Our Plants
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Common Name: Christ Thorn
Christ Thorn is a broad, thorny, deciduous shrub with small yellowish-green flowers in the axils of the small shiny leaves. Fruits are a small flattened woody disc shaped like a Cardinal's hat. This shrub with... |
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Common Name: Jerusalem Thorn
Jerusalem Thorn is not from the Holy Land. This slender small tree with smooth green bark, long compound leaves with tiny leaflets, racemes of yellow flowers, and slender "bean pods" is native to southern Texas and Mexico. Although not... |
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Common Name: Silvervein Creeper
A scrambling deciduous vine with green and reddish leaves that have white variegation following the veins of the leaf. The leaves are palmately compound with the middle leaf being the largest. Before going deciduous it turns to shades of orange an... |
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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 are three to four inches across and while blue is typica... |
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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: 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: 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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Beautiful flowering species. Short lived, but self-sows. (See HRT)...
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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 bac...
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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: Garden Phlox Cultivar
'Shortwood' is a tall pink-flowered perennial phlox derived from the white-flowered variety 'David'. The terminal panicles of pink flowers have deep pink centers. This is a mildew resistant variety and a great plant for... |
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Common Name: Ozark Phlox
Stoloniferous. (See HRT)...
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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: Lily of the Valley Shrub
Evergreen shrub with glossy slightly toothed leaves which emerge bronze and turn dark green. Dense clusters of hanging bell-like small white flowers in spring. This species of Pieris is native to the Ryuku Islands (Okin... |
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Common Name: Spruce Pine
Spruce Pine is a choice ornamental pine with dense dark green needles and most unusual bark for a pine. The trunk looks like a hardwood tree trunk! Usually found in mixed stands just upslope from stream bottomlands in coastal areas... |
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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 lon...
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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: Yew, Southern
A low-growing selection of this popular southern conifer with flat needle-like evergreen leaves which spiral the stem. Woodlanders obtained cuttings of this form years ago from a plant at Tom Dodd Nurseries in Semmes, Alabama but have not met with it...
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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: 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: 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: Fuji Cherry
Prunus incisa, the Fuji cherry gets its scientific name from the deep incisions on the leaves. A dainty slow-growing, early white-flowering cherry, it is a century-old cultigen from Hondo, Japan. It is hi... |
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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: Japanse Flowering Apricot
The Japanese Flowering Apricot is a floriferous small to medium sized tree with white to pink almond scented flowers. In the South this blooms in mid to late winter. It is a great favorite in Japanese landscapes and there are many named vari... |
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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: Southwestern Black Cherry
This southwestern "wild cherry" is closely related to the common Prunus serotina and sometimes classified as variety rufula or subspecies virens. Found in west Texas and adjacent areas, it... |
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Common Name: Chinese Quince
Small to medium size deciduous tree with dark green firm toothed leaves and gray, green and brown bark which flakes off to produce mosaic patterns. Fall color is yellow to red. In spring it has attractive soft pink flowers on old ... |
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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: Fragrant Epaulettetree
The Fragrant Eupaulettetree is a deciduous tree typically 20 to 30 feet tall. It has fragrant panicles of white flowrers and blooms in late spring or early summer. It should be planted in moist but well-drained soil and... |
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Common Name: Pomegranate 'California Sunset'
This flowering Pomegranate also known as 'Madame Legrelle', is a medium size deciduous shrub with very double coral-red flowers variegated with much white, Flowers in summer and is long blooming but like other double-flowered forms... |
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Common Name: 'Toyosho' Pomegranate
This flowering Pomegranate variety has double peach or apricot-colored flowers but like other double-flowered forms it rarely produces fruit. Pomegranate is a deciduous shrub native to the Middle East and cultivated since ancient times.... |
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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: Pomegranate, 'Chico' Dwarf
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. A neat plant for the patio or container in the warmer zones. |
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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: 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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