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Common Name: Persian Parottia
Persian Parrotia is a small to medium sized deciduous tree related to Witchhazel. It is valued for its form, rich fall color, and attractive exfoliating bark. Dirr, Manual of Woody Landscape Plants says: "outstanding orna... |
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Common Name: Corona de Cristo
This is an herbaceous perennial vine climbing with tendrils. It has hairy lobed leave and 2 inch wide pink intricate flowers typical of Passiflora with feathery bracts beneath the flower. The vine is also noteworthy for the red fruits the size of s...
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Common Name: Passionflower 'Incense' Hybrid
'Incense' Passionflower is a perennial climbing vine with three lobed leaves and very large and showy purple flowers over a long period in warm weather. It is a hybrid between our native Passiflora incarnata and the South American |
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Common Name: Yellow Patrinia Cultivar
This yellow-flowered Japanese native is a tough perennial with oval rough leaves. The small flowers are persistent and held in inflorescenses above the foliage. It is good for cutting and a good perennial for sunny irrigated beds and borders ... |
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Common Name: White Patrinia
Good perennial for warm climates introduced by Heronswood Nursery. Flat clusters of white flowers held above foliage. Plants are somewhat stoloniferous. A good plant for the sunny border. ... |
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Common Name: Argentine Mallow
This shrub native to Argentina is a rather open growing semi-evergreen plant with narrow hastate leaves 2 to 3 inches long. Trimming or shearing will result in a more compact plant. Early blooms are cleistogamous ie. forming seed without opening b... |
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Common Name: Redbay, Swamp
Evergreen tree with aromatic leaves. Flowers not conspicuous but tree produces many purple berries on long pedicels. The similar Persea borbonia has fruit on very short pedicels and the leaves have lanate rather than stellate pubesc... |
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Common Name: Amur Corktree
The Amur Corktree is a medium sized deciduous shade tree with pinnate compound leaves that are shiny deep green in summer and yellow in fall. Old trees have very interesting and attractive corky bark. Adaptable to various soils an... |
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Common Name: Louisiana Phlox
A local variant of the blue phlox. (See ARM)...
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Common Name: Blue Phlox
A must for the wild garden. ... |
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Common Name: Garden Phlox Cultivar
'Shortwood' is a tall pink-flowered perennial phlox derived from the white-flowered variety 'David'. The terminal panicles of pink flowers have deep pink centers. This is a mildew resistant variety and a great plant for... |
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Common Name: Ozark Phlox
Missouri Botanic Garden says: [Phlox Pilosa] "More Info |
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Broadleaf evergreen tree in the Laurel family is related to Persea. The genus Persea includes Redbay and Avocado. This species was recieved as seed from Nanjing, China as Phoebe neurantha, an apparently invalid name. This species seems ... |
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Common Name: Himalanan Choke Berry
Related to the Chinese Photinia (Photinia serrulata) this small evergreen tree is widespread in southeast Asia but virtually unknown in the U.S. It is probably less cold hardy but maybe better than other Photinia in warmer zones.... |
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Common Name: Correll's Obedient Plant
This species of "Obedient Plant" or "False Dragonhead" is a robust, erect, somewhat succulent perennial from thick rhizomes. It has inch long lavender-pink flowers streaked or spotted with purple. It is a rare species found in scattered localities ...
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Common Name: Climbing Heath
This rare and unusual plant native to the southeastern U.S. is a small evergreen shrub in cultivation. In it's native swamp habitat it becomes a vine on Pond Cypress (Taxodium ascendens) trees where it grows high up the tree under the loo... |
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Common Name: Lily of the Valley Shrub
This evergreen shrub has glossy slightly toothed leaves which emerge bronze and turn dark green. Dense clusters of hanging bell-like small white flowers in spring. This species of Pieris is native to the Ryuku Isla... |
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Common Name: Georgia Feverbark Tree
Pinckneya is a large shrub or small deciduous tree with showy, pink, Poinsettia-like flowers (actually bracts) and 4-5 inch long oval leaves. It is found in scattered locations from southeastern South Carolina to Florida in mo... |
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Common Name: Spruce Pine
Spruce Pine is a choice ornamental pine with dense dark green needles and most unusual bark for a pine. The trunk looks like a hardwood tree trunk! Usually found in mixed stands just upslope from stream bottomlands in coastal areas... |
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Common Name: Longleaf Pine
Longleaf Pine, with needles up to a foot long, is the premier southern pine. It once occupied 92 million acres in a very diverse fire maintained ecosystem streaching from southeastern Virginia to Florida and east Texas. Now very little old-growth lon...
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Common Name: Chinese Pistacia
Chinese Pistacia is a medium size deciduous tree related to the Pistacio nut. It does not produce the edible nuts but does have splendid bright orange-red fall color, is drought and insect resistant, and has lustrous dark green compound leaves. This...
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Common Name: Monkeycomb
This Woodlanders introduction is a semi-evergreen vine related to our native Crossvine (Bignonia capreolata). It is somwhat similar and climbs with tendrils, but has white flowers. We collected this in Cordoba Province, Argentina and it h... |
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Common Name: Variegated Japanese Pittosporum
Japanese Pittosporum is a popular landscape plant in mild climate areas where it is a durable evergreen shrub with rounded glossy leaves and fragrant small white flowers. It is quite salt tolerant and often used in seashore plantin... |
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Common Name: Dwarf Bamboo
Pleioblastus (Sasa) distichus 'Mini' is the most dwarf of running bamboo. Bambusero Adam Turtle of "Our Nursery" in Summertown, TN says it is a ground-covering bamboo that can be controlled with an edger. But it is a running bamboo ! Presumed to be ...
