Our Plants
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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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