{"title":"All Plants","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eForty-five years of hunting, growing, and stewarding plants that most nurseries have never heard of. Browse our full collection of rare and native plants for sale: regional rarities, hard-to-find varieties, and botanical legends grown and shipped from Aiken, South Carolina. Every plant has a story. This is where you find it.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"abelia-chinensis","title":"Abelia chinensis","description":"\u003cp\u003eA seldom-seen species with old-world charm, Abelia chinensis is a deciduous shrub native to China and one of the foundational parents of the widely grown Abelia x grandiflora. Far less common in American gardens than its hybrid offspring, the true species offers its own quiet distinctions: larger foliage, a fuller habit, and a long summer season of bloom that makes it a thoughtful choice for collectors and pollinator gardeners alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt grows upright to gently arching, reaching four to six feet in height and spread, with leaves notably larger than those of the typical hybrid Abelias. In summer it covers itself in a profusion of small white, lightly fragrant flowers that draw butterflies, bees, and other pollinators in real numbers. The tubular blooms appear in clusters along the stems and carry on well into early fall, each one cradled in a rosy calyx that lingers after the petals drop and gives the shrub a soft pink haze late in the season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a surprisingly hardy plant, flowering reliably into USDA zone 5, though in the coldest winters it may die back toward the ground and return from the base in spring. In warmer zones it holds a fuller above-ground form and takes well to light pruning for shape or renewal. Give it full sun to part shade and well-drained soil; it prefers steady moisture but shows good drought tolerance once established.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden its graceful habit and long bloom suit it to an informal hedge, a mixed border, or a naturalistic planting where pollinators are welcome. Set it where the late-summer flowers and lingering pink calyces can be enjoyed up close, and where its history as the parent of a garden mainstay can be quietly appreciated.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057804972147,"sku":"ABEL-CHIN-01G","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Abelia_chinensis_peganum_CCBYSA20.jpg?v=1748735441"},{"product_id":"abeliophyllum-distichum-roseum","title":"Abeliophyllum distichum roseum","description":"\u003cp\u003eAbeliophyllum is a genus of exactly one species, a quiet distinction it has held since botanists first described it from Korea in 1919. It belongs to the olive family alongside lilac and true forsythia, and in the wild it survives at only a handful of sites in the Korean hills, where it is now protected by law as an endangered plant. By the 1930s it had reached gardens in Europe and North America and earned an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society, and collectors have cherished it ever since. 'Roseum' is the blush-pink form of that rarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere common white forsythia opens icy white, roseum carries a wash of clear pink through the petals, and an almond-sweet fragrance the yellow forsythias cannot offer. The flowers come impossibly early, breaking from purplish buds along bare grey wood in late winter, weeks ahead of any leaf, often while frost still lingers. It is one of the very first shrubs to wake in the garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA multi-stemmed deciduous shrub of modest size, three to five feet in time and a little wider, it can run leggy if left alone, so prune it right after bloom to keep it shapely. Dark glossy foliage follows the flowers and carries the plant quietly through summer. Give it full sun to part shade and ordinary well-drained soil; it asks little once settled and is hardy through hard winters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, treat it as a herald. Set it where you pass close in the cold months, by a door or along a path, so the scent finds you, and cut a few branches to force indoors. It consorts beautifully with hellebores, snowdrops, and the first crocus, and can be espaliered against a warm wall to show off its flowering wood.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805037683,"sku":"ABEL-DIST-ROSE-01G","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-264.jpg?v=1720136084"},{"product_id":"abeliophyllum-distichum","title":"Abeliophyllum distichum","description":"\u003cp\u003eAbeliophyllum is a genus of a single species, first described from Korea in 1919 and grown in Western gardens since the 1930s, when it earned an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. It belongs to the olive family beside lilac and forsythia, and in the wild it clings on at only a handful of Korean sites, where it is now protected by law as an endangered plant. This is the white-flowered species itself, the parent of the better-known pink form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is among the earliest shrubs to bloom, opening before forsythia and most everything else. In late winter, fragrant white flowers tinged faintly with pink break from purplish buds along the bare grey wood, weeks ahead of any leaf, carrying a clean almond sweetness on cold air. A multi-stemmed deciduous shrub of four to six feet, it is hardy through hard winters and altogether tougher than its delicate flowering suggests.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive it full sun to part shade and ordinary well-drained soil with good moisture; it flowers most freely in sun. It can run a little leggy if neglected, so prune right after bloom to keep it shapely, since the flowers form on the previous year's wood. Dark green foliage follows and carries the plant quietly through the season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, treat it as a herald of spring. Plant it where you pass close in the cold months, by a door or along a path, so the fragrance finds you, and cut branches to force indoors. It is lovely among hellebores, snowdrops, and early bulbs, and rare enough to be a quiet conversation piece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805070451,"sku":"ABEL-DIST-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-263.jpg?v=1720136088"},{"product_id":"abelmoschus-manihot","title":"Abelmoschus manihot","description":"\u003cp\u003eAbelmoschus manihot wears two faces. To a flower gardener it is the Sunset Hibiscus, a fast tropical perennial that throws up large, pale-yellow blooms with a deep maroon eye all through the warm season, each one open for a day in the manner of its mallow kin. To much of the Pacific and tropical Asia it is something more fundamental: aibika, among the most important leafy vegetables in Papua New Guinea, grown in dooryards from New Guinea to Queensland and across into China and Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA relative of okra, it trades the edible pod for showy flowers and tender, nutritious leaves. The young leaves and shoots cook down with a soft, okra-like mucilage that thickens soups and stews, and they are genuinely nourishing, rich in protein, vitamins A and C, calcium, and iron. The plant carries a long medicinal tradition too: in China the flowers have been used for chronic kidney complaints, and across Asia various parts have been reached for against fever, inflammation, and other ailments. Modern phytochemists have catalogued well over a hundred compounds in it, flavonoids chief among them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is easily grown in any warm, sunny, well-drained spot, perennial where winters are mild (roughly zone 7 and warmer) and grown as an annual or die-back perennial elsewhere, returning quickly from seed or root. Give it room, since it can reach three to five feet in a single season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden it earns a place at the back of a sunny border or in a productive, ornamental-edible planting where its big sulphur flowers and bold leaves do double duty. Site it where you can both admire the bloom and pick a few leaves for the pot.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805103219,"sku":"ABEL-MANI-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-868.jpg?v=1720136091"},{"product_id":"abies-firma","title":"Abies firma","description":"\u003cp\u003eAbies firma, the Momi Fir, is a beautiful evergreen conifer of narrow pyramidal habit, with stiff, sharp-tipped, dark green needles and the capacity in time to become a large tree. It holds a particular distinction in the South: this is about the only true fir that tolerates the heat and humidity of the southeastern United States, where most of its mountain-loving relatives simply melt away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe species has long been scarce in the trade. In 1968 Edward Horder reported on thirty-five to forty-year-old specimens growing in Mobile, Alabama, and fine old trees can be seen at the Bartlett Arboretum near Charlotte. It has remained almost unavailable to gardeners over the decades, a connoisseur's conifer that we are glad to offer to those building a collection or seeking a fir that will actually thrive below the mountains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to Japan, where its wood is valued for construction, Momi Fir grows slowly, perhaps a foot a year, into a broad pyramid that can reach forty to seventy feet in cultivation and far more in the wild. Plant it in full sun to a little afternoon shade, in average, consistently moist, slightly acidic soil; it tolerates clay and is not fully drought tolerant, appreciating a deep soaking once or twice a month through dry summers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden it makes a stately specimen or evergreen screen for a larger property, and serves, in the nursery trade, as the heat-tolerant understock onto which choicer firs are grafted for southern gardens. Give it room to become the tree it wants to be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805201523,"sku":"ABIE-FIRM-01G","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1422.jpg?v=1720136095"},{"product_id":"abutilon-megapotamicum","title":"Abutilon megapotamicum","description":"\u003cp\u003eAbutilon megapotamicum is the trailing one of the flowering maples, a slender, half-vining deciduous shrub that drapes and clambers rather than standing stiffly upright. Its species name means \"of the big river,\" for the Rio Grande basin of southern Brazil where it grows wild, and like the rest of its tribe it belongs not to the maples its leaves suggest but to the mallow family, in company with hibiscus and hollyhock.