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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: Maple, Faber
Acer fabri is a small evergreen or semi-evergreen rounded tree with slender, prominently veined, pointed unlobed dark green leaves. It has nice copper red new growth. It is a rare species in cultivation and a good bonsai subje... |
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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: 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: Dwarf Bluestar
Perhaps a dwarf form of Amsonia tabernaemontana to which it is similar in leaves, flowers, and growing conditions. Small enough for rock gardens. Cutting-grown. We originally received this plant from Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA. It seems ...
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Groundsel Bush
This common Baccharis is a semi-evergreen shrub Composite with small gray-green toothed leaves. Originally found along the edges of coastal salt marshes but now widely naturalized inland on sunny disturbed sites. Female plants of this adaptable an... |
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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: Blue Wild Indigo
When Woodlanders began in 1980 this was about the only Baptisia known to gardeners. We subsequently introduced many other species which have become popular garden perennials. Baptisia australis is a long-lived perennial that is essentiall... |
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Common Name: Helen Fredel Crossvine
Crossvine is a high climbing semi-evergreen vine with bright orange trumpet shaped flowers. It is a good flowering vine that climbs high by tendrils and hold-tights and is effective if planted on a fence or trellis in sun or ... |
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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: 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: Box, Balearic Island
This seldom offered evergreen shrub or small tree is not often seen in the U.S. It is related to and similar to the common Boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) but has larger leaves. It is probably less cold-hardy but perhaps a bett... |
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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: 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: Bodinier Beautyberry 'Profusion'
'Profusion' Beautyberry is an excellent Dutch cultivar of this hybrid Chinese deciduous shrub. The upright arching branches bear bronze-purple new growth which turns pinkish purple in fall. The abundant small purple berries are bo... |
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Common Name: Chinese Beautyberry
Deciduous shrub with clusters of small purple flowers along stems followed by mauve purple berries in showy clusters. This Beautyberry acquired through the U.S. National Arboretum is little-known in cultivation and was probably first offered in the ...
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Common Name: Variegated Purple Beautyberry
'Splashy' is a deciduous shrub with arching branches, small pink flowers, and abundant clusters of small purple berries. This selection introduced from Japan by our friend Ted Stephens of Nurseries Carolinana is highly variegated with irregular wh... |
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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: Bottlebrush Pink
Evergreen shrub with arching to pendulous branches. Leaves dark green lance like along stems. Flowers terminal pink "bottlebrushes". This relatively cold hardy bottlebrush is unusual in that it has pink flowers freely in mid-summer. Native to Austral...
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Common Name: Bottlebrush, Pine-leafed
Pine-leafed bottlebrush, as the name suggests, has needle-like leaves resembling pine foliage. This rather upright shrub is native to southeastern Australia. It is rather uncommon in cultivation, at least in the southern U.S. Thi... |
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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: 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: 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 'Imura'
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. 'Imura' is a nice form of Camellia japonica with elegant ... |
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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: Red Camellia (named cultivar ?)
(unknown cultivar) Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This is an unusual but nice form of Camellia japonica. This beautiful and ...
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Common Name: Camellia 'Brian' Hybrid
Evergreen shrub with showy Cyclamen pink, semi-double flowers with silvery cast. As best we can determine this is a Camellia reticulata x Camellia japonica hybrid . Flowers in late winter. Compact upright growth habit....
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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: Camellia, Rose flower
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 'Appleblossom'
A selection of Camellia saluensis with abundant pink flowers. Originally acquired from the Norfolk, VA garden of the late Fred Huette, a great plantsman and first director of Norfolk Botanical Garden. ... |
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Common Name: Sasanqua Camellia 'Leslie Ann'
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 beautiful fall flowering plant ... |
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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 'California Dawn' Hybrid
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This is a hybrid between Camellia sasanqua and the large flowered but rather tender Chinese sp...
