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Abelia chinensis
Common Name: Chinese Abelia

This Abelia is an upright to spreading deciduous shrub native to China and one of the parents of the much more commonly grown hybrid Abelia x grandiflora.  It can make a good hedge plant with abundant white flowers in summer and with...


Abeliophyllum distichum
Common Name: Fragrant White Forsythia

This early-flowering multi-stemmed deciduous shrub is native to Korea.  It is related to Forsythia but has fragrant white flowers.   While a hardy shrub it is rather rare in cultivaton.  Should be good for an open sunny site wi...


Abelmoschus manihot
Common Name: Sunset Hibiscus
Abelmoschus manihot (Hibiscus manihot) is a perennial in the warmer zones, and an annual elsewhere. It bears large showy yellow Hibiscus-like flowers with a maroon eye. It grows well in warmer areas of the U.S. and is easily grown in any well-drained...

Abutilon pictum
Common Name: Flowering Maple
A shrub in warm areas with maple-like leaves and orange mallow-like flowers in leaf axils. A showy, fast grower for a sunny protected spot. Given rich soil and ample water, these plants will thrive during hot summers. May not freeze back every yea...

Abutilon pictum 'Souvenir de Bonn'
Common Name: Variegated Flowering Maple

Abutilon pictum 'Souvenir de Bonn' is a shrub in warm areas. Maple-like leaves are variegated with white. Orange mallow-like flowers in leaf axils. A showy, fast grower for a sunny protected spot. Given rich soil and ample water, these pl...


Agave americana
Common Name: Century Plant
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Agave lophantha 'Splendida'
Common Name: Century Plant 'Splendida'

This small bright green Agave with a white center stripe on the short, broad, toothed leaves is a selection of a species native to south Texas and Mexico.  This smaller more compact clumping selection was found some years ago near J...


Aleurites fordii
Common Name: Tung-oil Tree

Tung Oil tree is a medium size deciduous tree.  It is ornamental with large (to 10 in) dark green heart shaped or lobed leaves and white to pink flowers in showy panicles in spring. Large inedible seeds are source of tung...


Alnus maritima
Common Name: Alder, Seaside

Seaside Alder is a medium to large deciduous shrub with glossy oval, toothed leaves.  Flowers are elongated catkins followed by small pinecone-like fruits.  This rare species is unusual in several respects.  It flowers in the f...


Alpinia sp
Common Name: Evergreen Ginger
Evergreen Ginger produces many long lance-shaped leaves from the base. Spikes of clear yellow flowers extend above the foliage. Plant in part to full shade in moist fertile soil. From seed Collected in 1998 by Frank Bell above Baoguo Monastery on ...

Amelanchier nantucketensis
Common Name: Nantucket Serviceberry
A rare low-growing, thicket forming stoloniferous shrub which occurs on sandy soils in sun. . Mid spring white flowers have shorter petals than most Shadbushes. Edible red fruits like other Shadbush species. We are indebted to Richard Lynch of Swe...

Amsonia hubrechtii
Common Name: Arkansas Amsonia
This distinctive species of Blue Star native to the South Central U.S. We believe this now popular plant was first made available by Woodlanders. It is a strong perennial forming a large dense clump of upright stems clothed with very narrow leaves w...

Amsonia tabernaemontana
Common Name: Bluestar
This is the Amsonia most familiar to gardeners. This Bluestar has broader oval leaves and the blue star shaped flowers at the ends of the stems typical of the Amsonias. It grows well in deep moist soil in partial shade. Alan Armitage in Herbaceous...

Anisacanthus wrightii
Common Name: Hummingbird Bush

Hummingbird bush is a deciduous shrub with rather small pointed leaves and orange to red tubular star-shaped flowers attractive to hummingbirds. Flowers occur from late spring until frost. Drought tolerant as it is native to the southwestern U.S. ...


Anisacanthus wrightii 'Pumpkin'
Common Name: Yellow Hummingbird Flower

Like Anisacanthus wrightii (which see) but with yellow flowers. This clone from San Antonio Botanic Garden is probably the variety 'Pumpkin'

 

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Arbutus unedo
Common Name: Strawberry Tree
Small tree or large evergreen shrub with urn-shaped pinkish-white flowers in small panicles in fall/early winter. Orange-red strawberry-like fruit. Fruit matures over a year and is present at same time as flowers. Edible but not wonderful ! Slow...

Arbutus x andrachnoides
Common Name: Strawberry Tree Hybrid

Evergreen small tree similar to Arbutus unedo with white bell-like flowers and pink, strawberry-like fruit. On older plants the bark becomes a rich red-brown color. Salt tolerant. Dark green leaves are 1.5 to 4 inches long. Hybrid between...


Ardisia crenata
Common Name: Coralberry
A low shrub with a single stem like a little tree. glossy dark green leaves with wavy edges. Small pink flowers in spring followed by clusters of persistent bright red fruit. A very ornamental plant for the southern garden where it will self-seed in...

Ardisia crenata 'alba'
Common Name: Ardisia, White Berried

This is the uncommon white-berried form of Ardisia crenata (which see).  Culture and other characteristics similar. 

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Ardisia japonica 'Hinode'
Common Name: Variegated Japanese Ardisia
A variegated form of Ardisia japonica (which see) with broad band of yellow variegation in the center of the leaves....

Aronia arbutifolia 'Brilliantissima'
Common Name: Red Chokeberry 'Brilliantissima'
Thicket forming deciduous shrub with persistant red fruit. Fall color equal to or superior to burning bush. Adaptable to well-drained or wet soils. This selection has perhaps waxier more lustrous leaves than typical for species. Good ornamental. ...

Asarum kumagianum
Common Name: Yakushima Ginger
This is a "wild ginger" like our native Hexastylis species but with larger leaves which are likewise evergreen and beautifuly marbled. This plant is from Yakushima Island in Japan and is a sought after collector's plant for the woodland garden....

Asclepias tuberosa
Common Name: Butterfly Weed

This strong-growing perennial native to Eastern North America is a favorite of gardeners.  Flower color can range from yellow to almost red but bright orange is typical.  It is best grown in a sunny location wit...


Asimina triloba
Common Name: Pawpaw
Tropical looking deciduous small tree. Large leaves have distinctive odor when crushed. Largest native edible fruit. Perishable banana-like fruit in mid-summer has custard like pulp and large seeds. They are relished by raccoons and many people. S...

Aspidistra elatior 'Variegata'
Common Name: Variegated Cast Iron Plant

Like Aspidistra elatior (which see) but leaves with alternate stripes of white and green. It may lose variegation in high fertility soils. Pot bound plants can display the best variegation.  May be a bit less hardy than the norm...


Aspidistra lurida 'Milky Way'
Common Name: Speckled Cast Iron Plant
Smaller than typical Cast Iron Plant and with myriad small white spots on dark leaves (hence name). According to Plant Delights this is properly 'Ginga' but is more commonly called 'Milky Way' This interesting evergreen groundcover should have cultur...

Aster carolinianus
Common Name: Climbing Aster
A most unusual Aster as it is a vine or very scandent shrub with woody stems which do not die back in winter. Abundant late season flowerheads are about 1" diamenter. The ray flowers are blue to purple with yellow disc flowers. It occurs in scatter...

Aster laevis 'Bluebird'
Common Name: Aster 'Bluebird'
A selection of our native Smooth Aster made by Richard Lighty at Mt. Cuba Center in Deleware. Large vase shaped clumps bear abundant 1"+ flower heads with violet blue ray flowers surrounding golden disc flowers. This good perennial for the bed or b...

Aster oblongifolius 'Raydon's Favorite'
Common Name: Aster 'Raydon's Favorite'
A dense bushy plant smothered in fall with large blue-purple flowers. A selection from the former Holbrook Farm Nursery in N.C. A fine garden plant for sunny border with well-drained soil. Aromatic foliage. Native to dry prairies and rocky slopes...

Aucuba chinensis
Common Name: Chinese Aucuba

This Chinese relative of the common Japanese Aucuba is a rare plant perhaps first offered in U.S. by Woodlanders. It is an evergreen shrub with broad coarsely toothed leaves with a few yellow dots. Possibly not as cold hardy as the Japanese specie...


Baccharis dioica
Common Name: Broombush Falsewillow

This rare semi-evergreen shrub is similar to our common Baccharis halmifolia but quite distinct.  In 1979 just before Hurricane Frederick did tremendous damage to the Mobile, Alabama area, we discovered...


Baptisia alba
Common Name: False Indigo, White
Multi-stemmed perennial with tall spikes of showy white flowers in spring. A great, long-lasting plant for sunny, well-drained sites in the garden bed or border. Several tall white Baptisias with fat seed pods formerly classed as separate species a...

Baptisia australis
Common Name: Blue Wild Indigo

When Woodlanders began in 1980 this was about the only Baptisia known to gardeners. We subsequently introduced many other species which have become popular garden perennials. Baptisia australis is a long-lived perennial that is essentiall...


Baptisia sphaerocarpa
Common Name: Yellow False Indigo

Baptisias first offered by Woodlanders'(which includes virtually all except B. australis) are becoming the latest garden craze. This is one we first offered in 1987 from seed we collected in Chambers County, Texas.  The blue-green foliage and...


Begonia grandis (pink)
Common Name: Hardy Pink Begonia
Begonia grandis (evansiana) (pink) is a lovely pink flowered begonia with large pointed leaves with red veins. Flowers in drooping clusters through the summer. A surprisingly cold-hardy perennial begonia from tuber-like roots. Best in rich moist ...

Bignonia capreolata 'Helen Fredel'
Common Name: Helen Fredel Crossvine

Crossvine is a high climbing semi-evergreen vine with bright orange trumpet shaped flowers.  It is a good flowering vine that climbs high by tendrils and hold-tights and is effective if planted on a fence or trellis in sun or ...


Buddleia alternifolia
Common Name: Alternate-leaf Butterflybush

Unlike other Buddleias this deciduous shrub has alternate leaves and a rather different growth habit. It has been likened to a small weeping willow when not in flower and to a purple waterfall when in bloom.  It is the hardiest of a...


Buddleia cordata ssp. tomentella
Common Name: Los Lerios Butterflybush

This is a large evergreen shrub with somewhat heart-shaped gray green leaves with lighter undersides. Originally it was collected by Yucca-do Nursery near Los Lerios, Cohuila, Mexico and originally offered by us a "Buddleia sp. "Los Leri...


Buddleia davidii x fallowiana 'Lochinch'
Common Name: Butterflybush, 'Lochinch'

'Lochinch' is a hybrid Butterfly Bush blooming on new growth with showy panicles of small fragrant lavender blue flowers that have an orange "eye".   This is a vigorous and fast-growing decidous shrub with gray-g...


Buddleia davidii x globosa 'Miss Ruby'
Common Name: Butterfly Bush, 'Miss Ruby'

This striking pink flowered Butterfly Bush is the result of a cross between two different Buddleia davidii x B. globosa varities.  It was created by Dr. Dennis Werner at the Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh, North Carolina whi...


Buddleia salvifolia
Common Name: Sageleaf Buttrtflybush

This is a medium to large South African shrub which has proven surprisenly hardy in trials at Athens, GA. Flowers of pale lavender are not particularly fragrant but Dr. Dirr says: "All visitor's to our trials have become enamored with the foliage"...


Buddleia x weyeriana 'Honeycomb'
Common Name: Yellow Butterflybush

This yellow-flowered hybrid butterflybush (B. globosa x B. davidii) is better and more vigorous than  'Sungold'.   It was obtained by Dr. Mike Dirr from Crathes Castle Garden in Scotland and named 'Honeycomb'.  It was purchased...


Buxus balearica
Common Name: Box, Balearic Island

This seldom offered evergreen shrub or small tree is not often seen in the U.S.   It is related to and similar to the common Boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) but has larger leaves.  It is probably less cold-hardy but perhaps a bett...


Buxus harlandii
Common Name: Harland Boxwood

 

This small boxwood with narrow, bright green leaves and abundant and noticible bloom is apparently the true Buxus harlandii.  The boxwoods commonly sold in the South as B. harlandii,&...


Buxus sempervirens ''Unraveled''
Common Name: Boxwood, Weeping 'Unraveled'

For complete information click on:   https://www.ncsu.edu/jcraulstonarboretum/horticulture/introductions-and-promotions/choice-plants/buxus-sempervirens-unraveled.php

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Callicarpa acuminata
Common Name: Black Beautyberry

This deciduous Mexican shrub is somewhat like Callicarpa americana.  The arching branches bear clusters of small shiny berries that are black instead of the more common purple of other Beautyberries.   It was collected...


Callicarpa americana
Common Name: American Beautyberry

American Beautyberry is a deciduous multi-stemmed shrub with rather large velvety leaves that are coarsely toothed and opposite on the stems.  . The flowers are small, purple, and in clusters around stems at the leaf nodes.  Th...


Callicarpa americana 'Bok Tower'
Common Name: Beautyberry 'Bok Tower'

Like Callicarpa americana (which see) but with white berries. This selection from Polk County, FL by Jonathan Shaw, former director of Bok Tower Gardens is late flowering and fruiting. Perhaps the best white-fruited selection for the Deep...


Callicarpa americana 'Welch's Pink'
Common Name: Pink Beautyberry

This Callicarpa americana (which see) is a selection with pink berries. It was found in east Texas by plantsman Matt Welch and introduced through the Mast Arboret um at Stephen F. Austin State University. Nacogdoches, Texas.  The sho...


Callicarpa bodinieri var. giraldii 'Profusion'
Common Name: Bodinier Beautyberry 'Profusion'

'Profusion' Beautyberry is an excellent Dutch cultivar of this hybrid Chinese deciduous shrub.  The upright arching branches bear bronze-purple new growth which turns pinkish purple in fall.  The abundant small purple berries are bo...


