{"title":"Large Shrubs","description":"\u003cp\u003eLarge shrubs are the big, multi-stemmed woody plants that fill the space between trees and the lower border, mature specimens that can stand head-high and well beyond. Broad, dense, and long-lived, they do the heavy structural work of a planting: blocking a view, softening a boundary, and holding the garden's shape through every season. Where a tree needs decades and a wide footprint, a large shrub delivers much of the same presence in a fraction of the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the landscape they are the workhorses of privacy and structure. A single specimen becomes a focal point; a row makes an informal hedge or screen far handsomer than a fence; a backdrop of them sets off everything planted in front. Many flower, fruit, or turn color as well, so the same plant that screens the neighbors also earns a place on looks alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe grow large shrubs because they give so much cover and structure for the space they take, and because a mixed shrub layer is one of the richest habitats a garden can offer. Dense woody growth shelters and feeds nesting birds, and flowering and fruiting shrubs carry pollinators and wildlife through much of the year. A boundary planted in varied shrubs does more for the living garden than any wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive them room to reach full size, so they never need fighting back with the shears, and choose for the site rather than pruning against it. For the tallest framework above them see our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/canopy-trees\"\u003eCanopy Trees\u003c\/a\u003e, for evergreen structure our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/conifers\"\u003eConifers\u003c\/a\u003e, and for the layer below our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/small-medium-shrubs\"\u003eSmall \u0026amp; Medium Shrubs\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"aesculus-parviflora-var-serotina","title":"Aesculus parviflora var. serotina","description":"\u003cp\u003eA wide-spreading, suckering, multi-stemmed deciduous shrub of slow, deliberate growth, \u003cem\u003eAesculus parviflora\u003c\/em\u003e var. \u003cem\u003eserotina\u003c\/em\u003e carries the same upright white bottlebrush flowers as the bottlebrush buckeye, but opens them two to three weeks later, well into the heat of summer. The overall shape is irregular and almost stratified, the branches layering horizontally, and the medium to dark green leaves turn a clear yellow in fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe late bloom is the point. Where the straight species flowers in early July, var. serotina extends the bottlebrush season into August, a gift of nectar for hummingbirds, swallowtails, and native bees when little else in the shade garden offers any. A vigorous grower that may reach a larger size than the species, the late bottlebrush buckeye suits shrub borders and large mass plantings, and seldom needs pruning, though an old colony can be cut to the ground to renew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive var. serotina room to form a broad colony in moist, well-drained, organic soil, in part shade or, with steady moisture, more sun. Paired with the earlier-blooming species, a planting can carry six weeks of white bottlebrush spikes across July and August. The seeds, like those of every buckeye, are poisonous if eaten, so site with that in mind near paths and play areas.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057807036531,"sku":"AESC-PARV-SERO-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Aesculusparvifloravar.serotinaWoodlanders-1.jpg?v=1750639271"},{"product_id":"aesculus-parviflora","title":"Aesculus parviflora","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn July, when most of the shade garden has settled into a holding pattern of foliage and waiting, \u003cem\u003eAesculus parviflora\u003c\/em\u003e opens for business. The timing is the first surprise. The flowers are the second. Each panicle is a foot or more of tightly packed white tubular blooms with conspicuous pink-red anthers projecting beyond the petals, the whole spike held upright above the foliage like something assembled by a botanical committee that could not decide between elegant and extravagant and chose both. A mature colony in full bloom in midsummer is among the more spectacular events available to the shade gardener, and the hummingbirds and swallowtails arrive reliably.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBottlebrush buckeye is native to a fairly narrow range of rich woodlands in Alabama, Georgia, and northern Florida, which makes the extraordinary cold hardiness something of a botanical anomaly. The shrub performs without complaint through Zone 4 winters, traveling far further from home than most plants of that provenance. The Royal Horticultural Society granted the Award of Garden Merit, which is their way of saying this shrub does what a good shrub should, without drama, across a wide range of conditions. They are correct.