves and showy white flowers resembling the flowers of Star Magnolia but a bit smaller. Flowers in mid summer. This exciting new introduction was bred by Dr. Tom Ranney in North Carolina combining the eastern...
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Common Name: Western Sweetshrub
Native to California, this shrub is similar to our southeastern Sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus) and likewise has red/maroon flowers. The following description is historical and interesting but we go with red/maroon rather than "chocolate br... |
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Common Name: Sweetshrub Hybrid
Calycanthus x raulstonii(C floridus x C sinensis)' Hartlage Wine' is a deciduous shrub intermediate between the parents. Perhaps not stoloniferous. This interspecific (or intergeneric if Sinocalycanthus is maintained as a genus) hybrid is an exciti...
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Common Name: Dongnan Sancha Camellia
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Many varied and quite different species of Camellia occur in the Far East and Woodlanders is o...
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Common Name: Camellia, Mockorange
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Many varied and quite different species of Camellia occur in the Far East and this is one of t...
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Common Name: Peacock Camellia
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This is an unusual selection of Camellia japonica with rather tubul... |
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Common Name: Picotee Flowered Camellia
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This is a nice form of Camellia japonica. A famous and unique Japanese variety with single flower...
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Common Name: Camellia Cultivar
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This is a nice form of Camellia japonica . Semi-double flowers are creamy colored but yellow ...
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Common Name: Red Camellia (named cultivar ?)
(unknown cultivar) Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This is an unusual but nice form of Camellia japonica. This beautiful and ...
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Common Name: Camellia 'Brian' Hybrid
Evergreen shrub with showy Cyclamen pink, semi-double flowers with silvery cast. As best we can determine this is a Camellia reticulata x Camellia japonica hybrid . Flowers in late winter. Compact upright growth habit....
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Common Name: Fragrant Camellia
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Many varied and quite different species of Camellia occur in... |
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Common Name: Camellia, Tea-oil
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This less well-known species has less glossy leaves than most other Camellias but nice cinnamo...
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Common Name: Camellia, Rose flower
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Many varied and quite different species of Camellia occur in the Far East and Woodlanders is o...
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Common Name: Camellia 'Appleblossom'
A selection of Camellia saluensis with abundant pink flowers. Originally acquired from the Norfolk, VA garden of Fred Huette, first director of Norfolk Botanical Garden....
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Common Name: Sasanqua Camellia 'Leslie Ann'
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This Camellia sasanqua variety is a beautiful fall flowering plant with exquisite 3-4 inch whit...
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Common Name: Sasanqua Camellia, 'Misty Moon
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This Camellia sasanqua variety is a relatively new selection of thi... |
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Common Name: Camellia, Sasanqua 'Yuletide'
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This Camellis saaanqua variety is unique for the flowers which are about 3" in diameter with deep...
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Common Name: Tea Plant
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Among the many other species, this one is of great economic importance as the source of tea. ...
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Common Name: Pink Tea Plant
A pink flowered form of Camellia sinensis (which see). The foliage is also somewhat reddish....
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Common Name: Hybrid Camellia
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This plant is a hybrid between Camellia japonica 'K... |
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Common Name: Mary Christian Camellia
Like Camellia x williamsii 'Donation' (which see), 'Mary Christian' is a choice hybrid between Camellia japonica and C. saluenensis. A beautiful evergreen shrub with abundant soft pink single ... |
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Common Name: Golden Spangles Camellia
'Golden Spangles' is a sport of 'Mary Christian' (which see) and has similar pink single flowers. It is distinguished by the gold splash variegation in each leaf which is quite unique and adds year around interst. ... |
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Common Name: Yunnan Camellia
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Many varied and quite different species of Camellia occur in the Far East an... |
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Common Name: Yellow Trumpetcreeper 'Judy'
A yellow-flowered floriferous selection of this normally orange flowered native vine. High-climbing with compound deciduous leaves. Flowers yellow with dark throat. This Woodlanders introduction is one we found in eastern North Carolina. The well-...
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Common Name: Trumpetcreeper 'Madame Galen'
High-climbing deciduous vine which will attach to rough surfaces with "hold fasts". Compound leaves and large orange/salmon trumpet shaped flowers in summer. A hybrid intermediate between the parents, the American species (Campsis radicans)and the ...
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A shrubby but somewhat vine-like leguminous plant (pea family) with deciduous leaves resembling the leaves of the common green bean or soybean. Notable for the long spikes of coral orange flowers. A new introduction which we collected in Argentina... |
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Common Name: Southern Marsh Canna
Perennial with light green broad tropical looking leaves typical of Canna. This native species has yellow flowers. Spreads freely in moist to wet soil or in shallow water but grows well in ordinary garden soil. Plant in sunny location with good so...
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Common Name: Red Canna
This Canna is a rather compact plant with medium green leaves and delicate flowers with red and yellow petals. We grew this Canna from seed but do not recall where we obtained it. It is a good subject for the bed, border, or subtropical garden and g...
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Common Name: Sedge, Birdfoot
Ornamental Carex are tufted or clump forming grass-like plants. This species has narrow dark green leaves with silver margins. A nice plant for rock gardens or between stones. Native to Japan and Korea. ... |
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Common Name: Blue Wood Sedge
Ornamental Carex are tufted or clump-forming grass like plants. This clump forming sedge has glaucus blue to blue-green slightly quilted leaves to 1/2 inch wide. Drought tolerant once established but best in moist soil and semi-shade. Native to sou...
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Common Name: Sedge, Old Gold
Ornamental Carex are tufted or clump forming grass-like plants. This Carex has narrow leaves about 10 to 12 inches long with a broad golden center stripe with narrow dark green margins. Very attractive plant for light shade and moist soil. Sometim...
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Common Name: Silver Japanese Sedge
Tufted grass-like clumps with 12 inch long narrow leaves with silvery white margins. A popular and attractive cultivar for semi shaded gardens. Native to Japan...
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Common Name: American Hornbeam
Ironwood is an attractive small dense deciduous tree with small leaves and small winged seeds. The gray bark is smooth and looks like a muscled arm. Does well in shade or sun in good moist soil. Ideal for lawn tree or for pleached ... |
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Common Name: Korean Hornbeam
Korean Hornbeam is a rather small deciduous tree with fine twiggy branches and small serrated leaves which give good fall color. It is sometimes considered the same as or a variety of C. turczaninovii. It makes an excellent and g... |
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Common Name: Pignut Hickory
A large deciduous tree of finer texture than Mockernut Hickory (C. tomentosa). Pignut Hickory is widespread in eastern U.S., but like other hickories it is rarely offered by nurseries. Grows well in good soil t... |
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Common Name: Shagbark Hickory
Large deciduous tree with compound leaves and attractive shaggy bark peeling in strips on trunk. The hard shelled nuts are edible and delicious. Prefers moist, well-drained sites, but adaptable. Native to eastern U.S....
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Common Name: Showy Senna
Subtropical shrub with bright yellow flowers in late fall. Evergreen in zones 10. Stem hardy in zone 9. Seeds poisonous but not deadly. In zone 8 cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 inches of coarse sand over t... |
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Common Name: Showy Senna 'Pale Yellow'
This is a pale yellow flowered selection of Cassia bicapsularis (which see). We had not seen this before it was shared with us by Joann Breland in Charleston. ... |
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Common Name: Chinquapin, Florida
Large deciduous shrub or shrubby small tree. Chestnut relative. Oblong, glossy, toothed leaves and single shiny black, cranberry-sized nuts in spiny husks. Nuts are edible and delicious. This and Castanea alnifolia var. alnifolia a... |
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Common Name: Chinese Chestnut
This bushy Chinese deciduous tree is widely grown as a substitute for the once widepread American Chestnut tree that was essentially eliminated by the chestnut blight brought in from China in 1904. It produces large edible chestnuts which are shed f...
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Common Name: Ceanothus, 'Gloire de Versailles hybrid
'Glorie des Versailles' is a deciduous shrub that can scramble to 10 feet in favorable areas if not pruned back. It is a cross between Ceanothus americanus and the Mexican Ceanothus coeruleus. It has la... |
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Common Name: Iguana Hackberry
This subtropical Hackberry is native in warm to tropical regions from the West Indies to Mexico and southern Arizona. It occurs in southwest Florida where it is rare, and is reported from the Alabama Gulf Coast. It is similar to o... |
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Common Name: Tala
Medium size deciduous tree. Leaves are smaller and narrower than our native Hackberries. Branches somewhat spiny. We saw these as picturesque gnarled trees along dry streambeds in Argentina. Showy yellow-orange fruit. Plant in sunny, well-draine...
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Common Name: Buttonbush
Buttonbush is a rounded dediduous shrub which can be trained as small tree. Grows in wet or seasonally flooded sites but does well in ordinary garden situation with sun and adequate water. Flowers white in ball-like clusters about 1-1.5 inch in diam...
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Common Name: Japanese Plum Yew
Evergreen conifer similar to Yew (Taxus). This variety is prostrate in growth habit. A good substitute for Taxus in the South. Moist well-drained soil but will tolerate drought once established. Holds good green color in winter. Will tolerate full...
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Common Name: Columnar Japanese Plum Yew
This is a needle-leaf evergreen shrub with whorled dark green leaves on upright branches. It is an ancient Japanese or Korean clone which will occasionally put out shoots with two ranked leaves that are typical of the species.... |
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Common Name: Griffith's Plumbago
Evergreen subshrub with small leaves which have red margin. Deep blue flowers in summer. Provide a sunny site with well-drained soil, good air circulation, and minimal competition from other plants. Native to the Himalayas...
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Common Name: Elegant Jasmine
Erect or arching perennial freezing to the ground in zone 8. Woody shrub in the tropics. Showy reddish purple tubular flowers in terminal clusters late in growing season. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 inches of coarse sand...
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Common Name: Smith's Jasmine
Similar to Cestrum. elgans (which see), but with profuse blush rose flowers. Suitable in zone 8-10 or in greenhouse where it is everblooming. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 inches of coarse sand over the stubs. Mulch over ...
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Common Name: Ladies of the Night Jasmine
Scandant or spreading shrub in frost free climates but perennial in zone 8. Very fragrant clusters of tubular yellowish flowers that are fragrant at night. Plant in sheltered spot where powerful fragrance at night will be enjoyed. Cut back plants aft...
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Common Name: Jasmine Hybrid
Scandant shrub with abundant clusters of lightly fragrant yellow tubular flowers. Mysteriously much hardier than either supposed parent species. In zone 8 it remains a woody shrub. Might be most effectively used if trained on a trellis....
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Common Name: Willow-leaved Jasmine
Multi-stem arching shrub with somewhat willow-like leaves and tubular greenish yellow flowers in terminal clusters that are fragrant at night. Probably hardiest of the commonly cultivated species. Sun or semi shade. Said to be posionious to cattle an...
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Common Name: Purple Jasmine
Erect or arching perennial freezing to the ground in zone 8. Woody shrub in the tropics. Showy purple tubular flowers in terminal clusters late in growing season. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 inches of coarse sand over th...
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Common Name: Hinoki Falsecypress
A small evergreen tree with bright green leaves in fern-like sprays. Somewhat random habit of growth but very attractive. One of many horticultural selections of this Japanes conifer. Plant in sun or semi-shade in well-drained soil....
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Common Name: Atlantic Whitecedar
Tall attractive conifer with bright green or bluish-green foliage. Found naturally in wet acid soils that do not flood but adaptable to most garden or landscape sites with sun, sandy acidic soil, and ample moisture. An attractive ornamental tree. ...
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Common Name: Atlantic Whitecedar 'Shiva'
A silvery, soft textured juvenile foliage form of Whitecedar. Presumed to be Chamaecyparis thyoides but may possibly be a Chamaecyparis pisifera. Found as a seedling on Cape Cod by Rekha Morris of Pendleton, SC. and introduced by Clarence Towe of Wal...
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Common Name: Leatherleaf
Thicket forming native low evergreen shrub with leafy racemes of small white bell-like flowers. Grows in sandy, acid bogs, but good for garden or rock garden. Related to Leucothoe. This is a very cold hardy plant of northern bogs but range extends ...
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Common Name: River Oat Grass
Chasmanthium (Uiola) latifolium is a luxuriant and shade tolerant perennial grass with relatively wide leaf blades and taller spikes of drooping seed heads much like "Sea Oats". Attrative in the garden and seed stalks a great component for dried arra...
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Common Name: Pink Turtlehead 'Hot Lips'
This is a clump forming perennial with 1" long pink flowers in dense terminal spikes. Flowers can persist for about 4 weeks. Plant in good soil in sunny bed and provide adequate water. A choice perennial for the garden bed or border. Native to sout...
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Common Name: Wintersweet
A deciduous shrub of somewhat ungainly habit but with attractive dark green long pointed leaves. It has long been valued in the South for it's very fragrant flowers which appear in mid-winter. The flowers are along the branches and are yellowish cu...
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Common Name: Fringe Tree
Fringetree is a deciduous large shrub or small tree, often multi-stemmed. A favorite landscape ornamental prized for it's abundant fleecy white flowers in spring followed on female plants by raisin-size purple fruits. Fringetree can be grown in sun...
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Common Name: Chitalpa
x Chitalpa tashkentensis is an interesting large deciduous shrub or small tree. It is a hybrid between the American Desert Willow (Chilopsis linearis) and our Southern Catalpa (Catalpa bignonioides)but was produced in Tashkent, former USSR. Leav...
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Common Name: Mexican-Orange
Superb densly rounded evergreen shrub with fragrant white flowers.Flowers open over an extended period. The aromatic leaves are trifoliate. An excellent ornamental if given just the right conditions but Dirr (Manual of Woody La... |
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Common Name: Mexican Orange, 'Aztec Pearl'
Choysia is a small genus of evergreen shrubs native to the southwestern U.S. and Mexico. 'Aztec Pearl' is a hybrid between two of these and was created by Peter Moore of Longstock Park Nursery in England. It appears to be more col... |
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Common Name: Green and Gold
Green and Gold is a favorite native perennial plant with ovate opposite leaves and golden daisy-like flowers with 5 relatively wide "petals" (ray flowers) on upright stems. This is the clump-forming Green and Gold variety virgi... |
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Common Name: Indonesian Cinnamon
The Indonesian Cinnamon is an evergreen tree with glossy 3-4 inch long leaves. It's bark is the source of as much as 80% of the commercial Cinnamon sold in the U.S. This tree is native to southeastern Asia... |
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Common Name: Jensen Cinnamon
An evergreen tree resembling Cinnamomum chekiangensis (which see) but a relatively recent introduction from China and one of seven species of Cinnamomum now established in the landscape here in Aiken, SC. Fast growing single stem tree wit... |
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Common Name: Marine Ivy
Relatively hardy and vigorous deciduous relative of the popular house plant, Grape Ivy. Attractive, deeply lobed, and somewhat fleshy gray-green trifoliate leaves. Drought tolerant. Tendrils have hold fasts that cling to almost any surface that is ...
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Common Name: Rockrose
Low evergreen shrub with abundant white 2 inch flowers like single roses. Plant in sunny or very lightly shaded site with good drainage. Best in a Mediterranean climate but performs well in parts of the Southeast if well sited. Mediterranean Regio...
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Common Name: Orchidspot Rockrose
This Rockrose is a low evergreen shrub to 4 feet. It is a hybrid with showy 2-3" wide purple flowers blotched with maroon. Rockroses are not roses and are not related. Plant this shrub in full sun and in well-drained so... |
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Common Name: Citrange, 'Morton'
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. 'Morton' Citrange is similar to other Sweet Orange x Trifoliate Orange hybrids in foliage an... |
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Common Name: Sour Orange, Gou Tou
The Gou Tou Sour Orange is reported to be widely grown in southeast Asia. The fruit is like a large orange with pale orange sour but tasty flesh that is very like that of a grapefruit. Ours were propagated from a large s... |
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Common Name: Sour Orange
Sour Orange is widely grown as an ornamental and even as a street tree. It is somewhat naturalized in Florida. It is useful for making marmalade but not otherwise edible. This unnamed selection is propagated from a sing... |
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Common Name: Orange, Minneola hybrid
Many popular citrus fruits are hybrids. This one is a real mix. The 'Minneola' Tangelo is a Mandarin Orange crossed with a Grapefruit. This is crossed with the cold-hardy but scarcely edible Ichang Papeda (Citrus ichange... |
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Common Name: Yuzuquat
The Yuzuquat is a tri-generic hybrid. One parent is the Yuzu (which see). The Yuzu is a cross between Citrus ichangensis and C. reticulata. Yuzu was crossed with the 'Nagami' Kumquat (Fortunella margar... |
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Common Name: Myrtle Leaf Orange
'Chinotto' is a dense compact ornamental shrub or small tree with small pointed myrtle-like leaves, abundant white flowers, and small orange fruit. It is an attractive plant for the garden or container and has been very successful outdoors i... |
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Common Name: Grapefruit, Bloomsweet
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. 'Bloomsweet' Grapefruit is not a true grapefruit but certainly a good substitute which has p... |
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Common Name: Mandarin 'Changsha'
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This is one of the most cold hardy evergreen citrus. This small tree produces tangerine-like fruits w...
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Common Name: Keraji Mandarin
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. Keraji Mandarin is a medium size evergreen tree with typical white fragrant ... |
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Common Name: Lime, 'Rangpur'
Evergreen Citrus tree with fragrant white flowers and small orange tangerine-like fruits that are very sour and used as a lime substitute. It is much more cold hardy than a true lime and is widely grown as a dooryard fruit in California but little-ln...
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Common Name: Sanbokan Grapefruit
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This is a medium sized evergreen citrus tree with typical fragrant white flowers and flavorful yel... |
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Common Name: Nanshodaidai
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This is a vigorous upright spreading evergreen thorny citrus with sour tangerine to orange-like fruit...
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Common Name: Calamandarin
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This citrus is possibly a hybrid between a Mandarin and a Calamondin orange. (Calamondin may be a Man...
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Common Name: Carizzo Citrange
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This hardy hybrid between the Naval Orange and the inedible but hardy Trifoliate O... |
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Common Name: Citrange, 'Benton'
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. 'Benton', like most other Citranges is cold hardy, not very edible, but ornamental... |
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Common Name: Citradia
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This hybrid between the Sour Orange and the Trifoliate Orange has great vigor and very nice foliage w...
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Common Name: Citrumelo, 'Dunstan'
A trifoliate Orange x Grapefruit hybrid said to produce 4" yellow fruit which "if sprinkled with sugar, smell and taste like an ordinary grapefruit, harvested perhaps a bit too early." "May be the best overall hybrid with 50 percent trifoliate parent...
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Common Name: Citrange, 'Troyer'
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This hardy hybrid between the Naval Orange and the inedible but hardy Trifoliate Orange (Ponciris tri...
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Common Name: 'Yuzu'
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. Known for centuries in Asia where highly esteemed the Yuzu is a narrow upright tho... |
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Common Name: Sunquat
Sunquat is somewhat of a mystery Citrus. It apparently originated in Texas as a hybrid between a Meiwa Kumquat and either a lemon or a Clementine Mandarin. Whatever it is it produces good crops of golf-ball si... |
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Common Name: American Yellowwood
Yellowood is a large wide spreading deciduous tree with compound leaves and pendulous terminal panicles of white flowers which are fragrant and typical for pea family. It has gray smooth bark and good yellow fall foliage color and is a splen... |
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Common Name: Clematis, Armand
Armand Clematis is a beautiful vigorous evergreen vine with large and glossy dark green leaves. It produces abundant clusters of small white flowers in early spring. The flowers are quite fragrant but it is worth ... |
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Common Name: Red Texas Clematis
Texas Clematis is a much-sought-after species that is rarely available. It is an herbaceous perennial vine with blue-green foliage and bright red flowers in summer and fall. The flowers are like little red "leather" bells. Plant in sun or semi-shad...
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Common Name:
Clerodendron x speciosa (thomsoniae x splendens) is a showy vine which climbs by twining. It is a hybrid between Clerodendron thomsoniae, the "Bleeding Heart Vine" and C. splendens. This showy climber is much like the former except flowers are with...
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Common Name: Rose Glorybower
Suckering shrub with usually unbranched stems. Relatively large heart-shaped leaves and large flat terminal clusters of fragrant rosy pink flowers. May freeze to the ground in cold weather but easily root hardy where ground does not freeze. Forms ...
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Common Name: Glorybower
Clerodendrum fragrans (philippinum) (chinensis) is a stoloniferous shrub (sometimes perennial) to about 3 feet (may become larger in frost-free zones). Stems usually unbranched. Large heart-shaped leaves and tight rounded terminal clusters of shell ...
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Common Name: Turk's Turban
Tall perennial with tyically unbranched leafy stems with long narrowly elliptic leaves. Stems are topped with long cluster of showy tubular white flowers which are followed by black berries. This is a striking plant but it can be invasive if allowe...
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Common Name:
Clerodendrum nutans (C. wallichii) is a shrub to 7+ feet in frost-free climates, or perennial in zone 8. Wand-like basal branches, leaves are glossy and leathery dark green, strongly veined and almost 1 foot long. White showy flowers with coral ant...
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Common Name: Harlequin Glorybower
Large decidous shrub or small tree that forms thickets from root suckers unless planted in open area that is kept mowed. It is the hardiest of the Clerodendrons and a very attractive landscape plant in the right spot. It has heart-shaped leaves and...
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Common Name: Clethra, Cinnamon Bark
Cinnamon Clethra is a deciduous shrub that becomes a small tree. Valued for it's tall form, white racemes of fragrant flowers, and exfoliating cinnamon colored bark. A plant of well-drained mountain slopes where moisture is us... |
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Common Name: Clethra 'Anne Bidwell'
Clethra alnifolia and the southern Clethra tomentosa are stoloniferous deciduous shrubs commonly called Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush. They form colonies in moist acid soil and make good garden subjects. They are valued for their terminal spikes ...
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Common Name: Clethra 'Hummingbird'
Clethra alnifolia and the southern Clethra tomentosa are stoloniferous deciduous shrubs commonly called Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush. They form colonies in moist acid soil and make good garden subjects. They are valued for their terminal spikes ...
