Our Plants
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Common Name: Scrub Palmetto
A dwarf palmetto. Trunk mostly subterranean, but sometimes with a short erect trunk. Leaves green, costa-palmate, blade 3 feet across or more. Native on deep sand in central Florida but cold hardy throughout Zone 8 and even into Zone 7. The ... |
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Common Name: Lousiana Palmetto
Like a Sabal minor on steroids, this palm has been variously classified as a form of Sabal minor and a hybrid with Sabal texana. Ours originated in the well-known Brazoria County, Texas population and may be different from the trunked palmettos in f...
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Common Name: Texas Palmetto
Formerly Sabal texana, the Texas Palmetto is a large fan-leaf palm native in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas and formerly northward along the south Texas Gulf Coast. It resembles the Cabbage ... |
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Common Name: Dwarf Palmetto
Blue-green fan shaped leaves, essentially stemless. Fruiting stalks extend well above foliage. A very hardy palm native from northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Oklahoma southward. Can grow in either full sun or heavy shade but likes moist...
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Common Name: Chinese Bird Plum
Scandent deciduous shrub with small leaves and fragrant small white flowers. Long a favorite for Bonsai but little known otherwise. We came across this plant in Houston, Texas and found that while it did well in our area it was virtually unknown an...
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Common Name: Japanese Pussy Willow
Large deciduous shrub with reddish-purple flower buds. Showy male catkins are silky rose tinged. Leaves are dark blue-green in maturity. Easy to grow in sunny location with moist soil. Native to Japan....
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Common Name: Dappled Willow
An elegant small willow with glossy bright green leaves which are beautifully variegated pink and white when unfolding. Fast growing and makes a wonderful water-side cover. This is a cultivar of a species native to Japan....
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Common Name: Compact Willow 'Webb'
Black Willow is a common deciduous wetland tree in the South but this is a strikingly different vase-shaped form of Black Willow. It forms a small, dense tree. Like all willows it prospers along stream banks and low, moist areas. This unusual form i...
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Common Name: Willow 'Rubykins'
A vigorous deciduous shrub suited for moist site in sunny location. Narrow leaves have a white back and midrib. Slender branches bearing small red catkins in spring. Received from Dr. Michael Dirr who indicates that it may be a form of the Asian S...
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Common Name: Sage Hybrid
Half hardy perennial hybrid sage that occurred as a chance seedling at Huntington Botanic Garden in California. Large colony forming perennial plant with rich blue spikes of flowers from summer through fall. A great perennial for southern gardens....
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Common Name: Autumn Sage, 'Rachael'
Greg Grant from Texas gave us this white flowered form of the normally red-flowered shrub Salvia greggii. It has speckled light varigated leaves. As Salvia greggii is a semi desert plant from the Southwest it needs good drainage and a mostly sunny si...
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Common Name: Blue Brazilian Sage
South American perennial sage with gorgeous dark blue flowers and heart-shaped leaves. Thrives in semishade and blooms from late summer through the fall. Tolerant of heat and humidity so a good sage for southern gardens....
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Common Name: Domestic Violence Salvia (Tony Avent)
Domestic Violence Salvia (Tony Avent took a lot of flack for calling it that!): A vigorous large growing perennial sage with hairy leaves and large dark blue flowers with almost black calyces. This is an excellent long-flowering plant for the warme...
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Common Name: Yellow Sage
A large leaf groundcover type sage with brilliant yellow flowers late in the season. This plant should have a fertile well-drained soil and is more shade tolerant than most salvias. Indeed it should probably have shade in the warmer zones. Native ...
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Common Name: Mexican Bush Sage
Purple flowers with white corollas bloom in summer. This clump forming perennial sage prefers rich garden soil and benefits from light fertilization. It thrives in full-sun exposure, but can grow well in half-sun as well. It is very aromatic and attr...
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Common Name: Mexican Bush Sage
Produces many lavender flowers which last from late summer through the first frost. They are fairly hardy and have velvety, fragrant leaves. This makes them unappealing to insects, and these plants are very resistant to diseases....
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Chance hybrid from the garden of our friend Frances Parker, gardener extraordinaire, in Beaufort, SC. She named this wonderful tall bushy perennial for her grandson. It has spikes of dark blue to purple flowers from late summer through fall....
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Common Name: Sage, Big Blue Mexican
A robust perennial to 8 feet with heart-shaped leaves and deep blue tubular flowers in fall. Prefers good gardening soil or sandy loam and thrives in full sun to half shade. Attracts hummingbirds. Best for Zone 9 but overwinter with mulch in Zone 8....
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Common Name: Littleleaf Sage Cultivar
Shrubby plant with somewhat triangular small leaves with salmon colored flowers. Prefers full sun, but will survive in half sun. Thrives in good gardening soil or sandy loam. Lime and humus are suggested. A drought tolerant plant that attracts hummi...
