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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: 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: 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: Beautyberry Hybrid
A spontaneous hybrid Beautyberry we grew from seed collected from one of our large-leafed subtropical Callicarpa pilosissima. The pollen parent could be any of a number of other Callicarpa species in our collection. This plant has rather ... |
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Common Name: 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: Heather 'Gold Haze'
Heather is an upright branching, small evergreen ground cover plant with dense, leafy branches that can form a mat. It is a plant that likes a cooler climate and a moist but well-drained acidic soil that is sandy and low in fertility. This golden t...
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Common Name: Sweet Shrub
Upright colony-forming deciduous shrub with dark maroon 1-2" flowers with many sepals and similar petals. Renouned for its fruity fragrance but not all plants have fragrant flowers or they are not consistently fragrant. A woodland plant but suited ...
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Common Name: Sweetshrub 'Athens'
(AKA 'Katherine') As with the species Calycanthus floridus (which see) but flowers are yellow and with good fragrance. One of several clones which have been found with yellow flowers. 'Athens' was provided to Dr. Mike Dirr by Jane Sy... |
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Common Name: Sweetshrub 'Michael Lindsey'
Selected, introduced, and named by Allen Bush, Holbrook Farm & Nursery (now defunct), Fletcher, NC. This dense, rounded, & compact deciduous shrub has reddish brown flowers that may have a fruity fragrance. ... |
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Common Name: Crapnell Camellia
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Many varied and quite different species of Camellia occur in... |
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Common Name: Dongnan Sancha Camellia
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Many varied and quite different species of Camellia occur in the Far East an... |
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Common Name: Camellia, Mockorange
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Many varied and quite different species of Camellia occur in the Far East and this is one of t...
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Common Name: Sasanqua Camellia, 'Julia Mackintosh'
This seedling selection of Camellia sasanqua which occurred here at Woodlanders was selected and propagated by George Mitchell and named for the late Julia Mackintosh who with her husband Robert founded Woodlanders. I... |
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Common Name: Camellia, Pale Pink
Unknown cultivar. Pale pink flowers...
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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: Long Carpel Camellia
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This is another species of Camellia that is little-known in America. Woodlan... |
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Common Name: Camellia, Tea-oil
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This less well-known species has less glossy leaves than most other... |
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Common Name: Camellia, Sasanqua 'Yuletide'
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This Camellis saaanqua variety is unique for the flowers which are ... |
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Common Name: Tea Plant
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Among the many other species, this one is of great economic importance as the s... |
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Common Name: Pink Tea Plant
A pink flowered form of Camellia sinensis (which see). The foliage is also somewhat reddish. ... |
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Common Name: Hybrid Camellia
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This plant is a hybrid between Camellia japonica 'K... |
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Common Name: Camellia Hybrid, 'Donation'
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. 'Donation' is a hybrid between Camellia japonica 'Donkelaeri' and <... |
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Common Name: Southern Marsh Canna
This Canna is a natibve perennial with light green broad tropical looking leaves typical of Canna. This native species has yellow flowers and spreads freely in moist to wet soil or in shallow water but also grows well in ordinary garden soil.... |
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Common Name: Blue Wood Sedge
Ornamental Carex are tufted or clump-forming grass like plants. This clump forming sedge has glaucus blue to blue-green slightly quilted leaves to 1/2 inch wide. Drought tolerant once established but best in moist soil and semi-shade. Native to sou...
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Common Name: American Hornbeam
Ironwood is an attractive small dense deciduous tree with small leaves and small winged seeds. The gray bark is smooth and looks like a muscled arm. Does well in shade or sun in good moist soil. Ideal for lawn tree or for pleached ... |
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Common Name: Pignut Hickory
A large deciduous tree of finer texture than Mockernut Hickory (C. tomentosa). Pignut Hickory is widespread in eastern U.S., but like other hickories it is rarely offered by nurseries. Grows well in good soil t... |
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Common Name: Shagbark Hickory
This large deciduous tree has typical hickory compound leaves and attractive shaggy bark peeling in strips on the trunk. The hard shelled nuts are edible and delicious. This tree prefers moist, well-drained sites, but is adaptable.&... |
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Common Name: Hickory, Mockernut
This hickory is a large deciduous tree with compound leaves which turn bright yellow in fall. The hickory nuts are thick shelled, hard to crack, and tedious to pick out but very tasty. The tree has a narrow to broadly rounded cro... |
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Common Name: 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, Southern
Somewhat smaller than the Northern Catalpa (Catalpa speciosa) this deciduous tree has large heart-shaped leaves and in May it has large showy panicles of white flowers with numerous purple spots. It is spari... |
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Common Name: Buttonbush
Buttonbush is a rounded dediduous shrub which can be trained as small tree. Grows in wet or seasonally flooded sites but does well in ordinary garden situation with sun and adequate water. Flowers white in ball-like clusters about 1-1.5 inch in di... |
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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: Elegant Jasmine
Erect or arching perennial freezing to the ground in zone 8. Woody shrub in the tropics. Showy reddish purple tubular flowers in terminal clusters late in growing season. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 inches of coarse sand...