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Common Name: Pink Summersweet
Clethra alnifolia and the southern Clethra tomentosa are stoloniferous deciduous shrubs commonly called Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush. They form colonies in moist acid soil and make good garden subjects. They are valued for their terminal spikes ...
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Common Name: Chinese Clethra
Chinese Clethra is similar to Clethra barbinervis (which see) but not so tall. Leaves dark glossy green and widest in the middle. 5-7 inch long racemose panicles of fragrant white flowers. Plant in semi-shade. Native to Ch... |
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Common Name: Mexican Clethra
This large evergreen shrub or small tree has long racemes of cinnamon scented white flowers in summer. Leaves are elliptic and toothed toward the terminal end. This is a relatively new introduction from Mexico by the folks at Yucca-Do Nursery in Texa...
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Common Name: Clethra 'Cottondale'
Clethra alnifolia and the southern Clethra tomentosa are stoloniferous deciduous shrubs commonly called Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush. They form colonies in moist acid soil and make good garden subjects. They are valued for their terminal spikes ...
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Common Name: Clethra 'Sarah'
Clethra alnifolia and the southern Clethra tomentosa are stoloniferous deciduous shrubs commonly called Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush. They form colonies in moist acid soil and make good garden subjects. They are valued for their terminal spikes ...
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Common Name: Variegated Cleyera
This evergreen shrub related to Camellia and the species is known only in the variegated form cultivated in Japan. The narrow leaves have a white margin. Grow in well-drained fertile soil with ample moisture. Sun or semi-shade. This is a true Cleye...
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Common Name: Buckwheat Tree
Evergreen shrub or tree with small glossy leathery leaves. Can become much larger than size given in suitable natural habitat. Found along streams and in acid bogs in the lower southeastern coastal plains. This is a fine evergreen with early white f...
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Common Name: Red Savory
Clinopodium (Satureja) (Calamintha)coccineum is an aromatic evergreen shrub with small leaves. Loose open growth habit. Very showy tubular red flowers in summer. Attractive to hummingbirds. Occurs only on deep, well-drained sands. Plant in full sun...
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Common Name: Amber Blush Red Basil
'Amber Blush' is a new yellow-flowered clone of Clinopodium coccineum (which see) from the Florida Panhandle that was introduced and shared with us by Rich Lewandowski of Mt.Cuba Center in Delaware... |
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Common Name: Georgia Savory
Clinopodium (Satureja) georgianum is a semi-evergreen mint shrub with highly aromatic foliage and abundant pinkish flowers in late summer. It is a good border plant for sunny or semi-shady spots with good drainage. Georgia Savory will grow i... |
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Common Name: Clinopodium Hybrid
Clinopodium (Satureja) georgianum hybrid is a chance hybrid of uncertain parentage that was introduced by Woodlanders. It occurred here in the garden of Robert Mackintosh. It is possibly a Clinopodium geo... |
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Common Name: Yellow Flowered Red Savory
Clinopodium (Satureja) (Calamintha) coccineum 'Ohoopee Yellow' is a contradictory common name, but this is a clear bright yellow flowered selection of a usually red flowered mint shrub Clinopodium coccineum. This yellow form was originally shared wi...
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Common Name: Laureleaf Snailseed
This is a somewhat viney shrub grown in warm climates chiefly for its beautiful glossy polished leaves with three prominent parlallel veins. Worthy of protected spot in zone 9 or even 8. Makes a good espalier plant on a sheltered wall. Native to tr...
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Common Name: Stripe Stem Elephant Ear
A relatively new and possibly somewhat more hardy "Elephant Ear" selected by John Joicus at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. It is a very aquatic plant which spreads by rhizomatous runners. Leaves are blotched light and darker green, but the stems ar...
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Common Name: Scrub Rosemary
Endemic to a few localities in two central Florida counties, this aromatic mint shrub is a FEDERALLY LISTED ENDANGERED SPECIES AND CANNOT BE SOLD IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE. Similar to Conradina canescens it is... |
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Common Name: Gray Conradina
Conradinas are dense aromatic low shrubs in the mint family with small, usually linear green or gray leaves, and small pale purple flowers. There are 6 or possibly 7 species in the southern U.S., primarily in Florida where they grow on sand or very ...
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Common Name: Etonia Rosemary
This is a federally listed endangered species. NOT FOR SALE IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE. It is a new species discovered by Bob McCartney in Putnam County, Florida in 1990 and introduced by Woodlanders. Medium mint family shrub larger than most other Con...
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Common Name: Cumberland Rosemary
Federally listed THREATENED species. CANNOT BE SOLD IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE. Low trailing evergreen shrub with aromatic Rosemary-like leaves. Other Conradina species are native to Florida and Gulf Coast of Alabama. This one is native to limited are...
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Common Name: Dwarf Tickseed
This Coreopsis is a low, clump forming plant with dark green leaves and bright orange daisy-like flowers on 12-18 inch stems. It flowers over a long period in summer. Armitage (Herbaceous Perennial Plants<... |
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Common Name: Threadleaf Coreopsis
Clump forming native perenennial with thread-like leaflets and abundant yellow to orange daisy like flowers over long period in summer. A popular garden perennial for the sunny border is good, well-drained soil....
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Common Name: Silky Dogwood
Silky Dogwood is a medium sized deciduous shrub with flat topped clusters of white flowers followed by showy blue berries attractive to birds. The flower clusters are unlike the common Flowering Dogwood and more like a Viburnum flower. It normally o...
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Common Name: Pagoda Dogwood
This dogwood is a large deciduous tree with picturesque tiered growth habit and reddish branches. Blooms in spring with flowers that are in flat topped white clusters like a viburnum. Dr. Dirr (Manual of Woody Landscape Pl... |
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Common Name: Roughleaf Dogwood
This is a deciduous shrub to small tree that is sometimes colonial. Creamy clusters of small flowers followed by white fruit enjoyed by birds. It is a plant naturally found on wet soils but is adaptable to garden conditions in sun or partial shade. ...
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Common Name: Flowering Dogwood, 'Weaver'
'Weaver' is a Deep South selection of the familiar Flowering Dogwood, a small to medium size deciduous tree with dark checkered bark, and large showy white flower bracts. The leaves of this Florida clone may be somewhat larger and ... |
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Common Name: Dogwood, Dwarf Flowering
'Suwanee Squat' Dogwood is a most unusual form of this favorite flowering tree. It has typical white Dogwood blossoms in spring. Growth habit is very low and spreading, almost prostrate. Would spill down over wall or bank. There are lots of dogwoo... |
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Common Name: Chinese Dogwood
Spreading deciduous small to medium size tree with nice foliage and showy white-bracted flowers. Unlike our native American Dogwood, the bracts are pointed. Flowers about a month later than our native Cornus florida and is apparent... |
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Common Name: Spike Winterhazel
This is a deciduous, wide spreading shrub with rounded light green leaves smaller than some other species of Corylopsis. It is valued for it's conspicuous late winter, early spring drooping spikes of bright yellow flowers appearing before the leaves...
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Common Name: Mayhaw
A small rather thorny deciduous tree with small leaves. Abundant white flowers in very early spring are followed by attractive cranberry size red fruits in May. These fruits yield the Deep South's famous Mayhaw jelly. Mayhaw typically grows in low...
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Common Name: Parsley-leaved Hawthorn
A distinctive and attractive small tree with shiny green dissected parsley-like leaves. White flowers with red stamens in spring followed by red fruit. Native to Piedmont and Coastal Plain of southeastern U.S. on moist sites. One of the easiest Haw...
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Common Name: Washington Hawthorn
This small thory deciduous tree is perhaps the most widely grown native hawthorn. It is favored for it's form, dark green foliage, white flowers and bright red berries. Most nurseries offer selections from northern stock not suitable for the Deep Sou...
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Common Name: Swamp Lily
Native Crinum Lily with broad strap-like leaves and 4-5 inch wide glistening white star-shaped flowers on taller scapes. Spreads in rich moist soil in sun or semi-shade. Plants offered may actually be Crinum erubescens from South America as Scott O...
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Common Name: Montbretia
This is a perennial from a bulb or corm and a great plant for southern gardens multiplying well in good moist neutral or acid soil in sun or semi-shade. Showy spikes of orange-red flowers over long period in spring and summer. Grass-like flattened l...
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Common Name: Japanese Cedar
A tall, pyramidal or conical, evergreen coniferous tree. Blue-green apressed needles -may develop bronzy or purple-bronze winter color in cold climates. Reddish-brown bark exfoliates. An important timber tree in Japan where it reaches 100' +. Pla...
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Common Name: Chinafir
Large, pyramidal, often multi-trunked coniferous evergreen tree with rather long flattened needles in more or less two dimensional arrangement on twigs. Interesting small cones. An attrative and somewhat curious conifer long planted in the South an...
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Common Name: Dwarf Chinafir
A friend in the Atlanta area shared this with us some years ago. It is a more compact dark green form of Cunninghamia lanceolata (which see) with shorter needles. It may even be a form of the related Taiwanese species, Cunninghamia konishii. We are...
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Common Name: Sago Palm
Sago Palm is not a palm. Cycads are palm-like primitive plants more related to the ferns. The Sago Palm is native to Japan and is a favorite and very noticible landscape plant in the Deep South, U.S. It... |
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Common Name: Scrub Titi
Scrub Titi is a very rare shrub discovered by J.K. Small in desert-like scrub habitat in central Florida but lost and taxonomically questioned for years. With Kenneth Wurdack we rediscovered, after much searching, a tiny population on a very xeric s...
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Common Name: Leatherwood
Titi is an evergreen to semi-evergreen shrub or small tree found in damp to wet acid soil from southern Virginia to the Gulf Coast. It is summer blooming with showy white racemes of tiny flowers at the ends of the branches. Though found on wet site...
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Common Name: Poet's Laurel or Alexandrian Laurel
A choice low shrub for shade. Related to Asparagus! Shiny green lance-shaped "leaves" are really modified stems. Red berries in fall. Occasional in old southern gardens but very slow to propagate hence not readily availabe. Native to Asia Minor ...
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Common Name: Winter Daphne
Winter Daphne is a favorite southern garden plant with very fragrant flowers in late winter. It becomes a dense evergreen shrub. Daphne can break your heart by dropping dead for seemingly no good reason. (Usually di... |
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Common Name: Yellow Edge Winter Daphne
Winter Daphne or February Daphne is a delightful evergreen shrub with deliciously scented pink or white flowers in late winter. It is native to China and Japan and long a beloved plant in southern gardens. It should be planted in semi-shade in very...
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Common Name: Climbing Hydrangea
This is a choice native vine with glossy deciduous leaves & flat white clusters of flowers resembling the related Hydrangea. It is best displayed on low wall or fence as in nature it usually climbs high into trees and blooms unseen in the canopy. It...
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Common Name: Ivy Tree
A most unusual small dense evergreen tree with ivy-like leaves that has grown in our garden for years. This Japanese native is indeed related to ivy and bears similar flower and fruit clusters. Not at all well known in America and possibly first of...
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Common Name: Flax Lilly
Strap leaf perennial with nice variegated foliage and small star-shaped bright blue to purple flowers which are followed by glossy, deep blue berries. Plant in sun to partial shade. Native to Tasmania....
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Common Name: Dichroa
This medium size evergreen shrub has small blue flat topped clusters of flowers in spring followed by iridescent blue berries in fall. It is a relatively recent introduction from China. It is related to Hydrangea and soil condition... |
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Common Name: Evergreen Hydrangea
Evergreen shrub related to and resembling Hydrangea with similar flat terminal clusters of small blue flowers in late summer and fall. This, and the more widely available Dichroa febrifuga are native to China and are relatively recent introductions ...
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Common Name: Evergreen Persimmon
This persimmon is an evergreen (or nearly so) medium size tree from southern China. This relatively recent introduction is almost unknown in the U.S. and had not been much tested. We obtained it as cuttings from To... |
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Common Name: Common Persimmon
Medium size deciduous tree pyramidal to oval-rounded in outline. Dark green leaves, gray-black checkered bark. Male & female flowers (not showy) are on separate trees. Edible orange 1-2 inch fruit produced on female trees. Persimmon is tolerant of ...
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Common Name: Leatherwood
Habit oval to rounded with leathery light brown stems. Shade tolerant deciduous shrub usually less than 6 feet with very early yellow flowers. Related to Daphne. Common name refers to extremely pliable branches. Rich, moist, neutral soil in woodl...
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Common Name: Variegated Japanese Fairy-Bells
Attractive woodland perennial with leaves like Solomon's Seal but with white variegation. Flowers solitary or in twos or threes. A horticultural selection of a Japanese native. ...
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Common Name: Isu Tree
An evergreen similar to D. racemosum. From the Arnold Arboretum's China collection....
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Common Name: Isu Tree Cultivar
This very different form of Distylum myricoides is called 'Lucky Charm Witchhazel'. This evergreen shrub has leaves which are blue-green. The leaf arrangement and branching are quite horizontal. It probably remains a relatively low s... |
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Common Name: Isu Tree
This unusual small tree is a member of Witchhazel Family. Glossy evergreen leaves. Small red flowers in spring. Fine-grained wood used to make furniture & crafts in Japan where it apparently becomes a sizeable tree. According to Dirr's Manual of W...
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Common Name: Log Fern
This large growing fern is an uncommon native to swamps in the southern U.S. It has bold evergreen fronds. This rare fern is a great garden plant for rich moist soil in shady or semi-shady sites. ...
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Common Name: Shaggy Woodfern
Dryopteris cycadina (D. atrata) is an easy-to-grow evergreen garden fern. The stiff leathery pinnate fronds make a good show in the shady or semi-shady woodland garden or along the shady side of a wall or building. ....
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Common Name: Autumn Fern
A medium to large evergreen fern with broad somewhat triangular fronds. The new growth is copper colored. This Asian fern is a handsome and dependable fern for the shady or semi-shady garden. ...
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Common Name: Dixie Wood Fern
Evergreen. This large and impressive natural hybrid (Dryopteris celsa x ludoviciana) gets taller than either parent! A bold fern for spacious spots in the shady or semi-shady garden....
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Common Name: Tala Blanco
Related to Duranta repens, the "Skyflower" or "Golden Dewdrop" sometimes seen in Florida gardens. This species is a shrub which can become scandant or vine-like or can become a small tree. Deciduous with leaves turning purple in fall. Light blue fl...
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Common Name: Twin Flower
Low-growing perennial with small leaves on erect stems and nice blue flowers. Forms dense patches in dryish, sandy soil. Selected from the wild in north Florida. A Woodlanders introduction....
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Common Name: Paper Bush
Medium size deciduous coarse shrub with simple leaves 6-8 inches long of a blueish color. This suckering shrub related to Daphne and Dirca produces clusters of interesting flowers on ends of naked stems in early spring. It has somewhat of a tropic... |
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Common Name: Variegated Autumn Olive
Autumn Olive is a servicable evergreen shrub with very fragrant but relatively inconspicuous flowers in the fall. This is a handsome cultivar with gold edged leaves. Autumn Olive is a large shrub but can become vine-like if allowed to scramble up in...
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Common Name: Cardamom
A ginger here producing attractive foliage from rhizomes. Here it is under 2 feet, but much larger in tropics, where it is grown for spice. Leaves have a delightful fragrance when brushed. Like most ginger relatives this plant likes fertile soil wi...
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Common Name: Yellow Barrenwort
The Epimediums are excellent groundcover plants for shade. Slow but steady spreaders once established they are tolerant of dry shade under trees but much happier with moist, organic rich soil. This hybrid has bright yellow flowers. Evergreen in all ...
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Common Name: Razzlequat
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. The 'Razzlequat' is an unusual and relatively cold hardy citrus hybrid ... |
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Common Name: Molten Silver Heath
Heaths and heathers come in many species and varieties. Most are not well-suited to the heat and humidity of the southern U.S. but this hybrid between two European species, Erica erigena and E. carnea,&... |
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Common Name: Coralbean
Woody shrub in frost-free climates, otherwise perennial from massive root. Very showy tubular flowers in spikes followed by decorative (but poisonous) red seeds which remain on plant in open pods. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Moun...
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Common Name: Coralbean
Botanically this may be no different than standard Erythrina herbacea (which see) but plants in very mild winter areas do not die back in winter and can become almost tree-like. These have been referred to as "variet... |
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Common Name: Coralbean Hybrid
This very showy Coralbean is a hybrid between the Argentine E. crista-galli and our native E. herbacea. Perennial in zone 8 from large root stock. Large spikes of vivid red flowers in summer. Cut back plants after... |
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Common Name: Cordoba Escallonia
This is an attractive dense evergreen shrub with small glossy leaves. Flower color unknown. A Woodlanders introduction from our collection at high elevation in the Sierra San Luis, San Luis Province, Argentina. ... |
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Common Name: Pineapple Lily
South African perennial from large bulb. Strap shaped leaves and 2-3 foot tall spike with flower arrangement suggesting a pineapple. A great perennial for the garden bed or border in sun or light shade. May not be winter hardy above Zone 7....
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Common Name: Hearts Abustin
Deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub with lanceolate 3" long leaves oposite on upright green stems. This woodland shrub native to eastern North America is a fine garden plant for shade or semi-shade and is favored for the scarlet seed capsules which op...
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Common Name: Wolong Ghost Creeping Euonymus
This attractive evergreen groundcover Euonymus was introduced by Heronswood Nursery having been collected by Dan Hinkley above the Wolong Panda Preserve in western China. It has long dark green pointed leaves with prominent a... |
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This yet to be identified Euonymus is probably E. fortunei. It is a low trailing evergreen shrub with long-pointed, toothed, leaves about 2 inches long. A new introduction, it was collected by Frank Bell o... |
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Common Name: Chocolate Leaf Snakeroot
Unique chocolate colored foliage on this selection from Mt. Cuba in Delaware. A nice perennial worth growing in light shade just for foliage but also has showy white flower clusters in fall. ... |
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Common Name: Korean Evodia
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Common Name: Pearlbush
Somewhat irregular to upright deciduous shrub with slender branches and abundant showy white flowers very early in spring. Sure to attract attention when in flower. Does very well in the South where it is a dependable spring herald. Tolerant of va...
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Common Name: American Beech
American Beech is a large imposing deciduous tree widespread in rich woodlands in eastern North America. It has toothed oval leaves several inches long which are bright green turning yellow in fall, then brown, and remaining on tree through the wint...
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Common Name: Pineapple Guava
Pineapple Guava is an evergreen shrub with gray-green foliage, showy red flowers and tasty fruit. It is tolerant of dry soil and seashore conditions. It is native to Uruguay but widely grown in warm regions including the southern U.S. and California...
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We are identifying this little-known fig as Ficus heterophylla thanks to Tony Avent at Plant Delights who was probably the source for the cuttings we originally started with. It is a rather scandent shrub with long a... |
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Common Name: Creeping Fig
This evergreen fig vine native to Japan has larger more pointed leaves than the common fig vine (Ficus pumila) which is commonly grown in the southern U.S. This rare species likewise produces "holdfasts" which allow it to climbs walls and rough maso...
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Common Name: Fig, Creeping
Figvine is very unlike the common edible fig (Ficus carica). This evergreen vine has small fingernail size rounded leaves and is usually seen on masonary walls where it climbs high by means of little rootlets which hold fast to rou... |
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Common Name: Climbing Fig Hybrid
A curious hybrid between the climbing fig (vine) and the edible fig (shrub) which is intermediate between the very different parents. This mostly deciduous and semi-vining shrub is grown mostly as a botanical or garden curiosity.&n... |
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Common Name: Hybrid Fig
A curious hybrid between the climbing fig (vine) and the edible fig (shrub) which is intermediate between the very different parents. This mostly deciduous and semi-vining shrub is grown mostly as a botanical or garden curiosity.&n... |
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Common Name: Roxburgh Fig
Ficus roxburghii (auriculata) is a great spreading woody shrub in frost-free climates and a big bold perennial in zone 8. It is native to India. The very large 15" rounded glossy leaves create a dramatic tropical effect. It has proven root hardy fo...
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Common Name: Blueberry Leaf Fig
A neat groundcover or vine with small shiny evergreengreen leaves similar to a (totally unrelated) evergreen blueberry. This choice little vine is native to Taiwan and probably came to us from the J.C. Raulston Arboretum at NC State which got it fro...
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Common Name: Fokienia
Fokienia is a rare evergreen conifer intermediate between Chamaecyparis and Calocedrus. It has flattened sprays of attractive foliage suggesting Thuja or Arborvitae. It is native to southern China and Viet Nam. Th... |
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Common Name: Swamp Privet
Swamp Privet is a large deciduous shrub or small tree with small lance shaped opposite leaves. Yellowish small flowers are borne in the leaf axils in early spring. Male and female flowers are on separate plants.&nb... |
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Common Name: Godfrey's Swampprivet
Godfrey's Forestiera is a deciduous shrub or small tree. The ovate leaves have pubescent lower surface and yellow fuzzy flowers appear in early spring on last season's twigs. Female plants may bear small dark blue berries. Th... |
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Common Name: Desert Olive
Desert Olive is a deciduous shrub with gray-green small leaves and tiny yellow flowers along the stems before the leaves emerge. It is native to the western U.S. but is adaptable to higher rainfall areas when planted in ... |
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Common Name: Florida Privet
A large evergreen shrub or small tree native to coastal hammocks in the southeastern U.S. Although only distantly related to "Privet" (Ligustrum) it is often used in Florida landscapes to replace Privet as it can be sheared as a hedge. Tolerant of l...
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Common Name: Kumquat, 'Meiwa'
The 'Meiwa' Kumquat is a small upright evergreen citrus tree with fragrant white flowers and bearing delicious round bright orange fruits just over 1" in diameter. The fruit is edible peel and all. It has proven hardy and producti... |
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Common Name: Witch Alder
Brillant fall foliage northward. Used in borders, groupings, or foundational plantings. (See DIR)...
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Common Name: Witch Alder Cultivar
Fothergilla gardenii is typically a small deciduous shrub 3 to 4 feet tall. It is related to Witchhazel and occurs in the coastal plain of the southeastern U.S. It is found in moist peaty habitats but is adaptable ... |
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Common Name: Large Fothergilla
The native Fothergilla species were choice but scarcely available garden shrubs when Woodlanders first began to offer them in 1980. This species is native to the southern Appalachians where it is uncommon and local. It is a large deciduous shrub wi...