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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: 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: 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: 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: Catalpa, Chinese
Smaller than our native Catalpas, this Chinese species is an attractive and precocious to flower small tree. It has the same heart-shaped leaves and long slender pods as other Catalpa trees. The large upright clusters of one inch ... |
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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: 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: 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: Orchidspot Rockrose
This Rockrose is a low evergreen shrub to 4 feet. It is a hybrid with showy 2-3" wide purple flowers blotched with maroon. Rockroses are not roses and are not related. Plant this shrub in full sun and in well-drained so... |
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Common Name: Citrumelo, 'Swingle'
'Swingle' Citrumelo is a thorny, semi-evergreen Grapefruit x Ponciris hybrid with fragrant white flowers and somewhat pear-shaped yellow fruits the size of a large orange. Fruit is more ornamental than edible but this is a quite hardy plant which ... |
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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: Ichang Papeda
Thorny evergreen tree with white flowers and inedible rough yellow orange-like fruits with many large seeds. This species is probably the most cold hardy evergreen Citrus but probably not winter hardy above zone 7, possibly zone 8. The parent of a ...
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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: Nanshodaidai
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This is a vigorous upright spreading evergreen thorny citrus with sour tangerine to orange-like fr... |
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Common Name: Ichang Lemon
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. Ichang Lemon is a medium size evergreen tree with large leaves with winged petioles and thorny bra... |
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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: Citrumelo, 'Dunstan'
A trifoliate Orange x Grapefruit hybrid said to produce 4" yellow fruit which "if sprinkled with sugar, smell and taste like an ordinary grapefruit, harvested perhaps a bit too early." "May be the best overall hybrid with 50 percent trifoliate parent...
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Common Name: Citrange, 'Rusk'
'Rusk' is a Ruby orange x trifoliata hybrid dating back to 1897 and therefore one of the first Citranges. The tree is vigorous, tall-growing, and quite hardy. It is evergreen to semi-evergreen and dense with trifoliate leaves. The fruit is deep or... |
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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 '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: 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: Chinese Clethra
Chinese Clethra is similar to Clethra barbinervis (which see) but it is not so tall. The leaves are dark glossy green and widest in the middle. This Clethra bears 5-7 inch long racemose panicles of f... |
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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: 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: Red Savory
Clinopodium (Satureja) (Calamintha)coccineum is an aromatic evergreen shrub with small leaves. Loose open growth habit. Very showy tubular red flowers in summer. Attractive to hummingbirds. Occurs only on deep, well-drained sands. Plant i... |
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Common Name: Amber Blush Red Basil
'Amber Blush' is a new yellow-flowered clone of Clinopodium coccineum (which see) from the Florida Panhandle that was introduced and shared with us by Rich Lewandowski of Shangri La Gardens in Orange, T... |
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Common Name: Georgia Savory
Clinopodium (Satureja) georgianum is a semi-evergreen mint shrub with highly aromatic foliage and abundant pinkish flowers in late summer. It is a good border plant for sunny or semi-shady spots with good drainage. Georgia Savory will grow i... |
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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: Yellow Flowered Red Savory
Clinopodium (Satureja) (Calamintha) coccineum 'Ohoopee Yellow' is a contradictory common name, but this is a clear bright yellow flowered selection of a usually red flowered mint shrub Clinopodium coccineum. This yellow form was ... |
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Hawthorn, Blueberry
This is a beautiful round topped small deciduous tree with small shiny leaves. White flowers in spring followed in fall by bright blue fruit. This fruit color is unique as other haws have red or yellow fruit. Blueberry Haw is adapted to moist or w...
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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: Mayhaw, Western
Small deciduous tree with abundant white flowers in early spring soon followed by edible fruit which makes excellent jelly. Native to intermittant ponds but grows well on sites not subject to flooding. Very similar to Crataegus aestivalis but nativ...