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flowers are its whole charm: curious hanging lanterns, each a swollen red calyx from which a skirt of yellow petals and a dark tuft of stamens protrude, swinging along the branches from late summer well into fall. Hummingbirds and bees find them readily. A Victorian favorite for the conservatory and the hanging basket, it has never quite gone out of fashion among gardeners who like a plant that does something unexpected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt can be used in several ways: left to spill several feet across a bed in a single season, trained up a support or trellis, or planted in a basket where the lanterns can dangle. Give it full sun to part shade and well-drained soil. In zone 8 it behaves as a dieback shrub, cut down by frost and returning from the base; in warmer zones it holds more of its frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite it where the hanging flowers can be read at eye level or above, against a wall, over the edge of a raised bed, or from a basket on the porch, where its long season of quirky bloom can be enjoyed up close.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805234291,"sku":"ABUT-MEGA-01G","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-265.jpg?v=1720136098"},{"product_id":"abutilon-pictum","title":"Abutilon pictum","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eTwo things the common names get wrong: it is not Chinese, and it is not a maple. Abutilon pictum comes from the warm river country of southern Brazil and its neighbors, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, and the maple lives only in the leaves, which are lobed and toothed enough to have fooled people into \"flowering maple.\" It belongs instead to the mallow family, in good company with hibiscus, hollyhock, okra, and cotton, and it carries that resemblance in every five-petaled bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003epictum means painted, and the painting is in the veins: bell-shaped flowers of warm orange, each petal overlaid with fine crimson lines, hung on long thin stalks like lanterns strung along the branch. They open from spring well into fall, are sweet enough to eat, and hummingbirds find them without being told. The Victorians kept this as a parlour plant, a tender thing for the conservatory shelf, and a century and a half on it still has that faintly old-fashioned, hothouse charm. One confession from the family album: several of its speckle-leaved cousins owe their gold-dusted foliage to a virus, kept on purpose and passed plant to plant. This one stays honestly green.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eIn zone 8 they behave as a dieback shrub, cut hard after the first frost, mounded against the cold, rising again with the heat to hang lanterns from May clear through October. A sheltered corner and a little sun are the whole of the asking. For all the misnamings, it is still one of the surest ways to keep a hummingbird returning to the same warm wall, summer after summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eStanding on:\u003c\/em\u003e It is native to southern Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, in the family Malvaceae; \"Chinese-lantern\" and \"flowering maple\" are common names, and pictum means \"painted.\" The flowers attract bees and hummingbirds and are edible with a sweet flavor; A. striatum\/'Thompsonii'-type relatives develop prized variegated foliage from Abutilon mosaic virus, while A. pictum itself does not. It is in the mallow family alongside hibiscus and is grown as a greenhouse or conservatory plant in cooler climates.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805332595,"sku":"ABUT-PICT-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Abutilon_pictum_Woodlanders_2.jpg?v=1731858115"},{"product_id":"abutilon-pictum-souvenir-de-bonn","title":"Abutilon pictum ‘Souvenir de Bonn’","description":"\u003cp\u003eCall it a flowering maple if you like, but there is not a drop of maple in it. \u003cem\u003eAbutilon pictum\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to the mallow family, alongside hibiscus, hollyhock, okra, and cotton, and only the lobed, maple-shaped leaves account for the nickname. What the leaves of 'Souvenir de Bonn' actually do is carry a wide, irregular margin of cream around their green, a variegation bold enough to earn the plant its place on looks alone. The flowers settle the matter. All season they dangle from the branches like small paper lanterns, apricot to salmon, each bell veined through with crimson, swinging on thin stalks where the hummingbirds find them. 'Souvenir de Bonn' is among the oldest abutilons still in gardens, a parlor plant out of the conservatory age, when a variegated flowering maple was the sort of thing one kept in a bright room through winter and carried out to the terrace each summer. The species hails from Brazil; the cultivar name is a keepsake of Bonn, a souvenir that outlasted whoever first carried it home. They are tender, frost being their one real enemy, and in our climate they may sail through a mild winter outdoors or die to the ground and return from the root. Either way they earn their keep, blooming spring to frost and beyond, asking only for sun, rich soil, and water enough to keep the show going. Set them where you pass close, on a patio or against a warm wall, where the lanterns can be read at eye level.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805430899,"sku":"ABUT-PICT-SOUV-BONN-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/FB4414F2-02FF-489A-9968-C12C6A4FC2C8.jpg?v=1725542880"},{"product_id":"acacia-visco","title":"Acacia visco","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcacia visco, now placed by botanists in the genus Parasenegalia, is a graceful, fast-growing tree from the high country of northern Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru, where it is known simply as visco or viscote. The name nods to the sticky, resinous sap the tree exudes. Unusually among its thorny relatives it is thornless, with a light, open crown of ferny, twice-divided leaves that cast a dappled, forgiving shade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn late spring the canopy fills with small, fragrant, soft-yellow flowers, a haze of bloom alive with bees, followed by flat seed pods. In its native range it is valued for timber, for fodder, and for the way it holds dry mountain soil; like other legumes it fixes nitrogen and improves the ground beneath it. It grows quickly, reaching the stature of a shade or canopy tree in relatively few years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the southern or warm-climate garden it makes a fine, fast specimen or light shade tree where the soil drains freely and the sun is full. Its airy foliage and thornless habit make it safe and pleasant to sit beneath, and its drought tolerance suits it to hot, sunny situations where heavier trees struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805463667,"sku":"ACAC-VISC-01G","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"acacia-caven","title":"Acacia caven","description":"\u003cp\u003eEspino is the thorn tree of the South American dry country, the signature shrub of central Chile's espinal, where it grows so thickly alongside the Chilean wine palm that it gives whole landscapes their character. Its range runs on through Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Spiny and twiggy, armed with stiff, pale, almost-white thorns, it is handsome from a distance and best handled with gloves. Botanists now file it under Vachellia, though the gardening world still knows it as Acacia caven.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew small trees have been put to such varied use. Its dense wood makes some of the finest charcoal in Chile and burns long as firewood; straight stems become fence posts. The tannin-rich seedpods were gathered for curing hides, the fragrant flowers distilled for perfume, and the same blossoms keep beekeepers in honey. It is, in short, a tree a whole dry country has leaned on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn earliest spring it earns every bit of affection at once. The bare, thorny branches break into a haze of small golden puffball flowers, intensely and sweetly fragrant, a scent that carries on warm air long before most things have woken. Fast to establish and short-lived by temperament, it takes heat, drought, and poor soil in stride, making a rounded little tree of perhaps thirteen to sixteen feet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden it is a specimen for hot, difficult places. Plant it where the early scent can reach a path or doorway, where the pale thorns and fine ferny leaves catch the light, and where its angular, almost calligraphic winter silhouette can be read against an open sky. Pair it with other xeric, sun-loving plants and let it thrive where softer things give up.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805496435,"sku":"ACAC-CAVE-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"acacia-neovernicosa","title":"Acacia neovernicosa","description":"\u003cp\u003eMany of the finest ornamentals for the southern garden come from the deserts of the Southwest, and this Chihuahuan legume is a quietly handsome example. Acacia neovernicosa is an upright, spreading, thorny shrub clothed in twice-compound leaves so finely divided that the whole plant takes on a soft, smoky texture. The foliage carries a faint varnish, sticky to the touch, which gives the species both its botanical name and its common one, viscid acacia. In spring the branches are studded with small golden puffballs of bloom, abundant and sweetly fragrant, loud with bees on a warm morning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is native to the sunny, gravelly limestone hills of west Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, ranging south into Mexico, and it carries that desert toughness with it: drought, heat, and lean soil are no trouble at all. Like other legumes it fixes its own nitrogen, asking little of the ground it grows in. Give it full sun, sharp drainage, and freedom from crowding, and it proves surprisingly cold hardy for a plant of such warm origins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden it earns a place in a gravel or xeric planting, a hot sunny bank, or a wildlife border where its fragrant flowers feed pollinators and its thorny frame offers cover and nesting. Site it where the fine foliage can be seen against open sky or a darker backdrop, and keep it back from paths, since the thorns mean business.