Our Plants
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Common Name: California Bay
Glossy leaves, strong pungent odor when bruised. Sometimes grown as an ornamental tree. Wood is valued for fine woodworking. (See HRT)...
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Common Name: Mexican Buckeye
Deciduous small tree or large shrub with compound leaves and pink flowers in spring before the leaves. Blooming tree suggests Redbud (Cercis). Three marble size poisonous seeds in woody capsule. Adaptable large shrub for sun or semi-shade. Soil to...
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Common Name: Sparkleberry
Deciduous shrub or small tree to 25 feet. White spring flowers, good bark and form. (See DIR, WGS, S&W)...
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Common Name: Creeping Blueberry 'Wells Delight'
This evergreen creeping blueberry is a North Carolina State University selection from southeastern North Carolina named for the late Dr. B.W. Wells, noted North Carolina ecologist. It has small shiny leaves that are even smaller than typical for the...
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Common Name: Florida Evergreen Blueberry 'John Blue'
A dense evergreen shrub with small blue-green leaves selected for its ornamental qualities by blueberry researchers at North Carolina State University. It makes an attractive garden subject with typical small blueberry flowers and fruits. It is nat...
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Common Name: Elliott's Blueberry
Graceful deciduous shrub to 10 feet. Small glossy leaves turn brilliant red in fall. Plant on well-drained acid soil. A very nice ornamental blueberry. Fruits small but edible. An excellent ornamental shrub but little-known in cultivation. Native ...
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Common Name: Evergreen Blueberry
An upright growing dense evergreen shrub with very small glossy leaves. It produces small white to pink bell shaped flowers clusters in spring followed by blueberries which are small but tasty. It is native to, and should be planted in, well-draine...
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Common Name: Deerberry
A variable species of native blueberry with relatively large fruit on long pedicels. Leaves vary from green to very glaucous blue-green and fruits from pinkish green to brownish purple. The large berries are edible but not delicious. Plants offered...
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Common Name: Trailing Verbena
A vigorous trailing perennial Verbena with dissected leaves and royal purple flowers. This variety found and selected at a homestead in Georgia has become a popular groundcover and garden plant. Long blooming and long-lived it deserves a place in t...
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Common Name: Culvers Root
A large imposing native perennial with pointed, toothed leaves 2'- 4'long in whorls around stem. Tiny pink flowers in dense racemes in late summer. Plant it in moist, fertile soil in a sunny site. A good plant for the back of the border. Native to...
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Common Name: Mapleleaf Viburnum
Adaptable native colony forming deciduous shrub to 5 feet. Extremely shade tolerant. Maple like leaves turn a unique lavender-pink fall color. Very tolerant of dry conditions. Birds like fruit. Although widespread in Eastern U.S. woodlands and an...
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Common Name: Ashe's Viburnum
Deciduous shrub with small serrated leaves. White flowers. Blue-black fruit. May be a Deep South form or subspecies of Viburnum dentatum. Taxonomy confusing and sometimes listed as Viburnum dentatum var. scabrellum, Viburnum semitomentosum, etc. ...
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Rare and little known evergreen shrub with dense habit. Small leathery leaves are glossy and emerge copper colored and mature to dark green. Steel blue fruit in fall. Introduced into England from the Himalayas in 1904 by Kingdon Ward and sometimes...
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Common Name: Japanese Evergreen Viburnum
Selection made by the late Dr. J C Raulston in a school yard on Chindo Island, Korea. It was selected for its large red penduous fruit clusters. A large upright evergreen shrub to 20 feet with big shiny leathery leaves. Sometimes called Viburnum macr...
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Common Name: Bracted Viburnum
Attractive shrub with lustrous dark green deciduous leaves of firm texture. Creamy white flowers in spring. Leaves don't scorch in full sun. Appears to be drought tolerant. This is a horticultural selection of the very rare Viburnum bracteatum whi...
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Common Name: Cinnamon Leaf Viburnum
A large evergreen shrub with large glossy oval leaves that are deeply veined and distinctive. Somewhat like the lower growing Viburnum davidii but much better adapted in the southern U.S. Large flat clusters of white flowers in late spring followed...
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Common Name: Himalayan Evergreen Viburnum
Rare evergreen or semi-evergreen shrub or small tree with spreading often drooping branches. Glossy, relatively small leaves. White flowers in summer, scarlet fruit. Hillier says: "Large specimens in full fruit are extremely effective in autumn"....
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Common Name: Sir Harry Veitch's Viburnum
Medium sized evergreen shrub of dense, bushy growth. Small dark green, almost round leaves are distinctive. Clusters of small white flowers in late spring. Introduced from China by E.H. Wilson in 1904 but virtually unknown in the U.S. Our stock ca...
