{"title":"Blazing Beauties","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe blazing beauties are the garden's hot colors gathered in one place, the flowers and foliage that burn red, orange, scarlet, and gold. Where soft pastels soothe, these plants energize: they catch the eye from across the garden, hold their own in full sun, and bring warmth and drama to a planting that wants to feel alive. Drawn from perennials, shrubs, and more, they are united by nothing but sheer, unapologetic color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the landscape hot colors do specific work. Massed, they make a bold, high-energy border that reads from a distance and glows under strong sun; used as accents, they lift a cooler planting and draw the eye where you want it. Hot tones love the light, so these are plants for the open, sunny parts of the garden, where the color has the sun behind it and nothing to hold it back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe put this collection together because color is one of the great joys of gardening, and because so many of these bold bloomers are also magnets for wildlife. Bright, warm-hued flowers are especially beloved of hummingbirds and butterflies, so a fiery border is a busy one, alive with movement as well as color. Many are tough, sun-loving, and long-flowering into the bargain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive them full sun and the room to make their statement, and let hot color anchor the boldest part of the garden. Find more sun-worshippers in our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sun-lovers\"\u003eSun Lovers\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/drought-tolerant-plants\"\u003eDrought-Tolerant Plants\u003c\/a\u003e collections, and cool the effect where you like with foliage from our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/grasses-and-bamboos\"\u003eGrasses and Bamboos\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"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":"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":"aquilegia-canadensis","title":"Aquilegia canadensis","description":"\u003cp\u003eFew spring sights stir the woodland gardener like wild columbine in bloom. \u003cem\u003eAquilegia canadensis\u003c\/em\u003e hangs nodding red-and-yellow bells, spurred and lantern-like, over lacy blue-green foliage, catching the low light of April along forest edges, rocky outcrops, and Appalachian coves where the plant has grown for ages. The eastern red columbine, or simply wild columbine, is among the most beloved of native spring wildflowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe spurred flowers are a small marvel of design, shaped for the long tongues of hummingbirds and early bees that follow the bright signals through clearings as the canopy leafs out. Upright and branching, the plant reseeds gently into informal drifts without ever becoming a nuisance, and grows best in fertile, moist but well-drained soil, on the neutral to slightly alkaline side. In the right spot the columbine naturalizes beautifully, lending a planting a settled sense of place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative peoples knew the plant well. The Cherokee and Iroquois used small amounts of the root for heart, kidney, and bladder complaints and as an aid in childbirth, while crushed seeds served for headache and fever, were rubbed into the hair against lice, and were carried as love charms. Every part is poisonous in quantity, so the plant is grown here for beauty, not use. The genus name Aquilegia, from the Latin for eagle, points to the claw-like spurs of the flower, curved like a raptor's talon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057810903155,"sku":"AQUI-CANA-01G","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-597.jpg?v=1720136386"},{"product_id":"arbutus-x-andrachnoides","title":"Arbutus x andrachnoides","description":"\u003cp\u003eA hybrid strawberry tree, \u003cem\u003eArbutus\u003c\/em\u003e x \u003cem\u003eandrachnoides\u003c\/em\u003e crosses the strawberry tree, \u003cem\u003eArbutus unedo\u003c\/em\u003e, with the Grecian strawberry tree, \u003cem\u003eA. andrachne\u003c\/em\u003e, and takes the best of both: white, bell-shaped flowers and pink, strawberry-like fruit on a small evergreen tree, over dark green leaves an inch and a half to four inches long. The real prize comes with age, when the bark peels away to a smooth, rich red-brown that rivals any madrone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSalt tolerant and handsome year round, this hybrid came to Woodlanders by way of Brookside Gardens in Maryland, which had obtained the plant in Europe. Slow growing and long-lived, the tree makes an elegant small specimen where the flowers, fruit, and above all the cinnamon bark can be enjoyed at close range.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive the hybrid strawberry tree full sun to part shade and well-drained soil, and a spot near a path, patio, or entry where the polished red-brown trunk can be admired. Drought and salt tolerant once established, a fine evergreen for a coastal or Mediterranean-style planting in zones 7 to 9.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057811198067,"sku":"ARBU-ANDR-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1111.jpg?v=1720136403"},{"product_id":"aronia-arbutifolia-brilliantissima","title":"Aronia arbutifolia 'Brilliantissima'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAronia arbutifolia\u003c\/em\u003e has grown in the wet woods and pocosins of the eastern United States for a very long time, largely unbothered by the horticultural world's attention. 'Brilliantissima' changed that. Selected for foliage with a deeper gloss and berries of a more saturated, almost lacquered red than the straight species, this is the form that finally made gardeners look twice at a native shrub long overlooked despite centuries of quiet usefulness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe season opens in mid spring with clusters of small white flowers, delicate and lace-like, and welcome to native bees at a moment when little else blooms. By midsummer the berries swell and deepen, and by early autumn ripen to a red so intense as to look almost artificial against the leaves. The foliage turns at the same time: the fall color of 'Brilliantissima' is among the more reliable and spectacular events of the native shrub calendar, a deep, burnished crimson that holds for weeks and earns the cultivar name outright.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe berries persist well into winter, by which point the birds have usually found them; cedar waxwings in particular descend in flocks, either a delight or a caveat depending on attachment to the fruit display. Both views are fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAronia arbutifolia\u003c\/em\u003e tolerates wet soils, adapts to dry ones once established, and asks very little in return for a great deal of seasonal interest. Native, four-season, wildlife-supporting, and genuinely beautiful, a combination still rarer than it should be. The berries are edible, very astringent fresh but good cooked, and exceptionally high in antioxidants.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057812246643,"sku":"ARON-ARBU-BRIL-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/AroniaarbutifoliaBrilliantissima.jpg?v=1750800949"},{"product_id":"asclepias-tuberosa","title":"Asclepias tuberosa","description":"\u003cp\u003eButterfly weed is the orange star of the summer meadow, a strong-growing native perennial of eastern North America and a longtime favorite of gardeners. Flower color ranges from clear yellow to nearly red, but the typical \u003cem\u003eAsclepias tuberosa\u003c\/em\u003e blazes a vivid orange that butterflies, and the eye, find from across the garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnlike the other milkweeds, butterfly weed carries no milky sap and grows from a deep taproot that loves heat, sun, and sharp drainage, shrugging off drought once settled. The flowers feed monarchs and a parade of other butterflies and bees, and the foliage is a monarch host. Cut spent flowers back to spur a longer season and to limit the long pods that split open to loose their parachute seeds on the wind. The deep root resents disturbance, so site once and leave the plant in place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant butterfly weed in full sun in well-drained, even lean or sandy soil, in a meadow, a pollinator border, or a dry sunny bank, where the orange heads can sing against blues and purples. Deer-resistant, drought tolerant, and long-lived, native across much of the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"1 Quart","offer_id":43055477719155,"sku":"ASCL-TUBE-01Q","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"1 Gallon","offer_id":43055477751923,"sku":"ASCL-TUBE-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/C38ADB59-132C-444C-838E-E131D702BFEF.jpg?v=1724690132"},{"product_id":"bignonia-capreolata-helen-fredel","title":"Bignonia capreolata 'Helen Fredel'","description":"\u003cp\u003eCrossvine is a high-climbing, semi-evergreen native vine with bright trumpet flowers, and 'Helen Fredel' is a large-flowered selection in red-orange with a yellow throat, a shade between the old varieties 'Atrosanguinea' and 'Tangerine Beauty'. Climbing high by tendrils and adhesive holdfasts, the crossvine flowers heavily in early summer and again, more lightly, later, and shows to best effect on a fence, an arbor, or a trellis in sun or part shade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow widely grown, crossvine was virtually unavailable from nurseries when Woodlanders began offering the plant in the early 1980s. 'Helen Fredel' comes from the garden of Helen Fredel in College Station, Texas, where the vine apparently grew first on an old two-story house in the neighborhood, and was shared with us by Greg Grant, who saw the larger flowers and good ornamental quality. A native vine with a real story behind it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive 'Helen Fredel' a sturdy support and room to climb, on a fence, a wall, a pergola, or a large arbor, where the early flush of trumpets draws hummingbirds. The crossvine suckers freely from the roots and can spread into nearby beds, so site where the roaming can be managed, or grow against a wall away from open ground. Native to the southeastern United States.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057818046579,"sku":"BIGN-CAPR-HELE-FRED-01G","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2063.jpg?v=1720136652"},{"product_id":"bignonia-anisostichus-capreolata-var-atrosanguinea","title":"Bignonia capreolata var. atrosanguinea","description":"\u003cp\u003eCrossvine is a vigorous, semi-evergreen native climber that ascends by tendrils and adhesive holdfasts, and var. \u003cem\u003eatrosanguinea\u003c\/em\u003e is the red one: where the typical crossvine flowers orange, this striking selection, introduced by Woodlanders, carries abundant deep red to red-purple trumpets, often over narrower, longer leaves. The flowers even smell faintly of mocha on a warm day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fine vine for a wall, a fence, or a trellis in sun or part shade, where the red spring trumpets draw hummingbirds in numbers. Like all crossvines, this red form suckers from the roots and can spread in beds, and is best planted on an isolated support where the roaming can be managed. Native to the southeastern United States, fast and tough once established.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057818144883,"sku":"BIGN-CAPR-VAR-ATRO-01G","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-807.jpg?v=1720136655"},{"product_id":"bouvardia-ternifolia","title":"Bouvardia ternifolia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBouvardia ternifolia\u003c\/em\u003e, the firecracker bush, is a compact, heat-loving shrub of the southwestern United States and Mexico, hung from late spring to frost with clusters of long, slender, scarlet-red tubular flowers. Few plants pull hummingbirds in like this one: the bright tubes are pitched exactly for their bills, and the bloom keeps coming through the hottest months when little else holds color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhorls of narrow leaves clothe a tidy, two-to-three-foot frame. A creature of sun and lean, dry, well-drained ground, the firecracker bush shrugs off heat and drought and thrives where water is scarce. Native to the desert Southwest, root-hardy in zone 8 and a year-round shrub in frost-free gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant firecracker bush in a hot, sunny border, a rock or gravel garden, a dry bank, or a xeric planting, where the scarlet tubes draw hummingbirds and butterflies all season. Pairs naturally with salvias, agastache, and other sun-and-drought lovers, and earns a place as one of the best heat-tolerant flowering shrubs for the warm garden.