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805529203,"sku":"ACAC-NEOV-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"acacia-angustissima-var-schreberi","title":"Acacia angustissima var. schreberi","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet aside the family reputation. Acacia angustissima is the polite, thornless cousin in a clan better known for its armament, a soft green presence where you might brace for spines. Botanists have since moved it to its own genus, Acaciella, but in the trade it keeps the old familiar name. It grows wild across the dry grasslands and open woods of the south-central United States down into Mexico and Central America, carrying itself like a small green fountain of fine, ferny, twice-divided foliage that filters the light rather than blocking it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Mexico the plant is well known as timbe (also timbre, cantemo, or guajillo), and its uses run deep. It has long served as fodder and as fuel, and its bark and pods yield a vegetable tannin once important to the leather and fur trades. Country medicine reached for it too, traditionally against toothache and rheumatism, and modern researchers have taken an interest in its phenolic chemistry. Like its legume kin it fixes its own nitrogen, building what agronomists call islands of fertility, enriching poor ground, holding soil against erosion, and sheltering wildlife.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the warm months it sets small puffball flowers like creamy shaving brushes, white and now and then blushed with salmon, that the bees work over in the afternoon heat. This variety stays modest, around four or five feet, where the species can reach much higher.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the garden, think of it as airy structure. It earns its place in a gravel or xeric planting, in a pollinator border, or on a hot bank where its roots do quiet work below while the foliage softens everything above. Give it full sun and sharp drainage and it shrugs off drought once settled, giving texture without a single spine to catch a sleeve.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805561971,"sku":"ACAC-ANGU-SCHR-01G","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"acalypha-pendula","title":"Acalypha pendula","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcalypha pendula is a trailing, mat-forming little shrub grown for its curious flowers: soft, fuzzy, crimson catkins, three to four inches long, that hang like miniature chenille tails or a cat's tail among small green leaves. It is a dwarf cousin of the familiar chenille plant, and is sold under the common names dwarf chenille, firetail, and strawberry firetails.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe species is native to the West Indies, to Cuba and the island of Hispaniola, and it carries the tropics in its constitution: it revels in heat, rich soil, and ample water, and flowers more or less continuously through a warm summer. In frost-free gardens it makes a fine evergreen groundcover or spills from a hanging basket; farther north it is grown as a tender perennial or summer annual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere winters are marginal it can be coaxed through the cold. Cut the plants back after frost kills the tops, mound about ten inches of coarse sand over the stubs, and mulch over that with pine straw. As the weather warms, draw the covering away to let new shoots emerge. Given rich soil and steady moisture, the plants return to thrive through the next hot summer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805627507,"sku":"ACAL-PEND-01G","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"acanthus-mollis","title":"Acanthus mollis","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcanthus mollis is one of the great architectural plants of the garden, a clump-forming perennial whose large, glossy, deeply cut leaves are among the most recognizable of all foliage. They are, quite literally, the leaves of antiquity: their form was carved into the capitals of Corinthian columns by Greek and Roman builders, and the legend, told by Vitruvius, holds that the sculptor Callimachus took his inspiration from a clump of acanthus growing up around a basket left on a girl's grave. Few plants carry their history so plainly in their shape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe foliage builds a bold mound of dark green, and in early to midsummer tall spikes rise above it, hooded white flowers cowled in dusky purple bracts, stiff and statuesque. In the South the leaves are more or less evergreen; the plant dies back only in hard cold and returns reliably from fleshy roots. It has a long history in herbal medicine as well, the leaves and roots valued by Mediterranean healers as a soothing emollient.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden it is grown above all for its leaves, which give weight and structure to a shaded or part-shaded border and read beautifully against finer textures. Give it deep, well-drained soil and room to spread, place it where the foliage can be admired, and be aware that the roots travel: a happy acanthus is a permanent one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805660275,"sku":"ACAN-MOLL-01G","price":14.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"acer-fabri","title":"Acer fabri","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcer fabri, known as Faber's maple or emerald jade maple, is a small evergreen to semi-evergreen tree of rounded habit whose slender, prominently veined, pointed leaves are entirely unlobed; few would guess the plant for a maple until the winged seeds appear. The new growth flushes a fine copper red, and the samaras ripen red as well before fading to brownish yellow in late summer, so the tree carries color without depending on the usual autumn display.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFaber's maple is a rare species in cultivation, native to China, and a favored subject for bonsai, where the glossy foliage and tidy proportions show to advantage. In the open garden these trees have performed very well across several areas of the southern United States, holding their leaves through mild winters and shedding them only when hard cold arrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse the tree as an evergreen specimen or small patio tree where the glossy leaves and red new growth can be enjoyed up close, in a sheltered spot with good drainage and even moisture. Native to China.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805758579,"sku":"ACER-FABR-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1591.jpg?v=1720136119"},{"product_id":"acer-rubrum-candy-ice","title":"Acer rubrum 'Candy Ice'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcer rubrum\u003c\/em\u003e 'Candy Ice' is a Woodlanders introduction, found in southwest Virginia by the late Norman Beal. We use Norman's original name, though the same tree has been circulated elsewhere as 'Snowfire'. This is an unusual variegated red maple, the leaves marbled in pink, white, and green, and the foliage burns early, among the first to color when fall arrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePyramidal in youth, 'Candy Ice' broadens with age into an irregular, rounded crown on the vigorous frame of a native red maple, reaching forty to sixty feet in time. The variegation is the draw and also the caution: those pale leaves scorch in full sun, so this maple wants the relief of part shade, where the pink and cream stay clean and bright. Small red flowers open before the leaves in earliest spring, the familiar red-maple signal that winter is loosening, and ripen into reddish samaras, the keys of a tree long called soft maple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe red maple, \u003cem\u003eAcer rubrum\u003c\/em\u003e, is one of the most widespread trees of eastern North America, and Native peoples knew the species well. The Cherokee, Iroquois, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi prepared a bark decoction as a wash for sore and inflamed eyes, while inner-bark teas were taken for coughs and stomach complaints, and the tannin-rich bark also yielded ink and, with iron added, a dark blue dye for cloth. 'Candy Ice' is grown for beauty rather than use, yet the variegated leaves carry that deep American lineage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite 'Candy Ice' in part shade as a specimen where the marbled foliage and early fall color can be enjoyed, keeping the leaves clear of harsh afternoon sun and drying wind. The tree thrives in moist to average, well-drained soil and tolerates the damp ground red maples often colonize. A conversation piece for the collector's garden, and a piece of southern plant history besides.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805791347,"sku":"ACER-RUBR-CAND-ICE-01G","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/AcerCandyIceWoodlanders-3.jpg?v=1750637541"},{"product_id":"acer-cissifolium","title":"Acer cissifolium","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcer cissifolium is one of the trifoliate maples, a small deciduous tree whose leaves, divided into three coarsely toothed leaflets, look more like those of an ivy or a vine than of a maple, hence the common names ivy-leaved and vine-leaved maple. The species is native to the cool mountain forests of Japan, where these trees grow into an upright oval that broadens with age to a wide, rounded crown. Michael Dirr called the plant \"extremely rare in cultivation but certainly worthy of consideration,\" and that judgment still holds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcer cissifolium is dioecious, carrying small, faintly fragrant yellow flowers in slender pendant racemes in spring; where male and female trees grow together the females set winged fruit, and even alone they may form seedless parthenocarpic samaras. New foliage emerges bronze-tinged, matures to a quiet dark green, and turns to soft reds and yellows before dropping.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden the ivy-leaved maple is a refined, modestly scaled tree for a cool, lightly shaded spot, lovely at a woodland edge or as a specimen where the unusual leaf and spreading habit can be appreciated. These trees are happiest in climates with cool summers and even moisture; give them well-drained soil and shelter from harsh afternoon sun.