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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: Pineapple Guava
Pineapple Guava is an evergreen shrub with gray-green foliage. The flowers with red staymens are showy and may be followed by tasty fruit. It is tolerant of dry soil and seashore conditions. It is native to Uruguay but widely grow... |
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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: Fig, Creeping
Figvine is very unlike the common edible fig (Ficus carica). This evergreen vine has small fingernail size rounded leaves and is usually seen on masonary walls where it climbs high by means of little rootlets which hold fa... |
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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: 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 Cultivar
The native Fothergilla species were choice but scarcely available garden shrubs when Woodlanders first began to offer them in 1980. This selection found by Dr. Mike Dirr in Mt. Airy Arboretum in Cincinnati, OH is now widely grown and available. It... |
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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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This fuchsia is a shrub with bright red tubular flowers in pendulous clusters. We collected this Fuchsia from a subtropical rainforest region in Tucuman Province in Argentina. This Woodlanders introduction was hoped to be much more heat... |
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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: Carolina Jessamine 'Pale Yellow'
Gelsemium sempervirens is native to the southern U.S. and is the state flower of South Carolina. It is an attractive spring flowering evergreen vine for sun or semi shade and is an attractive vine on a fence or trellis.... |
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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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Common Name: Water Pine, Chinese
Glyptostrobus is a rare deciduous conifer somewhat similar to Baldcypress (Taxodium) and grows in similar habitats. It is native in south China and adjacent Viet Nam. Though virtually extinct as a wild plant, it is plant... |
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Common Name: Variegated Loblolly Bay
Gordonia lasianthus is a handsome evergreen tree native to moist acid soils in the coastal plain of the southern U.S. It is in the tea family and related to Camellia and Franklinia. Trees in the wild reach large size. The summer flowers a... |
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Common Name: Canberra Gem Spiderflower
Commenting on this Australian shrub, Helen Johnstone writing for the Hardy Plant Society in England says: I think it is a pity this shrub isn’t grown more. I only became aware of it when reading Christoher Lloyd’s “Colour f... |
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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... |
