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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: 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: 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
Redbay is an attractive medium size broadleaf evergreen tree related to the Avocado. Often confused with Swampbay (P. palustris), this species lacks the stellate pubescence on the underside of leaves, has fru... |
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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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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Portugal Laurel
Portugese Laurel is a large evergreen shrub or small to medium size tree. It has ovate leaves which are dark green with reddish petioles. It bears racemes of small white flowers in late spring followed by small reddish to dark purple fruits. A fin... |
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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: 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: Little Epaulettetree
The Little Eupalette Tree is a rather rare small deciduous tree or large shrub native to eastern Asia. It has ovate bristle toothed leaves and panicles of fragrant white flowers in late spring/early summer follwed by 5-winged dry fruits. An interest...
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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
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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