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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: Cockspur Thorn
This spiny sprawling or vining shrub has glossy evergreen leaves. It is sometimes classified as a Maclura and is related to our Osage Orange. Apparently widespresd in eastern Asia down to Australia it see... |
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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: 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: 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: 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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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: Ivy Tree
Dendropanax is a most unusual small dense evergreen tree with ivy-like leaves. This plant grew in our garden here in Aiken, South Carolina for years. It is a Japanese native tht is indeed related to ivy. It bears simila... |
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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: 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 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: 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: Shield Fern, Florida
Florida Shield Fern is a great evergreen fern with glossy and bold upright fronds. It is probably a Woodlanders introduction. It was first publicized in Southern Living Magazine and has since become more widely available. Do ... |
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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: Emmenopterys
Rare in cultivation, this Chinese tree related to Pinckneya was first offered in the U.S. by Woodlanders. One of ours was the first to display its showy, pink-bracted flowers in the Western Hemisphere. (See HRT)...
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Common Name: Red Enkianthus
Small bell-like red flowers and good red fall color characterize this selectin of Enkianthus campanulatus. It can be a narrow upright shtub or small tree with layered branches. Plant in sun to part shade (South) and moist acid soil.... |
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Common Name: Hybrid Heather
Heaths and heathers come in many species and varieties. Most are not well-suited to the heat and humidity of the southern U.S. but this hybrid between two European species, Erica erigena and E. carnea,&... |
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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
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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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: American Beech
American Beech is a large imposing deciduous tree widespread in rich woodlands in eastern North America. It has toothed oval leaves several inches long which are bright green turning yellow in fall, then brown, and remaining on tree through the wint...
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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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We are identifying this little-known fig as Ficus heterophylla thanks to Tony Avent at Plant Delights who was probably the source for the cuttings we originally started with. It is a rather scandent shrub with long a... |
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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: 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: Large Fothergilla
The native Fothergilla species were choice but scarcely available garden shrubs when Woodlanders first began to offer them in 1980. This species is native to the southern Appalachians where it is uncommon and local. It is a large deciduous shrub wi...
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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: 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: 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 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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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: 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: Carolina Jessamine
Yellow Jessamine is is the South Carolina state flower and is a useful evergreen vine with fragrant yellow flowers. This selection from northern Georgia was named 'Margarita' by Gene Cline a true native plant pioneer. It has proven hardy and has g... |
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Delight a loved one or a gardening friend with a Woodlanders Gift Certificate. When checking out select "Pickup at Woodlanders" as your delivery method. In the Special Instructions window on the confirmation page, please provide the name of t... |
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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: 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: 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: Lenten Rose
The Lenten Rose is not a rose but it does flower around Lent. It is an evergreen herbaceous perennial with attrative palmate leaves with leathery toothed leaflets. The attractive flowers are a couple inces across and are white or purple tinged or ... |
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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: 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: Halberd-leaf Hibiscus
A relatively widespread native perennial Hibiscus found along streams and in wet areas in the southern U.S. The leaves and stems are smooth and the pointed leaves are halberd shaped. The flowers borne in summer are a pink with a reddish base. Like ...
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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, 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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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: Yinger's Plantain Lily
This Hosta species was introduced from an island off Korea by our plantsman friend Barry Yinger for whom this previously undescribed species was named. It is distinctive for its very glossy leaves. It has grown well here in South Carolina and... |
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Common Name: Smooth Hydrangea 'Annabelle'
'Annabelle' is a selection of our native Hydrangea arborescens. It is a deciduous shrub to 5 or even 6 feet with very showy white snowball flower clusters in early summer. It was selected by the late Dr. J.C. McDaniel at t... |
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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: Lacecap Hydrangea Cultivar
This fine Hydrangea produces large, graceful, lace-cap flowers which can be pink (alkaline soil) or blue (Acid soil) It can grow to 6 feet. If old flowers are removed, Hydrangea may flower again in August. Choose planting site with shade from the h...
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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: Texas Spiderlily[
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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: 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: Holly, Serviceberry Holly or Swamp Holly
This rare holly native to the Southern U.S. is a tall deciduous shrub or small tree with dull matte finish red fruits on long stems. Oval leaves to 4 inches long suggestive of Amelanchier leaves, hence "Shadbush Holly". This holly occurs along black...
