Field Guide · A field guide to Styrax, the snowbell genus: native Southeastern species and their fragrant East Asian cousins, and how to site a flower that hangs face down.

Landscape Design · An ancient conifer genus doing quiet, modern work: how to site Podocarpus as a screen, a groundcover, or a rare collector's specimen in a Southern garden.

Plant Highlights · Chinese Fringetree · East Asia. For about two weeks in late spring, a small tree from Korea, Japan and China disappears under a fall of white so...

Plant Highlight · Hibiscus mutabilis · China and the American South. The cotton rose spends a single day working through three colors, white at dawn, pink by noon, red by...

Field Guide, Cryptomeria, Japan and the American South. Japanese cedar has been holding up shrine roofs, sake barrels and Southern property lines for a very long time, all under a...

Plant Highlight. Ficus roxburghii carries the largest leaf a Deep South garden can reasonably hold, dies to the ground most winters, and comes back reaching. Where the fig came from,...

A field guide to the wood ferns (Dryopteris): the evergreen backbone of Southern shade, how to identify them, the tangled native hybrid family tree, and seven to grow.

Plant Profile • Orchard Curiosity • Cultural Fruit Myrica rubra (Yangmei): The Fruit That Won’t Wait An evergreen tree with a famously brief season, part botanical riddle, part culinary obsession,...

Japan’s lush landscapes have enchanted plant lovers for centuries. Picture a spring mountainside dappled in pink cherry blossoms and an autumn forest ablaze with red maples – it’s no wonder...

For centuries, Osmanthus has captured the imagination of cultures around the world. Its heady fragrance, medicinal uses, and presence in myth and legend make it one of the most culturally...

As the cooling autumn air settles over the landscape, it becomes the perfect backdrop for Camellia crapnelliana (sometimes spelled capnelliana), a camellia known for its distinct history and unique place...