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Common Name: Wild Strawberry
The native wild strawberry of eastern North America. The plants have trifolate leaves and produce runners which form new plants at the ends. White flowers are followed by small but sweet tasty strawberries once commonly enjoyed by country children ...
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Common Name: Pumpkin Ash
Pumpkin Ash is a relatively uncommon tree of widely scattered distribution in bottomland and floodplain forests of eastern, midwestern and southern U.S. It is an attractive tree with dark green lustrous pinnate... |
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A shrub with bright red tubular flowers in pendulous clusters, this Fuchsia is from a subtropical rainforest region in Tucuman Province in Argentina. This Woodlanders introduction was hoped to be much more heat tolerant than the more commonly-grown ...
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Common Name: Gardenia Cultivar
Evergreen shrub with fairly large glossy leaves and 3 inch double white flowers, the standard extremely fragrant Gardenia flower. Gardenia is a long time garden favorite throughout the South. This variety from the late Virginia Beach, VA nurseryman ...
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Common Name: Yellow Gardenia
This Gardenia is a large shrub essentially like the common Gardenia with glossy evergreen leaves and very fragrant white flowers but the flowers on this one soon change to deep yellow. We obtained this plant from a garden in central South Carolina b...
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Common Name: Single-flowered Gardenia
Gardenia 'Rosedown Star' is an evergreen shrub with glossy leaves and fragrant single star-like white flowers followed by showy orange fruits (hips). We obtained this plant years ago from the former Cedar Lane Farms Nursery in Madison, Georgia whos...
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Common Name: Gardenia Cultivar
Small evergreen shrub with lustrous black-green leaves and fragrant ivory single 2 inch blooms. This little Gardenia has become popular in recent years after claims that it was untouched at 3 degrees F in Raleigh, NC. Dr. Dirr questions it being th...
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Common Name: Gardenia Cultivar
This striking rather upright Gardenia is a Woodlanders'introduction that has become more widely available. We received this plant many years ago from Brookside Gardens in Maryland after they had found it in Japan. Leaves have strong yellow variegat...
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Common Name: Gardenia Cultivar
A small tight evergreen shrub similar to Gardenia 'Klein's Hardy' but with small dark green leathery leaves that are quite rounded and with small single fragrant flowers. Gardenias grow well in relatively fertile acid soil in semi-shade and are long ...
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Common Name:
A Woodlanders introduction, this Gardenia was grown from seed collected by Frank Bell on Emei Shan, China's sacred mountain in Sichuan. It is a vigorous, single stem upright plant with very glossy dark green leaves that are long and narrow. Single w...
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Common Name: Carolina Jessamine 'Pale Yellow'
Variation in Gelsemium sempervirens is rare This pale yellow-flowered selection found by Chris Early in northwestern Florida makes this Woodlanders introduction distinctive. Otherwise as species. Gelsemium sempervirens is the state flower of South...
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Common Name: Wild Geranium
Woodland perennial native to eastern North America. Deeply cut attractive foliage and pink flowers. A good plant for the woodland border in moist soil. ...
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Common Name: European Wild Geranium
European woodland perennial similar to the North American G. maculatum, but with white flowers. Reblooms. ... |
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Common Name:
Delight a loved one or a gardening friend with a Woodlanders Gift Certificate. When checking out select "Pickup at Woodlanders" as your delivery method. In the Special Instructions window on the confirmation page, please provide the name of t... |
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Common Name: Loblolly Bay
Gordonia lasianthus is a handsome evergreen tree native to moist acid soils in the coastal plain of the southern U.S. It is in the tea family and related to Camellia and Franklinia. Trees in the wild reach large size. The summer flowers are showy, ...
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Common Name: Rain Lily
This bulb produces grass-like foliage and following summer rains it bursts forth with many lovely pink trumpet like flowers on tall stems. The base of the flower tube is red. This plant can spread from seed in the garden. We belive this is Habrant...
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Common Name: Rain Lily
This bulb produces grass-like foliage and following summer rains it bursts forth with many lovely pink trumpet like flowers on tall stems. The base of the flower tube is green. This plant does not seem to spread from seed in the garden. We belive ...
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Common Name: Copper Lily
Sometimes classified as Habranthus tubispathus var. texensis, this little bulb with grass-like leaves is native to Texas. It produces small copper colored to orange flowers like summer crocuses after a rain. Naturalizes nicely in sunny or semi-shad...
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Common Name: Southern Witchhazel
Southern Witchhazel is not recognized by all botanists as being distinct from Hamamelis virginiana (which see). It is similar in that it is a large deciduous shrub with fragrant yellow flowers in late fall and is likewise a woodland... |
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Common Name: Vernal Witchhazel
Medium size rounded deciduous shrub native to the Ozark region of south central U.S. This Witchazel produces abundant small reddish or yellow strap petal fragrant flowers on the bare branches in late winter or very early spring. Usually has excellen...
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Common Name: Common Witchhazel
Witchazel is a large deciduous shrub or small tree found in woodlands over much of eastern North America. It is interesting in the landscape for its fragrant yellow flowers with little strap-like petals which cover the branches in November. Novembe...
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Common Name: Firebush
A shrub in the tropics and south Florida. Perennial to 4 feet or more in the Deep South. Very heat tolerant. Reddish leaves and tubular red flowers. Has become very popular in Texas. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 inche...
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Common Name: Ivy, Algerian
Evergreen vine similar to the common Ivy (Hedera helix) but with much larger leaves, less tendency to climb, and less cold-hardy. Makes an excellent ground cover in Deep South gardens. Plant in semi-shade....
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Common Name: Persian Ivy
The Persian Ivy is an evergreen vine with larger more leathery leaves than the common Ivy. The leaves are somwhat heart shaped and slightly lobed and toothed and with a celery-like odor when crushed. Dirr's Manual of Woody Landscape Plants mentions...
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Common Name: Scarlet Ginger Lily
Tall herbaceous perennial spreading by rhizomes. Showy spikes of reddish flowers on terminals of tall plants with long corn-like leaves. Spreads in rich moist soil in sunny or semi-shady areas. Woodlanders obtained this Asian native ginger as seed...
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Common Name: Butterfly Ginger
Tall herbaceous perennial spreading by rhizomes. Showy spikes of very fragrant white flowers with greenish or yellowish blotch. Blooms in summer on terminals of tall plants with long corn-like leaves. Spreads in rich moist soil in sunny or semi-sh...
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Common Name: Kahli Ginger
Tall herbaceous perennial spreading by rhizomes. Spikes of very showy and fragrant yellow flowers with striking red stamens. Blooms in summer on terminals of tall plants with broad bluish green corn-like leaves. Spreads in rich moist soil in sunny...
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Common Name: Willow-leaf Heimia
A spreading and much-branched smooth shrub looking very much like a Hypericum but not related. Actually related to Crepe Myrtle! Flowers yellow and axillary followed by a dry capsule. Plant is said to have medicinal and mildly narcotic properties....
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Common Name: Swamp Sunflower
Swamp Sunflower is a tall robust perennial that can be an aggressive spreader in a moist sunny location. A good perennial plant for the garden with ample space. In late summer and fall the plants are smothered in 2 1/2 inch wide bright yellow flowers...
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Common Name: Narrowleaf Sunflower
This rare native sunflower is found in Alabama and Georgia on sandy, well-drained soils. It has rather long narrow basal leaves from a creeping rootstock. The yellow daisy-like flowers are borne on branched stems about two feet tall. A little-know...
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Common Name: Whorled Leaf Sunflower
Very rare perennial with whorls of lanceolate leaves up the tall stems and clusters of yellow sunflowers at the top. Thought to be extinct until re-discovered in northwestern Georgia and adjacent Tennessee in recent years. A vigorous, spreading, an...
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Common Name: Lenten Rose
The Lenten Rose is not a rose but it does flower around Lent. It is an evergreen herbaceous perennial with attrative palmate leaves with leathery toothed leaflets. The attractive flowers are a couple inces across and are white or purple tinged or st...
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Common Name: Seven Sons Tree
Large deciduous shrub or small tree attractive in flower, seed, and with exfoliating bark. Relatively recent introduction from China much publicized due to ornamental nature and hardiness in the north. ...
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Common Name: Red Yucca
Yucca-like stemless plant with 2-3 foot long narrow gray-green leaves and tall flowering stalks bearing pinkish red tubular flowers. Plant in sunny location with well-drained soil. A Texas native that is rare in the wild but widely cultivated in the...
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Common Name: Wild Ginger
Excellent evergreen groundcover....
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Common Name: Pineland Hibiscus
Pineland Hibiscus is a perennial species native to the southeastern U.S. Coastal Plain where it grows in flatwoods and damp roadside ditches, etc. It is more spreading, branched, and prickly than other native Hibiscus. The leaves are deeply lobed a...
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Common Name: Red Rose-Mallow
Tall open perennial with maple-like (or Marijuana-like !) leaves and bright red 3-5 inch flowers. Stamens extend from flowers. A striking ornamental Hibiscus that grows naturally in very wet sites in the southern U.S. but is widely cultivated in any ...
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Common Name: Scarlet Rose Mallow - White form
Tall perennial Hibiscus with maple-like or marijuana-like leaves typical of the species but this selection has pure white flowers. A little-known cultivar but very attractive. Wet to average soil. Sun....
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Common Name: Cuban Rose Mallow
Tall perennial hibiscus with gray-green foliage and slightly prickly stems. Flowers fairly large purplish pink. Grows naturally in marshy places but fine in ordinary garden soils in sunny location. Little known but garden worthy Hibiscus perhaps f...
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Common Name: Neches River Hibiscus
A very rare and endangered perennial Hibiscus found on the Neches River in east Texas where it is threatened by hybridizaton with Hibiscus militaris. This species has multiple stems from a thick base. It is readily distinguished by the narrow linea...
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Common Name: Great Rose Hibiscus
Tall perennial Hibiscus with gray-green soft pubescent foliage. The large pink flowers are very showy. This Hibiscus is native to very wet habitats in the Deep South but grows well in ordinary garden soil that is moist or irrigated. Should have a ...
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Common Name: Wooly Mallow
A perennial Hibiscus native to central and southern U.S. This species has rather wooly grayish leaves. Adaptable to ordinary garden soil in sunny location with ample moisture, this species has 4-5 inch wide pink or white flowers with a red center. It...
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Common Name: Swamp Rose Mallow
This common perennial Hibiscus or Marsh Mallow is found in wet areas, including brackish marshes, throughout the eastern U.S. It has relatively large broad and lobed leaves and showy white flowers with a dark center. This species makes a good garde...
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Common Name: Confederate Rose
Confederate Rose is neither Confederate nor Rose. It is a shrub Hibiscus native to China. A wonderful big multi-stem deciduous shrub with leaves like a cotton plant and large double peony-like showy flowers in the fall that open white and change to ...
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Common Name: Single Red Confederate Rose
This Hibiscus mutabilis has slightly smaller and smoother leaves than the "Confederate Rose" and the bright red Hibiscus flowers that are single, not double, and do not change color. It is a warm climate shrub so will freeze back some or a lot depen...
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Common Name: Hibiscus Hybrid
This Hibiscus is a hybrid between the species H. paramutabilis and the familiar Rose of Sharon (H. syriacus). It is a relatively hardy deciduous shrub Hibiscus with ruffled orchid to magenta flowers with carmine eye that are larger than Rose of Shar...
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Common Name: Hibiscus 'Nagoya Pink'
Shrub hibiscus resembling H. mutabilis ("Confederate Rose") but with 4" single pink flowers. This and 'Nagoya White' were introduced by Woodlanders after growing them from seed we obtained from James Sharpe who collected it in Nagoya, Japan. Plant i...
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Common Name: Rose-of-Sharon 'Diana'
'Diana' is a hardy shrub Hibiscus (H. syriacus) that was a U.S. National Arboretum introduction. It is a triploid so the large white frilly flowers are long-blooming and produce very few, if any, seed capsules. It is stiffly upright and multi-stemme...
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Common Name: 'Freedom' Rose-of-Sharon
A highly recommended selection from Shadow Nursery in Tennessee; this variety has semi-double red flowers. Flowers close in rainy weather. Non-stop flowers. Use in border or grouping. Good accent in summer garden. (See DIR) Prune old branches in ...
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Common Name: Hibiscus, Peppermint Flare
This perennial Hibiscus hybrid is a 2010 Texas Superstar award winner. It was selected by Greg Grant and is floral sport or perhaps a seedling of 'Flare' a H. moscheutos hybrid developed by Dr. Sam McFadden... |
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An attractive evergreen vine with unusual purplish flowers in spring followed on female plants by purple sausage-like fruits. This fairly vigorous vine is an interesting subject for fences, arbors, etc. in the southern garden. We have not yet determ...
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Holboellia coriacea is a very nice evergreen twining vine native to western China. Little-known in cultivation but well worth growing on a shady or semi-shady arbor or pergola in the southern garden. Our plants were propagated from the Charlotte, N...
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Hostas come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and varieties with immaginative names. We wouldn't begin to tackle these! This small growing Hosta is a neat little green leaf species from Japan that flowers in fall and adds a nice touch to the woodland ga...
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Common Name: Yinger's Plantain Lily
A species introduced from an island off Korea by our plantsman friend Barry Yinger for whom this previously undescribed species was named. It is distinctive for its very glossy leaves. It has grown well here in South Carolina and deserves to be bet...
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Common Name: Hydrangea, Willow leaf
This deciduous shrub is a Hydrangea but has willow-like leaves. Flowers are tiny yellowish fertile flowers with scattered marginal white fading to yellowish fertile florets. This is a new and little-known introduction which we obtained from Tony Av...
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Common Name: Smooth Hydrangea 'Annabelle'
A selection of our native Hydrangea arborescens. A deciduous shrub to 5 or even 6 feet with very showy white snowball flower clusters in early summer. Selected by Dr. J.C. McDaniel at the University of Illinois who Dr. Michael Dirr describes as "a ...
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Common Name: Hydrangea 'All Summer Beauty'
This popular Macrophylla Hydrangea is a compact, 3 to 4 foot deciduous shrub with sterile mophead flowers supposedly produced on new growth. Flower color will vary according to soil. Pink flowers (Alkaline soil) or Blue flowers (Acid soil) If old fl...
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Common Name: Lacecap Hydrangea Cultivar
This lacecap Hydrangea grown from Korean seed and selected by Dr. Richard Lighty of Mount Cuba Gardens in Delaware has blue flowers (in acid soil)and has shown good bud hardiness in colder zones. If old flowers are removed, hydrangea may flower again...
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Common Name: Lacecap Hydrangea Cultivar
This fine Hydrangea produces large, graceful, lace-cap flowers which can be pink (alkaline soil) or blue (Acid soil) It can grow to 6 feet. If old flowers are removed, Hydrangea may flower again in August. Choose planting site with shade from the h...
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Common Name: Bigleaf Hydrangea 'Nigra'
A distinct of the Mophead Hydrangea notable for the conspicuous black stems. As with most other Hydrangea macrophylla varieties the flowers may be pink on alkaline soil or blue on acid soil. If old flowers are removed, hydrangea may flower again in A...
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Common Name: Oakleaf Hydrangea 'Alice'
Large deciduous shrub with large oak-like leaves, panicles of white flowers, and exfoliating bark, this species is native almost exclusively to rich woods in Alabama but is very widely grown as a favored ornamental shrub. Plant in fertile well-draine...
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Common Name: Oakleaf Hydrangea 'Snowflake'
.Large deciduous shrub with large oak-like leaves, panicles of white flowers, and exfoliating bark, this species is native almost exclusively to rich woods in Alabama but is very widely grown as a favored ornamental shrub. 'Snowflake' is one of our ...
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Common Name: Oakleaf Hydrangea 'Harmony'
Large deciduous shrub with large oak-like leaves, panicles of white flowers, and exfoliating bark, this species is native almost exclusively to rich woods in Alabama but is very widely grown as a favored ornamental shrub. Plant in fertile well-draine...
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Common Name: Oakleaf Hydrangea 'Alison'
Large deciduous shrub with large oak-like leaves, panicles of white flowers, and exfoliating bark, this species is native almost exclusively to rich woods in Alabama but is very widely grown as a favored ornamental shrub. 'Alison' was selected by Dr...
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Common Name: Hydrangea, Oakleaf 'Sikes Dwarf'
Sykes Dwarf is a relatively dwarf clone of the popular Oakleaf Hydrangea. It was introduced by Louisiana Nursery, Opelousas, LA. This variety should be considered where space is limited. The foliage and flower... |
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Common Name: Serrated Hydrangea Cultivar
This Woodlanders introduction was grown from seed tht we obtained from Chollipo Arboretum in Korea. This Hydrangea serrata is a small-leafed selection that has been much admired here. The serrated deciduous leaves display a purplish cast and the bl...
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Common Name: Arcadian St. Johnswort
Colony forming shrub with upright stems bearing gray-green small leaves. Stems are topped with 4 petal yellow flowers with numerous stamens. Generally rare, this shrub is restricted to a few central Florida counties whe... |
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Common Name: Kalm Hypericum
Evergreen shrub to 3 feet tall with bright yellow 1 inch+ flowers. Leaves are bluish green. We are able to offer this attractive and very hardy St Johnswort thanks to Mr. Richard Lynch of Staten Island, NY. It is native to the northeastern U.S. and a...
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Common Name: Smooth-barked St. Johnswort
Woodlanders was probably the first nursery to offer this rare tree-like hypericum native to a limited area in the Florida Panhandle. It is a graceful evergreen to 10 feet with needle-like leaves and outstanding copper-colored exfoliating bark. Native...
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Common Name: Myrtle Hypericum
*Evergreen shrub with small bluish-green triangular leaves and yellow flowers. A small tree-like shrub that grows in sandy wet pinelands but makes a good garden shrub for sunny locations in the South. Another southern native Hypericum probably firs...
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Common Name: St. Johnswort
Slender medium size shrubby St. Johnswort with relatively wide light green leaves. Rather uncommon along streams and swamps in the Southeast. Long oval leaves are light green and flowers are golden with many stamens as is typical for the Hypericums....
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Common Name: Shrubby St. Johnswort
This Hypericum is a dense evergreen shrub with arching branches, narrow shiny leaves and abundant showy yellow flowers in summer. It is a good shrub for the garden border in sunny dry sites. Like many Hypericums introduced by Woodlanders it ... |
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Common Name: Atlantic St. Johnswort
A low heatherlike needle-leafed evergreen shrub with yellow flowers, this St. Johnswort is native to open sites with deep sandy soils in coastal plain of the southeastern U.S. One of our favorite Hypericums. A good garden plant for sandy open sites w...
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Common Name: Holly, Serviceberry Holly or Swamp Holly
This rare holly native to the Southern U.S. is a tall deciduous shrub or small tree with dull matte finish red fruits on long stems. Oval leaves to 4 inches long suggestive of Amelanchier leaves, hence "Shadbush Holly". This holly occurs along black...
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Common Name: Holly, Serviceberry Holly or Swamp Holly
This rare holly native to the Southern U.S. is a tall deciduous shrub or small tree with dull matte finish red fruits on long stems. Oval leaves to 4 inches long suggestive of Amelanchier leaves, hence "Shadbush Holly". This holly occurs along black...
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Common Name: Holly, Shii-Mochi
Rare Japanese holly, forming a tall narrow, evergreen column. Leathery leaves. Small red berries on female plant (See GAH, HRT)...
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Common Name: Dahoon Holly
Evergreen shrub or small tree with bright green oval, slightly toothed leaves and abundant small bright berries(on female). Usually found in swampy conditions but grows well on ordinary garden soils that are acidic. Can be used for screen, hedge, or ...
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Common Name: Yellow-berried Dahoon Holly
Evergreen shrub or small tree with bright green oval, slightly toothed leaves and abundant small bright berries(on female). Usually found in swampy conditions but grows well on ordinary garden soils that are acidic. Can be used for screen, hedge, or ...
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Common Name: Large Gallberry
Large Gallberry is a tall evergreen shrub found in wet acid soils in the Southeastern U.S. Coastal Plain where it often occurs with the related Inkberry Holly (Ilex glabra). It is usually a larger plant with larger and broader leaves and slightly la...
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Common Name: Japanese Holly 'Sky Pencil'
Japanese cultivar of the familiar Japanese Holly distributed by Sylvester March of the U.S. National Arboretum. Dense plant with small evergreen leaves and black berries typical of Ilex crenata but this clone is very narrow tight column befitting the...
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Common Name: Possumhaw Holly 'Warren's Red'
Possumhaw is a deciduous holly that can be a shrub or small tree. It is native on bottomlands and moister upland sites in the southeastern U.S. It is better adapted to high pH soils than I. verticillata. Female plants produce abundant crops of showy ...
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Common Name: Holly, White-berried Inkberry Holly
Ilex glabra, the Inkberry or Gallberry Holly is a very hardy evergreen shrub found on moist acid soil in much of eastern coastal North America. It is a versatile ornamental shrub for garden use and can be a neat and attractive shrub in sunny sites... |
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Common Name: Inkberry Holly
Ilex glabra, the Inkberry or Gallberry Holly is a very hardy evergreen shrub found on moist acid soil in much of coastal North America. It is a versatile ornamental shrub for garden use and can be a neat and attractive shrub in sunny sites with acid...
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Common Name: Holly, Mochi
Evergreen tree with non-spiny dark green leaves and large red berries on female plants. A very ornamental holly native to Japan but not commonly seen in the U.S. Probably best for the coastal areas of the Southeast. ...
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Common Name: Shima-inu-tsuge Holly
Upright evergreen shrub similar to Japanese Holly (I. crenata) and sometimes considered a variety of it found on Okinawa. The small evergreen leaves have marginal teeth but no spines. A little known shrub with open graceful habit and black fruit o... |
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Common Name: Myrtleleaf Holly
Usually a small tree. Much smaller leaves than I. cassine. Not suitable for chalky soils. Evergreen leaves are extremely small with prominent midrib. Abundant bright red fruit on females. Often grows in intermittent ponds. Sandy, acid, moist soil.... |
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Common Name: Myrtleleaf Holly (yellow-berried)
Myrtleaf Holly is a large evergreen shrub or small tree found in seasonally flooded wetland sites with acid soil in the Coastal Plain of the southeastern U.S. The very small narrow leaves are distinctive. Female plants typically have abundant red b...