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057818374259,"sku":"BOUV-TERN-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Bouvardia_turnifolia_Woodlanders_1.jpg?v=1737245785"},{"product_id":"callistemon-rigidus-clemson","title":"Callistemon rigidus 'Clemson'","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn exceptional cold-hardy bottlebrush, \u003cem\u003eCallistemon rigidus\u003c\/em\u003e 'Clemson' is a compact to medium evergreen shrub hung with brilliant red, brush-like flowers that bloom heavily in late spring and often rebloom through summer. Native to Australia, this selection defies expectations for the genus by thriving outdoors in upstate South Carolina, where winters are usually too cold for bottlebrushes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cultivar was introduced by Ted Stephens of Nurseries Caroliniana, who noticed the plant's resilience and long bloom in Clemson, South Carolina. The bright red, nectar-rich flowers draw bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds, and the dense, fine-textured foliage gives structure to sunny borders, foundation plantings, and large containers in milder climates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a proven track record in Southeastern gardens, 'Clemson' brings a touch of the exotic to temperate landscapes without giving up durability.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057821552755,"sku":"CALL-RIGI-CLEM-01G","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Callistemon_Clemson_Woodlanders-3.jpg?v=1750633928"},{"product_id":"callistemon-sp-woodlanders-hardy","title":"Callistemon 'Woodlander's Hardy'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a Woodlanders plant in the most literal sense: selected, named, and introduced to the American nursery trade by this nursery, in this town, decades ago. The cultivar now carries our name across the country. One Green World in Oregon, Cistus on Sauvie Island, Greenleaf as a national wholesaler, Wilson Bros in three-gallon, Cloud Mountain Farm in Washington, Dancing Oaks in the Willamette Valley, and dozens of regional nurseries from Louisiana to Idaho all carry the plant. Few cultivars in American horticulture are so permanently tied to a single small nursery in Aiken, South Carolina. To buy here is to buy at the source.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story is one of those small, persistent acts of selection that quietly change what a region can grow. \u003cem\u003eCallistemon\u003c\/em\u003e, the bottlebrush, is an Australian genus of around fifty species, traditionally grown in the United States only in zone 9 and warmer: a pretty plant with brilliant red stamen-flowers, but tender. Woodlanders identified a clone with the cold tolerance to push the genus a full hardiness zone north, reliably evergreen at 5°F, the parent plant having survived a North Carolina winter that bottomed out at minus nine. The result is the cold-hardiest red bottlebrush in the American trade, a plant that was supposed to belong to Florida and southern California and now belongs, just as comfortably, to the upper South, the Mid-Atlantic, and the Pacific Northwest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA note on the name. The plant was first distributed as \u003cem\u003eCallistemon sieberi\u003c\/em\u003e, but true \u003cem\u003eC. sieberi\u003c\/em\u003e has yellow flowers and ours is unmistakably red, so that attribution was wrong. Decades of detective work have not pinned down the exact parent species (some point to \u003cem\u003eC. rigidus\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003eC. subulatus\u003c\/em\u003e), and the plant is most accurately written today as \u003cem\u003eCallistemon\u003c\/em\u003e sp. 'Woodlander's Hardy', or, under the recent taxonomic merger, \u003cem\u003eMelaleuca viminalis\u003c\/em\u003e 'Woodlander's Hardy'. We carry the original name forward because the cultivar selection, the actual plant, is the point, not the species lineage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, 'Woodlander's Hardy' forms a graceful, somewhat weeping shrub, eventually four to six feet tall and as wide, the arching branches lined with narrow, soft, lance-shaped evergreen leaves that take on coppery and russet tones through the cold months. The genus name, from the Greek kalli, beautiful, and stemon, stamen, beautiful stamens, makes immediate sense in bloom: the flowers are essentially all stamens, each four-inch cylindrical brush composed of hundreds of long red filaments tipped with golden anthers, the true petals tiny and lost behind the show. Peak bloom comes in late spring, with sporadic rebloom through summer and into fall on new wood, so a light pruning after the main flush meaningfully extends the season. Hummingbirds find the flowers within hours of the first opening; bees, butterflies, and beneficial wasps work them heavily.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrought tolerant once established, and heat tolerant, and humidity tolerant, and forgiving of poor lean soil, salt spray, and urban grit, the bottlebrush shrugs off most of what defeats fussier shrubs. Deer largely pass the foliage by, which carries the soft lemony scent of the myrtle family when crushed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the zone 7 gardener who always wanted a bottlebrush and was told it could not be done, the hummingbird gardener after a long-blooming evergreen anchor, the Lowcountry gardener building a heat-and-humidity-proof border, or the collector who wants the plant that put Woodlanders into the American nursery trade.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057821618291,"sku":"CALL-WOOD-HARD-01G","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/344A14D8-C71E-4467-B8EA-071247937D72.jpg?v=1746713471"},{"product_id":"callistemon-pinifolius","title":"Callistemon pinifolius","description":"\u003cp\u003ePine-leaved bottlebrush earns the name honestly: the foliage is fine, stiff, and needle-like, closer to a young pine than to the broad leaves of most bottlebrushes, and the whole shrub stands upright and a little spare, which is part of the charm. Native to southeastern Australia, this species is uncommon in cultivation in the southern United States, so growing one is a small act of plant collecting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe flowers are the surprise. Where most Callistemons blaze red, \u003cem\u003eCallistemon pinifolius\u003c\/em\u003e usually opens in a soft greenish yellow, with the occasional plant throwing true red instead, a quiet and slightly otherworldly version of the classic bottlebrush. Bees and hummingbirds find the brushes readily, and the plant shrugs off drought once established while resisting the sawfly larvae that trouble broader-leaved kin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive this bottlebrush a sunny or lightly shaded spot with soil that drains freely but holds some moisture. A note on names: we obtained this plant as \u003cem\u003eCallistemon viridiflorus\u003c\/em\u003e, another green-flowered species, and some botanists would file the whole group under \u003cem\u003eMelaleuca\u003c\/em\u003e rather than \u003cem\u003eCallistemon\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePictures courtesy of Australian Plants Society NSW.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057821913203,"sku":"CALL-PINI-01G","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Callistemon-pinifolius-2.jpg?v=1720561800"},{"product_id":"calycanthus-floridus-michael-lindsey","title":"Calycanthus floridus 'Michael Lindsey'","description":"\u003cp\u003eCalycanthus floridus 'Michael Lindsey' is the sweetshrub gardeners reach for when fragrance is the whole point. The species, Carolina allspice, is a southeastern native beloved for reddish-brown flowers that smell of ripe fruit, but the scent varies wildly from seedling to seedling, and 'Michael Lindsey' was chosen precisely for a rich, dependable perfume. Add glossy dark green foliage and clear golden fall color, and this selection has become a benchmark, one the plantsman Michael Dirr called the standard by which other introductions will be measured.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders owes this plant to the plantsman Allen Bush, who selected, named, and introduced 'Michael Lindsey' through his Holbrook Farm and Nursery in Fletcher, North Carolina, now long closed. The clone earned a Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Gold Medal on merit, chief among the reasons that reliable fruity fragrance carried on flowers of deep reddish-brown. In warm weather the scent, variously read as strawberry, pineapple, or melon, drifts on the air rather than waiting to be found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus name joins the Greek words for calyx and flower, for the curious bloom in which petals and sepals look alike, a ring of narrow, strappy, magnolia-like tepals. Those flowers run a clever trap, since the fruity scent lures small beetles inside, where they shelter and feed before carrying pollen out to the next bloom, an ancient pollination bargain older than bees on flowers. The aromatic bark and leaves, spicy when bruised, gave rise to the allspice names, though every part carries the alkaloid calycanthine and should never be eaten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite Calycanthus floridus 'Michael Lindsey' where people pass close, beside a path, a doorway, a patio, or a seat, so the fragrance is part of the day. The shrub takes full sun to part shade and average, well-drained soil, growing dense and rounded and asking little, and the cut flowers scent a room. For a native, trouble-free, deer-resistant shrub that earns a place on perfume alone, this is among the very best.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057822306419,"sku":"CALY-FLOR-MICH-LIND-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1911.jpg?v=1720136858"},{"product_id":"calycanthus-x-raulstonii-hartlage-wine","title":"Calycanthus x raulstonii 'Hartlage Wine'","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn of careful hands and watchful eyes at the JC Raulston Arboretum in North Carolina, \u003cem\u003eCalycanthus\u003c\/em\u003e × \u003cem\u003eraulstonii\u003c\/em\u003e 'Hartlage Wine' is a sweetshrub of uncommon grace. Richard Hartlage made the cross as an undergraduate at North Carolina State University in 1991, pairing the Southern native Carolina allspice (\u003cem\u003eCalycanthus floridus\u003c\/em\u003e) with the refined Chinese sweetshrub (\u003cem\u003eCalycanthus chinensis\u003c\/em\u003e); the seedling first flowered in 1996, and the hybrid name honors J.C. Raulston, the arboretum's late director.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom late spring the branches open deep wine-red blooms touched with gold at the center, each broad and open like a small magnolia, nearly three inches across and lightly sweet. The show begins in May and lingers through summer, with flowers returning here and there into early fall above lush, glossy, deep green leaves that close the season in soft gold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrowing upright and full, eight to ten feet tall and wide, 'Hartlage Wine' asks for little more than good soil and a touch of shade from the hottest sun. Unlike the native kin, this hybrid does not run underground, staying well-mannered and easy to manage in a thoughtful garden. Long-blooming, deer-resistant, and rich with seasonal presence, the shrub belongs by a shaded path or at a woodland edge, the sort of plant that stays with a gardener long after the last bloom fades.