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An Exploration of the Conradina Genus

Woodlanders Botanicals Conradina: the scrubland rosemary that teaches you how to design with place A genus that looks Mediterranean, smells like the mint family it belongs to, and tells the...

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Clinopodium: The Soft Power of the Mint Family

Woodlanders Botanical Journal Clinopodium: The Soft Power of the Mint Family A genus that doesn’t shout—yet somehow holds a garden together. A story of scent, ecology, and design restraint from...

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The Enchanted Trees of the South

Woodlanders Botanicals · Ethnobotany · Southern Ecology The Enchanted Trees of the South A botanical history of belief, survival, and synthesis in North America—told in leaf, smoke, and root, with...

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A North American Guide to Hollies

Woodlanders Botanicals • Design Field Guide History, design logic, and the Woodlanders legacy—how to choose the right holly, and how to make it speak in the landscape. Hollies are not...

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Cephalanthus occidentalis: Architect of the Shallow Water World

  Woodlanders Botanical Essay Architect of the Shallow Water World Cephalanthus occidentalis, the quiet engineer of wetlands, and what it means to be an edge species in an edge era....

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Baccharis halimifolia (Manglier): Medicine Along the Marsh Edge

  Drive the Atlantic or Gulf coast in late fall and you might think it has snowed along the ditches. There, at the edges where the land hesitates and then...

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Why Quercus alba Must Return

If Quercus alba could write its autobiography, it might end with gratitude. Not for the ships it built or the barrels it sealed, but for the overlooked gardeners and land...

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Autumn Care for the Southeast’s Heirloom Woody Plants

There’s a certain sleight of hand in the Southeastern autumn. A kind of quiet alchemy, almost invisible if you only watch the trees from above ground. The leaves do their...

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