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Common Name: Holly 'Sand Pond' Hybrid
A Woodlanders introduction, this hybrid of American Holly (Ilex opaca) and Myrtleleaf Holly (Ilex myrtifolia) has small evergreen leaves somewhat like Ilexcassine x Ilex opaca 'Foster'. It produces abundant large red berries. Expected to make a sma...
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Common Name: Yellow-berried American Holly 'Fallaw'
Ilex opaca, the familiar American Holly, is a medium size evergreen tree with spines on the margins and tips of the tough leathery leaves and red berries on the female plants. It is widespread in eastern U.S. on well-drained woodland sites and a wid...
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Common Name: Holly, 'William Hawkins'
Ilex opaca, the familiar American Holly, is a medium size evergreen tree with spines on the margins and tips of the tough leathery leaves and red berries on the female plants. It is widespread in eastern U.S. on well-drain... |
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Common Name: Holly, 'Jersey Knight' American Holly
The male clone 'Jersey Knight' is an American Holly selected from the wild in New Jersey in 1945. It is a vigorous plant selected for its dark, semi-glossy, olive-green leaves and its value as a pollenator. It is pyramidal in you... |
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Common Name: Longstalk Holly
Small to medium size evergreen holly tree native to eastern Asia. Leaves not spiny and more like Kalmia than "Holly-like". Noteworthy as a beautiful but slow growing tree that is one of the hardiest evergreen hollies with red fruit Berries are bor...
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Common Name: Longstalk Holly
Small to medium size evergreen holly tree native to eastern Asia. Leaves not spiny and more like Kalmia than "Holly-like". Noteworthy as a beautiful but slow growing tree that is one of the hardiest evergreen hollies with red fruit Berries are bor...
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Common Name: Apollo Deciduous Holly
This hybrid deciduous holly was developed and released by the U.S. National Arboretum as a pollenator for their variety 'Sparkleberry'. Apollo is not unattractive but is best planted as a background plant in proximity to poll... |
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Common Name: Winterberry Holly 'Red Sprite'
Winterberry Holly is a small to medium size multi-stem decidous shrub found in moist to wet soils over much of the eastern U.S. The female plants produce masses of very showy red berries on the bare stems and make a striking effect in late fall and ...
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Common Name: Winterberry Holly 'Southern Gentleman'
Winterberry Holly is a small to medium size multi-stem decidous shrub found in moist to wet soils over much of the eastern U.S. The female plants produce masses of very showy red berries on the bare stems and make a striking effect in late fall and ...
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Common Name: Winterberry Holly 'Winter Red'
Winterberry Holly is a small to medium size multi-stem decidous shrub found in moist to wet soils over much of the eastern U.S. The female plants produce masses of very showy red berries on the bare stems and make a striking effect in late fall and ...
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Common Name: Holly, 'Sparkleberry' Winterberry hybrid
Upright deciduous shrub. Persistent bright fruit. Pollinated by 'Raritan Chief'. (See DIR, F&J)...
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Common Name: Holly 'Hoskins Shadow'
Yaupon Holly is a common evergreen shrub or small tree with small leaves and red berries on female plants. It is found from southeastern Virgina to Texas. It is a popular and adaptable ornamental and there are a number of named varieties including d...
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Common Name: Yellow-berried Yaupon Holly
Yaupon Holly is a common evergreen shrub or small tree with small leaves and red berries on female plants. It is found from southeastern Virgina to Texas. It is a popular and adaptable ornamental and there are a number of named varieties including d...
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Common Name: Yaupon Holly 'Dewerth'
Yaupon Holly is a common evergreen shrub or small tree with small leaves and red berries on female plants. It is found from southeastern Virgina to Texas. It is a popular and adaptable ornamental and there are a number of named varieties including d...
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Common Name: Holly, Weeping Yaupon Holly
Yaupon Holly is a common evergreen shrub or small tree with small leaves and red berries on female plants. It is found from southeastern Virgina to Texas. It is a popular and adaptable ornamental and there are a number of named varieties including dw...
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Common Name: Holly, 'Gold Top' Yaupon Holly
This Yaupon Holly has golden new growth. A Woodlanders' introduction which we found as a single plant in Calhoun County, Texas. Dense evergreen shrub or small tree with abundant beautiful scarlet fruit which generally holds fall th... |
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Common Name: Yaupon Holly 'Virginia Dare'
Yaupon Holly is a common evergreen shrub or small tree with small leaves and red berries on female plants. It is found from southeastern Virgina to Texas. It is a popular and adaptable ornamental and there are a number of named varieties including d...
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Common Name: Yaupon Holly (male)
This is the pollnator needed for good fruit set on female Ilex vomitoria. Yaupon Holly is a dense evergreen shrub or small tree with abundant beautiful scarlet fruit on female plants. The berries generally hold... |
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Common Name: Will's Upright Yaupon Holly
A very unusual narrow upright form of this versatile evergreen. It was found in east Texas by Will Fleming. An exclamation mark to 15'. Keep tight by pruning. A great new fastigiate male. Good plant for narrow space....
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Common Name: Holly 'Bronze Beauty'
'Bronze Beauty' is a pyramidal evergreen hybrid holly with small dark green coarsely toothed leaves. Young leaves are beautiful bronze color. This holly is a female seedling of presumed parentage (Ilex x attenuata x Ilex aquipernyi ?) and is one of m...
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Common Name: Holly 'Alagold' Hybrid
A yellow-berried seedling of Foster #2 hybrid. Dark olive green leaves. Pyramidal growth habit. Introduced by Webb and Rainbow Nursery in Alabama. May be pollinated by I. opaca. ... |
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Common Name: Japanese Anise Tree
Japanese Anise is a glossy leaf upright evergreen shrub or small tree with aromatic leaves and pale yellow starfish-shaped flowers in early spring. This species is uncommon in American gardens but our native Illicium parviflorum has been widely sold ...
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Common Name: Florida Anise Tree, Pink-flowered
Florida Anise is a medium size evergreen shrub with dark green lanceolate aromatic leaves and 2 inch starfish-like maroon flowers. It is found in rich moist soil along streams in the central Gulf Coast area from Georgia to Louisiana. It is an an adap...
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Common Name: 'Halley's Comet' Florida Anise Tree
Florida Anise is a medium size evergreen shrub with dark green lanceolate aromatic leaves and 2 inch starfish-like maroon flowers. It is found in rich moist soil along streams in the central Gulf Coast area from Georgia to Louisiana. It is an an ad...
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Common Name: White-flowerd Florida Anise Tree
Evergreen ahrub with elliptical leaves that are aromatic when crushed. This is an uncommon white-flowered selection of this normally maroon flowered plant. The flowers which appear in spring are starfish shaped and about 1 inch in diameter. The pl...
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Common Name: Henry Anise Tree
The Henry Anise tree is a handsome dense pyramidal Chinese shrub with waxy pink flowers and aromatic evergreen leaves. It was probably first made available to American gardeners by Woodlanders after we obtained it from Hillier Nursery in England. It...
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Common Name: Guandong Star Anise
This anisetree is an upright evergreen Chinese shrub with leathery lanceolate leaves that are aromatic when crushed. It is somewhat like Illicium henryi and with similar small pink flowers. The star shaped seed capsules are not edib... |
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Common Name: Anise Tree, Hybrid
'Woodland Ruby' Anisetree is a hybird of Illicium mexicanum and a white flowered form of Illicium floridanum. This evergreen shrub with aromatic foliage has ruby-pink starfish-like flowers which are lar... |
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Common Name: Ocala Anisetree 'Florence' (variegated)
Native to scattered localities in Central Florida, the Ocala Anise is rare in the wild but widely cultivated in the South. It has highly aromatic olive-green foliage that smells like root beer when crushed and small yellow bell-like flowers in summe...
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Common Name: Ocala Anise 'Florida Sunshine'
A yellow leaf form of Illicium parviflorum (which see) selected and introduced by our friend Tony Avent of Plant Delights Nursery. His history and and description is as follows: We brought three golden seedlings of the rare ... |
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Common Name: Tall Indigo
Our friend Ted Stephens at Nurseries Caroliniana says: "This plant has to be one of my top 10 favorites." It will reach 8 feet plus and flowers from late March to October. Wonderful background in a perennial border as it produces spikes of pea-like...
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Common Name: Himalayan Indigo
Medium to large shrub with rosy purple flowers in 5 inch long racemes produced from axils of the compound leaves summer through fall. Leaves made up of many small leaflets along a midrib. Dr. Michael Dirr in his Manual of Woody Landscape Plants says...
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Common Name: Chinese Indigo
Indigofera incarnata (decora) is a low spreading deciduous shrub legume with compound leaves. It makes a groundcover with summer racemes of pink pea flowers. Suited to sun or part shade. It is native to China...
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Common Name: Chinese Indigo Cultivar
Indigofera incarnata (decora) is a low spreading deciduous shrub legume with compound leaves. It makes a groundcover with summer racemes of pink pea flowers. Suited to sun or part shade. It is native to China. Indigofera incarnata (decora)'Alba' ...
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Common Name: Shaga Iris
Iris japonica is a native of China growing in open forest edges and grasslands, at elevations from 500 to 800 m (1,600 to 2,600 ft). One population at 2,400 to 3,400 m (7,900 to 11,200 ft) in Southwest China is belie... |
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Common Name: Yellow Flag
A wetland Iris native to Europe and North Africa but naturalized elsewhere. It is a tall Iris with bright yellow flowers on tall stems. Plant is great for naturalizing around pond edges and even in shallow water but can be fine in ordinary garden b...
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This Asian Iris, a relative of I. siberica has narrow, dark green leaves and bears purple flowers on tall slender stems. It forms clumps which can be divided and has done well in our area with minimal care. Plant is sunny bed or border or in semi-sh...
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Common Name: Japanese Roof Iris
Scott Ogden in Garden Bulbs for the South says: "Japanese roof iris (I. tectorum) is famous in its native country as a flower for planting on sod roofs, just as housleeks are uesed on cottage roofs of France. In gardens the silky, green fans of leav...
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Common Name: Chinese Sweetspire
Medium to tall evergreen shrub with oval leaves about 3 inches long and 4 inch spikes of tiny white flowers in spring. This Asian relative of our native Sweetspire has been a good garden plant in the semi-shady border here and deserves to be more wi...
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Common Name: Virginia Sweetspire 'Longspire'
Introduced by Woodlanders, this is an excellent, long-spired (6 to 8 inches) selection of our native Sweetspire or Virginia Willow (not a willow !) selected by Robert and Julia Mackintosh along the Augusta Canal near the Savannah River in Georgia. A...
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Common Name: Pink Virginia Sweetspire 'Sarah Eve'
This Woodlanders introduction is the first pink Itea. The flowers are essentially white but the pink pedicels make the racemes distinctly pale pink. This selection found by Nancy Bissett of The Natives in central Florida and was named for her daugh...
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Common Name: Virginia Sweetspire 'Little Henry'
A new dwarf selection of our native Sweetspire or Virginia Willow (not a willow !) from Richard Feist of Hummingbird Nursery in Kentucky. Low mounded compact shrub to 3 feet. Fragrant white flowers and excellent fall color. A good Itea for the sun...
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Common Name: Yunnan Sweetspire
Evergreen shrub similar to I. chinensis except more low and spreading and with more leathery and darker green leaves that are somewhat holly-like on juvenile plants but with smooth edges on mature plants. The white flowers are in 4 inch racemes in ...
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Common Name:
This little Jasmine vine from western China has small deciduous leaves which are dull dark green and taper to a point. It develops a dense tangle of slender stems and is noteworthy for its flowers which while small are fragrant and of an unusual dee...
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Common Name: Jasmine, Primrose
Jasminum mesnyi (primulinum) is a mounding or cascading evergreen shrub with showy pale yellow, semi-double flowers in spring and summer. At it's best in the Deep South where it's long viney stems can be used effectively to cascade down w... |
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Common Name: Winter Jasmine
Winter Jasmine produces a broad spreading rounded mass of trailing branches arising from a central crown. It could be trained on a trellis but is usually planted on slopes or embankments. It is one of the hardiest Jasmines and is valued for its yell...
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Common Name: Poet's Jasmine
"Common White Jasmine" is a scandant twining vine with pinnate compound leaves with five to nine leaflets. It is native to the Sino-Himalayan region but has been grown in Europe for centuries. It is not commonly seen in the eastern U.S. but is satisf...
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Common Name: Spanish Jasmine
Deciduous or semi-evergreen vine similar to Jasminum officinale but less vigorous, less hardy, and with larger white fragrant flowers. In southern Europe it is grown to make perfume. Recommend planting on a trellis in a very sheltered spot in zone ...
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Common Name: Chinese Jasmine
This Jasmine is an evergreen twining vine with neat pinnate compound leaves and masses of fragrant white flowers that are pink in bud. A great vine for semi-shady location in very mild climate areas or as a conservatory plant in colder regions. Flo...
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Common Name: Jasmine, Hybrid
Jasminum x stephanense (Jasminum beesianum x Jasminum officinale)is a rather vigorous semi-evergreen vine or scrambling shrub with small pinnate or incompletely compound leaves Flowers small, pink, fragrant. Hybri... |
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Common Name: Little Walnut
The Little Walnut or Texas Walnut is a drought tolerant small deciduous tree with compound leaves typical of other walnuts. The nuts are very small but used by wildlife. This interesting small tree is native to west Tex... |
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Common Name: Black Walnut
Black Walnut is a large tree native to eastern North America. It has rather open growth habit with compound leaves which leaf out late and drop rather early in fall. The large hard-shelled edible nuts are highly prized as is the valuable wood used ...
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Common Name: Weeping Needle Juniper
This Juniper native to eastern Asia has bright green needle-like leaves and pendulous branches. The needle-like leaves are longer than on most kinds of Juniper. The tree takes on reddish hue in winter. Plant in open site with good drainage. A nice ac...
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Common Name: Eastern Redcedar, 'Lawrenceville'
'Lawrenceville' is an especially narrow selection of the familiar Redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) which we propagated from one we found years ago in Lawrenceville, Virginia. The branches are short but not unswept like'Skyr... |
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Medium-sized evergreen coniferous tree with pendulous branches. A distinctly pendulous form of the common Eastern Redcedar. A Woodlanders introduction in the 1980's from a tree found in the wild in Hancock County, Georgia. A specimen at the J.C. R...
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Common Name: Shrimp Plant
Shrimp Plant is so called because of the shape and color of the terminal flower clusters. This subtropical plant is native of Mexico and is an evergreen shrub in frost free climates. In colder areas it is grown as an annual or in much of the Deep s...
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This shrub or sub-shrub from Salta Province, Argentina was introduced by Woodlanders. It has showy purple flowers in summer. It is from chapparal type vegetation area so is quite drought tolerant. Has proven root hardy here and should be tried in z...
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Kadsura japonica is a twining evergreen Asian vine with handsome foliage and small fragrant white flowers in the leaf axils. Fruit, when produced, is red and in grape-like clusters. Plant in shady or semi-shady location with good rich moist soil. T...
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Common Name: Variegated Kadsura Vine
Kadsura japonica is a twining evergreen Asian vine with handsome foliage and small fragrant white flowers in the leaf axils. Fruit, when produced, is red and in grape-like clusters. Plant in shady or semi-shady location with good rich moist soil. Th...
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Common Name: Chinese Kadsura Vine
Evergreen twining vine with dark green slightly toothed oval leaves. . We have this Chinese species from Nanjing Botanic Garden. It is quite new to this country and probably first offered by Woodlanders. It appears ... |
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Common Name: Mountain Laurel
Evergreen shrub sometimes amost tree-like. Glossy oval leaves reddish bark. Showy flowers in late spring. Clusters of white to pink cup-shaped flowers. A choice shrub for sunny or semi-shady moist but well-drained acid soil usually on slopes. Plan...
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Common Name: Mountain Laurel Cultivar
This pure white flowered form of the common Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia) was found in Aiken County, SC by Mrs. Ernestine Law. This Woodlanders'introduction was originally offered as Ttssue-cultured plants. ... |
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Common Name: Mountain Laurel, 'Willowwood'
'Willowood' is a Woodlanders introduction. We found this Kalmia in Aiken County, SC. It is notable for its narrow willow-like leaves and pink, banded, flowers. A similar variety called 'Willowcrest' is from a nort... |
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Common Name: Mountainlaurel, 'Croft Carpet'
This unusual Mountainlaurel is a Woodlanders introduction which we discovered among typical Kalmia latifolia (which see) near Croft Mill, Aiken County, SC. This plant has foliage and flowers typical of the species but ... |
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Common Name: Hybrid Laurel
This seemingly unlikely hybrid between the common Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia) and the diminutive, less well-known, and very different Sandhill Laurel (Kalmia hirsuta) of the Deep South was probably first ma... |
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Common Name: Japanese Kerria Cultivar
Kerria is a monotypic eastern Asian genus. This "old fashioned" shrub has arching green stems and toothed leaves. It has abundant yellow flowers in spring which in the most commonly cultivated form are double and like little yellow roses. 'Shannon...
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Common Name: Chinese Flame Tree
Casts medium shade. Fast growing upright medium size tree of coarse structure, spreading with age. Twice pinnate leaves and showy large yellow flower clusters in late summer followed by large panicles of very conspicuous pink pods. A fine ornamental ...
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Common Name: Beautybush
Large deciduous shrub with showy pink flowers in spring. Dr. Michael Dirr in his "Manual of Woody Landscape Plants says: "E.H. Wilson considered it one of the finest plants he introduced into cultivation." Somewhat of an old fashionedà plant in U.S...
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Common Name: Copper-barked Crape Myrtle
This species of Crepe Myrtle from Yakushima Island, Japan is tree-like, has white flowers. and spectacular copper-colored bark. It is one of the parent species for the "Indian Tribe" hybrids (including the very popular 'Natchez') i... |
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Common Name: Muscogee Hybrid Crepemyrtle
'Muscogee' is a free flowering hybrid crepemyrtle with lavender-pink flowers over a long period in summer. This deciduous shrub or small tree is one of many crepemyrtles developed and introduced by the U.S. National Arboretum... |
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Common Name: Crepe Myrtle, 'Bayou Marie'
'Bayou Marie' is a smaller Crepemyrtle selected by David Chopin of Washington, PA and introduced by Hines Nursery in California. It has abundant pink flowers with a darker red or lavender edge to the petals. It is a goo... |
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Common Name: Crepe Myrtle, 'Cedar Lane Red'
Crepe Myrtle is a long time southern favorite summer flowering shrub or small tree. The relatively small rounded leaves are deciduous and the large showy flower clusters are freely produced on new growth. Exfoliating bark reveals ... |
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Common Name: Dwarf Crape Myrtle Cultivar
'Pocomoke' is one of the first two minature hybrid crepemyrtles released by the U.S. National Arboretum. This selection with deep pink flowers is ideal for containers, small spaces, and rock garden type plantings. Retains dense mounded habit without...
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Common Name: Yellow Lantana
Creeping and drought tolerant. Hardy in a sheltered spot. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 inches of coarse sand over the stubs. Mulch over with pine straw. As weather warms, remove this covering to allow new shoots to emerge...
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Common Name: Hardy Lantana
A now popular form of this very floriferous orange-flowered shrub attractive to butterflies. Discovered in cultivation near Athens, GA, and introduced by Goodness Grows Nursery. Lantana is a good warm climate shrub available in various color forms. ...
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Common Name: Trailing Lantana
A small-leafed trailing Lantana with purple flowers. A good groundcover for sunny, well-drained sites in the Deep South. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 inches of coarse sand over the stubs. Mulch over with pine straw. As we...
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Common Name: True Laurel or Bay
Laurus nobilis is the culinary Bay whose bay leaves are used for seasoning. This European evergreen shrub or small tree has been cultivated since ancient times. It is a good garden plant in the Deep South and suited to pot... |
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Common Name: Hybrid Bay
Obtained as cuttings from the J. C. Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh, NC. Evergreen foliage is highly aromatic as are both parents. We expect this to become a small tree. NOTE: This may be 'Saratoga' a plant introduced by the Saratoga Horticultural ...
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Common Name: Spanish Lavender
Lavender is a gray-green evergreen Mediterranean shrub that is not always happy in the heat and humidity of the southern U.S. Nevertheless it is a great favorite for it's flowers, fragrant plant parts, and for... |
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Common Name: Florida Corkwood
Corkwood is an uncommon shrub which forms colonies of tall slender stems in moist to wet soil in a few places in the southeastern U.S. and the lower Mississippi valley. It is notable for the very light wood which has been used like cork for fishing f...
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Common Name: Lion's Ear
Lion's Ear is a South African perennial or tender shrub to 6 or 7 feet. It has showy whorls of orange flowers in summer. The oblong leaves are frost tender and the whole plant may be killed back in cold weather. In much of the Sout... |
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Common Name: Tepeguaje
This is a straight trunked, rounded, mimosa-like tree with double compound leaves with 15 - 50 pairs of tiny leaflets. The flowers are densely clustered rounded heads of 1/2 - 3/4 inch white flowers followed by flat brown see... |
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Common Name: Florida Leucothoe
Leucothoe (Agarista) populifolia is a superb broadleaf evergreen shrub or even small tree. It grows much larger than other Leucothoe species. The tall erect multiple stems with arching branches have creamy white small fragrant bell-like flowers in s...
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Common Name: Sweetbells
This Leucothoe is native to eastern U.S. where it occurs in acidic woodland soils that are damp but not flooded. It is a deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub with racemes of little bell-like white flowers in spring. The 1 x 2 inch oval leaves are fine...
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Common Name: Spike Gayfeather
Liatris spicata is a perennial from a bulb-like root. It grows several feet tall with long narrow basal leaves and similar leaves reduced up the tall flower spike. The terminal flower spike is 6-15 inches long with myriad closely packed mauve flowe...
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Common Name: Gopher Apple
Licania michauxii (Chrysobalanus oblongifolius) is a low colonial deciduous shrub that spreads by underground runners. It can become quite shrubby and semi-evergreen in southern Florida but may freeze to the ground in the more northern portions of i...
