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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...
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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...
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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... |
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Common Name: Paperbark Maple
Upright oval or rounded habit. Cinnimon or redish-brown exfoliating bark showy in winter landscape. Bark starts to exfoliate after 2 years. Trifoliate leaves. Good small lawn tree, in shrub border or other groupings. Tolerant of well-drained or cl... |
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Common Name: Red Maple 'Florida Flame'
'Florida Flame' is an excellent clone of our native Red Maple selected by Bob Byrnes of Trail Ridge Nursery in north Florida. This plant is of north Florida provenance and is a good choice for the humid south w... |
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Common Name: Adina, Glossy
This is a medium to large deciduous shrub resembles and is related to our native Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis). It has smaller leaves and similar but smaller ball-like flowers in early summer. The flowers could give i... |
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Common Name: Bottlebrush Buckeye
Bottlebrush Buekeye is a wide spreading multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with large palmately compound leaves. Flowers in early summer are long upright white spikes. Showy flowers and bright yellow fall color make this a highly desirable ornamental f... |
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Common Name: Late-blooming Bottlebrush Buckeye
Wide spreading, suckering, multi-stemmed open deciduous slow growing shrub. Overall shape is irregular almost stratified in appearance. White bottlebrush flowers appear in summer two to three weeks later than typical for the species. Medium to dar...
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Common Name: Red Buckeye
Red Buckeye is a clump forming deciduous round topped shrub or small tree with handsome lustrous dark green palmately compound leaves which emerge very early and may drop in late summer. Produces six inch panicles of showy tubular red flowers in s... |
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Common Name: Century Plant
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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... |
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Common Name: Giant Agave
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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... |
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Common Name: Sweet Almond Bush
This deciduous shrub with oval toothed leaves can be trained as a small tree in subtropical regions or treated as a die-back perennial in some temperate climates. It has spikes of white fragrant flowers in terminal panic... |
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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. ... |
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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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Common Name: Madiera Vine
Anredera cordifolia (Boussingaltia basseloides)is a deciduous perennial vine with rather fleshy leaves and sprays of tiny white fragrant flowers. It has tuberous roots and climbs by twining. The leaves and tubers are appare... |
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Common Name: Coral Vine
This subtropical vine has somewhat heart shaped leaves and clusters of small papery hot pink showy flowers summer to fall. This vigorous grower is evergreen only in frost-free areas. In most of the Deep South it freezes to the grou... |
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Common Name: Variegated Holly Fern
This large fern is a bold and attractive evergreen. The large dark green leaves have a gold stripe down the center of each division. Plant this fern in shade or partial shade with good soil and ample water. It is n... |
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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...
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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... |
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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...
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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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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....
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Common Name: Variegated Japanese Ardisia
A variegated form of Ardisia japonica (which see) with light silver-gray leaves with thin white margin....
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Common Name: Variegated Japanese Ardisia
A variegated form of Ardisia japonica (which see). Ardisia japonica 'Nishiki' ('Hokan Nishiki') has gold and pink variegated leaves on new growth....
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Common Name: Wiregrass, Southern
This is a fine textured bunch grass with dense wiry foliage and tall, narrow flowering spikes. It is historically the dominant groundcover in frequently burned longleaf pine forests in the southern U.S. It is now becoming rare because of the loss and...
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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. ...
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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... |
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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...
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Common Name: Cast Iron Plant
An evergreen groundcover with broad dark green leaves all arising directly from the ground. A great plant for very dark or shady corners and once used as a container plants in almost impossible environments hence common names. Fleshy flowers are vi...
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Common Name: Cast Iron Plant, 'Asahi'
An old Japanese variety of Aspidistra elatior (which see) that has and air brushed look to the ends of the leaves which terminate with a whitish tip. The name 'Asahi' reportedly means "Rising Sun". ... |
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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... |
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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...
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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...
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Common Name: Georgia Aster
Large bushy perennial Aster with abundant large flower heads with violet ray flowers. Somewhat like Aster grandiflorus but sometimes considered a variety of Aster patens.. This is a rare plant in the wild and known from relativel... |
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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...
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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...
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Common Name: Japanese Painted Fern
Athyrium nipponicum (goeringianum) 'Pictum' is a cool gray-green and silvery deciduous groundcovering fern. Best color when they receive some direct sunlight, preferably in the morning but like most ferns they should be planted in rich hu... |
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Common Name: Lady Fern 'Ghost' Hybrid
This hybrid fern will bring a silver accent to your shady garden. It is a cross between Lady Fern and Japanese Painted Fern that originated in cultivation. It is a hardy fern and a strong grower. ... |
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Common Name: Golddust Plant
An evergreen shrub with rather large leathery leaves which in this clone are very heavily splashed with yellow. We obtained this male clone a few years ago from Dr. Michael Dirr who was then working with and evaluating a number of Aucuba varieties... |
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Common Name: Aucuba, 'Rozannie'
Aucuba japonica is a commonly planted evergreen shrub in southern gardens. There are numberous varieties and many have yellow speckles or yellow or white splotches on the large leathery toothed leaves. Female plants can have l... |
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Common Name: Aucuba, Narrow-leaf
This evergreen shrub with narrow serrated leathery leaves was originally received from U.S. National Arboretum as Aucuba himalayica but it may be a form of Aucuba japonica called "Longifolia". As with other Aucuba... |
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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... |
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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...
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Common Name: Apalachicola wild indigo
A rather large growing perennial Baptisia with terminal spikes of creamy flowers followed by large pods. This is a very rare species from the northwest Florida area. It is somewhat more shade tolerant than most Baptisia and makes an attractive gard...
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Common Name: Philippine Violet
Called "Phillipine Violet" but neither Phillipine nor a Violet. Showy blue flowers in late summer and autumn. Perennial in zone 8-9, 4-6 foot shrub in zone 10. In zone 8 cut back plants afterfrost kills the tops. Mound 10 inches of coarse sand ov...
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Common Name: Red Crossvine
Crossvine is a vigorous evergreen or semi-evergreen vine climbing by tendrils or hold-fasts. The leaves on this clone may be narrower and longer than is typical for the species but its main feature is abundant red trumpet shaped flowers... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Butterfly-bush, Attraction
Buddleia davidii 'Attraction' is a more compact shrub than typical for the species and ultimately forms a somewhat rounded outline. Its arching branches are lined with gray-green leaves which have no fall color. Royal red ... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Madagascar Butterflybush
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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"... |
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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... |
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Common Name: False Buckthorn, Thorne's
Bumelia (Sideroxylon) thornei is a rare small tree with small oval leaves, rather crooked or pendulous thorny branches, and black raisin size fruits. It grows naturally in moist to wet soil but is adaptable and appears to ... |
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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,&... |
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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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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: White Fruited Asiatic Beautyberry
Callicarpa dichotoma is, according to Dirr, the "most graceful and refined of the [various] species". It is also the most cold-hardy. This variety has white berries instead of typical purple and may get a bit taller than the typical form.... |
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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 |
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Common Name: Taiwan Beautyberry
This Beautyberry is a large deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub native to Taiwan and little known in the U.S. It has large, 10-12 inch long fuzzy leaves and clustered small white berries. It is a striking novelty shrub for mild clima... |
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Common Name: Beautyberry Hybrid
A spontaneous hybrid Beautyberry we grew from seed collected from one of our large-leafed subtropical Callicarpa pilosissima. The pollen parent could be any of a number of other Callicarpa species in our collection. This plant has rather ... |
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Common Name: Poppymallow, Purple
This sun-loving low spreader has bright purple cup-shaped blooms with white throats. It flowers from spring through summer. The attractive foliage is deeply lobed. It is most common as a native in the eastern edge... |
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Common Name: Bottlebrush 'Clemson'
This small to medium sized evergreen shrub with bright red "bottlebrush" flowers is a native of Australia. Callistemons are generally considered subtropical plants but this one has survived outside for years at Clemson, SC., an area generall... |
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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. ... |
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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...
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Common Name: Incense Cedar, Taiwan
The Taiwan Incense Cedar is an evergreen conifer related to the California Incense Cedar (Calocedrus decurrens) and the more closely related Chinese Incense Cedar (Calocedrus macrolepis). It is rare and endangered in the mounta... |
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Common Name: Sweet Shrub
Upright colony-forming deciduous shrub with dark maroon 1-2" flowers with many sepals and similar petals. Renouned for its fruity fragrance but not all plants have fragrant flowers or they are not consistently fragrant. A woodland plant but suited ...
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Common Name: Sweetshrub 'Athens'
(AKA 'Katherine') As with the species Calycanthus floridus (which see) but flowers are yellow and with good fragrance. One of several clones which have been found with yellow flowers. 'Athens' was provided to Dr. Mike Dirr by Jane Sy... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Sweetshrub Hybrid
Calycanthus x raulstonii(C floridus x C sinensis)' Hartlage Wine' is a deciduous shrub intermediate between the parents. Perhaps not stoloniferous. This interspecific (or intergeneric if Sinocalycanthus is maintained as a genus) hybrid is... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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...
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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... |
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Common Name: Camellia, Pale Pink
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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... |
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Common Name: Peacock 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 is an unusual selection of Camellia japonica with rather tubul... |
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Common Name: Picotee Flowered 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 is a nice form of Camellia japonica. It is a famo... |
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Common Name: Long Carpel 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 is another species of Camellia that is little-known in America. Woodlan... |
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Common Name: Camellia, Tea-oil
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This less well-known species has less glossy leaves than most other... |
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Common Name: Camellia, Crimosn Candles
'Crimson Candles' is a fine hybrid camellia introduced by Camellia Forest Nursery in North Carolina. It is winter flowering with abundant small rose red blossoms which hold up well to below freezing nights. The plant has an uprigh... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Camellia, Sasanqua 'Yuletide'
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This Camellis saaanqua variety is unique for the flowers which are ... |
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Common Name: Tea Plant
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Among the many other species, this one is of great economic importance as the s... |
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Common Name: Pink Tea Plant
A pink flowered form of Camellia sinensis (which see). The foliage is also somewhat reddish. ... |
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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... |
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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 <... |
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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.... |
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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...
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Common Name: American Hornbeam
Ironwood is an attractive small dense deciduous tree with small leaves and small winged seeds. The gray bark is smooth and looks like a muscled arm. Does well in shade or sun in good moist soil. Ideal for lawn tree or for pleached ... |
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Common Name: Pignut Hickory
A large deciduous tree of finer texture than Mockernut Hickory (C. tomentosa). Pignut Hickory is widespread in eastern U.S., but like other hickories it is rarely offered by nurseries. Grows well in good soil t... |
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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.&... |
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Common Name: Hickory, Mockernut
This hickory is a large deciduous tree with compound leaves which turn bright yellow in fall. The hickory nuts are thick shelled, hard to crack, and tedious to pick out but very tasty. The tree has a narrow to broadly rounded cro... |
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Common Name: Bluemist Shrub
'First Choice' is a long-blooming compact form of this favorite shrub or subshrub. It is a hybrid between Caryopteris incana and Caryopteris mongolica. It produces dark purple densly clustered flowers ... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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...