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Common Name: Sage, Littleleaf Cultivar
A shrub sage from Mexico that has become popular since it was introduced in California a few years ago. Flowers can be all white or all red in early summer, but are mostly a striking bicolor white with a red stripe as temperatures rise. Prefers ful...
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Common Name: Bog Salvia
Handsome vigorous perennial with bright sky blue flowers that blooms from mid summer on. For average to moist soil. Fertilize with lime or humus to optimize conditions. Prefers full-sun to half-shade. Aromatic. Native to Uruguay and Brazil and a goo...
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Common Name: Nettle-leafed Sage
Blooms mid to late spring, and may have a second blooming in late summer. Has Prussian blue flowers and is native to the Appalachian Mountians. Prefers well-drained sandy loam and full sun to half shade....
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Common Name: Soapberry, Florida
Attractive small-medium deciduous tree. Compound leaves are dark green. white spring flowers followed by clusters of marble-sized yellow fruits. The fruits are rich in saponin and can lather like soap in water. Gold fall foliage. A rare tree found...
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Common Name: Sweet Box
This Sweet Box is a low very handsome evergreen shrub to 5 feet with glossy leaves and fragrant but inconspicuous flowers. Is related to Boxwood and does well in shaded areas. Origin uncertain but probably native to China ... |
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Common Name: Himalayan Sarcococca
A spreading, half hardy evergreen shrub with fragrant flowers and narrow, glossy leaves. It grows well in shade and is related to Boxwood. Not susceptible to diseases and insects. Displays high drought tolerance once established. Native to western C...
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Common Name: Dwarf Himalayan Sarcococca
To 1 feet. Evergreen. Hardiest form. (See DIR) Related to Boxwood, glossy leafed, shade-demanding evergreens....
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Common Name: Sweet Box
Oriental Sweet Box is a dense arching evergreen shrub with glossy leaves that are larger than the other species. The small white flowers are fragrant and often abundant. It is a fine low evergreen for shady or... |
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Common Name: Sweet Pitcher Plant
Pitcher Plants are unusual carnivirous plants in which the leaves are modified into tall, usually upright hooded cylinders. Small insects are attracted to and are trapped in liquid that is in the base of these tubes. These plants ... |
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Common Name: Common Sassafras
To 30 to 60 feet, vivid yellow, orange, red leaves and blue-black fruit in fall. Spring flowers are yellow. Chlorosis in high pH soils. Bark of the roots used to make tea. Remove suckers if single trunk tree is desired. (See DIR, ATE, S&W)...
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Schima superba is a beautiful evergreen Asian tree with no English common name. It is in the Tea family so related to Camellia, Gordonia, Stewartia, etc. It has lanceolate leaves 5-6 inches long. The new growth... |
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Common Name: Little Bluestem Selection
'The Blues' is a nice blue foliaged selection of this native bunch grass. Thrives in heat and humidity. Good for mass plantings. Blue foliage intensifies in fall, with deep burgandy red mingling throughout the clump as it goes to t... |
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Common Name: Climbing Hydrangea Cultivar
Silvery leaves. Creamy white flowers. From the U.S. Arboretum. (See DIR)...
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Common Name: Showy Skullcap
Clump form. Oval serrated bright green leaves sometimes edged in red. Blue to violet flowers in racemes in late spring to early summer. Sun to part shade. well-drained soil....
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Common Name: Hardy Gloxinia
Seemannia (Gloxinia) nematanthodes which we originally (and mistakenly) offered as Achimenes heterophylla, produces very showy bright red inflated flowers in late summer above dark velvety green leaves. A somewhat succulent perennial, forming colonie...
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Common Name: Chinese Lacefern
Attractive fern-like evergreen groundcover. Spreads in shady areas with good garden soil. Native to China....
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Common Name: Gemmiferous Spikemoss
A low, ferny, bright green groundcover from creeping rhizomes. Often reproduces from small cone-like plantlets on the fronds. Native to eastern Asia....
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Common Name: Peacock Moss
Peacock Moss is not moss but a very low-growing spreading fern relative. It has distinctive scale-like leaves clothing decumbent stems which spread and form patches in moist, shady sites. It is unique for the irridescent metallic blue-green foliage...
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Common Name: Mexican Flame Vine
An herbaceous vine with glossy green nearly succulent leaves. It is evergreen in frost free areas but otherwise a die-back perennial. Wonderful orange-red flowers with yellow centers in terminal clusters mid-spring to fall - sometimes year round in...
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Common Name: Saw Palmetto
Saw Palmetto is a small fan-leaf palm that is common in pinelands of the Deep South. It grows in full sun to light shade and is well adapted to warmer areas of the Southeastern United States. Normally a low, spreading palm with decumbent trunks but s...
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Common Name: Blue Saw Palmetto
These are seedlings of the glaucous blue form of this small palm that is common in Deep South pinelands. The glaucous blue form is found on the east coast of Florida. Grows in full sun to light shade and is well adapted to warmer areas of the Southea...