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Common Name: Green Leopard Plant
Ligularia tussilaginea (Farfugium japonicum) (kaempferi) is a perennial plant with rounded glossy evergreen leaves. It produces spikes of yellow daisy flowers in fall. A good perennial for the shady southern garden bed. The most familiar form of th...
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A neat, small leaf "Privet" native to western China and Yunnan. It is a spreading evergreen shrub to 10 feet. White flowers with violet anthers in dense panicles may be followed by black fruit. This rarely offered Ligustrum may be ... |
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Common Name: Waxyleaf Privet
This is an uncommon deciduous shrub to 12 feet. It is much like some other "Privet" species but is much more showy in flower. Krussmann in Cultivated Broad-leaved Trees and Shrubs says: "Muc... |
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Common Name: Taiwan Spicebush
This evergreen Spicebush is a shrub or small tree with glossy, alternate, eliptical leaves 1"-2" long. We obtained this as cuttings from the garden of Bobby Green of Green's Nursery in Fairhope, Alabama as "an evergreen Lindera from Taiwan". It mat...
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Common Name: Spicebush
Spicebush is an aromatic deciduous shrub common in rich, circumneutral, moist woodland soils in eastern North America. The plant produces small yellow flowers in early spring before the foliage is emerged and has good yellow fall foliage. Males and ...
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Common Name: Chinese Evergreen Spicebush
Lindera fragrans is an evergreen shrub or small tree with glossy, leathery, bamboo-like leaves. Originally obtained through the Arnold Arboretum, Woodlanders is probably the first nursery in the U.S. to offer this lovely spicebush. It has grown well...
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Common Name: Japanese Spicebush
This spicebush is typically a multistemmed deciduous shrub to 10-12 feet. Described in Hilliers Manual of Trees and Shrubs as: "A magnificent, medium-sized to large shrub of erect or compact habit. The large, three-nerved, broadly ovate t... |
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Common Name: Japanese Spicebush
Japanese Spicebush is a large deciduous shrub that is usually multi-stemmed but can become almost tree-like. It has broad lobed or un-lobed leaves that are lustrous dark green. It flowers in spring with small yellow flo... |
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Common Name: Japanese Evergreen Spicebush
This Asian shrub is a beautiful evergreen spicebush with glossy, rather heart-shaped leaves about 3 inches broad and with prominent veins. The flowers are greenish yellow but not very showy and the berries are black. The plant is worth growing for th...
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Common Name: Tan Oak
Lithocarpus are evergreen trees related to both oak and chestnut. The acorns are like oak and the clusters of white flower spikes are like chestnut. The flowers are showy but ill scented. This species is native to eastern Asia and ... |
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Common Name: Pond Spice
Pond Spice is a rare in the wild and in cultivation. It is a deciduous shrub or small tree native to widely scattered localities in the coastal plain of the southeastern U.S. It is related to Lindera, the Spicebus... |
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Common Name: Chinese Fan Palm
Chinese Fan Palm is a beautiful, usually short trunked palm with large bright green fan-like leaves with segments that droop at the tips. It is widely grown in warm climates and is moderately cold hardy. It is being grown in coastal areas from Char...
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Common Name: Cardinal Flower
Cardinal Flower is a wonderful North American perennial native to wet areas but very easily grown in sunny sites with ordinary garden soils that are kept moist. It has a basal rosette of broad leaves from which arises a tall stem bearing a spike of ...
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Common Name: Crinklebush
This Australian native is an evergreen wide spreading shrub with unusual long, narrow, toothed leaves. It has fragrant white flowers in mid summer. Woodlanders may have been the first nursery to offer this plant in the U.S. or at least outside Calif...
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Common Name: Winter Honeysuckle
Winter Honeysuckle is an "Old Fashioned" wide-spreading deciduous shrub to 6 to 10 feet. It is valued for the very fragrant creamy white flowers in mid-winter or early spring. This shrub is native to eastern China and makes a good border or ... |
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Common Name: Yellow Trumpet Honeysuckle
Our native Coral Honeysuckle is a semi-evergreen vine of restrained habit. Leaves are blue-green with some encircling the stem. Flowers normally bright red but this selection a clear yellow. It is a compact repeat bloomer selected by the Virginia ...
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Common Name: Trumpet Honeysuckle 'Leo'
This semi-evergreen vine has blue-green leaves, some of which encircle the stems. Bright red tubular flowers over a long period attract hummingbirds. This is an excellent free-flowering clone of our native red honeysuckle. We have been unable to dis...
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This honeysuckle vine is a hybrid of our native Coral Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) and the Chinese L. tragophylla. Hillier (Manual of Woody Landscape Plants) calls it "A superb hybrid". It ha... |
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Common Name: Evergreen Witchhazel
Chinese evergreen shrub in the Witchazel family. It can become almost tree-like. It has small dark green leaves and abundant white fragrant flowers in early spring. The flowers have little filamentous narrow petals giving a fringe like effect and ...
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Common Name: Loropetalum 'Zhuzhou Fuchsia'
Chinese evergreen shrub in the Witchazel family. It can become almost tree-like. It has small dark green leaves and abundant white fragrant flowers in early spring. The flowers have little filamentous narrow petals giving a fringe like effect and ...
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Common Name: Chilean Myrtle
Chilean Myrtle is also known as Myrtus luma. It is a neat shrub or even a tree to 20 to 25 foot. The evergreen leaves are small and glossy. It produces small white flowers and has cinnamon red bark. This Andean tree is not much known in U.S. exce...
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Common Name: Japanese Climbing Fern
A very attractive climbing fern for a trellis or arbor. An attractive foliage vine but this species has become an invasive nuisance in some Deep South bottomlands. For this reason it should probably not be planted in zone 9. In zone 8 it is genera...
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Common Name: Rusty Lyonia
Rusty Lyonia is a tall evergreen shrub often becoming tree-like with contorted branches. New leaves are rusty red. Flowers are small fragrant, white bells. Plant in sunny or lightly shaded site with sandy acid soil and good drainage. This species i...
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Common Name: Fetterbush
Fetterbush is an upright somewhat arching evergreen shrub with glossy leaves that have a vein along the smooth leaf edge. It grows in damp acid soils in the southeastern U.S. from Virginia southward. The plants produce small white or pink bell-shap...
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Common Name: Feather Tree
Lysiloma is a shrub or small tree with fine pinnate ferny foliage. The white flowers are in ball-like heads. It is a desert tree native to southern Arizona. It is cold sensitive but will withstand brief periods of sub-f... |
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Common Name: Cat's Claw Creeper
The "Cat claw Creeper" is a vigorous tender evergreen vine related to and somewhat like our native Crossvine (Bignonia capreolata). It likewise produces an abundance of yellow trumpet-like blooms. It climbs by tendrils and will cover quickly, maybe...
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Common Name: Ashe Magnolia
Ashe Magnolia is a rare deciduous tree with very large leaves like its close relative the Bigleaf Magnolia (Magnolia macrophylla) but is much more shrub-like in growth habit. It has large white blossoms with a purple blotch at the base of the petals...
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Common Name: Magnolia Hybrid
This hybrid magnolia is the result of a cross made by Dr. Fred Meyer at the U.S. National Arboretum. The two parent species (which see) are similar and are closely related but one has the growth habit of a huge shrub and the other is very tree-like....
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Common Name: Tulip Magnolia Hybrid
A large growing deciduous Magnolia with pyramidal habit and abundant large flowers in early spring. The spectacular flowers are deep rosy pink-purple attention getters. This hybrid is a sister seedling of 'Galasy' and was a cross of two Asian Magno...
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Common Name: Bigleaf Magnolia
Bigleaf Magnolia has the largest single leaves of any North American tree. It is a deciduous Magnolia found scattered in rich sheltered woodland situations from West Virginia to Louisiana. The leaves which can be up to three feet long by one foot w...
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Common Name: Star Magnolia Cultivar
Star Magnolia, a hardy Japanese species, is a large rounded shrub with deciduous leaves 3-4 inches long. It is valued for its late winter or very early spring display of white star-like blossoms which cover the plant before the leaves come out. 'Roy...
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Common Name: Umbrella Magnolia
This hardy native deciduous magnolia has very large leaves and smooth gray bark. The creamy flowers are large and showy but ill-scented. The large rose colored seed cones are especially showy in late summer. This is a tree of the moist eastern dec...
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Common Name: Sweetbay
Sweetbay Magnolia is a common tree of moist soil areas in eastern United States where it ranges from Massachusetts to Texas. The northern plants (Magnolia virginiana var. virginiana) are deciduous and the southern (Magnolia virginiana var. australis...
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Common Name: Southern Crabapple
Crabapples in almost infinite variety are popular ornamentals in the North. Most of them are not well suited to zones 8 and 9 but the native Southern Crabapple is well worth growing here. It produces an abundance of lovely pink flowers in early spri...
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Common Name: Turk's-cap
This subtropical Hibiscus relative is herbaceous in zone 8 but a shrubby evergreen southward. It produces bright red flowers 2-3 inches long. The petals do not open out flat like Hibiscus but it is a showy garden subject for the bed or border in mild...
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Common Name: Turk's-cap
This subtropical Hibiscus relative is herbaceous in zone 8 but a shrubby evergreen southward. It produces bright red flowers 2-3 inches long but this is the uncommon pink-flowered form of this typically red-flowered plant.. The petals do not open ou...
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Common Name: Small Turk's-cap
This Hibiscus relative is native to the Gulf Coast states and southward but widely grown elsewhere. It is a shrubby plant with bright red flowers less than two inches long but showy over a long period during the hot months and attractive to hummingb...
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Common Name: Pink Turk's-cap
Small Turkscap is a hibiscus relative native to the Gulf Coast states and southward but widely grown elsewhere. It is a shrubby plant with bright red flowers less than two inches long but showy over a long period during the hot mon... |
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Common Name: White Turk's-cap
A white-flowered form of the normally red-flowered Malvaviscus drummondii (which see) that was given to us by Greg Grant of the Stephen F. Austin Arboretum in Nacogodoches, TX. This Hibiscus relative i... |
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Common Name: Turk's Cap 'Big Momma' Hybrid
This shrubby plant has showy red flowers and leaves that are intermediate between the parent species (which see). A relatively recent Texas introduction by Greg Grant, this should prove a garden worthy plant that is likely to be a bit more cold-hard...
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Common Name: Rattlesnake Master
This perennial succulent is a member of the Amaryllis Family native to Texas. It has 1 foot long soft fleshly, often dark spotted, leaves like the related Agave but they are not evergreen. The tall flower spikes produce spidery creamy white to purp...
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Common Name: Wild Cassava
This is a very fast growing weak wooded coarsely branched small deciduous tree with wonderful large circular palmate leaves composed of 7 to 11 leaflets joined near the center and borne on long petioles. A splendid plant for tropic... |
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Common Name: White-flowered Mazus
A low growing, primarily evergreen, Himalayan native spreading groundcover with smsll leaves and white flowers in spring. In rich soil they are useful for small scale groundcovers, r... |
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Common Name: Banana Shrub
To 10 feet. Lustrous evergreen foliage. In late spring, flowers appear which are creamy yellow edged in maroon and have a fruity fragrance. (See DIR, O&T, O&P)...
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Common Name: Evergreen Wisteria
Evergreen Wisteria is not a Wisteria and is only really evergreen in the mildest areas. An attractive Asian vine that does resemble Wisteria but has dark purple-red flower clusters that are held above the foliage. A good fast-growing vine for the l...
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Common Name: Powderpuff
This native Mimosa is a prostrate deciduous groundcover with compound feathery leaves. It is vigorous and will cover bare areas with attractive foliage punctuated by erect 10 inch stems bearing marshmallow size pink powderpuff flowers. Found from Fl...
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Common Name: Bee Balm, 'Claire Grace'
Bee Balms are in the mint family and are favorite garden perennials. This lavendar flowered Bee Balm is a species native over much of the U.S. and Canada. 'Claire Grace' is a fine free flowering and mildew res... |
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Common Name: Scarlet Beebalm
Monarda didyma is a fine clump or patch forming perennial native to eastern North America. It is a lovely red-flowered plant that produces flowers in terminal whorls on tall stems. Plant in rich moist soil with full sun or afternoon shade. 'Jacob C...
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Common Name: Pink Beebalm
Monarda didyma and it's hybrids are fine clump or patch forming perennials native to eastern North America. It is a lovely red-flowered plant that produces flowers in terminal whorls on tall stems. Plant in rich moist soil with full sun or afternoon...
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Common Name: Butterfly Iris
Also known as Dietes bicolor. Clump forming rhizomatous subtropical Iris relative with long narrow grass-like leaves about 2'long. Flat yellow flowers with a brown spots at the base of the petals. Very striking plant for the moist semi-shady spot in...
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Common Name: Red Mulberry
Red Mulberry is a medium size decidous tree native to the eastern U.S. It has large dark green leaves that are rough to the touch. The female trees have sweet purple fruit attractive to birds and children. It is best grown in rich, moi... |
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Common Name: Sweetgrass
A distinctive wiry upright bunch grass with beautiful reddish plumes up to about 3 feet tall. Blooms in late summer and fall. A choice ornamental grass for sunny bed or border. Native to southeastern U.S. In the coastal area of South Carolina the f...
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Common Name: Ornamental Banana
Banana plants give an attractive tropical appearance. This rather small growing species has showy pink-red flowers and 4 inch long pink fruit which unlike most bananas matures in a single growing season. This little red banana is scarcely edible but...
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Common Name: Simpson's Stopper
Simpson Stopper is a neat evergreen small tree or shrub with small leaves, white flowers, orange fruit, and nice exfoliating bark. Native to central and southern Florida. It has surprisied us by being perfectly hardy her... |
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Common Name: Southern Waxmyrtle Cultivar
Myrica cerifera is a small tree or large shrub native to North America. Its common names include Waxmyrtle, Bayberry, Candleberry, Bayberry tree, and Tallow shrub. It sees uses both in the garden and for candlemaking, as well as a medicinal plant.... |
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Common Name: Swamp Bayberry
Swamp Bayberry is found in acid lowgrounds in the Southeastern U.S. and is similar to M. pensylvanica but is evergreen and the fruits are smaller and almost black. The aromatic leaves are larger and broader than Myrica cerifera, the common Waxmyrtle....
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Common Name: Northern Bayberry
This is the Northern Bayberry, the berries are the source of the wax once used to make Bayberry candles. It is native in the northeast and along the immediate coastline to North Carolina. It is a deciduous shrub growing to around ... |
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Common Name: Southern Dwarf Waxmyrtle Cultivar
The dwarf waxmyrtle native to frequently burned pinelands in the southern U.S. is also known as Myrica cerifera pumila or Myrica pusilla. It is a dense spreading evergreen shrub with small aromatic leaves that can form patches or colonies by undergro...
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Common Name: African Boxwood
This is a small dense evergreen shrub with small aromatic leaves and axillary clusters of red-brown flowers followed by blue-black pea-like fruit on female plants. It is adaptable for hedging. This shrub which could substitute for boxwood (Buxus) in ...
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Common Name: True Myrtle
Evergreen shrub with small glossy leaves and white flowers. Classic myrtle of the ancients. Sunny, well-drained soil. Can be used for topiary or bonsai. (See O&T, HRT)...
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Common Name: Upright Common Myrtle
Myrtle is an aromatic evergreen shrub cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean area. Possibly originally native to Iran and Afghanistan. This is an upright form of the Common Myrtle with somewhat larger and more pointed ... |
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Common Name: Chilean Guava
Dense upright shrub with leathery leaves. Waxy pink bell-shaped flowers followed by edible mahogany-red berries. Ugni molinae, commonly known as Chilean guava, or strawberry myrtle, is a shrub native to Chile and adjacent regions of southern Argen... |
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Common Name: Yellow-Berried Heavenly Bamboo
Nandina domestica is an Asian shrub which has long been popular in the South. There are various named varieties including dwarf forms. The typical form is an upright multi-stem plant with minimal branching but with large glossy fern-like compound e...
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Common Name: Fan Iris
Neomarica or Apostle Plant is an iris-like plant with shiny sprays of sword-like foliage and with showy, white with blue flowers at the ends of long scapes. These form new plants where they arch down and touch the ground (i.e. walking iris). It make...
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Common Name: Oleander 'Hardy Red'
Oleander is a large sun-loving evergreen Mediterranean shrub cultivated since ancient times. It has dark green leathery lance shaped leaves in whorls around the long sparingly branched stems. The fragrant flower clusters, in various colors, are sho...
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Common Name: Oleander 'Double Yellow'
Oleander is a large sun-loving evergreen Mediterranean shrub cultivated since ancient times. It has dark green leathery lance shaped leaves in whorls around the long sparingly branched stems. The fragrant flower clusters, in various colors, are sho...
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Common Name: Oleander 'White'
Oleander is a large sun-loving evergreen Mediterranean shrub cultivated since ancient times. It has dark green leathery lance shaped leaves in whorls around the long sparingly branched stems. The fragrant flower clusters, in various colors, are sho...
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Common Name: Oleander
Oleander is a large sun-loving evergreen Mediterranean shrub cultivated since ancient times. It has dark green leathery lance shaped leaves in whorls around the long sparingly branched stems. The fragrant flower clusters, in various colors, are sho...
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Common Name: Double Pink Oleander
Oleander is a large sun-loving evergreen Mediterranean shrub cultivated since ancient times. It has dark green leathery lance shaped leaves in whorls around the long sparingly branched stems. The fragrant flower clusters, in variou... |
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Common Name: Alabama Snow-wreath
Alabama Snowreath is a rare thicket-forming Spirea-like deciduous shrub with early showy white flowers which give a feathery appearance from the numerous stamens. This plant is found on limestone soils in northern Alabama, barely into Georgia and Ten...
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Common Name: Georgia Beargrass
Georgia Beargrass is an evergreen yucca-like plant with narrow wiry leaves from a central rosette or cluster. In summer a tall flower spike with tiny white flowers arises from the plant. This is a xerophytic plant with relatives in the Southwest and ...
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Common Name: Smallseed Sacahuista
This Beargrass or Smallseed Sacahuista is an essentially stemless clump-forming desert plant with narrow, stiff grass-like leaves from a central rosette. It is often multi crowned. Tall spikes of very small fl... |
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Notophoebe (aka Nothophobe and Nothaphoebe) is a rare Chinese evergreen tree in the laurel family. It is ultimately a large tree in it's habitat. It has very attractive dark green foliage with very pale green to whit... |
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Common Name: Water Tupelo or Cotton Gum
Large swamp tree often with swollen base in frequently flooded areas. Bright yellow fall color. Will grow in average conditions. (See ATE, DIR, S&W)...
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Common Name: Black Gum
Black Gum, known in the North as Tupelo or Pepperidge, is a medium to large deciduous tree native to eastern U.S. It is a very desirable landscape tree valued for the brilliant orange-red fall color. It is adaptable to various soil types but is not...
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Common Name: Purple Firespike
Similar to Odontonema stricta, the Cardinal Spear, but leaves perhaps somewhat larger and more fleshy and the large colorful spikes of flowers are purple rather than red. Obtained from JoAnn Breland at Hampton Park in Charleston, SC and showing prom...
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Common Name: Cardinal Spear
Also called "Cardinal Flower", "Cardinal's Guard", "Firespike", and "Firestick". This is a subtropical plant native to Central America but widely grown in warm regions for the showy spikes of red flowers. It is probably a shrub in the tropics but i...
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Common Name: Olive
Olive is an evergreen Mediterranean small tree or large shrub with gray-green leathery leaves and small white fragrant flowers in axillary racemes in late summer. Fruits produced in dry climates are the source of commercial olives and olive oil. Whi...
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Common Name: Yunnan Olive
Our source, Camellia Forest Nursery in North Carolina, described this plant as an Osmanthus-like evergreen becoming a small tree with small black fruit. It was collected near a temple in China at about 7,000 feet elevation. This little-known new intr...
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Common Name: Aztec Grass
'Aztec Grass' is neither Aztec nor grass but Asian and in the Lily family. It is a very attractive variegated plant whose narrow linear leaves have gray-green vertical stripes. It is similar to Liriope muscari but less cold hardy. A nice edging pla...
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Common Name: Wild Olive
Osmanthus americanus is an evergreen shrub or tree with smooth margined elliptical leaves and small white flowers in spring. It is native to the southeastern U.S., primarily in coastal plain woodlands. 'Devilwood', so named for it's difficult to wor...
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Osmanthus armatus is an uncommon large multi-branched shrub with thick lustrous dark green holly-like leaves with prominent marginal and terminal spines. It has fragrant cream-white flowers in autumn. Female plants may produce small dark violet fru...
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Common Name: Fragrant Tea Olive
Tea Olive is an evergreen Asian shrub that can become almost tree-like in mild climates. The leaves are about 3 inches long with small marginal teeth. It is highly prized in southern U.S. gardens for the deliciously fragrant small white flowers that...
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Common Name: Tea Olive 'Conger Yellow'
Tea Olive is an evergreen Asian shrub that can become almost tree-like in mild climates. The leaves are about 3 inches long with small marginal teeth. It is highly prized in southern U.S. gardens for the deliciously fragrant small white flowers that...
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Common Name: Orange-flowered Fragrant Tea Olive
Tea Olive is an evergreen Asian shrub that can become almost tree-like in mild climates. The leaves are about 3 inches long with small marginal teeth. It is highly prized in southern U.S. gardens for the deliciously fragrant small white flowers that...
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Common Name: Holly Osmanthusm 'Goshiki'
'Goshiki' means Five colors in Japanese and this rather dwarf form of Holly Osmanthus is highly variegated with flecks of creamy or yellow variegation against the dark green background of the holly-like evergreen foliage. The new growth has showy pi...
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Common Name: Variegated Holly Tea Olive
Holly Osmanthus is a large evergreen Asian shrub with holly-like leaves and fragrant white flowers. It is a long time favorite in southern gardens and is useful for hedges, borders. screen, or barrier plantings. It is best in sun or semi-shade with ...
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Common Name: Holly Osmanthus
Holly Osmanthus is a large evergreen Asian shrub with holly-like leaves and fragrant white flowers. It is a long time favorite in southern gardens and is useful for hedges, borders. screen, or barrier plantings. It is best in sun or semi-shade with ...
