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The Holly That Forgot the Spines: How to Grow Inkberry (Ilex glabra)
How-To · Ilex glabra · Southeast. How to plant, pollinate, prune and renew inkberry, the native evergreen holly that is easier than boxwood and far better company.
The Gold That Comes Before the Thaw: Carolina Jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirens)
Plant Highlight · Gelsemium sempervirens · Southeast. Carolina jessamine is South Carolina's state flower, a scented evergreen vine, and a plant that deserves both admiration and a careful hand.
The Night Before the Freeze, and the Morning After: Caring for Cold-Hardy Citrus Through a Hard Winter
How-To · Cold-Hardy Citrus · Southeast. The October checklist, the freeze-night plan, and what to do on the morning after, when every leaf on the tree has gone the color...
Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina): Antlers in Velvet at the Southern Edge
Plant Highlights · Staghorn Sumac · Southeast. A northern native at the southern edge of the range: velvet antler branches in winter, scarlet leaves in October, and red cones that...
How to Grow Arkansas Bluestar (Amsonia hubrichtii): Planting, Cutting Back and Fall Gold
How-To · Arkansas Bluestar · Southeast. A creek-bank perennial from the Ouachita Mountains that wants lean soil and full sun: how to plant threadleaf bluestar this fall, when to cut,...
Siting Tea Olives (Osmanthus): Fragrance, Hedges and the Fall Bloom
Landscape Design · Tea Olives · Southeast. A tea olive in bloom can be smelled before the shrub is seen. Where to plant one so the scent finds you, which...
A Field Guide to Trifoliate Orange and Its Hybrids: Citranges, Citrumelos and Citrangequats
Field Guide · Trifoliate Orange and the Hybrids · Southeast. A thorny, deciduous, bitter little tree from northern China is the reason citrus grows north of Florida at all. Here...
The Shrimp Plant, Closely Read: Everything You Are Looking At Is a Leaf
Plant Highlight · Justicia brandegeeana · Mexico to the Gulf South. The shrimp plant is one of the most recognizable shrubs in the warm South, and almost nobody who grows...
Mexican Flame Vine (Senecio confusus): How to Grow and Overwinter at the Cold Edge
How-To & Propagation · Mexican Flame Vine · The Southeast. A tropical vine that blazes orange from June until frost, grown at the cold edge of the map, and how...
The Wall That Learned to Breathe: Siting Podocarpus in the Southern Garden
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.
Chinese Fringetree (Chionanthus retusus): The Tree That Flowers Like Rice
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...
Ilex verticillata: The Holly That Stands Bare in December
How-To · Holly Pollination · Southeast. Every winter someone writes to us about a holly that flowers faithfully and fruits never, and the answer is almost always the same, and...
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