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Common Name: Yellow-rim
Highly variegated form of this adaptable evergreen shrub. Non-fragrant white star-like small flowers bloom May through June. This Asian shrub is a nice border plant for southern gardens and landscapes. Grow in well-drained soil in sun or semi shade....
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Common Name: Palm Grass
Palm Grass is a bold bright green accent with wide blades suggesting palm foliage. It is hardy and reseeds in many areas. Plant in full sun to partial shade where it prefers moist soil. Palm Grass is a native of India but ours were ori... |
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Common Name: Hedge Bamboo
This bamboo is a hardy low-growing bamboo which has rather short broad leaves. It spreads by runners but is less invasive than many running bamboos. Its spread can be limited by mowing. It needs a fairly dry and acidic soil an... |
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Common Name: Mexican Catchfly
Mexican Catchfly is a low herbaceous perennial with spathulate leaves and showy red-orange starry flowers on stems held well above the foliage. It is native to mountains and canyons in the southwestern U.S. and adjacent Mexic... |
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Common Name: Royal Catchfly
Royal Catchfly is a tall perennial with terminal spikes of bright scarlet flowers. Native to prairies and woods edges in a number of midwestern and southern states but rare and scattered within this large range. It... |
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Common Name: Fire Pink
This perennial "Catchfly" has striking crimson flowers with notched petals. It flowers from late spring/early summer. A well-drained, gritty soil is good and in the North a full sun exposure is preferable. In the South it should have light shade. ...
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Common Name: Cup-plant
This perennial is statuesque to 10 feet and has bold foliage topped with yellow daisies. It makes a nice cover for bare areas. Blooms in mid summer and is pest resistant. A prairie plant it prefers to be near bodies of water or on the edges ... |
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Common Name: Chinese Sweetshrub
This large deciduous shrub was recently reclassified as a Calycanthus. It is somewhat like our native Calycanthus floridus but with larger 6 - 10 inch glossy leaves. The cream-white blooms in late spring are larger than North Americ... |
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Common Name: Jacktree
Jacktree is a spreading shrub or small deciduous tree related to Snowbell (Styrax) and with similar leaves and white bell-like flowers in spring. It is an uncommon and attractive plant for the home landscape. ... |
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Common Name: Chicken Wire Plant
This Smilax is a curious deciduous groundcover with small leaves and twiggy stems. A Woodlanders introduction that we obtained years ago from Brookside Gardens in Maryland. They had obtained this unusual plant as Smilax fragrans. We offer... |
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Common Name: Dwarf Smilax
Dwarf Smilax is a low non-thorny evergreen vine with mottled leaves and clusters of attractive orange to red fruits on female plants. This little-known southern greenbriar makes a nice groundcover in sandy acid, moist but... |
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Common Name: Bamboo Vine
This high climbing vine is valued for its shiny evergreen foliage. It is a great vine for trellis, porch, or cut for long lasting decoration. Female plants have green berries which turn black. It is mostly thornless except on young shoo... |
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Common Name: False Lily of the Valley
Sperirantha is a relatively little-known Chinese woodland perennial with foliage resembling Lily of the Valley (Convallaria). It seems to be a good little plant forming spreading clumps in the woodland or shady garden wh... |
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Common Name: Bartram's Ixia
Bartram's Ixia is a very rare native bulb with grass-like leaves and producing for a few hours each morning in May beautiful blue 2 inch flowers on 18 inch stems. This legendary plant was praised by William Bartram in the 1770... |
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Common Name: Virginia Spirea
This spirea is a rare deciduous shrub with arching upright stems and small leaves. It bears paniculate clusters of creamy white flowers. It is found in a very few places along rocky stream banks in the southern Appalachians. It has... |
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Common Name: Mube
This is a splendid compound leafed evergreen vine related to Akebia. In spring it bears white flowers tinged purple followed by sausage shaped fruit which is eaten in Asia. It grows in sandy, loamy, or clay soils that are moi... |
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Common Name: Stokes Aster
Stokes Aster is a hardy perennial with dark evergreen leaves which provide beautiful greenery during the winter months. The large blue daisy type flowers typically bloom in summer. These plants are often used in formal gardens and ... |
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Common Name: Stoke's Aster, White
Stokes Aster is a hardy perennial with dark evergreen leaves which provide beautiful greenery during the winter months. The large daisy type flowers typically bloom in summer and are blue in the typical form but white in this one. These plants are... |
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Common Name: Japanese Snowbell
Japanese Snowbell is a small deciduous tree with medium to dark green lustrous leaves and white bell-like flowers. It has attractive gray-brown, smooth bark and shows great pest resistance. Plant in full sun to partial shade in wel... |
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Common Name: Fragrant Snowbell
This Snowbell is a small to medium size tree with white, fragrant flowers that bloom in mid-April in the South, later in the North. It has especially large foliage for a Styrax and gorgeous gray-brown bark. Ideal conditions include ample moisture ... |
