Our Plants
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Pachysandra stylosa aka Pachysandra axillaris subspecies stylosa is a rare Chinese relative of the familiar Pachysandra terminalis groundcover but is quite different in appearance. This slow spreading evergreen perennial has whitish pink flowers in ...
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Common Name: Virginia Creeper
This familiar deciduous vine with five leaflets is native to eastern United States. It climbs by tendrils and up rough masonry surfaces by disc-like rootlets. The flowers are not showy but it is great for the red fall foliage. Its black berries are r...
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Common Name: White Passionflower
Passiflora caerulea is a vigorous evergreen vine climbing by tendrils. The leaves are deeply divided with narrow lobes. The flowers showy and intricate but ephemeral. Flowers three to four inches across and blue is typical for the species. This is...
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Common Name: Corona de Cristo
This is an herbaceous perennial vine climbing with tendrils. It has hairy lobed leave and 2 inch wide pink intricate flowers typical of Passiflora with feathery bracts beneath the flower. The vine is also noteworthy for the red fruits the size of s...
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Common Name: Maypop
The Maypop is a perennial vine with three lobed leaves and very showy intricate blue flowers about three inches across. It climbs by tendrils or sprawls on the ground. Not uncommon in fields and woods edges of the southern United States. Lime-sized ...
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Common Name: White Maypop
The Maypop is a perennial vine with three lobed leaves and very showy intricate blue flowers about three inches across. It climbs by tendrils or sprawls on the ground. Not uncommon in fields and woods edges of the southern United States. Lime-sized ...
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Common Name: Passionflower 'Incense' Hybrid
Perennial tendril climbing vine with thre lobed leaves and very large and showy purple flowers over a long period in warm weather. It is a hybrid between our native Passiflora incarnata and the South American Passiflora cincinnata. It produces few ...
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Common Name: Star of Mikan Passionflower
'Amethyst' is a beautiful red-purple flowered hybrid passionflower with reflexed petals and three lobed foliage. Parentage is somewhat uncertain. This vine is perennial and freezes to ground here in South Carolina but returns with vigor and flowers ...
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Common Name: Yellow Patrinia Cultivar
This yellow-flowered Japanese native is a tough perennial with oval rough leaves. The small flowers are persistent and held in inflorescenses above the foliage. It is good for cutting and a good perennial for sunny irrigated beds and borders in hot ...
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Common Name: White Patrinia
Good perennial for warm climates introduced by Heronswood Nursery. Flat clusters of white flowers held above foliage. Plants are somewhat stoloniferous. A good plant for the sunny border. (See ARM)...
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Common Name: Argentine Mallow
This little Hibiscus relative is a low, spreading, gray-leafed shrub with pink, dark-centered 2.5 inch mallow flowers most of summer. This Woodlanders introduction is from a collection we made in the Sierra De La Ventana Mountains in Argentina. Plan...
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Common Name: Argentine Mallow
This shrub native to Argentina is a rather open growing semi-evergreen plant with narrow hastate leaves 2 to 3 inches long. Trimming or shearing will result in a more compact plant. Early blooms are cleistogamous ie.forming seed without opening but t...
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Common Name: Wright Pavonia
Short-lived shrub best suited to sunny perennial border with well-drained soil and minimal competiton. Rose-pink hibiscus-like flowers open mornings all summer. Velvety, dark green leaves. Will re-seed. Can be pruned back any time throughout summer...
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Common Name: Smooth Penstemon Cultivar
Penstemon digitalis is a fine perennial native the eastern United States. It has tubular white flowers on a panicle held above the leaves in early to mid-summer. 'Husker Red' is a selection developed at the University of Nebraska. It is similar to...
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Common Name: Cleftleaf Beard Tongue
A very attractive rare perennial with deeply cut fern-like leaves and tall spikes of pink flowers. Occurs in sunny situations on shallow soil over rock but often with water seepage. Does well in ordinary garden soil. Native to limited habitats in c...