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Common Name: Totara, Needle-leaved
Needle-leaved Totara is a dense evergreen conifer with short, sharp-tip leaves. It is native to New Zealand and seems to do well in the southern U.S. if site conditions are appropriate. Plant in well-drained soil in sunny or semi shady... |
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Common Name: Variegated Podocarpus
Podocarpus macrophyllus is an evergreen conifer that is grown as a shrub or small tree in many southern U.S. landscapes. This Asian species has leaves that are several inches long and about 1/4 inch wide.&nb... |
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Common Name: Yew, Southern
A low-growing selection of this popular southern conifer with flat needle-like evergreen leaves which spiral the stem. Woodlanders obtained cuttings of this form years ago from a plant at Tom Dodd Nurseries in Semmes, Alabama but have not met with... |
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Common Name: Pine of the Mountain
Very rare evergreen conifer native to a few very scattered localities on mountains just east of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. This plant is now available from Woodlanders and is CITES listed. Woodlanders is probably the...
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Common Name: Pink Trumpet Vine
Vigorous vine with compound leaves. Will likely freeze to ground in zones 8 and 9 but make much growth in warm weather with good conditions. Flowers are showy pink trumpets. Plant in sunny site with well-drained soil and allow ample space to climb....
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Common Name: Sweet Pea Shrub
This interesting fast-growing shrub is a hybrid between two South African species (P. opposistifolia x P. myrtifolia). It has one inch long dull green leaves and an open growth habit. The flowers are a lovely p... |
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Common Name: Variegated Solomon's Seal
This Japanese perennial is a great plant for the woodland or shaded border. Polygonatum falcatum ( aka Polygonatum odoratum var. thunbergii) 'Variegatum' has striking summer foliage. It is easy to grow in shady or semi-shady area... |
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Common Name: Christmas Fern
This evergreen fern has rather coarse foliage but it is a durable fern for shady sites on well-drained but moist soil. Christmas Fern is one of the hardier evergreen ferns native to eastern North America and is a useful plant for the shady garden. T...
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Common Name: Mintbush
Of several Prostanthera species received from Longwood Gardens, this one has proven satisfactory in our climate. It is a more or less evergreen shrub up to 6 feet with abundant white flowers. Leaves are rather small and narrow. Plant in sunny well... |
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Common Name: Japanese Almond-Cherry
Small deciduous shrub with wiry stems and abundant small pink flowers as leaves emerge. A showy shrub that produces small red cherries. Long cultivated in Japan, this garden worthy shrub seems surprisingly little-known in southern U.S. landscapes. ...
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Common Name: English Laurel 'Parkway'
English Laurel is a large shrub with large, glossy, evergreen leaves, spires of small white flowers, and sometimes small cherry-like red to black fruits. There a number of forms or cultivated varieties of this plant. This one which we call 'Parkway' ...
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Common Name: Flatwoods Plum
Flatwoods Plum is a picturesque small deciduous tree with rough bark. It bears white flowers (often turning pink) in spring. The small sour purple plums can be used for jelly. It is not thicket forming like Chickasaw P... |
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Common Name: Chinese Quince
Small to medium size deciduous tree with dark green firm toothed leaves and gray, green and brown bark which flakes off to produce mosaic patterns. Fall color is yellow to red. In spring it has attractive soft pink flowers on old ... |
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Common Name: Wafer-ash
Hop Tree is a small bushy decidous tree that is quite adaptable. It has trifoliate leaves and very fragrant small yellowish flowers in spring followed by persistent wafer-like winged seeds. It is a larval food plant sought by butterflies and butte... |
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Common Name: Spider Brake Fern
This Asian fern has fronds with narrow strap-like pinnae. It is widely naturalized in warm regions where it often grows in cracks of old masonry walls and other spots with high calcium soils such as moist shady spots along foundations, etc. ...
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Common Name: Pomegranate 'California Sunset'
This flowering Pomegranate also known as 'Madame Legrelle', is a medium size deciduous shrub with very double coral-red flowers variegated with much white, Flowers in summer and is long blooming but like other double-flowered forms... |
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Common Name: Pomegranate, 'Toyosho'
This flowering Pomegranate variety has double peach or apricot-colored flowers but like other double-flowered forms it rarely produces fruit. Pomegranate is a deciduous shrub native to the Middle East and cultivated since ancient times.... |
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Common Name: Narrow leaf Mountain Mint
Perennial plant with long narrow leaves and attractive white to pale purple flowers on much branched spikes in late summer. The dense foliage and nice flowers of this adaptable perennial make it a good garden plant. It is native to much of eastern ...
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Common Name: Hybrid
x Pyracomeles vilmorinii is a (Pyracantha x Osteomeles) bi-generic hybrid It is a semi-evergreen shrub with arching thornless branches and deeply cut small leaves. Corymbose white flowers in spring are followed by coral... |
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Common Name: Fern, Cockscomb
This beautiful selection of a Japanese/Korean epiphyte/lithophyte is not a typical fern. It is not "ferny" but has leathery leaves that are is deeply lobed with some of the lobes having a secondary pointed lobe. Underside of the leaf is silk... |