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805824115,"sku":"ACER-CISS-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"acer-barbatum","title":"Acer barbatum","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcer barbatum is a medium to large deciduous tree of rounded, oval form, a southern cousin of the northern sugar maple and sometimes filed under Acer saccharum subsp. floridanum or Acer floridanum. The Florida maple is built for heat in a way the northern relative is not, smaller in every part, with leaves that are whitish beneath and a constitution suited to long, humid summers. In the wild these trees favor fertile, moist, well-drained, often calcareous ground, frequently along streams and in rich hammocks from Virginia south to the Florida panhandle and west into Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike all the sugar maples, their rising sap has long meant sweetness; the syrup industry of the North rests on close kin, and the southern trees can be tapped as well, though they yield more modestly. The fall color is a clean, unhurried yellow, sometimes warming toward orange, and the bark of older trunks takes on the handsome gray, longitudinally ribbed character of the northern sugar maple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a garden tree the Florida maple earns a place as a durable, well-mannered shade maple for the South, at home as a lawn specimen, a street or park tree, or a canopy over a woodland planting. Give these trees room to round out, and underplant with shade-tolerant natives that appreciate the dappled light beneath. Native to the southeastern United States.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805856883,"sku":"ACER-BARB-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-3.jpg?v=1720136130"},{"product_id":"acer-griseum","title":"Acer griseum","description":"\u003cp\u003eFew trees carry a collector's story as plainly as the paperbark maple. Ernest Henry Wilson gathered seed of \u003cem\u003eAcer griseum\u003c\/em\u003e in central China in 1901 for the Veitch nursery, and for most of the twentieth century nearly every paperbark grown in Western gardens traced back to that introduction and one that followed. The maple sets abundant winged samaras, yet most are empty, a parthenocarpic habit that leaves only a small fraction viable. That quirk is why the species has always been scarce, slow to propagate, and quietly treasured wherever a good specimen takes hold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bark is the glory of the tree. Within two or three years the trunk and larger limbs begin to shed in papery curls of cinnamon to coppery red brown, and the peeling layers cling rather than fall, catching low winter light until the whole canopy seems lit from within. Three-part leaves, blue green through summer, turn scarlet and orange before dropping, while the small greenish yellow spring flowers pass almost unnoticed, content to leave the bark and the autumn fire to carry the season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSlow and well mannered, the paperbark maple settles at twenty to thirty feet with a rounded, oval crown, a scale that suits a small lawn, a courtyard, or the corner of a mixed border. Site this maple where the trunk can be read at close range, beside a path, a patio, or a window framed for winter, and give the bark a dark backdrop of evergreens to play against. Adaptable to clay and to both acid and alkaline ground, the tree asks only for reasonable drainage and a few patient years of watering to establish.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"1 Gallon","offer_id":42961950474355,"sku":"ACER-GRIS-01G","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"1 Quart","offer_id":42961950507123,"sku":"ACER-GRIS-01Q","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/AcergriseumWoodlanders-3.jpg?v=1750637242"},{"product_id":"acer-oliveranum","title":"Acer oliverianum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcer oliverianum\u003c\/em\u003e, the Oliver maple, carries the look of a Japanese maple on a tougher frame. Named for Daniel Oliver, the Victorian Kew botanist, this small Chinese and Taiwanese tree wears smooth jade green bark finely lined with white, and palmate, five-lobed leaves so like \u003cem\u003eAcer palmatum\u003c\/em\u003e that the two are easily confused. The difference shows in the constitution: the Oliver maple takes more heat and more drought than the Japanese maples, a welcome trait for warmer gardens that long for that filigree foliage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew leaves open with a bronze cast, deepen to medium green through summer, and close the year in a superb mix of orange, red, and yellow that often holds late into fall. Small whitish flowers, set off by purplish sepals, appear in modest clusters and pass without fanfare before ripening to the winged samaras of the genus. The foliage has drawn comparison to sweetgum as much as to maple, a reminder that this is a tree of subtle, second-look beauty rather than instant flash.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eModestly scaled at roughly fifteen to twenty-five feet, the Oliver maple suits a sheltered border, a courtyard, or a woodland edge in zones 7 through 9, set where the jade bark and fine foliage reward a close look. Offer light shade in the hottest gardens and shelter from harsh, drying wind. Lovely among camellias, ferns, and other broadleaf evergreens that frame the airy canopy, this is a rare maple for the gardener who already knows the Japanese kinds and wants something quieter and more durable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805955187,"sku":"ACER-OLIV-01G","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"acer-truncatum","title":"Acer truncatum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcer truncatum\u003c\/em\u003e, the Shantung or Purpleblow maple, is a tough, tidy small tree from northern China and Korea, where the straight base of the leaf, truncate rather than heart-shaped, hands the species a botanical name. Glossy leaves emerge with a reddish purple flush in spring, mature to deep green, and close the year in shades of yellow, orange, red, and sometimes purple. Clusters of bright yellow flowers open with the new leaves in May, an uncommon sight among maples and one reason gardeners seek the tree out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn northern China the Shantung maple is more than ornamental. The seeds yield an edible oil, rich in nervonic acid, long pressed for cooking and for lamp fuel, and the tree turns up in old plantings around temples and villages, where the name yuanbao, after an ingot-shaped coin, nods to the shape of the winged seeds. That heritage of usefulness sits easily beside the modern appeal of a maple that simply behaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaching twenty to twenty-five feet tall and a touch less in width, with a dense, rounded crown, the Shantung maple is built for hard places: city streets, parking islands, hot lawns, and dry banks. Heat and drought tolerant once settled, resistant to the leaf scorch that troubles other maples, and untroubled by acid or alkaline soil, the tree casts dependable shade at a manageable scale. Set these maples where the spring gold and the autumn fire can both be seen, and pair with low evergreens and grasses that will not crowd the tidy frame. A long-time favorite for bonsai as well.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805987955,"sku":"ACER-TRUN-01G","price":20.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"acer-coriaceifolium","title":"Acer coriaceifolium","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcer coriaceifolium is a very rare evergreen maple, and few people would recognize the plant as a maple at all: the leaves are leathery and entire, broadly oval to lanceolate, dark and glossy above, pale and felted beneath, with none of the lobing the genus is known for. Sometimes listed as Acer cinnamomifolium, this maple is native to the mountain forests of southern and central China, where the species grows as a small tree at middle elevations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe obtained this tree from Heronswood Nursery, who apparently introduced the species to North America, and Acer coriaceifolium has grown well for us here, promising to be a useful evergreen for the South. In cultivation these maples tend to stay modest, often a large shrub or small tree, holding their handsome foliage through the year where winters are mild.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe garden value of the Chinese evergreen maple is the year-round presence of that leathery, cinnamon-backed foliage, a quiet evergreen anchor for a sheltered border or a courtyard in zones 8 and 9. Give the tree a protected spot with good drainage and even moisture, and use the plant where an unexpected, unmaple-like evergreen will reward a second look.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057806151795,"sku":"ACER-CORI-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"acer-micranthum","title":"Acer micranthum","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong the snakebark maples, \u003cem\u003eAcer micranthum\u003c\/em\u003e ranks with the most delicate, a small, sometimes shrubby tree from the mountains of Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku, where the Japanese know the plant as the Komine maple. The species has no settled English name, and that quiet anonymity suits a tree grown for refinement rather than show. James Harris, in The Gardener's Guide to Growing Maples, calls this \"a very elegant maple with attractive autumn tints,\" and Bluebell Nursery in Britain describes \"a rare and sought after species ... a very striking garden plant with a lovely habit and an excellent choice for glorious autumn color,\" adding that established specimens carry eye-catching bark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe young stems are smooth and finely striped, the snakebark signature, dulling to grey with age, while dark purple red shoots and buds lend winter a quiet interest of their own. The leaves recall a small-leaved Japanese maple, five lobes deeply toothed and drawn to long points, opening red in spring, settling to green, then passing through yellow and orange to red in autumn. Slender racemes of tiny yellow green flowers appear in early summer and ripen into the paired, winged seeds of the genus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaching twenty to twenty-five feet with slender, arching branches, the Komine maple belongs at a woodland edge, in light shade, or as a fine-textured specimen where the striped bark and airy canopy can be studied at close range. Underplant with ferns, hellebores, and other woodlanders that share a taste for cool, even moisture. A holder of the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit, this maple is a connoisseur's tree, more often read than noticed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057806217331,"sku":"ACER-MICR-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2172.jpg?v=1720136153"},{"product_id":"acer-buergeranum-trifidum","title":"Acer buergeranum (trifidum)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcer buergeranum, the trident maple, is named for the neat three-lobed leaves, small and glossy, that point forward like the tines of a fork. This is a small, slow to moderate deciduous tree of eastern China, Korea, and Japan, long held in cultivation across East Asia and carried into Western gardens in the nineteenth century. Few maples wear age so gracefully: the bark exfoliates in gray, orange, and brown plates, revealing a warm inner bark that becomes one of the tree's quiet pleasures in winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrident maples have been a favored bonsai subject for centuries, prized for their fine ramification, their tolerance of root confinement, and the ease with which they take to training. In the open ground the tree makes a tidy rounded crown, flushing with bronze-tinged new growth in spring and finishing the year in variable color, sometimes a soft yellow, more often a mix of orange and red.