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Common Name: Australian Pine
This evergreen tree native to eastern Australia is called "Australian Pine" and "Swamp Oak" though it is neither a pine nor an oak and is not closely related to either. Also called "Beefwood" the graceful fine whipcord foliage may resem... |
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Common Name: Catalpa, Southern
Somewhat smaller than the Northern Catalpa (Catalpa speciosa) this deciduous tree has large heart-shaped leaves and in May it has large showy panicles of white flowers with numerous purple spots. It is spari... |
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Common Name: New Jersey Tea
New Jersey Tea is a small hardy deciduous shrub that is widespread in eastern North America where it occurs in a variety of habitats. It has small rather elm-like leaves and short showy panicles of small white flowe... |
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Common Name: Western Buttonbush
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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... |
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Common Name: Blue Palo Verde
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Common Name: Elegant Jasmine
Erect or arching perennial freezing to the ground in zone 8. Woody shrub in the tropics. Showy reddish purple tubular flowers in terminal clusters late in growing season. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 inches of coarse sand...
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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...
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Common Name: Jasmine Hybrid
Scandant shrub with abundant clusters of lightly fragrant yellow tubular flowers. Mysteriously much hardier than either supposed parent species. In zone 8 it remains a woody shrub. Might be most effectively used if trained on a trellis....
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Common Name: Purple Jasmine
Erect or arching perennial freezing to the ground in zone 8 but a woody shrub in the tropics. It produces showy purple tubular flowers in terminal clusters late in the growing season. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 ... |
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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....
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Common Name: Sawara Falsecedar 'Shiva'
Described as a silvery, soft textured juvenile foliage form of Atlantic Whitecedar, this plant was originally presumed to be Chamaecyparis thyoides. It now appears to be a Chamaecyparis pisifera. It was found as a seedling ... |
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Common Name: Leatherleaf
Chamaedaphne is a thicket forming low evergreen ericaceous shrub with leafy racemes of small white bell-like flowers. It is native to the eastern U.S. where it grows in sandy, acid bogs. It is a very cold-hardy evergreen shrub... |
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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... |
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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...
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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... |
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Common Name: Indonesian Cinnamon
The Indonesian Cinnamon is an evergreen tree with glossy 3-4 inch long leaves. It's bark is the source of as much as 80% of the commercial Cinnamon sold in the U.S. This tree is native to southeastern Asia... |
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Common Name: Rockrose
One of many kinds of "Rockrose" native to the Mediterranean region, this low evergreen thornless shrub has abundant white 2 inch flowers resembling single roses. These plants are not true roses. Plant in sunny or very lightly... |
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Common Name: Citrange, 'Morton'
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. 'Morton' Citrange is similar to other Sweet Orange x Trifoliate Orange hybrids in foliage an... |
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Common Name: Sour Orange, Gou Tou
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.The Gou Tou Sour Orange is reported to be widely grown in southeast Asia. The fruit is like a... |
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Common Name: Myrtle Leaf Orange
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. 'Chinotto' is a dense compact ornamental shrub or small tree with small pointed myrtle-like ... |
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Common Name: Mandarin 'Changsha'
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 one of the most cold hardy evergreen citrus. This small tree produces tangerine-like fruit... |
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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 ... |
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Common Name: NuClem Clementine
NuClem is a type of the familiar Clementine mandarin or tangerine that is rather special in our lineup of relatively cold hardy citrus fruits. Our friend and citrus guru Tom McClendon who shared this with us offers the following i... |
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Common Name: Lime, 'Rangpur'
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Common Name: Sanbokan Grapefruit
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 medium sized evergreen citrus tree with typical fragrant white flowers and flavorful yel... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Citrange, 'Troyer'
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 hardy hybrid between the Naval Orange and the inedible but hardy Trifoliate Orange (Ponciris tri...
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Common Name: Sunquat
Sunquat is somewhat of a mystery Citrus. It apparently originated in Texas as a hybrid between a Meiwa Kumquat and either a lemon or a Clementine Mandarin. Whatever it is it produces good crops of golf-ball si... |
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Common Name: Rose Glorybower
Rose Glorybower is a suckering shrub with usually unbranched stems and relatively large heart-shaped toothed leaves. I has large flat terminal clusters of fragrant rosy pink flowers. It may freeze to the ground in cold weather but... |
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Common Name: Turk's Turban
Tall perennial with tyically unbranched leafy stems with long narrowly elliptic leaves. Stems are topped with long cluster of showy tubular white flowers which are followed by black berries. This is a striking plant but it can be invasive if allowe...
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Common Name: Harlequin Glorybower
This is a large decidous shrub or small tree that forms thickets from root suckers unless planted in an open area that is kept mowed. It is the hardiest of the Clerodendrons and a very attractive landscape plant in the right spot. It has heart-sha... |
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Common Name: Clethra, Cinnamon Bark
Cinnamon Clethra is a deciduous shrub that becomes a small tree. Valued for it's tall form, white racemes of fragrant flowers, and exfoliating cinnamon colored bark. A plant of well-drained mountain slopes where moisture is us... |
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Common Name: Clethra 'Hummingbird'
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... |
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Common Name: Clethra 'Anne Bidwell'
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... |
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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... |
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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...
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Common Name: Mexican Clethra
This large evergreen shrub or small tree has long racemes of cinnamon scented white flowers in summer. Leaves are elliptic and toothed toward the terminal end. This is a relatively new introduction from Mexico by the folks at Yucca-Do Nursery in Texa...
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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... |
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Common Name: Clethra 'Sarah'
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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Buckwheat Tree
Evergreen shrub or tree with small glossy leathery leaves. Can become much larger than size given in suitable natural habitat. Found along streams and in acid bogs in the lower southeastern coastal plains. This is a fine evergreen with early white f...
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Common Name: Pink Buckwheat Tree
This Cliftonia monophylla (which see) is a very attractive pink flowered selection of this normally white flowered plant. Selected in the Florida Panhandle by Jim Berry for whom we named this clone. Cliftonia is ... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Snailseed, Laureleaf
This is a somewhat viney shrub grown in warm climates chiefly for its beautiful glossy polished leaves with three prominent parlallel veins. It is worthy of protected spot in zone 9 or even 8. Makes a good espalier plant on a sheltered wall. It is... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Stripe Stem Elephant Ear
A relatively new and possibly somewhat more hardy "Elephant Ear" selected by John Joicus at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. It is a very aquatic plant which spreads by rhizomatous runners. Leaves are blotched light and darker green, but the stems ar...
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Common Name: Elephant Ear, Black Sapphire Gecko
This new hybrid Elephant Ear is a subtropical perennial with very black large leaves on dark stems and with dark maroon undersides. This striking hybrid from Brian Williams of Brian's Botanicals in Kentucky is a must-have accent pl... |
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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... |
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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 ...
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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.... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Cumberland Rosemary
Federally listed THREATENED species. CANNOT BE SOLD IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE. Low trailing evergreen shrub with aromatic Rosemary-like leaves. Other Conradina species are native to Florida and Gulf Coast of Alabama. This one is native to limited are... |
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Common Name: Lily of the Valley
This little perennial native to most of the Northern Hemisphere has wide lily-like leaves and very fragrant white flowers in spring. It is a long time favorite flowering groundcover in the North where it spreads freely. It is not ... |
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Common Name: Coreopsis, Chipola River
Chipola River Coreopsis is a relatively rare species known from only a few counties from southern South Carolina to north Florida. It is a choice perennial with basal leaves that are opposite, dark green, and with entire edges.... |
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Common Name: Threadleaf Coreopsis
This clump-forming native perenennial has thread-like leaflets and abundant yellow to orange daisy like flowers over long period in summer. It is a popular garden perennial for the sunny border and is a good plant for a well-draine... |
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Common Name: Dogwood, Dwarf Flowering
'Suwanee Squat' Dogwood is a most unusual form of this favorite flowering tree. It has typical white Dogwood blossoms in spring. Growth habit is very low and spreading, almost prostrate. Would spill down over wall or bank. There are lots of dogwoo... |
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Common Name: Dogwood, Hongkong evergreen
This evergreen dogwood native in southeast Asia is probably cloeely related to Cornus capitata and C. kousa angustata. There seem to be several botanical forms of this species but it is little known in cultivation in the U.... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Spike Winterhazel
This is a deciduous, wide spreading shrub with rounded light green leaves smaller than some other species of Corylopsis. It is valued for it's conspicuous late winter, early spring drooping spikes of bright yellow flowers appearing before the leaves...
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Common Name: American Smoke Tree
Our native smoketree is an uncommon small to medium size deciduous tree. Its common name is from the appearance of smoke when in fruit. It has broad oval leaves which are larger than the more commonly grown... |
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Common Name: Mayhaw
Mayhaw is a small rather thorny deciduous tree with small leaves and abundant white flowers in very early spring. These are followed by attractive cranberry size red fruits in May. These fruits yield the Deep South's famous Mayhaw... |
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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... |
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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...
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Common Name: Japanese Cedar
Japanese Cedar is a tall, pyramidal or conical, evergreen coniferous tree. The blue-green apressed needles may develop bronzy or purple-bronze winter color in cold climates. The reddish-brown bark exfoliates on the trunks. It is a... |
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Common Name: Cryptomeria, Barabits Gold
This quite dwarf form of Cryptomeria japonica (which see) is notable for the ascending gold tipped new growth and a size compatible with smaller spaces. Plant it in sun or partial shade in fertile well-drained soil. ... |
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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 ... |
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Common Name: Blue Chinafir
This is a silvery-blue needled form of Cunninghamia lanceolata (which see). Otherwise similar. ... |
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Common Name: Dwarf Chinafir
A friend in the Atlanta area shared this with us some years ago. It is a more compact dark green form of Cunninghamia lanceolata (which see) with shorter needles. It may even be a form of the related Taiwanese species, Cunninghamia konish... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Titi, Littleleaf
Cyrilla parvifolia is considered by some botanists to be a form of Cyrilla racemiflora but it is very distinct in having much smaller evergreen leaves and finer branching habit. It is found in northwest Florida. This selection is... |
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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...
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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... |
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Common Name: Rochford's Holly Fern
This evergreen Old World fern has dark leathery leaflets suggesting holly leaves. It is an attractive coarse fern well-suited to moist shady spots in the garden or against walls. It is a favorite in many Deep South gardens. ... |
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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 ... |
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Common Name: Winter Daphne
Winter Daphne is a favorite southern garden plant with very fragrant flowers in late winter. It is not and easy plant to produce in nurseries and is consequently not readily available. It becomes a dense evergreen shrub ... |
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Common Name: Yellow Edge Winter Daphne
Winter Daphne or February Daphne is a delightful evergreen shrub with deliciously scented pink or white flowers in late winter. It is native to China and Japan and has long been a beloved plant in southern gardens. Unfortunately it is n... |
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Common Name:
This large Rhododendron-like evergreen shrub with large lustrous leaves is not related to Rhododendron and the flowers are not conspicuous. It is however a choice evergreen shrub for the moist semi-shady garden. Daphiniphyllum humil... |
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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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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... |
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Common Name: Evergreen Hydrangea
This evergreen shrub is related to and resembling Hydrangea with similar flat terminal clusters of small blue flowers in late summer and fall. This, and the more widely available Dichroa febrifuga are native to China and are relative... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Isu Tree
This evergreen Witchhazel relative is similar to D. racemosum (which see). It becomes a small tree. It was introduced by the Arnold Arboretum from a collection they made in China. ... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Log Fern
This large growing fern is an uncommon native to swamps in the southern U.S. It has bold evergreen fronds. This rare fern is a great garden plant for rich moist soil in shady or semi-shady sites. ...