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Common Name: Ladies of the Night Jasmine
Scandant or spreading shrub in frost free climates but perennial in zone 8. Very fragrant clusters of tubular yellowish flowers that are fragrant at night. Plant in sheltered spot where powerful fragrance at night will be enjoyed. Cut back plants aft...
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Common Name: Jasmine Hybrid
Scandant shrub with abundant clusters of lightly fragrant yellow tubular flowers. Mysteriously much hardier than either supposed parent species. In zone 8 it remains a woody shrub. Might be most effectively used if trained on a trellis....
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Common Name: Purple Jasmine
Erect or arching perennial freezing to the ground in zone 8 but a woody shrub in the tropics. It produces showy purple tubular flowers in terminal clusters late in the growing season. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 ... |
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Common Name: Hinoki Falsecypress
A small evergreen tree with bright green leaves in fern-like sprays. Somewhat random habit of growth but very attractive. One of many horticultural selections of this Japanes conifer. Plant in sun or semi-shade in well-drained soil....
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Common Name: Sawara Falsecedar 'Shiva'
Described as a silvery, soft textured juvenile foliage form of Atlantic Whitecedar, this plant was originally presumed to be Chamaecyparis thyoides. It now appears to be a Chamaecyparis pisifera. It was found as a seedling ... |
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Common Name: Leatherleaf
Chamaedaphne is a thicket forming low evergreen ericaceous shrub with leafy racemes of small white bell-like flowers. It is native to the eastern U.S. where it grows in sandy, acid bogs. It is a very cold-hardy evergreen shrub... |
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Common Name: River Oat Grass
Chasmanthium (Uiola) latifolium is a luxuriant and shade tolerant perennial grass with relatively wide leaf blades and taller spikes of drooping seed heads much like "Sea Oats". Attrative in the garden and seed stalks a great component fo... |
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Common Name: Fringe Tree
Fringetree is a deciduous large shrub or small tree, often multi-stemmed. A favorite landscape ornamental prized for it's abundant fleecy white flowers in spring followed on female plants by raisin-size purple fruits. Fringetree can be grown in su... |
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Common Name: Rockrose
One of many kinds of "Rockrose" native to the Mediterranean region, this low evergreen thornless shrub has abundant white 2 inch flowers resembling single roses. These plants are not true roses. Plant in sunny or very lightly... |
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Common Name: Citrange, 'Morton'
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. 'Morton' Citrange is similar to other Sweet Orange x Trifoliate Orange hybrids in foliage an... |
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Common Name: Myrtle Leaf Orange
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. 'Chinotto' is a dense compact ornamental shrub or small tree with small pointed myrtle-like ... |
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Common Name: Lime, 'Rangpur'
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Common Name: Lemon, 'Meyer'
Small evergreen tree with fragrant purple tinted white flowers and large lemon-like fruits. A favorite container-grown citrus. The Meyer Lemon is probably a hybrid between a lemon and some other citrus. It was discovered near Peking, China in 1908... |
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Common Name: Citrange, 'Troyer'
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This hardy hybrid between the Naval Orange and the inedible but hardy Trifoliate Orange (Ponciris tri...
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Common Name: 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 'Anne Bidwell'
Clethra alnifolia and the southern Clethra tomentosa are stoloniferous deciduous shrubs commonly called Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush. They form colonies in moist acid soil and make good garden subjects. They are valued for the... |
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Common Name: Pink Summersweet
Clethra alnifolia and the southern Clethra tomentosa are stoloniferous deciduous shrubs commonly called Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush. They form colonies in moist acid soil and make good garden subjects. They are valued for their termin... |
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Common Name: Japanese Clethra
A tall tree-like deciduous Clethra with somewhat fragrant terminal racemes of white flowers in summer but best known for it's smooth polished grey to brown and exfoliating bark. A great plant for the winter garden where the bark can be the most beaut...
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Common Name: Clethra 'Cottondale'
Clethra alnifolia and the southern Clethra tomentosa are stoloniferous deciduous shrubs commonly called Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush. They form colonies in moist acid soil and make good garden subjects. They are valued for the... |
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Common Name: Clethra 'Sarah'
Clethra alnifolia and the southern Clethra tomentosa are stoloniferous deciduous shrubs commonly called Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush. They form colonies in moist acid soil and make good garden subjects. They are valued for the... |
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Common Name: Variegated Cleyera
This evergreen shrub is related to Camellia. This species is known only in the variegated form cultivated in Japan. The narrow leaves have a white margin. Grow in well-drained fertile soil with ample moisture. Sun or semi-shade. This is... |
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Common Name: Buckwheat Tree
Evergreen shrub or tree with small glossy leathery leaves. Can become much larger than size given in suitable natural habitat. Found along streams and in acid bogs in the lower southeastern coastal plains. This is a fine evergreen with early white f...