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTough and adaptable, these trees shrug off wind, drought, pollution, salt, and compacted soil, which makes them an excellent small shade or street tree for difficult urban sites as well as a handsome lawn specimen. Site these trees where the peeling bark can be read at close range, give them sun and decent drainage, and they ask little else.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057806479475,"sku":"ACER-BUER-TRIF-01G","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"aconitum-uncinatum","title":"Aconitum uncinatum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAconitum uncinatum\u003c\/em\u003e, the southern blue monkshood, is an uncommon and long-lived native of the eastern United States, scattered through the Appalachians and Piedmont in rich, moist woods, along streambanks, and in cool seeps. The slender stems ascend and lean, sometimes weakly climbing to several feet, carrying lobed leaves and, in late summer into fall, terminal racemes of medium blue, hooded flowers held on long stalks. The cowl-shaped upper sepal gives the monkshoods their name, and few native wildflowers match this clean, late-season blue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike every monkshood, the southern blue is dangerously poisonous in root, leaf, and stem; the genus gave the world wolfsbane and the old name queen of poisons, and this native carries the same aconitine. Grow the plant for beauty and for pollinators, the late flowers drawing long-tongued bumblebees, but handle with care and keep all parts away from children, pets, and the kitchen. Settled plants resent disturbance and do not transplant well, so choose the spot thoughtfully and leave them to age in place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fine choice for the back of a moist, part-shaded border or a native woodland planting, where the blue spires close the season among ferns, asters, and turtlehead. Rich, retentive soil and cool roots suit the southern blue monkshood best, with morning sun and afternoon shade in warmer gardens. Plant once, mulch well, and let the colony settle rather than dividing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057806512243,"sku":"ACON-UNCI-01G","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"aconitum-sp","title":"Aconitum sp.","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe genus \u003cem\u003eAconitum\u003c\/em\u003e runs to well over a hundred species, the monkshoods and wolfsbanes, named for the hooded upper sepal that arches over each flower like a cowl. These plants were grown from seed collected by Frank Bell in Yunnan, China, and remain, as yet, indistinguishable from the other species Woodlanders lists; the true name waits on a flowering season and a careful eye. What can be said is that this is a Chinese monkshood, a clump-forming perennial of cool mountain ground, carrying the family's hooded, typically blue to violet flowers on upright stems in summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew plants carry a darker reputation. Across Eurasia the monkshoods were the poisons of legend, the wolfsbane of myth and the queen of poisons of the old herbals, every part laced with aconitine and its relatives. In Chinese medicine, the carefully processed and long-decocted root of a related species, \u003cem\u003eAconitum carmichaelii\u003c\/em\u003e, became fuzi, a famous and tightly controlled remedy. The plant offered here is grown as an ornamental and a botanical curiosity, never for use: all parts are dangerously toxic, and the value lies in the cool architecture of the flowers, not in any home remedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite a Chinese monkshood at the back of a moist, part-shaded border, in rich woodland ground that never bakes, where the hooded spires can rise among ferns, hellebores, and other shade companions. Offer cool roots, steady moisture, and shelter from hot afternoon sun. Handsome with later perennials that echo the blue, and best set where children and pets will not be tempted by any part of the plant.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057806577779,"sku":"ACON-SPEC-01G","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"actaea-pachypoda","title":"Actaea pachypoda","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhite baneberry earns the better-known name doll's eyes from the fruit: in late summer each white, pea-sized berry carries a single dark stigma scar, set on a thickened, coral-red stalk, so a whole cluster seems to stare back. A clump-forming native perennial of rich eastern woodlands, \u003cem\u003eActaea pachypoda\u003c\/em\u003e opens fluffy white racemes above divided foliage in late spring, then trades flowers for that startling, long-lasting fruit display.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plant is poisonous, the berries and roots most of all, and the common name baneberry records exactly that. Even so, several Native peoples knew the species as medicine: the Cherokee and others prepared a root tea for pain, coughs, and colds, the Cherokee using the brew to revive a patient near death, while the Chippewa turned to the same root for convulsions. These were the remedies of careful, experienced hands; the plant offered here is grown for the woodland garden, not the medicine chest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet white baneberry in the cool shade of a woodland border, in rich, humusy soil kept evenly moist, where the white spring flowers and the autumn doll's eyes both read against ferns, hostas, and other shade companions. The coral stalks and white berries hold for weeks, a quiet show long after most woodlanders have finished. In the deep South, give extra moisture and shade. Lovely, long-lived, and best sited where the poisonous fruit will not tempt small children.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057806610547,"sku":"ACTA-PACH-01G","price":13.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"actinidia-latifolia","title":"Actinidia latifolia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eActinidia latifolia\u003c\/em\u003e is a little-known kiwi relative, a vigorous, high-climbing deciduous vine from the warm forests of southern and southeastern China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. The broad leaves, four to five inches long and roughly two wide, carry an unusual metallic sheen that catches the light, and twining stems can climb to twenty feet or more given room and a sturdy support.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the familiar kiwifruit, this is an \u003cem\u003eActinidia\u003c\/em\u003e, and the kinship shows in the fruit. Small, cup-shaped white flowers open in late spring and, on female plants, ripen by autumn into edible berries; the genus is famous for vitamin C, and \u003cem\u003eActinidia latifolia\u003c\/em\u003e is said to bear among the most flowers and fruit of any in the group. The vines are dioecious, with male and female flowers borne on separate plants, so a planting needs both sexes for fruit to set.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive this vine a pergola, an arbor, or a strong fence at a woodland edge, with the room a fast twiner demands, and a spot in zones 7 through 9 where the long season suits the growth. A curiosity for the collector and the edible-landscape gardener alike, grown as much for the gleaming foliage as for the fruit. Plant a male near the females, provide steady moisture, and stand back.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057806643315,"sku":"ACTI-LATI-01G","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"adiantum-pedatum","title":"Adiantum pedatum","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the cool hush of shaded woods, \u003cem\u003eAdiantum pedatum\u003c\/em\u003e rises on slender, glossy black stems that hold the lacy green fronds in flattened semicircles, each a hand-turned fan or horseshoe of finely cut segments. Standing twelve to thirty inches tall, the northern maidenhair forms serene clumps that spread slowly on creeping rhizomes, never in a hurry. In early spring the fiddleheads emerge a rosy to burgundy hue and uncurl into the distinctive bird's-foot, palmately branched leaves that give the fern such grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA true northern maidenhair, this is the hardiest of the genus, thriving in USDA zones 3 to 8 where lesser ferns falter. Part to full shade suits the plant best, in cool, humus-rich soil kept moist but well drained and on the acid to neutral side, where steady moisture brings out the fine texture. Summer heat and drought can brown the delicate fronds, but a shaded, sheltered spot rewards the gardener with season-long elegance. Deer-resistant and low in fuss, the northern maidenhair makes a refined companion for hostas, trilliums, wild ginger, and woodland grasses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew native ferns carry such a long human history. Several Native peoples valued the northern maidenhair, also called five-finger fern, as both medicine and material: the Cherokee and Iroquois steeped the fronds for coughs, asthma, and chest complaints and prepared root decoctions for rheumatism, while Karok and Makah weavers worked the polished black stems into the dark patterns of their baskets. The remedies belonged to skilled hands; the fern offered here is for the woodland garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLet the northern maidenhair carry the quiet elegance of the woodland floor: a slow, long-lived heirloom for shaded rock gardens, shady paths, and moisture-retentive borders, lovely massed beneath taller natives. Patience is repaid with perennial beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotos courtesy of Alan Cressler and Sally \u0026amp; Andy Wasowski.