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Fagus grandifolia
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...

Fatshedera lizei
Common Name: Ivy Tree
This curious bi-generic hybrid between a shrub (Fatsia) and a vine (Ivy) is an evergreen plant that can be trained up a fence or wall. It is a semi-climbing evergreen shrub with large palmate leaves. Ivy-like flowers in fall but grown chiefly for t...

Fatsia japonica 'Variegata'
Common Name: Japanese Fatsia Cultivar
Tropical-looking shrub with large evergreen leaves and branched spikes of greenish white flowers in fall. A well known textural plant for moist sites with good soil and shade or semi-shade. This variety has leaves edged and splashed with white. Nat...

Feijoa sellowiana
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...

Ficus carica 'Petite Negra'
Common Name: Petite Negra Fig

Ficus carica is the common edible fig which has been cultivated since ancient times.  It is a coarse branched deciduous shrub or small tree with lobed "fig leaves" and fleshy tasty fruit that is eaten fresh, cooked, dried, or ...


Ficus heterophylla
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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...


Ficus nipponicum
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...

Ficus pumila x carica
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...


Ficus pumila x carica ''Ruth Bancroft''
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...


Ficus roxburghii
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...

Ficus vaccinoides
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...

Fokienia hodginsii
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...


Forestiera godfreyi
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...


Forestiera neomexicana
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 ...


Forestiera segregata
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...

Fortunella hindsii
Common Name: Hong Kong Kumquat
Evergreen shrub with smallest fruits of true citris. A great plant for containers or smaller space. Chinese preserve the colorful orange fruits for spicy flavoring but grown chiefly as a novelty ornamental. Hardy outoors here in Aiken, SC but not ...

Fothergilla gardenii 'Blue Mist'
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 ...


Fothergilla major
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...

Fothergilla major 'Mt Airy'
Common Name: Large Fothergilla Cultivar
The native Fothergilla species were choice but scarcely available garden shrubs when Woodlanders first began to offer them in 1980. This selection found by Dr. Mike Dirr in Mt. Airy Arboretum in Cincinnati, OH is now widely grown and available. It ...

Fragaria virginiana
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 ...

Franklinia alatamaha
Common Name: Lost Franklinia
An almost legendary Camellia relative discovered in one spot in Georgia and introduced and named by John and William Bartram in 1770 but not seen again in the wild since 1790 or maybe 1804. Many have searched unsuccessfully for it and all plants in c...

Fraxinus profunda
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...


Fuchsia boliviana
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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 ...

Gardenia jasminoides 'Chuck Hayes'
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 ...

Gardenia jasminoides 'Yellow'
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...

Gardenia jasminoides 'Rosedown Star'
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...

Gardenia sp. 'Kleim's Hardy'
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...

Gardenia sp. 'Variegata'
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...

Gardenia sp. 'Daruma'
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 ...

Gardenia sp. (from China)
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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...

Gelsemium rankinii
Common Name: Swamp Jessamine
Evergreen vine closely related to Gelsemium sempervirens (Which see). This rare species is found in wet habitats in the coastal plain of the southeastern U.S. It is floriferous and flowers both in spring and fall but the yellow trumpet shaped flower...

Gelsemium sempervirens 'Pale Yellow'
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...

Gelsemium sempervirens 'Pride of Augusta'
Common Name: Double Jessamine (Cultivar)
Evergreen twining vine with bright yellow fragrant flowers in spring. This species produces few variants but this selection with double flowers was probably introduced many years ago by the famous but now defunct Fruitland Nursery of Augusta, Georgi...

Gelsemium sempervirens (hardy) 'Margarita'
Common Name: Carolina Jessamine
Evergreen vine with fragrant yellow flowers. This selection from northern Georgia was named 'Margarita' by Gene Cline a true native plant pioneer. It has proven hardy and has grown well as far north as Washington, DC. Carolina Jessamine is the Sou...

Geranium maculatum
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. ...

Geranium sylvaticum 'Album'
Common Name: European Wild Geranium

European woodland perennial similar to the North American G. maculatum, but with white flowers. Reblooms.

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Gordonia lasianthus
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, ...

Gordonia lasianthus 'Variegata'
Common Name: Variegated 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, ...

Grevillea rosmarinifolia
Common Name: Rosemary Grevillea
Shrub to 6 feet, but sometimes lower and semi-prostrate. Flowers are red and cream in late fall (See HRT) 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, re...

Gymnocladus dioicus
Common Name: Kentucky Coffeetree
A medium size rather slow growing deciduous tree native to the midwestern U.S. Hillier's Manual of Trees and Shrubs says: "one of the most handsome of all hardy trees". The large compound leaves are pink tinted when unfolding and turn yellow in fa...
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