Our Plants
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Common Name: Cat's Claw Creeper
The "Cat claw Creeper" is a vigorous tender evergreen vine related to and somewhat like our native Crossvine (Bignonia capreolata). It likewise produces an abundance of yellow trumpet-like blooms. It climbs by tendrils and will cover quickly, maybe...
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Common Name: Ashe Magnolia
Ashe Magnolia is a rare deciduous tree with very large leaves like its close relative the Bigleaf Magnolia (Magnolia macrophylla) but is much more shrub-like in growth habit. It has large white blossoms with a purple blotch at the base of the petals...
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Common Name: Magnolia Hybrid
This hybrid magnolia is the result of a cross made by Dr. Fred Meyer at the U.S. National Arboretum. The two parent species (which see) are similar and are closely related but one has the growth habit of a huge shrub and the other is very tree-like....
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Common Name: Tulip Magnolia Hybrid
A large growing deciduous Magnolia with pyramidal habit and abundant large flowers in early spring. The spectacular flowers are deep rosy pink-purple attention getters. This hybrid is a sister seedling of 'Galasy' and was a cross of two Asian Magno...
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Common Name: Bigleaf Magnolia
Bigleaf Magnolia has the largest single leaves of any North American tree. It is a deciduous Magnolia found scattered in rich sheltered woodland situations from West Virginia to Louisiana. The leaves which can be up to three feet long by one foot w...
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Common Name: Star Magnolia Cultivar
Star Magnolia, a hardy Japanese species, is a large rounded shrub with deciduous leaves 3-4 inches long. It is valued for its late winter or very early spring display of white star-like blossoms which cover the plant before the leaves come out. 'Roy...
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Common Name: Umbrella Magnolia
This hardy native deciduous magnolia has very large leaves and smooth gray bark. The creamy flowers are large and showy but ill-scented. The large rose colored seed cones are especially showy in late summer. This is a tree of the moist eastern dec...
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Common Name: Sweetbay
Sweetbay Magnolia is a common tree of moist soil areas in eastern United States where it ranges from Massachusetts to Texas. The northern plants (Magnolia virginiana var. virginiana) are deciduous and the southern (Magnolia virginiana var. australis...
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Common Name: Southern Crabapple
Crabapples in almost infinite variety are popular ornamentals in the North. Most of them are not well suited to zones 8 and 9 but the native Southern Crabapple is well worth growing here. It produces an abundance of lovely pink flowers in early spri...
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Common Name: Turk's-cap
This subtropical Hibiscus relative is herbaceous in zone 8 but a shrubby evergreen southward. It produces bright red flowers 2-3 inches long. The petals do not open out flat like Hibiscus but it is a showy garden subject for the bed or border in mild...
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Common Name: Turk's-cap
This subtropical Hibiscus relative is herbaceous in zone 8 but a shrubby evergreen southward. It produces bright red flowers 2-3 inches long but this is the uncommon pink-flowered form of this typically red-flowered plant.. The petals do not open ou...
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Common Name: Small Turk's-cap
This Hibiscus relative is native to the Gulf Coast states and southward but widely grown elsewhere. It is a shrubby plant with bright red flowers less than two inches long but showy over a long period during the hot months and attractive to hummingb...
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Common Name: Pink Turk's-cap
Small Turkscap is a hibiscus relative native to the Gulf Coast states and southward but widely grown elsewhere. It is a shrubby plant with bright red flowers less than two inches long but showy over a long period during the hot mon... |
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Common Name: White Turk's-cap
A white-flowered form of the normally red-flowered Malvaviscus drummondii (which see) that was given to us by Greg Grant of the Stephen F. Austin Arboretum in Nacogodoches, TX. This Hibiscus relative i... |
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Common Name: Turk's Cap 'Big Momma' Hybrid
This shrubby plant has showy red flowers and leaves that are intermediate between the parent species (which see). A relatively recent Texas introduction by Greg Grant, this should prove a garden worthy plant that is likely to be a bit more cold-hard...
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Common Name: Rattlesnake Master
This perennial succulent is a member of the Amaryllis Family native to Texas. It has 1 foot long soft fleshly, often dark spotted, leaves like the related Agave but they are not evergreen. The tall flower spikes produce spidery creamy white to purp...