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Common Name: Large Gallberry
Large Gallberry is a tall evergreen shrub found in wet acid soils in the Southeastern U.S. Coastal Plain where it often occurs with the related Inkberry Holly (Ilex glabra). It is usually a larger plant with larger and broader leaves and ... |
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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: 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: 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
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. This is a female clone and fem... |
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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: 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: 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, Cherry Bomb
This lovely hybrid holly with exceptionally large red berries is probably a hybrid between the popular 'Nellie Stevens' and the Mochi Holly (Ilex integra) which we believe was an unreleased selection from the U.S. National Arboretum.... |
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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 '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: Winterberry Holly 'Raritan Chief' Hybrid
This small deciduous male holly is a compact hybrid made by Dr. E.R. Orton, Jr., of Rutgers University. The parent species are Ilex verticellata native to the eastern U.S. and the closely related Ilex serrata from Japan. This is ... |
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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: Holly, 'Gold Top' Yaupon Holly
This Yaupon Holly has golden new growth. A Woodlanders' introduction which we found as a single plant in Calhoun County, Texas. Dense evergreen shrub or small tree with abundant beautiful scarlet fruit which generally holds fall th... |
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Common Name: Yaupon Holly (male)
This is the pollnator needed for good fruit set on female Ilex vomitoria. Yaupon Holly is a dense evergreen shrub or small tree with abundant beautiful scarlet fruit on female plants. The berries generally hold... |
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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: 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: 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: Red Louisiana Iris
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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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This Asian Iris, a relative of I. siberica has narrow, dark green leaves and bears purple flowers on tall slender stems. It forms clumps which can be divided and has done well in our area with minimal care. Plant is sunny bed or border or... |
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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: 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: 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: Needle Juniper
Nice speciman tree. Bright green needles. Horizontal branching is somewhat open, so not suitable as screen....
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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: 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: Beautybush
This large deciduous shrub has showy pink flowers in spring. Dr. Michael Dirr in his "anual of Woody Landscape Plants says: "E.H. Wilson considered it one of the finest plants he introduced into cultivation" and that is saying a lot ... |
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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: 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: 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: Dwarf Crape Myrtle Cultivar
'Pocomoke' is one of the first two minature hybrid crepemyrtles released by the U.S. National Arboretum. This selection with deep pink flowers is ideal for containers, small spaces, and rock garden type plantings. Retains dense mounded habit without...
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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: 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: 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: Thunberg Lespedeza
Lespedeza thunbergii is a shrubby perennial with many woody stems bearing trifoliate leaves and 6-8 inch long racemes of rose-purple or white flowers in summer. They should have full sun and well-drained soil which can be rather infertile. The dea...
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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: Taiwan Spicebush
This evergreen Spicebush is a shrub or small tree with glossy, alternate, eliptical leaves 1"-2" long. We obtained this as cuttings from the garden of Bobby Green of Green's Nursery in Fairhope, Alabama as "an evergreen Lindera from Taiwan". It ma... |
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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: 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: 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: 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: Fetterbush 'Morris Minor'
Fetterbush is an upright somewhat arching evergreen shrub with glossy leaves that have a vein along the smooth leaf edge. It grows in damp acid soils in the southeastern U.S. from Virginia southward. The plants produce small white or pink bell-sha... |
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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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Common Name: Bigleaf Magnolia
Bigleaf Magnolia has the largest single leaves of any North American tree. It is a deciduous Magnolia found scattered in rich sheltered woodland situations from West Virginia to Louisiana. The leaves which can be up to three feet long by one foot w...
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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: 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: 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: 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: Butterfly Iris
Also known as Dietes bicolor, this clump forming rhizomatous subtropical Iris relative has long narrow grass-like leaves about 2'long. The flat yellow flowers have brown spots at the base of the petals. This is a very striking plan... |
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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: True Myrtle
This is the classic myrtle of the ancients. It is an evergreen shrub with small glossy leaves and white flowers and is a nice plant for a sunny spot with well-drained soil where it can be used for topiary, bonsai, hedging. or as a speci... |
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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: Variegated Oleander
Uses, culture, and precautions for Oleanders is present4d with other ones we offer. This variety differs in that the dark green leaves are borderd or splotched with white and the flowers are pink and semi-double. This is probably a nam... |
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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
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: 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: 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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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: 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: Round Leaf Holly Osmanthus
Holly Osmanthus is a medium to large evergreen shrub with dark green spiny, holly-like foliage and small fragrant white flowers. It grows to 10 to 15 feet and makes a good hedge in sun or partial shade. This s... |
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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: ' 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: 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: Corona de Cristo
This is an herbaceous perennial vine climbing with tendrils. It has hairy lobed leave and 2 inch wide pink intricate flowers typical of Passiflora with feathery bracts beneath the flower. The vine is also noteworthy for the red fruits the size of s...
