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Myrcianthes fragrans: The Shrub That Comes in Twos
Plant Highlight · Myrcianthes fragrans · Florida and the Caribbean. Twin berries on a forked stalk, two common names that disagree about the plant entirely, and a nutmeg scent hiding...
Cumberland Rosemary, and Why We Only Sell One in South Carolina
Plant Highlight · Conradina verticillata · The Cumberland Plateau. A rosemary-scented shrub from Tennessee river bars, federally threatened since 1991, grown in Aiken and bound by law to stay in...
The Rosemary That Isn't
Essay · The scrub mints · Aiken, South Carolina. On the calamints and false rosemaries: small, stubborn, wonderfully scented shrubs that grow where almost nothing else will, spent two centuries...
Mint on White Sand: A Field Guide to the Scrub Mints
Field Guide · The Scrub Mints · The Southeast. Every calamint, false rosemary, wild pennyroyal and scrub balm we grow or have grown, the listed species we can only sell...
A Field Guide to the Sumacs (Rhus)
Field Guide · The Genus Rhus · Southeastern United States. A grower's guide to the sumacs Woodlanders keeps in cultivation, from staghorn and smooth sumac to the federally endangered Michaux's,...
The Plants Bartram Saw
Field Guide · Native Flora · The Bartram Trail The Plants Bartram Saw A walk through the southeastern flora documented by William Bartram in Travels (1791) — and a quiet...
Restoring Connectivity: Using the Power of the Home Garden to Mend Native Landscapes
Woodlanders Journal Restoring Connectivity Using the power of the home garden to mend native landscapes. On habitat fragmentation, pollinator decline, and how the home garden can become one of the...
A Guide to Quercus oglethorpensis: History, Ecology, Botany and Design
Woodlanders Field Guide Oglethorpe Oak (Quercus oglethorpensis): Designing with a Rare White Oak That Lives Where Water Lingers A research-grounded species profile plus a design-forward, practical guide to siting, establishing,...
Longleaf Pine Restoration and the Art of Restraint in Modern Landscape Design
Essay • Longleaf Pine • Restoration & Design Longleaf, Reimagined An opinion piece from a student of horticulture—and a lover of design. Longleaf pine stand (Osceola National Forest, Florida). Image...
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...
Franklinia alatamaha: The Lost Tree That Refused to Die
Ethnobotany • Botanical History • Cultivation Lore Franklinia alatamaha: The Lost Tree That Refused to Die A long-form editorial for gardeners, historians, and the incurably curious—about a flower that blooms...
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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