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057822404723,"sku":"CALY-RAUL-HART-WINE-01G","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1889.jpg?v=1720136864"},{"product_id":"camellia-japonica-kujaku-tsubaki","title":"Camellia japonica 'Kujaku Tsubaki'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe name means peacock camellia, and the vanity here is all in the foliage. Long, narrow leaves with peculiar fishtailed tips drape from the branches in a pronounced weeping habit, more willow than camellia, more Japanese woodblock print than Southern border. This is not the camellia a grandmother grew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost \u003cem\u003ejaponica\u003c\/em\u003e cultivars spend their lives chasing the perfect bloom. 'Kujaku Tsubaki' went a different way. Originating in Mikawa, in Aichi Prefecture, and documented in \u003cem\u003eCamellia Cultivars of Japan\u003c\/em\u003e as early as 1966, the plant belongs to a small lineage of Japanese selections grown as much for architectural habit and leaf as for flower. Where most camellias stand dense and upright, this one arches and trails, the foliage suggestive of a \u003cem\u003eSalix\u003c\/em\u003e or a peach in full leaf, the kind of plant a visitor stops to identify before noticing the flowers at all. The narrow leaves often carry faint yellow markings from a benign, long-established virus, part of the peacock effect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the flowers do come, they are tubular and deeply red, the petals splashed with irregular white, restrained and almost demure against the extravagance of everything else on the plant. They hang pendulous from the branches, never upright.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrowth is slow, a direct consequence of that weeping habit, but given time 'Kujaku Tsubaki' can reach small-tree proportions. 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Selected and propagated from that one tree, the camellia was exhibited in Nagasaki in 1973 and carried to America by Nuccio's Nursery in 1975.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bloom is simplicity itself, a single, bell-shaped flower of six bright red petals, each rimmed in a fine white margin, opening in late winter and early spring around a center of golden stamens. The effect is crisp and unmistakable, and the cultivar passes the trait on freely: 'Tama no ura' is the parent of a whole family of 'Tama' camellias bred for that picotee edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike the rest of the species, 'Tama no ura' wants semi-shade and sandy, slightly acidic soil kept mulched and watered, where the upright evergreen frame holds the year and the bordered flowers can be read at close range. 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Few cultivars speak that winter sonnet as clearly as \u003cem\u003eCamellia\u003c\/em\u003e 'Crimson Candles', a hybrid of \u003cem\u003eCamellia reticulata\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCamellia fraterna\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cross came from the careful hands of Dr. Clifford Parks of Camellia Forest Nursery, a pivotal figure in American camellia breeding with deep ties to research at the University of North Carolina and to the practical art of propagation. Parks set out to expand what camellias could be and where they could thrive, pairing the grandeur of \u003cem\u003eCamellia reticulata\u003c\/em\u003e, long cultivated in the temples and mountains of Yunnan, with the cold hardiness and free-flowering nature of \u003cem\u003eCamellia fraterna\u003c\/em\u003e, a smaller, white-flowered species of humble but enduring qualities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result proved as resilient as it is lovely: a shrub that blooms through Southern winters with upright rose-pink flowers rising like lit tapers in the grey season, aptly named for the candle-shaped buds and luminous color. From the Carolinas to California, 'Crimson Candles' is prized as one of the earliest camellias to flower, opening in December or January and carrying into February in zone 7 and warmer. Unlike the many camellias that droop or hang shyly downward, this cultivar holds the blossoms upright and alert, unbothered by the chill, the tidy dark evergreen foliage setting off the vivid flowers like velvet behind a gemstone. Compact at six to ten feet, dense and well-furnished, the plant suits a woodland border, a foundation, or a part-shaded bed in moist, acidic soil, a living bridge between Chinese mountains and the Southern garden. The Royal Horticultural Society granted the cultivar an Award of Garden Merit in 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057825747059,"sku":"CAME-RETI-CRIM-CAND-01G","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/CamelliaCrimsonCandles.png?v=1752250464"},{"product_id":"camellia-japonica-single-red","title":"Camellia japonica (single red)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA camellia with a story we can only half tell. Years ago a plant was dropped at the nursery in Aiken, left for a friend to carry home to Korea. The pickup never came, and the plant stayed; the label, somewhere in the years that followed, was lost. We propagated her anyway, because she was too good to let slip, and because she has the particular bone structure of a real cultivar. Someone, somewhere, named her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat she is, plainly: a single-form \u003cem\u003eCamellia japonica\u003c\/em\u003e with short, heavily textured petals in deep oxblood red, arranged in a clean flat ring around a generous bright yellow stamen boss. The single red japonica is one of the oldest forms in cultivation, the camellia that appears in Chinese paintings and porcelain from the eleventh century onward, the camellia before camellias became the elaborate, ruffled, formal-double affairs of the Victorian show bench. Hold one of her flowers in your hand and you understand why the early painters bothered: the matte red against the gold center is graphic and arresting in a way the more ornate cultivars never quite manage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe carries glossy, dark green foliage and the upright, well-mannered habit of a good \u003cem\u003ejaponica\u003c\/em\u003e. We have grown her long enough to know she performs reliably in part shade, blooms heavily, and reads beautifully against winter foliage and bare wood. As an unnamed selection she is a chance to own something in no catalog and no breeder's registry, a camellia with provenance that ends, charmingly, at a doorstep. 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The loose, open frame and small, spicy-scented leaves would earn a quiet place on their own, but the flowers are the event: showy scarlet tubes carried over a long summer season, held out like little trumpets that hummingbirds cannot resist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScarlet calamint belongs to a genus of old-world and new-world herbs long valued for aromatic, savory foliage, and the crushed leaves of this southern native release the same clean, spicy scent that keeps deer and other browsers at a polite distance. The plant is a creature of sandhills and sunny sandy flatwoods, at home where sharp drainage and lean soil defeat softer things.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive scarlet calamint full sun and fast-draining, sandy soil, and site the shrub where the summer-long scarlet show and the hummingbird traffic can be watched up close: a hot bank, a gravel or xeric border, a rock garden, or the front of a sunny native bed. Pair with other sun-and-drought lovers such as salvias and grasses, and let the aromatic foliage line a path where brushing past releases the scent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhoto credit to Jonas Meyer.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/woodlanders.net\/blogs\/news\/clinopodium-the-soft-power-of-the-mint-family\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLearn more about the Clinopodium genus with our guide.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057845145715,"sku":"CLIN-COCC-01G","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/5C746564-9851-451B-A8A2-96F63DB56889.jpg?v=1782135232"},{"product_id":"colquhounia-coccinea","title":"Colquhounia coccinea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eColquhounia coccinea\u003c\/em\u003e is a showy, soft-wooded shrub of the mint family, clothed in medium-sized leaves that are downy and pleasantly rough to the touch. Through late summer and fall come dense terminal spikes of orange-scarlet, yellow-throated flowers, a hot late-season color that hummingbirds and pollinating insects work eagerly. Plant in a sunny, well-drained site with good soil, where the arching stems can be trained against a warm wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name carries a curl of history: Colquhoun is a Scottish Highland clan, and the source of the surname Calhoun so famous in Southern history and place names. \u003cem\u003eColquhounia coccinea\u003c\/em\u003e hails from the Himalayas and western China, reached England before 1850, and remains little known in American gardens. Our own material derives from a collection made by Frank Bell in China.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse the Himalayan mint shrub where the late flowers can close the season with warmth: against a sheltered south-facing wall, at the back of a sunny border, or in a mixed planting among salvias and other late bloomers. 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Tall, arching spikes of brilliant red-orange, flame-colored flowers rise over the clump through early to midsummer, held above fans of pleated, sword-like green leaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flowers are magnets for hummingbirds and make superb, long-lasting cut stems for the vase. This South African montbretia has been extensively hybridized, and 'Lucifer' is the most famous of all the selections; some growers suggest our stock may not be the true 'Lucifer', but we have found the plant to be a first-rate garden performer whatever the label.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite 'Lucifer' at the middle or back of a sunny border, in a hot-color scheme, or in a bold drift where the flame spikes can be watched for hummingbirds, and pair with salvias, cannas, grasses, and other strong summer companions. 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That tiny remnant population may now be gone, and \u003cem\u003eCyrilla arida\u003c\/em\u003e may no longer exist in the wild, which makes every plant in cultivation all the more precious.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnlike the wetland-loving relatives in the genus, \u003cem\u003eCyrilla arida\u003c\/em\u003e thrives on deep, nutrient-poor, xeric sandhills, the kind of ground where few plants dare to persist. That toughness carries into the garden, where Scrub Titi has proven surprisingly adaptable, performing well even in more temperate settings such as Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn summer, Scrub Titi puts on a graceful show of creamy white racemes, slender arching flower clusters that stand out against the fine-textured foliage. 