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Common Name: Japanese Evergreen Viburnum
A handsome evergreen Viburnum with relatively large lustrous dark green foliage and dense habit. Flat clusters of fragrant white flowers in spring followed by red fruits. Probably first offered in U.S. by Woodlanders and still little-known here. Do...
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Common Name: Luzon Viburnum
Essentially evergreen shrub with leaves somewhat like Arrowwood (Viburnum dentatum). It is grown in the Houston area which is where we got it but is apparently little known elsewhere in the U.S. Grow in fertile, well drained soil in sun or semi shad...
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Common Name: Chinese Snowball Viburnum
A splendid large deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub producing very large "snowball" globes of sterile flowers which are first green and then white giving a great show in late spring. Allow ample space in sunny to semi shady location with good, well-d...
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Common Name: Possumhaw Viburnum 'Winterthur'
An upright deciduous shrub. Selected by the late Hal Bruce of Winterthur Gardens. Shiny, fairly large leaves and free-flowering. For wet to average soil. Creamy-white flowers. Berries turn from white to pink to blue and are enjoyed by birds. Aw...
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Common Name: Walter Viburnum 'St. Paul'
An attractive somewhat pendulous form of our native Walter Viburnum. Viburnum obovatum and its selections are becoming increasingly popular landscape plants, especially in Florida. This selection by Nancy Bissett at The Natives Nursery in central F...
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Common Name: Dwarf Walter's Viburnum
Rounded mounding evergreen shrub with small leaves and abundant white flowers in spring. One of several increasingly popular dwarf selections of this fine species native to the southern U.S. (see also 'Whorled Class' and Miss Schiller's Delight') Th...
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Common Name: Doublefile Viburnum Selection
Dr. Michael Dirr highly recommends this "tremendous" introduction from Don Egolf's breeding program at U.S. National Arboretum. Large deciduous shrub with very showy white clusters of sterile and fertile florets atop spreading branches. Needs space ...
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Common Name: Blackhaw Viburnum
Attractive small tree with oval leathery deciduous leaves and showy flat topped clusters of white flowers followed blue fruits attractive to birds. Interesting very dark checkered bark on trunks. Plant in sun or semi shade. Soil should be well drai...
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Common Name: Rusty Blackhaw
A choice small tree somewhat like Viburnum prunifolium. Tardily deciduous glossy leaves. Clusters of white flowers followed by blue-black fruits eaten by birds. This is an excellent small specimen tree with year-round interest for sun or light sha...
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Common Name: Siebold Viburnum
This medium to large shrub has lustrous dark green leaves which often hold on until late November. Seneca is the result from a self-pollination of V. sieboldii. Selected for abundant, large, pendant inflorescence and red f... |
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Common Name: Viburnum Hybrid
Small to medium evergreen shrub of dense rounded habit. White flowers in flat-topped clusters in late spring. Hybrid (V. calvum x V. davidii)of Chinese species. Originated at Hilliers Nursery in England. The seed parent, V. davidii, does not usual...
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Common Name: Prague Viburnum
Evergreen shrub which is hybrid between V. rhytidophyllum and V. utile. Fast growing, hardy, and probably better landscape shrub than either parent. Dark green shiny leaves. Slightly fragrant flowers pink in bud opening white in sp... |
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Common Name: Tasmanian Trailing Violet
Sometimes known as Erpetion reniforme, this is a pretty little trailing plant with small kidney-shaped leaves and numerous little half white, half lilac-blue flowers on erect two to three inch stems. It grows well in shady or semi shady moist soil a...
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Common Name: Smooth Yellow Violet
This woodland violet native to eastern North America is valued for the bright yellow flowers. Also known as Viola pennsylvanica and Viola eriocarpa. A nice little violet for the woodland garden or shady border and a surprise to all who think violet...
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Common Name: Walter's Violet
Named for early South Carolina botanist Thomas Walter, this Deep South violet is a good rock garden plant. It forms dense mats of small rounded heart shaped leaves that are light green with deep green veins. Leaves are purplish on the underside. M...
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Common Name: Chastetree
Small deciduous tree in South. Can be grown as a perennial in the North. Clusters of lilac flowers in summer. A lovely summer flowering tree native to southern Europe and western Asia. Plant in open site with well-drained soil. This variety, 'Shoa...
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Common Name: Chastetree
Large deciduous shrub or small tree. Similar to Vitex agnus-castus but the five leaflets are very dissected and the panicles of blue flowers are more open. Overall more open, airy, and possibly more hardy than Vitex agnus-castus....