Callicarpa dichotoma 'Issai'
Common Name: Beautyberry 'Purple Issai'

Purple Beautyberry is, according to Dirr ( Manual of Woody Landscape Plans) is the "most graceful and refined of the species". It is also the most cold-hardy. This selection fruits heavily as a young plant and abundant small violet b...


Callicarpa dichotoma 'Splashy'
Common Name: Variegated Purple Beautyberry

'Splashy' is a deciduous shrub with arching branches, small pink flowers, and abundant clusters of small purple berries. This selection introduced from Japan by our friend Ted Stephens of Nurseries Carolinana is highly variegated with irregular wh...


Callicarpa formosana
Common Name: Beautyberry, Taiwan

Deciduous shrub with showy purple fruits.  This species of beautyberry is a good choice for gardens in warmer climate zones.   For detailed informaion see:   More Info


Callistemon paludosus (hybrid?)
Common Name: Bottlebrush Pink
Evergreen shrub with arching to pendulous branches. Leaves dark green lance like along stems. Flowers terminal pink "bottlebrushes". This relatively cold hardy bottlebrush is unusual in that it has pink flowers freely in mid-summer. Native to Austral...

Callistemon pinifolius
Common Name: Bottlebrush, Pine-leafed

Pine-leafed bottlebrush, as the name suggests, has needle-like leaves resembling pine foliage.  This rather upright shrub is native to southeastern Australia.  It is rather uncommon in cultivation, at least in the southern U.S.  Thi...


Callistemon sp. 'Woodlanders Hardy'
Common Name: Bottlebrush Cultivar

This bottlebrush is a medium, arching, evergreen shrub with bright red "bottlebrush" flowers in late spring. Originally offered by us as C. sieberi, but that species should have yellow flowers. Has proven winter hardy in Raleigh, NC. ...


Calluna vulgaris 'Gold Haze'
Common Name: Heather 'Gold Haze'
Heather is an upright branching, small evergreen ground cover plant with dense, leafy branches that can form a mat. It is a plant that likes a cooler climate and a moist but well-drained acidic soil that is sandy and low in fertility. This golden t...

Calycanthus hybridus 'Venus'
Common Name: Sweetshrub 'Venus' Hybrid

Deciduous shrub with glossy dark green leaves and showy white flowers resembling the flowers of Star Magnolia but a bit smaller. Flowers in mid summer. This exciting new introduction was bred by Dr. Tom Ranney in North Carolina combining the easte...


Camellia crapnelliana
Common Name: Crapnell Camellia

Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Many varied and quite different species of Camellia occur in...


Camellia edithae
Common Name: Dongnan Sancha Camellia

Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Many varied and quite different species of Camellia occur in the Far East an...


Camellia euryoides
Common Name: Camellia, Mockorange
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Many varied and quite different species of Camellia occur in the Far East and this is one of t...

Camellia hybrid 'Julia Mackintosh'
Common Name: Sasanqua Camellia, 'Julia Mackintosh'

This seedling selection of Camellia sasanqua which occurred here at Woodlanders was selected and propagated by George Mitchell and named for the late Julia Mackintosh who with her husband Robert founded Woodlanders.  I...


Camellia japonica 'Imura'
Common Name: Camellia 'Imura'

Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. 'Imura' is a nice form of Camellia japonica with elegant ...


Camellia japonica 'Jury's Yellow'
Common Name: Camellia Cultivar

Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This is a nice form of Camellia japonica with semi-double flowers that are c...


Camellia japonica (single red)
Common Name: Red Camellia (named cultivar ?)
(unknown cultivar) Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This is an unusual but nice form of Camellia japonica. This beautiful and ...

Camellia japonica x reticulata 'Brian'
Common Name: Camellia 'Brian' Hybrid
Evergreen shrub with showy Cyclamen pink, semi-double flowers with silvery cast. As best we can determine this is a Camellia reticulata x Camellia japonica hybrid . Flowers in late winter. Compact upright growth habit....

Camellia saluensis 'Appleblossom'
Common Name: Camellia 'Appleblossom'

A selection of Camellia saluensis with abundant pink flowers. Originally acquired from the Norfolk, VA garden of the late Fred Huette, a great plantsman and first director of Norfolk Botanical Garden.

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Camellia sasanqua 'Misty Moon'
Common Name: Sasanqua Camellia, 'Misty Moon

Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This Camellia sasanqua variety is a relatively new selection of thi...


Camellia sasanqua x reticulata 'California Dawn'
Common Name: Camellia 'California Dawn' Hybrid
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This is a hybrid between Camellia sasanqua and the large flowered but rather tender Chinese sp...

Camellia sinensis 'Rosea'
Common Name: Pink Tea Plant

A pink flowered form of Camellia sinensis (which see). The foliage is also somewhat reddish.

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Camellia x 'Cinnamon Cindy'
Common Name: Hybrid Camellia

Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This plant is a hybrid between Camellia japonica 'K...


Camellia x williamsii 'Donation'
Common Name: Camellia Hybrid, 'Donation'

Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. 'Donation' is a hybrid between Camellia japonica 'Donkelaeri' and <...


Canna flaccida
Common Name: Southern Marsh Canna

This Canna is a natibve perennial with light green broad tropical looking leaves typical of Canna. This native species has yellow flowers and spreads freely in moist to wet soil or in shallow water but also grows well in ordinary garden soil....


Carex flaccosperma
Common Name: Blue Wood Sedge
Ornamental Carex are tufted or clump-forming grass like plants. This clump forming sedge has glaucus blue to blue-green slightly quilted leaves to 1/2 inch wide. Drought tolerant once established but best in moist soil and semi-shade. Native to sou...

Carya ovata
Common Name: Shagbark Hickory

This large deciduous tree has typical hickory compound leaves and attractive shaggy bark peeling in strips on the trunk. The hard shelled nuts are edible and delicious. This tree prefers moist, well-drained sites, but is adaptable.&...


Cassia bicapsularis
Common Name: Showy Senna

This subtropical shrub has abundant bright yellow flowers in late fall.  It is evergreen in zone 10 and stem hardy in zone 9.   The seeds are said to be poisonous but not deadly. In zone 8 it may freeze bac...


Castanea mollissima
Common Name: Chinese Chestnut

This bushy Chinese deciduous tree is widely grown as a substitute for the once widepread American Chestnut tree (C. dentata) that was essentially eliminated by the chestnut blight brought in from China in 1904. It produces large edib...


Castanea pumila
Common Name: Chinquapin, Alleghany
Deciduous large shrub occasionally tree-like. Oval serrated leaves and edible and very tasty nuts the size of a hazelnut enclosed in a spiny burr as with the related chestnut. Somewhat resistant to chestnut blight or better able to overcome it beca...

Catalpa ovata
Common Name: Catalpa, Chinese

Smaller than our native Catalpas, this Chinese species is an attractive and precocious to flower small tree.  It has the same heart-shaped leaves and long slender pods as other Catalpa trees.  The large upright clusters of one inch ...


Cephalanthus occidentalis
Common Name: Buttonbush

Buttonbush is a rounded dediduous shrub which can be trained as small tree. Grows in wet or seasonally flooded sites but does well in ordinary garden situation with sun and adequate water. Flowers white in ball-like clusters about 1-1.5 inch in di...


Cephalotaxus harringtonia 'Prostrata'
Common Name: Japanese Plum Yew

Cephalanthus is and evergreen conifer similar to Yew (Taxus). This variety is prostrate in growth habit and is a good substitute for Taxus in the South. Plant in moist but well-drained soil.  It will tolerate drought once it is esta...


Ceratostigma willmottianum
Common Name: Chinese Plumbago

This "Plumbago" is a small shrub with small bristly leaves which turn reddish in fall. It has rich blue flowers in summer and fall.  It should have sunny or semi-shady site with well-drained soil and good air circulation.  It is native t...


Cestrum elegans var. smithii
Common Name: Smith's Jasmine

Similar to Cestrum elgans (which see), but with profuse blush rose flowers. Suitable in zone 8-10 or in greenhouse where it is everblooming. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 inches of coarse sand over the stubs. Mu...


Cestrum nocturnum
Common Name: Ladies of the Night Jasmine
Scandant or spreading shrub in frost free climates but perennial in zone 8. Very fragrant clusters of tubular yellowish flowers that are fragrant at night. Plant in sheltered spot where powerful fragrance at night will be enjoyed. Cut back plants aft...

Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Filicoides'
Common Name: Hinoki Falsecypress
A small evergreen tree with bright green leaves in fern-like sprays. Somewhat random habit of growth but very attractive. One of many horticultural selections of this Japanes conifer. Plant in sun or semi-shade in well-drained soil....

Chasmanthium latifolium
Common Name: River Oat Grass

Chasmanthium (Uiola) latifolium is a luxuriant and shade tolerant perennial grass with relatively wide leaf blades and taller spikes of drooping seed heads much like "Sea Oats". Attrative in the garden and seed stalks a great component fo...


Chelone lyonii 'Hot Lips'
Common Name: Pink Turtlehead 'Hot Lips'

This Turtlehead is a clump forming perennial with 1" long pink flowers in dense terminal spikes.  The flowers can persist for about 4 weeks. Plant in good soil in sunny bed and provide adequate water. A choice perennial for the garden be...


Chionanthus retusus var. serrulatus
Common Name: Fringetree, Chinese
A very ornamental small deciduous tree with heavy-textured oval glossy serrated leaves that look as though they would be evergreen. Abundant white feathery flowers in spring. Attractive light tan scaly bark. As an established tree in the landscape...

Chionanthus virginicus
Common Name: Fringe Tree

Fringetree is a deciduous large shrub or small tree, often multi-stemmed. A favorite landscape ornamental prized for it's abundant fleecy white flowers in spring followed on female plants by raisin-size purple fruits. Fringetree can be grown in su...


Choysia arizonica x ternata 'Aztec Pearl'
Common Name: Mexican Orange, 'Aztec Pearl'

Choysia is a small genus of evergreen shrubs native to the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.  'Aztec Pearl' is a hybrid between two of these and was created by Peter Moore of Longstock Park Nursery in England.  It appears to be more col...


Citrus (Citrus paradisi x Ponciris trifoliata) 'Swingle'
Common Name: Citrumelo, 'Swingle'

'Swingle' Citrumelo is a thorny, semi-evergreen Grapefruit x Ponciris hybrid with fragrant white flowers and somewhat pear-shaped yellow fruits the size of a large orange. Fruit is more ornamental than edible but this is a quite hardy plant which ...


Citrus reticulata 'Keraji'
Common Name: Keraji Mandarin

Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas.  Keraji Mandarin is a medium size evergreen tree with typical white fragrant ...


Citrus taiwanica
Common Name: Nanshodaidai

Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This is a vigorous upright spreading evergreen thorny citrus with sour tangerine to orange-like fr...


Citrus (Citrus X) Citrus ichangensis X Citrus grandis (maxima)
Common Name: Ichang Lemon

Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. Ichang Lemon is a medium size evergreen tree with large leaves with winged petioles and thorny bra...


Citrus (Citrus X) Citrus x meyeri 'Meyer'
Common Name: Lemon, 'Meyer'

Small evergreen tree with fragrant purple tinted white flowers and large lemon-like fruits. A favorite container-grown citrus. The Meyer Lemon is probably a hybrid between a lemon and some other citrus. It was discovered near Peking, China in 1908...


Citrus (X Citrus) Ponciris trifoliata x Citrus sinensis 'Benton'
Common Name: Citrange, 'Benton'

Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas.  'Benton', like most other Citranges is cold hardy, not very edible, but ornamental...


Citrus (X Citrus) Poncirus trifoliata x Citrus paradisi 'Dunstan'
Common Name: Citrumelo, 'Dunstan'
A trifoliate Orange x Grapefruit hybrid said to produce 4" yellow fruit which "if sprinkled with sugar, smell and taste like an ordinary grapefruit, harvested perhaps a bit too early." "May be the best overall hybrid with 50 percent trifoliate parent...

Clethra alnifolia 'Ruby Spice'
Common Name: Pink Summersweet

Clethra alnifolia and the southern Clethra tomentosa are stoloniferous deciduous shrubs commonly called Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush. They form colonies in moist acid soil and make good garden subjects. They are valued for their termin...


Clethra barbinervis
Common Name: Japanese Clethra
A tall tree-like deciduous Clethra with somewhat fragrant terminal racemes of white flowers in summer but best known for it's smooth polished grey to brown and exfoliating bark. A great plant for the winter garden where the bark can be the most beaut...

Clethra tomentosa 'Cottondale'
Common Name: Clethra 'Cottondale'

Clethra alnifolia and the southern Clethra tomentosa are stoloniferous deciduous shrubs commonly called Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush. They form colonies in moist acid soil and make good garden subjects. They are valued for the...


Cleyera fortunei
Common Name: Variegated Cleyera

This evergreen shrub is related to Camellia.  This species is known only in the variegated form cultivated in Japan. The narrow leaves have a white margin. Grow in well-drained fertile soil with ample moisture. Sun or semi-shade. This is...


Clinopodium coccineum
Common Name: Red Savory

Clinopodium (Satureja) (Calamintha)coccineum is an aromatic evergreen shrub with small leaves. Loose open growth habit. Very showy tubular red flowers in summer. Attractive to hummingbirds. Occurs only on deep, well-drained sands. Plant i...


Clinopodium coccineum 'Amber Blush'
Common Name: Amber Blush Red Basil

 

'Amber Blush' is a new yellow-flowered clone of Clinopodium coccineum (which see) from the Florida Panhandle that was introduced and shared with us by Rich Lewandowski of Shangri La Gardens in Orange, T...