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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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Common Name:
This fern with shaggy stems and delicate broad 2-3' fronds and is an easy fern to grow. It is a natural semi-evergreen hybrid of D. affinis and D. expansa. Fern guru Dr. John Mickel proclaims in "F... |
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Common Name: Dixie Wood Fern
This large and impressive natural hybrid (Dryopteris celsa x ludoviciana) gets taller than either parent! A bold evergreen fern for spacious spots in the shady or semi-shady garden. Local in the southeastern U.... |
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Common Name: Twin Flower
Low-growing perennial with small leaves on erect stems and nice blue flowers. Forms dense patches in dryish, sandy soil. Selected from the wild in north Florida. A Woodlanders introduction....
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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... |
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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...
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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... |
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Common Name: Yellow Barrenwort
The Epimediums are excellent groundcover plants for shade. Slow but steady spreaders once established they are tolerant of dry shade under trees but much happier with moist, organic rich soil. This hybrid has bright yellow flowers. Evergreen in al... |
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Common Name: Razzlequat
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. The 'Razzlequat' is an unusual and relatively cold hardy citrus hybrid ... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Coralbean, Southwestern
This desert Coralbean can be a small tree in frost-free regions. Otherwise, it is a coarse perennial shrub growing from a large tuber-like root. Ith has three rounded leaflets, and showy tubular red or pink flowers. The open s... |
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Common Name: Coralbean
This striking plant is a woody shrub in frost-free climates but otherwise a perennial from a massive root. It has very showy tubular red flowers in spikes followed by decorative (but poisonous) red seeds which remain on plant ... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Hearts Abustin
This Euonymus is a deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub with lanceolate 3" long leaves arranged oposite each other on upright green stems. This woodland shrub native to eastern North America is a fine garden plant for shade or semi-shade and is ... |
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Common Name: Wolong Ghost Creeping Euonymus
This attractive evergreen groundcover Euonymus was introduced by Heronswood Nursery having been collected by Dan Hinkley above the Wolong Panda Preserve in western China. It has long dark green pointed leaves with prominent a... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Chocolate Leaf Snakeroot
Called "Snakeroot" this plant occus in praires and open woodlands of the eastern U.S. The normal form has green leaves but this unique form with chocolate colored foliage was selected at Mt. Cuba Center in Delaware. It is a n... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Hybrid Fig
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.&#... |
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Common Name: Roxburgh Fig
Ficus roxburghii, also known as Ficus auriculata, is a great spreading woody shrub in frost-free climates and a big bold perennial in zone 8. It is native to India. The very large 15" rounded glossy leaves create a dramatic ... |
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Common Name: Blueberry Leaf Fig
A neat groundcover or vine with small shiny evergreengreen leaves similar to a (totally unrelated) evergreen blueberry. This choice little vine is native to Taiwan and probably came to us from the J.C. Raulston Arboretum at NC State which got it f... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Desert Olive
Some years ago in the company of Texas native plant legend the late Lynn Lowery we found this intricately branched deciduous shrub in Calhoun County on the Texas gulf coast. We took cuttings and propagated this distinct pendulous f... |
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Common Name: Godfrey's Swampprivet
Godfrey's Forestiera is a deciduous shrub or small tree. The ovate leaves have pubescent lower surface and yellow fuzzy flowers appear in early spring on last season's twigs. Female plants may bear small dark blue berries. Th... |
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Common Name: Spring Herald
. This somewhat privet-like deciduous shrub has rather small oval leaves and intricate branching. Fragrant fuzzy yellow flowers very early in spring are small but abundant. This Texas native is we... |
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Common Name: Kumquat, 'Meiwa'
The 'Meiwa' Kumquat is a small upright evergreen citrus tree with fragrant white flowers and bearing delicious round bright orange fruits just over 1" in diameter. The fruit is edible peel and all. It has proven hardy and producti... |
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Common Name: Witch Alder
Fothergilla gardenii is a choice ornamental deciduous low shrub native very locally in the southeastern U.S. It is found primarly in coastal areas of the Carolinas where it occurs in moist acid soils of pinelands and bog ... |
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Common Name: Witch Alder Cultivar
Fothergilla gardenii is typically a small deciduous shrub 3 to 4 feet tall. It is related to Witchhazel and occurs in the coastal plain of the southeastern U.S. It is found in moist peaty habitats but is adaptable ... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Franklinia
This is the almost legendary Camellia relative discovered in one spot in Georgia and introduced and named for Benjamin Franklin by John and William Bartram in 1770. I has not been seen again in the wild since 1790 or maybe 1804. Ma... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Single-flowered Gardenia
Gardenia 'Rosedown Star' is an evergreen shrub with glossy leaves and fragrant single star-like white flowers followed by showy orange fruits (hips). We obtained this plant years ago from the former Cedar Lane Farms Nursery in Madison, Georg... |
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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...
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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... |
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Common Name: Gardenia Cultivar
This gardenia is a small evergreen shrub with lustrous black-green leaves and fragrant single 2 inch ivory blooms. This little Gardenia has become popular in recent years after claims that it was untouched at 3 degrees F in Raleigh, NC. Dr. Dirr i... |
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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...
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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... |
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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 ... |
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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.... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: 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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Kentucky Coffeetree
A medium size rather slow growing deciduous tree native to the midwestern U.S. Hillier's Manual of Trees and Shrubs says: "one of the most handsome of all hardy trees". The large compound leaves are pink tinted when unfolding and tu... |
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Common Name: Silverbell, Carolina
Silverbell is a small to medium size deciduous tree native in the southeastern U.S.. It makes an outstanding landscape ornamental in places with deep, fertile, well-drained soil with ample moisture. It can be used much like the common D... |
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Common Name: Witchhazel, Vernal
This Witchhazel is a medium size rounded deciduous shrub native to the Ozark region of south central U.S. It produces abundant small reddish or yellow strap petal fragrant flowers on the bare branches in late winter or very early spring. Usually h... |
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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...
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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... |
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Common Name: Scarlet Ginger, Disney
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Red Yucca
This Yucca-like stemless plant has 2-3 foot long narrow gray-green leaves and tall flowering stalks bearing pinkish red tubular flowers. Plant it in a sunny location with well-drained soil. This Texas native is rare in the wild but wide... |
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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... |
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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...
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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... |
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Common Name: Scarlet Rose Mallow - White form
This tall perennial Hibiscus with maple-like or marijuana-like leaves typical of Hibiscus coccineus (which see) but this little-known cultivar has pure white flowers rather than red. Grows well in wet to moist soil i... |
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Common Name: Cuban Rose Mallow
This tall perennial hibiscus has gray-green foliage and slightly prickly stems. The flowers are fairly large purplish pink. It grows naturally in marshy places but is fine in ordinary garden soils in sunny location. This litt... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Great Rose Hibiscus
This is a tall perennial Hibiscus with gray-green soft pubescent foliage. The large pink flowers are very showy. This Hibiscus is native to very wet habitats in the Deep South but grows well in ordinary garden soil that is moist or irrigated. It s... |
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Common Name: Yellow Hibiscus
This woody Hibiscus is a tall branching shrub to 15 feet or more It bears single yellow flowers with a crimson spot at the base. This large shrub has wide rounded deciduous leaves. The bright yellow hibiscus flowers are produced in the summer. Thi... |
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Common Name: Wooly Mallow
A perennial Hibiscus native to central and southern U.S. This species has rather wooly grayish leaves. Adaptable to ordinary garden soil in sunny location with ample moisture, this species has 4-5 inch wide pink or white flowers with a red center. It...
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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...
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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... |
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Common Name: Single Red Confederate Rose
This Hibiscus mutabilis has slightly smaller and smoother leaves than the "Confederate Rose" and the bright red Hibiscus flowers that are single, not double, and do not change color. It is a warm climate shrub so will freeze back some or ... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Hibiscus 'Nagoya Pink'
Shrub hibiscus resembling H. mutabilis ("Confederate Rose") but with 4" single pink flowers. This and 'Nagoya White' were introduced by Woodlanders after growing them from seed we obtained from James Sharpe who collected it in Nagoya, Jap... |
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Common Name: 'Freedom' Rose-of-Sharon
This highly recommended selection of Althea or Rose of Sharon was from Shadow Nursery in Tennessee. It has semi-double red flowers which close in rainy weather but it is long flowering in summer. Can be used in border or gro... |
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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... |
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Holboellia coriacea is a very nice evergreen twining vine native to western China. Little-known in cultivation but well worth growing on a shady or semi-shady arbor or pergola in the southern garden. Our plants were propagated from the Ch... |
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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... |
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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...
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Common Name: Hydrangea, Willow leaf
This deciduous shrub is a Hydrangea but has willow-like leaves. Flowers are tiny yellowish fertile flowers with scattered marginal white fading to yellowish fertile florets. This is a new and little-known introduction which we obtained from Tony A... |
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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...
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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. &... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Oakleaf Hydrangea 'Snowflake'
Oakleaf Hydrangea is 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. 'S... |
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Common Name: Serrated Hydrangea Cultivar
This Woodlanders introduction was grown from seed that we obtained from Chollipo Arboretum in Korea. This Hydrangea serrata is a small-leafed selection that has been much admired here. The serrated deciduous leaves display a purplish cast... |
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Common Name: Texas Spiderlily[
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Common Name: Arcadian St. Johnswort
Colony forming shrub with upright stems bearing gray-green small leaves. Stems are topped with 4 petal yellow flowers with numerous stamens. Generally rare, this shrub is restricted to a few central Florida counties whe... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Smooth-barked St. Johnswort
Woodlanders was probably the first nursery to offer this rare tree-like hypericum native to a limited area in the Florida Panhandle. It is a graceful evergreen to 10 feet with needle-like leaves and outstanding copper-colored exfoliating bark. Native...