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The name reaches back to Greek myth, to Danae, daughter of the king of Argos, and the foliage carries a heavier classical freight than almost anything else you can grow in shade: Roman poet laureates are said to have worn the sprays as their wreath, and Alexander the Great may have taken his victory crowns from the same hills where he was fighting. Hence the two common names that have followed the plant for centuries, poet's laurel and Alexandrian laurel. Danae is, for the record, no true laurel at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Danae is, botanically, is stranger and better. \u003cem\u003eDanae\u003c\/em\u003e is a monotypic genus, the only one of the kind, a monocot long filed among the lilies and now placed with the asparagus. The glossy, tapered leaves are not leaves but phylloclades, flattened stems doing a convincing impression of foliage. In spring the new growth comes up like asparagus or young bamboo, vertical canes rising from the crown that arch over as they lengthen into a soft, weeping fountain two to three feet tall and a little wider. The effect is fine-textured and deep green and holds every month of the year, which is rare enough in deep shade to feel like a small miracle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flowers are negligible by design, tiny and greenish, the kind you have to be told to look for. The fruit is the payoff: come autumn, the plants set bright red-orange berries that sit among the dark foliage and hold through winter, the whole reason florists have prized the cut stems for generations. Most of the commercial greenery, in fact, is grown in Italy and flown out weekly, which has saddled this Iranian native with the third name of Italian ruscus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a reason you do not see them at every nursery. \u003cem\u003eDanae\u003c\/em\u003e grows slowly and resists propagation, taking five to seven years from seed to a plant worth selling, which is precisely how they became a treasured Southern pass-along, begged from a neighbor rather than bought. Give them shade, even deep shade, and ordinary well-drained soil; they ask for moisture to establish but shrug off drought once settled, and the deer leave them alone. Native to the woodlands of northern Iran and Asia Minor, hardy through roughly Zone 7, they bring a refinement to the dark corners of a garden that almost nothing else will, and a pedigree no other shade plant can touch.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057858416755,"sku":"DANA-RACE-01Q","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Danae_racemosa_JimRobbins.jpg?v=1763553410"},{"product_id":"dicliptera-suberecta","title":"Dicliptera suberecta","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDicliptera suberecta\u003c\/em\u003e is a member of the acanthus family, Acanthaceae, and hails from the grasslands of Uruguay and Argentina, a heritage that shows in a love of heat, sun, and lean soil. Gardeners know the plant by two names that between them tell the whole story: Uruguayan firecracker plant, for the volley of tubular blooms, and hummingbird plant, for the traffic those blooms draw.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe foliage charms first. Soft, velvety, and washed a cool bluish-grey, the leaves and stems carry a fine down that catches the light and reads almost silver in a sunny border. From midsummer into fall the mound erupts in clusters of narrow, tubular flowers in warm coral and brick-red, held at the branch tips like small fireworks caught mid-burst. Each bloom is shaped precisely for a hummingbird's bill, and the plant earns the common name daily through the hottest months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor all the delicacy of the coloring, this is a tough, forgiving perennial subshrub. Heat, humidity, and drought scarcely trouble a settled plant, and the silvery leaves stay handsome even between flushes of bloom. In the cooler end of the range the top growth dies back and returns from the base in spring, so a winter mulch and a little patience are all the plant asks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, use \u003cem\u003eDicliptera suberecta\u003c\/em\u003e at the front of a sunny, well-drained border, spilling over a wall or path edge, or in a container or hanging basket where the coral flowers can dangle at eye level. The soft grey mound cools hotter neighbors and pairs easily with salvias, agastache, and ornamental grasses in a pollinator or cottage planting. Set the plant where the hummingbirds can be watched from a window, and expect an audience all summer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057860284531,"sku":"DICL-SUBE-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/70B410FC-39D9-466B-9C44-A717108AFEF2.jpg?v=1783640979"},{"product_id":"distylium-myricoides-piroche-form","title":"Distylium myricoides (Piroche form)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDistylium myricoides\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to the witch-hazel family, Hamamelidaceae, an evergreen cousin of the fragrant winter witch-hazels, though the kinship shows in the flowers rather than the leaves. The Piroche form is a distinct, low-slung selection of the species, chosen for a broad, spreading habit and strong horizontal branching that make the plant read more as living groundwork than as an upright shrub.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere the typical isu tree arches upward into a small tree, the Piroche form stays wide and close to the ground, layering out along strongly tiered branches to cover more width than height. The narrow, leathery leaves carry the same cool, glossy blue-green that makes the isu tree such a handsome foliage plant, holding color through the year and flushing bronze on new growth. The overall effect is a calm, textural sweep of evergreen foliage that knits together as the plants spread.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn late winter and early spring the branches carry clusters of tiny, petal-less flowers in puffs of bright red stamens, an early and welcome source of nectar when little else is in bloom. The show is subtle rather than loud, best appreciated up close, but the timing makes the Piroche form a quiet favorite of the season's first bees. Like the species, this selection traces to the mountain forests of China, where the genus grows in cool, humus-rich woodland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, the Piroche form is at its best massed on a bank, run along a low wall, or planted in a broad drift where the horizontal branching can spread unchecked as a tall, textural groundcover. Tough and adaptable, the plant shrugs off heat, wind, and drought once established, and deer tend to leave the leathery foliage alone. 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In late spring the branches hang with dozens of small, waxy, bell-shaped flowers, but where the plain species opens in cream veined with pink, 'Rubrum' pours out flowers of rich, deep red, nodding in tidy clusters at the tips of each whorl of branches. Close up the bells look almost enameled; from a distance they veil the shrub in a soft red haze.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA member of the heath family and a cousin to azaleas, blueberries, and pieris, enkianthus shares their taste for cool, moist, acidic soil and their gift for autumn color. When the growing season ends, the neat, blue-green foliage turns through a long, smoky range of scarlet, orange, and wine-red, often holding for weeks and rivaling any burning bush. Few shrubs offer two such distinct seasons of interest, red in spring and red again in fall, on so tidy a frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe habit is as valuable as the color. Enkianthus grows slowly into an upright, tiered shrub with distinctly layered, almost horizontal branching, six to ten feet tall in time and narrower than wide, so the plant reads as elegant and architectural rather than bulky. Use 'Rubrum' as a specimen in a woodland or Japanese-style garden, in the light shade of high pines, or in a mixed acid-soil border with rhododendrons, Japanese maples, and ferns, where the fine branch structure shows to advantage even in winter bareness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive enkianthus the conditions that suit rhododendrons: moist but well-drained, humus-rich, acidic soil, a cool root run under mulch, and shelter from harsh, drying exposure. In the South the shrub is happiest in part shade, while cooler northern gardens can grow the plant in full sun with steady moisture. Hardy in USDA zones 5 through 8, slow, long-lived, and almost trouble-free, 'Rubrum' rewards patience with decades of quiet, two-season beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057865134195,"sku":"ENKI-CAMP-RUBR-01G","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/FullSizeRender_65525725-edd8-4efe-939b-4a7c7855691d.jpg?v=1772022633"},{"product_id":"erythrina-x-bidwillii","title":"Erythrina x bidwillii","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eErythrina\u003c\/em\u003e × \u003cem\u003ebidwillii\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the great show-stoppers among the coral beans, a bold hybrid between the Argentine cockspur coral tree, \u003cem\u003eErythrina crista-galli\u003c\/em\u003e, and the southeastern native coral bean, \u003cem\u003eErythrina herbacea\u003c\/em\u003e. From that crossing comes a plant with the size and drama of the South American parent and the toughness of the North American one, throwing long spikes of vivid, tubular scarlet flowers through the summer, far larger and more sustained than either parent alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere winters are mild the plant makes a large, spreading, thorny shrub; in zone 8 and colder the top is killed by frost and the plant returns each year from a big, woody rootstock, behaving as a fast, dramatic perennial. Given rich soil and ample water, the summer growth is vigorous and the flowering generous, spike after spike of glowing red held above the foliage on new wood. This hybrid is sterile and sets no seed, so the plant channels every bit of energy into bloom and spreads only by the gardener's hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew plants pull a hummingbird garden together like a well-grown bidwillii coral tree. Set the plant as a summer focal point at the back of a sunny border, in a tropical-style bed with cannas, gingers, and salvias, or as a bold specimen where the scarlet spikes can blaze against green. Hummingbirds and large bees work the flowers all season. The stems carry scattered thorns, so give the plant room away from paths, and, as with all coral trees, treat the plant tissues as toxic if eaten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCulture is simple in the heat. Give \u003cem\u003eErythrina\u003c\/em\u003e × \u003cem\u003ebidwillii\u003c\/em\u003e full sun, rich well-drained soil, and generous summer water, and the plant will thrive through the hottest months. For overwintering in zone 8 and below, cut the plant back after frost kills the tops, mound about ten inches of coarse sand over the stubs, and cover with pine straw; as the weather warms, pull the covering away to let new shoots rise. Now becoming more widely available, this striking hybrid seemed all but unknown in the South when Woodlanders first obtained the plant from California.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057866281075,"sku":"ERYT-BIDW-01G","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/1767DE8A-C504-4191-8E98-CB0661C2779B.jpg?v=1724421470"},{"product_id":"erythrina-herbacea","title":"Erythrina herbacea (Coral Bean)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA relic of the old Southern wilds, \u003cem\u003eErythrina herbacea\u003c\/em\u003e, the coral bean, is a plant that commands attention, graceful yet defiant, wild yet refined. A legume native across the coastal Southeast, the coral bean shifts habit with the winter: in frost-free zones the plant grows as a woody shrub, branching boldly above the ground, while farther north the top dies down with the first hard freeze, only to rise again from a thick, gnarled rootstock when the heat returns, an emblem of Southern resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCome spring, slender spires of scarlet, tubular flowers shoot skyward, brilliant beacons for ruby-throated hummingbirds returning north and a striking sight in any native or cottage garden. As summer deepens, the flowers give way to strings of glossy, bright red seeds cradled in split black pods, ornamental and eye-catching. Handsome as the seeds are, they are also distinctly poisonous, holding alkaloids that act on the nerves much as curare does, so the coral bean carries an old reputation as much for danger as for beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor overwintering in colder climates, roughly zone 7 and below, cut the stems back after frost, heap coarse sand about ten inches over the base, and blanket the crown with pine straw. Come spring, peel back the layers and wait for those blood-red spires to return like old friends. Where winters are mild, no such fuss is needed, and the plant simply carries on as a shrub.