Clinopodium georgianum
Common Name: Georgia Savory

Clinopodium (Satureja) georgianum is a semi-evergreen mint shrub with highly aromatic foliage and abundant pinkish flowers in late summer. It is a good border plant for sunny or semi-shady spots with good drainage.  Georgia Savory will grow i...


Clinopodium georgianum hybrid 'Desi Arnez'
Common Name: Clinopodium Hybrid

Clinopodium (Satureja) georgianum hybrid is a chance hybrid of uncertain parentage that was introduced by Woodlanders. It occurred here in the garden of Robert Mackintosh. It is possibly a Clinopodium geo...


Clinopodium (Satureja) (Calamintha) coccineum 'Ohoopee Yellow'
Common Name: Yellow Flowered Red Savory

Clinopodium (Satureja) (Calamintha) coccineum 'Ohoopee Yellow' is a contradictory common name, but this is a clear bright yellow flowered selection of a usually red flowered mint shrub Clinopodium coccineum. This yellow form was ...


Clytostoma callistegioides
Common Name: Trumpet Vine, Argentine Purple

This is a vigorous evergreen vine related to our native Crossvine.  It bears glossy leaves and 5" long purple trumpet flowers in spring.  It climbs by tendrils.  It is relatively care free in warm climates but needs water in prolong...


Colocasia antiquorum 'Illustris'
Common Name: Imperial Taro

This large tropical "Elephant Ear" is also listed as Colocasia esculenta var. antiquorum 'Illustris'. It is perennial in most of the South. The vivid green leaves are atriking being splashed with deep brownish purple color. Colocasias are...


Colquhounia coccinea
Common Name: Himalayan Mint Shrub

Colquhounia is a showy shrub with simple medium size leaves that are downy and rather rough.  It produces spikes of reddish or scarlet flowers in summer or fall. Plant it in a sunny, well-drained site with good soil.  It can be...


Conradina canescens
Common Name: Gray Conradina
Conradinas are dense aromatic low shrubs in the mint family with small, usually linear green or gray leaves, and small pale purple flowers. There are 6 or possibly 7 species in the southern U.S., primarily in Florida where they grow on sand or very ...

Conradina canescens 'Gray Mound'
Common Name: Conradina, Gray Mound

Conradina canescens is a low dense evergreen mint shrub with short, soft, needle-like leaves and white to blue-gray tubular flowers about 3/4 inch long.  The plant is highly variable with respect to growth habit and foliage color....


Conradina sp.
Common Name: Styx River Rosemary

Some years ago we introduced two selections of Conradina collected on Styx River in southern Alabama.  We called these "Low Gray" and "Low Green" and hope these clones may still be in cultivation somewhere.  In re-visitin...


Cornus kousa var. chinensis
Common Name: Chinese Dogwood

This Chinese dogwood is a spreading small to medium size deciduous tree with nice foliage and showy white-bracted flowers. Unlike our native American Dogwood, the bracts are pointed. It flowers about a month later than ou...


Crataegus marshallii
Common Name: Parsley-leaved Hawthorn

The Parsley Haw is a distinctive and attractive small tree with shiny green dissected parsley-like leaves.  The white flowers with red stamens appear in spring and are followed by red fruit.  It is native to Piedmont and Coastal Pla...


Crataegus opaca
Common Name: Mayhaw, Western
Small deciduous tree with abundant white flowers in early spring soon followed by edible fruit which makes excellent jelly. Native to intermittant ponds but grows well on sites not subject to flooding. Very similar to Crataegus aestivalis but nativ...

Crocosmia masonorum x paniculatus 'Lucifer'
Common Name: Montbretia
This is a perennial from a bulb or corm and a great plant for southern gardens multiplying well in good moist neutral or acid soil in sun or semi-shade. Showy spikes of orange-red flowers over long period in spring and summer. Grass-like flattened l...

Cudrania cochinchinensis
Common Name: Cockspur Thorn

This spiny sprawling or vining shrub has glossy evergreen leaves.  It is sometimes classified as a Maclura and is related to our Osage Orange.  Apparently widespresd in eastern Asia down to Australia it see...


Cunninghamia lanceolata
Common Name: Chinafir

Chinafir is a large, pyramidal, often multi-trunked coniferous evergreen tree with rather long flattened needles in more or less two dimensional arrangement on twigs.  It bears interesting small cones and is an attrative and somewhat curious ...


Cunninghamia lanceolata 'Glauca'
Common Name: Blue Chinafir

This is a silvery-blue needled form of Cunninghamia lanceolata (which see). Otherwise similar.

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Cycas revoluta
Common Name: Sago Palm

Sago Palm is not a palm.  Cycads are palm-like primitive plants more related to the ferns.  The Sago Palm is native to Japan and is a favorite and very noticible landscape plant in the Deep South, U.S.   It...


Cyrilla arida
Common Name: Scrub Titi

Scrub Titi is a very rare shrub discovered in the early 20th century by J.K. Small.  It occurred in desert-like scrub habitat in central Florida but was lost and taxonomically questioned for years. With Kenneth Wurdack we redis...


Cyrilla racemiflora
Common Name: Leatherwood
Titi is an evergreen to semi-evergreen shrub or small tree found in damp to wet acid soil from southern Virginia to the Gulf Coast. It is summer blooming with showy white racemes of tiny flowers at the ends of the branches. Though found on wet site...

Cyrilla racemiflora 'Graniteville'
Common Name: Leatherwood

'Graniteville' Titi is a low growing selection of Cyrilla racemiflora (which see).  This Woodlanders introduction was propagated from an almost prostrate plant we found some years ago on an eroded sandhills seepage slo...


Danae racemosa
Common Name: Poet's Laurel

This is a choice low evergreeen shrub for shade.  It is in the Lily family so related to Asparagus! Shiny green lance-shaped "leaves" are actually modified stems.  It bears attractive red berries in fall.  Occasionally seen in ...


Dendropanax trifidus
Common Name: Ivy Tree

Dendropanax is a most unusual small dense evergreen tree with ivy-like leaves.  This plant grew in our garden here in Aiken, South Carolina for years.  It is a Japanese native tht is indeed related to ivy.  It bears simila...


Dianella tasmanica variegata
Common Name: Flax Lilly

This bold strap leaf perennial has nice variegated foliage and small star-shaped bright blue to purple flowers which are followed by glossy, deep blue berries. Plant it in good soil in sun to partial shade. Native to Tasmania.

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Dichroa febrifuga
Common Name: Dichroa

This medium size evergreen shrub has small blue flat topped clusters of flowers in spring followed by iridescent blue berries in fall. It is a relatively recent introduction from China. It is related to Hydrangea and soil condition...


Dicliptera suberecta
Common Name: Hummingbird Plant

This South American native is a good garden plant in the South.   It is a mounding subshrub with velvety grey leaves and tubular orange/red flowers.  It can be planted in a sunny perennial border with good soil and could also b...


Diospyros virginiana
Common Name: Common Persimmon

Persimmon is a medium size deciduous tree that is pyramidal to oval-rounded in outline. It has dark green leaves and gray-black checkered bark. Male & female flowers (not showy) are on separate trees. Edible 1-2 inch fruit are orange when ripe...


Distylium myricoides (Piroche form)
Common Name: Isu Tree Cultivar

This very different form of Distylum myricoides is called 'Lucky Charm Witchhazel'. This evergreen shrub has leaves which are blue-green. The leaf arrangement and branching are quite horizontal. It probably remains a relatively low s...


Distylium racemosum
Common Name: Isu Tree

This unusual small tree is a member of Witchhazel Family.  This evergreen tree has glossy leaves and small red flowers in spring.  Its fine-grained wood is used to make furniture & crafts in Japan where it apparently becomes a s...


Dryopteris erythrosora
Common Name: Autumn Fern

Autumn Fern is a medium to large evergreen fern with broad somewhat triangular fronds. The new growth is copper colored. This Asian fern is a handsome and dependable fern for the shady or semi-shady garden.

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Duranta serratifolia
Common Name: Tala Blanco

Related to Duranta repens, the "Skyflower" or "Golden Dewdrop" sometimes seen in Florida gardens. This species is a shrub which can become scandant or vine-like or can become a small tree.  It is deciduous with leaves turning purple ...


Edgeworthia chrysantha
Common Name: Paper Bush

This medium size deciduous coarse shrub has simple leaves 6-8 inches long and of a blueish color. This suckering shrub is related to Daphne and Dirca.  It produces clusters of interesting clusters of tubular yellow fl...


Elaeagnus pungens 'Variegata'
Common Name: Variegated Autumn Olive
Autumn Olive is a servicable evergreen shrub with very fragrant but relatively inconspicuous flowers in the fall. This is a handsome cultivar with gold edged leaves. Autumn Olive is a large shrub but can become vine-like if allowed to scramble up in...

Elettaria cardamomum
Common Name: Cardamom

This ginger relative produces attractive foliage from rhizomes. Here it can stay under 2 feet but it gets much larger in tropics where it is grown for the exspensive spice Cardamom.  . Leaves have a delightful fragrance wh...


Erica x darleyensis
Common Name: Hybrid Heather

Heaths and heathers come in many species and varieties.  Most are not well-suited to the heat and humidity of the southern U.S. but this hybrid between two European species, Erica erigena and E. carnea,&...


Eriobotrya japonica
Common Name: Loquat

The Loquat is a large evergreen shrub with big leathery leaves that are toothed on the margins.  The plant flowers in mid-winter with clusters of white flowers.  The edible plum-like fruits are variable in size and quality and contain la...


Erythrina x bidwillii
Common Name: Coralbean Hybrid

This very showy Coralbean is a hybrid between the Argentine E. crista-galli and our native E. herbacea. Perennial in zone 8 from large root stock. Large spikes of vivid red flowers in summer. Cut back plants after...


Euonymus sp.
Common Name:

This yet to be identified Euonymus is probably E. fortunei.  It is a low trailing evergreen shrub with long-pointed, toothed, leaves about 2 inches long.  A new introduction, it was collected by Frank Bell o...


Fagus grandifolia
Common Name: American Beech
American Beech is a large imposing deciduous tree widespread in rich woodlands in eastern North America. It has toothed oval leaves several inches long which are bright green turning yellow in fall, then brown, and remaining on tree through the wint...

Feijoa sellowiana
Common Name: Pineapple Guava

Pineapple Guava is an evergreen shrub with gray-green foliage.  The flowers with red staymens are showy and may be followed by tasty fruit. It is tolerant of dry soil and seashore conditions.  It is native to Uruguay but widely grow...


Ficus carica 'Celeste(?)'
Common Name: Fig

The common Fig, a large deciduous shrub originally from the Mediterranean and Middle East region has been cultivated since ancient times for its edible fruit.  There are many named varieties.  This may be the variety 'Celeste' which...


Ficus heterophylla
Common Name:

We are identifying this little-known fig as Ficus heterophylla thanks to Tony Avent at Plant Delights who was probably the source for the cuttings we originally started with.  It is a rather scandent shrub with long a...


Ficus pumila
Common Name: Fig, Creeping

Figvine is very unlike the common edible fig (Ficus carica).  This evergreen vine has small fingernail size rounded leaves and is usually seen on masonary walls where it climbs high by means of little rootlets which hold fa...


Ficus pumila x carica
Common Name: Climbing Fig Hybrid

A curious hybrid between the climbing fig (vine) and the edible fig (shrub) which is intermediate between the very different parents. This mostly deciduous and semi-vining shrub is grown mostly as a botanical or garden curiosity.&n...


Fontanesia phillyreioides
Common Name: Syrian Privet

Fontanesia is a deciduous shrub with narrow lanceolate opposite leaves which are several inches in length.  It in the olive family, related to privet, and apparently likewise tolerant of conditions.  It seems questionable as to...


Forestiera acuminata
Common Name: Swamp Privet

Swamp Privet is a large deciduous shrub or small tree with small lance shaped opposite leaves.  Yellowish small flowers are borne in the leaf axils in early spring.  Male and female flowers are on separate plants.&nb...


Fothergilla major 'Mt Airy'
Common Name: Large Fothergilla Cultivar

The native Fothergilla species were choice but scarcely available garden shrubs when Woodlanders first began to offer them in 1980. This selection found by Dr. Mike Dirr in Mt. Airy Arboretum in Cincinnati, OH is now widely grown and available. It...


Fragaria virginiana
Common Name: Wild Strawberry

This is the native wild strawberry of eastern North America. The plants have trifolate leaves and produce runners which form new plants at their ends. White flowers are followed by small but sweet tasty strawberries once commonly enjoyed by countr...


Fuchsia boliviana
Common Name:

This fuchsia is a shrub with bright red tubular flowers in pendulous clusters.  We collected this Fuchsia from a subtropical rainforest region in Tucuman Province in Argentina. This Woodlanders introduction was hoped to be much more heat...


Gardenia jasminoides 'Chuck Hayes'
Common Name: Gardenia Cultivar

Evergreen shrub with fairly large glossy leaves and 3 inch double white flowers, the standard extremely fragrant Gardenia flower. Gardenia is a long time garden favorite throughout the South. This variety from the late Virginia Beach, VA nurseryma...


Gardenia jasminoides 'Yellow'
Common Name: Yellow Gardenia
This Gardenia is a large shrub essentially like the common Gardenia with glossy evergreen leaves and very fragrant white flowers but the flowers on this one soon change to deep yellow. We obtained this plant from a garden in central South Carolina b...

Gardenia sp. 'Daruma'
Common Name: Gardenia Cultivar

A small tight evergreen shrub similar to Gardenia 'Klein's Hardy' but with small dark green leathery leaves that are quite rounded and with small single fragrant white flowers. Gardenias grow well in relatively fertile acid soil in semi-shade...