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBottlebrush buckeye spreads steadily by suckers, forming broad colonies that expand with a patience and deliberateness suited to a woodland setting. The large, palmately compound leaves, each with five to seven leaflets, give the planting a lush, tropical-adjacent quality through summer. Fall color is a clear, warm yellow that holds for several weeks before the foliage drops cleanly. In winter the bare architecture of a mature colony, all arching stems and layered horizontal branching, has a presence of its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAesculus parviflora\u003c\/em\u003e is the kind of plant serious gardeners wonder why they waited to acquire. The usual reason is that the shrub looks modest in a one-gallon pot. That does not last.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057807069299,"sku":"AESC-PARV-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-5.jpg?v=1720136187"},{"product_id":"alnus-maritima","title":"Alnus maritima","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeaside alder is a medium to large deciduous shrub, sometimes a small tree, with glossy, oval, toothed leaves and a habit of doing things backward. Where every other native alder flowers in spring, \u003cem\u003eAlnus maritima\u003c\/em\u003e opens elongated catkins in the fall, then carries small, woody, pinecone-like fruits through winter for quiet ornament.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe native range is as unusual as the bloom time. Seaside alder grows wild in only a few places: a limited area on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and adjacent Delaware, a single area in Oklahoma, and a more recently discovered population in north Georgia. Genetic studies suggest these widely separated stands are distinct subspecies, the remnants of a once far more widespread plant. Our material comes from the eastern population.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRare in cultivation but easy and adaptable, seaside alder takes to moist, sunny places and to ordinary garden soil, and like other alders fixes nitrogen at the roots to enrich poor ground. A fine choice for a pond edge, a rain garden, a streambank, or any damp spot needing soil stabilization, where the fall catkins and persistent little cones earn a second look. Hardy in zones 6 to 9.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057808576627,"sku":"ALNU-MARI-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2112.jpg?v=1720136254"},{"product_id":"amelanchier-x-grandiflora-autumn-brilliance","title":"Amelanchier x grandiflora 'Autumn Brilliance'","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmelanchier x grandiflora is the apple serviceberry, a naturally occurring cross between two eastern natives, the downy serviceberry and the smooth Allegheny serviceberry, and 'Autumn Brilliance' is the selection that made the group famous. The Illinois nurseryman Willet Wandell found this seedling in his Urbana nursery and introduced the plant to gardens in 1986 under U.S. Plant Patent 5,717, choosing the seedling above all for the blaze of autumn color behind the name. Decades on, 'Autumn Brilliance' remains the most widely planted serviceberry in the trade, prized for a vigorous, gracefully branched frame and reliable good looks in every season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe show begins in early spring, when clusters of white flowers open from pink-tinged buds ahead of the leaves and draw the season's first bees. By June the blossoms have become small pomes that ripen through red to deep purple-black, sweet and blueberry-like with a whisper of almond, so good that cedar waxwings, robins, and bluebirds usually harvest the crop before a cook can. Summer foliage is a clean blue-green, and then autumn arrives with the trait Wandell selected, a vivid wash of orange and red held more evenly and brilliantly than on ordinary seedlings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eServiceberries carry a tangle of country names. Shadbush recalls the spring bloom that once coincided with the shad running up the rivers; Juneberry marks the month the fruit ripens; and serviceberry itself most likely traces to Sorbus, the rowans with similar small pomes. The fruit has fed people here for a very long time, gathered fresh, cooked, or dried by many Indigenous nations and later baked by settlers into the pies and preserves that keep the Juneberry name alive. Apple serviceberry offers that same harvest on a manageable garden tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the reasons 'Autumn Brilliance' earned such a following is unusually good resistance to the rust, leaf spot, and mildew that trouble lesser serviceberries, though no serviceberry is wholly immune. Grow the tree in full sun to part shade and moist, well-drained soil, as a single-stemmed specimen for the lawn or a multi-stemmed clump at the woodland edge. Underplanted with ferns, spring ephemerals, redbud, and dogwood, this small tree rewards the gardener in every season, from the first white bloom to the smooth gray winter bark.