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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: Redbay
Redbay is an attractive medium size broadleaf evergreen tree related to the Avocado. Often confused with Swampbay (P. palustris), this species lacks the stellate pubescence on the underside of leaves, has fru... |
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Common Name: Louisiana Phlox
A local variant of the blue phlox. (See ARM)...
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Common Name: Blue Phlox
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Sweet Pea Shrub
This interesting fast-growing shrub is a hybrid between two South African species (P. opposistifolia x P. myrtifolia). It has one inch long dull green leaves and an open growth habit. The flowers are a lovely p... |
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Common Name: Variegated Solomon's Seal
This Japanese perennial is a great plant for the woodland or shaded border. Polygonatum falcatum ( aka Polygonatum odoratum var. thunbergii) 'Variegatum' has striking summer foliage. It is easy to grow in shady or semi-shady area... |
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Common Name: Chinese Gordonia
This relative of Gordonia lasianthus is a very glossy small evergreen tree or large shrub native to southeast Asia is rarely cultivated in the U.S. It bears abundant 3 inch showy white flowers. A beautiful species for mi... |
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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: English Laurel 'Parkway'
English Laurel is a large shrub with large, glossy, evergreen leaves, spires of small white flowers, and sometimes small cherry-like red to black fruits. There a number of forms or cultivated varieties of this plant. This one which we call 'Parkway' ...
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Common Name: Portugal Laurel
Portugese Laurel is a large evergreen shrub or small to medium size tree. It has ovate leaves which are dark green with reddish petioles. It bears racemes of small white flowers in late spring followed by small reddish to dark purple fruits. A fin... |
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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: Golden-larch
Superb, broad, pyramidal, slow growing, deciduous conifer. Rare. Golden in fall. Moist, well-drained soil. (See DIR)...
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Common Name: Spider Brake Fern
This Asian fern has fronds with narrow strap-like pinnae. It is widely naturalized in warm regions where it often grows in cracks of old masonry walls and other spots with high calcium soils such as moist shady spots along foundations, etc. ...
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Common Name: Little Epaulettetree
The Little Eupalette Tree is a rather rare small deciduous tree or large shrub native to eastern Asia. It has ovate bristle toothed leaves and panicles of fragrant white flowers in late spring/early summer follwed by 5-winged dry fruits. An interest...
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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: Narrow leaf Mountain Mint
Perennial plant with long narrow leaves and attractive white to pale purple flowers on much branched spikes in late summer. The dense foliage and nice flowers of this adaptable perennial make it a good garden plant. It is native to much of eastern ...
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Common Name: Coast Live Oak
Coast Live Oak is a medium size evergreen tree that is occasionally shrubby. It has rounded leaves that are somewhat holly-like and large long acorns. We have grown seedlings from trees planted in El Paso, Texas but not seen ithis Cal... |
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Common Name: Bluejack Oak
The Bluejack oak is a small to medium size tree with narrow unlobed deciduous leaves that emerge shrimp pink in spring and mature to a blue-gray-green color. It is found in dry sandy soils in pine barrens, sandy flatwoods, and river ter... |
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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: Chinquapin Oak
Chinquapin Oak is a large deciduous tree with chestnut-like serrated leaves. It makes a good shade tree and is especially good for well-drained high pH soils since it typically occurs on such sites in eastern and southwe... |
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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: Post Oak
Post Oak is a large, long-lived, deciduous tree with rounded crown and stout, spreading branches. It is in the white oak group. It is native to eastern North America where it grows on a variety of well-drained soils. Post Oak can be identified by ...