Gardenia sp. 'Variegata'
Common Name: Gardenia Cultivar
This striking rather upright Gardenia is a Woodlanders'introduction that has become more widely available. We received this plant many years ago from Brookside Gardens in Maryland after they had found it in Japan. Leaves have strong yellow variegat...

Gardenia sp. (from China)
Common Name:

A Woodlanders introduction, this Gardenia was grown from seed collected by Frank Bell on Emei Shan, China's sacred mountain in Sichuan. It is a vigorous, single stem upright plant with very glossy dark green leaves that are long and narrow. It bea...


Gelsemium rankinii
Common Name: Jessamine, Swamp

This evergreen vine is closely related to Gelsemium sempervirens (Which see).  It is a rare species is found in wet habitats in the coastal plain of the southeastern U.S. It is floriferous and flowers both in spring and fall but the ...


Gelsemium sempervirens 'Pale Yellow'
Common Name: Carolina Jessamine 'Pale Yellow'

Gelsemium sempervirens is native to the southern U.S. and is the state flower of South Carolina.  It is an attractive spring flowering evergreen vine for sun or semi shade and is an attractive vine on a fence or trellis....


Gelsemium sempervirens 'Pride of Augusta'
Common Name: Double Jessamine (Cultivar)

Evergreen twining vine with bright yellow fragrant flowers in spring. This species produces few variants but this selection with double flowers was probably introduced many years ago by the famous but now defunct Fruitland Nursery of Augusta, Geor...


Gelsemium sempervirens (hardy) 'Margarita'
Common Name: Carolina Jessamine

Yellow Jessamine is is the South Carolina state flower and is a useful evergreen vine with fragrant yellow flowers. This selection from northern Georgia was named 'Margarita' by Gene Cline a true native plant pioneer. It has proven hardy and has g...


Glyptostrobus pensilis (lineatus)
Common Name: Water Pine, Chinese

Glyptostrobus is a rare deciduous conifer somewhat similar to Baldcypress (Taxodium) and grows in similar habitats.  It is native in south China and adjacent Viet Nam.  Though virtually extinct as a wild plant, it is plant...


Gordonia lasianthus 'Variegata'
Common Name: Variegated Loblolly Bay

Gordonia lasianthus is a handsome evergreen tree native to moist acid soils in the coastal plain of the southern U.S. It is in the tea family and related to Camellia and Franklinia. Trees in the wild reach large size. The summer flowers a...


Grevillea juniperina x rosmarinifolia 'Canberra Gem'
Common Name: Canberra Gem Spiderflower

Commenting on this Australian shrub, Helen Johnstone writing for the Hardy Plant Society in England says:  I think it is a pity this shrub isn’t grown more. I only became aware of it when reading Christoher Lloyd’s “Colour f...


Grevillea rosmarinifolia
Common Name: Rosemary Grevillea

This unusual shrub grows to 6 feet but is sometimes lower and semi-prostrate. The foliage resembles Rosemary but the curious flowers are red and cream and borne in late fall.  This plant is native to Australia and has performed well in v...


Hamamelis virginiana
Common Name: Common Witchhazel
Witchazel is a large deciduous shrub or small tree found in woodlands over much of eastern North America. It is interesting in the landscape for its fragrant yellow flowers with little strap-like petals which cover the branches in November. Novembe...

Hamelia patens
Common Name: Firebush

This plant is a shrub in the tropics and south Florida.  It is a perennial to 4 feet or more in the Deep South.  This heat tolerant bush has reddish leaves and tubular red flowers and has become very popular in Texas.  Cut back plan...


Hedychium coronarium
Common Name: Butterfly Ginger

This tall herbaceous perennial spreads by rhizomes.  It bears showy spikes of very fragrant white flowers with a greenish or yellowish blotch.  It blooms in summer on terminals of tall plants with long corn-like leaves and spreads in ric...


Heimia salicifolia
Common Name: Willow-leaf Heimia

This spreading and much-branched smooth shrub looks very much like a Hypericum but is not related.  It is actually related to Crepe Myrtle! The axillary flowers are yellow and followed by a dry capsule.  This plant is said...


Helianthus angustifolius
Common Name: Swamp Sunflower

Swamp Sunflower is a tall robust perennial that can be an aggressive spreader in a moist sunny location. A good perennial plant for the garden with ample space. In late summer and fall the plants are smothered in 2 1/2 inch wide bright yellow flow...


Helleborus orientalis
Common Name: Lenten Rose

The Lenten Rose is not a rose but it does flower around Lent. It is an evergreen herbaceous perennial with attrative palmate leaves with leathery toothed leaflets. The attractive flowers are a couple inces across and are white or purple tinged or ...


Heteropterys glabra
Common Name: Redwing

Redwing (Heteropterys glabra) is a vining or scandent deciduous shrub with small lanceolate leaves and clusters of yellow flowers followed by red winged fruits that look just like maple "keys".  It is not related...


Hibiscus aculeatus
Common Name: Pineland Hibiscus
Pineland Hibiscus is a perennial species native to the southeastern U.S. Coastal Plain where it grows in flatwoods and damp roadside ditches, etc. It is more spreading, branched, and prickly than other native Hibiscus. The leaves are deeply lobed a...

Hibiscus coccineus
Common Name: Red Rose-Mallow

This tall open perennial Hibiscus with maple-like (or Marijuana-like !) leaves has bright red 3-5 inch flowers with extended stamens.  It is a striking ornamental Hibiscus that grows naturally in very wet sites in the southern U.S. but i...


Hibiscus dasycalyx
Common Name: Neches River Hibiscus

A very rare and endangered perennial Hibiscus found on the Neches River in east Texas where it is threatened by hybridizaton with Hibiscus militaris. This species has multiple stems from a thick base. It is readily distinguished by the na...


Hibiscus militaris
Common Name: Halberd-leaf Hibiscus
A relatively widespread native perennial Hibiscus found along streams and in wet areas in the southern U.S. The leaves and stems are smooth and the pointed leaves are halberd shaped. The flowers borne in summer are a pink with a reddish base. Like ...

Hibiscus moscheutos
Common Name: Swamp Rose Mallow
This common perennial Hibiscus or Marsh Mallow is found in wet areas, including brackish marshes, throughout the eastern U.S. It has relatively large broad and lobed leaves and showy white flowers with a dark center. This species makes a good garde...

Hibiscus mutabilis 'Plena'
Common Name: Confederate Rose

Confederate Rose is neither Confederate nor Rose. It is a shrub Hibiscus native to China. A wonderful big multi-stem deciduous shrub with leaves like a cotton plant and large double peony-like showy flowers in the fall that open white and change t...


Hibiscus palustris
Common Name: Rose-mallow, Pink

The Pink Rose-mallow is a close relative of Hibiscus moscheutos and occupies similar wetland habitats, mostly in the northeastern U.S. It is likewise an attractive garden perennial when grown in good soil with ample moisture and a sunny l...


Hibiscus paramutabilis x syriacus 'Tosca'
Common Name: Hibiscus Hybrid

The Hibiscus 'Tosca' is a hybrid between the species H. paramutabilis and the familiar Rose of Sharon (H. syriacus). It is a relatively hardy deciduous shrub Hibiscus with ruffled orchid to magenta flowers with...


Hibiscus x sp. 'Peppermint Flare'
Common Name: Hibiscus, Peppermint Flare

This perennial Hibiscus hybrid is a 2010 Texas Superstar award winner.  It was selected by Greg Grant and is floral sport or perhaps a seedling of 'Flare' a H. moscheutos hybrid developed by Dr. Sam McFadden...


Holmskoldia sanguinea
Common Name: Chinese Hat Plant

The Chinese Hat Plant is a viney shrub native to the Himalayas and southeast Asia.  Leaves are thin, green, several inches long and 2 inches wide with a long tip and serrated edges.  They are borne opposite or in whorls on long will...


Hosta tardiflora
Common Name: Plantain Lily
Hostas come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and varieties with immaginative names. We wouldn't begin to tackle these! This small growing Hosta is a neat little green leaf species from Japan that flowers in fall and adds a nice touch to the woodland ga...

Hosta yingeri
Common Name: Yinger's Plantain Lily

This Hosta species was introduced from an island off Korea by our plantsman friend Barry Yinger for whom this previously undescribed species was named. It is distinctive for its very glossy leaves. It has grown well here in South Carolina and...


Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle'
Common Name: Smooth Hydrangea 'Annabelle'

'Annabelle' is a selection of our native Hydrangea arborescens. It is a deciduous shrub to 5 or even 6 feet with very showy white snowball flower clusters in early summer.  It was selected by the late Dr. J.C. McDaniel at t...


Hydrangea macrophylla 'All Summer Beauty'
Common Name: Hydrangea 'All Summer Beauty'
This popular Macrophylla Hydrangea is a compact, 3 to 4 foot deciduous shrub with sterile mophead flowers supposedly produced on new growth. Flower color will vary according to soil. Pink flowers (Alkaline soil) or Blue flowers (Acid soil) If old fl...

Hydrangea macrophylla 'Mariesii'
Common Name: Lacecap Hydrangea Cultivar
This fine Hydrangea produces large, graceful, lace-cap flowers which can be pink (alkaline soil) or blue (Acid soil) It can grow to 6 feet. If old flowers are removed, Hydrangea may flower again in August. Choose planting site with shade from the h...

Hydrangea quercifolia 'Alice'
Common Name: Oakleaf Hydrangea 'Alice'

Oakleaf Hydrantgea is a large deciduous shrub with large oak-like leaves, big panicles of white flowers, and exfoliating bark,  It is native almost exclusively to rich woods in Alabama but is very widely grown as a favored ornamental shrub. &...


Hydrangea quercifolia 'Alison'
Common Name: Oakleaf Hydrangea 'Alison'

'Alison' is a large deciduous shrub with large oak-like leaves, big panicles of white flowers, and exfoliating bark, this species is native almost exclusively to rich woods in Alabama but is very widely grown as a favored ornamental shrub. 'Alison...


Hydrangea quercifolia 'Harmony'
Common Name: Oakleaf Hydrangea 'Harmony'

A large deciduous shrub with large oak-like leaves, panicles of white flowers, and exfoliating bark, this species is native almost exclusively to rich woods in Alabama but is very widely grown as a favored ornamental shrub. Plant in fertile well-d...


Hydrangea x 'Preziosa' 'Pink Beauty'
Common Name: Hydrangea Hybrid

'Preziosa' is a mophead-type hydrangea which is varyingly listed as a cultivar of H. serrata or as a cultivar of H. macrophylla or as a hybrid between the two. Features small mophead-like panicles (3-4") in which the showy sterile florets progress...


Hymenocallis liriosme
Common Name: Texas Spiderlily[
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Hypericum frondosum 'Sunburst'
Common Name: Cedarglade St. Johnswort 'Sunburst'

This Hypericum is a semi-evergreen shrub with blue-green foliage and powderpuff golden flowers in summer. This species is widely scattered as a native plant in the southeastern U.S. The selection 'Sunburst' was made by Dr. Richard Lighty of Mt. Cu...


Hypericum nudiflorum
Common Name: St. Johnswort
Slender medium size shrubby St. Johnswort with relatively wide light green leaves. Rather uncommon along streams and swamps in the Southeast. Long oval leaves are light green and flowers are golden with many stamens as is typical for the Hypericums....

Hypericum reductum
Common Name: Atlantic St. Johnswort

This Hypericum is a low heatherlike needle-leafed evergreen shrub with yellow flowers.  This St. Johnswort is native to open sites with deep sandy soils in coastal plain of the southeastern U.S. and is one of our favorite Hypericums.  It...


Ilex amelanchier (female)
Common Name: Holly, Serviceberry Holly or Swamp Holly
This rare holly native to the Southern U.S. is a tall deciduous shrub or small tree with dull matte finish red fruits on long stems. Oval leaves to 4 inches long suggestive of Amelanchier leaves, hence "Shadbush Holly". This holly occurs along black...

Ilex coriacea
Common Name: Large Gallberry

Large Gallberry is a tall evergreen shrub found in wet acid soils in the Southeastern U.S. Coastal Plain where it often occurs with the related Inkberry Holly (Ilex glabra). It is usually a larger plant with larger and broader leaves and ...


Ilex cornuta x aquifolium 'Edward J. Stevens'
Common Name: Holly 'Edward J. Stevens'

This large evergreen shrub or small tree with dark green sparingly spined leaves is a hybrid between English Holly (Ilex aquifolium) and Chinese Holly (I. cornuta).  'Edward J. Stevens' is is the ma...


Ilex mutchagara
Common Name: Shima-inu-tsuge Holly

Upright evergreen shrub similar to Japanese Holly (I. crenata) and sometimes considered a variety of it found on Okinawa. The small evergreen leaves have marginal teeth but no spines. A little known shrub with open graceful habit and black fruit o...


Ilex paraguariensis
Common Name: Yerba Mate

This evergreen holly from South America resembles Dahoon Holly (Ilex cassine) of the southeastern U.S.  It is the source of Yerba mate, the popular and traditional hot beverage in Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina where it is ...


Ilex serrata x verticellata 'Apollo'
Common Name: Apollo Deciduous Holly

This hybrid deciduous holly was developed and released by the U.S. National Arboretum as a pollenator for their variety 'Sparkleberry'.  Apollo is not unattractive but is best planted as a background plant in proximity to poll...


Ilex spinigera (female)
Common Name: Holly, Caspian

This evergreen holly is a dense large shrub or small tree.  The leaves are relatively small, oblong, glossy, and spine margined . Female plants have red fruit. This holly native to Iran is very rare in America. It is related to English Holly ...