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoral bean thrives in rich, well-drained soil with generous summer water, reveling in full sun and heat, and asks little once established. Set the plant at the back of a sunny native border, in a pollinator or cottage garden, or anywhere the spring hummingbird show can be enjoyed, keeping the toxic seeds in mind around children and pets. Native to the southeastern United States and hardy in USDA zones 7 through 10, the coral bean is as much a part of the Southern landscape as the mockingbird and the longleaf pine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057866313843,"sku":"ERYT-HERB-01G","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1110.jpg?v=1720138056"},{"product_id":"euonymus-sp","title":"Euonymus sp.","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery nursery keeps a few mysteries, and this trailing evergreen euonymus is one of ours: a plant still awaiting a firm name, possibly Euonymus aculeatus, collected by Frank Bell high on Mount Emei (Emeishan) in Sichuan, China. Low and spreading, the stems carry long-pointed, finely toothed leaves about two inches long, glossy and evergreen, on a habit that hugs the ground and wanders steadily outward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the rest of the genus, this euonymus belongs to the staff-vine family, Celastraceae, kin to the spindle trees whose name reaches back through the Greek for good name, an old euphemism that softens the fact that many spindles are poisonous. The true glory arrives with the fruit: bright red, spiky capsules of remarkable form that seem almost carved against the dark leaves, the kind of detail that stops a visitor mid-path.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a new and still lightly documented introduction from a famous mountain flora, this plant is offered in a spirit of shared discovery. The low, trailing frame suits a groundcover role in shady or half-shaded ground, knitting across a bank or filling the front of a woodland bed, and the pliant stems would take just as happily to a low trellis or a wall. Keep the poisonous fruit in mind wherever children or pets roam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive moist but well-drained soil in part to full shade, a spot with room to spread, and a little patience while the plant settles in. Because the identity is not yet fixed, we especially welcome grower reports on hardiness, habit, and bloom; every observation helps put a proper name to a genuinely intriguing find.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057868902515,"sku":"EUON-SP-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/7DF881E6-13AA-4DAD-B70A-AEA6C26D2714.jpg?v=1729003996"},{"product_id":"fothergilla-major-mt-airy","title":"Fothergilla x intermedia 'Mt. Airy'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe native fothergillas were choice but scarcely available garden shrubs when Woodlanders first began to offer them back in 1980. This one, a hybrid of Fothergilla gardenii and F. major, was found by Dr. Michael Dirr at the Mt. Airy Arboretum in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has since become the most widely grown fothergilla of all, and deservedly so.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFothergilla belongs to the witch-hazel family, Hamamelidaceae, and shares that family's gift for honey-scented bloom on nearly bare stems. In early spring, before the leaves unfold, 'Mt. Airy' opens fat white bottlebrushes made not of petals but of a haze of cream stamens tipped in yellow anthers, sweetly fragrant and alive with the first bees of the season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the plant does the trick that made the selection famous. Where many fothergillas color unevenly, 'Mt. Airy' turns reliably and brilliantly in fall, the neat blue-green summer leaves igniting into clear yellow, orange, and red all at once, a bonfire held on a tidy four-to-six-foot frame. Few shrubs of the size give so much across so many months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse 'Mt. Airy' in a mixed or native border, at a woodland edge, or in a foundation planting where the spring fragrance and autumn fire can both be enjoyed at close range. The rounded, well-behaved habit needs little pruning, deer generally pass the shrub by, and the plant pairs beautifully with blueberries, itea, native azaleas, and other acid-loving companions. Give sun to part shade and good, well-drained soil.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057872212083,"sku":"FOTH-INTE-MT-AIRY-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-366.jpg?v=1720138227"},{"product_id":"grevillea-rosmarinifolia","title":"Grevillea rosmarinifolia","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrevillea rosmarinifolia is a fine-textured Australian evergreen, a rounded to semi-prostrate shrub whose narrow, deep green leaves look uncannily like rosemary, giving the plant both the species name and a handsome, needled presence the year round. The likeness is only skin-deep, for this is a member of the protea family, Proteaceae, worlds away from any herb.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flowers are the surprise: clusters of small, spider-like blooms in red tipped with cream, curling and intricate, borne in dense racemes along the branches. Where most shrubs rest, rosemary grevillea flowers through the cool months, from fall into winter and on toward spring, a rare source of color and nectar when the garden is otherwise quiet. Hummingbirds and bees find the blooms readily.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTough and undemanding, the plant thrives in full sun and sharp drainage, taking heat, wind, and drought once established, and reaching perhaps four to six feet, often lower and wider or nearly prostrate. Rosemary grevillea suits a dry border, a gravel garden, a hot bank, or a coastal planting in the milder South, and works beautifully in native-style or water-wise schemes alongside other lean-soil companions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne quirk is worth knowing: like all grevilleas, this shrub is sensitive to phosphorus, so skip ordinary fertilizers and rich compost and let the plant settle in on poor, fast-draining ground. Give sun, drainage, and restraint at the feeding trough, and rosemary grevillea rewards with evergreen structure and flowers in the off-season for very little trouble.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057876013171,"sku":"GREV-ROSM-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-372.jpg?v=1720138334"},{"product_id":"grevillea-juniperina-x-rosmarinifolia-canberra-gem","title":"Grevillea 'Canberra Gem'","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrevillea 'Canberra Gem' is a bold and unusual Australian evergreen, a hybrid of Grevillea juniperina and Grevillea rosmarinifolia that brings fine texture, vivid color, and a touch of the exotic to an adventurous garden. The narrow, needle-like foliage is often mistaken for a conifer, until late winter, when the shrub reveals a true identity in a profusion of rose-red, spider-like flowers that spill from the branches and catch the eye clear across the garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bloom is long and generous, running from late winter well into spring, each cluster a tangle of curling styles that read, up close, like something between a sea creature and a firework. The nectar-rich flowers are a magnet for hummingbirds and bees, and the plant carries them against dark, evergreen, rosemary-fine leaves that hold structure and interest the year round.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong admired by plant enthusiasts and championed by Christopher Lloyd in Color for Adventurous Gardeners, 'Canberra Gem' remains oddly underused, especially in American gardens. Helen Johnstone of the Hardy Plant Society has noted the rarity in cultivation and praised the shrub as both a statement plant and a conversation piece, for gardeners after something a little out of the ordinary with real visual impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive 'Canberra Gem' full sun and well-drained, neutral to acidic soil, and the plant settles into a low-maintenance, drought-tolerant, deer-resistant evergreen ideal for a Mediterranean-style planting, a gravel bed, a dry border, or a coastal garden. Among the hardier grevilleas, the shrub tolerates temperatures into the low twenties Fahrenheit once established, especially in a sheltered site with sharp drainage. Grevilleas dislike rich soil and phosphorus, so skip the fertilizer and let the plant thrive on lean ground.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057876177011,"sku":"GREV-JUNI-ROSM-CANB-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2166.jpg?v=1749144745"},{"product_id":"heteropterys-glabra","title":"Heteropterys glabra","description":"\u003cp\u003eRedwing is grown less for the flowers than for what follows them. Through the warm months this fast, twining, semi-woody climber carries loose clusters of small clear-yellow flowers along the stems, pretty enough in passing, but the real event comes after, when each pollinated bloom ripens into a bright red winged fruit, a samara built exactly like the spinning key of a maple. In quantity the red keys smother the vine and glow against the small, neat foliage, an unexpected and long-lasting display that few visitors can name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe resemblance to maple is pure coincidence. Redwing belongs to the Malpighiaceae, the tropical family of the acerola or Barbados cherry, and comes by the winged fruit through an entirely separate line: the genus name \u003cem\u003eHeteropterys\u003c\/em\u003e, from the Greek for different wings, marks the unequal wings on the samara, while \u003cem\u003eglabra\u003c\/em\u003e notes the smooth, hairless leaves. Native to South America, the vine brings a touch of the subtropics to a warm-temperate garden and remains genuinely uncommon in cultivation, a plant for the collector and the curious.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a garden plant, redwing is easygoing and quick. The long, flexible stems climb and scramble readily, so give the vine a sturdy support to clothe: an arbor, a pergola, a fence, or a large trellis in full sun to part shade. Growth is fast once established, the small leaves cast light, dappled shade, and the plant asks only for reasonable drainage and warmth. Where winters bite, the top may die back and return, or a plant can be grown in a large pot and wintered under cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, treat redwing as a warm-season screen or a conversation piece where the red-keyed fruit can be seen at close range: along a rail, over a gateway, or against a wall where the color reads. Pair with other subtropical climbers and hot-border plants, and site where late-summer sun can light the ripening samaras. Nothing else in the garden will look quite like the vine hung with red maple keys that never came from a maple.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057881157747,"sku":"HETE-GLAB-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-828.jpg?v=1720138492"},{"product_id":"hibiscus-coccineus","title":"Hibiscus coccineus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHibiscus coccineus\u003c\/em\u003e, the scarlet rose mallow or Texas star hibiscus, is a tall, dramatic perennial native to the wetlands and swamps of the southern United States. Rising on strong, upright stems to six or ten feet, the plant lifts great scarlet stars above the summer garden, an American native that looks every bit as exotic as any tropical hibiscus and proves far tougher.