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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: 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: Downy Phlox Cultivar
'Eco Happy Traveler' is a selection of the native Phlox pilosa from Don Jacobs 'Eco Gardens' in Atlanta, Georgia. This semi-evergreen groundcovering plant is a good choice for southern gardens in sun or light shade. Flowers are fragrant deep rose co...
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Chinese Gordonia
This relative of Gordonia lasianthus is a very glossy small evergreen tree or large shrub native to southeast Asia is rarely cultivated in the U.S. It bears abundant 3 inch showy white flowers. A beautiful species for mi... |
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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: Chickasaw Plum
Chickasaw Plum is a thicket forming deciduous shrub or small tree with very early, showy white flowers and edible yellow or red fruit. This species is widespread in the southeastern U.S. but is suspected of having been introduced from farther west b...
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Common Name: Carolina Cherry Laurel
Carolina Laurelcherry is a versatile evergreen tree which can be used for hedge, screen, or specimen plant. It has shiny green leaves with serrulate margins and racemes of white flowers in spring followed by black fruits which are eaten by birds. ... |
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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: Japanse Flowering Apricot
The Japanese Flowering Apricot is a floriferous small to medium sized tree with white to pink almond scented flowers. In the South this blooms in mid to late winter. It is a great favorite in Japanese landscapes and there are many named vari... |
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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: Golden-larch
Superb, broad, pyramidal, slow growing, deciduous conifer. Rare. Golden in fall. Moist, well-drained soil. (See DIR)...
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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: Pomegranate
Pomegranate is a deciduous Middle-eastern shrub with small narrow leaves, orange flowers, and orange-red large edible fruits for which it has been cultivated since ancient times. Some ornamental varieties have showy double flowers and rarely set frui...
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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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