Our Plants
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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: 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: Dahoon Holly (male)
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: Holly 'Edward J. Stevens'
Large evergreen shrub or small tree with dark green sparingly spined leaves. This is the male pollenator for the popular 'Nellie R. Stevens' Holly which often fails to set fruit due to lack of male pollenator. ... |
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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: Suwanee Holly
Large deciduous shrub or small tree sometimes considered a variety of I. decidua, but the leaves are smaller and thinner. Looks very like a deciduous version of Yaupon (I. vomitoria) Red fruit occurs singly or in small clusters along branches. This h...
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Common Name: Possumhaw Holly 'Finch's Golden'
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: 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: Possumhaw Holly
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 prod... |
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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 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: Inkberry Holly 'Nigra'
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: 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: 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 on f...
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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 'Purple Myrtle'
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: 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: American Holly 'Dan Fenton'
Pyramidal evergreen tree with spine margined leaves and abundant red berries. This selection by Dr. Orton of Rutgers University is reportedly from southern New Jersey. It is outstanding for it's very glossy foliage and said to be "a significant imp...
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Common Name: American Holly 'Selected Red'
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: 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: Chinese Holly
A Woodlanders introduction, this very pretty evergreen holly has spiny narrow leaves to 4'long that emerge bronzy, mature through light green to glossy dark green. It was grown from seed collected by Frank Bell at "last ridge crest south of Dali, Yun...
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Common Name: Caspian Holly
This evergreen holly is a dense large shrub or small tree. Leaves are relatively small, oblong, glossy, and spine margined . Female plants have red fruit. This holly native to Iran is very rare in America. It is related to English Holly (Ilex aquifo...
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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: Winterberry Holly 'Maryland Beauty'
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 'Raritan Chief' Hybrid
This small deciduous male holly is a compact hybrid made by Dr. E.R. Orton, Jr., of Rutgers University. The parent species are Ilex verticellata native to the eastern U.S. and the closely related Ilex serrata from Japan. This is the male pollenator ...
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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 d...
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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
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: Variegated 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
Upright evergreen Chinese shrub with leathery lanceolate leaves that are aromatic when crushed. Somewhat like Illicium henryi and with similar small pink flowers. The star shaped seed capsules are not edible like the related Illicium verum or true S...
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Common Name: Anise Tree Cultivar 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: Yellow Anise Tree
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 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: 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: Big Root Moonflower
This rare night-fowering morning glory from coastal southeastern US is a perennial vine from a large tuber. It is presumed to have been introduced from Yucatan by aboriginal inhabitants in Pre-Columbian times and is sometimes found on Indian shell m...
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Common Name: Arrow-leaf Morning Glory
Arrow-leaf Morning glory is an herbaceous perennial twining vine with arrowhead-shaped leaves and pink morning glory flowers about 3 1/2 inches across. Most native morning glories are annuals and return each year from seed. This species is perennia...
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Common Name: Lamance Iris
This native Iris is found on lowgrounds in the south central U.S. It has relatively short leaf blades with zig-zag stems and surprisingly large blue flowers that are held above the foliage. It is a good garden plant in moist fertile soil where it sp...
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Common Name: Crested Iris
Iris cristata is a dwarf woodland Iris found in interior of eastern U.S. It has rather broad leaf blades arranged in typical Iris fans. The lovely 1 1/2 to 2 inch blue flowers are borne on stems only a few inches high in spring. It is a great litt...
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Common Name: Dixie Iris
Iris hexagona is a wetland Iris native to ditches and bogs in the Deep South. It produces big lavender Iris blooms on tall spikes and is a good plant for pond edges etc. but will grow in a garden bed that is kept well watered. ...
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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: 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: Taiwan Sweetspire
Itea oldhamii is an evergreen shrub with compact growth habit. Juvenile leaves can be holly-like but mature leaves are entire. It has racemes of white flowers in late spring. Plant in good soil that is moist but well-drained. In our experience thi...
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Common Name: Virginia Sweetspire 'Henry's Garnet'
This now popular and widely grown selection of our native deciduous Sweetspire or Virginia Willow was first offered by Woolanders in 1985 as "Selected Form". We had propagated it from a plant obtained from the Henry Foundation in Gladwyne, Pennsylva...
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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: Dwarf Sweetspire 'Shirley's Compact'
Dense tiny mounding deciduous shrub with small congested leaves. This little mutant was found at Biltmore House and Gardens in North Carolina. It is basically a curiosity suited for the rock garden or small space where it would not... |
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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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