Ilex verticillata 'Southern Gentleman'
Common Name: Winterberry Holly 'Southern Gentleman'

Winterberry Holly is a small to medium size multi-stem decidous shrub found in moist to wet soils over much of the eastern U.S. The female plants produce masses of very showy red berries on the bare stems and make a striking effect in late fall an...


Ilex verticillata 'Winter Red (female)'
Common Name: Winterberry Holly 'Winter Red'
Winterberry Holly is a small to medium size multi-stem decidous shrub found in moist to wet soils over much of the eastern U.S. The female plants produce masses of very showy red berries on the bare stems and make a striking effect in late fall and ...

Ilex verticillata x serrata 'Raritan Chief'
Common Name: Winterberry Holly 'Raritan Chief' Hybrid

This small deciduous male holly is a compact hybrid made by Dr. E.R. Orton, Jr., of Rutgers University. The parent species are Ilex verticellata native to the eastern U.S. and the closely related Ilex serrata from Japan. This is ...


Ilex verticillata x serrata 'Sparkleberry'
Common Name: Holly, 'Sparkleberry' Winterberry hybrid

Our native Winterberry Holly (Ilex verticellata), its Japanese equivalent (Ilex serrata) and the hybrids between the two are small to medium size multi-stem decidous shrubs.    The female plants produce masses...


Ilex vomitoria (female) 'Virginia Dare'
Common Name: Yaupon Holly 'Virginia Dare'

Yaupon Holly is a common evergreen shrub or small tree with small leaves and red berries on female plants. It is found from southeastern Virgina to Texas. It is a popular and adaptable ornamental and there are a number of named varieties including...


Ilex vomitoria (male)
Common Name: Yaupon Holly (male)

This is the pollnator needed for good fruit set on female Ilex vomitoria.  Yaupon Holly is a dense evergreen shrub or small tree with abundant beautiful scarlet fruit on female plants.  The berries generally hold...


Ilex vomitoria (male) 'Will Fleming'
Common Name: Will's Upright Yaupon Holly

Yaupon Holly is a common evergreen shrub or small tree with small leaves and red berries on female plants. It is found from southeastern Virgina to Texas. It is a popular and adaptable ornamental and there are a number of named varieties including...


Illicium anisatum
Common Name: Japanese Anise Tree

Japanese Anise is a glossy leaf upright evergreen shrub or small tree with aromatic leaves and pale yellow starfish-shaped flowers in early spring. This species is uncommon in American gardens but our native Illicium parviflorum has been ...


Illicium floridanum ''Halley's Comet''
Common Name: 'Halley's Comet' Florida Anise Tree
Florida Anise is a medium size evergreen shrub with dark green lanceolate aromatic leaves and 2 inch starfish-like maroon flowers. It is found in rich moist soil along streams in the central Gulf Coast area from Georgia to Louisiana. It is an an ad...

Illicium parviflorum 'Florida Sunshine'
Common Name: Ocala Anise 'Florida Sunshine'

A yellow leaf form of Illicium parviflorum (which see) selected and introduced by our friend Tony Avent of Plant Delights Nursery.  His history and and description is as follows:

We brought three golden seedlings of the rare ...


Indigofera amblyantha
Common Name: Tall Indigo
Our friend Ted Stephens at Nurseries Caroliniana says: "This plant has to be one of my top 10 favorites." It will reach 8 feet plus and flowers from late March to October. Wonderful background in a perennial border as it produces spikes of pea-like...

Indigofera heterantha
Common Name: Himalayan Indigo

This medium to large shrub bears rosy purple flowers in 5 inch long racemes produced from axils of the compound leaves summer through fall. The leaves are made up of many small leaflets along a midrib.  Dr. Michael Dirr in his Manual...


Indigofera incarnata
Common Name: Chinese Indigo

Indigofera incarnata (decora) is a low spreading deciduous shrub legume with compound leaves. It makes a groundcover with summer racemes of pink pea flowers.  It is suited to sun or part shade. It is native to China

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Indigofera incarnata 'Alba'
Common Name: Chinese Indigo Cultivar

Indigofera incarnata (decora) is a low spreading deciduous shrub legume with compound leaves. It makes a groundcover with summer racemes of pink pea flowers. Suited to sun or part shade. It is native to China. Indigofera incarnata (de...


Ipomoea fistulosa
Common Name: Bush Morning Glory

Also known as Ipomoea carnea this essentially tropical "Morning Glory" from South America is not a vine but a perennial that grows to 8 feet or more.  It has big pink Morning Glory flowers and from a distance may be mi...


Iris brevicaulis
Common Name: Iris, Lamance
This native Iris is found on lowgrounds in the south central U.S. It has relatively short leaf blades with zig-zag stems and surprisingly large blue flowers that are held above the foliage. It is a good garden plant in moist fertile soil where it spr...

Iris cristata
Common Name: Crested Iris

 Iris cristata is a dwarf woodland Iris found in interior of eastern U.S.  It has rather broad leaf blades arranged in typical Iris fans. The lovely 1 1/2 to 2 inch blue flowers are borne on stems only a few inches high in spring. It is ...


Iris fulva
Common Name: Red Louisiana Iris
Copper-colored....

Iris japonica
Common Name: Shaga Iris

Iris japonica is a native of China growing in open forest edges and grasslands, at elevations from 500 to 800 m (1,600 to 2,600 ft). One population at 2,400 to 3,400 m (7,900 to 11,200 ft) in Southwest China is belie...


Iris sanguinea
Common Name:

This Asian Iris, a relative of I. siberica has narrow, dark green leaves and bears purple flowers on tall slender stems. It forms clumps which can be divided and has done well in our area with minimal care. Plant is sunny bed or border or...


Iris tectorum 'Album'
Common Name: Japanese Roof Iris

Scott Ogden in Garden Bulbs for the South says: "Japanese roof iris (I. tectorum) is famous in its native country as a flower for planting on sod roofs, just as housleeks are uesed on cottage roofs of France. In gardens the silky, green f...


Iris tectorum (blue)
Common Name: Japanese Roof Iris

Scott Ogden in Garden Bulbs for the South says: "Japanese roof iris (I. tectorum) is famous in its native country as a flower for planting on sod roofs, just as housleeks are uesed on cottage roofs of France. In gardens the silky, green fans of le...


Itea chinensis
Common Name: Chinese Sweetspire
Medium to tall evergreen shrub with oval leaves about 3 inches long and 4 inch spikes of tiny white flowers in spring. This Asian relative of our native Sweetspire has been a good garden plant in the semi-shady border here and deserves to be more wi...

Itea oldhamii
Common Name: Sweetspire, Taiwan

Itea oldhamii is an evergreen shrub with compact growth habit. Juvenile leaves can be holly-like but mature leaves are entire. It has racemes of white flowers in late spring. Plant in good soil that is moist but well-drained. In our exper...


Itea virginica 'Henry's Garnet'
Common Name: Virginia Sweetspire 'Henry's Garnet'

This now popular and widely grown selection of our native deciduous Sweetspire or Virginia Willow was first offered by Woolanders in 1985 as "Selected Form". We had propagated it from a plant obtained from the Henry Foundation in Gladwyne, Pennsyl...


Itea virginica 'Longspire'
Common Name: Virginia Sweetspire 'Longspire'

Introduced by Woodlanders, this is an excellent, long-spired (6 to 8 inches) selection of our native Sweetspire or Virginia Willow (not a willow !) selected along the Augusta Canal near the Savannah River in Georgia by our late founders, Robert an...


Itea virginica 'Sarah Eve'
Common Name: Pink Virginia Sweetspire 'Sarah Eve'

This Woodlanders introduction is the first pink Itea. The flowers are essentially white but the pink pedicels make the racemes distinctly pale pink. This selection found by Nancy Bissett of The Natives in central Florida and was named for...


Itea virginica 'Shirley's Compact'
Common Name: Dwarf Sweetspire 'Shirley's Compact'

Dense tiny mounding deciduous shrub with small congested leaves. This little mutant was found at Biltmore House and Gardens in North Carolina. It is basically a curiosity suited for the rock garden or small space where it would not...


Itea yunnanensis
Common Name: Yunnan Sweetspire

This Itea from Yunnan, China is an evergreen shrub similar to Itea chinensis except more low and spreading and with more leathery and darker green leaves that are somewhat holly-like on juvenile plants but with smooth edges on mature plan...


Jasminum beesianum
Common Name:
This little Jasmine vine from western China has small deciduous leaves which are dull dark green and taper to a point. It develops a dense tangle of slender stems and is noteworthy for its flowers which while small are fragrant and of an unusual dee...

Jasminum nudiflorum
Common Name: Winter Jasmine
Winter Jasmine produces a broad spreading rounded mass of trailing branches arising from a central crown. It could be trained on a trellis but is usually planted on slopes or embankments. It is one of the hardiest Jasmines and is valued for its yell...

Jasminum officinale var. grandiflorum
Common Name: Spanish Jasmine

Deciduous or semi-evergreen vine similar to Jasminum officinale but less vigorous, less hardy, but with larger white fragrant flowers. In southern Europe it is grown to make perfume. Recommend planting on a trellis in a very sheltere...


Jasminum polyanthum
Common Name: Chinese Jasmine
This Jasmine is an evergreen twining vine with neat pinnate compound leaves and masses of fragrant white flowers that are pink in bud. A great vine for semi-shady location in very mild climate areas or as a conservatory plant in colder regions. Flo...

Jasminum x stephanense
Common Name: Jasmine, Hybrid

Jasminum x stephanense (Jasminum beesianum x Jasminum officinale)is a rather vigorous semi-evergreen vine or scrambling shrub with small pinnate or incompletely compound leaves Flowers small, pink, fragrant. Hybri...


Juniperus communis var. depressa
Common Name: Ground Juniper

The low-growing goundcover form of Juniperus communis is widespread in the higher latitudes and higher elevations.  Ours is from an apparently clonal disjunct population that was discovered at Aiken, South Carolina by the botanixt He...


Juniperus rigida
Common Name: Needle Juniper
Nice speciman tree. Bright green needles. Horizontal branching is somewhat open, so not suitable as screen....

Juniperus rigida 'Pendula'
Common Name: Weeping Needle Juniper
This Juniper native to eastern Asia has bright green needle-like leaves and pendulous branches. The needle-like leaves are longer than on most kinds of Juniper. The tree takes on reddish hue in winter. Plant in open site with good drainage. A nice ac...

Kalmia angustifolia var. caroliniana
Common Name: Southern Sheep Laurel

Sheep Laurel is a low, somewhat rhizomatous evergreen shrub related to Mountain Laurel (K. latifolia).  It has whorled oval leaves and clustered dark pink flower clusters. This is the southern form of this very h...


Kalmia latifolia
Common Name: Mountain Laurel

This evergreen shrub is sometimes amost tree-like.  It has glossy oval leaves reddish bark and showy clusters of white to pink cup-shaped flowers in late spring. . A choice shrub for sunny or semi-shady moist but well-drained acid soil usuall...


Kalmia latifolia 'Croft Carpet'
Common Name: Mountainlaurel, 'Croft Carpet'

This unusual Mountainlaurel is a Woodlanders introduction which we discovered among typical Kalmia latifolia (which see) near Croft Mill, Aiken County, SC. This plant has foliage and flowers typical of the species but ...


Kalmia latifolia x hirsuta
Common Name: Hybrid Laurel

This seemingly unlikely hybrid between the common Mountainlaurel (Kalmia latifolia) and the diminutive, less well-known, and very different Sandhill Laurel (Kalmia hirsuta) of the Deep South was probably first mad...


Kerria japonica 'Alba'
Common Name: White Japanese Kerria

Kerria is a monotypic genus from eastern Asias. The "old fashioned" Kerria has arching green stems and toothed leaves. It has abundant yellow flowers in spring which in the most commonly cultivated form are double and like little y...


Koelreuteria bipinnata
Common Name: Chinese Flame Tree

This fast-growing upright medium size ornamental tree of coarse structure casts medium shade.  It may become more spreading with age. This tree has large twice pinnate compound leaves and showy large yellow flower clusters in late s...


Lagerstroemia fauriei
Common Name: Copper-barked Crape Myrtle

This species of Crepe Myrtle from Yakushima Island, Japan is tree-like, has white flowers. and spectacular copper-colored bark. It is one of the parent species for the "Indian Tribe" hybrids (including the very popular 'Natchez') i...


Lagerstroemia indica 'Bayou Marie'
Common Name: Crepe Myrtle, 'Bayou Marie'

'Bayou Marie' is a smaller Crepemyrtle selected by David Chopin of Washington, PA and introduced by Hines Nursery in California.  Likewise with the variety 'New Orleans' which is also in the "Dixie Series".  'Bayou M...


Lagerstroemia indica 'New Orleans'
Common Name: Crepemyrtle, 'New Orleans' Dwarf

There are now many named varieties of dwarf Crepemyrtle.  'New Orleans' is a purple-flowered clone in the "Dixie Series" which Dirr (Manual of Woody Landscape Plants) calls "minature weeping crapemyrtles".  As with other Crepemy...


Lagerstroemia indica 'Pixie White'
Common Name: Crepe Myrtle, Pixie White
A dwarf white Crepemyrtle probably the same as 'Dwarf White' or 'Snow'from Greenleaf Nursery or Hines Nursery. In any case a good white flowered selection that stays relatively small (perhaps six feet) and useful in smaller landscapes or in container...

Lantana camara 'Hybrida'
Common Name: Yellow Lantana

This Lantana is a creeping and drought tolerant hybrid that is hardy in a sheltered spot in zones 8 and 9.  It makes a low groundcover and procuces showy yellow flowers over a long time period in summer.   Given rich soil and ample ...