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Common Name: St. Johnswort, Shrubby
This Hypericum is a dense evergreen shrub with arching branches, narrow shiny leaves and abundant showy yellow flowers in summer. It is a good shrub for the garden border in sunny dry sites. Like many Hypericums introduced by Woodlanders it ... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Dahoon Holly
Dahoon Holly is an evergreen shrub or small tree with bright green oval, slightly toothed leaves and abundant small bright red berries(on female plants). Usually found in swampy conditions but grows well on ordinary garden soils that are acid... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Japanese Holly 'Sky Pencil'
This Japanese cultivar of the familiar Japanese Holly (Ilex crenata) was distributed by Sylvester March of the U.S. National Arboretum. It is a dense plant with small evergreen leaves and black berries typical of Ilex crena... |
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Common Name: Possumhaw Holly, 'Finch's Golden'
Possumhaw is a deciduous holly that can be a shrub or small tree. It is native on bottomlands and moister upland sites in the southeastern U.S. It is better adapted to high pH soils than Ilex verticillata. Female plants pr... |
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Common Name: Holly, White-berried Inkberry Holly
Ilex glabra, the Inkberry or Gallberry Holly is a very hardy evergreen shrub found on moist acid soil in much of eastern coastal North America. It is a versatile ornamental shrub for garden use and can be a neat and attractive shrub in su... |
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Common Name: Inkberry Holly
Ilex glabra, the Inkberry or Gallberry Holly is a very hardy evergreen shrub found on moist acid soil in much of coastal North America. It is a versatile ornamental shrub for garden use and can be a neat and attractive shrub in sunny sites with acid...
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Common Name: Holly, Mochi
Evergreen tree with non-spiny dark green leaves and large red berries on female plants. A very ornamental holly native to Japan but not commonly seen in the U.S. Probably best for the coastal areas of the Southeast. ...
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Common Name: Holly, Smooth Winterberry
Smooth Winterberry is similar to the common Winterberry (Ilex verticellata) but is much less common in cultivation. The finely toothed deciduous leaves are glossy above and not dull as with common Winterberry. Femal... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Myrtleleaf Holly (yellow-berried)
Myrtleaf Holly is a large evergreen shrub or small tree found in seasonally flooded wetland sites with acid soil in the Coastal Plain of the southeastern U.S. The very small narrow leaves are distinctive. Female plants typically have abundant red b...
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Common Name: American Holly 'Dan Fenton'
American Holly is a pyramidal evergreen tree with spine margined leaves and abundant red berries on female plants. This female selection by Dr. Orton of Rutgers University is reportedly from southern New Jersey. It is outstanding ... |
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Common Name: American Holly 'Selected Red'
Ilex opaca, the familiar American Holly, is a medium size evergreen tree with spines on the margins and tips of the tough leathery leaves and red berries on the female plants. It is widespread in eastern U.S. on well-drained woodland site... |
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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 ... |
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Common Name: Longstalk Holly
This holly is a small to medium size evergreen tree native to eastern Asia. The leaves are not spiny and more like Kalmia than "Holly-like". It is noteworthy as a beautiful but slow growing tree that is one of the hardiest evergreen hol... |
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Common Name: Longstalk Holly
This is the male pollinator for female Ilex pedunculosa (which see). ... |
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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... |
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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 ... |
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Common Name: Winterberry Holly 'Red Sprite'
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... |
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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... |
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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 ...
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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... |
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Common Name: Yaupon Holly 'Dewerth'
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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Holly 'Alagold' Hybrid
'Alagold' is a yellow-berried seedling of Ilex x attenuata Foster #2, a popular evergreen hybrid holly popular in southern landscape plantings. This holly has dark olive green leaves and a pyramidal growth ... |
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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 ... |
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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...
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Common Name: Florida Anise Tree, Pink-flowered
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 adap...
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Common Name: White-flowerd Florida Anise Tree
Florida Anise is an evergreen ahrub with elliptical leaves that are aromatic when crushed. This is an uncommon white-flowered selection of a normally maroon flowered plant. The flowers which appear in spring are starfish shaped and about 1 inch in... |
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Common Name: Henry Anise Tree
The Henry Anise tree is a handsome dense pyramidal Chinese shrub with waxy pink flowers and aromatic evergreen leaves. It was probably first made available to American gardeners by Woodlanders after we obtained it from Hillier Nursery in England. It...
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Common Name: Guandong Star Anise
This anisetree is an upright evergreen Chinese shrub with leathery lanceolate leaves that are aromatic when crushed. It is somewhat like Illicium henryi and with similar small pink flowers. The star shaped seed capsules are not edib... |
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Common Name: Mexican Anise Tree
The Mexican Illicium is a close relative of the southeastern native Illicium floridanum. It has long and somewhat more pointed glossy leaves, slightly larger red flowers and an bloom period extended bloom through summer. This a... |
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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 ... |
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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...
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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... |
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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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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... |
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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... |
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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 ... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Iris, Dwarf violet
This dwarf iris with blue to purple flowers in spring is native to the southeastern U.S. with outliers in surrounding states. It is sometimes confused with Iris cristata but has more upright narrower leaves and grows in drier habita... |
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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...
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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...
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Common Name: Jasmine, Wild
Wild Jasmine is a semi-evergreen shrub with attractive but odorless yellow flowers and black fruits. It is native to southern Europe and is best planted in sunny or semi-shady locations with good soil that is well-drained. It seem... |
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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...
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Common Name: Poet's Jasmine
"Common White Jasmine" is a scandant twining vine with pinnate compound leaves with five to nine leaflets. It is native to the Sino-Himalayan region but has been grown in Europe for centuries. It is not commonly seen in the eastern U.S. but is satisf...
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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... |
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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...
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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... |
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Common Name: Juniper, Roseberry
This low-branched and shrubby Juniper, (commonly called Cedar) is a medium sized evergreen tree native to the southwestern desert grasslands. Its species name relates to the border state of Coahuila, Mexico. Like other Junipers the mal... |
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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...
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Common Name: Eastern Redcedar, 'Lawrenceville'
'Lawrenceville' is an especially narrow selection of the familiar Redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) which we propagated from one we found years ago in Lawrenceville, Virginia. The branches are short but not unswept like'Skyr... |
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Common Name: Shrimp Plant
Shrimp Plant is so called because of the shape and color of the terminal flower clusters. This subtropical plant is native of Mexico and is an evergreen shrub in frost free climates. In colder areas it is grown as an annual or in much of the Deep s...
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Common Name: Brazilian Plume Flower
Justicia carnea (Jacobinia carnea)is a South American native that is a shrub or sub-shrub in tropical areas but perennial here in zone 8. It is an upright bushy plant to 5' with glossy leaves and showy pink tubular flowers in dense ... |
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Common Name: Variegated Kadsura Vine
Kadsura japonica is a twining evergreen Asian vine with handsome foliage and small fragrant white flowers in the leaf axils. Fruit, when produced, is red and in grape-like clusters. Plant in shady or semi-shady location with good rich moist soil. Th...
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Mountain Laurel Cultivar
This pure white flowered form of the common Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia) was found in Aiken County, SC by the late Mrs. Ernestine Law. This Woodlanders'introduction was first propagated by tissue-culture but we&... |
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Common Name: Mountain Laurel, 'Willowwood'
'Willowood' is a Woodlanders introduction. We found this Kalmia in Aiken County, SC. It is notable for its narrow willow-like leaves and pink, banded, flowers. A similar variety called 'Willowcrest' is from a nort... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Goldenraintree
Golden Raintree is a small to medium size deciduous tree with compound leaves. It is grown for the abundant panicles of showy golden flowers in early summer (later northward). It is an excellent adaptable tree for lawn areas. It ... |
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Common Name: Goldenrain Tree, Low Form
Goldenrain tree is a medium size deciduous tree with compound leaves and showy panicles of small yellow flowers. We originally received this variety from Chollipo Arboretum in Korea where it grew near coastal beaches as a shrubby f... |
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Seaside Mallow is a medium size perennial with grayish leaves and showy 2 inch pink Hibiscus-like flowers in summer. It is a plant native primarily to brackish marshes in the eastern U.S. but it is good in sunny garden beds and borders. This selec... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Muscogee Hybrid Crepemyrtle
'Muscogee' is a free flowering hybrid crepemyrtle with lavender-pink flowers over a long period in summer. This deciduous shrub or small tree is one of many crepemyrtles developed and introduced by the U.S. National Arboretum... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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...
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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. ... |
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Common Name: True Laurel or Bay
Laurus nobilis is the culinary Bay whose bay leaves are used for seasoning. This European evergreen shrub or small tree has been cultivated since ancient times. It is a good garden plant in the Deep South and suited to pot... |
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Common Name: Hybrid Bay
Obtained as cuttings from the J. C. Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh, NC this large shrub or small tree has evergreen foliage that is is highly aromatic as are both parents. We expect this to become a small tree. NOTE: This may be 'Saratoga' a p... |
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Common Name: Florida Corkwood
Corkwood is an uncommon shrub which forms colonies of tall slender stems in moist to wet soil in a few places in the southeastern U.S. and the lower Mississippi valley. It is notable for the very light wood which has been used like cork for fishing f...
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Common Name: Lion's Ear
Lion's Ear is a South African perennial or tender shrub to 6 or 7 feet. It has showy whorls of orange flowers in summer. The oblong leaves are frost tender and the whole plant may be killed back in cold weather. In much of the Sout... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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...
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Common Name: Green Leopard Plant
Ligularia tussilaginea (Farfugium japonicum) (kaempferi) is a perennial plant with rounded glossy evergreen leaves. It produces spikes of yellow daisy flowers in fall. A good perennial for the shady southern garden bed. The most familiar ... |
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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... |
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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 ...
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Common Name: Japanese Evergreen Spicebush
This Asian shrub is a beautiful evergreen spicebush with glossy, rather heart-shaped leaves about 3 inches broad and with prominent veins. The flowers are greenish yellow but not very showy and the berries are black. The plant is worth growing for th...
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Common Name: Bog Spicebush
Bog Spicebush is a rare native deciduous shrub similar to Lindera benzoin. It differs in having somewhat more leathery leaves that are more blunt tipped and only very faintly lemon scented rather than strongly aromatic spicy foliage. Also... |
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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 ...
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Common Name: Winter Honeysuckle
Winter Honeysuckle is an "Old Fashioned" wide-spreading deciduous shrub to 6 to 10 feet. It is valued for the very fragrant creamy white flowers in mid-winter or early spring. This shrub is native to eastern China and makes a good border or ... |
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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... |
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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...
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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... |
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Common Name: Evergreen Witchhazel
This Chinese evergreen shrub in the Witchazel family can become almost tree-like. It has small dark green leaves and abundant white fragrant flowers in early spring. The flowers have little filamentous narrow petals giving a fringe like effect and... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Rusty Lyonia
Rusty Lyonia is a tall evergreen shrub often becoming tree-like with contorted branches. New leaves are rusty red. Flowers are small fragrant white bells. Plant in sunny or lightly shaded site with sandy acid soil and good drainage. This species i... |
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Common Name: Maleberry
Maleberry is a hardy deciduous shrub found in moist acid soil from Maine to Florida and Texas. It has terminal clusters of small bell-like to rounded white flowers in late spring. It is an ericaceous plant related to blueberries, azale... |
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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...
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Common Name: Maackia, Chinese
This tree is similar to it's more familiar relative Maackia amurensis. It is a deciduous small tree with pinnately compound leaves that have 11 to 13 leaflets that are smaller than those of M. amurensis. It... |
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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... |
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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...
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This lovely small evergreen Magnolia from Yunnan, China has relatively small dark green leaves. It been through a number of name changes having been called several different Michelia and Magnolia species including Michelia crassipes, Ma... |
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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...