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057806708851,"sku":"ADIA-PEDA-01G","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/AdiantumpedatumSAWasowskiWoodlanders2.jpg?v=1750347106"},{"product_id":"adiantum-hispidulum","title":"Adiantum hispidulum","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaidenhairs take their English name from their stems, those fine black wiry stalks like strands of dark hair, and their Latin name from a quieter trick. \u003cem\u003eAdiantum\u003c\/em\u003e comes from the Greek \u003cem\u003eadiantos\u003c\/em\u003e, the unwetted one, because water will not cling to the fronds. Hold a maidenhair under a running tap and the frond comes out dry, the droplets beading and rolling off a surface built to refuse them. That is the sort of small marvel ferns keep to themselves until you go looking. This particular maidenhair breaks the family mold in one telling way. Where the rest are a byword for fragility, all lace and apology, the rosy maidenhair is faintly hairy and unbothered. Run a fingertip up the stipe and you will feel the bristles that named the fern: \u003cem\u003ehispidulum\u003c\/em\u003e, minutely hairy, set down by the Swedish botanist Olof Swartz in 1802.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe show is in the new growth. Fronds unfurl a vivid rosy pink, almost startling against the older leaves, before they harden off to a leathery dark green edged in bronze. They come up in hand-shaped, branching fans, the segments radiating like fingers from a point, which is how the plant earned the other name, five-fingered jack. Twelve to eighteen inches, clumping in neat tufts from short rhizomes rather than running off anywhere. Beneath the fertile fronds, along the very edges of the leaf, the spore cases hide under little folded-down flaps, false hems turned over the leaf margins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey come from a long way off, and from almost everywhere: the shaded rainforests and rocky riverbanks of Australia, New Zealand, tropical Asia, Africa, and the Pacific, a genuinely pantropical fern. They have found the American South agreeable enough to slip out of a few gardens and naturalize along the Gulf, from Louisiana to Florida, which tells you most of what you need to know about siting them. Give them humus-rich, moist, well-drained ground in part shade, sheltered from wind, with the better-than-average humidity the whole tribe prefers. They take a little more sun than most maidenhairs without scorching, though they look their best in dappled light. Hardy in zones 8 to 10, deciduous through a Southern winter, semi-evergreen where the cold stays mild, and the most forgiving maidenhair of all on an east-facing windowsill. In a cold-edge garden the plants may sulk until midsummer before pushing the first pink fronds, so do not write them off in May.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA maidenhair that comes up pink, sheds the rain, and wears the bristles without apology. 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The wiry black stems hold up fan-shaped pinnules so thin they seem almost translucent in morning light, and the whole plant trembles at the slightest breath of air. Few native ferns carry this much delicacy with so little fuss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe range runs across the southern half of the country, scattered but loyal to one kind of habitat: damp ledges, dolomite outcrops, calcareous seeps, the cool faces of boulders near moving water. Offer something close to those conditions and the southern maidenhair will reward you by spreading into slow, civilized colonies. Bright filtered shade, steady moisture, a soil sweetened with limestone chips or crushed oyster shell, and air that actually moves. This fern resents stagnation almost as much as drought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA deciduous species, so the fronds die back in winter and return each spring with that same impossibly soft green. Wonderful tucked at the base of a north-facing wall, draped over the edge of a stone trough, or naturalized along a shaded path where a hose can reach. A fern that asks you to read those preferences honestly, then thrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is history in those fronds. Across ancient Greece, Persia, and southern Europe the maidenhair was steeped into capillaire, a sweet syrup of fronds, licorice, and sugar that physicians prescribed for coughs and chest complaints from the Renaissance into the nineteenth century, and that later became a fashionable drink flavoring. The Latin name, the hair of Venus, and the old use as a hair tonic both nod to those glossy dark stems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotos courtesy of Alan Cressler.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057806839923,"sku":"ADIA-CAPI-VENE-01Q","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Adiantumcapillus-venerisAlanCresslerWoodlanders2.jpg?v=1750346407"},{"product_id":"adina-rubella","title":"Adina rubella","description":"\u003cp\u003eA medium to large deciduous shrub closely related to the native buttonbush, \u003cem\u003eAdina rubella\u003c\/em\u003e wears smaller leaves and bears similar but daintier flowers: round, scented heads of pale pink and white, each bristling with styles into a small Sputnik, carried over a long season from early summer well into fall. The pincushion blooms draw bees and butterflies just as the buttonbushes do, and an open, arching habit gives the shrub a fine-textured grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to the streamsides and sandy banks of central and southeastern China and South Korea, the Chinese buttonbush takes happily to wet ground and ordinary soil alike, reaching perhaps ten feet in a warm climate. In Chinese and Korean folk medicine the plant has a long use, the leaves and bark prepared for dysentery, diarrhea, skin complaints such as eczema, and toothache, though the shrub reaches Western gardens as an ornamental and a pollinator plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA graceful, water-loving shrub for a pond edge, a rain garden, a streambank, or any moist, sunny to part-shaded spot where the long season of fragrant buttons can be enjoyed. \u003cem\u003eAdina rubella\u003c\/em\u003e tolerates wet feet that defeat many shrubs, pairs naturally with the native buttonbush and other moisture lovers, and can be cut back in late winter to keep the arching frame tidy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057806905459,"sku":"ADIN-RUBE-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-267.jpg?v=1720136178"},{"product_id":"adina-pilulifera","title":"Adina pilulifera","description":"\u003cp\u003eA medium-sized evergreen shrub still little known in cultivation, \u003cem\u003eAdina pilulifera\u003c\/em\u003e carries small, glossy leaves and, in midsummer, round white flower heads about an inch across, each bristling with protruding styles like a tiny Sputnik. The effect is curious and charming, a pincushion of white set among shining foliage, and the evergreen habit earns the shrub a place where the deciduous buttonbushes leave a winter gap.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative from southern China and Taiwan to Japan, where the plant is called shui tuan hua, the water ball flower, for the rounded blooms held over wet ground. The deciduous relatives are better known: \u003cem\u003eAdina rubella\u003c\/em\u003e and the native buttonbush, \u003cem\u003eCephalanthus occidentalis\u003c\/em\u003e, both hardier and both beloved of pollinators. In southern Chinese folk medicine the leaves of this Adina have a minor tradition, chiefly for digestive complaints, though the shrub reaches Western gardens strictly as an ornamental.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a warm, moist border or a pondside planting in zones 8 and 9, where the evergreen leaves and summer buttons earn a spot near water or in a mixed shrub planting. Give steady moisture, sun to part shade, and shelter from hard freezes at the cold edge of the range. An unusual evergreen for the collector and the wildlife gardener alike, the flowers drawing bees and butterflies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057806938227,"sku":"ADIN-PILU-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-266.jpg?v=1720136181"},{"product_id":"aesculus-parviflora-var-serotina","title":"Aesculus parviflora var. serotina","description":"\u003cp\u003eA wide-spreading, suckering, multi-stemmed deciduous shrub of slow, deliberate growth, \u003cem\u003eAesculus parviflora\u003c\/em\u003e var. \u003cem\u003eserotina\u003c\/em\u003e carries the same upright white bottlebrush flowers as the bottlebrush buckeye, but opens them two to three weeks later, well into the heat of summer. The overall shape is irregular and almost stratified, the branches layering horizontally, and the medium to dark green leaves turn a clear yellow in fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe late bloom is the point. Where the straight species flowers in early July, var. serotina extends the bottlebrush season into August, a gift of nectar for hummingbirds, swallowtails, and native bees when little else in the shade garden offers any. A vigorous grower that may reach a larger size than the species, the late bottlebrush buckeye suits shrub borders and large mass plantings, and seldom needs pruning, though an old colony can be cut to the ground to renew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive var. serotina room to form a broad colony in moist, well-drained, organic soil, in part shade or, with steady moisture, more sun. Paired with the earlier-blooming species, a planting can carry six weeks of white bottlebrush spikes across July and August. The seeds, like those of every buckeye, are poisonous if eaten, so site with that in mind near paths and play areas.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057807036531,"sku":"AESC-PARV-SERO-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Aesculusparvifloravar.serotinaWoodlanders-1.jpg?v=1750639271"},{"product_id":"aesculus-parviflora","title":"Aesculus parviflora","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn July, when most of the shade garden has settled into a holding pattern of foliage and waiting, \u003cem\u003eAesculus parviflora\u003c\/em\u003e opens for business. The timing is the first surprise. The flowers are the second. Each panicle is a foot or more of tightly packed white tubular blooms with conspicuous pink-red anthers projecting beyond the petals, the whole spike held upright above the foliage like something assembled by a botanical committee that could not decide between elegant and extravagant and chose both. A mature colony in full bloom in midsummer is among the more spectacular events available to the shade gardener, and the hummingbirds and swallowtails arrive reliably.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBottlebrush buckeye is native to a fairly narrow range of rich woodlands in Alabama, Georgia, and northern Florida, which makes the extraordinary cold hardiness something of a botanical anomaly. The shrub performs without complaint through Zone 4 winters, traveling far further from home than most plants of that provenance. The Royal Horticultural Society granted the Award of Garden Merit, which is their way of saying this shrub does what a good shrub should, without drama, across a wide range of conditions. They are correct.