Lantana camara 'Miss Huff'
Common Name: Hardy Lantana

'Miss Huff' is a now popular form of this very floriferous orange-flowered shrub attractive to butterflies. Discovered in cultivation near Athens, GA, and introduced by Goodness Grows Nursery, 'Miss Huff' Lantana is a good warm climate shrub ...


Lantana montevidensis
Common Name: Trailing Lantana

A small-leafed trailing Lantana with purple flowers.   It is a good vigodrous groundcover for sunny, well-drained sites in the Deep South. After frost kills the tops the plants can be cut back and mulched for the winter.  ...


Lespedeza bicolor 'Little Buddy'
Common Name: Lespedeza

This shrub or perennial is usually listed as a cultivar of the perennial Lespedeza thunbergii but Missouri Botanic Garden says it is a dwarf cultivar of the shrub Lespedeza bicolor. In any case it is an attractive plant for the s...


Lespedeza thunbergii 'Alba'
Common Name: Thunberg Lespedeza
Lespedeza thunbergii is a shrubby perennial with many woody stems bearing trifoliate leaves and 6-8 inch long racemes of rose-purple or white flowers in summer. They should have full sun and well-drained soil which can be rather infertile. The dea...

Leucothoe populifolia
Common Name: Florida Leucothoe

Leucothoe (Agarista) populifolia is a superb broadleaf evergreen shrub or even a small tree. It grows much larger than other Leucothoe species. The tall erect multiple stems with arching branches have creamy white small fragrant bell...


Leucothoe racemosa
Common Name: Sweetbells
This Leucothoe is native to eastern U.S. where it occurs in acidic woodland soils that are damp but not flooded. It is a deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub with racemes of little bell-like white flowers in spring. The 1 x 2 inch oval leaves are fine...

Ligustrum quihoui
Common Name: Waxyleaf Privet

This is an uncommon deciduous shrub to 12 feet.  It is much like some other "Privet" species but is much more showy in flower.  Krussmann in Cultivated Broad-leaved Trees and Shrubs says: "Muc...


Lindera akoensis
Common Name: Taiwan Spicebush

This evergreen Spicebush is a shrub or small tree with glossy, alternate, eliptical leaves 1"-2" long. We obtained this as cuttings from the garden of Bobby Green of Green's Nursery in Fairhope, Alabama as "an evergreen Lindera from Taiwan". It ma...


Lindera benzoin
Common Name: Spicebush
Spicebush is an aromatic deciduous shrub common in rich, circumneutral, moist woodland soils in eastern North America. The plant produces small yellow flowers in early spring before the foliage is emerged and has good yellow fall foliage. Males and ...

Lindera megaphylla
Common Name:
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Lobelia cardinalis
Common Name: Cardinal Flower
Cardinal Flower is a wonderful North American perennial native to wet areas but very easily grown in sunny sites with ordinary garden soils that are kept moist. It has a basal rosette of broad leaves from which arises a tall stem bearing a spike of ...

Lonicera sempervirens 'John Clayton'
Common Name: Yellow Trumpet Honeysuckle

Our native Coral Honeysuckle is a semi-evergreen vine of restrained habit. Leaves are blue-green with some encircling the stem. Flowers normally bright red but this selection has clear yellow flowers. It is a compact repeat bloomer selected by the...


Lonicera sempervirens 'Leo'
Common Name: Trumpet Honeysuckle 'Leo'
This semi-evergreen vine has blue-green leaves, some of which encircle the stems. Bright red tubular flowers over a long period attract hummingbirds. This is an excellent free-flowering clone of our native red honeysuckle. We have been unable to dis...

Lonicera x purpusii
Common Name: Winter Honeysuckle
This honeysuckle is a hybrid between Lonicera fragrantissima and the related Lonicera standishii. It is a large deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub with very fragrant creamy white flowers in winter or early spring. It is perhaps a neater and more attr...

Lonicera x tellmanniana
Common Name:

This honeysuckle vine is a hybrid of our native Coral Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) and the Chinese L. tragophylla. Hillier (Manual of Trees and Shrubs) calls it "A superb hybrid".  It has larg...


Loropetalum chinense 'Zhuzhou Fuchsia'
Common Name: Loropetalum 'Zhuzhou Fuchsia'

This Chinese evergreen shrub in the Witchazel family can become almost tree-like. It has small dark green leaves and the common form has abundant white fragrant flowers in early spring. The flowers have little filamentous narrow petals giving...


Luma apiculata
Common Name: Chilean Myrtle

Chilean Myrtle is also known as Myrtus luma. It is a neat shrub or even a tree to 20 to 25 feet tall. The evergreen leaves are small and glossy. It produces small white flowers and has cinnamon red bark. This Andean tree is not much known in U.S. ...


Lygodium japonicum
Common Name: Japanese Climbing Fern

This very attractive climbing fern is an attractive foliage vine for a trellis or arbor but this species has become an invasive nuisance in some Deep South bottomlands. For this reason it should probably not be planted in zone 9 or in some of...


Lyonia lucida
Common Name: Fetterbush
Fetterbush is an upright somewhat arching evergreen shrub with glossy leaves that have a vein along the smooth leaf edge. It grows in damp acid soils in the southeastern U.S. from Virginia southward. The plants produce small white or pink bell-shap...

Lyonia lucida 'Morris Minor'
Common Name: Fetterbush 'Morris Minor'

Fetterbush is an upright somewhat arching evergreen shrub with glossy leaves that have a vein along the smooth leaf edge. It grows in damp acid soils in the southeastern U.S. from Virginia southward. The plants produce small white or pink bell-sha...


Machilus thunbergii
Common Name: Machilus

Machilus is a handsome broadleaf evergreen tree from eastern Asia.  It is in the Laurel family and related to Avocado. It has large glossy leaves but the flowers are greenish yellow, small, and not conspicuous. They are followed by peanu...


Magnolia ashei
Common Name: Ashe Magnolia
Ashe Magnolia is a rare deciduous tree with very large leaves like its close relative the Bigleaf Magnolia (Magnolia macrophylla) but is much more shrub-like in growth habit. It has large white blossoms with a purple blotch at the base of the petals...

Magnolia fraseri
Common Name: Mountain Magnolia

The Fraser Magnolia is a medium size tree that is widespread and not uncommon in the Southern Appalachian mountains.  It has relatively large kite-shaped deciduous leaves that are "eared" at the base, sizeable creamy white flowers, and t...


Magnolia stellata 'Royal Star'
Common Name: Star Magnolia Cultivar
Star Magnolia, a hardy Japanese species, is a large rounded shrub with deciduous leaves 3-4 inches long. It is valued for its late winter or very early spring display of white star-like blossoms which cover the plant before the leaves come out. 'Roy...

Malvaviscus drummondii
Common Name: Small Turk's-cap

This Hibiscus relative is native to the Gulf Coast states and southward but widely grown elsewhere. It is a shrubby plant with bright red flowers less than two inches long but showy over a long period during the hot months and attractive to hummin...


Malvaviscus drummondii 'Pam Puryear' 'Pam Puryear'
Common Name: Pink Turk's-cap

Small Turkscap is a hibiscus relative native to the Gulf Coast states and southward but widely grown elsewhere. It is a shrubby plant with bright red flowers less than two inches long but showy over a long period during the hot mon...


Malvaviscus drummondii alba
Common Name: White Turk's-cap

A white-flowered form of the normally red-flowered Malvaviscus drummondii (which see) that was given to us by Greg Grant of the Stephen F. Austin Arboretum in Nacogodoches, TX.  This Hibiscus relative i...


Manfreda maculosa
Common Name: Rattlesnake Master

This perennial succulent is a member of the Amaryllis Family native to Texas.  It has 1 foot long soft fleshly, often dark spotted, leaves like the related Agave but they are not evergreen. The tall flower spikes produce spidery creamy white ...


Monarda x 'Jacob Cline'
Common Name: Scarlet Beebalm

Monarda didyma is a fine clump or patch forming perennial native to eastern North America. It is a lovely red-flowered plant that produces flowers in terminal whorls on tall stems. Plant in rich moist soil with full sun or afternoon shade...


Moraea bicolor
Common Name: Butterfly Iris

Also known as Dietes bicolor, this clump forming rhizomatous subtropical Iris relative has long narrow grass-like leaves about 2'long. The flat yellow flowers have brown spots at the base of the petals.  This is a very striking plan...


Morus rubra
Common Name: Red Mulberry

Red Mulberry is a medium size decidous tree native to the eastern U.S.  It has large dark green leaves that are rough to the touch.  The female trees have sweet purple fruit attractive to birds and children.  It is best grown in ric...


Muhlenbergia capillaris
Common Name: Sweetgrass

A distinctive wiry upright bunch grass with beautiful reddish plumes up to about 3 feet tall. Blooms in late summer and fall. A choice ornamental grass for sunny bed or border. Native to southeastern U.S.   In the coastal area of South C...


Myrica pumila
Common Name: Dwarf Waxmyrtle

The dwarf waxmyrtle native to frequently burned pinelands in the southern U.S. is also known as Myrica cerifera pumila or Myrica pusilla. It is a dense spreading evergreen shrub with small aromatic leaves that can form patches or...


Myrica pumila 'Willow Leaf'
Common Name: Southern Dwarf Waxmyrtle Cultivar

Morella is the now preferred name for the genus.  The dwarf waxmyrtle native to frequently burned pinelands in the southern U.S. is also known as Myrica cerifera pumila or Myrica pusilla.    It is a dense spreading eve...


Myrtus communis
Common Name: True Myrtle

This is the classic myrtle of the ancients.  It is an evergreen shrub with small glossy leaves and white flowers and is a nice plant for a sunny spot with well-drained soil where it can be used for topiary, bonsai, hedging. or as a speci...


Nerium oleander ''Variegata''
Common Name: Variegated Oleander

Uses, culture, and precautions for Oleanders is present4d with other ones we offer.  This variety differs in that the dark green leaves are borderd or splotched with white and the flowers are pink and semi-double.  This is probably a nam...


Nerium oleander 'Double Yellow'
Common Name: Oleander 'Double Yellow'
Oleander is a large sun-loving evergreen Mediterranean shrub cultivated since ancient times. It has dark green leathery lance shaped leaves in whorls around the long sparingly branched stems. The fragrant flower clusters, in various colors, are sho...

Nerium oleander 'Hardy Pink'
Common Name: Oleander 'Hardy Pink'
Oleander is a large sun-loving evergreen Mediterranean shrub cultivated since ancient times. It has dark green leathery lance shaped leaves in whorls around the long sparingly branched stems. The fragrant flower clusters, in various colors, are sho...

Nerium oleander 'Hardy Red'
Common Name: Oleander 'Hardy Red'
Oleander is a large sun-loving evergreen Mediterranean shrub cultivated since ancient times. It has dark green leathery lance shaped leaves in whorls around the long sparingly branched stems. The fragrant flower clusters, in various colors, are sho...

Nerium oleander 'Salmon'
Common Name: Oleander
Oleander is a large sun-loving evergreen Mediterranean shrub cultivated since ancient times. It has dark green leathery lance shaped leaves in whorls around the long sparingly branched stems. The fragrant flower clusters, in various colors, are sho...

Nerium oleander 'White'
Common Name: Oleander 'White'

Oleander is a large sun-loving evergreen Mediterranean shrub cultivated since ancient times. It has dark green leathery lance shaped leaves in whorls around the long sparingly branched stems. The fragrant flower clusters, in various colors, are sh...


Nyssa ogeche
Common Name: Ogechee Plum

The Ogechee Tupelo is a medium sized deciduous tree with rather large leaves and large red fruits on the female plants. The sour fruits have been used for jelly.  It grows in creek and river swamps but is adaptable to well-drained s...


Nyssa sylvatica
Common Name: Black Gum
Black Gum, known in the North as Tupelo or Pepperidge, is a medium to large deciduous tree native to eastern U.S. It is a very desirable landscape tree valued for the brilliant orange-red fall color. It is adaptable to various soil types but is not...

Odontonema callistachyum
Common Name: Purple Firespike

Similar to Odontonema stricta, the Cardinal Spear, but leaves perhaps somewhat larger and more fleshy and the large colorful spikes of flowers are purple rather than red. Obtained from JoAnn Breland at Hampton Park in Charleston, SC and s...


Odontonema strictum
Common Name: Cardinal Spear
Also called "Cardinal Flower", "Cardinal's Guard", "Firespike", and "Firestick". This is a subtropical plant native to Central America but widely grown in warm regions for the showy spikes of red flowers. It is probably a shrub in the tropics but i...

Olea yunnaensis
Common Name: Yunnan Olive
Our source, Camellia Forest Nursery in North Carolina, described this plant as an Osmanthus-like evergreen becoming a small tree with small black fruit. It was collected near a temple in China at about 7,000 feet elevation. This little-known new intr...

Osmanthus armatus
Common Name:

Osmanthus armatus is an uncommon large multi-branched shrub with thick lustrous dark green holly-like leaves with prominent marginal and terminal spines. Leaves may become spineless on mature plants.  It has fragrant cream-white flowers in au...


Osmanthus fragrans 'Conger Yellow'
Common Name: Tea Olive 'Conger Yellow'
Tea Olive is an evergreen Asian shrub that can become almost tree-like in mild climates. The leaves are about 3 inches long with small marginal teeth. It is highly prized in southern U.S. gardens for the deliciously fragrant small white flowers that...

Osmanthus fragrans 'Fudingzhu'
Common Name: Fudingzhu Tea Olive

This is a cultivar of Osmanthus fragrans (which see).  It is notable for the abundance of it's fragrant flowers.  Various clones of Tea Olive are noteworthy for their fragrance but in this clone the small white flowers...