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Common Name: Southern Sweetbay
Large, fully evergreen tree. Magnolia virginiana ranges from Massachusetts southward to Florida and westward to east Texas. Several variants have been named and described but two distinct forms are the more shrubby... |
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Common Name: Banana Shrub Hybrid
This hybrid magnolis is a large shrub or small evergreen tree of upright growth. The long 3/5 inch leaves and abundant, but somewhat ill-scented, 3 inch wide magnolia-like white flowers appear in early spring. This plant is a hybrid of culti... |
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Common Name: Turk's-cap
This subtropical Hibiscus relative is herbaceous in zone 8 but a shrubby evergreen in frost free areas. It produces bright red flowers 2-3 inches long. The petals do not open out flat like Hibiscus but it is a showy garden subject for ... |
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Common Name: Turk's-cap
This subtropical Hibiscus relative is herbaceous in zone 8 but a shrubby evergreen in frost free zones. Flowers are normally bright red and 2-3 inches long but this is the uncommon pink-flowered form. The petals do not open out f... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Turk's Cap 'Big Momma' Hybrid
This shrubby plant has showy red flowers and leaves that are intermediate between the parent species (which see). A relatively recent Texas introduction by Greg Grant, this should prove a garden worthy plant that is likely to be a bit more cold-ha... |
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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 ... |
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Common Name: Dawn Redwood
Dawn Redwood is a large Chinese tree, a deciduous conifer, somewhat like Baldcypress (Taxodium). It was first known only from the fossil record but was found growing wild in a remote area of China in 1941. Some of the first Metasequoia planted in th...
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Common Name: Powderpuff
This native Mimosa is a prostrate deciduous groundcover with compound feathery leaves. It is vigorous and will cover bare areas with attractive foliage punctuated by erect 10 inch stems bearing marshmallow size pink powderpuff flowers. Found from Fl...
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: White Muhley Grass
Muhley Grass is a distinctive ornamental wiry upright bunch grass with beautiful reddish plumes up to about 3 feet tall. It blooms in late summer and fall. 'White Cloud' is a rare form similar to the normal pink plume Muhlenbe... |
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Common Name: Simpson's Stopper
Simpson Stopper is a neat evergreen small tree or shrub with small leaves, white flowers, orange fruit, and nice exfoliating bark. It is native to central and southern Florida. It has surprisied us by being perfect... |
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Common Name: Simpson Stopper
Simpson Stopper is a neat evergreen small tree or shrub with small leaves, white flowers, orange fruit, and nice exfoliating bark. It is native to central and southern Florida. It has surprisied us by being perfectly hardy here in... |
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Common Name: Swamp Bayberry
Swamp Bayberry is found in acid lowgrounds in the Southeastern U.S. and is similar to M. pensylvanica but is evergreen and the fruits are smaller and almost black. The aromatic leaves are larger and broader than Myrica cerifera, ... |
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Common Name: Northern Bayberry
This is the Northern Bayberry, the berries are the source of the wax once used to make Bayberry candles. It is native in the northeast and along the immediate coastline to North Carolina. It is a deciduous shrub growing to around ... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Yellow-Berried Heavenly Bamboo
Nandina domestica is an Asian shrub which has long been popular in the South. There are various named varieties including dwarf forms. The typical form is an upright multi-stem plant with minimal branching but with large glossy fern-like ... |
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Common Name: Double Pink 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 variou... |
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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... |
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Common Name: Alabama Snow-wreath
Alabama Snowreath is a rare thicket-forming Spirea-like deciduous shrub with early showy white flowers which give a feathery appearance from the numerous stamens. This plant is found on limestone soils in northern Alabama, barely into Georgia and Ten...
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Common Name: Smallseed Sacahuista
This Beargrass or Smallseed Sacahuista is an essentially stemless clump-forming desert plant with narrow, stiff grass-like leaves from a central rosette. It is often multi crowned. Tall spikes of very small fl... |
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Common Name: Water Tupelo
Water Tupelo is a large swamp tree which in frequently flooded areas often has a swollen base . The relatively large pointed leaves turn bright yellow in fall. It will grow in average moist soil or in very wet conditions.... |
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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... |
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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...
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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... |
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Common Name: Sundrops
This Evening Primrose is a perennial native to eastern North America. The bright yellow flowers in summer are very attractive. Plnat in full sun for best performance. . It is tolerant of dry soils and may spread to... |
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Common Name: Olive
Olive is an evergreen Mediterranean small tree or large shrub with gray-green leathery leaves and small white fragrant flowers in axillary racemes in late summer. Fruits produced in dry climates are the source of commercial olives and olive oil. W... |
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Common Name: Olive, 'Favarol'
Olive is an evergreen Mediterranean small tree or large shrub with gray-green leathery leaves and small white fragrant flowers in axillary racemes in late summer. Fruits produced in dry climates are the source of commercial olives and olive oil. W... |
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Common Name: Olive of Seville
Olive is an evergreen Mediterranean small tree or large shrub with gray-green leathery leaves and small white fragrant flowers in axillary racemes in late summer. Fruits produced in dry climates are the source of commercial olives and olive oil. W... |
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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...
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Common Name: Wild Olive
Osmanthus americanus is an evergreen shrub or tree with smooth margined elliptical leaves and small white flowers in spring. It is native to the southeastern U.S., primarily in coastal plain woodlands. 'Devilwood', so named for it's diffi... |
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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... |
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Common Name: 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 that...
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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...
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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... |
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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...
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Common Name: Holly Osmanthus 'Gulftide'
'Gulftide' 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 partia... |
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Common Name: Holly Osmanthus
Holly Osmanthus is a large evergreen Asian shrub with holly-like leaves and fragrant white flowers. It is a long time favorite in southern gardens and is useful for hedges, borders. screen, or barrier plantings. It is best in sun or semi-shade wit... |
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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...
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: 'Nachez' Fortune's Osmanthus
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Common Name: Cinnamon Fern
Cinnamon Fern is a big-growing deciduous fern native to eastern North America on humus rich moist to wet woodland soils. It is an impressive fern for similar shady garden conditions. The tall upright fronds which turn yellow in fall are preceeded in ...
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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...
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Common Name: Hop Hornbeam or Ironwood
Small to medium deciduous tree with small, elm-like leaves and unusual fruits that look like Hops. Bark is gray-brown and peels in fine strips. A very good small shade tree that is adapted to well-drained soils in sun or semishade. Odenwald and Tu... |
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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...
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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... |
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Common Name: Chinese Parrotia
This is a deciduous medium size tree in the Witchhazel family (Hammelidaceae) with rather small toothed oval leaves and exfoliating bark. This very rare tree may have been offered for the first time in the U.S. by W... |
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Common Name: Yellow Patrinia Cultivar
This yellow-flowered Japanese native is a tough perennial with oval rough leaves. The small flowers are persistent and held in inflorescenses above the foliage. It is good for cutting and a good perennial for sunny irrigated beds and borders ... |
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Common Name: Argentine Mallow
This shrub native to Argentina is a rather open growing semi-evergreen plant with narrow hastate leaves 2 to 3 inches long. Trimming or shearing will result in a more compact plant. Early blooms are cleistogamous ie. forming seed without opening b... |
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Common Name: Smooth Penstemon Cultivar
Penstemon digitalis is a fine perennial native the eastern United States. It has tubular white flowers on a panicle held above the leaves in early to mid-summer. 'Husker Red' is a selection developed at the University of Nebraska. It is s... |
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Common Name: Small's Penstemon
This fine garden perennial is nativee to the southern Appalachians where it grows in woods edges and sunny to semi-shady spots on rocky slopes. It has showy pink to magenta tubular flowers, is easy to grow, and while relatively sho... |
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Common Name: Redbay, Swamp
Evergreen tree with aromatic leaves. Flowers not conspicuous but tree produces many purple berries on long pedicels. Plants offered are seedlings from a rather dwarf tree we collected years ago in Appling County, Georgia. The similar Persea borbon...
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Common Name: Amur Corktree
The Amur Corktree is a medium sized deciduous shade tree with pinnate compound leaves that are shiny deep green in summer and yellow in fall. Old trees have very interesting and attractive corky bark. Adaptable to various soils an... |
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Common Name: Blue Phlox
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Common Name: Ozark Phlox
Missouri Botanic Garden says: [Phlox Pilosa] "More Info |
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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 ... |
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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.... |
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Common Name: Correll's Obedient Plant
This species of "Obedient Plant" or "False Dragonhead" is a robust, erect, somewhat succulent perennial from thick rhizomes. It has inch long lavender-pink flowers streaked or spotted with purple. It is a rare species found in scattered localities ...
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Common Name: Climbing Heath
This rare and unusual plant native to the southeastern U.S. is a small evergreen shrub in cultivation. In it's native swamp habitat it becomes a vine on Pond Cypress (Taxodium ascendens) trees where it grows high up the tree under the loo... |
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Common Name: Lily of the Valley Shrub
This evergreen shrub has glossy slightly toothed leaves which emerge bronze and turn dark green. Dense clusters of hanging bell-like small white flowers in spring. This species of Pieris is native to the Ryuku Isla... |
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Common Name: Georgia Feverbark Tree
Pinckneya is a large shrub or small deciduous tree with showy, pink, Poinsettia-like flowers (actually bracts) and 4-5 inch long oval leaves. It is found in scattered locations from southeastern South Carolina to Florida in mo... |
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Common Name: Spruce Pine
Spruce Pine is a choice ornamental pine with dense dark green needles and most unusual bark for a pine. The trunk looks like a hardwood tree trunk! Usually found in mixed stands just upslope from stream bottomlands in coastal areas... |
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Common Name: Longleaf Pine
Longleaf Pine, with needles up to a foot long, is the premier southern pine. It once occupied 92 million acres in a very diverse fire maintained ecosystem streaching from southeastern Virginia to Florida and east Texas. Now very little old-growth lon...
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Common Name: Chinese Pistacia
Chinese Pistacia is a medium size deciduous tree related to the Pistacio nut. It does not produce the edible nuts but does have splendid bright orange-red fall color, is drought and insect resistant, and has lustrous dark green compound leaves. This...
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Common Name: Monkeycomb
This Woodlanders introduction is a semi-evergreen vine related to our native Crossvine (Bignonia capreolata). It is somwhat similar and climbs with tendrils, but has white flowers. We collected this in Cordoba Province, Argentina and it h... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Dwarf Bamboo
Pleioblastus (Sasa) distichus 'Mini' is the most dwarf of running bamboo. Bambusero Adam Turtle of "Our Nursery" in Summertown, TN says it is a ground-covering bamboo that can be controlled with an edger. But it is a running bamboo ! Presumed to be ...
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Common Name: 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... |
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Common Name: Variegated Podocarpus
Podocarpus macrophyllus is an evergreen conifer that is grown as a shrub or small tree in many southern U.S. landscapes. This Asian species has leaves that are several inches long and about 1/4 inch wide.&nb... |
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Common Name: Yew, Southern
A low-growing selection of this popular southern conifer with flat needle-like evergreen leaves which spiral the stem. Woodlanders obtained cuttings of this form years ago from a plant at Tom Dodd Nurseries in Semmes, Alabama but have not met with... |
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Common Name: Pine of the Mountain
Very rare evergreen conifer native to a few very scattered localities on mountains just east of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. This plant is now available from Woodlanders and is CITES listed. Woodlanders is probably the...
