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Working With Water: Managing a Wet Garden Area Using Southeastern Native Plants
From the Nursery · Garden Design Working With Water: Managing a Wet Garden Area Using Southeastern Native Plants A wet spot is not a defect. In much of the Southeast,...
The Woolly-Headed Willow: Salix eriocephala and the Intelligence of the Floodplain
The Woolly-Headed Willow: Salix eriocephala and the Intelligence of the Floodplain | Woodlanders Native Plants · Salix The Woolly-Headed Willow: Salix eriocephala and the Intelligence of the Floodplain A plant...
Loblolly-bay (Gordonia lasianthus): the swamp’s camellia—and a masterclass in place-based design
Woodlanders Field Guide Loblolly-bay (Gordonia lasianthus): the swamp’s camellia—and a masterclass in place-based design A design-forward, research-backed profile for landscape designers, gardeners, and curious plant lovers— with Woodlanders field notes...
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....
Watchers of the Waterways: The History of North America's Willows
In the hush of Southern dusk, where the last ribbons of gold slip off the water and vanish behind the cypress knees, the willow waits. She leans—always leans—toward the current,...
The Sentinel of the Swamp: Pond Cypress
In the quiet embrace of southeastern wetlands, Taxodium ascendens, or the pond cypress, rises like a guardian of ancient waters. Its slender, columnar form and feathery green needles evoke a...
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