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBottlebrush buckeye spreads steadily by suckers, forming broad colonies that expand with a patience and deliberateness suited to a woodland setting. The large, palmately compound leaves, each with five to seven leaflets, give the planting a lush, tropical-adjacent quality through summer. Fall color is a clear, warm yellow that holds for several weeks before the foliage drops cleanly. In winter the bare architecture of a mature colony, all arching stems and layered horizontal branching, has a presence of its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAesculus parviflora\u003c\/em\u003e is the kind of plant serious gardeners wonder why they waited to acquire. The usual reason is that the shrub looks modest in a one-gallon pot. That does not last.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057807069299,"sku":"AESC-PARV-01G","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-5.jpg?v=1720136187"},{"product_id":"aesculus-pavia","title":"Aesculus pavia","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe red buckeye is the South's hummingbird herald, a clump-forming, round-topped deciduous shrub or small tree whose lustrous, palmately compound leaves break very early, often before the last frosts, and whose six-inch panicles of tubular scarlet-red flowers open in spring just as the ruby-throated hummingbirds return north. The bright bloom, unusual among the buckeyes, draws hummingbirds and bees in numbers and gives the plant a long place in the affection of native-plant gardeners across the southern United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative peoples knew the buckeye well, though not as food without effort: every part is poisonous, rich in the saponin aescin and the glycoside aesculin, and the bright seeds are the most dangerous. The same saponins made the buckeye useful, the crushed seeds and branches tossed into still pools to stupefy fish, which rose to the surface to be gathered, while leached and roasted nuts could be eaten and the lather of the seeds served as a soap. Handsome as the seeds are, treat the red buckeye as ornamental, and keep the poisonous parts away from children and livestock.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy late summer the red buckeye often drops the leaves early, so site where a summer gap reads as seasonal rather than sad, among other shrubs or at a woodland edge that fills in around the bare frame. Plant in sun to part shade in moist, well-drained soil, and enjoy the early flowers as one of the first nectar sources of the southern spring. Lovely with native azaleas and dogwoods that bloom in the same season.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057807102067,"sku":"AESC-PAVI-01G","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-7.jpg?v=1720136191"},{"product_id":"aesculus-splendens","title":"Aesculus splendens","description":"\u003cp\u003eA red or scarlet flowered buckeye of the Gulf Coast, \u003cem\u003eAesculus splendens\u003c\/em\u003e stands close to the red buckeye, \u003cem\u003eAesculus pavia\u003c\/em\u003e, and may be no more than a striking form of that species. Dirr, in his Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, notes that Rehder listed this buckeye as a distinct species and that several horticulturists feel strongly about the authenticity, the chief differences being scarlet flowers and leaves felted on the undersides. Native to Louisiana and perhaps other Gulf Coast states, the scarlet buckeye is grown much as the red buckeye is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the red buckeye, the scarlet buckeye opens panicles of vivid red flowers in spring, an early feast for returning hummingbirds, and carries the family's lustrous palmate leaves that break early in the season. The brilliant bloom, set against the soft-haired foliage, gives the plant a quiet distinction whether or not the botanists ever settle the name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA small tree or large shrub for sun to part shade and moist, well-drained soil, lovely at a woodland edge or in a native border among azaleas and dogwoods of the same season. As with all buckeyes, the seeds and young growth are poisonous, so site the bright seeds away from children and livestock.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057807429747,"sku":"AESC-SPLE-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2170.jpg?v=1720136206"},{"product_id":"aesculus-pavia-var-humilis","title":"Aesculus pavia var. humilis","description":"\u003cp\u003eA low, often half-prostrate form of the red buckeye, \u003cem\u003eAesculus pavia\u003c\/em\u003e var. \u003cem\u003ehumilis\u003c\/em\u003e keeps to a small, spreading shrub where the typical red buckeye grows into a small tree. The scarlet spring flowers come in smaller panicles, and in every other respect the plant follows the species: lustrous palmate leaves that break early, a love of moist, well-drained woodland soil, and the same magnetism for returning hummingbirds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dwarf habit makes this red buckeye a choice for the front of a border, a small native planting, or a woodland edge where the full-sized form would crowd. Plant in sun to part shade, give organic, well-drained soil, and let the low frame spread. 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Where the typical Ohio buckeye climbs to thirty feet or more, this dwarf settles into a rounded shrub of about six feet, carrying the same handsome palmate leaves divided into finger-like leaflets that flush early and color in fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpright clusters of greenish yellow flowers open in spring, an early offering for bees, and give way to the large, glossy brown seeds, the buckeyes, each cradled in a prickled husk. The buckeye is the stuff of folklore, carried in a pocket against rheumatism and for luck, and Native peoples once ground and leached the toxic seeds for use as a starch and as a fish stupefacient. Handsome as the buckeyes are, the seeds and young growth are poisonous, so site the shrub with that in mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA choice native for the small garden, where a full-sized buckeye would never fit: a woodland edge, a native border, or a specimen in sun to part shade and well-drained soil. 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The form is bold and symmetrical, a piece of living sculpture for a hot, dry corner, and the silver cast of the foliage carries the planting through every season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew plants have served people longer. Native to Mexico and the warm reaches of Texas, \u003cem\u003eAgave americana\u003c\/em\u003e is the maguey of Mesoamerica, the source of pulque, the milky fermented sap once drunk as a sacred and medicinal beverage, and of pita, the strong leaf fiber twisted into rope, net, and cloth across the pre-Columbian world. The flowers were eaten, and folk medicine turned the sap to use as a poultice and a digestive remedy. The common name century plant nods to the long wait for bloom: after years, often a decade or two, a single rosette throws up a flower stalk twenty feet or more, opens yellow flowers, sets seed, and then dies, leaving offsets to carry on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive the century plant full sun and sharp drainage, a gravel garden, a hot bank, a raised bed, or a large container, and let the rosette stand as a focal point among other sun-and-drought lovers. Site away from paths and play areas, since the spines are formidable, and enjoy a planting that asks for almost nothing once established. 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This smaller, tighter clone was found some years ago near Jacksonville, Florida, by our friend Joe Levert of Augusta, Georgia, keeper of a remarkable collection of palms, citrus, and other subtropicals on the campus of Aquinas High School. Joe shared the plant with Ted Stephens of Nurseries Caroliniana, who named the agave 'Splendida' and is credited with the introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike most agaves, 'Splendida' wants sun and sharp drainage, asking little once settled. The clumping habit makes for easy increase, and the white-striped rosettes look their best where the foliage can be read up close. The listed height is for the rosette; like all agaves, the flower stalk rises far taller, once, before that rosette gives way to a ring of offsets. Hardy to the upper single digits, a fine choice for a xeric bed, a rock garden, or a pot to move under cover in the coldest spells.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057807822963,"sku":"AGAV-LOPH-SPLE-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Agavelophantha.jpg?v=1720139789"},{"product_id":"aleurites-fordii","title":"Aleurites fordii","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe tung oil tree is a handsome medium-sized deciduous tree, broad and spreading, with large heart-shaped to lobed leaves up to ten inches across and showy panicles of white flowers, blushed pink and orange at the throat, that open in spring before or with the new foliage. Few flowering trees of the Deep South make a fuller spring show.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAleurites fordii\u003c\/em\u003e earns the name from the large seeds, which yield tung oil, a fast-drying oil long prized for paints, varnishes, and wood finishes. Native to China, the tung oil tree was once an important crop across the Deep South, and the legacy of those old groves lingers: the tree grows fast and self-sows freely, naturalizing along roadsides and field edges where the climate is warm. The seeds and leaves are poisonous, so the tree is grown for ornament and history rather than harvest, and is best sited away from where children might gather the fallen fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive the tung oil tree full sun to light shade and well-drained soil, with room for the wide, rounded crown to spread, and enjoy one of the showiest spring-flowering trees for zones 8 to 10. A vigorous grower that sows volunteers freely, the tree is happiest where the odd seedling can be pulled or mown, and gathering the spent fruit keeps a planting in bounds. Striking as a lawn specimen or at a woodland edge, the bold foliage casting a generous summer shade, a piece of agricultural history for the warm-climate garden.