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Common Name: (Dwarf ? ) Live Oak
The Southern Live Oak needs no description in the southern U.S. where it is native. The large spreading moss-draped evergreen trees are an iconic southern feature. The one we offer here is from acorns collected at the famous Bok Tower ... |
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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: 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: 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 'Camilla's Blush'
'Camilla's Blush' is a choice clone of our native deciduous azalea Rhododendron canescens (which see). It has an abundance of soft pink fragrant flowers and is a vigorous grower when planted in well-drained sandy acid soil under hig... |
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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 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: 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: Rose-flowered Azalea
This evergreen Satsuki azalea is an Asian cultivar with double pink blooms like little roses with 40+ petals and no pistil or stamens. It blooms late spring to early summer. Provide partial shade and acidic soil as with other commonly g... |
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Common Name: Spider Azalea
A Japanese azales sometimes listed as Rhododendrom macrosepalum, this is a rare find in cultivation. Both the fushia colored flower petals and the dark green leaves are distinctly linear. Ths unique azalea's foliage often persists through... |
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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: 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: Glaucous Swamp Azalea
A selection of Rhododendron viscosum (which see) with glaucous blue-green foliage. Has fragrant, sticky white flowers typical for the species. ... |
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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: Azalea 'Casille'
'Cassile' is a spontaneous hybrid between R. alabamensis, R. canescens and R. flammeum. This azalea blooms in mid-spring with flowers that are an exciting blend of colors. This exclusive Woodlanders' introduction was named by George Mitchell... |
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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: Jetbead
Jetbead is a loosely branched deciduous shrub with somewhat arching branches. White 1-2 inch diameter flowers have four petals and are followed by persistent shiny black bead-like fruits which persist on the plant for many months. It is an "old fash...
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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: 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: Rose 'Magic Dragon'
'Magic Dragon' is a small-flowered deep red rose that is trailing or semi climbing, long blooming, and trouble free. Its leaves are small, dark green, and leathery. It blooms from mid spring to mid fall and should have full sun. George Mitchell go... |
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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, 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: Littleleaf Sage Cultivar
This shrubby plant with somewhat triangular small leaves and salmon colored flowers is native to Mexico and into Arizona. It prefers full sun but will grow with half sun. Thrives in good gardening soil or sandy loam with lime and h... |
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Common Name: Bog Salvia
This handsome vigorous perennial has bright sky blue flowers that blooms from mid summer on. It is good for average to moist soil. Fertilize with lime or humus to optimize conditions. Prefers full-sun to half-shade. The... |
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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: Sweet Box
This Sweet Box is a low very handsome evergreen shrub to 5 feet tall with glossy leaves and fragrant but inconspicuous flowers. It is related to Boxwood and does well in shaded areas. It's original home is uncertain but ... |
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Common Name: Himalayan Sarcococca
A spreading, half hardy evergreen shrub with fragrant flowers and narrow, glossy leaves. It grows well in shade and is related to Boxwood. Not susceptible to diseases and insects. Displays high drought tolerance once established. Native to western C...
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Common Name: Sweet Box
Oriental Sweet Box is a dense arching evergreen shrub with glossy leaves that are larger than the other species. The small white flowers are fragrant and often abundant. It is a fine low evergreen for shady or... |
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Common Name: Fragrant Sweet Box
Similar to S. confusa. Leaves somewhat broader, fragrant flowers, red fruit. (See DIR) Related to Boxwood, glossy leafed, shade-demanding evergreens....
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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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Common Name: Climbing Hydrangea Cultivar
Silvery leaves. Creamy white flowers. From the U.S. Arboretum. (See DIR)...