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Common Name: Holly Osmanthus 'Gulftide'
'Gulftide' Holly Osmanthus is a medium to large evergreen shrub with dark green spiny, holly-like foliage and small fragrant white flowers. It grows to 10 to 15 feet and makes a good hedge in sun or partia... |
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Common Name: Round Leaf Holly Osmanthus
Holly Osmanthus is a medium to large evergreen shrub with dark green spiny, holly-like foliage and small fragrant white flowers. It grows to 10 to 15 feet and makes a good hedge in sun or partial shade. This s... |
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Common Name: Osmaria
A bi-generic hybrid between Osmanthus delavayi and Phillyrea vilmoriniana (decora) but some botanists now merge Phillyrea into Osmanthus! This is a medium sized compact shrub with relatively small dark green toothed evergreen leave... |
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Common Name: Cinnamon Fern
Cinnamon Fern is a big-growing deciduous fern native to eastern North America on humus rich moist to wet woodland soils. It is an impressive fern for similar shady garden conditions. The tall upright fronds which turn yellow in fall are preceeded in...
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Common Name: Royal Fern
Royal Fern is found in humus rich moist to wet woodland sites (and even open areas in the North) over much of eastern North America. It has rather coarse fronds with twice pinnate leaves composed of fairly large leaflets which are somewhat un-fernli...
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Common Name: Chinese Emperor Plum
Osteomeles schweriniae is a species of plant native to China. Its an evergreen shrub and its flowers are white and resemble those of hawthorn species. It produces small, white, round berries that are actually pomes. ... |
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Common Name: Sourwood
Sourwood is a beautiful deciduous tree that is pyramidal when grown in the open. It is native to the eastern United States on well-drained acid woodland soils. It is in the family with azaleas and blueberries and produces sprays of showy summer flo...
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Common Name: Christ Thorn
Christ Thorn is a broad, thorny, deciduous shrub with small yellowish-green flowers in the axils of the small shiny leaves. Fruits are a small flattened woody disc shaped like a Cardinal's hat. This shrub with... |
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Common Name: Jerusalem Thorn
Jerusalem Thorn is not from the Holy Land. This slender small tree with smooth green bark, long compound leaves with tiny leaflets, racemes of yellow flowers, and slender "bean pods" is native to southern Texas and Mexico. Although not... |
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Common Name: Silvervein Creeper
A scrambling deciduous vine with green and reddish leaves that have white variegation following the veins of the leaf. The leaves are palmately compound with the middle leaf being the largest. Before going deciduous it turns to shades of orange an... |
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Common Name: White Passionflower
Passiflora caerulea is a vigorous evergreen vine climbing by tendrils. The leaves are deeply divided with narrow lobes. The flowers showy and intricate but ephemeral. Flowers are three to four inches across and while blue is typica... |
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Common Name: Maypop
The Maypop is a perennial vine with three lobed leaves and very showy intricate blue flowers about three inches across. It climbs by tendrils or sprawls on the ground. Not uncommon in fields and woods edges of the southern United States. Lime-sized ...
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Common Name: Passionflower 'Incense' Hybrid
Perennial tendril climbing vine with thre lobed leaves and very large and showy purple flowers over a long period in warm weather. It is a hybrid between our native Passiflora incarnata and the South American Passiflora cincinnata. It produces few ...
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Common Name: Star of Mikan Passionflower
'Amethyst' is a beautiful red-purple flowered hybrid passionflower with reflexed petals and three lobed foliage. Parentage is somewhat uncertain. This vine is perennial and freezes to ground here in South Carolina but returns with vigor and flowers ...
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Common Name: Argentine Mallow
This little Hibiscus relative is a low, spreading, gray-leafed shrub with pink, dark-centered 2.5 inch mallow flowers most of summer. This Woodlanders introduction is from a collection we made in the Sierra De La Ventana Mountains in Argentina. Plan...
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Common Name: Argentine Mallow
This shrub native to Argentina is a rather open growing semi-evergreen plant with narrow hastate leaves 2 to 3 inches long. Trimming or shearing will result in a more compact plant. Early blooms are cleistogamous ie.forming seed without opening but t...
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Common Name: Wright Pavonia
Short-lived shrub best suited to sunny perennial border with well-drained soil and minimal competiton. Rose-pink hibiscus-like flowers open mornings all summer. Velvety, dark green leaves. Will re-seed. Can be pruned back any time throughout summer...
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Common Name: Smooth Penstemon Cultivar
Penstemon digitalis is a fine perennial native the eastern United States. It has tubular white flowers on a panicle held above the leaves in early to mid-summer. 'Husker Red' is a selection developed at the University of Nebraska. It is similar to...
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Beautiful flowering species. Short lived, but self-sows. (See HRT)...
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Common Name: Odorless Mock Orange
This upright and arching deciduous shrub native to the southeastern United States has showy but non-fragrant white flowers in late spring. It is a woodland plant and probably best grown in semi-shade with fertile soil and irrigation. It is a good bac...
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Common Name: Garden Phlox Cultivar
Tall perennial phlox native to eastern North America. This species occurs in many colors and there are many named varieties. "David' is a white flowered selection made by Richard Simon of Bluemount Nursery at the Brandywine Museum in Pennsylvania. ...
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Common Name: Garden Phlox Cultivar
'Shortwood' is a tall pink-flowered perennial phlox derived from the white-flowered variety 'David'. The terminal panicles of pink flowers have deep pink centers. This is a mildew resistant variety and a great plant for... |
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Common Name: Ozark Phlox
Stoloniferous. (See HRT)...
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Broadleaf evergreen tree related to Persea, the genus which includes Redbay and Avocado. This species was recieved as seed from Nanjing, China as Phoebe neurantha, an apparently invalid name. This species seems similar to P chekiangensis which has pr...
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Common Name: Correll's Obedient Plant
This species of "Obedient Plant" or "False Dragonhead" is a robust, erect, somewhat succulent perennial from thick rhizomes. It has inch long lavender-pink flowers streaked or spotted with purple. It is a rare species found in scattered localities ...
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Common Name: Obedient Plant
'Vivid' is a compact upright form of the "Obedient Plant" with vibrant pink 1 inch long flowers in 12-18 inch spikes. It is easily grown in well-drained soil with sun and ample moisture where it forms vigorous colonies. Species is native to eastern ...
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Common Name: Climbing Heath
This rare and unusual plant native to the southeastern U.S. is a small evergreen shrub in cultivation. In it's native swamp habitat it becomes a vine on Pond Cypress (Taxodium ascendens) trees where it grows high up the tree under the loose outer bar...
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Common Name: Lily of the Valley Shrub
Evergreen shrub with glossy slightly toothed leaves which emerge bronze and turn dark green. Dense clusters of hanging bell-like small white flowers in spring. This species of Pieris is native to the Ryuku Islands (Okin... |
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Common Name: Spruce Pine
Spruce Pine is a choice ornamental pine with dense dark green needles and most unusual bark for a pine. The trunk looks like a hardwood tree trunk! Usually found in mixed stands just upslope from stream bottomlands in coastal areas... |
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Common Name: Longleaf Pine
Longleaf Pine, with needles up to a foot long, is the premier southern pine. It once occupied 92 million acres in a very diverse fire maintained ecosystem streaching from southeastern Virginia to Florida and east Texas. Now very little old-growth lon...
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Common Name: Chinese Pistacia
Chinese Pistacia is a medium size deciduous tree related to the Pistacio nut. It does not produce the edible nuts but does have splendid bright orange-red fall color, is drought and insect resistant, and has lustrous dark green compound leaves. This...
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Common Name: Monkeycomb
This Woodlanders introduction is a semi-evergreen vine related to our native Crossvine (Bignonia capreolata). It is somwhat similar, climbs with tendrils, but has white flowers. We collected this in Cordoba Province, Argentina and it has proven to ...
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This Chinese species of Pittosporum is an attractive evergreen shrub with narrow, 1 inch long, glossy leaves that are somewhat variable but generally diamond shaped. The small pale yellow flowers are fragrant. This still uncommon species is perhaps ...
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This Woodlanders introduction is a spreading evergreen shrub with small eliptical leaves less than one inch long. It has small yellow flowers followed by yellow fruits. It was grown from seed collected in China by Frank Bell who mistook it for an E...
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Common Name: Japanese Pittosporum
A favorite southern evergreen shrub. From Korean seed, perhaps a hardier form. Medium textured evergreen shrub. Leathery dark green leaves. Fragrant creamy white flowers in spring. Sun to shade. Any well-drained soil. Good seashore plant (See HRT, O...
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Common Name: Dwarf Bamboo
Pleioblastus (Sasa) distichus 'Mini' is the most dwarf of running bamboo. Bambusero Adam Turtle of "Our Nursery" in Summertown, TN says it is a ground-covering bamboo that can be controlled with an edger. But it is a running bamboo ! Presumed to be ...
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Common Name: Yew, Southern
A low-growing selection of this popular southern conifer with flat needle-like evergreen leaves which spiral the stem. Woodlanders obtained cuttings of this form years ago from a plant at Tom Dodd Nurseries in Semmes, Alabama but have not met with it...
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Common Name: Pine of the Mountain
Very rare evergreen conifer native to a few very scattered localities on mountains just east of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. This plant is now available from Woodlanders and is CITES listed. Woodlanders is probably the...
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Common Name: Pink Trumpet Vine
Vigorous vine with compound leaves. Will likely freeze to ground in zones 8 and 9 but make much growth in warm weather with good conditions. Flowers are showy pink trumpets. Plant in sunny site with well-drained soil and allow ample space to climb....
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Common Name: Great Solomon's Seal
Tall woodland perennial with unbranched stems bearing alternate delightfully oriented oval leaves with whitish pendant flowers in axils followed by black berries. A choice colonizing plant for the moist shady woodland garden. Native to Eastern North...
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Common Name: Variegated Solomon's Seal
This Japanese perennial is a great plant for the woodland or shaded border. Polygonatum falcatum ( aka Polygonatum odoratum var. thunbergii) 'Variegatum' has striking summer foliage. It is easy to grow and spreads in moist fertile soil. The varieg...
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Common Name: Christmas Fern
This evergreen fern has rather coarse foliage but it is a durable fern for shady sites on well-drained but moist soil. Christmas Fern is one of the hardier evergreen ferns native to eastern North America and is a useful plant for the shady garden. T...
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Common Name: Mintbush
Of several Prostanthera species received from Longwood Gardens, this one has proven satisfactory in our climate. It is a more or less evergreen shrub up to 6 feet with abundant purplish-pink flowers. Leaves are rather small and narrow. Plant in su...
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Common Name: Chickasaw Plum
Chickasaw Plum is a thicket forming deciduous shrub or small tree with very early, showy white flowers and edible yellow or red fruit. This species is widespread in the southeastern U.S. but is suspected of having been introduced from farther west b...
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Common Name: Carolina Cherry Laurel
Carolina Laurelcherry is a versatile evergreen tree which can be used for hedge, screen, or specimen plant. It has shiny green leaves with serrulate margins and racemes of white flowers in spring followed by black fruits which are eaten by birds. N...
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Common Name: Fuji Cherry
Prunus incisa, the Fuji cherry gets its scientific name from the deep incisions on the leaves. A dainty slow-growing, early white-flowering cherry, it is a century-old cultigen from Hondo, Japan. It is hi... |
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Common Name: Portugal Laurel
Portugese Laurel is a large evergreen shrub or small to medium size tree. It has ovate leaves which are dark green with reddish petioles. It bears racemes of small white flowers in late spring followed by small reddish to dark purple fruits. A fine...
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Common Name: Japanse Flowering Apricot
The Japanese Flowering Apricot is a floriferous small to medium sized tree with white to pink almond scented flowers. In the South this blooms in mid to late winter. It is a great favorite in Japanese landscapes and there are many named vari... |
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Common Name: Flatwoods Plum
Picturesque small deciduous tree with rough bark. White flowers (often turning pink) in spring. Small sour purple plums used for jelly. Not thicket forming like Chickasaw Plum and later blooming. Plant in well-drained soil in sun or semi-shade....
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Common Name: Southwestern Black Cherry
This southwestern "wild cherry" is closely related to the common Prunus serotina and sometimes classified as variety rufula or subspecies virens. Found in west Texas and adjacent areas, it... |
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Common Name: Chinese Quince
Small to medium size deciduous tree with dark green firm toothed leaves and gray, green and brown bark which flakes off to produce mosaic patterns. Fall color is yellow to red. In spring it has attractive soft pink flowers on old ... |
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Common Name: Wafer-ash or Hop Tree
Hop Tree is a small bushy decidous tree that is quite adaptable. It has trifoliate leaves and very fragrant small yellowish flowers in spring followed by persistent wafer-like winged seeds. It is a larval food plant sought by butterflies and butterf...
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Common Name: Spider Brake Fern
This Asian fern has fronds with narrow strap-like pinnae. It is widely naturalized in warm regions where it often grows in cracks of old masonry walls and other spots with high calcium soils such as moist shady spots along foundations, etc. ...
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Common Name: Fragrant Epaulettetree
The Fragrant Eupaulettetree is a deciduous tree typically 20 to 30 feet tall. It has fragrant panicles of white flowrers and blooms in late spring or early summer. It should be planted in moist but well-drained soil and... |
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Common Name: Pomegranate 'California Sunset'
This flowering Pomegranate also known as 'Madame Legrelle', is a medium size deciduous shrub with very double coral-red flowers variegated with much white, Flowers in summer and is long blooming but like other double-flowered forms... |
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Common Name: 'Toyosho' Pomegranate
This flowering Pomegranate variety has double peach or apricot-colored flowers but like other double-flowered forms it rarely produces fruit. Pomegranate is a deciduous shrub native to the Middle East and cultivated since ancient times.... |
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Common Name: Pomegranate
Pomegranate is a deciduous Middle-eastern shrub with small narrow leaves, orange flowers, and orange-red large edible fruits for which it has been cultivated since ancient times. Some ornamental varieties have showy double flowers and rarely set frui...
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Common Name: Pomegranate, 'Chico' Dwarf
Pomegranate is a deciduous Middle-eastern shrub with small narrow leaves, orange flowers, and orange-red large edible fruits for which it has been cultivated since ancient times. A neat plant for the patio or container in the warmer zones. |
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Common Name: Yellow-flowered Pomegranate
Pomegranate is a deciduous Middle-eastern shrub with small narrow leaves, orange flowers, and orange-red large edible fruits for which it has been cultivated since ancient times. Some ornamental varieties have showy double flowers and rarely set frui...
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Common Name: Pomegranate 'Eight Ball'
Pomegranate is a deciduous Middle-eastern shrub with small narrow leaves, orange flowers, and orange-red large edible fruits for which it has been cultivated since ancient times. Some ornamental varieties have showy double flowers and rarely set frui...
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Common Name: Narrow leaf Mountain Mint
Perennial plant with long narrow leaves and attractive white to pale purple flowers on much branched spikes in late summer. The dense foliage and nice flowers of this adaptable perennial make it a good garden plant. It is native to much of eastern ...
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Common Name: Hybrid
x Pyracomeles (Pyracantha x Osteomeles) vilmorinii is a semi-evergreen shrub with arching thornless branches and deeply cut small leaves. Corymbose white flowers in spring followed by coral-red fruit. An attractive bi-generic hybrid of garden origi...
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Common Name: Cockscomb
A beautiful selection of a Jap/Korean epiphyte/lithophyte. The leaf is deeply lobed like a feather, with some of the lobes having a secondary pointed lobe. Underside of the leaf is silky brown, very ornamental and rare. The name means "Cockscomb"....
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Common Name: White Oak
White Oak is a large imposing deciduous tree reaching 50 to 80 feet with a broad rounded crown. It is a long-lived, slow-growing oak. Many venerable specimens exist. The leaves with rounded lobes turn russet-red in fall and are widely recognized as...
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Common Name: Scarlet Oak
Scarlet Oak is a large deciduous tree with deeply lobed glossy foliaged often with excellent scarlet fall color.. It is a highly ornamental shade tree tolerant of dry soil. Similar habit to Pin Oak in youth. ... |
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Common Name: Emory Oak
Emory Oak is a medium sized semi evergreen tree with shiny somewhat toothed leaves about 4 inches long. It occurs on non-limestone soils (acid soils) in a number of mountain ranges in west Texas. It is an attractiv... |
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Common Name: Portuguese Oak
Quercus faginea, the Portuguese Oak ia a semi-evergreen small tree or large shrub. It is variable and several varieties are recognized. The rather small dark green leaves are likewise somewhat variable and rather sharp toothed. Thi... |
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Common Name: Blue Japanese Oak
This dense evergreen oak is a medium size tree with upright growth habit. The lustrous dark green leaves are 4-5 inches long and an inch wide with long pointed tips that are slightly toothed. The new leaves emerge bronz... |
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Common Name: Darlington Oak
Large, fast-growing tree much used as a street tree and shade tree in the South. It is almost evergreen and resembles Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) but is more upright and not so long-lived. Sometimes confused with Quercus laur... |
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Common Name: Hinckley Oak Hybrid
Hinckley Oak is a very rare oak found only in several sites in the Big Bend area of west Texas. It is a federally listed endangered species. A low shrub with gray green holly like leaves, it grows on rocky limestone soi... |
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Common Name: Unthoughtof Oak
This is a rather rare shrubby evergreen oak usually under 10 feet tall. It is often multi-stemmed. Similar to Q. myrtifolia but with somewhat coaser, larger oval leaves that are convex. It is n... |
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Common Name: Turkey Oak
Turkey Oak is a small to medium size tree that is found on deep sandy soils in the southern U.S. It is generally considered a "scrub oak" but is an excellent ornamental tree for well-drained sandy soils. Its deeply cut glossy... |
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Common Name: Laurel Oak
Laurel Oak is a large tree with laurel-like deciduous to semi-evergreen foliage which is reddish when emerging. It is a bottomland hardwood but grows well on better drained sites. Often confused with Q. h... |
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Common Name: Overcup Oak
Overcup Oak is a large deciduous tree found on floodplains and bottomlands in the eastern and central U.S. It is a round crowned tree that makes a good shade tree or street tree. It is adapatable to well-drained or poorly drained soils. Overcup Oak...
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Common Name: Margaret's Oak
This deciduous oak thrives in dry sandy soils where it can form an attractive small to medium sized tree. It is like a smaller version of Post Oak with more rounded lobes on the leaves. Plant in well-drained soil with ample space ... |
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Common Name: Blackjack Oak
Quercus marilandica, or Blackjack Oak, is a small normally broad crowned tree. It is slow-growing and often gnarled in appearance. It has thick nearly black bark and attractive deep green glossy leaves which widen toward the tip i... |
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Common Name: Cow Oak
A large deciduous oak with dentate leaves and big acorns similar to Chestnut Oak but with bark like White Oak. This oak is a bottomland hardwood and while native to floodplains it is an excellent shade tree or street tree on fertile upl... |
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Common Name: Chinquapin Oak
Chinquapin Oak is a large deciduous tree with chestnut-like serrated leaves. It makes a good shade tree and is especially good for well-drained high pH soils since it typically occurs on such sites in eastern and southwe... |
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Common Name: Myrtle Oak
Myrtle Oak is a small evergreen tree with small glossy leaves. Growth habit is irregular and often shrubby. This is a fine little ornamental oak for deep sandy soils in mild climate areas. It is native to scr... |
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Common Name: Nuttall Oak
Nuttal Oak, named for the early 19th century botanist, Thomas Nuttal, is now called Quercus texana by some botanists. It is a large deciduous red oak native to bottomland forests, primarily in the Gulf Coast states. It is a good choice for a shade ...
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Common Name: Oglethorpe Oak
Rare medium-sized southeastern oak first described from Oglethorpe County, GA by Wilbur Duncan in 1940. Very local distribution in GA and SC. Reported in Louisiana. Narrow deciduous foliage turns orange-red in fall.&nbs... |
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Common Name: Cherrybark Oak
Quercus pagoda (or Quercus falcata var. pagodafolia)is a large deciduous oak of the red oak group. The leaves are the shape of a pagoda silhouette. It is a component of southern bottomland hardwood forests and is a high value timber tree. It is al...
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Common Name: Willow Oak
Popular shade tree grows 40 to 60 feet. Narrow leaves cast light shade. Splendid street tree. ... |
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Common Name: Dwarf Chinquapin Oak
This uncommon deciduous oak is similar to Quercus muhlenbergii (Chinquapin Oak) but it grows as a large shrub or small tree. It can be rhizomatous. The Dwarf Chinquapin Oak is usually found on rather sterile sa... |
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Common Name: Chestnut Oak
Chestnut Oak is a large sturdy deciduous tree with glossy dentate leaves, large acorns, and deep furrowed bark. It is common on rocky and well-drained soils in the Appalachians and scattered elsewhere from Canada to... |
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Common Name: Runner Oak
Runner Oak is a low-growing deciduous oak with stiff willow-like leaves. It is a component of the fire maintained southern pine forests of the Coastal Plain of the southern U.S. where it forms large colonies which produce abundant acorns when only a...
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Common Name: English Oak
The English Oak is a very large and long-lived deciduous tree native to Europe and one of two oaks native to Britain where there are many ancient "named" specimens. There are also many named varieties that have been selected. It makes an admirable ...
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Common Name: Nothern Red Oak
A large, 60 to 80 foot, deciduous tree with relatively large, coarsely toothed leaves and rather smooth bark. A good shade tree with red fall color. Develops chlorosis at high pH soil so best on acid soils that are well-drained. An important timber...
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Common Name: Japanese Willowleaf Oak
Japanese Willowleaf Oak is a medium to large low branching evergreen tree of rounded habit. It is a beautiful oak with dentate narrow leaves providing dense shade. This tree is native to Japan and Korea b... |
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Common Name: Shumard's Scarlet Oak
Shumard Oak is an excellent pyramidal red oak to 60 feet or more tall. The lobed, bristle-tipped deciduous leaves have a good red fall color. Native to eastern North America, it is easily transplanted and widely planted as a handsome, adaptable, an...
