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...

The Epimediums are excellent groundcover plants for shade. Slow but steady spreaders once established they are tolerant of dry shade under trees but much happier with moist, organic rich soil. This hybrid has bright yellow flowers. Evergreen in al...

This desert Coralbean can be a small tree in frost-free regions. Otherwise, it is a coarse perennial shrub growing from a large tuber-like root. Ith has three rounded leaflets, and showy tubular red or pink flowers.  The open s...

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 ...

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...

This is an attractive dense evergreen shrub with small glossy leaves. Flower color unknown. A Woodlanders introduction from our collection at high elevation in the Sierra San Luis, San Luis Province, Argentina.

This attractive evergreen groundcover Euonymus was introduced by Heronswood Nursery having been collected by Dan Hinkley above the Wolong Panda Preserve in western China.  It has long dark green pointed leaves with prominent a...

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...

Called "Snakeroot" this plant occus in praires and open woodlands of the eastern U.S. The normal form has green leaves but this unique form with chocolate colored foliage was selected at Mt. Cuba Center in Delaware.  It is a n...