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057808248947,"sku":"ALEU-FORD-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1610.jpg?v=1720136235"},{"product_id":"allium-cernuum","title":"Allium cernuum","description":"\u003cp\u003eA graceful native onion, \u003cem\u003eAllium cernuum\u003c\/em\u003e, the nodding onion, lifts loose clusters of pink to lavender, bell-shaped flowers that bend over in a soft arc at the top of slender stems, swaying through mid and late summer above tufts of grassy, blue-green foliage. The nodding habit gives the plant a particular charm, and the flowers draw native bees, butterflies, and other pollinators in good numbers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative across much of North America, including the piedmont and mountains of the mid-Atlantic, the nodding onion thrives in well-drained soil and full sun to part shade, tolerating rocky slopes and dry hillsides once established. Deer and rabbits leave the oniony foliage alone. The mildly oniony leaves and bulbs are edible, with a long record in Indigenous cooking and folk medicine, and the city of Chicago is thought to take the name from an Algonquin word for this wild onion. Our most ornamental native onion, easy and long-lived.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"1 Quart","offer_id":43055335800947,"sku":"ALLI-CERN-01Q","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"1 Gallon","offer_id":43055335833715,"sku":"ALLI-CERN-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/AlliumcernuumMBGWoodlanders5.jpg?v=1747170635"},{"product_id":"alnus-maritima","title":"Alnus maritima","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeaside alder is a medium to large deciduous shrub, sometimes a small tree, with glossy, oval, toothed leaves and a habit of doing things backward. Where every other native alder flowers in spring, \u003cem\u003eAlnus maritima\u003c\/em\u003e opens elongated catkins in the fall, then carries small, woody, pinecone-like fruits through winter for quiet ornament.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe native range is as unusual as the bloom time. Seaside alder grows wild in only a few places: a limited area on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and adjacent Delaware, a single area in Oklahoma, and a more recently discovered population in north Georgia. Genetic studies suggest these widely separated stands are distinct subspecies, the remnants of a once far more widespread plant. Our material comes from the eastern population.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRare in cultivation but easy and adaptable, seaside alder takes to moist, sunny places and to ordinary garden soil, and like other alders fixes nitrogen at the roots to enrich poor ground. A fine choice for a pond edge, a rain garden, a streambank, or any damp spot needing soil stabilization, where the fall catkins and persistent little cones earn a second look. 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Butterflies and hummingbirds work the spikes all season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA vigorous, shrubby plant native to Argentina, sweet almond verbena can be trained as a small multi-stemmed tree in subtropical gardens or grown as a dieback shrub farther north, cut to the ground by winter and returning from the roots in spring. The dark green leaves are sandpapery to the touch, and the loose, open frame reaches eight to fifteen feet where the season is long.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive sweet almond verbena a sunny spot with well-drained soil, near a path, a patio, or an open window where the evening perfume can be enjoyed. Drought tolerant once established and seldom troubled by deer, the shrub pairs well with other pollinator plants in a sunny border. In zones 8 and 9 expect a return from the roots after a hard winter; farther south, a standing small tree.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057808773235,"sku":"ALOY-VIRG-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1742.jpg?v=1720136271"},{"product_id":"alpinia-sp","title":"Alpinia sp","description":"\u003cp\u003eA hardy evergreen ginger of unsettled name, this \u003cem\u003eAlpinia\u003c\/em\u003e forms dense, upright clumps of lance-shaped leaves that hold their fresh green right through the year in a mild climate, bringing a lush, tropical structure to the shade garden. In the warm months, bright yellow flower spikes rise above the foliage for an unexpected lift of color in deep shade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plant came to Woodlanders by way of Frank Bell, who collected the ginger in 1998 in Sichuan Province, China, and the stock has proven adaptable in regional gardens. A fine evergreen filler for sheltered, shaded ground, grown as much for the bold year-round foliage as for the summer bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive this ginger the shade, shelter, and moist, fertile soil of a woodland border or a courtyard bed, where the clumps can knit together into a leafy groundcover. Hardy in zones 8 to 10, evergreen where winters stay mild, and easily lifted into a container to overwinter at the cold edge of the range.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057809100915,"sku":"ALPI-SP-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/591C10BB-C8AB-4893-ADB3-1C50F336F4E1.jpg?v=1758067839"},{"product_id":"amelanchier-obovalis","title":"Amelanchier obovalis","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoastal serviceberry is the compact, low-growing member of a beloved native clan, a small deciduous shrub of the Atlantic coastal plain that spreads gently into colonies and opens clouds of white, five-petaled flowers in early spring, among the first shrubs to bloom as the woods wake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe spring flowers give way to small clusters of sweet, blue-purple fruit in early summer, edible straight from the bush or baked into pies and preserves, and as good for birds as for people. Native from New York and Massachusetts south to Georgia and Alabama, often in dry pine barrens and open woods, the shrub takes naturally to lean, well-drained, sunny ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanding only three to five feet, coastal serviceberry suits the small garden where the taller serviceberries would overwhelm, lovely in a native border, a wildlife planting, or a naturalized edge in sun to part shade. The early bloom, the edible berries, and the easy, colony-forming habit make this a generous, low-key native. Drought tolerant once established.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057809559667,"sku":"AMEL-OBOV-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1593.jpg?v=1720136314"},{"product_id":"amorpha-laevigata","title":"Amorpha laevigata","description":"\u003cp\u003eSmooth false indigo is a rare deciduous shrub of sandy southern streambanks, carrying pinnate, compound leaves whose leaflets are notably large and rounded, a softer, more luxuriant texture than the ferny foliage of the common false indigos. In early summer the branch tips raise slender spikes of tiny blue to purple flowers, each lit with the bright orange anthers typical of the genus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plant is genuinely rare in the wild, known from only a very few localities on sandy stream banks in Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana. We thank our friend Ron Lance for collecting seed of this uncommon species and sharing it with us; Woodlanders may be the first to offer the plant to the gardening public.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA choice native for a sunny to lightly shaded border, a streamside planting, or a collector's bed, where the bold compound foliage and purple summer spikes earn their place and the flowers feed bees and butterflies. Like other false indigos, smooth false indigo fixes nitrogen at the roots and asks little once established. Six to eight feet, in well-drained, even sandy, soil.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057809592435,"sku":"AMOR-LAEV-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"amsonia-hubrechtii","title":"Amsonia hubrichtii","description":"\u003cp\u003eThreadleaf bluestar is grown for two seasons at once: a haze of soft, powder-blue stars in late spring, and a billow of fine, needle-thin foliage that turns a blazing clear gold in fall. Native to the Ouachita Mountains of central Arkansas, \u003cem\u003eAmsonia hubrichtii\u003c\/em\u003e forms a large, dense, shrub-like clump of upright stems clothed in those threadlike leaves, and the autumn color alone earns a place in any sunny border.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe believe this now popular plant was first made available by Woodlanders, well before the Perennial Plant Association named the species Perennial Plant of the Year in 2011. The pale blue, half-inch flowers gather in terminal clusters atop three-foot stems, and the milky sap that runs in every Amsonia leaves the plant untouched by deer and rabbits. An easy, long-lived, almost trouble-free native for the sunny border with well-drained soil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive threadleaf bluestar room to swell into a soft, fine-textured mound, lovely massed, repeated down a border, or set where the gold fall color can catch low autumn light. Striking beside late asters and grasses, and a generous foil to bolder leaves through summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotos courtesy of Missouri Botanical Garden.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057809756275,"sku":"AMSO-HUBR-01G","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Amsonia_hubrichtii-MBG-4.jpg?v=1725832439"},{"product_id":"amsonia-tabernaemontana","title":"Amsonia tabernaemontana","description":"\u003cp\u003eEastern bluestar is the bluestar most gardeners know, a robust native perennial with broader, willowy oval leaves and the clear blue, star-shaped flowers that name the genus, carried in clusters at the stem tips in spring. \u003cem\u003eAmsonia tabernaemontana\u003c\/em\u003e grows happily in deep, moist soil in part shade, and rewards almost any reasonable site with bloom and easy good health.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllan Armitage, in Herbaceous Perennial Plants, puts the species on his short list: \"Blue star flower is always on my list of 'no brainers.' Plant and get out of the way.\" The willowy summer foliage turns soft yellow in fall, the milky sap keeps deer and rabbits off, and a settled clump is as close to trouble-free as a perennial comes. Native across the eastern United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive eastern bluestar room to round into a shrubby clump at the middle of a border, in a native planting, or at a woodland edge, lovely with spring bulbs and early perennials and a quiet gold note in autumn. 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