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057809166451,"sku":"AMEL-GRAN-AUTU-BRIL-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"amelanchier-x-grandiflora-princess-diana","title":"Amelanchier x grandiflora 'Princess Diana'","description":"\u003cp\u003eApple serviceberry, Amelanchier x grandiflora, is the graceful natural hybrid of two eastern native serviceberries, the downy and the smooth Allegheny, and 'Princess Diana' is among the loveliest selections of the group. The plant appeared in a cultivated garden in Elm Grove, Wisconsin in the mid-1980s and was granted U.S. Plant Patent 6,041 in 1987, chosen for a wide, gracefully spreading canopy, generous white bloom, and fall color that arrives early and holds late. Where many serviceberries grow stiffly upright, 'Princess Diana' reaches outward, a small tree with the airy, layered poise the name suggests.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn April, before or with the first leaves, the branches fill with showy white flowers rising from yellow buds, an early feast for bees. The new foliage unfolds with a bronze cast, deepens to green through summer, then turns brilliant scarlet and red in autumn, the trait that anchors the plant's reputation. Between bloom and fall color come the berries, small pomes ripening from red to deep bluish-purple by June, sweet and blueberry-flavored, and stripped almost overnight by waxwings, robins, and thrushes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe old names tell the plant's story. Shadbush marks a bloom timed to the spring shad runs, Juneberry names the month the fruit ripens, and serviceberry most likely descends from Sorbus, the rowans whose small pomes the fruit recalls. Serviceberry fruit has long been food across North America, eaten fresh, dried into cakes, and pounded with fat and meat into pemmican by many Indigenous peoples, and later gathered by settlers for the Juneberry pies and jams still made today. 'Princess Diana' brings that heritage into a compact, ornamental tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGardeners reach for 'Princess Diana' where a graceful small tree is wanted, as a lawn specimen, at a woodland edge, or among naturalized native plantings, and growers report good resistance to the leaf spot that can mar serviceberry foliage. Give full sun to part shade and average, well-drained soil, with even moisture through establishment. The reward is a true four-season tree: white flowers, June fruit for the birds, early and lasting red fall color, and a smooth gray winter silhouette spreading wide against the sky.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057809264755,"sku":"AMEL-GRAN-PRIN-DIAN-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"arbutus-unedo","title":"Arbutus unedo","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe strawberry tree is a handsome broadleaf evergreen, a large shrub or small tree hung in fall and early winter with clusters of nodding, urn-shaped, pinkish-white flowers, just as the previous year's fruit ripens to warty, orange-red, strawberry-like globes. Flowers and fruit on the branches at once is the particular charm of \u003cem\u003eArbutus unedo\u003c\/em\u003e, and the glossy leaves and shredding cinnamon bark hold interest year round.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fruit is edible, if not exactly wonderful eaten fresh; the species name unedo comes from the Latin unum edo, I eat only one, an old joke at the fruit's expense. Cooked, the story changes: across the Mediterranean the berries become jams, jellies, and sweets, and in Portugal the famous fire-water medronho is distilled from them. A relative of the azaleas and blueberries, the strawberry tree happily breaks the family rule and grows without very acid soil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSlow but durable, the strawberry tree suits a sunny to lightly shaded spot in well-drained soil, as a specimen, a screen, or the anchor of a Mediterranean or wildlife planting; the late flowers feed bees when little else blooms, and the fruit feeds birds. Drought tolerant once established, and one of the most ornamental evergreens for a warm, dry garden. Native to the Mediterranean and western Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057811165299,"sku":"ARBU-UNED-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1708.jpg?v=1720136400"},{"product_id":"asimina-obovata","title":"Asimina obovata","description":"\u003cp\u003eAsimina obovata is the bigflower pawpaw, a Florida native that carries the largest, showiest blooms in a genus better known for its fruit. The pawpaws are the temperate outliers of the Annonaceae, the custard apple family whose tropical members include the cherimoya, soursop, and ylang-ylang, and Asimina alone among them ventures north into