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Beautiful flowering species. Short lived, but self-sows. (See HRT)...
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Common Name: Mexican Redbay
Dense rounded evergreen tree related to and similar to our native Redbay. Collected in the mountains of Northeastern Mexico by our friends at Yucca-do Nursery in Texas, this little-known tree has been winter hardy down to single digits at Juniper Le...
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Common Name: Odorless Mock Orange
This upright and arching deciduous shrub native to the southeastern United States has showy but non-fragrant white flowers in late spring. It is a woodland plant and probably best grown in semi-shade with fertile soil and irrigation. It is a good ba...
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Common Name: Garden Phlox Cultivar
Tall perennial phlox native to eastern North America. This species occurs in many colors and there are many named varieties. "David' is a white flowered selection made by Richard Simon of Bluemount Nursery at the Brandywine Museum in Pennsylvania. ...
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Common Name: Downy Phlox Cultivar
'Eco Happy Traveler' is a selection of the native Phlox pilosa from Don Jacobs 'Eco Gardens' in Atlanta, Georgia. This semi-evergreen groundcovering plant is a good choice for southern gardens in sun or light shade. Flowers are fragrant deep rose co...
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Broadleaf evergreen tree related to Persea, the genus which includes Redbay and Avocado. This species was recieved as seed from Nanjing, China as Phoebe neurantha, an apparently invalid name. This species seems similar to P chekiangensis which has pr...
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Common Name: Correll's Obedient Plant
This species of "Obedient Plant" or "False Dragonhead" is a robust, erect, somewhat succulent perennial from thick rhizomes. It has inch long lavender-pink flowers streaked or spotted with purple. It is a rare species found in scattered localities ...
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Common Name: Obedient Plant
'Vivid' is a compact upright form of the "Obedient Plant" with vibrant pink 1 inch long flowers in 12-18 inch spikes. It is easily grown in well-drained soil with sun and ample moisture where it forms vigorous colonies. Species is native to eastern ...
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Common Name: Climbing Heath
This rare and unusual plant native to the southeastern U.S. is a small evergreen shrub in cultivation. In it's native swamp habitat it becomes a vine on Pond Cypress (Taxodium ascendens) trees where it grows high up the tree under the loose outer bar...
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Common Name: Walters or Spruce Pine
A choice dense pine with dark green needles and most unusual bark for a pine. Trunk looks like a hardwood! Usually found in mixed stands just upslope from stream bottomlands. An uncommon but choice ornamental. (See O&T, DIR)...
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Common Name: Longleaf Pine
Longleaf Pine, with needles up to a foot long, is the premier southern pine. It once occupied 92 million acres in a very diverse fire maintained ecosystem streaching from southeastern Virginia to Florida and east Texas. Now very little old-growth l...
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Common Name: Chinese Pistacia
Chinese Pistacia is a medium size deciduous tree related to the Pistacio nut. It does not produce the edible nuts but does have splendid bright orange-red fall color, is drought and insect resistant, and has lustrous dark green compound leaves. This...
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Common Name: Monkeycomb
This Woodlanders introduction is a semi-evergreen vine related to our native Crossvine (Bignonia capreolata). It is somwhat similar, climbs with tendrils, but has white flowers. We collected this in Cordoba Province, Argentina and it has proven to ...
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This Chinese species of Pittosporum is an attractive evergreen shrub with narrow, 1 inch long, glossy leaves that are somewhat variable but generally diamond shaped. The small pale yellow flowers are fragrant. This still uncommon species is perhaps ...
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This Woodlanders introduction is a spreading evergreen shrub with small eliptical leaves less than one inch long. It has small yellow flowers followed by yellow fruits. It was grown from seed collected in China by Frank Bell who mistook it for an E...