Osmanthus fragrans aurantiacus
Common Name: Orange-flowered Fragrant Tea Olive

Tea Olive is an evergreen Asian shrub that can become almost tree-like in mild climates. The leaves are about 3 inches long with small marginal teeth. It is highly prized in southern U.S. gardens for the deliciously fragrant small white flowers th...


Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Goshiki'
Common Name: Holly Osmanthusm 'Goshiki'
'Goshiki' means Five colors in Japanese and this rather dwarf form of Holly Osmanthus is highly variegated with flecks of creamy or yellow variegation against the dark green background of the holly-like evergreen foliage. The new growth has showy pi...

Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Rotundifolius'
Common Name: Round Leaf Holly Osmanthus

Holly Osmanthus is a medium to large evergreen shrub with dark green spiny, holly-like foliage and small fragrant white flowers.  It grows to 10 to 15 feet and makes a good hedge in sun or partial shade.  This s...


Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Sasaba'
Common Name: Holly Osmanthus 'Sasaba'
Evergreen shrub with small leaves whose sharp marginal and terminal spines point in all directions. Dirr says: A plant handler's worst nightmare with deeply cut, incised, sharp, spiny, stiff, lustrous dark green leaves..." This uncommon Japanese cl...

Osmanthus x burkwoodii (x Osmarea burkwoodii)
Common Name: Osmaria

This shrub was considered a bi-generic hybrid between Osmanthus delavayi and Phillyrea vilmoriniana (decora) but some botanists now merge Phillyrea into Osmanthus which makes it an Osmanthus hybrid.  Thi...


Osmanthus x fortunei ''San Jose''
Common Name: ' San Jose' Fortune's Osmanthus

This large evergreen shrub is a hybrid between Holly Osmanthus (Osmanthus heterophyllus) and Tea Olive (O. fragrans).  'San Jose' has thinner, more finely toothed leaves, and more upright growth habit th...


Osmanthus x fortunei 'Natchez'
Common Name: 'Nachez' Fortune's Osmanthus

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Osmunda regalis
Common Name: Royal Fern
Royal Fern is found in humus rich moist to wet woodland sites (and even open areas in the North) over much of eastern North America. It has rather coarse fronds with twice pinnate leaves composed of fairly large leaflets which are somewhat un-fernli...

Oxydendrum arboreum
Common Name: Sourwood
Sourwood is a beautiful deciduous tree that is pyramidal when grown in the open. It is native to the eastern United States on well-drained acid woodland soils. It is in the family with azaleas and blueberries and produces sprays of showy summer flo...

Parottia persica
Common Name: Persian Parottia

Persian Parrotia is a small to medium sized deciduous tree related to Witchhazel.  It is valued for its form, rich fall color, and attractive exfoliating bark. Dirr, Manual of Woody Landscape Plants says:  "outstanding orna...


Phlox divaricata ssp. laphamii
Common Name: Blue Phlox

A must for the wild garden.

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Phlox paniculata 'Shortwood'
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...


Phlox pilosa 'Eco Happy Traveler'
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...

Phoebe sp.
Common Name:

Broadleaf evergreen tree in the Laurel family is related to Persea.  The genus Persea includes Redbay and Avocado. This species was recieved as seed from Nanjing, China as Phoebe neurantha, an apparently invalid name. This species seems ...


Photinia integrifolia
Common Name: Himalanan Choke Berry

Related to the Chinese Photinia (Photinia serrulata) this small evergreen tree is widespread in southeast Asia but virtually unknown in the U.S.  It is probably less cold hardy but maybe better than other Photinia in warmer zones....


Pinus glabra
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...


Pinus palustris
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...

Pistacia chinensis
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...

Pithecoctenium cynanchoides
Common Name: Monkeycomb

This Woodlanders introduction is a semi-evergreen vine related to our native Crossvine (Bignonia capreolata). It is somwhat similar and climbs with tendrils, but has white flowers. We collected this in Cordoba Province, Argentina and it h...


Pittosporum tobira 'Variegata'
Common Name: Variegated Japanese Pittosporum

Japanese Pittosporum is a popular landscape plant in mild climate areas where it is a durable evergreen shrub with rounded glossy leaves and fragrant small white flowers.  It is quite salt tolerant and often used in seashore plantin...


Podocarpus acutifolius
Common Name: Totara, Needle-leaved

Needle-leaved Totara is a dense evergreen conifer with short, sharp-tip leaves.  It is native to New Zealand and seems to do well in the southern U.S. if site conditions are appropriate.  Plant in well-drained soil in sunny or semi shady...


Podocarpus macrophyllus (low growing)
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...


Podranea ricasoliana
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....

Polygala x dalmaisiana
Common Name: Sweet Pea Shrub

This interesting fast-growing shrub is a hybrid between two South African species (P. opposistifolia x P. myrtifolia).  It has one inch long dull green leaves and an open growth habit.  The flowers are a lovely p...


Polygonatum falcatum 'Variegatum'
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 in shady or semi-shady area...


Polyspora axillaris
Common Name: Chinese Gordonia

This relative of Gordonia lasianthus is a very glossy small evergreen tree or large shrub native to southeast Asia is rarely cultivated in the U.S.   It bears abundant 3 inch showy white flowers.  A beautiful species for mi...


Polystichum acrostichoides
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...

Prostanthera x 'Poorinda Ballerina'
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 white flowers. Leaves are rather small and narrow. Plant in sunny well...


Prunus angustifolia
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...

Prunus caroliniana
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. ...


Prunus japonica
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. ...

Prunus mume
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...


Pseudocydonia sinensis
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 ...


Pseudolarix kaempferi (amabilis)
Common Name: Golden-larch
Superb, broad, pyramidal, slow growing, deciduous conifer. Rare. Golden in fall. Moist, well-drained soil. (See DIR)...

Punica granatum 'Toyosho'
Common Name: Pomegranate, 'Toyosho'

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....


Punica granatum (fruiting, from SC)
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...

Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
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 ...

Quercus agrifolia
Common Name: Coast Live Oak

Coast Live Oak is a medium size evergreen tree that is occasionally shrubby. It has rounded leaves that are somewhat holly-like and large long acorns.    We have grown seedlings from trees planted in El Paso, Texas but not seen ithis Cal...


Quercus muehlenbergii
Common Name: Chinquapin Oak

Chinquapin Oak is a large deciduous tree with chestnut-like serrated leaves.  It makes a good shade tree and is especially good for well-drained high pH soils since it typically occurs on such sites in eastern and southwe...


Quercus pumila
Common Name: Runner Oak

Runner Oak is a low-growing deciduous oak with stiff willow-like leaves. It is a component of the fire maintained southern pine forests of the Coastal Plain of the southern U.S. where it forms large colonies which produce abundant acorns when only...


Quercus stellata
Common Name: Post Oak
Post Oak is a large, long-lived, deciduous tree with rounded crown and stout, spreading branches. It is in the white oak group. It is native to eastern North America where it grows on a variety of well-drained soils. Post Oak can be identified by ...

Quercus virginiana ''Bok Tower''
Common Name: (Dwarf ? ) Live Oak

The Southern Live Oak needs no description in the southern U.S. where it is native.  The large spreading moss-draped evergreen trees are an iconic southern feature.  The one we offer here is from acorns collected at the famous Bok Tower ...


Rhododendron arborescens
Common Name: Sweet Azalea

There are two forms of this native azalea. The plants in the Southern Appalachians and Piedmont bloom in late spring but in western Georgia and eastern Alabama they flower in summer.   This upright, loosely branched azalea has white frag...


Rhododendron atlanticum
Common Name: Coast Azalea

Rhododendron atlanticum is a dedciduous azalea of suckering habit (stoloniferous). The leaves are bluish-green. The white, clove -scented flowers occur with or slightly before the leaves. The corolla is covered with sticky glands.  T...


Rhododendron austrinum
Common Name: Florida Azalea

The Florida Azalea is a large growing deciduous azalea.   The fragrant golden yellow flowers appear very early.  It blooms here in South Carolina in late March to early April.  It is one of the best native ...


Rhododendron austrinum hybrid 'Colonel Mosby'
Common Name: Col. Mosby Azalea

This azalea is a cross between the azalea 'Hotspur Yellow' and the Florida Azalea (Rhododendron austrinum).  The large flower trusses have flowers that are dark pink with a yellow upper petal.  The petals are somewhat fring...


Rhododendron canescens 'Clyo Red'
Common Name: Piedmont Azalea 'Clyo Red'

This deciduous native azalea is possibly a hybrid between R. canscens x R. flammeum though we consider it the deepest red-pink selection of Rhododendron canescens (which see). We found this Woodlanders introduction in Effingham C...


Rhododendron carolinianum
Common Name: Carolina Azalea

Pristine white flowers.

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Rhododendron linearifolium
Common Name: Spider Azalea

A Japanese azales sometimes listed as Rhododendrom macrosepalum, this is a rare find in cultivation. Both the fushia colored flower petals and the dark green leaves are distinctly linear. Ths unique azalea's foliage often persists through...


Rhododendron x 'Koromo Shikibu'
Common Name: Azalea 'Koromo Shikibu'

This upright spreading evergreen shrub is probably a R. macrosepalum hybrid although often listed as a Kurume hybrid. The hairy evergreen leaves  turn a reddish color in the fall.  This azalea is unusual for the spider-type purplish...


Rhodoleia henryi
Common Name: xiao mai hong hua he

This beautiful evergreen shrub or tree from south China is little known in the U.S. and material in cultivation may be taxonomically confused.  This plant has more pointed leaves than our Rhodoleia championii and the specie...


Rhodotypos scandens
Common Name: Jetbead
Jetbead is a loosely branched deciduous shrub with somewhat arching branches. White 1-2 inch diameter flowers have four petals and are followed by persistent shiny black bead-like fruits which persist on the plant for many months. It is an "old fash...

Rhus aromatica
Common Name: Fragrant Sumac

This sumac is a fine textured deciduous shrub with leaves remarkably like poison oak but harmless, somewhat blue green, and aromatic.  Female plants produce clusters of hairy red fruit persistent into winter. Can be used for massing on b...


Rhus typhina
Common Name: Staghorn Sumac
Colonial shrub or small tree. Very adaptable to all sunny environments except water logged areas. Bright green pinnate leaves and redish-brown fuzzy stem. Leaves turn yellow, orange, and scarlet in fall. Greenish yellow flowers and persistent red fru...

Ribes curvatum
Common Name: Granite Gooseberry

Granite Gooseberry is a rare shrub found on rocky soils in widely scattered localities from Georgia to Texas.  It is a deciduous shrub with arching branches which root where they contact the ground.  It has rath...


Rohdea japonica 'Claudia Phelps'
Common Name: Sacred Lily of China

Rohdea makes a bold groundcover grown for its dark almost black tufted evergreen leaves.   This plant should be planted in the shade where it adds interest to a winter landscape.  The rather sizeable red berries are somewhat hidden ...


Rosa banksiae 'Albo-plena'
Common Name: Rose 'White Lady Banks'

 

Lady Banks Rose is an old southern Garden favorite.  This thornless climber has abundant but small lightly fragrant double yellow flowers in the typical form but this the form with double white flowers


Rosa banksiae 'Lutea'
Common Name: Rose 'Lady Banks'

Lady Banks Rose is an old southern Garden favorite.  This thornless climber has abundant but small lightly fragrant double yellow flowers in spring. This rose is very adaptable and vigorous and requires much less special care ...


Rosa hybrid 'Louis Philippe'
Common Name: Louis Philippe Rose

'Louis Philippe' Rose, also known as Cracker Rose is a long time favorite in the Deep South where it thrives and is quite trouble free.  It was introduced into Texas from France in 1834.  The 2-3 inch wide double flowers are re...


Rosa laevigata
Common Name: Cherokee Rose

A spreading, arching shrub that will climb over and around trees or any support. It has fragrant, pure white flowers about 4" across that bloom in April and May. This viney shrub also produces a red, bristly fruit. This evergreen rose has long bee...


Rosa laevigata x 'Anemone'
Common Name: Pink Cherokee Rose

A clear pink flowered clone of Rosa laevigata (which see). Very beautiful and adaptable but rarely available. Woodlanders was fortunate to get cuttings of this plant in the 1980's from Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania where it was be...


Rosa palustris
Common Name: Swamp Rose

This wild rose is a tall somewhat thorny shrub with fragrant single pink flowers.  It grows readily in wet soils and is useful for naturalizing along pond margins and in sunny to semi-shady wet sites.  This rose is native to eastern...


Rosa sp. 'Magic Dragon'
Common Name: Rose 'Magic Dragon'

'Magic Dragon' is a small-flowered deep red rose that is trailing or semi climbing, long blooming, and trouble free. Its leaves are small, dark green, and leathery. It blooms from mid spring to mid fall and should have full sun. George Mitchell go...


Rosa sp. 'Old Blush'
Common Name: China Rose 'Old Blush'

We don't usually sell a lot of roses but we love this old fashioned trouble free southern favorite with medium semi-double pink flowers in clusters. It is a rambling climber that is ideal for arbors, etc.  William Welch (P...


Rubus irenaeus
Common Name: Bigleaf Raspberry

This raspberry relative is an attractive trailing vine with large rounded evergreen leaves (6' or more diameter) and weak prickles.  It is a rare and handsome groundcover plant that can live in full shade to full sun. This plant is also attra...


Ruellia coccinea
Common Name: Yerba Maravilla
A warm climate perennial that is somewhat woody at the base, this Ruellia has bright red tubular flowers about 1 inch long in summer. It will rebloom if cut back. A showy subtropical species that does well in the Deep South as a perennial for semi-...

Sageretia theezans
Common Name: Chinese Bird Plum

This scandent deciduous shrub with small leaves and fragrant small white flowers has long a favorite for Bonsai but is little known otherwise. We came across this plant in Houston, Texas and found that while it did well in our area it was vir...


