Our Plants
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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... |
