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Common Name: Paper Bush
This medium size deciduous coarse shrub has simple leaves 6-8 inches long and of a blueish color. This suckering shrub is related to Daphne and Dirca. It produces clusters of interesting clusters of tubular yellow fl... |
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Common Name: Variegated Autumn Olive
Autumn Olive is a servicable evergreen shrub with very fragrant but relatively inconspicuous flowers in the fall. This is a handsome cultivar with gold edged leaves. Autumn Olive is a large shrub but can become vine-like if allowed to scramble up in...
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Common Name: Cardamom
This ginger relative produces attractive foliage from rhizomes. Here it can stay under 2 feet but it gets much larger in tropics where it is grown for the exspensive spice Cardamom. . Leaves have a delightful fragrance wh... |
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Common Name: Yellow Barrenwort
The Epimediums are excellent groundcover plants for shade. Slow but steady spreaders once established they are tolerant of dry shade under trees but much happier with moist, organic rich soil. This hybrid has bright yellow flowers. Evergreen in al... |
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Common Name: 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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Common Name: Wolong Ghost Creeping Euonymus
This attractive evergreen groundcover Euonymus was introduced by Heronswood Nursery having been collected by Dan Hinkley above the Wolong Panda Preserve in western China. It has long dark green pointed leaves with prominent a... |
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This yet to be identified Euonymus is probably E. fortunei. It is a low trailing evergreen shrub with long-pointed, toothed, leaves about 2 inches long. A new introduction, it was collected by Frank Bell o... |
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Common Name: Exbucklandia
Exbucklandia is a rare evergreen tree with large leaves resembling those of the unrelated Liriodendron or Tulip Poplar. It is in the witchhazel family which few would guess. The small reddish flowers are not especially showy but the fol... |