Salvia farinacea x longispicata 'Indigo Spires'
Common Name: Sage Hybrid

'Indigo Spires' is a half hardy perennial hybrid sage that occurred as a chance seedling at Huntington Botanic Garden in California.  This Salvia is a large colony-forming perennial plant with rich blue spikes of flowers from summer through f...


Salvia koyamae
Common Name: Yellow Sage

Salvia koyamae is 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 war...


Salvia leucantha
Common Name: Mexican Bush Sage

 This tall sage has spikes of purple flowers with white corollas.  It flowers in summer.  It is a clump forming perennial sage that prefers rich garden soil and benefits from light fertilization. It thrives in full-sun exp...


Salvia leucantha 'Midnight'
Common Name: Mexican Bush Sage

 This tall sage has spikes of purple flowers and in this selection the flowers are all purple withoug the white corollas of the common kind.  It flowers in summer.  It is a clump forming perennial sage that prefers rich ga...


Salvia leucantha x chipensis ? 'Phyllis Fancy'
Common Name: Salvia Hybrid 'Phyllis Fancy'
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Salvia leucantha x elegans 'Anthony Parker'
Common Name:

This plant is a 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 lat...


Salvia madrensis 'Red Neck Girl'
Common Name: Sage, Forsythia

Forsythia Sage is a big robust perennial from the mountains of Mexico.  It has large triangular leaves and late season terminal clusters of showy yellow flowers which give it it's common name.  This plant likes sun and good soi...


Salvia mexicana
Common Name: Sage, Big Blue Mexican

Salvia mexicana is a robust perennial to 8 feet tall and 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.  It attracts hummingbirds and is best fo...


Salvia microphylla 'Deltoid'
Common Name: Littleleaf Sage Cultivar

This shrubby plant with somewhat triangular small leaves and salmon colored flowers is native to Mexico and into Arizona.  It prefers full sun but will grow with half sun. Thrives in good gardening soil or sandy loam with lime and h...


Salvia uliginosa
Common Name: Bog Salvia

This handsome vigorous perennial has bright sky blue flowers that blooms from mid summer on.  It is good for average to moist soil.  Fertilize with lime or humus to optimize conditions. Prefers full-sun to half-shade.  The...


Salvia urticifolia
Common Name: Nettle-leafed Sage

This herbaceous sage native to the Appalachian Mountains blooms in mid to late spring and may have a second blooming in late summer. It has showy Prussian blue flowers.  It is bes grown in well-drained sandy loam with full sun ...


Sarcandra glabra
Common Name:

Sarcandra is a highly decorative evergreen shrubby groundcover.  It grows to 1 to 2 feet and should be planted in  moist, acidic soil.  It is especially valued for it's orange-scarlet berries.  This plant is a woodland nat...


Sarcococca orientalis
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...


Sarcococca ruscifolia
Common Name: Fragrant Sweet Box
Similar to S. confusa. Leaves somewhat broader, fragrant flowers, red fruit. (See DIR) Related to Boxwood, glossy leafed, shade-demanding evergreens....

Schima superba
Common Name:

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...


Scutellaria serrata
Common Name: Showy Skullcap

This clump form perennial has oval serrated bright green leaves sometimes edged in red.  The blue to violet flowers in racemes appear in late spring to early summer.  Plant in sun to partial shadein a site with well-drained soil....


Serenoa repens
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...

Serissa foetida 'Kowloon'
Common Name: Yellow-rim

'Kowloon' is a Highly variegated form of this adaptable evergreen shrub. Non-fragrant white star-like small flowers bloom in May and June. This Asian shrub is a nice border plant for southern gardens and landscapes. Grow in well-drained soil in su...


Silene caroliniana 'Short and Sweet'
Common Name: Catchfly, 'Short and Sweet'

Silene caroliniana is native in woodlands locally but this selection from our friends at North Creek Nurseries is excellent.  Let North Creek tell it:  "More Info


Sinojackia xylocarpa
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.  ...


Smilax biflora var. biflora
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...


Smilax smallii
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...


Solidago caesia
Common Name: Wreath Goldenrod
This graceful, yellow flowered ground cover is shade tolerant. It blooms from late summer through mid fall....

Sorbus alnifolia
Common Name: Mountainash, Korean

Mountainash is generally a cool climate plant not suited to hot climate areas.  This deciduous Korean tree has simple finely toothed leaves rather than the compound leaves of other species of Mountainash.  This species has showy pink to ...


Spartium junceum
Common Name:
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Speirantha gardenii
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...


Stauntonia hexaphylla
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...


Styrax americanus
Common Name: Snowbell, American

American Snowbell is usually a multi-stem deciduous shrub but can be trained as a small tree. It is found on streamsides and in wet areas in the southern U.S. but does well in ordinary garden conditions with good soil and ample moisture. It will g...


Styrax obassia
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 ...


Tagetes lemmonii
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...

Tagetes lucida
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...

Tamarix ramosissima 'Rubra'
Common Name: 5-stamen Tamarix
Loose open shrub with fine cedar-like but not evergreen foliage. Flowers are rosy-pink, plume-like panicles in late spring. Acid, well-drained soil. Saline and dry soil tolerant. Prohibited in North Dakota. Native from southern Europe to central A...

Taxodium ascendens
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...

Taxodium distichum
Common Name: Bald Cypress

Baldcypress is a long-lived large deciduous conifer charactersitic of swamps and river margins in the southern U.S. where it is a valuable timber tree, Baldcypress is broadly pyramidal when young and has feather-like leaves.&#...


Tecomaria capensis
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...


Teucrium fruticans
Common Name: Germander, Silver

Silver Germander, also known as Bush Germander is notable for it's slver-gray foliage.  It is native to the Mediterranean region and should be used where a silver accent plant is needed in a sunny, well-drained site.  It has attract...


Thelypteris acuminata
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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Thelypteris kunthii
Common Name: Fern, Southern Shield

This native southern fern is a large pale green spreader.  The large finely cut upright and arching fronds are deciduous.  It received considerable publicity in a Southern Living article which suggested it could b...


Thuja plicata 'Atrovirens'
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 ...


Tibouchina urvilleana
Common Name:

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...


Trachelospermum jasminoides 'Mandianum'
Common Name: Star Jasmine, Yellow

A popular evergreen vine in the southern U.S., the "Confederate Jasmine" is native to Asia and named for the Malay Confederation.  The commonly grown form of this vine has white star-shaped fragrant flowers but this selection which we have ca...


Tripterygium regelii
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...

Tulbaghia violacea
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...


Ugni molinae
Common Name: Chilean Guava

The Chilean Guava is often listed as Myrtus ugni.  It is native to Chile and southern Argentina and is a charming evergreen shrub with small glossy opposite leaves and white flowers.  It is best known for it's tasty sweet c...


Vaccinium darrowi 'John Blue'
Common Name: Blueberry, Florida Evergreen 'John Blue'

'John Blue' is a selection of Vaccinium darrowii, a dense evergreen shrub with small blue-green leaves.  It was selected and named for its ornamental qualities by blueberry researchers at North Carolina State Uni...


Vaccinium darrowi 'Sebring'
Common Name: Blueberry, Florida evergreen

 

Vaccinium darrowii is an evergreen shrub with small leaves that are typically blue-green.  This clone we found in Higlands County, Florida was selected and named by Woodlanders for its ornamen...


Vaccinium darrowii 'Rosa's Blush'
Common Name: Blueberry, Florida Evergreen 'Rosa's Blush'

This small leaf evergreen blueberry is native to sandy pinelands in the South.   Small bell-shaped white flowers are followed by small but edible blueberries.  The leaves are normally green or blue-green.  This variety has blue...


Vaccinium elliottii
Common Name: Blueberry, Elliott's

Elliott's Blueberry is a graceful deciduous shrub to 10 feet.  It has small glossy leaves that turn brilliant red in fall.  Plant this very nice ornamental blueberry on well-drained acid soil.   The fruits are small but ta...


Vaccinium myrsinites
Common Name: Evergreen Blueberry

This native southern blueberry is a small 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 t...


Vaccinium sempervirens
Common Name: Rayner's Blueberry

An extremely rare and local evergreen blueberry is found only in one locality in Lexington County, SC.  Related and similar to Vaccinum crassifolium but with more upright growh habit and much larger lea...


Vaccinium tenellum
Common Name: Small Black Blueberry
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Viburnum acerifolium
Common Name: Viburnum, Mapleleaf

Mapleleaf Viburnum is an adaptable colony-forming native deciduous shrub to 5 feet.  It is very shade tolerant and tolerant of dry conditions.  The maple- like leaves turn a unique lavender-pink fall color....


Viburnum awabuki 'Chindo'
Common Name: Japanese Evergreen Viburnum

'Chindo' is a selection of Viburnum awabuki 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.   It is a large upright evergreen shrub to 20 fee...


Viburnum japonicum
Common Name: Japanese Evergreen Viburnum

This is a handsome evergreen Viburnum with relatively large lustrous dark green foliage and dense habit. Flat clusters of fragrant white flowers in spring are followed by red fruits. Probably first offered in U.S. by Woodlanders and still lit...


Viburnum nudum 'Pollinator'
Common Name: Smooth Witherod Viburnum

See: Viburnum nudum 'Winterthur'.  This Viburnum is apparently not dioecious but is somewhat self-sterile.  It is much more fruitful if more than one clone is present.  This selection was promoted as a "male" po...


Viburnum nudum 'Winterthur'
Common Name: Possumhaw Viburnum 'Winterthur'

An upright deciduous native shrub selected by the late Hal Bruce of Winterthur Gardens in Delaware.  It has shiny large leaves and is free-flowering with creamy-white flowers followed by berries which turn from white to pink to blue and ...


Viburnum obovatum 'Compactum'
Common Name: Dwarf Walter's Viburnum

This rounded and mounding evergreen shrub with small leaves and abundant white flowers in spring is one of several increasingly popular dwarf selections of this fine species native to the southern U.S.  This clone grown at the Raulston Arbore...


Viburnum odoratissimum
Common Name: Sweet Viburnum

This large-leafed evergreen Viburnum native to Asia is often confused with V. awabuki, but its leaves are shorter and broader, not so glossy, and it may be a little less cold hardy.  The pure white flowers are fra...


Viburnum sempervirens
Common Name: Chinese Viburnum

This tall evergreen shrub has glossy, leathery leaves about 4 inches long. It bears white flowers in flat-topped clusters followed by bright red fruits. It has proved hardy here in zone 8. Our plants were originally received from the U.S...


Viburnum tinus 'Spring Bouquet'
Common Name: Laurustinus

Laurustinus is an evergreen Viburnum native to southern Europe and northern Africa. This selection is more compact than the species. It has lustrous dark green relatively small leaves and dark red flower buds which open to white fl...


Viburnum x globosum 'Jermyn's Globe'
Common Name: Viburnum Hybrid

'Jermyns Globe' is a small to medium evergreen shrub of dense rounded habit.  It bears white flowers in flat-topped clusters in late spring.  A hybrid of Chinese species (V. calvum x V. davidii), it originated at Hilliers N...


Viburnum x pragense 'Decker'
Common Name: Viburnum, Prague

The Missouri Botanical Garden informs us that:  "This hybrid viburnum (cross between V. rhytidophyllum and V. utile) is an evergreen, multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows 8-12' tall with a similar spread. Flat cymes (to ...


Vitex agnus-castus 'Shoal Creek'
Common Name: Chastetree

Chaste tree is a small deciduous tree in South but can be grown as a perennial in the North. The leaves have been mistaken for those of Cannabis (Marijuana).  The clusters of lilac flowers in summer have caused some to call it "Summer Lilac"....


Vitex rotundifolia
Common Name: Roundleaf Vitex

 This Vitex is a prostrate trailing shrub with rounded deciduous bluish green leaves about 2" in diameter.  It has bright blue flowers in late summer.  While a salt tolerant plant being used for seashore and dune planting it ha...


Vitex trifolia 'Variegata'
Common Name: Three Leaf Vitex

This deciduous shrub or small tree has three leaflets with white marginal variegation.  The blue to purple flowers somewhat resembling lilac flowers. This Vitex is more cold sensitive than Vitex agnus-castus or V. ...


Vitis rotundifolia ''Triumph''
Common Name: 'Triumph' Muscadine Grape
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Weigela florida 'Java Red'
Common Name: Old Fashioned Weigela

Weigela is a deciduous shrub of rounded habit and opposite oval leaves.  This cold-hardy old fashioned favorite is native to eastern Asia.  'Java Red' is an old variety also known as 'Foliis Purpureis'....


Wisteria frutescens (or likely macrostachya) ''Dam - B''
Common Name: Lynn's Wisteria

A number of years ago our dear friend and pioneer Texas native plantsman the late Lynn Lowerey found a great selection of native Wisteria near the dam of an east Texsas reservoir.  The dam was known as "Dam - B" and Lynn gave that name to the...


Wisteria macrostachya 'Clara Mack'
Common Name: Wisteria, White Kentucky '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


Xanthorhiza simplicissima
Common Name: Yellowroot

Yellowroot is a curious shrub related to the Buttercup.  It is native to eastern U.S.  The compound leaves are deciduous but turn bright yellow in the fall. The roots are bright yellow when cut. Typically it grows in shady streamsid...


Zelkova serrata
Common Name: Japanese Zelkova

Japanese Zelkova is a large elm-like deciduous shade tree with ascending branches.  In Japan it is said to be an important timber tree and favorite bonsai subject but here according to Dirr, Manual of Woody Landscape P...


Zenobia pulverulenta 'Woodlanders Blue'
Common Name: Zenobia, Dusty

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, has become more widely available.   Zenobia was virtually ...


Zephyranthes fosteri
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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