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Common Name: Clinopodium Hybrid
Clinopodium (Satureja) georgianum hybrid is a chance hybrid of uncertain parentage that was introduced by Woodlanders. It occurred here in the garden of Robert Mackintosh. It is possibly a Clinopodium geo... |
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Common Name: Trumpet Vine, Argentine Purple
This is a vigorous evergreen vine related to our native Crossvine. It bears glossy leaves and 5" long purple trumpet flowers in spring. It climbs by tendrils. It is relatively care free in warm climates but needs water in prolong... |
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Common Name: Imperial Taro
This large tropical "Elephant Ear" is also listed as Colocasia esculenta var. antiquorum 'Illustris'. It is perennial in most of the South. The vivid green leaves are atriking being splashed with deep brownish purple color. Colocasias are... |
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Common Name: Stripe Stem Elephant Ear
A relatively new and possibly somewhat more hardy "Elephant Ear" selected by John Joicus at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. It is a very aquatic plant which spreads by rhizomatous runners. Leaves are blotched light and darker green, but the stems ar...
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Common Name: Elephant Ear, Black Sapphire Gecko
This new hybrid Elephant Ear is a subtropical perennial with very black large leaves on dark stems and with dark maroon undersides. This striking hybrid from Brian Williams of Brian's Botanicals in Kentucky is a must-have accent pl... |
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Common Name: Gray Conradina
Conradinas are dense aromatic low shrubs in the mint family with small, usually linear green or gray leaves, and small pale purple flowers. There are 6 or possibly 7 species in the southern U.S., primarily in Florida where they grow on sand or very ...
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Common Name: Conradina, Gray Mound
Conradina canescens is a low dense evergreen mint shrub with short, soft, needle-like leaves and white to blue-gray tubular flowers about 3/4 inch long. The plant is highly variable with respect to growth habit and foliage color.... |
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Common Name: Styx River Rosemary
Some years ago we introduced two selections of Conradina collected on Styx River in southern Alabama. We called these "Low Gray" and "Low Green" and hope these clones may still be in cultivation somewhere. In re-visitin... |
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Common Name: Cumberland Rosemary
Federally listed THREATENED species. CANNOT BE SOLD IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE. Low trailing evergreen shrub with aromatic Rosemary-like leaves. Other Conradina species are native to Florida and Gulf Coast of Alabama. This one is native to limited are... |
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Common Name: Threadleaf Coreopsis
This clump-forming native perenennial has thread-like leaflets and abundant yellow to orange daisy like flowers over long period in summer. It is a popular garden perennial for the sunny border and is a good plant for a well-draine... |
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Common Name: Dogwood, Hongkong evergreen
This evergreen dogwood native in southeast Asia is probably cloeely related to Cornus capitata and C. kousa angustata. There seem to be several botanical forms of this species but it is little known in cultivation in the U.... |
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Common Name: Chinese Dogwood
This Chinese dogwood is a spreading small to medium size deciduous tree with nice foliage and showy white-bracted flowers. Unlike our native American Dogwood, the bracts are pointed. It flowers about a month later than ou... |
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Common Name: American Smoke Tree
Our native smoketree is an uncommon small to medium size deciduous tree. Its common name is from the appearance of smoke when in fruit. It has broad oval leaves which are larger than the more commonly grown... |
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Common Name: Mayhaw
Mayhaw is a small rather thorny deciduous tree with small leaves and abundant white flowers in very early spring. These are followed by attractive cranberry size red fruits in May. These fruits yield the Deep South's famous Mayhaw... |
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Common Name: Parsley-leaved Hawthorn
The Parsley Haw is a distinctive and attractive small tree with shiny green dissected parsley-like leaves. The white flowers with red stamens appear in spring and are followed by red fruit. It is native to Piedmont and Coastal Pla... |
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Common Name: 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: Cryptomeria, Barabits Gold
This quite dwarf form of Cryptomeria japonica (which see) is notable for the ascending gold tipped new growth and a size compatible with smaller spaces. Plant it in sun or partial shade in fertile well-drained soil. ... |
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Common Name: Sago Palm
Sago Palm is not a palm. Cycads are palm-like primitive plants more related to the ferns. The Sago Palm is native to Japan and is a favorite and very noticible landscape plant in the Deep South, U.S. It... |
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Common Name: Scrub Titi
Scrub Titi is a very rare shrub discovered in the early 20th century by J.K. Small. It occurred in desert-like scrub habitat in central Florida but was lost and taxonomically questioned for years. With Kenneth Wurdack we redis... |
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Common Name: Titi, Littleleaf
Cyrilla parvifolia is considered by some botanists to be a form of Cyrilla racemiflora but it is very distinct in having much smaller evergreen leaves and finer branching habit. It is found in northwest Florida. This selection is... |
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Common Name: Leatherwood
Titi is an evergreen to semi-evergreen shrub or small tree found in damp to wet acid soil from southern Virginia to the Gulf Coast. It is summer blooming with showy white racemes of tiny flowers at the ends of the branches. Though found on wet site...
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Common Name: Leatherwood
'Graniteville' Titi is a low growing selection of Cyrilla racemiflora (which see). This Woodlanders introduction was propagated from an almost prostrate plant we found some years ago on an eroded sandhills seepage slo... |
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Common Name: Rochford's Holly Fern
This evergreen Old World fern has dark leathery leaflets suggesting holly leaves. It is an attractive coarse fern well-suited to moist shady spots in the garden or against walls. It is a favorite in many Deep South gardens. ... |