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Common Name: Wild Cassava
This is a very fast growing weak wooded coarsely branched small deciduous tree with wonderful large circular palmate leaves composed of 7 to 11 leaflets joined near the center and borne on long petioles. A splendid plant for tropic... |
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Common Name: White-flowered Mazus
A low growing, primarily evergreen, Himalayan native spreading groundcover with smsll leaves and white flowers in spring. In rich soil they are useful for small scale groundcovers, r... |
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Common Name: Banana Shrub
To 10 feet. Lustrous evergreen foliage. In late spring, flowers appear which are creamy yellow edged in maroon and have a fruity fragrance. (See DIR, O&T, O&P)...
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Common Name: Evergreen Wisteria
Evergreen Wisteria is not a Wisteria and is only really evergreen in the mildest areas. An attractive Asian vine that does resemble Wisteria but has dark purple-red flower clusters that are held above the foliage. A good fast-growing vine for the l...
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Common Name: Powderpuff
This native Mimosa is a prostrate deciduous groundcover with compound feathery leaves. It is vigorous and will cover bare areas with attractive foliage punctuated by erect 10 inch stems bearing marshmallow size pink powderpuff flowers. Found from Fl...
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Common Name: Bee Balm, 'Claire Grace'
Bee Balms are in the mint family and are favorite garden perennials. This lavendar flowered Bee Balm is a species native over much of the U.S. and Canada. 'Claire Grace' is a fine free flowering and mildew res... |
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Common Name: Scarlet Beebalm
Monarda didyma is a fine clump or patch forming perennial native to eastern North America. It is a lovely red-flowered plant that produces flowers in terminal whorls on tall stems. Plant in rich moist soil with full sun or afternoon shade. 'Jacob C...
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Common Name: Pink Beebalm
Monarda didyma and it's hybrids are fine clump or patch forming perennials native to eastern North America. It is a lovely red-flowered plant that produces flowers in terminal whorls on tall stems. Plant in rich moist soil with full sun or afternoon...
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Common Name: Butterfly Iris
Also known as Dietes bicolor. Clump forming rhizomatous subtropical Iris relative with long narrow grass-like leaves about 2'long. Flat yellow flowers with a brown spots at the base of the petals. Very striking plant for the moist semi-shady spot in...
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Common Name: Red Mulberry
Red Mulberry is a medium size decidous tree native to the eastern U.S. It has large dark green leaves that are rough to the touch. The female trees have sweet purple fruit attractive to birds and children. It is best grown in rich, moi... |
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Common Name: Sweetgrass
A distinctive wiry upright bunch grass with beautiful reddish plumes up to about 3 feet tall. Blooms in late summer and fall. A choice ornamental grass for sunny bed or border. Native to southeastern U.S. In the coastal area of South Carolina the f...
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Common Name: Ornamental Banana
Banana plants give an attractive tropical appearance. This rather small growing species has showy pink-red flowers and 4 inch long pink fruit which unlike most bananas matures in a single growing season. This little red banana is scarcely edible but...
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Common Name: Simpson's Stopper
Simpson Stopper is a neat evergreen small tree or shrub with small leaves, white flowers, orange fruit, and nice exfoliating bark. Native to central and southern Florida. It has surprisied us by being perfectly hardy her... |
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Common Name: Southern Waxmyrtle Cultivar
Myrica cerifera is a small tree or large shrub native to North America. Its common names include Waxmyrtle, Bayberry, Candleberry, Bayberry tree, and Tallow shrub. It sees uses both in the garden and for candlemaking, as well as a medicinal plant.... |
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Common Name: Swamp Bayberry
Swamp Bayberry is found in acid lowgrounds in the Southeastern U.S. and is similar to M. pensylvanica but is evergreen and the fruits are smaller and almost black. The aromatic leaves are larger and broader than Myrica cerifera, the common Waxmyrtle....
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Common Name: Northern Bayberry
This is the Northern Bayberry, the berries are the source of the wax once used to make Bayberry candles. It is native in the northeast and along the immediate coastline to North Carolina. It is a deciduous shrub growing to around ... |
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Common Name: Southern Dwarf Waxmyrtle Cultivar
The dwarf waxmyrtle native to frequently burned pinelands in the southern U.S. is also known as Myrica cerifera pumila or Myrica pusilla. It is a dense spreading evergreen shrub with small aromatic leaves that can form patches or colonies by undergro...
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Common Name: African Boxwood
This is a small dense evergreen shrub with small aromatic leaves and axillary clusters of red-brown flowers followed by blue-black pea-like fruit on female plants. It is adaptable for hedging. This shrub which could substitute for boxwood (Buxus) in ...
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Common Name: True Myrtle
Evergreen shrub with small glossy leaves and white flowers. Classic myrtle of the ancients. Sunny, well-drained soil. Can be used for topiary or bonsai. (See O&T, HRT)...
