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Common Name: Lousiana Palmetto
Like a Sabal minor on steroids, this palm has been variously classified as a form of Sabal minor and a hybrid with Sabal texana. Ours originated in the well-known Brazoria County, Texas population and may be different from the trunked palmettos in f...
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Common Name: Dwarf Palmetto
This dwarf stemless palm has blue-green fan shaped leaves. Fruiting stalks extend well above foliage and bear black 1/4 inch in diameter. This is a very hardy palm native from northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Oklahoma southward. ... |
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Common Name: Chinese Bird Plum
This scandent deciduous shrub with small leaves and fragrant small white flowers has long a favorite for Bonsai but is little known otherwise. We came across this plant in Houston, Texas and found that while it did well in our area it was vir... |
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Common Name: Dappled Willow
This is an elegant small willow with glossy bright green leaves which are beautifully variegated pink and white when unfolding. It is fast growing and makes a wonderful water-side cover. This is a cultivar of a species native to Japan.... |
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Common Name: Willow 'Rubykins'
This willow is a vigorous deciduous shrub suited for moist site in sunny location. The narrow leaves have a white back and midrib. The slender branches bear small red catkins in spring. It was received from Dr. Michael Dirr who i... |
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Common Name: Sage Hybrid
'Indigo Spires' is a half hardy perennial hybrid sage that occurred as a chance seedling at Huntington Botanic Garden in California. This Salvia is a large colony-forming perennial plant with rich blue spikes of flowers from summer through f... |
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Common Name: Mexican Bush Sage
This tall sage has spikes of purple flowers with white corollas. It flowers in summer. It is a clump forming perennial sage that prefers rich garden soil and benefits from light fertilization. It thrives in full-sun exp... |
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Common Name: Mexican Bush Sage
This tall sage has spikes of purple flowers and in this selection the flowers are all purple withoug the white corollas of the common kind. It flowers in summer. It is a clump forming perennial sage that prefers rich ga... |
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Common Name: Salvia Hybrid 'Phyllis Fancy'
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This plant is a chance hybrid from the garden of our friend Frances Parker, gardener extraordinaire, in Beaufort, SC. She named this wonderful tall bushy perennial for her grandson. It has spikes of dark blue to purple flowers from lat... |
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Common Name: Sage, Forsythia
Forsythia Sage is a big robust perennial from the mountains of Mexico. It has large triangular leaves and late season terminal clusters of showy yellow flowers which give it it's common name. This plant likes sun and good soi... |
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Common Name: Sage, Big Blue Mexican
Salvia mexicana is a robust perennial to 8 feet tall and with heart-shaped leaves and deep blue tubular flowers in fall. Prefers good gardening soil or sandy loam and thrives in full sun to half shade. It attracts hummingbirds and is best fo... |
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Common Name: Bog Salvia
This handsome vigorous perennial has bright sky blue flowers that blooms from mid summer on. It is good for average to moist soil. Fertilize with lime or humus to optimize conditions. Prefers full-sun to half-shade. The... |
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Sarcandra is a highly decorative evergreen shrubby groundcover. It grows to 1 to 2 feet and should be planted in moist, acidic soil. It is especially valued for it's orange-scarlet berries. This plant is a woodland nat... |
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Common Name: Himalayan Sweet Box
This species of Sweet Box is a relatively recent introduction and is still rare in cultivation. Like other Sarcococca species it is an attractive evergreen shrub with glossy foliage on arching stems and with fragrant small white flowers.... |
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Common Name: Little Bluestem, 'Prairie Blues'
Little Bluestem is a relatively tall perennial bunch grass native to most of the U.S and southern Canada. It thrives in hot dry areas and is relatively common as a prairie grass. This selection called 'Prairie Blues' is descr... |
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Common Name: Gemmiferous Spikemoss
This plant native to eastern Asia is a low, ferny, bright green groundcover from creeping rhizomes. It often reproduces from small cone-like plantlets which form on the fronds. Try it in moist woodsy sites with good soil.... |
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Common Name: Mexican Flame Vine
This subtropical Senecio is an herbaceous vine with glossy green nearly succulent leaves. It is evergreen in frost free areas but otherwise a die-back perennial for a protected area with winter mulch. Wonderful orange-red flowers with yellow... |
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Common Name: Saw Palmetto
Saw Palmetto is a small fan-leaf palm that is common in pinelands of the Deep South. It grows in full sun to light shade and is well adapted to warmer areas of the Southeastern United States. Normally a low, spreading palm with decumbent trunks but s...
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Common Name: Blue Saw Palmetto
These are seedlings of the glaucous blue form of this small palm that is common in Deep South pinelands. The glaucous blue form is found on the east coast of Florida. It grows in full sun to light shade and is well adapted to warmer areas of... |
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Common Name: Yellow-rim
'Kowloon' is a Highly variegated form of this adaptable evergreen shrub. Non-fragrant white star-like small flowers bloom in May and June. This Asian shrub is a nice border plant for southern gardens and landscapes. Grow in well-drained soil in su... |
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Common Name: Catchfly, 'Short and Sweet'
Silene caroliniana is native in woodlands locally but this selection from our friends at North Creek Nurseries is excellent. Let North Creek tell it: "More Info |
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Common Name: Jacktree
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Common Name: Chicken Wire Plant
This Smilax is a curious deciduous groundcover with small leaves and twiggy stems. A Woodlanders introduction that we obtained years ago from Brookside Gardens in Maryland. They had obtained this unusual plant as Smilax fragrans. We offer... |
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Common Name: Potato Vine
This vigorous evergreen vine blooms from mid summer to mid fall. The showy star shaped white flowers are tinged with blue and produce a wonderful fragrance. It can grow in sandy soil, clay, or rich gardening soil and ca... |
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Common Name: Blue Potato Bush
This South American shrub is perhaps correctly Lycianthes rantonetti. It is a scrambling vine-like shrub which is best trained up as a trellis or espalier plant where it can get up to 15 feet in mild areas. It is valued for the loose clus... |
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Common Name: Wreath Goldenrod
This graceful, yellow flowered ground cover is shade tolerant. It blooms from late summer through mid fall....
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Common Name: Texas Mountain Laurel
Texas Mountainlaurel is no relation to the eastern Mountainlaurel (Kalmia). It is a legume and forms an evergreen shrub or small tree with glossy foliage and clusters of fragrant purple flowers followed by seed pods with... |
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Common Name: American Bladdernut
This small deciduous tree or suckering shrub has trifoliate leaves and interesting greenish-white bell-like flowers followed by curious inflated balloon-like papery fruits. It is best in fertile moist soil in semi-shade. It is native to east... |
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Common Name: Mube
This is a splendid compound leafed evergreen vine related to Akebia. In spring it bears white flowers tinged purple followed by sausage shaped fruit which is eaten in Asia. It grows in sandy, loamy, or clay soils that are moi... |
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Common Name: Fragrant Snowbell
This Snowbell is a small to medium size tree with white, fragrant flowers that bloom in mid-April in the South, later in the North. It has especially large foliage for a Styrax and gorgeous gray-brown bark. Ideal conditions include ample moisture ... |
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Common Name: Meyer Lilac
This lilac is a small-leaved deciduous shrub with abundant icy-pink flowers in May. It is a compact shrub up to 5' tall and wide. It is very floriferous. easy to grow in good garden soil, and especially noteworthy ... |