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Common Name: Oak, Chinese Cork
Chinese Cork Oak is a medium sized deciduous tree with toothed leaves 5-6 inches long and 1-2 inches wide. It has corky bark that is sparingly used in China as a substitute for the cork produced by Quercus suber in Spain and Portuga... |
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Common Name: Lesser Celandine
Lesser Celandine is a buttercup relative native to Europe but naturalized in many places in the eastern U.S. It is an attractive little plant with a rosette of dark green heart shaped basal leaves and showy yellow butter... |
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Common Name: Carolina Buckthorn
Carolina Buckthorn is a small deciduous tree with shiny, dark green foliage and attractive red fruit that matures into a deep purple or black. The fruits ripen in August and remain on the tree until around October. Relatively unknown to gardeners and...
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Common Name: 'Ballerina' Indian Hawthorn
Indian Hawthorn and Yeddo Hawthorn (Rhaphiolepis indica and R. umbellata) have become very popular landscape plants in the southern U.S. These dense evergreen shrubs come in many named varities which vary in... |
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Common Name: Indian Hawthorn
The leaves of this handsome Asian evergreen shrub are gray-green when they first open, and later mature into a dark green or blue-green color. In winter, the leaves may turn a subdued purple-green. The white, slightly fragrant flowers bloom in mid to...
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Common Name: Needle Palm
Needle Palm is a fan-leaf palm of mounding habit eventually forming a short trunk. It is a very ornamental palm that has been hardy to Washington, D.C. and has withstood temperatures to -6 degrees F. which may qualify it as the most cold-hardy palm. ...
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Common Name: Alabama Azalea 'Frosty'
'Frosty' is a named cultivar of Rhododendron alabamense (which see). Cuttings of this form were shared with us by our "Plant Nut" friend Dean Jolly. It is said to have been selected years ago in southwest Georgia by Terry... |
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Common Name: Early Sweet Azalea
Tall deciduous native azalea with fragrant white flowers with red stamens. This form of the Sweet Azalea is from a disjunct population of this shrub discovered by Woodlanders in Aiken County, SC. Blo... |
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Common Name: Coast Azalea
Dedciduous azalea of suckering habit (stoloniferous). The leaves are bluish-green. The white, clove -scented flowers occur with or slightly before the leaves. Corolla is covered with sticky glands. Commonly found in open pine woods on the coastal pl...
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Common Name: White Florida Azalea
This is a white-flowered form of Rhododendron austrinum (which see). This white form of the normally yellow-flowered Florida Azalea was selected by Florida plantsman Steve Riefler in ... |
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Common Name: Rhododendron Hybrid
A Woodlanders introduction, this deciduous azalea hybrid is a cross made by Robert Mackintosh. It combines the red-orange flowered Cumberland Azalea (Rhododendron bakeri aka Rhododendron cumberlandense) with the white-flowered Swamp Azlaea, (Rhodode...
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Common Name: Piedmont Azalea 'Camilla's Blush'
'Camilla's Blush' is a choice clone of our native deciduous azalea Rhododendron canescens (which see). It has an abundance of soft pink fragrant flowers and is a vigorous grower when planted in well-drained sandy acid soil under hig... |
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Common Name: Oconee Azalea
This native deciduous azalea occurs primarily on steep slopes in the Piedmont section of Georgia and adjacent South Carolina. It is a splendid variety that blooms mid-season. It has bright orange to orange-red flowers and is well a... |
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Common Name: Rose-flowered Azalea
Evergreen Satsuki azalea with double pink blooms like little roses with 40+ petals and no pistil or stamens. Blooms late spring to early summer. Provide partial shade and acidic soil as with other azaleas....
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Common Name: Spider Azalea
A Japanese azales sometimes listed as Rhododendrom macrosepalum, this is a rare find in cultivation. Both the fushia colored flower petals and the dark green leaves are distinctly linear. Ths unique azalea's foliage often persists through the winter ...
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Common Name: Taiwan Azalea
Spreading open-branched evergreen azalea with dull green to yellowish-green fuzzy leaves. The deep pink to rust colored flowers may appear sporadically through summer, but typically this species flowers in the fall, which is a unique feature. Rarely ...
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Common Name: Pinxterbloom Azalea
Species (which see) formerly known as Rhododendron nudiflorum. Medium sized multi-branched, stoloniferous decidious shrub. This is a lavander-purple color variant of this normally pink flowered shrub that was found in Lancaster County, SC and introdu...
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Common Name: Hammocksweet Azalea
A large growing native deciduous azalea that ranges farthest south into central Florida. It is one of the latest flowering of the azaleas, sometimes blooming in Setember. It has rather small fragrant white flowers and grows in swampy areas. Rhodode...
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Common Name: Swamp Azalea
A rather stoloniferous native deciduous azalea with white flowers that have a sweet fragrance. These bloom in late spring with flower tubes that are glandular sticky. This species is widespread on acidic soils of the eastern U.S. on non-flooding wetl...
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Common Name: Pink Swamp Azalea
This is a pink flowered variety of the normally white-flowered Rhododendron viscosum. This selection is a Woodlanders introduction of Aiken County, South Carolina provenance. ... |
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Common Name: Native Azalea Pastel Hybrid
A spontaneous hybrid probably involving R. alabamensis, R. canescens and R. flammeum. This azalea's flowers bloom in mid-sring. They have a beautiful pink coloring involving an orange wash. An exclusive Woodlanders' introduction....
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Common Name: Azalea 'Koromo Shikibu'
Upright spreading evergreen shrub. Probably a R. macrosepalum hybrid although often listed as a Kurume hybrid. Hairy evergreen leaves that turn a redish color in the fall. Unusual spider-type purplish-pink flowers with 1/2 x 1-1/2 inch petals with d...
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Common Name: Jetbead
Jetbead is a loosely branched deciduous shrub with somewhat arching branches. White 1-2 inch diameter flowers have four petals and are followed by persistent shiny black bead-like fruits which persist on the plant for many months. It is an "old fash...
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Common Name: Smooth Sumac
Colony-forming large tree form deciduous shrub that is good for mass planting in sunny sites with dry soil. Could be grown as a single tree-like specimen if root suckers are controlled. Long pinnate leaves turn scarlet in fall. Persistant red fruit ...
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Common Name: Littleleaf Sumac
Littleleaf Sumac is a big bushy deciduous shrub with compound leaves made up of very small leaflets which turn rose to purple in fall. The plant is dioecious and female plants can have small terminal and axillary clusters of ... |
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Common Name: Staghorn Sumac
Colonial shrub or small tree. Very adaptable to all sunny environments except water logged areas. Bright green pinnate leaves and redish-brown fuzzy stem. Leaves turn yellow, orange, and scarlet in fall. Greenish yellow flowers and persistent red fru...
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Common Name: Sacred Lily of China
Bold groundcover grown for its foliage. Tufted evergreen leaves with very dark coloring, almost black. Prefers shade and adds interest to a winter landscape. Red berries are somewhat hidden at base. This plant is popular in Japan where it has been s...
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Common Name: Rose 'White Lady Banks'
Lady Banks Rose is an old southern Garden favorite. This thornless climber has abundant but small lightly fragrant double yellow flowers in the typical form but this the form with double white flowers |
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Common Name: Rose 'Lady Banks'
Lady Banks Rose is an old southern Garden favorite. This thornless climber has abundant but small lightly fragrant double yellow flowers in spring. This rose is very adaptable and vigorous and requires much less special care ... |
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Common Name: 'Louis Philippe'
'Louis Philippe' Rose, also known as Cracker Rose is a long time favorite in the Deep South where it thrives and is quite trouble free. It was introduced into Texas from France in 1834. The 2-3 inch wide double flowers are re... |
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Common Name: Cherokee Rose
A spreading, arching shrub that will climb over and around trees or any support. It has fragrant, pure white flowers about 4" across that bloom in April and May. This viney shrub also produces a red, bristly fruit. This evergreen rose is the state fl...
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Common Name: Pink Cherokee Rose
A clear pink flowered variation of Rosa laevigata (which see). Very beautiful and adaptable but rarely available. Woodlanders was fortunate to get cuttings of this plant in the 1980's from Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania where it was being grown un...
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Common Name: Swamp Rose
Tall somewhat thorny shrub rose with fragrant single pink flowers. Grows readily in wet soils and useful for naturalizing along pond margins and in sunny to semi-shady wet sites. Also adaptable to garden culture. Native to eastern U.S....
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Common Name: China Rose 'Old Blush'
We don't usually sell a lot of roses but we love this old fashioned trouble free southern favorite with medium semi-double pink flowers in clusters. It is a rambling climber that is ideal for arbors, etc. William Welch (Perenni... |
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Common Name: Rose 'Magic Dragon'
'Magic Dragon' is a small-flowered deep red rose that is trailing or semi climbing, long blooming, and trouble free. Its leaves are small, dark green, and leathery. It blooms from mid spring to mid fall and should have full sun. George Mitchell go... |
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Common Name: Climbing Rose Cultivar
Vigorous spreading, decidious hybrid rose climber also known as 'Spanish Beauty'. It has large pink flowers that are red in bud. It blooms in the spring. Its foliage is dark green and relatively free of common rose problems. I can grow in full sun ...
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Common Name: Common Rosemary
Familiar highly aromatic shrub with evergreen needle-like leaves and blue flowers. Often used as a culinary herb. Requires full sun, well-drained, preferably neutral to slightly alkaline soil. Very low maintainance if kept free of competing plants. ...
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Common Name: Rosemary 'Collingwood Ingram'
Low growing or spreading form of Rosmarinus officinalis (which see) with bright blue flowers and narrow, dark green needle-like leaves. This evergreen is very aromatic and requires full sun and well-drained, preferable slightly alkaline soil....
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Common Name: Rosemary 'Miss Jessop'
A fine-leafed upright form of Rosmarinus officinalis (which see), sometimes used as a low hedge. Aromatic evergreen with fine textured needle-like leaves. Being Mediterranean natives Rosmaries should have full sun and well-drained, preferably slightl...
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Common Name: Rosemary 'Tuscan Blue'
Robust upright form of Rosmarinus officinalis (which see) with clear blue flowers and dark green, relativly broad leaves. This aromatic evergreen requires full sun, well-drained, preferably slightly alkaline soil....
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Common Name: Prostrate Rosemary
Low trailing form of the Common Rosemary. Blue flowers. Aromatic evergreen with needle-like leaves. Mediterranean natives requiring full sun, well-drained, preferably alkaline soil. (See HRT, DIR, O&T)...
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Common Name: Easter "Rose"
Easter Rose is actually a species of blackberry with large double flowers that look like a white rose. Flowers around Easter time hence the common name. Species is native to eastern Asia but has become a pest in some tropical regions. This double ...
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Common Name: Bigleaf Raspberry
An attractive trailing vine with large rounded evergreen leaves (6 or more inches) and weak prickles. A rare and handsome groundcover plant that can live in full shade to full sun. This plant is also attractive to bees, butterflies, and birds. We ob...
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Common Name: Dwarf Breakfast Flower
A showy dwarf and non-invasive form of the tall Ruellia brittoniana, a Mexican species known as "Breakfastflower" in Charleston, South Carolina. It is both drought resistant and heat tolerant. This little plant has strap-like leaves and bright blue p...
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Common Name: Wild Petunia
This southeastern U.S. native perennial is called "Wild Petunia" and makes a good garden plant. It has beautiful blue or violet petunia-like flowers that appear in the spring, summer, and fall. The informative and entertaining book Passalong Plants ...
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Common Name: Yerba Maravilla
A warm climate perennial that is somewhat woody at the base, this Ruellia has bright red tubular flowers about 1 inch long in summer. It will rebloom if cut back. A showy subtropical species that does well in the Deep South as a perennial for semi-...
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Common Name: Butcher's Broom
Butcher's Broom is a low prickly evergreen shrub (some forms up to 4 feet). It is uncommon in U.S. The female plants bear bright red berries on the surface of spine tipped cladodes which look and function as leaves. Thes... |
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Common Name: Scrub Palmetto
A dwarf palmetto. Trunk mostly subterranean, but sometimes with a short erect trunk. Leaves green, costa-palmate, blade 3 feet across or more. Native on deep sand in central Florida but cold hardy throughout Zone 8 and even into Zone 7. The ... |
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Common Name: Lousiana Palmetto
Like a Sabal minor on steroids, this palm has been variously classified as a form of Sabal minor and a hybrid with Sabal texana. Ours originated in the well-known Brazoria County, Texas population and may be different from the trunked palmettos in f...
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Common Name: Texas Palmetto
Formerly Sabal texana, the Texas Palmetto is a large fan-leaf palm native in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas and formerly northward along the south Texas Gulf Coast. It resembles the Cabbage ... |
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Common Name: Dwarf Palmetto
Blue-green fan shaped leaves, essentially stemless. Fruiting stalks extend well above foliage. A very hardy palm native from northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Oklahoma southward. Can grow in either full sun or heavy shade but likes moist...
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Common Name: Chinese Bird Plum
Scandent deciduous shrub with small leaves and fragrant small white flowers. Long a favorite for Bonsai but little known otherwise. We came across this plant in Houston, Texas and found that while it did well in our area it was virtually unknown an...
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Common Name: Japanese Pussy Willow
Large deciduous shrub with reddish-purple flower buds. Showy male catkins are silky rose tinged. Leaves are dark blue-green in maturity. Easy to grow in sunny location with moist soil. Native to Japan....
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Common Name: Dappled Willow
An elegant small willow with glossy bright green leaves which are beautifully variegated pink and white when unfolding. Fast growing and makes a wonderful water-side cover. This is a cultivar of a species native to Japan....
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Common Name: Compact Willow 'Webb'
Black Willow is a common deciduous wetland tree in the South but this is a strikingly different vase-shaped form of Black Willow. It forms a small, dense tree. Like all willows it prospers along stream banks and low, moist areas. This unusual form i...
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Common Name: Willow 'Rubykins'
A vigorous deciduous shrub suited for moist site in sunny location. Narrow leaves have a white back and midrib. Slender branches bearing small red catkins in spring. Received from Dr. Michael Dirr who indicates that it may be a form of the Asian S...
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Common Name: Sage Hybrid
Half hardy perennial hybrid sage that occurred as a chance seedling at Huntington Botanic Garden in California. Large colony forming perennial plant with rich blue spikes of flowers from summer through fall. A great perennial for southern gardens....
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Common Name: Autumn Sage, 'Rachael'
Greg Grant from Texas gave us this white flowered form of the normally red-flowered shrub Salvia greggii. It has speckled light varigated leaves. As Salvia greggii is a semi desert plant from the Southwest it needs good drainage and a mostly sunny si...
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Common Name: Blue Brazilian Sage
South American perennial sage with gorgeous dark blue flowers and heart-shaped leaves. Thrives in semishade and blooms from late summer through the fall. Tolerant of heat and humidity so a good sage for southern gardens....
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Common Name: Domestic Violence Salvia (Tony Avent)
Domestic Violence Salvia (Tony Avent took a lot of flack for calling it that!): A vigorous large growing perennial sage with hairy leaves and large dark blue flowers with almost black calyces. This is an excellent long-flowering plant for the warme...
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Common Name: Yellow Sage
A large leaf groundcover type sage with brilliant yellow flowers late in the season. This plant should have a fertile well-drained soil and is more shade tolerant than most salvias. Indeed it should probably have shade in the warmer zones. Native ...
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Common Name: Mexican Bush Sage
Purple flowers with white corollas bloom in summer. This clump forming perennial sage prefers rich garden soil and benefits from light fertilization. It thrives in full-sun exposure, but can grow well in half-sun as well. It is very aromatic and attr...
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Common Name: Mexican Bush Sage
Produces many lavender flowers which last from late summer through the first frost. They are fairly hardy and have velvety, fragrant leaves. This makes them unappealing to insects, and these plants are very resistant to diseases....
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Chance hybrid from the garden of our friend Frances Parker, gardener extraordinaire, in Beaufort, SC. She named this wonderful tall bushy perennial for her grandson. It has spikes of dark blue to purple flowers from late summer through fall....
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Common Name: Sage, Big Blue Mexican
A robust perennial to 8 feet with heart-shaped leaves and deep blue tubular flowers in fall. Prefers good gardening soil or sandy loam and thrives in full sun to half shade. Attracts hummingbirds. Best for Zone 9 but overwinter with mulch in Zone 8....
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Common Name: Littleleaf Sage Cultivar
Shrubby plant with somewhat triangular small leaves with salmon colored flowers. Prefers full sun, but will survive in half sun. Thrives in good gardening soil or sandy loam. Lime and humus are suggested. A drought tolerant plant that attracts hummi...
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Common Name: Sage, Littleleaf Cultivar
A shrub sage from Mexico that has become popular since it was introduced in California a few years ago. Flowers can be all white or all red in early summer, but are mostly a striking bicolor white with a red stripe as temperatures rise. Prefers ful...
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Common Name: Bog Salvia
Handsome vigorous perennial with bright sky blue flowers that blooms from mid summer on. For average to moist soil. Fertilize with lime or humus to optimize conditions. Prefers full-sun to half-shade. Aromatic. Native to Uruguay and Brazil and a goo...
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Common Name: Nettle-leafed Sage
Blooms mid to late spring, and may have a second blooming in late summer. Has Prussian blue flowers and is native to the Appalachian Mountians. Prefers well-drained sandy loam and full sun to half shade....
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Common Name: Soapberry, Florida
Attractive small-medium deciduous tree. Compound leaves are dark green. white spring flowers followed by clusters of marble-sized yellow fruits. The fruits are rich in saponin and can lather like soap in water. Gold fall foliage. A rare tree found...
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Common Name: Sweet Box
This Sweet Box is a low very handsome evergreen shrub to 5 feet with glossy leaves and fragrant but inconspicuous flowers. Is related to Boxwood and does well in shaded areas. Origin uncertain but probably native to China ... |
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Common Name: Himalayan Sarcococca
A spreading, half hardy evergreen shrub with fragrant flowers and narrow, glossy leaves. It grows well in shade and is related to Boxwood. Not susceptible to diseases and insects. Displays high drought tolerance once established. Native to western C...
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Common Name: Dwarf Himalayan Sarcococca
To 1 feet. Evergreen. Hardiest form. (See DIR) Related to Boxwood, glossy leafed, shade-demanding evergreens....
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Common Name: Sweet Box
Oriental Sweet Box is a dense arching evergreen shrub with glossy leaves that are larger than the other species. The small white flowers are fragrant and often abundant. It is a fine low evergreen for shady or... |
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Common Name: Sweet Pitcher Plant
Pitcher Plants are unusual carnivirous plants in which the leaves are modified into tall, usually upright hooded cylinders. Small insects are attracted to and are trapped in liquid that is in the base of these tubes. These plants ... |
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Common Name: Common Sassafras
To 30 to 60 feet, vivid yellow, orange, red leaves and blue-black fruit in fall. Spring flowers are yellow. Chlorosis in high pH soils. Bark of the roots used to make tea. Remove suckers if single trunk tree is desired. (See DIR, ATE, S&W)...
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Schima superba is a beautiful evergreen Asian tree with no English common name. It is in the Tea family so related to Camellia, Gordonia, Stewartia, etc. It has lanceolate leaves 5-6 inches long. The new growth... |
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Common Name: Little Bluestem Selection
'The Blues' is a nice blue foliaged selection of this native bunch grass. Thrives in heat and humidity. Good for mass plantings. Blue foliage intensifies in fall, with deep burgandy red mingling throughout the clump as it goes to t... |
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Common Name: Climbing Hydrangea Cultivar
Silvery leaves. Creamy white flowers. From the U.S. Arboretum. (See DIR)...
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Common Name: Showy Skullcap
Clump form. Oval serrated bright green leaves sometimes edged in red. Blue to violet flowers in racemes in late spring to early summer. Sun to part shade. well-drained soil....
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Common Name: Hardy Gloxinia
Seemannia (Gloxinia) nematanthodes which we originally (and mistakenly) offered as Achimenes heterophylla, produces very showy bright red inflated flowers in late summer above dark velvety green leaves. A somewhat succulent perennial, forming colonie...
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Common Name: Chinese Lacefern
Attractive fern-like evergreen groundcover. Spreads in shady areas with good garden soil. Native to China....
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Common Name: Gemmiferous Spikemoss
A low, ferny, bright green groundcover from creeping rhizomes. Often reproduces from small cone-like plantlets on the fronds. Native to eastern Asia....
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Common Name: Peacock Moss
Peacock Moss is not moss but a very low-growing spreading fern relative. It has distinctive scale-like leaves clothing decumbent stems which spread and form patches in moist, shady sites. It is unique for the irridescent metallic blue-green foliage...
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Common Name: Mexican Flame Vine
An herbaceous vine with glossy green nearly succulent leaves. It is evergreen in frost free areas but otherwise a die-back perennial. Wonderful orange-red flowers with yellow centers in terminal clusters mid-spring to fall - sometimes year round in...
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Common Name: Saw Palmetto
Saw Palmetto is a small fan-leaf palm that is common in pinelands of the Deep South. It grows in full sun to light shade and is well adapted to warmer areas of the Southeastern United States. Normally a low, spreading palm with decumbent trunks but s...
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Common Name: Blue Saw Palmetto
These are seedlings of the glaucous blue form of this small palm that is common in Deep South pinelands. The glaucous blue form is found on the east coast of Florida. Grows in full sun to light shade and is well adapted to warmer areas of the Southea...
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Common Name: Yellow-rim
Highly variegated form of this adaptable evergreen shrub. Non-fragrant white star-like small flowers bloom May through June. This Asian shrub is a nice border plant for southern gardens and landscapes. Grow in well-drained soil in sun or semi shade....
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Common Name: Palm Grass
Palm Grass is a bold bright green accent with wide blades suggesting palm foliage. It is hardy and reseeds in many areas. Plant in full sun to partial shade where it prefers moist soil. Palm Grass is a native of India but ours were ori... |
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Common Name: Hedge Bamboo
This bamboo is a hardy low-growing bamboo which has rather short broad leaves. It spreads by runners but is less invasive than many running bamboos. Its spread can be limited by mowing. It needs a fairly dry and acidic soil an... |
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Common Name: Mexican Catchfly
Mexican Catchfly is a low herbaceous perennial with spathulate leaves and showy red-orange starry flowers on stems held well above the foliage. It is native to mountains and canyons in the southwestern U.S. and adjacent Mexic... |
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Common Name: Royal Catchfly
Royal Catchfly is a tall perennial with terminal spikes of bright scarlet flowers. Native to prairies and woods edges in a number of midwestern and southern states but rare and scattered within this large range. It... |
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Common Name: Fire Pink
This perennial "Catchfly" has striking crimson flowers with notched petals. It flowers from late spring/early summer. A well-drained, gritty soil is good and in the North a full sun exposure is preferable. In the South it should have light shade. ...