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Common Name: Upright Common Myrtle
Myrtle is an aromatic evergreen shrub cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean area. Possibly originally native to Iran and Afghanistan. This is an upright form of the Common Myrtle with somewhat larger and more pointed ... |
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Common Name: Chilean Guava
Dense upright shrub with leathery leaves. Waxy pink bell-shaped flowers followed by edible mahogany-red berries. Ugni molinae, commonly known as Chilean guava, or strawberry myrtle, is a shrub native to Chile and adjacent regions of southern Argen... |
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Common Name: Yellow-Berried Heavenly Bamboo
Nandina domestica is an Asian shrub which has long been popular in the South. There are various named varieties including dwarf forms. The typical form is an upright multi-stem plant with minimal branching but with large glossy fern-like compound e...
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Common Name: Fan Iris
Neomarica or Apostle Plant is an iris-like plant with shiny sprays of sword-like foliage and with showy, white with blue flowers at the ends of long scapes. These form new plants where they arch down and touch the ground (i.e. walking iris). It make...
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Common Name: Oleander 'Hardy Red'
Oleander is a large sun-loving evergreen Mediterranean shrub cultivated since ancient times. It has dark green leathery lance shaped leaves in whorls around the long sparingly branched stems. The fragrant flower clusters, in various colors, are sho...
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Common Name: Oleander 'Double Yellow'
Oleander is a large sun-loving evergreen Mediterranean shrub cultivated since ancient times. It has dark green leathery lance shaped leaves in whorls around the long sparingly branched stems. The fragrant flower clusters, in various colors, are sho...
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Common Name: Oleander 'White'
Oleander is a large sun-loving evergreen Mediterranean shrub cultivated since ancient times. It has dark green leathery lance shaped leaves in whorls around the long sparingly branched stems. The fragrant flower clusters, in various colors, are sho...
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Common Name: Oleander
Oleander is a large sun-loving evergreen Mediterranean shrub cultivated since ancient times. It has dark green leathery lance shaped leaves in whorls around the long sparingly branched stems. The fragrant flower clusters, in various colors, are sho...
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Common Name: Double Pink Oleander
Oleander is a large sun-loving evergreen Mediterranean shrub cultivated since ancient times. It has dark green leathery lance shaped leaves in whorls around the long sparingly branched stems. The fragrant flower clusters, in variou... |
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Common Name: Alabama Snow-wreath
Alabama Snowreath is a rare thicket-forming Spirea-like deciduous shrub with early showy white flowers which give a feathery appearance from the numerous stamens. This plant is found on limestone soils in northern Alabama, barely into Georgia and Ten...
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Common Name: Georgia Beargrass
Georgia Beargrass is an evergreen yucca-like plant with narrow wiry leaves from a central rosette or cluster. In summer a tall flower spike with tiny white flowers arises from the plant. This is a xerophytic plant with relatives in the Southwest and ...
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Common Name: Smallseed Sacahuista
This Beargrass or Smallseed Sacahuista is an essentially stemless clump-forming desert plant with narrow, stiff grass-like leaves from a central rosette. It is often multi crowned. Tall spikes of very small fl... |
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Notophoebe (aka Nothophobe and Nothaphoebe) is a rare Chinese evergreen tree in the laurel family. It is ultimately a large tree in it's habitat. It has very attractive dark green foliage with very pale green to whit... |
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Common Name: Water Tupelo or Cotton Gum
Large swamp tree often with swollen base in frequently flooded areas. Bright yellow fall color. Will grow in average conditions. (See ATE, DIR, S&W)...
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Common Name: Black Gum
Black Gum, known in the North as Tupelo or Pepperidge, is a medium to large deciduous tree native to eastern U.S. It is a very desirable landscape tree valued for the brilliant orange-red fall color. It is adaptable to various soil types but is not...
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Common Name: Purple Firespike
Similar to Odontonema stricta, the Cardinal Spear, but leaves perhaps somewhat larger and more fleshy and the large colorful spikes of flowers are purple rather than red. Obtained from JoAnn Breland at Hampton Park in Charleston, SC and showing prom...
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Common Name: Cardinal Spear
Also called "Cardinal Flower", "Cardinal's Guard", "Firespike", and "Firestick". This is a subtropical plant native to Central America but widely grown in warm regions for the showy spikes of red flowers. It is probably a shrub in the tropics but i...
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Common Name: Olive
Olive is an evergreen Mediterranean small tree or large shrub with gray-green leathery leaves and small white fragrant flowers in axillary racemes in late summer. Fruits produced in dry climates are the source of commercial olives and olive oil. Whi...
