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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... |