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Common Name: Pink Trumpet Vine
Vigorous vine with compound leaves. Will likely freeze to ground in zones 8 and 9 but make much growth in warm weather with good conditions. Flowers are showy pink trumpets. Plant in sunny site with well-drained soil and allow ample space to climb....
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Common Name: Great Solomon's Seal
This is a tall woodland perennial with unbranched stems bearing alternate delightfully oriented oval leaves and whitish pendant flowers in the leaf axils followed by black berries. A choice colonizing plant for the moist shady woodland garden... |
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Common Name: Christmas Fern
This evergreen fern has rather coarse foliage but it is a durable fern for shady sites on well-drained but moist soil. Christmas Fern is one of the hardier evergreen ferns native to eastern North America and is a useful plant for the shady garden. T...
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Common Name: Mintbush
Of several Prostanthera species received from Longwood Gardens, this one has proven satisfactory in our climate. It is a more or less evergreen shrub up to 6 feet with abundant white flowers. Leaves are rather small and narrow. Plant in sunny well... |
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Common Name: Chickasaw Plum
Chickasaw Plum is a thicket forming deciduous shrub or small tree with very early, showy white flowers and edible yellow or red fruit. This species is widespread in the southeastern U.S. but is suspected of having been introduced from farther west b...
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Common Name: Carolina Cherry Laurel
Carolina Laurelcherry is a versatile evergreen tree which can be used for hedge, screen, or specimen plant. It has shiny green leaves with serrulate margins and racemes of white flowers in spring followed by black fruits which are eaten by birds. ... |
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Common Name: Fuji Cherry
Prunus incisa, the Fuji cherry gets its scientific name from the deep incisions on the leaves. A dainty slow-growing, early white-flowering cherry, it is a century-old cultigen from Hondo, Japan. It is hi... |
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Common Name: 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. ...
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Common Name: Japanese Apricot Cultivar
Japanese Apricot is an attractive winter flowering small deciduous tree to 30 feet. 'Bonita' has a semi-upright growth habit and double, rose-red one-inch flowers in late winter. Plant in sunny location with well-drained soil. ... |
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Common Name: Flatwoods Plum
Flatwoods Plum is a picturesque small deciduous tree with rough bark. It bears white flowers (often turning pink) in spring. The small sour purple plums can be used for jelly. It is not thicket forming like Chickasaw P... |
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Common Name: Chinese Quince
Small to medium size deciduous tree with dark green firm toothed leaves and gray, green and brown bark which flakes off to produce mosaic patterns. Fall color is yellow to red. In spring it has attractive soft pink flowers on old ... |
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Common Name: Wafer-ash
Hop Tree is a small bushy decidous tree that is quite adaptable. It has trifoliate leaves and very fragrant small yellowish flowers in spring followed by persistent wafer-like winged seeds. It is a larval food plant sought by butterflies and butte... |
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Common Name: Pomegranate 'California Sunset'
This flowering Pomegranate also known as 'Madame Legrelle', is a medium size deciduous shrub with very double coral-red flowers variegated with much white, Flowers in summer and is long blooming but like other double-flowered forms... |
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Common Name: Pomegranate
Pomegranate is a deciduous Middle-eastern shrub with small narrow leaves, orange flowers, and orange-red large edible fruits for which it has been cultivated since ancient times. Some ornamental varieties have showy double flowers and rarely set frui...
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Common Name: Pomegranate 'Eight Ball'
Pomegranate is a deciduous Middle-eastern shrub with small narrow leaves, orange flowers, and large orange-red edible fruits for which it has been cultivated since ancient times. Some ornamental varieties have showy double flowers and rarely ... |
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Common Name: Hybrid
x Pyracomeles vilmorinii is a (Pyracantha x Osteomeles) bi-generic hybrid It is a semi-evergreen shrub with arching thornless branches and deeply cut small leaves. Corymbose white flowers in spring are followed by coral... |
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Common Name: Fern, Cockscomb
This beautiful selection of a Japanese/Korean epiphyte/lithophyte is not a typical fern. It is not "ferny" but has leathery leaves that are is deeply lobed with some of the lobes having a secondary pointed lobe. Underside of the leaf is silk... |
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Common Name: Sawtooth Oak
Sawtooth Oak is a medium to large deciduous tree with leaves like a Chestnut tree. It gives good yellow fall color and produces abundant large acorns with curious fuzzy acorn caps used in crafts. It is an excellent shade tree or street... |
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Common Name: Sawtooth Oak 'Gobbler'
Quercus acutissima 'Gobbler' is a deciduous dense, broad, oval-rounded to broad-rounded tree with low-slung, wide-spreading branches. The cultivar Gobbler is the result of open-pollinated progeny that produce early and abundant acorns. One of the fa...
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Common Name: White Oak
White Oak is a large imposing deciduous tree reaching 50 to 80 feet with a broad rounded crown. It is a long-lived, slow-growing oak. Many venerable specimens exist. The leaves with rounded lobes turn russet-red in fall and are widely recognized as...
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Common Name: Arizona White Oak
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Common Name: Kermes Oak
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Common Name: Scarlet Oak
Scarlet Oak is a large deciduous tree with deeply lobed glossy foliaged often with excellent scarlet fall color.. It is a highly ornamental shade tree tolerant of dry soil. It has a growth habit similar to Pin Oak ... |
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Common Name: Hybrid Hungarian Oak
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Common Name: Georgia Oak
Georgia Oak is a rare, small deciduous tree in the Red Oak group. It is essentially restricted to west-central Georgia and in Alabama where it can be stunted and shrub-like on granite outcrops. Given a good site with acid soil it makes a very... |
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Common Name: Gray Oak
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Common Name: Darlington Oak
Large, fast-growing tree much used as a street tree and shade tree in the South. It is almost evergreen and resembles Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) but is more upright and not so long-lived. Sometimes confused with <... |
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Common Name: Overcup Oak
Overcup Oak is a large deciduous tree found on floodplains and bottomlands in the eastern and central U.S. It is a round crowned tree that makes a good shade tree or street tree. It is adapatable to well-drained or poorly drained soils. Overcup Oa... |
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Common Name: Margaret's Oak
This deciduous oak thrives in dry sandy soils where it can form an attractive small to medium sized tree. It is like a smaller version of Post Oak (Quercus stellata) with more rounded lobes on the leaves. Plant in well-draine... |
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Common Name: Cow Oak
A large deciduous oak with dentate leaves and big acorns similar to Chestnut Oak but with bark like White Oak. This oak is a bottomland hardwood and while native to floodplains it is an excellent shade tree or street tree on fertile upl... |
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Common Name: Willow Oak
This large native oak is a popular shade tree and street tree which grows 40 to 60 feet tall. It has narrow willow-like leaves which are deciduous and give good yellow fall color. It is native to the Atlantic coastal region from L... |
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Common Name: Dwarf Chinquapin Oak
This uncommon deciduous oak is similar to Quercus muhlenbergii (Chinquapin Oak) but it grows as a large shrub or small tree. It can be rhizomatous. The Dwarf Chinquapin Oak is usually found on rather sterile sa... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Cork Oak
Cork Oak is a spreading medium size tree with dull evergreen leaves about 2 inches long and with slight marginal serrations. It is native to the Mediterranean region where it's bark is harvested as the source of commercial cork in Spain and Portug... |
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Common Name: Live Oak
Live Oak is a magnificent broadspreading, massive, and long-lived evergreen tree that is beloved and well-known in the southern U.S. where it is native from Virginia to Texas. This iconic oak is the state tree of Georgia. Live Oak... |
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Common Name: Carolina Buckthorn
Carolina Buckthorn is a small deciduous tree with shiny, dark green foliage and attractive red fruit that matures into a deep purple or black. The fruits ripen in August and remain on the tree until around October. Relatively unknown to gardeners and...
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Common Name: 'Ballerina' Indian Hawthorn
Indian Hawthorn and Yeddo Hawthorn (Rhaphiolepis indica and R. umbellata) have become very popular landscape plants in the southern U.S. These dense evergreen shrubs come in many named varities which vary in... |
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Common Name: Indian Hawthorn
The leaves of this handsome Asian evergreen shrub are resistant to leaf spot They are gray-green when they first open, and later mature to a dark green or blue-green color. In winter the leaves may turn a subdued purple-green. The whi... |
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Common Name: Needle Palm
Needle Palm is a fan-leaf palm of mounding habit eventually forming a short trunk. It is a very ornamental palm that has been hardy to Washington, D.C. and has withstood temperatures to -6 degrees F. which may qualify it as the most cold-hardy pal... |
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Common Name: Alabama Azalea 'Frosty'
'Frosty' is a named cultivar of Rhododendron alabamense (which see). Cuttings of this form were shared with us by our "Plant Nut" friend Dean Jolly. It is said to have been selected years ago in southwest Georgia by Terry... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Early Sweet Azalea
Rhododendron arborescens is a tall deciduous native azalea with fragrant white flowers with red stamens. This form of the Sweet Azalea is from a disjunct population of this shrub discovered by Woodland... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Native Azalea Hybrid
This fragrant early pale yellow flowered hybrid azalea is from a cross of two native azaleas which do not occurs together in the wild. Made some years ago by the late Robert Mackintosh it was introduced by Woodlanders. The flowers are si... |
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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 ... |
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Common Name: Florida Azalea 'Harrison's Red'
The Florida Azalea is a large growing deciduous azalea. The fragrant flowers very early and typically yellow. The flowers of this clone are a unique coral color. This selection was ... |
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Common Name: Azalea, Florida 'Reagan'
Possibly a hybrid of Rhododendron austrinum (which see) this selection from the east side of the Appalachicola River in Florida has a lot of reddish pink in the buds, tubes, and staymens of the yellow flowers and can appear uncommonly red... |
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Deciduous shrub azalea well suited to the Deep South's heat and humidity. One of the Tom Dodd "Confederate Series" this one is named for Confederate Admiral Raphael Semmes. It is a gorgeous large flowered yellow hybrid between the Exbury Hybrid 'Hots...