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flowers are the whole argument. Each bloom opens three to five inches across in vivid, pure scarlet, five slightly separated petals arranged in a clean star, with the long staminal column thrust boldly from the center and tipped in bright yellow pollen. The show runs from mid-summer through early fall, and though each flower lasts a single day, the plant opens a steady succession over many weeks. Hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies all work the blooms, so the color comes with constant motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe foliage is nearly as talked-about as the flowers. Deeply cut into slender, palmate lobes, the leaves resemble those of a maple or, notoriously, of cannabis, a resemblance that has raised more than one eyebrow over a perfectly innocent native plant. Botanically this is a true mallow of the Malvaceae, and the species name \u003cem\u003ecoccineus\u003c\/em\u003e simply means scarlet, for the flowers. Upright and clean, the deep green leaves set off the red bloom to perfection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, use scarlet rose mallow at the back of a large sunny border, at a pond or stream edge, in a rain garden, or anywhere a bold vertical accent and hot late-summer color are wanted. The plant grows naturally in very wet ground, along streams, ponds, and swamps, but adapts happily to ordinary well-drained garden soil given plenty of sun. Pair with other moisture-lovers and late bloomers, allow room for the tall stems, and cut the frost-killed tops to the ground in late winter for a fresh start each spring.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057883287667,"sku":"HIBI-COCC-01G","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Hibiscus_coccineus_Woodlanders_7.jpg?v=1725832529"},{"product_id":"hibiscus-mutabilis-rubrum","title":"Hibiscus mutabilis 'Rubrum'","description":"\u003cp\u003eHibiscus mutabilis has been grown in Southern gardens for so long that many people assume the shrub is a native, though the species traces to southern China, where gardeners prized the flowers centuries before the plant traveled west. The species name mutabilis, meaning changeable, describes the wild trick of the ordinary Confederate Rose, whose blooms open white in the morning and deepen to pink and then rose-red by evening. 'Rubrum' skips the performance and commits: the single flowers arrive already a saturated rose-red and hold that one deep tone through the day rather than shifting. For gardeners who love the late-season drama of the Confederate Rose but want a single, unwavering color, 'Rubrum' is the selection to plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe shrub belongs to the mallow family, Malvaceae, and shares that clan's signature: a prominent central column of fused stamens rising from the throat of a broad, five-petaled flower. Cotton, okra, and hollyhock are all cousins, and the kinship shows in the softly downy, maple-shaped leaves and the fuzzy seed capsules that earned the alternate common name, Cotton Rose. In the Deep South, 'Rubrum' builds into a large, multi-stemmed shrub of six to eight feet in a single season, flowering in the shortening days of late summer and fall when much of the garden has already gone quiet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond ornament, Hibiscus mutabilis carries a long medicinal history in China, where the plant is known as Mu Fu Rong. Traditional practitioners used the cooling leaves and flowers as poultices for burns, boils, and inflamed skin, and brewed them for coughs and respiratory complaints. Modern laboratory work has taken an interest in these old uses, isolating anti-inflammatory flavonoids from the flowers and an antiviral compound, tiliroside, from the plant, lending some scientific texture to a tradition many centuries old.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, give 'Rubrum' room and a backdrop. The tall, upright shrub reads best from a slight distance, at the back of a sunny border or as a freestanding specimen where the autumn flowers can carry the eye across the yard. Late-blooming salvias, ornamental grasses at mature height, and anything with a quiet green or silver leaf make good neighbors, since the rose-red flowers want a calm setting rather than competition. In the colder end of the range the shrub may die back to the ground in winter and return from the roots, so pair the plant with something that fills the early-season gap. If the common name Confederate Rose sits uneasily, Cotton Rose is the older, equally accurate alternative, and either name points to the same generous, late-flowering shrub.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057884434547,"sku":"HIBI-MUTA-RUBR-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Hibiscusmutabilis_Rubrum_Woodlanders1.jpg?v=1731692344"},{"product_id":"ilex-vomitoria-hoskins-shadow","title":"Ilex vomitoria 'Hoskins Shadow'","description":"\u003cp\u003eYaupon is the small-leaved evergreen holly of the southeastern coastal plain, native from Virginia to Texas and a member of the holly family, Aquifoliaceae. Adaptable almost to a fault, salt tolerant, drought tolerant, and content in sun or shade, the species takes shearing as neatly as boxwood and has served Southern gardens for generations as hedge, screen, and clipped structure. 'Hoskins Shadow' is a standout among the named forms: a dense, fast-growing shrub or small tree, 15 to 20 feet in time, chosen for unusually large, dark green foliage and, above all, for cold hardiness well beyond the ordinary yaupon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe plant carries history as well as good manners. Roasted yaupon leaves and twigs were the source of the caffeinated 'black drink' that Indigenous peoples of the Southeast brewed for ceremony and trade, and that coastal settlers later adopted as a homegrown coffee or tea. Yaupon remains North America's only caffeine-bearing native plant. The harsh species name, vomitoria, records a European misreading of the ritual purging that sometimes accompanied the drink, a blame the plant did not earn, since the holly is not emetic in ordinary use; the common name is kinder, from the Catawban ya'pa, a diminutive meaning 'small tree.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Hoskins Shadow,' sometimes listed as 'Shadow's Hardy,' was selected for that big dark foliage and toughness by H. Shadow at Howell Nursery in Winchester, Tennessee. The plant has reportedly come through minus ten degrees Fahrenheit, a cold that would kill most yaupons outright, which pushes this holly a full zone north of where the species usually stops. Female and generously fruitful, 'Hoskins Shadow' hangs abundant scarlet berries that hold from fall through spring when a male yaupon grows within reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFew evergreens give this much for so little trouble. Use 'Hoskins Shadow' as a fast, dense screen or a large clipped hedge, or let a single plant grow into a small multi-stemmed tree limbed up to show the pale trunks. The dark leaves make a fine backdrop for lighter foliage and for the scarlet winter fruit, so site where the berries can be seen from a window or walk, and set a male such as 'Dewerth' nearby to guarantee the crop. Gardeners in the upper South and lower Midwest, long shut out of yaupon, finally have a form worth trying.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057889710195,"sku":"ILEX-VOMI-HOSK-SHAD-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-110.jpg?v=1720138773"},{"product_id":"ilex-vomitoria-female-virginia-dare","title":"Ilex vomitoria (female) 'Virginia Dare'","description":"\u003cp\u003eYaupon holly is a small-leaved evergreen shrub or small tree of the southeastern United States, native from coastal Virginia south to Texas. Adaptable to a fault, salt tolerant, drought tolerant, and willing in sun or shade, yaupon takes shearing as gracefully as any boxwood, which has made the species a Southern mainstay for hedges, topiary, and clipped evergreen structure. The tiny white spring flowers are easy to miss, but the bees do not miss them, and on female plants they give way to a heavy crop of small, translucent berries that hang on well into winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLong before any of that, yaupon was the source of the caffeinated 'black drink' of the coastal tribes, brewed from roasted leaves and twigs for ceremony and trade, and later taken up as a coffee or tea substitute by inhabitants of the Virginia and Carolina coast. North America's only caffeine-bearing native plant, yaupon is enjoying a quiet revival today as a homegrown tea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Virginia Dare' is an orange-fruited selection made in Dare County, North Carolina by B. Bauers, Sr., and named for Virginia Dare, the first English child born in North America. Taller than many forms and reliably fruitful, these plants suit a clipped or informal hedge. 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'Selected Red' is one of the good ones, a female clone Woodlanders propagated from a group of hollies planted many years ago in Aiken, South Carolina, chosen for very good foliage and an abundant crop of bright red fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat sets this clone apart is the form. 'Selected Red' grows into a dense, pyramidal tree with a slight, graceful weep to the branches, a softer silhouette than the stiff pyramids of many American hollies, and the habit is close enough to the old variety 'Croonenburg' that the two may be one and the same. Dense to the base and evergreen, the tree reads as a solid green cone all year, then lights up with red in fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name opaca means dull or opaque, for the matte, un-lacquered surface of the American holly leaf, which sets the species apart from the glossy Asian and English hollies. Native across the eastern United States, from Massachusetts to Florida and west to Texas, American holly grows on well-drained woodland soils and ranks among the most widely planted native evergreens, valued for form, winter berries, and the birds the fruit feeds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a female, 'Selected Red' needs a male American holly in range to set that heavy red crop, so pair the tree with a pollinizer such as 'Jersey Knight' nearby. Slow and long-lived, the plant makes a fine specimen, a tall evergreen screen, or a woodland-edge anchor, in full sun to part shade and moist, acidic, well-drained soil. The berried branches are a natural for holiday greenery, and the winter fruit feeds songbirds when little else is left.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057890857075,"sku":"ILEX-OPAC-FEMA-SELE-01G","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-105.jpg?v=1720138803"},{"product_id":"ilex-verticillata-x-serrata-sparkleberry","title":"Ilex verticillata x serrata 'Sparkleberry'","description":"\u003cp\u003eIlex 'Sparkleberry' is the aristocrat of the winterberries, a vigorous hybrid holly bred from the native winterberry, Ilex verticillata, and the Japanese winterberry, Ilex serrata, and introduced by the U.S. National Arboretum. The cross brought hybrid vigor and a heavier, longer-holding crop: tall, upright stems that shed their leaves in fall and blaze with bright red fruit, persisting so well that the berries often hang on into spring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat performance has made 'Sparkleberry' one of the most celebrated deciduous hollies in cultivation, an award-winning selection grown for the sheer quantity and staying power of the fruit. A mature plant reaches ten to twelve feet, upright and eventually a little leggy at the base, which is a feature rather than a flaw: the bare lower stems lift the berry display to eye level and above, and lower plants can be set in front to hide the ankles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinterberry is a deciduous holly of eastern North American wetlands, and the Japanese parent brings extra vigor, but the family rules still hold: only female plants fruit, and only with a compatible male blooming nearby. 'Sparkleberry' is pollinized by a male of the same parentage, 'Apollo' or 'Raritan Chief', set within about fifty feet; the long-blooming 'Raritan Chief' is an especially reliable partner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive 'Sparkleberry' the moist to wet, acidic soil winterberry loves, in full sun to part shade, and let the tall shrub command a rain garden, a pond edge, a wet swale, or the back of a border, spectacular through the winter and feeding birds into spring. The long-lasting cut branches are prized for holiday arrangements, and a group planted with one male carries a dependable, long-running show.