1316 plants in this collection
A multi colored variegated cultivar of a species which is widepread in eastern U.S. woodlands. Armitage (Herbaceous Perennial Plants) says the leaves of this variety have a V shaped reddish-pink blotch in the center of each leaf and new leaves are creamy white and touched with light green or pink. This easily grown and prolific plant will brighten up dark shady corners where the soil is reasonably moist.
Asian Jasmine is not a true Jasmine but is a close relative of the popular "Confederate Jasmine" (named for the Malay Confederation). It is less of a climber but a great dense groundcover vine with small, lustrous, dark green, leathery evergreen foliage. It does not flower much but the flowers would be fragrant small white star-shaped blossoms with a yellow center. One of the best plants for a groundcover under trees in the South. Native to eastern Asia.
'Ogon Nishiki' is Asian star jasmine dressed for a festival. New leaves break coppery orange and scarlet, then settle through gold and cream into a marbled patchwork of green, yellow and orange, so an established plant carries three or four colors at once and shifts them with the season. Cold weather pushes the older foliage toward red. The leaves are small, thick and evergreen on wiry stems, and the effect from across a garden is less like a variegated vine than like a slow fire moving over the ground.
Highly variegated form of T. asiaticum.
Confederate jasmine, or star jasmine, is one of the best-loved evergreen vines of the warm South, prized for glossy dark leaves and clouds of small, star-shaped, intensely fragrant flowers. The common form wears white blooms, but this selection, which Woodlanders offers as 'Mandianum' and which may be the cultivar 'Star of Toscana', opens flowers in shades of creamy to clear yellow, an unusual and welcome color in the tribe.
This variegated form of Confederate jasmine, or star jasmine, is grown as much for the foliage as the flowers. Each leathery, evergreen leaf is bordered and splashed with creamy white, often flushed pink in cool weather, and the leaves run larger than on most forms of Trachelospermum jasminoides, so the vine reads as a soft, marbled cloud of green and cream on a fence or trellis even out of bloom.
Yellow flowered form, otherwise as species.
'Madison' is the cold-hardy Confederate jasmine, the selection that carries the beloved evergreen vine a full zone north of where the tribe usually stops. Vigorous and twining, with glossy dark leaves and the powerfully fragrant, white, star-shaped flowers that make star jasmine famous, this form has proved hardy into USDA zone 7, well beyond the reach of the standard Trachelospermum jasminoides.
This is a Trachelospermum, one of the star jasmines, offered here as an unnamed selection. Like others in the genus, the plant is a twining, self-clinging evergreen vine with glossy, leathery, dark-green leaves that clothe a fence, trellis, or arbor in dense green through the year and take readily to clipping into a clean, structured cover.
This fan leaf palm is native to eastern Asia but is grown worldwide. It is the most common palm seen northward and grows well in cool regions including the British Isles and coastal British Columbia. Good specimens have grown outdoors as far north as Maryland and Tennessee but it is not usually happy in peninsular Florida. The trunk can reach 15-20 feet tall and is covered with black hair-like fiber. Plant in well-drained soil and with shelter from the north winds in areas where it is borderline hardy.
Wagner's Windmill Palm is known only in cultivation and apparently came from Japan. It is considered by some to be a variety of the common Windmill Palm (T. fortunei). It is about equally hardy and requires the same conditions. It is distinctive and distinguished by a stiffer appearance and smaller leaves. The Southeastern Palm Society's book Hardy Palms for the Southeast says: "The primary horticultural feature of Trachycarpus wagnerianus is its stiffness in all parts, giving the palm a refined, formal appearance. It also grows more slowly than Trachycarpus fortunei, so it can be planted in a confined space, where it will remain in scale for may years,"
This native of Japan is a coarse, large-leafed, effective groundcover for shady sites with good moist to dry soil where it can be a fairly rapid spreader. This plant is uncommon and little-known in the U.S. and we originally acquired it through the courtesy of Mr. John Elsley of Greenwood, South Carolina.
Low. Summer dormant. (See H&M)
Gray foliage.
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Tricyrtis is a small genus of woodland lilies from the Himalayas and eastern Asia, and this plant, almost certainly Tricyrtis formosana, carries the whole strange charm of the group in a single late-season flower. The botanical name joins the Greek treis, three, with kyrtos, humped or swollen, for the three little nectar sacs that bulge at the base of each bloom, a detail worth crouching down to find. The species epithet formosana points to Formosa, the old name for Taiwan, where these toad lilies grow on shaded, humus-rich slopes. The common name is the odd one: garden lore holds that hunters of the Philippine forests once rubbed the flowers' juice on their hands to make frogs and toads easier to grab, and the freckled, amphibian mottling of the petals has kept the name ever since.
Tripterygium regelii is a big, rambling, almost vine-like shrub from the temperate woodlands of Japan, Korea, and Manchuria, closely related to the celebrated thunder god vine of Chinese medicine. The genus name is a piece of plain description: from the Greek treis, three, and pteryx, a wing, for the papery three-winged fruits that hang in pale green clusters after flowering. The species honors Eduard von Regel, the nineteenth-century botanist who directed the St. Petersburg botanical garden. The English name, Regel's threewingnut, keeps both the man and the winged nutlet in view.
Medium sized, trunked palm with glaucous blue fan leaves. A hardy but slow growing palm that is rare in cultivation in the U.S. but much sought after by palm collectors. Cordoba Province.
Wheel Tree is a large evergreen shrub or small tree native to eastern Asia. It is very uncommon in cultivation in the U.S. though it is a relatively hardy evergreen of distinctive tiered habit and foliage that stands out among other evergreens. Plant in shade or semi-shady site with moist acid soil. Said to become a sizeable tree in the Orient and may do so here with time. Bright green flowers in spring have stamens with arrangement like spokes, hence the name Wheel Tree.
Apparently resists adelgid. (See HIL)