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Common Name: Cup-plant
This perennial is statuesque to 10 feet and has bold foliage topped with yellow daisies. It makes a nice cover for bare areas. Blooms in mid summer and is pest resistant. A prairie plant it prefers to be near bodies of water or on the edges ... |
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Common Name: Chinese Sweetshrub
This large deciduous shrub was recently reclassified as a Calycanthus. It is somewhat like our native Calycanthus floridus but with larger 6 - 10 inch glossy leaves. The cream-white blooms in late spring are larger than North Americ... |
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Common Name: Jacktree
Jacktree is a spreading shrub or small deciduous tree related to Snowbell (Styrax) and with similar leaves and white bell-like flowers in spring. It is an uncommon and attractive plant for the home landscape. ... |
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Common Name: Chicken Wire Plant
This Smilax is a curious deciduous groundcover with small leaves and twiggy stems. A Woodlanders introduction that we obtained years ago from Brookside Gardens in Maryland. They had obtained this unusual plant as Smilax fragrans. We offer... |
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Common Name: Dwarf Smilax
Dwarf Smilax is a low non-thorny evergreen vine with mottled leaves and clusters of attractive orange to red fruits on female plants. This little-known southern greenbriar makes a nice groundcover in sandy acid, moist but... |
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Common Name: Bamboo Vine
This high climbing vine is valued for its shiny evergreen foliage. It is a great vine for trellis, porch, or cut for long lasting decoration. Female plants have green berries which turn black. It is mostly thornless except on young shoo... |
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Common Name: False Lily of the Valley
Sperirantha is a relatively little-known Chinese woodland perennial with foliage resembling Lily of the Valley (Convallaria). It seems to be a good little plant forming spreading clumps in the woodland or shady garden wh... |
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Common Name: Bartram's Ixia
Bartram's Ixia is a very rare native bulb with grass-like leaves and producing for a few hours each morning in May beautiful blue 2 inch flowers on 18 inch stems. This legendary plant was praised by William Bartram in the 1770... |
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Common Name: Virginia Spirea
This spirea is a rare deciduous shrub with arching upright stems and small leaves. It bears paniculate clusters of creamy white flowers. It is found in a very few places along rocky stream banks in the southern Appalachians. It has... |
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Common Name: Mube
This is a splendid compound leafed evergreen vine related to Akebia. In spring it bears white flowers tinged purple followed by sausage shaped fruit which is eaten in Asia. It grows in sandy, loamy, or clay soils that are moi... |
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Common Name: Stokes Aster
Stokes Aster is a hardy perennial with dark evergreen leaves which provide beautiful greenery during the winter months. The large blue daisy type flowers typically bloom in summer. These plants are often used in formal gardens and ... |
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Common Name: Stoke's Aster, White
Stokes Aster is a hardy perennial with dark evergreen leaves which provide beautiful greenery during the winter months. The large daisy type flowers typically bloom in summer and are blue in the typical form but white in this one. These plants are... |
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Common Name: Japanese Snowbell
Japanese Snowbell is a small deciduous tree with medium to dark green lustrous leaves and white bell-like flowers. It has attractive gray-brown, smooth bark and shows great pest resistance. Plant in full sun to partial shade in wel... |
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Common Name: Fragrant Snowbell
This Snowbell is a small to medium size tree with white, fragrant flowers that bloom in mid-April in the South, later in the North. It has especially large foliage for a Styrax and gorgeous gray-brown bark. Ideal conditions include ample moisture ... |
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Common Name: Shrub Marigold
This Mexican shrub with pungently aromatic foliage produces masses of bright yellow flowers in late fall. It dies back somewhat in winter. It makes a great border plant in a sunny, well-drained site and adds a lot of color to the late fall landscap...
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Common Name: Mexican Marigold
While not hardy in cold regions, this perennial is great for the Deep South when given a sunny site with well-drained soil. It is easy to grow. The aromatic leaves are a French Tarragon substitute. It flowers in late fall with orange flowers. It i...
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Common Name: Pond Cypress
Pond Cypress is a deciduous conifer closely related to the Baldcypress (Taxodium distichum) so widespread in the southern U.S. Pond Cypress is not usually as large as Baldcypress, produces little in the way of "Cypress knees" and is usually more nar...
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Common Name: Bald Cypress
Baldcypress is a long-lived large deciduous conifer charactersitic of swamps and river margins in the southern U.S. A valuable timber tree, it is broadly pyramidal when young and has feather-like leaves. It can grow in shallo... |
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This deciduous pinnate leaf shrub from Argentina similar to the more familiar, yellow-flowered Tecoma stans except the flowers are red. It appears to be tender. We offer these thanks to fellow explorer Tony Avent. Seed we collected i... |
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Common Name: Cape Honeysuckle
Cape Honeysuckle is a rangy vine-like shrub with pretty glossy compound leaves like Trumpet Vine. The very showy orange flowers are liked by hummingbirds. It can be trained up or allowed to cascade. Where borderline ha... |
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Common Name: Hosida (Japan)
This is a fine evergreen fern native to Japan. It is a good spreader for fertile moist soil in the shade where it is notable for its glossy arching fronds. We originally obtained this fern from the U.S. National Arboretum. ... |
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Common Name: Japanese Beech Fern
This fern is a tidy spreading groundcover fern native to eastern and southeastern Asia but closely related to our native Beech Ferns. It is deciduous after frost and is easily grown and multiplied. Does not spread rapidly but can be speeded up by ... |
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Common Name: Fern, Southern Shield
This native southern fern is a large pale green spreader. Its large finely cut upright and arching fronds are deciduous. It received considerable publicity in a Southern Living article which suggested it could be gro... |
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Common Name: Arborvitae, Giant
A large imposing evergreen conifer native to northwestern North America where old specimens in the wild may reach almost 200 feet tall. Proving very adaptable to eastern, southern, and midwestern U.S. conditions when properly sited. This clone is ... |
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Common Name: Western Redcedar, 'Green Giant'
An excellent large dark green conifer possibly a hybrid between Thuja plicata and Thuja standishii, both of which are native to northwestern North America. It was however selected as a seedling from a nursery bed in Denmark in 19... |
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Common Name: Hiba Arborvitae, Dwarf
This is a shrubby rounded dwarf form of a large Japanese evergreen tree with flattened sprays of shining evergreen foliage. Dirr (Manual of Woody Landscape Plants) says it is seldom found in the U.S. but a beautiful plant for shady sites with mois... |
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Common Name: Foamflower, Wherry's
Tiarella is a beautiful woodland wildflower native to shady rich woods in the eastern U.S. and Canada. It produces nice foliage and spikes of foamy white flowers in spring. The typical Tiarella cordifolia spreads by runners but this is a clump formin...
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Tibochina is a subtropical shrub which is a die-back perennial in all but essentially frost-free areas. It has velvety textured leaves with prominent veins and very showy deep purple flowers. Foliage may become red in fall before being killed by f... |
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Common Name: Basswood, Florida
Basswoods are medium to large deciduous trees with heart shaped leaves, yellowish fragrant flowers, and small nutlets on stalks attached to a papery wing. There are many species in the Northern Hemisphere but the... |
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Common Name: Spread Eagle Torreya
This wide spreading evergreen conifer has aromatic, sharp, flat needle-like leaves in one plane. This clone originated at Hillier's Nursery in England in 1970 and was named 'Spreadeagle' for it's low spreading growt... |
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Common Name: Stinking Cedar
"Stinking Cedar" is a beautiful conifer despite the name. The foliage actually smells pleasant! It is a medium size pyramidal evergreen tree with Yew-like leaves and purple nutmeg-like fruit on female plants. Needs light organic soil, adequate moi... |
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A multi colored variegated cultivar of a species which is widepread in eastern U.S. woodlands. Armitage (Herbaceous Perennial Plants) says the leaves of this variety have a V shaped reddish-pink blotch in the center of each leaf and new leaves are c...
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Common Name: Star Jasmine
Asian Jasmine is not a true Jasmine but is a close relative of the popular "Confederate Jasmine" (named for the Malay Confederation). It is less of a climber but a great dense groundcover vine with small, lustrous, dark green, leathery evergreen f... |
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Common Name: Confederate Jasmine, Variegated
This twining evergreen vine has leaves bordered and spotted with white and pink. The leaves are larger than most Trachelospermum jasminoides varieties. The star shaped flowers white, fragrant followed by long pods. It is a fine... |
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Common Name: Confederate Jasmine, Madison'
This vigorous evergreen twining vine has fragrant white star shaped flowers. This selection, almost surely var. pubescens came to us through the former Cedar Lane Farms Nursery in Madison, GA where this selection proved much more c... |
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Common Name: Jasmine
From the U.S. National Arboretum....
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Common Name: Windmill Palm
This fan leaf palm is native to eastern Asia but is grown worldwide. It is the most common palm seen northward and grows well in cool regions including the British Isles and coastal British Columbia. Good specimens have grown outdoors as far north a...
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Common Name: Windmill Palm, Wagner's
Wagner's Windmill Palm is known only in cultivation and apparently came from Japan. It is considered by some to be a variety of the common Windmill Palm (T. fortunei). It is about equally hardy and requires the... |
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Common Name: Borage, Oriental
This native of Japan is a coarse, large-leafed, effective groundcover for shady sites with good moist to dry soil where it can be a fairly rapid spreader. This plant is uncommon and little-known in the U.S. and we originally acquired it through the c...
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Common Name: Regel's Threewingnut
Native to Japan, Korea, and Manchuria, this hardy and vigorous scandent shrub is almost vinelike with reddish warty branches. It is deciduous and bears large clusters of yellowish or greenish white flowers in late summer followed by pale green three...
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Common Name: Hemlock, Yunnan
This rare Hemlock from Yunnan Province in China was originally received from the Arnold Arboretum in Massachusetts. It had been obtained from China but was not expected to be hardy in Massachusetts. It proved to be very well adapted to semi-shady sit...
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Common Name: Society Garlic
Society Garlic is a perennial from a bulb which multiplies and divides freely. The leaves are linear and blue green with strong onion odor when crushed. The flowers are borne on 1-2 foot tall stems and are rosy lavender clusters b... |
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Common Name: Society Garlic, Variegated
Tulbaghia violacea 'Variegata' or 'Silver Lace' is an attractive variety of Tulbaghia violacea (which see) with white margined leaves....
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Common Name: California Bay
California Laurel or Myrtlewood is a medium size dense evergreen tree with glossy leaves and rounded habit of growth. The leaves have a strong pungent odor when bruised. Grown as an ornamental tree in Oregon and northern California.... |
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Common Name: Mexican Buckeye
This deciduous small tree or large shrub has pink flowers in spring before the compound leaves emerge. When in flower it suggests Redbud (Cercis). The fruit consists of three marble size poisonous seeds in woody capsule.... |
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Common Name: Sparkleberry
Sparkleberry is a deciduous shrub with small glossy leathery leaves. It can become a small tree to 25 feet. Large old specimens can be very attractive especially with artistic pruning. The fragrant small bell-shaped white fl... |
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Common Name: Blueberry, Creeping 'Wells Delight'
This evergreen creeping blueberry is a North Carolina State University selection from southeastern North Carolina named for the late Dr. B.W. Wells, noted North Carolina ecologist. It has small shiny leaves that are even smaller than typical for t... |
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Common Name: Blueberry, Florida Evergreen 'John Blue'
'John Blue' is a selection of Vaccinium darrowii, a dense evergreen shrub with small blue-green leaves. It was selected and named for its ornamental qualities by blueberry researchers at North Carolina State Uni... |
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Common Name: Blueberry, Florida evergreen
Vaccinium darrowii is an evergreen shrub with small leaves that are typically blue-green. This clone we found in Higlands County, Florida was selected and named by Woodlanders for its ornamen... |
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Common Name: Evergreen Blueberry
This native southern blueberry is an upright growing dense evergreen shrub with very small glossy leaves. It produces small white to pink bell shaped flowers clusters in spring followed by blueberries which are small but tasty. It is native to the... |
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Common Name: Deerberry
A variable species of native blueberry with relatively large fruit on long pedicels. Leaves vary from green to very glaucous blue-green and fruits from pinkish green to brownish purple. The large berries are edible but not delicious. Plants offered...
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Common Name: Japanese Evergreen Viburnum
'Chindo' is a selection of Viburnum awabuki made by the late Dr. J C Raulston in a school yard on Chindo Island, Korea. It was selected for its large red penduous fruit clusters. It is a large upright evergreen shrub to 20 fee... |
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Common Name: Cinnamon Leaf Viburnum
This large evergreen shrub native to China has large glossy oval leaves that are deeply veined and distinctive. It is somewhat like the lower growing Viburnum davidii but much better adapted in the southern U.S. Large fl... |
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Common Name: Himalayan Evergreen Viburnum
This Viburnum is a rare evergreen to semi-evergreen shrub or small tree with spreading often drooping branches. The glossy, leaves are relatively small. It bears white flowers in summer followed by scarlet fruit. Hillier says... |
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Common Name: Sir Harry Veitch's Viburnum
This Viburnum is a medium sized evergreen shrub of dense, bushy habit. The small dark green, almost round leaves are distinctive. It bears clusters of small white flowers in late spring. It was introduced from China by E.H. Wilso... |
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Common Name: Luzon Viburnum
This essentially evergreen shrub has leaves somewhat like Arrowwood (Viburnum dentatum). It is grown in the Houston area which is where we got it but is apparently little known elsewhere in the U.S. Grow in fertile, well drained soil... |
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Common Name: Possumhaw Viburnum 'Winterthur'
An upright deciduous native shrub selected by the late Hal Bruce of Winterthur Gardens in Delaware. It has shiny large leaves and is free-flowering with creamy-white flowers followed by berries which turn from white to pink to blue and ... |
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Common Name: Smooth Witherod Viburnum
See: Viburnum nudum 'Winterthur'. This Viburnum is apparently not dioecious but is somewhat self-sterile. It is much more fruitful if more than one clone is present. This selection was promoted as a "male" po... |
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Common Name: Dwarf Walter's Viburnum
This rounded and mounding evergreen shrub with small leaves and abundant white flowers in spring is one of several increasingly popular dwarf selections of this fine species native to the southern U.S. This clone grown at the Raulston Arbore... |
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Common Name: Doublefile Viburnum Selection
Dr. Michael Dirr highly recommends this "tremendous" introduction from Don Egolf's breeding program at U.S. National Arboretum. 'Shasta' is a large deciduous shrub with very showy white clusters of sterile and fertile florets atop spreading branch... |
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Common Name: Chinese Evergreen Viburnum
This evergreen Viburnum is native to central and western China. Woodlanders may be only nursery offering this plant in U.S. The plant is worth growing for the handsome glossy, narrow, evergreen leaves alone. Flat greenish flower clusters are follo... |
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Common Name: Rusty Blackhaw
A choice small tree somewhat like Viburnum prunifolium. It is tardily deciduous with glossy leaves. It bears clusters of white flowers followed by blue-black fruits which are eaten by birds. This is an excellent small specimen tree wit... |
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Common Name: Chinese Viburnum
This tall evergreen shrub has glossy, leathery leaves about 4 inches long. It bears white flowers in flat-topped clusters followed by bright red fruits. Proving hardy here in zone 8. Our plants originally received from the U.S. National Arbor... |
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Common Name: Siebold Viburnum
This medium to large shrub can become almost tree-like. It has lustrous dark green leaves which often hold on until late November. Seneca is the result from a self-pollination of V. sieboldii. Selected for abund... |
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Common Name: Laurustinus
Laurustinus is an evergreen Viburnum native to southern Europe and northern Africa. This selection is more compact than the species. It has lustrous dark green relatively small leaves and dark red flower buds which open to white fl... |
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Common Name: Viburnum Hybrid
'Jermyns Globe' is a small to medium evergreen shrub of dense rounded habit. It bears white flowers in flat-topped clusters in late spring. A hybrid (V. calvum x V. davidii)of Chinese species, it originated at Hilliers Nu... |
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Common Name: Tasmanian Trailing Violet
Sometimes known as Erpetion reniforme, this is a pretty little trailing plant with small kidney-shaped leaves and numerous little half white, half lilac-blue flowers on erect two to three inch stems. It grows well in shady or semi shady m... |
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Common Name: Chastetree
Chaste tree is a small deciduous tree in South. Can be grown as a perennial in the North. Clusters of lilac flowers in summer. A lovely summer flowering tree native to southern Europe and western Asia. Plant in open site with well-drained soil. Th... |
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Common Name: Pink Chaste Tree
Vitex agnus-castus or Chaste Tree is a decidous small tree or large shrub native to southern Europe and western Asia. The five to seven leaflets are palmately arranged and aromatic when bruised. The plant is valued for ... |
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Common Name: Chastetree
This large deciduous shrub or small tree is similar to Vitex agnus-castus but the five leaflets are very dissected and the panicles of blue flowers are more open. Overall it is a more open, airy, and possibly more hardy than Vit... |
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Common Name: Roundleaf Vitex
A prostrate trailing shrub with rounded deciduous bluish green leaves about 2" in diameter. Bright blue flowers in late summer. A very good salt tolerant plant for seashore and dune planting but becoming invasive in some seaside areas of the Carolina...
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Common Name: Three Leaf Vitex
Deciduous shrub or small tree wih three leaflets with white margin variegation. Blue to purple flowers somewhat resembling lilac flowers. Probably more tender than V. agnus-castus. Native southeast Asia to Australia. Z. 8-10...
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Common Name: Scrub Grape
Very attractive native grape vine with small shiny rounded deciduous leaves. Similar to Muscadine (V.rotundifolia) but smaller leaves and inedible small fruit. Good arbor vine for sunny location with well-drained soil. Native on dry sandy soils in...
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Common Name: Old Fashioned Weigela
This is a relatively compact form of this old favorite garden shrub. Leaves are deciduous and are variegated with pale yellow or creamy white margins. Deep rose colored flowers appear in late spring. This old-fashioned shrub in its many varie... |
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Common Name: Old Fashioned Weigela
Weigela is a deciduous shrub of rounded habit and opposite oval leaves. This cold-hardy old fashioned favorite is native to eastern Asia. 'Java Red' is an old variety also known as 'Foliis Purpureis'.... |
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Common Name: American Wisteria
Twining woody deciduous vine with compound leaves and short cluster of blue flowers appearing with the leaves. A much less rampant vine than the common Asian Wisterias. This native vine was virtually unknown to American gardeners when introduced by W...
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Common Name: American Wisteria Selection
Twining woody deciduous vine with compound leaves and short cluster of white flowers appearing with the leaves. A much less rampant vine than the common Asian Wisterias. This native vine was virtually unknown to American gardeners when introduced by ...
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Common Name: Citrangequat Hybrid
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This upright small tree produces abundant Yellow-orange pear-shaped juicy fruit which is tasty whe... |
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Common Name: Elephant Ear
This "Elephant Ear" has huge bright green arrowhead shaped leaves. Great for a tropical effect in sun or part shade. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 inches of coarse sand over the stubs. Mul... |
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Common Name: Plains Yucca
A clumping or sometimes solitary stem Yucca with narrow blue-green leaves 1-3 feet long. Stems lacking or up to 3 feet tall. Dense panicle of white bell-like flowers not held high above the leaves. A plant of very deep sandy soils or dunes in west...
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Common Name: Buckley Yucca
Buckley Yucca is a stemless or short stemmed, single or multiple head yucca with many very narrow blue-green, spine-tipped leaves with marginal filaments. This is an ornamental yucca with spikes of showy greenish-white, bell-... |
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Common Name: Giant Yucca
This big slow-growing tree-like yucca can be single stem or branched. The leaves are 2-3 feet long and 2-3 inches wide. Large branched clusters of white bell-like flowers follwed by large fleshy seed capsules are borne ... |
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Common Name: Izote Yucca
Izote Yucca is a large tree-like yucca from desert areas in central Mexico. The tall simple or branched trunks are crowned by relatively long narrow sword-like leaves typical of yuccas. The white bell-like flowers in ta... |
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Common Name: Coontie
Zamia pumila (umbrosa) is the form of this low cycad native in eastern Florida. It has stiff evergreen fern-like leaves from a large tuberous root which is the source of arrowroot starch and once much used by the Indians. It is not a palm an... |
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Common Name: Toothache Tree
Toothache Tree is a small to medium sized deciduous tree with shiny compound leaves and prickles on leaves and stems. The trunks develop curious thorn tipped corky projections. The greenish flower clusters are followed by shiny black seeds. ... |
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Common Name: Dusty Zenobia
This is the green foliaged form of this fine semi-evergreen ornamental shrub native to the coastal Carolinas. Showy racemes of white bell-shaped flowers in spring. Moist sandy acid soil in sun or semi-shade. See also the 'Woodlanders Blue' selection ...
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Common Name: Atamasco or Easter Lily
Grassy foliage. One of the hardiest wind lilies. Low native bulb plant with grass-like foliage and large white lily flowers on 1'stems in spring. Sometimes called Easter Lily and a choice plant for the native garden....
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Common Name: August Rain Lily
This fall blooming Rain-lily produces masses of white flowers from grass-like clumps of foliage. It is tolerant of a wide range of soils and conditions but likes moisture. It spreads and naturalizes nicely in the South. It is native to Argentina. The...
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Common Name: Yellow Rain lily
Bright golden star like lilies through the summer. These bulbs produce grass like foliage which is somewhat persistent through the winter. Not difficult to grow but likes moisture. Native to Argentina and Brazil....
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Common Name: Foster's Pink Rain Lily
These bulbs produce grass-like leaves and masses of beautiful pink flowers somewhat like crocus. It is native to Mexico. It grows well in the South and flowers after summer rains....
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