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057892135027,"sku":"ILEX-VERT-X-SERR-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Ilex_Sparkleberry_1_1024x1024_2x_42a4f9dd-1440-4966-bc17-996c20961773.webp?v=1750801208"},{"product_id":"ilex-verticillata-maryland-beauty","title":"Ilex verticillata 'Maryland Beauty'","description":"\u003cp\u003eIlex verticillata 'Maryland Beauty' is winterberry doing what winterberry does best, and a little more of it. This native deciduous holly loses the leaves in fall to reveal bare gray stems packed with fruit, and 'Maryland Beauty' was singled out from the northern strain for an especially heavy crop of bright red berries, a dense, glowing display that holds through the winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere many winterberries grow tall and upright, 'Maryland Beauty' stays low and spreading, a rounded three to five feet, easy to place at the front of a border or in a mass. The finely toothed, spineless leaves are quiet and green through summer, so the plant asks little attention until fall, when the fruit arrives and the show begins. Birds eventually strip the berries, but not before they have carried the garden through the hardest months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinterberry belongs to the wet ground of eastern North America, swamp edges and pond margins from Canada to the Gulf, and the name verticillata, whorled, describes how the small flowers cluster along the twigs. Only females fruit, and only with a male of matching bloom time nearby. 'Maryland Beauty' is an early-blooming northern type, so the dwarf early male 'Jim Dandy' is the right partner, set within about fifty feet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive 'Maryland Beauty' the moist to wet, acidic soil winterberry loves, in full sun to part shade, and let the low, heavy-fruited shrub light a rain garden, a pond edge, a wet swale, or the front of a mixed border through the coldest months. A few cut branches of red berries are a classic holiday green, and the winter fruit feeds songbirds when little else remains.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057892200563,"sku":"ILE-VERT-MARY-BEAU-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-412.jpg?v=1720138837"},{"product_id":"ilex-verticillata-red-sprite","title":"Ilex verticillata 'Red Sprite'","description":"\u003cp\u003eIlex verticillata 'Red Sprite' is winterberry shrunk to garden size and cranked up in intensity. Where much of the landscape fades to gray, this compact native holly turns into a beacon, the bare stems packed with heavy clusters of large, glossy scarlet berries that color in fall and cling deep into winter, a living ember at the pond's edge or against fresh snow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarely three to five feet tall and about as wide, dense and neatly rounded, 'Red Sprite' is the smallest of the well-known winterberries, sometimes sold under the older names 'Compacta' or 'Nana'. That restraint is the whole appeal: the plant delivers the full winterberry fireworks on a frame that fits a small garden, a foundation planting, or the front of a wet border, where a six-foot clone would overwhelm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinterberry is a deciduous holly of eastern North American wetlands, a shrub of swamp edges, pond margins, and wet woodland from Canada to the Gulf, and the finely toothed, spineless leaves look nothing like a Christmas holly until the flowers appear. Only female plants fruit, and only with a male blooming at the same time nearby. 'Red Sprite' flowers early, so an early male such as 'Jim Dandy' is the standard partner, and the long-blooming 'Raritan Chief' will serve as well, set within about fifty feet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive 'Red Sprite' the moist to wet, acidic soil the species loves, in full sun to part shade, and the little shrub will earn a place three seasons out of four and steal the show in the fourth. Robins, cedar waxwings, and mockingbirds strip the berries through late winter, so a planting feeds birds when the landscape is otherwise lean. A few cut stems bring the same red glow indoors for the holidays. Abundance, as this small holly proves, need not be large to matter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057892495475,"sku":"ILE-VERT-RED-SPRI-01G","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Ilexverticillata_RedSprite_OSU.jpg?v=1762292253"},{"product_id":"ilex-verticillata-winter-red-female","title":"Ilex verticillata 'Winter Red (female)'","description":"\u003cp\u003eIlex verticillata 'Winter Red' is the winterberry other winterberries are measured against. A large, rounded female of the southern strain, six to ten feet high and wide, this native holly drops the summer leaves to reveal bare stems packed with profuse, glossy red berries, and where lesser clones fade, 'Winter Red' holds the color clean and bright deep into the season, right through the coldest months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat staying power is why so many gardeners and florists call it the best of the winterberries. The berries color early and cling for months, brilliant against snow, gray bark, or a plain fence, and cut branches are a staple of holiday arrangements, holding fruit indoors for weeks. A mature stand in full berry is one of the great sights of the winter garden, and the fruit feeds robins, waxwings, and mockingbirds when little else remains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinterberry is a deciduous holly of eastern North American wetlands, native from Canada to the Gulf along swamp edges, pond margins, and wet woods, and the finely toothed, spineless leaves give no hint of holly until the flowers open. Only females fruit, and only with a male blooming at the same time nearby. 'Winter Red' flowers late, so a late male such as 'Southern Gentleman' or 'Apollo' is the right partner, set within about fifty feet; the early 'Jim Dandy' will not do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive 'Winter Red' the moist to wet, acidic soil the species loves, in full sun to part shade, and let the big, rounded shrub anchor a rain garden, a pond edge, a wet swale, or the back of a mixed border, glorious in winter and quietly green the rest of the year. Plant several together for a solid wall of berries, and keep a late-blooming male in range to insure the crop.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057892954227,"sku":"ILEX-VERT-WINT-RED-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-409.jpg?v=1720138849"},{"product_id":"ilex-latifolia-alva","title":"Ilex latifolia 'Alva'","description":"\u003cp\u003eIlex latifolia is the holly that stops people in their tracks, an evergreen tree carrying the largest leaves of any holly, glossy, leathery, and up to eight inches long, more like a magnolia or a loquat than the little prickly leaves most gardeners expect. The edges are finely serrated rather than spined, the surface a deep polished green, and on female trees such as 'Alva' tight clusters of small red berries stud the branches through fall and winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Latin latifolia says it plainly, broad-leaved, and the common names follow suit: lusterleaf holly for the shine, tarajo holly for the Japanese name of the tree. Native to China and Japan, the species has long been prized in Asian and Southern gardens alike for that bold, glossy foliage, and the horticulturist Michael Dirr, no easy grader, wrote that although not common in the South, lusterleaf holly certainly ranks among the best of the broadleaf evergreens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Alva' is a fine female clone of the species, selected by Ted Stephens of Nurseries Caroliniana and named for his brother. As a female, the plant sets the red berry clusters that make lusterleaf holly a winter feature, and carries the same vigorous, pyramidal habit and huge lacquered leaves that recommend the species. A named clone such as this one takes the guesswork out of a plant grown from variable seed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive lusterleaf 'Alva' room, because the tree builds into a stately pyramid of twenty-five feet and more. The plant wants sandy, well-drained, acidic loam in full sun to a little shade, and earns a place as a specimen, a tall evergreen screen, or an architectural anchor near a large building, where the outsized leaves read from a distance. Cut branches of berried, glossy foliage make a dramatic holiday green. Set a male holly within range for the fullest fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057893642355,"sku":"ILE-LATI-ALVA-01G","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-100.jpg?v=1720138867"},{"product_id":"ilex-cassine-female","title":"Ilex cassine (female)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIlex cassine, the dahoon holly, is an elegant evergreen native of the southern wetlands, and this is a fruiting female, the sex that carries the crop of small, glossy red berries. Unlike the fiercely spined American holly, dahoon holds narrow, smooth-edged, bright green leaves that are a pleasure to plant near a path, and in fall and winter the branches string themselves with scarlet fruit against that clean green. Grown as a large shrub or a small tree, dahoon is one of the most useful evergreen hollies for the South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA word every holly buyer should hear: this is a dioecious plant, with male and female flowers on separate plants, so a female like this one will only set berries when a male dahoon, or another compatible holly blooming at the same time, grows within reach of the bees. Plant a male somewhere nearby and the reward is heavy, reliable fruit; plant a female alone and the berries will not come. The small greenish-white spring flowers feed bees, and the winter berries feed the birds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDahoon is a plant of swamps, pond edges, and wet flatwoods along the coastal plain from the Carolinas to Texas, and takes happily to wet ground, standing water, and heavy rain where many evergreens sulk. In the garden the plant is more forgiving still, thriving on ordinary moist, acid soil in full sun or part shade, asking mainly that the roots not bake dry. Growth is steady rather than fast, building over the years into a dense, glossy screen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse Ilex cassine as an evergreen screen or hedge, a berrying specimen, or a small tree for a rain garden, a pond margin, or any low, wet spot that needs a handsome, non-prickly evergreen. The persistent red fruit brings birds through the winter, and the smooth foliage makes the plant safe and pleasant beside walks and seating. For a native, wildlife-friendly, wet-tolerant evergreen holly, few match the easygoing dahoon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057894953075,"sku":"ILE-CASS-FEMA-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Ilexcassine_female.jpg?v=1784325148"},{"product_id":"ilex-spinigera-female","title":"Ilex spinigera (female)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIlex spinigera is a holly with a deep past, a rare evergreen from the Hyrcanian forests that ring the southern Caspian Sea in northern Iran. Small, glossy, dark green leaves edged with fine spines clothe a dense small tree or large shrub, and on female plants such as this one bright red berries glow against the foliage through fall and into winter, the classic holly effect on an uncommonly ancient plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose Hyrcanian woods are living museums. When Ice Age glaciers swept away the broadleaf forests of Europe, a band of them survived along the sheltered Caspian slopes, and Ilex spinigera is one of the relics that came through, a remnant of an ancient Arcto-Tertiary flora and one of only a handful of hollies native to southwest Asia. To grow this holly is to keep a small piece of that vanished forest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe epithet spinigera means spine-bearing, for the neatly toothed, prickly leaf, and the plant is a close eastern cousin of the familiar English holly, Ilex aquifolium, which it resembles in miniature. Shade is no trouble; in the wild the holly grows in the forest understory beneath taller trees, so dappled light or even fairly deep shade suits the plant well, an unusual and useful trait in an evergreen holly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRarely offered and little known in American gardens, Caspian holly makes a distinctive evergreen specimen for a shaded or woodland-edge spot, a collector's holly, or a quiet, glossy screen in part to full shade and moist, well-drained soil. As a female, this plant needs a male holly in range to set the red fruit. Give the roots shelter from harsh, drying winter wind, and pair the shrub with other broadleaf evergreens under high shade.