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Common Name: Japanese Pittosporum
A favorite southern evergreen shrub. From Korean seed, perhaps a hardier form. Medium textured evergreen shrub. Leathery dark green leaves. Fragrant creamy white flowers in spring. Sun to shade. Any well-drained soil. Good seashore plant (See HRT, O...
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Common Name: Dwarf Bamboo
Pleioblastus (Sasa) distichus 'Mini' is the most dwarf of running bamboo. Bambusero Adam Turtle of "Our Nursery" in Summertown, TN says it is a ground-covering bamboo that can be controlled with an edger. But it is a running bamboo ! Presumed to be ...
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Common Name: Pine of the Mountain
Very rare evergreen conifer native to a few very scattered localities on mountains just east of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. This plant is now available from Woodlanders and is CITES listed. Woodlanders is probably the...
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Common Name: Pink Trumpet Vine
Vigorous vine with compound leaves. Will likely freeze to ground in zones 8 and 9 but make much growth in warm weather with good conditions. Flowers are showy pink trumpets. Plant in sunny site with well-drained soil and allow ample space to climb....
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Common Name: Great Solomon's Seal
Tall woodland perennial with unbranched stems bearing alternate delightfully oriented oval leaves with whitish pendant flowers in axils followed by black berries. A choice colonizing plant for the moist shady woodland garden. Native to Eastern North...
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Common Name: Variegated Solomon's Seal
This Japanese perennial is a great plant for the woodland or shaded border. Polygonatum falcatum ( aka Polygonatum odoratum var. thunbergii) 'Variegatum' has striking summer foliage. It is easy to grow and spreads in moist fertile soil. The varieg...
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Common Name: Christmas Fern
This evergreen fern has rather coarse foliage but it is a durable fern for shady sites on well-drained but moist soil. Christmas Fern is one of the hardier evergreen ferns native to eastern North America and is a useful plant for the shady garden. T...
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Common Name: Trifoliate Orange
A very thorny green stemmed shrub closely related to true citrus but much hardier. A parent of many Citrus hybrids and frequently used as an understock on which to graft citrus. Bears nice white flowers in spring and small aromatic but inedible oran...
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Common Name: Mesquite
Prosopis glandulosa is a common site on the dry grasslands and hills of Texas. Seeds are believed to have entered Texas in the stomachs of cattle being driven accross the Rio Grande from Mexico. The plant spread very quickly and has become a proble...
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Common Name: Mintbush
Of several Prostanthera species received from Longwood Gardens, this one has proven satisfactory in our climate. It is a more or less evergreen shrub up to 6 feet with abundant purplish-pink flowers. Leaves are rather small and narrow. Plant in su...
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Common Name: Chickasaw Plum
Chickasaw Plum is a thicket forming deciduous shrub or small tree with very early, showy white flowers and edible yellow or red fruit. This species is widespread in the southeastern U.S. but is suspected of having been introduced from farther west b...
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Common Name: Formosa or Taiwan Cherry
This medium size deciduous cherry is native to Taiwan and is a great flowering tree for warm climates. The leaves emerge rich green, mature to dark green and are bronzy red in fall. The deep rose flowers appear in late winter or very early spring be...
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Common Name: Carolina Cherry Laurel
Carolina Laurelcherry is a versatile evergreen tree which can be used for hedge, screen, or specimen plant. It has shiny green leaves with serrulate margins and racemes of white flowers in spring followed by black fruits which are eaten by birds. N...
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Common Name: Okame Cherry
This deciduous flowering cherry tree is a medium size hybrid between the rather tender Taiwan Cherry (Prunus campanulata) and Fuji Cherry (Prunus incisa). It is an excellent ornamental flowering tree with abundant pink flowers in early spring. It ha...
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Common Name: Japanese Almond-Cherry
Small deciduous shrub with wiry stems and abundant small pink flowers as leaves emerge. A showy shrub that produces small red cherries. Long cultivated in Japan, this garden worthy shrub seems surprisingly little-known in southern U.S. landscapes. ...