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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... |
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Common Name: Azalea hybrid 'Stonewall Jackson'
'Stonewall Jackson' is one of the "Confederate Series" of deciduous native azalea hybrids introduced by Tom Dodd, Jr. and Tom Dodd III of Semmes Alabama. It is a hybrid between the Exbury Azalea 'Hotspur Yellow' and the Florida Azalea (R... |
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Common Name: Piedmont Azalea
This native deciduous azalea has showy pink, fragrant flowers that blossom in early spring. Flower color varies widely from pale to dark pink. It is sometimes stoloniferous (spreads by underground stems). Grows in acidic soil and from nearly full ... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Azalea, Piedmont 'Varnadoes's Pink'
This native deciduous azalea has showy pink, fragrant flowers that blossom in early spring. Flower color can vary widely from pale to dark pink but this choice selection was from our friend the late great native aza... |
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Common Name: Azalea hybrid, 'Chapmanii Wonder'
A Japanese plant breeder crossed our endangered Florida native Rhododendron chapmanii with the very hardy white flowered form of Rhododendron dauricum, a species native to eastern Asia. This resulted in this ... |
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Common Name: Azalea, Red Hills
The Red Hills Azalea is a recently recognized species of native deciduous azalea first described in 2008. It had previously been confused with Rhododendron alabamense which flowers earlier and has consistently white flowers with a y... |
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Common Name: May White Azalea
Maywhite Rhododendron is a rather recently described species from the South Carolina midlands. It was probably first found by Mike Creel of Lexington, SC a retired Dept of Natural Resources employee who was our source. It has whi... |
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Common Name: Azalea, Oconee 'Florence'
'Florence' is a robust selection or possibly hybrid of Rhododendron flammeum (which see). It was selected and named by our friend Charles Webb of Superior Trees in Florida. Florence, for whom it is named, is the wife... |
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Common Name: Piedmont Rhododendron
Rhododendron minus is an evergreen shrub with small oval leaves resembling Kalma latifolia. It has showy pink flowers in spring. Closely related to R. carolinanium but taller and flowering later. This Rhododendron is native to the Southern Appalachi...
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Common Name: Taiwan Azalea
This spreading open-branched evergreen azalea has dull green to yellowish-green fuzzy leaves. The deep pink to rust colored flowers may appear sporadically through summer, but typically this species flowers in the fall, which is a uniqu... |
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Common Name: Pinxterbloom Azalea
Rhododendron periclymenoides was formerly known as Rhododendron nudiflorum. a medium sized multi-branched, stoloniferous decidious shrub. This normally pink-flowered species is widespread in the eastern U.S. This unusu... |
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Common Name: Azalea, Plumleaf
This native deciduous azalea is considered one of the finest of the American Azaleas. It has orange-red to red flowers in July and August, much later than most native azaleas. It is a rare species found only in western Georgia and ... |
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Common Name: Hammocksweet Azalea
A large growing native deciduous azalea that ranges farthest south into central Florida. It is one of the latest flowering of the azaleas, sometimes blooming in Setember. It has rather small fragrant white flowers and grows in swampy a... |
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Common Name: Swamp Azalea
Swamp Azalea is a rather stoloniferous native deciduous azalea with white flowers that have a sweet fragrance. These bloom in late spring with flower tubes that are glandular sticky. This species is widespread on acidic soils of the eastern U.S. o... |
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Common Name: Pink Swamp Azalea
This is a pink flowered variety of the normally white-flowered Rhododendron viscosum (which see). This selection is a Woodlanders introduction of Aiken County, South Carolina provenance. ... |
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Common Name: Azalea, Native Pastel Hybrid
A spontaneous hybrid probably including Rhododendron. alabamensis, R. canescens and R. flammeum. Blooms in mid-spring. A happy blend of colors which adds interest to any garden. Woodlanders regularly offers several numbered selectio... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Native Azalea Pastel Hybrid
Floriferous. A spontaneous hybrid probably involving R. alabamensis, R. canescens and R. flammeum. Mid-spring blooming. Flowers are a light to mid orange. An exclusive Woodlanders' introduction....
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Common Name: Azalea, Hybrid 'Addison'
'Addison' is a tall-growing, open deciduous native azalea from Rhododendron alabamense (which see) seed. It is surely a hybrid but exact parentage is unknown. It was first named 'Stunning' because that describes the large dens... |
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Common Name: Mollis Azalea Hybrid
This upright deciduous shrub with large flowers that are orange marked with yellow. This hardy azalea is a large flowered cross made by Woodlanders founder the late Robert Mackintosh who crossed our native Roseshell Azalea (Rhododend... |
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Common Name: Rhodoleia
Rhodoleia is a large evergreen shrub or small tree native to China. It is a beautiful plant with thick, shiny, somewhat rounded leaves that are glaucous underneath. It has drooping rose-colored flower clusters in ... |
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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... |
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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...
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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... |
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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 ... |
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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 |
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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 ... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Climbing Rose Cultivar
Vigorous spreading, decidious hybrid rose climber also known as 'Spanish Beauty'. It has large pink flowers that are red in bud. It blooms in the spring. Its foliage is dark green and relatively free of common rose problems. I can grow in full sun ...
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Common Name: Common Rosemary
This familiar and highly aromatic shrub has evergreen needle-like leaves and blue flowers. It is a standard culinary herb native to the Mediterranean region It requires full sun and well-drained, preferably neutral to slightly alk... |
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Common Name: Prostrate Rosemary
This is a low trailing form of the Common Rosemary. It likewise has blue flowers, and aromatic needle-like evergreen leaves. It is a Mediterranean native which should have full sun and a well-drained, preferably alkaline, soil... |
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Common Name: Rostrincula
Rostrincula is an unusual deciduous shrub recently introduced from south China and not widely available. It is in the mint family and resemblea a Butterfly Bush (Buddleia) but the unusual flowers which appear in summer are pinkish ... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Wild Petunia
This southeastern U.S. native perennial is called "Wild Petunia" and makes a good garden plant. It has beautiful blue or violet petunia-like flowers that appear in the spring, summer, and fall. The informative and entertaining book Passalong P... |
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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-...
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Common Name: Lousiana Palmetto
Like a Sabal minor on steroids, this palm has been variously classified as a form of Sabal minor and a hybrid with Sabal texana. Ours originated in the well-known Brazoria County, Texas population and may be different from the trunked palmettos in f...
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Common Name: Dwarf Palmetto
This dwarf stemless palm has blue-green fan shaped leaves. Fruiting stalks extend well above foliage and bear black 1/4 inch in diameter. This is a very hardy palm native from northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Oklahoma southward. ... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Dappled Willow
This is an elegant small willow with glossy bright green leaves which are beautifully variegated pink and white when unfolding. It is fast growing and makes a wonderful water-side cover. This is a cultivar of a species native to Japan.... |
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Common Name: Willow 'Rubykins'
This willow is a vigorous deciduous shrub suited for moist site in sunny location. The narrow leaves have a white back and midrib. The slender branches bear small red catkins in spring. It was received from Dr. Michael Dirr who i... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Blue Brazilian Sage
This South American perennial sage has gorgeous dark blue flowers and heart-shaped leaves. It thrives in semi-shade and blooms from late summer through the fall. It is tolerant of heat and humidity so is a good sage for southern gardens... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Salvia Hybrid 'Phyllis Fancy'
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Sage, Littleleaf Cultivar
This shrub sage from Mexico has become popular since it was introduced in California a few years ago. The flowers can be all white or all red in early summer, but are mostly a striking bicolor white with a red stripe as temperatures ri... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Himalayan Sweet Box
This species of Sweet Box is a relatively recent introduction and is still rare in cultivation. Like other Sarcococca species it is an attractive evergreen shrub with glossy foliage on arching stems and with fragrant small white flowers.... |
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Schima superba is a beautiful evergreen Asian tree with no English common name. It is in the Tea family so related to Camellia, Gordonia, Stewartia, etc. It has lanceolate leaves 5-6 inches long. The new growth... |
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Common Name: Little Bluestem, 'Prairie Blues'
Little Bluestem is a relatively tall perennial bunch grass native to most of the U.S and southern Canada. It thrives in hot dry areas and is relatively common as a prairie grass. This selection called 'Prairie Blues' is descr... |
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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.... |
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Common Name: Hardy Gloxinia
Seemannia (Gloxinia) nematanthodes which we originally (and mistakenly) offered as Achimenes heterophylla, produces very showy bright red inflated flowers in late summer above dark velvety green leaves. A somewhat succulent perennial, forming colonie...
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Common Name: Chinese Lacefern
This attractive evergreen groundcover is quite fern-like but is not a fern. It spreads in shady areas with good garden soil. It is native to China. ... |
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Common Name: Gemmiferous Spikemoss
This plant native to eastern Asia is a low, ferny, bright green groundcover from creeping rhizomes. It often reproduces from small cone-like plantlets which form on the fronds. Try it in moist woodsy sites with good soil.... |
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Common Name: Peacock Moss
Peacock Moss is not moss but a very low-growing spreading fern relative. It has distinctive scale-like leaves clothing decumbent stems which spread and form patches in moist, shady sites. It is unique for the irridescent metallic blue-green foliage...
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Common Name: Mexican Flame Vine
This subtropical Senecio is an herbaceous vine with glossy green nearly succulent leaves. It is evergreen in frost free areas but otherwise a die-back perennial for a protected area with winter mulch. Wonderful orange-red flowers with yellow... |
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Common Name: Saw Palmetto
Saw Palmetto is a small fan-leaf palm that is common in pinelands of the Deep South. It grows in full sun to light shade and is well adapted to warmer areas of the Southeastern United States. Normally a low, spreading palm with decumbent trunks but s...
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Common Name: Blue Saw Palmetto
These are seedlings of the glaucous blue form of this small palm that is common in Deep South pinelands. The glaucous blue form is found on the east coast of Florida. It grows in full sun to light shade and is well adapted to warmer areas of... |
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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... |
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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 |
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Common Name: Jacktree
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Common Name: Chicken Wire Plant
This Smilax is a curious deciduous groundcover with small leaves and twiggy stems. A Woodlanders introduction that we obtained years ago from Brookside Gardens in Maryland. They had obtained this unusual plant as Smilax fragrans. We offer... |
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Common Name: Bamboo Vine
This high climbing vine is valued for its shiny evergreen foliage. It is a great vine for trellis, porch, or cut for long lasting decoration. Female plants have green berries which turn black. It is mostly thornless except on young shoo... |
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Common Name: Potato Vine
This vigorous evergreen vine blooms from mid summer to mid fall. The showy star shaped white flowers are tinged with blue and produce a wonderful fragrance. It can grow in sandy soil, clay, or rich gardening soil and ca... |
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Common Name: Blue Potato Bush
This South American shrub is perhaps correctly Lycianthes rantonetti. It is a scrambling vine-like shrub which is best trained up as a trellis or espalier plant where it can get up to 15 feet in mild areas. It is valued for the loose clus... |
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Common Name: Wreath Goldenrod
This graceful, yellow flowered ground cover is shade tolerant. It blooms from late summer through mid fall....
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Common Name: Texas Mountain Laurel
Texas Mountainlaurel is no relation to the eastern Mountainlaurel (Kalmia). It is a legume and forms an evergreen shrub or small tree with glossy foliage and clusters of fragrant purple flowers followed by seed pods with... |
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Common Name: Virginia Spirea
This spirea is a rare deciduous shrub with arching upright stems and small leaves. It bears paniculate clusters of creamy white flowers. It is found in a very few places along rocky stream banks in the southern Appalachians. It has... |
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Common Name: American Bladdernut
This small deciduous tree or suckering shrub has trifoliate leaves and interesting greenish-white bell-like flowers followed by curious inflated balloon-like papery fruits. It is best in fertile moist soil in semi-shade. It is native to east... |
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Common Name: Mube
This is a splendid compound leafed evergreen vine related to Akebia. In spring it bears white flowers tinged purple followed by sausage shaped fruit which is eaten in Asia. It grows in sandy, loamy, or clay soils that are moi... |
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Common Name: Silky Camellia
Stewartia malacodendron is a much sought native deciduous shrub. It is in the Tea Family so related to Camellia. It is found mostly on streamside slopes in rich woods and is widely scattered in spots from V... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Fragrant Snowbell
This Snowbell is a small to medium size tree with white, fragrant flowers that bloom in mid-April in the South, later in the North. It has especially large foliage for a Styrax and gorgeous gray-brown bark. Ideal conditions include ample moisture ... |
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Common Name: Shrub Marigold
This Mexican shrub with pungently aromatic foliage produces masses of bright yellow flowers in late fall. It dies back somewhat in winter. It makes a great border plant in a sunny, well-drained site and adds a lot of color to the late fall landscap...