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057895149683,"sku":"ILEX-SPIN-FEMA-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1531.jpg?v=1720138896"},{"product_id":"ilex-x-koehneana-ilex-latifolia-x-i-aquifolium-hohman","title":"Ilex x koehneana (Ilex latifolia x I. aquifolium) ‘Hohman’","description":"\u003cp\u003eIlex x koehneana, the Koehne or chestnut-leaf holly, is a bold hybrid between the Asian lusterleaf holly, Ilex latifolia, and the European holly, Ilex aquifolium, combining the big glossy leaf of one parent with the classic red berries and spined margins of the other. 'Hohman' is one of the finest of the group for the South: a large, dense, pyramidal evergreen carrying handsome dark green, serrated leaves and heavy crops of bright red fruit, building to twenty-five feet in time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a holly in the grand, Christmas-card manner, the lustrous spined leaves and scarlet berries that the European holly made famous, but on a plant far better suited to Southern heat than true English holly, thanks to the tough Asian parent. The berried branches are the classic holiday green, and songbirds strip the fruit through winter; as with all hollies, the berries feed the birds and not people, being mildly toxic if eaten. A female clone, 'Hohman' needs a compatible male holly within range to fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe plant was raised by, or named for, the late Henry Hohman of the famous Kingsville Nurseries in Maryland, a legendary source of choice woody plants in the mid-twentieth century. The Koehne hybrids from that era have proven themselves durable, handsome landscape evergreens across the middle and lower South, and 'Hohman' remains among the best known.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive 'Hohman' the space a large pyramidal holly deserves, twenty to twenty-five feet tall and roughly half as wide, and use the plant as a specimen, a tall clipped or informal hedge, a screen, or a dark evergreen anchor at the corner of a large building. The glossy foliage reads well from a distance and takes shearing; the red winter fruit shows best against the deep green. Full sun to part shade and good, well-drained soil suit the plant, with a male holly nearby for the fullest crop.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057896132723,"sku":"ILEX-KOEH-HOHM-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2024.jpg?v=1720138918"},{"product_id":"ilex-myrtifolia-x-opaca-sand-pond","title":"Ilex myrtifolia x opaca 'Sand Pond'","description":"\u003cp\u003eIlex 'Sand Pond' is a Woodlanders introduction with a good story and better berries, a natural hybrid between two southeastern native hollies: the stately American holly, Ilex opaca, and the fine-textured myrtle-leaf holly, Ilex myrtifolia. The cross carries small, narrow, glossy evergreen leaves midway between the parents, on a plant that colors up each fall with an unusually heavy set of large red berries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plant came out of the wild. We found and propagated 'Sand Pond' from a single tree growing in Screven County, Georgia, in a spot where both parent species happened to grow close enough to cross on their own. Spontaneous hybrids like this one turn up now and then where two hollies overlap, and now and then one proves worth naming; this seedling, with the narrow evergreen leaves and generous fruit, was clearly one of those.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn leaf and effect 'Sand Pond' recalls the popular 'Foster' holly, itself a hybrid of Ilex opaca with the dahoon, Ilex cassine, and shares that neat, small-leaved, upright look that has made Foster hollies a landscape staple. The difference is in the fruit: 'Sand Pond' sets the red berries thickly and large, a bright winter show, and we expect the plant to build into a small to medium evergreen tree that may yet become far more widely grown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a Southern garden 'Sand Pond' offers the best of the pyramidal evergreen hollies in a slightly smaller, distinctly heavy-fruiting package: a specimen, a tall screen, a corner anchor, or a wildlife planting where birds work the winter berries. Give the tree full sun to part shade and moist, well-drained soil, and set a male holly within range to insure the crop. A cut branch of the berried evergreen foliage is a natural for the holidays.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057896394867,"sku":"ILE-MYRT-OPAC-SAND-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1822.jpg?v=1720138928"},{"product_id":"illicium-floridanum-halleys-comet","title":"Illicium floridanum 'Halley's Comet'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe anise trees, genus Illicium, are aromatic broadleaf evergreens of the star-anise family, Schisandraceae, named from the Latin illicium, an allurement, for the scent of their leaves. Illicium floridanum, the Florida anise, is the Southeast's own contribution, a shade-loving evergreen native along shaded streambanks and seepage slopes from the Florida panhandle to Louisiana. 'Halley's Comet' is one of the best selections, a vigorous but compact form with especially dark foliage and a heavy show of velvety, star-shaped flowers in deep wine-red.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn bloom the flowers seem to hover against the glossy leaves like a scatter of dark red stars, and the plant flowers more freely than the run of the species, giving real drama to the spring shade garden. The leathery, three to six inch leaves are anise-scented when crushed, pleasant and characteristic of the genus, though, like all Florida anise, the foliage and fruit are toxic and not the culinary star anise of the spice rack. That same chemistry makes the plant reliably deer-resistant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Halley's Comet' was selected by the plantsman David Ellis and introduced by the former Magnolia Nursery of Chunchula, Alabama, a nursery long respected for its work with Southern natives. The selection stands out for intense flower color, strong repeat performance, and a denser, more compact habit than the wild plant, usually settling around six to eight feet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFlorida anise wants what few flowering shrubs will take: real shade and steady moisture. Use 'Halley's Comet' for woodland borders and shaded foundations, massed beneath canopy trees, or as an evergreen screen in a moist, shady spot where little else will bloom. The dark foliage gives year-round structure, and the rich flowers bring unexpected depth to spring shade. Ferns, evergreen hollies, native azaleas, and hydrangeas make natural companions; keep the soil from drying, and mulch to mimic the woodland floor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057897214067,"sku":"ILLI-FLOR-HALL-COME-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1371.jpg?v=1720138953"},{"product_id":"iris-fulva","title":"Iris fulva","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong the wild irises of North America, \u003cem\u003eIris fulva\u003c\/em\u003e is the one that broke the color rules. Where the family runs to blues, purples, and yellows, the copper iris opens in warm coppery red to burnt orange, a shade no other native iris offers, carried on slender stems in late spring and early summer with a soft, slightly drooping poise. The Latin \u003cem\u003efulva\u003c\/em\u003e, meaning tawny or reddish-brown, records that unusual color, and the common names, copper iris and red iris, say the same thing more plainly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst described in the early nineteenth century, \u003cem\u003eIris fulva\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to the small group of five species known as the Louisiana irises, native to the swamps, ditches, and floodplains of the Deep South and the lower Mississippi valley, from Louisiana north to southeastern Missouri and southern Illinois. That singular red pigment made the copper iris invaluable to plant breeders, since crossing the species into the other Louisiana irises is how red and copper first entered the modern hybrids. One of the earliest such crosses, W. R. Dykes's 'Fulvala', paired the copper iris with the blue \u003cem\u003eIris brevicaulis\u003c\/em\u003e and helped launch the whole hybrid race.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe color is not for show alone. Unlike most irises, which court bees, \u003cem\u003eIris fulva\u003c\/em\u003e is pollinated chiefly by hummingbirds, and the ruby-throated hummingbird works the red flowers for nectar as the blooms open in early summer. That partnership ties the plant to the seasonal rhythm of the southern wetlands, where the copper iris grows in ground that floods and recedes with the year. Those same wetlands are now much reduced by drainage and development, so the wild populations have thinned, and growing a nursery-raised plant is a small way of keeping a diminishing native in cultivation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the garden the copper iris asks for the wet feet most perennials refuse, thriving at a pond or stream edge, in a rain garden, in a bog bed, or in any sunny to lightly shaded border kept reliably moist, and taking even standing water in stride. The two to three foot stems rise well above the fans of sword-shaped leaves, so the coppery flowers read from a distance and draw hummingbirds close. Pair the plant with other moisture lovers such as Louisiana iris hybrids, swamp hibiscus, canna, and native sedges, mass a few for the fullest effect, and divide the rhizomes every few years to keep a colony vigorous.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057900228723,"sku":"IRIS-FULV-01G","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Irisfulva-RW_Smith.jpg?v=1724024591"},{"product_id":"jasminum-beesianum","title":"Jasminum beesianum","description":"\u003cp\u003eJasminum beesianum, the red jasmine or Bee's jasmine, breaks the mold of a genus known for white and yellow flowers. This vigorous, semi-evergreen twining climber from the mountains of Yunnan and Sichuan carries small, star-shaped blooms in a deep rose to velvet-red, an unusual color among the jasmines, softly and sweetly fragrant, opening in late spring over slender stems and small, pointed green leaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe red flowers are followed by shining black berries, another departure from the familiar jasmines, and the plant climbs and scrambles readily up a fence, trellis, or arbor, or tumbles down a bank, building a dense tangle of fine stems in a season. Named for the Bees Ltd. nursery that introduced many Chinese plants to Western gardens in the early twentieth century, red jasmine remains an uncommon and collectible vine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive red jasmine a support and full sun to part shade, in ordinary well-drained soil, and the vine grows quickly and flowers freely. Hardy to about zone 7, the plant takes light frost but appreciates a sheltered spot in the colder end of the range, and can be cut back after flowering to keep it in bounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse red jasmine on a trellis, arbor, fence, or pergola near a path or seating area where the rosy, fragrant flowers can be enjoyed at close range, or let the vine cascade over a wall or bank. Pair with white or yellow jasmines for a run of contrasting color and scent, or grow among other flowering climbers. The late-spring bloom and unusual red color make the plant a fine conversation piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlower photo courtesy of Tom Christian.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057901932659,"sku":"JASM-BEES-01G","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/jasminum-beesianum-TomChristian.jpg?v=1725730729"}],"url":"https:\/\/woodlanders.net\/collections\/fiery-blooms.oembed?page=6","provider":"Woodlanders","version":"1.0","type":"link"}