the sandy uplands of the American Southeast. The genus name descends from an early Native American word for the fruit, carried into English through the French asiminier, while obovata describes the egg-shaped leaves, broadest above the middle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn spring, as the new leaves emerge, the plant opens creamy white flowers several inches across, far larger and paler than the deep maroon bells of the common pawpaw, Asimina triloba. Beetles and flies do the pollinating, and by late summer some flowers give way to aromatic, fleshy green fruits holding large brown seeds. The fruit is edible, though most gardeners rate the flavor below that of the northern pawpaw and grow this species instead for the flowers, the foliage, and the wildlife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a plant of the Florida scrub, at home in the peninsula's dry sandhills and sandy ridges where little else will grow, in blazing sun and sharp, fast-draining sand. Bigflower pawpaw earns a place in the native and butterfly garden as a larval host for the zebra swallowtail, whose caterpillars feed only on Asimina leaves, and for the pawpaw sphinx moth as well. Where the common pawpaw wants rich, moist woodland, this southern cousin asks for the opposite, lean sand and excellent drainage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive Asimina obovata full sun to light shade and the sandiest, sharpest soil available, with little competition from neighbors. Like other pawpaws the plant sends down a deep taproot and resents disturbance, so site the shrub thoughtfully and let the roots settle undisturbed. In a sandhill restoration, a xeric native border, or a butterfly garden, the big white spring flowers and clean summer foliage make this rare Florida endemic a quietly distinctive choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotos courtesy of Jay Horn and Alan Cressler\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057813393523,"sku":"ASIM-OBOV-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/AsiminaobovataJayHorn.jpg?v=1784297285"},{"product_id":"aucuba-sp-himalayica","title":"Aucuba sp. (himalayica?)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is one of the quiet mysteries of the Woodlanders collection, a narrow-leaved evergreen aucuba received years ago from the U.S. National Arboretum under the name Aucuba himalayica, and quite possibly the slender japonica form known as 'Longifolia' instead. Either way the plant is a striking departure from the usual aucuba, trading broad, spotted leaves for long, willow-like, finely serrated blades of glossy dark green. Woodlanders has not seen this aucuba offered anywhere else, which makes the plant a true collector's piece whatever the correct name proves to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe uncertainty is real and worth telling honestly. A genuine Himalayan species, Aucuba himalaica, does exist, distinguished from the Japanese aucuba chiefly by narrow leaves and fine hairs on the young shoots and flower stalks, where japonica is smooth. Because the narrow-leaved japonica form 'Longifolia' looks much the same, plants passed along as himalaica are often one or the other, and only a close look at the new growth settles the question. Woodlanders offers the plant as received, an intriguing narrow-leaf aucuba awaiting a final verdict.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhatever the label, this is an aucuba, and aucubas are among the most forgiving of shade evergreens, tolerant of deep shade, dry soil, city pollution, and general neglect. The genus name comes from the Japanese aokiba, for the evergreen leaves, and like the rest of the clan this narrow-leaved form is dioecious, with small maroon spring flowers and, on pollinated females, red berries in the cooler months. The elegant, tapered foliage gives the plant a lighter, more refined look than the broad-leaved aucubas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet this narrow-leaved aucuba in part to full shade in good, well-drained soil with steady moisture, as a foundation shrub, a shaded border filler, or a distinctive evergreen in a woodland planting. The slim leaves read almost like bamboo from a distance and pair well with ferns, hellebores, and other shade companions. As with all aucubas, the leaves and berries can upset the stomach if eaten, a small caution to weigh where children play.