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Common Name: Showy Skullcap
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: 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: 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: Jacktree
Jacktree is a spreading shrub or small deciduous tree related to Snowbell (Styrax) and with similar leaves and white bell-like flowers in spring. It is an uncommon and attractive plant for the home landscape. ... |
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Common Name: Chicken Wire Plant
This Smilax is a curious deciduous groundcover with small leaves and twiggy stems. A Woodlanders introduction that we obtained years ago from Brookside Gardens in Maryland. They had obtained this unusual plant as Smilax fragrans. We offer... |
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Common Name: 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: 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: False Lily of the Valley
Sperirantha is a relatively little-known Chinese woodland perennial with foliage resembling Lily of the Valley (Convallaria). It seems to be a good little plant forming spreading clumps in the woodland or shady garden wh... |
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Common Name: Virginia Spirea
This spirea is a rare deciduous shrub with arching upright stems and small leaves. It bears paniculate clusters of creamy white flowers. It is found in a very few places along rocky stream banks in the southern Appalachians. It has... |
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Common Name: Mube
This is a splendid compound leafed evergreen vine related to Akebia. In spring it bears white flowers tinged purple followed by sausage shaped fruit which is eaten in Asia. It grows in sandy, loamy, or clay soils that are moi... |
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Common Name: Korean Stewartia
This Stewartia is a large growing tree form with dark green leaves which turn a brilliant red in the fall. The gold-centered 3 inch white flowers typically bloom from June to July. Its marbled exfoliating bark ranges in colors... |
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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: Meyer Lilac
This lilac is a small-leaved deciduous shrub with abundant icy-pink flowers in May. It is a compact shrub up to 5' tall and wide. It is very floriferous. easy to grow in good garden soil, and especially noteworthy ... |
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Common Name: Shrub Marigold
This Mexican shrub with pungently aromatic foliage produces masses of bright yellow flowers in late fall. It dies back somewhat in winter. It makes a great border plant in a sunny, well-drained site and adds a lot of color to the late fall landscap...
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Common Name: Mexican Marigold
While not hardy in cold regions, this perennial is great for the Deep South when given a sunny site with well-drained soil. It is easy to grow. The aromatic leaves are a French Tarragon substitute. It flowers in late fall with orange flowers. It i...
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Common Name: 5-stamen Tamarix
Loose open shrub with fine cedar-like but not evergreen foliage. Flowers are rosy-pink, plume-like panicles in late spring. Acid, well-drained soil. Saline and dry soil tolerant. Prohibited in North Dakota. Native from southern Europe to central A...
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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: 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: Hosida (Japan)
This is a fine evergreen fern native to Japan. It is a good spreader for fertile moist soil in the shade where it is notable for its glossy arching fronds. We originally obtained this fern from the U.S. National Arboretum. ... |
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Common Name: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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, Creeping 'Wells Delight'
This evergreen creeping blueberry is a North Carolina State University selection from southeastern North Carolina named for the late Dr. B.W. Wells, noted North Carolina ecologist. It has small shiny leaves that are even smaller than typical for t... |
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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: Rayner's Blueberry
An extremely rare and local evergreen blueberry is found only in one locality in Lexington County, SC. Related and similar to Vaccinum crassifolium but with more upright growh habit and much larger lea... |
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Common Name: Small Black Blueberry
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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: 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: 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: Viburnum, Dwarf Walter
'Miss Schiller's Delight' is an excellent dwarf clone of Viburnum obovatum which is a fine small leaf native evergreen shrub. This clone was selected by our friend Steve Riefler in Florida. Steve named it for a friend whose nam... |
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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: 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 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: Chaste Tree, 'Flora Ann'
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: 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: 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: Lynn's Wisteria
A number of years ago our dear friend and pioneer Texas native plantsman the late Lynn Lowerey found a great selection of native Wisteria near the dam of an east Texsas reservoir. The dam was known as "Dam - B" and Lynn gave that name to the... |
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Common Name: Wisteria, White Kentucky 'Clara Mack'
Kentucky Wisteria 'Clara Mack' is a twining deciduous vine with compound leaves and hanging clusters of white flowers. This splendid white form of a normally blue-flowerd species has longer and later flower clusters than Wisteria frutescens |
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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: 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: Foster's Pink Rain Lily
These bulbs produce grass-like leaves and masses of beautiful pink flowers somewhat like crocus. It is native to Mexico. It grows well in the South and flowers after summer rains....
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