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Common Name: Yunnan Olive
Our source, Camellia Forest Nursery in North Carolina, described this plant as an Osmanthus-like evergreen becoming a small tree with small black fruit. It was collected near a temple in China at about 7,000 feet elevation. This little-known new intr...
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Common Name: Aztec Grass
'Aztec Grass' is neither Aztec nor grass but Asian and in the Lily family. It is a very attractive variegated plant whose narrow linear leaves have gray-green vertical stripes. It is similar to Liriope muscari but less cold hardy. A nice edging pla...
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Common Name: Wild Olive
Osmanthus americanus is an evergreen shrub or tree with smooth margined elliptical leaves and small white flowers in spring. It is native to the southeastern U.S., primarily in coastal plain woodlands. 'Devilwood', so named for it's difficult to wor...
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Osmanthus armatus is an uncommon large multi-branched shrub with thick lustrous dark green holly-like leaves with prominent marginal and terminal spines. It has fragrant cream-white flowers in autumn. Female plants may produce small dark violet fru...
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Common Name: Fragrant Tea Olive
Tea Olive is an evergreen Asian shrub that can become almost tree-like in mild climates. The leaves are about 3 inches long with small marginal teeth. It is highly prized in southern U.S. gardens for the deliciously fragrant small white flowers that...
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Common Name: Tea Olive 'Conger Yellow'
Tea Olive is an evergreen Asian shrub that can become almost tree-like in mild climates. The leaves are about 3 inches long with small marginal teeth. It is highly prized in southern U.S. gardens for the deliciously fragrant small white flowers that...
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Common Name: Orange-flowered Fragrant Tea Olive
Tea Olive is an evergreen Asian shrub that can become almost tree-like in mild climates. The leaves are about 3 inches long with small marginal teeth. It is highly prized in southern U.S. gardens for the deliciously fragrant small white flowers that...
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Common Name: Holly Osmanthusm 'Goshiki'
'Goshiki' means Five colors in Japanese and this rather dwarf form of Holly Osmanthus is highly variegated with flecks of creamy or yellow variegation against the dark green background of the holly-like evergreen foliage. The new growth has showy pi...
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Common Name: Variegated Holly Tea Olive
Holly Osmanthus is a large evergreen Asian shrub with holly-like leaves and fragrant white flowers. It is a long time favorite in southern gardens and is useful for hedges, borders. screen, or barrier plantings. It is best in sun or semi-shade with ...
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Common Name: Holly Osmanthus
Holly Osmanthus is a large evergreen Asian shrub with holly-like leaves and fragrant white flowers. It is a long time favorite in southern gardens and is useful for hedges, borders. screen, or barrier plantings. It is best in sun or semi-shade with ...
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Common Name: Holly Osmanthus 'Gulftide'
'Gulftide' Holly Osmanthus is a medium to large evergreen shrub with dark green spiny, holly-like foliage and small fragrant white flowers. It grows to 10 to 15 feet and makes a good hedge in sun or partia... |
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Common Name: Round Leaf Holly Osmanthus
Holly Osmanthus is a medium to large evergreen shrub with dark green spiny, holly-like foliage and small fragrant white flowers. It grows to 10 to 15 feet and makes a good hedge in sun or partial shade. This s... |
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Common Name: Osmaria
A bi-generic hybrid between Osmanthus delavayi and Phillyrea vilmoriniana (decora) but some botanists now merge Phillyrea into Osmanthus! This is a medium sized compact shrub with relatively small dark green toothed evergreen leave... |
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Common Name: Cinnamon Fern
Cinnamon Fern is a big-growing deciduous fern native to eastern North America on humus rich moist to wet woodland soils. It is an impressive fern for similar shady garden conditions. The tall upright fronds which turn yellow in fall are preceeded in...
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Common Name: Royal Fern
Royal Fern is found in humus rich moist to wet woodland sites (and even open areas in the North) over much of eastern North America. It has rather coarse fronds with twice pinnate leaves composed of fairly large leaflets which are somewhat un-fernli...
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Common Name: Chinese Emperor Plum
Osteomeles schweriniae is a species of plant native to China. Its an evergreen shrub and its flowers are white and resemble those of hawthorn species. It produces small, white, round berries that are actually pomes. ... |
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Common Name: Sourwood
Sourwood is a beautiful deciduous tree that is pyramidal when grown in the open. It is native to the eastern United States on well-drained acid woodland soils. It is in the family with azaleas and blueberries and produces sprays of showy summer flo...
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