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Common Name: Sparkleberry
Sparkleberry is a deciduous shrub with small glossy leathery leaves. It can become a small tree to 25 feet. Large old specimens can be very attractive especially with artistic pruning. The fragrant small bell-shaped white fl... |
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Common Name: Blueberry, Creeping 'Wells Delight'
This evergreen creeping blueberry is a North Carolina State University selection from southeastern North Carolina named for the late Dr. B.W. Wells, noted North Carolina ecologist. It has small shiny leaves that are even smaller than typical for t... |
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Common Name: Blueberry, Florida Evergreen 'John Blue'
'John Blue' is a selection of Vaccinium darrowii, a dense evergreen shrub with small blue-green leaves. It was selected and named for its ornamental qualities by blueberry researchers at North Carolina State Uni... |
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Common Name: Rayner's Blueberry
An extremely rare and local evergreen blueberry is found only in one locality in Lexington County, SC. Related and similar to Vaccinum crassifolium but with more upright growh habit and much larger lea... |
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Common Name: Small Black Blueberry
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Common Name: Cinnamon Leaf Viburnum
This large evergreen shrub native to China has large glossy oval leaves that are deeply veined and distinctive. It is somewhat like the lower growing Viburnum davidii but much better adapted in the southern U.S. Large fl... |
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Common Name: Japanese Evergreen Viburnum
This is a handsome evergreen Viburnum with relatively large lustrous dark green foliage and dense habit. Flat clusters of fragrant white flowers in spring are followed by red fruits. Probably first offered in U.S. by Woodlanders and still lit... |
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Common Name: Smooth Witherod Viburnum
See: Viburnum nudum 'Winterthur'. This Viburnum is apparently not dioecious but is somewhat self-sterile. It is much more fruitful if more than one clone is present. This selection was promoted as a "male" po... |
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Common Name: Possumhaw Viburnum 'Winterthur'
An upright deciduous native shrub selected by the late Hal Bruce of Winterthur Gardens in Delaware. It has shiny large leaves and is free-flowering with creamy-white flowers followed by berries which turn from white to pink to blue and ... |
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Common Name: Viburnum, Dwarf Walter
'Miss Schiller's Delight' is an excellent dwarf clone of Viburnum obovatum which is a fine small leaf native evergreen shrub. This clone was selected by our friend Steve Riefler in Florida. Steve named it for a friend whose nam... |
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Common Name: Sweet Viburnum
This large-leafed evergreen Viburnum native to Asia is often confused with V. awabuki, but its leaves are shorter and broader, not so glossy, and it may be a little less cold hardy. The pure white flowers are fra... |
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Common Name: Chinese Viburnum
This tall evergreen shrub has glossy, leathery leaves about 4 inches long. It bears white flowers in flat-topped clusters followed by bright red fruits. It has proved hardy here in zone 8. Our plants were originally received from the U.S... |
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Common Name: Laurustinus
Laurustinus is an evergreen Viburnum native to southern Europe and northern Africa. This selection is more compact than the species. It has lustrous dark green relatively small leaves and dark red flower buds which open to white fl... |
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Common Name: Viburnum Hybrid
'Jermyns Globe' is a small to medium evergreen shrub of dense rounded habit. It bears white flowers in flat-topped clusters in late spring. A hybrid of Chinese species (V. calvum x V. davidii), it originated at Hilliers N... |
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Common Name: Viburnum, Prague
The Missouri Botanical Garden informs us that: "This hybrid viburnum (cross between V. rhytidophyllum and V. utile) is an evergreen, multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows 8-12' tall with a similar spread. Flat cymes (to ... |
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Common Name: Chaste Tree, 'Flora Ann'
Chaste tree is a small deciduous tree in South but can be grown as a perennial in the North. The leaves have been mistaken for those of Cannabis (Marijuana). The clusters of lilac flowers in summer have caused some to call it "Summer Lilac".... |
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Common Name: Chastetree
Chaste tree is a small deciduous tree in South but can be grown as a perennial in the North. The leaves have been mistaken for those of Cannabis (Marijuana). The clusters of lilac flowers in summer have caused some to call it "Summer Lilac".... |
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Common Name: Three Leaf Vitex
This deciduous shrub or small tree has three leaflets with white marginal variegation. The blue to purple flowers somewhat resembling lilac flowers. This Vitex is more cold sensitive than Vitex agnus-castus or V. ... |
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Common Name: 'Triumph' Muscadine Grape
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Common Name: Old Fashioned Weigela
Weigela is a deciduous shrub of rounded habit and opposite oval leaves. This cold-hardy old fashioned favorite is native to eastern Asia. 'Java Red' is an old variety also known as 'Foliis Purpureis'.... |
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Common Name: Old Fashioned Weigela
This is a relatively compact form of this old favorite garden shrub. Leaves are deciduous and are variegated with pale yellow or creamy white margins. Deep rose colored flowers appear in late spring. This old-fashioned shrub in its many varie... |
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Common Name: Lynn's Wisteria
A number of years ago our dear friend and pioneer Texas native plantsman the late Lynn Lowerey found a great selection of native Wisteria near the dam of an east Texsas reservoir. The dam was known as "Dam - B" and Lynn gave that name to the... |
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Common Name: Wisteria, White Kentucky 'Clara Mack'
Kentucky Wisteria 'Clara Mack' is a twining deciduous vine with compound leaves and hanging clusters of white flowers. This splendid white form of a normally blue-flowerd species has longer and later flower clusters than Wisteria frutescens |
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Common Name: Gordlinia
Dr. Tom Ranney of the North Carolina State University Experiment Station in Fletcher, NC recently succeeded in crossing the iconic Franklinia alatamaha (which see) with it's relative, Gordonia lasianthus (which see) to ... |
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Common Name: Yellowroot
Yellowroot is a curious shrub related to the Buttercup. It is native to eastern U.S. The compound leaves are deciduous but turn bright yellow in the fall. The roots are bright yellow when cut. Typically it grows in shady streamsid... |
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Common Name: Japanese Zelkova
Japanese Zelkova is a large elm-like deciduous shade tree with ascending branches. In Japan it is said to be an important timber tree and favorite bonsai subject but here according to Dirr, Manual of Woody Landscape P... |
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Common Name: Foster's Pink Rain Lily
These bulbs produce grass-like leaves and masses of beautiful pink flowers somewhat like crocus. It is native to Mexico. It grows well in the South and flowers after summer rains....
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