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Common Name: Roundleaf Vitex
A prostrate trailing shrub with rounded deciduous bluish green leaves about 2" in diameter. Bright blue flowers in late summer. A very good salt tolerant plant for seashore and dune planting but becoming invasive in some seaside areas of the Carol...
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Common Name: Three Leaf Vitex
Deciduous shrub or small tree wih three leaflets with white margin variegation. Blue to purple flowers somewhat resembling lilac flowers. Probably more tender than V. agnus-castus. Native southeast Asia to Australia. Z. 8-10...
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Common Name: Scrub Grape
Very attractive native grape vine with small shiny rounded deciduous leaves. Similar to Muscadine (V.rotundifolia) but smaller leaves and inedible small fruit. Good arbor vine for sunny location with well-drained soil. Native on dry sandy soils in...
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Common Name: Old Fashioned Weigela
Relatively compact form of this old favorite garden shrub. Leaves are deciduous and are variegated with pale yellow or creamy white margins. Deep rose colored flowers late spring. This old-fashioned shrub in its many varieties is best used in the ga...
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Common Name: American Wisteria
Twining woody deciduous vine with compound leaves and short cluster of blue flowers appearing with the leaves. A much less rampant vine than the common Asian Wisterias. This native vine was virtually unknown to American gardeners when introduced by...
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Common Name: American Wisteria Selection
Twining woody deciduous vine with compound leaves and short cluster of white flowers appearing with the leaves. A much less rampant vine than the common Asian Wisterias. This native vine was virtually unknown to American gardeners when introduced b...
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Common Name: White Kentucky Wisteria 'Clara Mack'
Kentucky Wisteria 'Clara Mack' is a twining deciduous vine with compound leaves and hanging clusters of white flowers. This splendid white form of a normally blue-flowerd species has longer and later flower clusters than Wisteria frutescens, our oth...
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Common Name: Netted Chainfern
Widespread in eastern North America on low grounds, swamps, and moist soils. Spreads by creeping and branching rootstocks to form colonies. Bright glossy green fronds are pinkish when new. Readily grown in moist shady situations with acid soil. De...
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Common Name: Yellowroot
A curious shrub related to the Buttercup. Native to eastern U.S. Compound leaves are deciduous but turn bright yellow in the fall. Roots are bright yellow when cut. Typically grows in shady streamside sites which do not flood. Can be grown in hal...
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Common Name: Plains Yucca
A clumping or sometimes solitary stem Yucca with narrow blue-green leaves 1-3 feet long. Stems lacking or up to 3 feet tall. Dense panicle of white bell-like flowers not held high above the leaves. A plant of very deep sandy soils or dunes in west...
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Common Name: Coontie
Zamia pumila (umbrosa) is the form of this low cycad native in eastern Florida. It has stiff evergreen fern-like leaves from a large tuberous root which is the source of arrowroot starch and once much used by the Indians. A popular landscape plant i...
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Common Name: Toothache Tree
Small to medium sized tree with shiny compound leaves and prickles on leaves and stems. Trunks develop curious thorn tipped corky projections. Greenish flower clusters followed by shiny black seeds. A good butterfly larval food plant. Primarily c...
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Common Name: Dusty Zenobia
This is the blue foliaged form of this fine semi-evergreen ornamental shrub native to the coastal Carolinas. Our introduction, the 'Woodlanders Blue' selection with blue foliage is becoming more widely available. Zenobia was virtually unavailable f...
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Common Name: Dusty Zenobia
This is the green foliaged form of this fine semi-evergreen ornamental shrub native to the coastal Carolinas. Showy racemes of white bell-shaped flowers in spring. Moist sandy acid soil in sun or semi-shade. See also the 'Woodlanders Blue' selectio...
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Common Name: Atamasco or Easter Lily
Grassy foliage. One of the hardiest wind lilies. Low native bulb plant with grass-like foliage and large white lily flowers on 1'stems in spring. Sometimes called Easter Lily and a choice plant for the native garden....
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Common Name: August Rain Lily
This fall blooming Rain-lily produces masses of white flowers from grass-like clumps of foliage. It is tolerant of a wide range of soils and conditions but likes moisture. It spreads and naturalizes nicely in the South. It is native to Argentina. ...
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Common Name: Yellow Rain Lily
Rushlike, thick, with blunt edges, stiff. (See HRT, O&T) Three inch container....
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Common Name: Yellow Rain lily
Bright golden star like lilies through the summer. These bulbs produce grass like foliage which is somewhat persistent through the winter. Not difficult to grow but likes moisture. Native to Argentina and Brazil....
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Common Name: Foster's Pink Rain Lily
These bulbs produce grass-like leaves and masses of beautiful pink flowers somewhat like crocus. It is native to Mexico. It grows well in the South and flowers after summer rains....
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