Our Plants
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Common Name: Shrub Marigold
This Mexican shrub with pungently aromatic foliage produces masses of bright yellow flowers in late fall. It dies back somewhat in winter. It makes a great border plant in a sunny, well-drained site and adds a lot of color to the late fall landscap...
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Common Name: Mexican Marigold
While not hardy in cold regions, this perennial is great for the Deep South when given a sunny site with well-drained soil. It is easy to grow. The aromatic leaves are a French Tarragon substitute. It flowers in late fall with orange flowers. It i...
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Common Name: Pond Cypress
Pond Cypress is a deciduous conifer closely related to the Baldcypress (Taxodium distichum) so widespread in the southern U.S. Pond Cypress is not usually as large as Baldcypress, produces little in the way of "Cypress knees" and is usually more nar...
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Common Name: Bald Cypress
Baldcypress is a long-lived large deciduous conifer charactersitic of swamps and river margins in the southern U.S. A valuable timber tree, it is broadly pyramidal when young and has feather-like leaves. It can grow in shallo... |
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This deciduous pinnate leaf shrub from Argentina similar to the more familiar, yellow-flowered Tecoma stans except the flowers are red. It appears to be tender. We offer these thanks to fellow explorer Tony Avent. Seed we collected i... |
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Common Name: Cape Honeysuckle
Cape Honeysuckle is a rangy vine-like shrub with pretty glossy compound leaves like Trumpet Vine. The very showy orange flowers are liked by hummingbirds. It can be trained up or allowed to cascade. Where borderline ha... |
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Common Name: Hosida (Japan)
This is a fine evergreen fern native to Japan. It is a good spreader for fertile moist soil in the shade where it is notable for its glossy arching fronds. We originally obtained this fern from the U.S. National Arboretum. ... |
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Common Name: Japanese Beech Fern
This fern is a tidy spreading groundcover fern native to eastern and southeastern Asia but closely related to our native Beech Ferns. It is deciduous after frost and is easily grown and multiplied. Does not spread rapidly but can be speeded up by ... |
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Common Name: Fern, Southern Shield
This native southern fern is a large pale green spreader. Its large finely cut upright and arching fronds are deciduous. It received considerable publicity in a Southern Living article which suggested it could be gro... |
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Common Name: Arborvitae, Giant
A large imposing evergreen conifer native to northwestern North America where old specimens in the wild may reach almost 200 feet tall. Proving very adaptable to eastern, southern, and midwestern U.S. conditions when properly sited. This clone is ... |
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Common Name: Western Redcedar, 'Green Giant'
An excellent large dark green conifer possibly a hybrid between Thuja plicata and Thuja standishii, both of which are native to northwestern North America. It was however selected as a seedling from a nursery bed in Denmark in 19... |
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Common Name: Hiba Arborvitae, Dwarf
This is a shrubby rounded dwarf form of a large Japanese evergreen tree with flattened sprays of shining evergreen foliage. Dirr (Manual of Woody Landscape Plants) says it is seldom found in the U.S. but a beautiful plant for shady sites with mois... |
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Common Name: Foamflower, Wherry's
Tiarella is a beautiful woodland wildflower native to shady rich woods in the eastern U.S. and Canada. It produces nice foliage and spikes of foamy white flowers in spring. The typical Tiarella cordifolia spreads by runners but this is a clump formin...
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Tibochina is a subtropical shrub which is a die-back perennial in all but essentially frost-free areas. It has velvety textured leaves with prominent veins and very showy deep purple flowers. Foliage may become red in fall before being killed by f... |
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Common Name: Basswood, Florida
Basswoods are medium to large deciduous trees with heart shaped leaves, yellowish fragrant flowers, and small nutlets on stalks attached to a papery wing. There are many species in the Northern Hemisphere but the... |
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Common Name: Spread Eagle Torreya
This wide spreading evergreen conifer has aromatic, sharp, flat needle-like leaves in one plane. This clone originated at Hillier's Nursery in England in 1970 and was named 'Spreadeagle' for it's low spreading growt... |
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A multi colored variegated cultivar of a species which is widepread in eastern U.S. woodlands. Armitage (Herbaceous Perennial Plants) says the leaves of this variety have a V shaped reddish-pink blotch in the center of each leaf and new leaves are c...
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Common Name: Star Jasmine
Asian Jasmine is not a true Jasmine but is a close relative of the popular "Confederate Jasmine" (named for the Malay Confederation). It is less of a climber but a great dense groundcover vine with small, lustrous, dark green, leathery evergreen f... |
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Common Name: Confederate Jasmine, Variegated
This twining evergreen vine has leaves bordered and spotted with white and pink. The leaves are larger than most Trachelospermum jasminoides varieties. The star shaped flowers white, fragrant followed by long pods. It is a fine... |
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Common Name: Confederate Jasmine, Madison'
This vigorous evergreen twining vine has fragrant white star shaped flowers. This selection, almost surely var. pubescens came to us through the former Cedar Lane Farms Nursery in Madison, GA where this selection proved much more c... |
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Common Name: Jasmine
From the U.S. National Arboretum....
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Common Name: Windmill Palm
This fan leaf palm is native to eastern Asia but is grown worldwide. It is the most common palm seen northward and grows well in cool regions including the British Isles and coastal British Columbia. Good specimens have grown outdoors as far north a...
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Common Name: Windmill Palm, Wagner's
Wagner's Windmill Palm is known only in cultivation and apparently came from Japan. It is considered by some to be a variety of the common Windmill Palm (T. fortunei). It is about equally hardy and requires the... |
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Common Name: Borage, Oriental
This native of Japan is a coarse, large-leafed, effective groundcover for shady sites with good moist to dry soil where it can be a fairly rapid spreader. This plant is uncommon and little-known in the U.S. and we originally acquired it through the c...
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Common Name: Regel's Threewingnut
Native to Japan, Korea, and Manchuria, this hardy and vigorous scandent shrub is almost vinelike with reddish warty branches. It is deciduous and bears large clusters of yellowish or greenish white flowers in late summer followed by pale green three...
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Common Name: Hemlock, Yunnan
This rare Hemlock from Yunnan Province in China was originally received from the Arnold Arboretum in Massachusetts. It had been obtained from China but was not expected to be hardy in Massachusetts. It proved to be very well adapted to semi-shady sit...
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Common Name: Society Garlic
Society Garlic is a perennial from a bulb which multiplies and divides freely. The leaves are linear and blue green with strong onion odor when crushed. The flowers are borne on 1-2 foot tall stems and are rosy lavender clusters b... |
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Common Name: Society Garlic, Variegated
Tulbaghia violacea 'Variegata' or 'Silver Lace' is an attractive variety of Tulbaghia violacea (which see) with white margined leaves....
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