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Common Name: English Laurel Cultivar
English Laurel is a large shrub with large, glossy, evergreen leaves, spires of small white flowers, and sometimes small cherry-like red to black fruits. There a number of forms or cultivated varieties of this plant. This one which we call 'Parkway...
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Common Name: Portugal Laurel
Portugese Laurel is a large evergreen shrub or small to medium size tree. It has ovate leaves which are dark green with reddish petioles. It bears racemes of small white flowers in late spring followed by small reddish to dark purple fruits. A fine...
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Common Name: Japanese Flowering Apricot Cultivar
To 30 feet. Fragrant, double, deep rose flowers in winter. (See DIR)...
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Common Name: Weeping Higan Cherry
This Japanese tree is a beautiful pendulous pink flowering deciduous tree. Dirr says: "Even if it never flowered would be garden worthy...growth rate is extremely fast as one does not have to wait until retirement to appreciate the ornamental virtues...
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Common Name: Flatwoods Plum
Picturesque small deciduous tree with rough bark. White flowers (often turning pink) in spring. Small sour purple plums used for jelly. Not thicket forming like Chickasaw Plum and later blooming. Plant in well-drained soil in sun or semi-shade....
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Common Name: Wafer-ash or Hop Tree
Hop Tree is a small bushy decidous tree that is quite adaptable. It has trifoliate leaves and very fragrant small yellowish flowers in spring followed by persistent wafer-like winged seeds. It is a larval food plant sought by butterflies and butterf...
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Common Name: Spider Brake Fern
This Asian fern has fronds with narrow strap-like pinnae. It is widely naturalized in warm regions where it often grows in cracks of old masonry walls and other spots with high calcium soils such as moist shady spots along foundations, etc. ...
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Common Name: Little Epaulettetree
The Little Eupalette Tree is a rather rare small deciduous tree or large shrub native to eastern Asia. It has ovate bristle toothed leaves and panicles of fragrant white flowers in late spring/early summer follwed by 5-winged dry fruits. An interest...
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Common Name: Pomegranate
Pomegranate is a deciduous Middle-eastern shrub with small narrow leaves, orange flowers, and orange-red large edible fruits for which it has been cultivated since ancient times. Some ornamental varieties have showy double flowers and rarely set frui...
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Common Name: Yellow-flowered Pomegranate
Pomegranate is a deciduous Middle-eastern shrub with small narrow leaves, orange flowers, and orange-red large edible fruits for which it has been cultivated since ancient times. Some ornamental varieties have showy double flowers and rarely set frui...
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Common Name: Pomegranate 'Eight Ball'
Pomegranate is a deciduous Middle-eastern shrub with small narrow leaves, orange flowers, and orange-red large edible fruits for which it has been cultivated since ancient times. Some ornamental varieties have showy double flowers and rarely set frui...
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Common Name: Narrow leaf Mountain Mint
Perennial plant with long narrow leaves and attractive white to pale purple flowers on much branched spikes in late summer. The dense foliage and nice flowers of this adaptable perennial make it a good garden plant. It is native to much of eastern ...
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Common Name: Yellow-berried Firethorn
This "Firethorn" is a clean attractive shrub with relatively small evergreen foliage and yellow berries which are abundant and persistent. We originally propagated this clone from a cultivated plant at Williamsburg, VA. It is presumably a named vari...
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Common Name: Hybrid
x Pyracomeles (Pyracantha x Osteomeles) vilmorinii is a semi-evergreen shrub with arching thornless branches and deeply cut small leaves. Corymbose white flowers in spring followed by coral-red fruit. An attractive bi-generic hybrid of garden origi...
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Common Name: Cockscomb
A beautiful selection of a Jap/Korean epiphyte/lithophyte. The leaf is deeply lobed like a feather, with some of the lobes having a secondary pointed lobe. Underside of the leaf is silky brown, very ornamental and rare. The name means "Cockscomb"....
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