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Common Name: Pond Cypress
Pond Cypress is a deciduous conifer closely related to the Baldcypress (Taxodium distichum) so widespread in the southern U.S. Pond Cypress is not usually as large as Baldcypress, produces little in the way of "Cypress knees" and is usually more nar...
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Common Name: Bald Cypress
Baldcypress is a long-lived large deciduous conifer charactersitic of swamps and river margins in the southern U.S. where it is a valuable timber tree, Baldcypress is broadly pyramidal when young and has feather-like leaves.&#... |
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Common Name: Yew, Florida
This is a very rare conifer that is restricted to the Apalachicola River area in northwest Florida. It is a shrub or small tree requiring moisture, but good drainage. Taxus is generally a cool climate plant so this Florida species may represent a ... |
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Common Name: Yellow Elder
Tecoma stans var. stans is a shrub or small tree in subtropical areas. The variety stans is less hardy but frequently used in tropical or subtropical regions. This is the variety angustatum which is native in west Te... |
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Common Name: Cape Honeysuckle
Cape Honeysuckle is a rangy vine-like shrub with pretty glossy compound leaves like Trumpet Vine. The very showy orange flowers are liked by hummingbirds. It can be trained up or allowed to cascade. Where borderline ha... |
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Common Name: 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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Arborvitae, Giant
A large imposing evergreen conifer native to northwestern North America where old specimens in the wild may reach almost 200 feet tall. Proving very adaptable to eastern, southern, and midwestern U.S. conditions when properly sited. This clone is ... |
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Common Name: Western Redcedar, 'Green Giant'
'Green Giant' is an excellent large dark green conifer possibly a hybrid between Thuja plicata and Thuja standishii, both of which are native to northwestern North America however 'Green Giant' was selected as a seedling fro... |
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Common Name: Tibochina
This Brazilian Tibouchina is a large shrub or root-hardy perennial long cultivated in Florida. The glossy, deep-veined leaves and smaller, but more abundant flowers distinguish it from T. urvilleana. Cut back plants after... |
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Tibochina is a subtropical shrub which is a die-back perennial in all but essentially frost-free areas. It has velvety textured leaves with prominent veins and very showy deep purple flowers. Foliage may become red in fall before being killed by f... |
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Common Name: Basswood, Florida
Basswoods are medium to large deciduous trees with heart shaped leaves, yellowish fragrant flowers, and small nutlets on stalks attached to a papery wing. There are many species in the Northern Hemisphere but the... |
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Common Name: Stinking Cedar
"Stinking Cedar" is a beautiful conifer despite the name. The foliage actually smells pleasant! It is a medium size pyramidal evergreen tree with Yew-like leaves and purple nutmeg-like fruit on female plants. Needs light organic soil, adequate moi... |
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A multi colored variegated cultivar of a species which is widepread in eastern U.S. woodlands. Armitage (Herbaceous Perennial Plants) says the leaves of this variety have a V shaped reddish-pink blotch in the center of each leaf and new leaves are c...
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Common Name: Star Jasmine
Asian Jasmine is not a true Jasmine but is a close relative of the popular "Confederate Jasmine" (named for the Malay Confederation). It is less of a climber but a great dense groundcover vine with small, lustrous, dark green, leathery evergreen f... |
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Common Name: Jasmine, Asiatic Star 'Gold Brocade'
This is a highly variegated form of Trachelosperumu asiaticum (which see). The name 'Ogon Nishiki' translates to Gold Brocade. This is an extremely colorful plant with leaves splotched with green, yellow, and orange. ... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Confederate Jasmine, Madison'
This vigorous evergreen twining vine has fragrant white star shaped flowers. This selection, almost surely var. pubescens, came to us through the former Cedar Lane Farms Nursery in Madison, GA where this selection proved much more ... |
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Common Name: Jasmine
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Common Name: Windmill Palm
This fan leaf palm is native to eastern Asia but is grown worldwide. It is the most common palm seen northward and grows well in cool regions including the British Isles and coastal British Columbia. Good specimens have grown outdoors as far north... |
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Common Name: Regel's Threewingnut
Native to Japan, Korea, and Manchuria, this hardy and vigorous scandent shrub is almost vinelike with reddish warty branches. It is deciduous and bears large clusters of yellowish or greenish white flowers in late summer followed by pale green three...
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Common Name: Wheel Tree
Wheel Tree is a large evergreen shrub or small tree native to eastern Asia. It is very uncommon in cultivation in the U.S. though it is a relatively hardy evergreen of distinctive tiered habit and foliage that stands out among other evergree... |
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Common Name: Society Garlic
Society Garlic is a perennial from a bulb which multiplies and divides freely. The leaves are linear and blue green with strong onion odor when crushed. The flowers are borne on 1-2 foot tall stems and are rosy lavender clusters b... |
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Common Name: 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... |
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Common Name: Mexican Buckeye
Mexican Buckeye is a deciduous small tree or large shrub has pink flowers in spring before the compound leaves emerge. When in flower it suggests Redbud (Cercis). The fruit consists of three marble size poisonous se... |
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Common Name: Sparkleberry
Sparkleberry is a deciduous shrub with small glossy leathery leaves. It can become a small tree to 25 feet. Large old specimens can be very attractive especially with artistic pruning. The fragrant small bell-shaped white fl... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Small Black Blueberry
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Common Name: Ashe's Viburnum
This deciduous shrub with small serrated leaves, white flowers, and blue-black fruit may be a Deep South form or subspecies of Arrowwood (Viburnum dentatum). Taxonomy confusing and sometimes listed as Viburnum dentatum var. scabr... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Cinnamon Leaf Viburnum
This large evergreen shrub native to China has large glossy oval leaves that are deeply veined and distinctive. It is somewhat like the lower growing Viburnum davidii but much better adapted in the southern U.S. Large fl... |
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Common Name: Himalayan Evergreen Viburnum
This Viburnum is a rare evergreen to semi-evergreen shrub or small tree with spreading often drooping branches. The glossy, leaves are relatively small. It bears white flowers in summer followed by scarlet fruit. Hillier says... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Luzon Viburnum
This essentially evergreen shrub has leaves somewhat like Arrowwood (Viburnum dentatum). It is grown in the Houston area which is where we got it but is apparently little known elsewhere in the U.S. It grows well in fertil... |
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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... |
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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 ... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Doublefile Viburnum Selection
Dr. Michael Dirr (Manual of Woody Landscape Plants) highly recommends this "tremendous" introduction from Don Egolf's breeding program at U.S. National Arboretum. 'Shasta' is a large deciduous shrub with very showy white clusters of steri... |
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Common Name: Chinese Evergreen Viburnum
This evergreen Viburnum is native to central and western China. Woodlanders may be only nursery offering this plant in U.S. The plant is worth growing for the handsome glossy, narrow, evergreen leaves alone. Flat greenish flower clusters are follo... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Viburnum, Park Farm Hybrid
Viburnum x burkwoodii is a hybrid between Viburnum carlesii and V. utile. Classic Viburnums nursery in Nebraska states: "This is a sister seedling to V. x burkwoodii, raised by Burkwood and Skipwith, England.... |
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Common Name: 'Mohawk' Hybrid Viburnum
Medium to large deciduous shrub with outstanding red flower buds, white flowers have spicy clove fragrance. Brilliant orange-red fall color. Don Egolf selection from U.S. National Arboretum. 1992 Penn. Hort., Gold Medal winnter. Plant in fertile well...
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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... |
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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 ... |
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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".... |
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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... |
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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. ... |
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Common Name: 'Triumph' Muscadine Grape
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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'.... |
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Common Name: Old Fashioned Weigela
This is a relatively compact form of this old favorite garden shrub. Leaves are deciduous and are variegated with pale yellow or creamy white margins. Deep rose colored flowers appear in late spring. This old-fashioned shrub in its many varie... |
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Common Name: American Wisteria
This twining woody deciduous vine native to the southern U.S. has compound leaves and short clusters of blue flowers appearing with the leaves. A much less rampant vine than the common Asian Wisterias. This native Wisteria was vir... |
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Common Name: American Wisteria Selection
Twining woody deciduous vine with compound leaves and short cluster of white flowers appearing with the leaves. A much less rampant vine than the common Asian Wisterias. This native vine was virtually unknown to American gardeners when introduced ... |
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Common Name: Calamondin Orange
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Common Name: Gordlinia
Dr. Tom Ranney of the North Carolina State University Experiment Station in Fletcher, NC recently succeeded in crossing the iconic Franklinia alatamaha (which see) with it's relative, Gordonia lasianthus (which see) to ... |
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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... |
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Common Name: Elephant Ear
This "Elephant Ear" has huge bright green arrowhead shaped leaves. It is a great for a tropical effect in sun or part shade. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops and mound 10 inches of coarse s... |
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Common Name: Xylosma, Shiny
Shiny Xylosma is sometimes listed as Xylosma senticosa. It is an attractive heat and drought tolerant evergreen shrub with glossy leaves about 3" long and 1" wide. It is much grown in California and the Southwest as a hed... |
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Common Name: Buckley Yucca
Buckley Yucca is a stemless or short stemmed, single or multiple head yucca with many very narrow blue-green, spine-tipped leaves with marginal filaments. This is an ornamental yucca with spikes of showy greenish-white, bell-... |
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Common Name: Yucca, San Angelo
This essentially trunkless Yucca found sparingly in central Texas has been considered by some to be a hybrdid between Yucca thompsoniana and Y. rupicola. It is found primarily in the Edwards Plateau where it is usually on limestone ... |
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Common Name: Coontie
Zamia pumila (umbrosa) is the form of this low cycad native in eastern Florida. It has stiff evergreen fern-like leaves from a large tuberous root which is the source of arrowroot starch and once much used by the Indians. It is not a palm an... |
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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... |
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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 ... |
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Common Name: Dusty Zenobia
This is the green foliaged form of this fine semi-evergreen ornamental shrub native to the coastal Carolinas. Showy racemes of white bell-shaped flowers in spring. Moist sandy acid soil in sun or semi-shade. See also the 'Woodlanders Blue' selecti... |
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Common Name: August Rain Lily
This fall blooming Rain-lily produces masses of white flowers from grass-like clumps of foliage. It is tolerant of a wide range of soils and conditions but likes moisture. It spreads and naturalizes nicely in the South. It is native to Argentina. The...
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