Our Plants
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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,&... |