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057816047731,"sku":"AUCU-HIMA-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-281.jpg?v=1720136557"},{"product_id":"aucuba-chinensis","title":"Aucuba chinensis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAucuba chinensis\u003c\/em\u003e is the lesser-known Chinese cousin of the familiar gold dust plant, a rare, broad, evergreen shrub for deep shade. The thick, leathery, dark green leaves are coarsely toothed and dusted with scattered yellow flecks, holding their color year round and bringing a glossy, tropical-looking presence to a shaded bed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the Japanese aucuba, this species carries male and female flowers on separate plants, the small purple-maroon spring flowers giving way, on female plants with a male nearby, to glossy red berries. Native to China, undemanding and shade-loving, Aucuba chinensis wants moist, well-drained soil and shelter from hot sun, and asks little once settled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse Chinese aucuba in a shaded border, a woodland planting, or a dim courtyard, where the bold evergreen leaves fill space and lift the gloom. A fine choice for the difficult dry-shade and city corners that defeat most shrubs, and a rare alternative to the common gold dust plant. Plant a male and a female together for the red winter berries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057816178803,"sku":"AUCU-CHIN-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1080.jpg?v=1720136564"},{"product_id":"aucuba-japonica-golden-king","title":"Aucuba japonica 'Golden King'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is a strange romance buried in this plant's history, and 'Golden King' sits on the male side of it. \u003cem\u003eAucuba japonica\u003c\/em\u003e reached England in 1783 as a single female, the yellow-flecked gold dust shrub that Victorians went on to plant by the thousand. Aucuba carry their sexes on separate plants, and for eighty years every aucuba in the country was a clone of that one female, waiting on the famous red berries that never came, because Japan had sealed its borders and no male could be had.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly when Robert Fortune reached the newly opened country around 1861 and sent a male home did the first berried plant appear, a sensation when shown in London in 1864. Someone later wrote a whole book about the saga and called it \u003cem\u003eA Virgin for Eighty Years\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Golden King' is a male clone, and a generous one. They set no berries themselves, being the wrong sex for it, but they are exactly what you plant beside a female aucuba to draw hers into color, all the while wearing some of the boldest variegation in the genus: large, leathery, glossy leaves splashed and marbled in gold, often more gold than green, no two quite alike. They came to us through Michael Dirr's evaluations of the best forms. Give them the hard places, dry shade under trees, a sooty city corner, the spot where nothing else will brighten, and they will hold their light there straight through winter. The old Japanese name for them, aoki, means blue tree, from a time when one word still covered blue and green both.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057816244339,"sku":"AUCU-JAPO-GOLD-KING-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Aucuba_Golden_King_Woodlanders_d533d976-e5af-45e4-9463-61d69d8c03eb.webp?v=1773768142"},{"product_id":"bejaria-befaria-racemosa","title":"Bejaria (Befaria) racemosa","description":"\u003cp\u003eBejaria racemosa, the tarflower, is one of the odd and lovely surprises of the Florida scrub, a heath-family shrub that looks nothing like the rest of the clan. Where blueberries and azaleas carry small, fused, bell-shaped blooms, tarflower opens wide flowers of seven separate petals, white to soft pink and sweetly fragrant, held in loose summer racemes. The genus honors the eighteenth-century Spanish botanist Jose Bejar, and though older books spell the name Befaria, botanists have since settled on Bejaria.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe common names tarflower and flycatcher come from the plant's strangest habit. The buds, young twigs, and flowers are coated in a sticky, resinous film that catches small insects like flypaper, and whether the shrub draws any nourishment from the trapped visitors or simply fends off nectar thieves is a question botanists still debate. Either way, the large native bees strong enough to work the blooms pass freely, doing the real business of pollination while ants and small flies stay stuck at the door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTarflower belongs to the fire-shaped scrub and sandy pine flatwoods of Florida and the neighboring Deep South, thriving on lean, acid sand where richer soil and standing water would spell trouble. Like the blueberries and azaleas nearby, the plant depends on sharp drainage and an acid root run, and repays those conditions with fragrant summer flowers and a quietly picturesque, often twisting form. Bees, butterflies, and at least one native moth make use of the plant through the season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeldom offered in the trade and famously particular about transplanting, tarflower is a collector's shrub and a conversation piece for the native, xeric, or pollinator garden. Give Bejaria racemosa full sun to light shade and very sandy, sharply drained, acid soil, and resist the urge to pamper the roots. Sited well, this uncommon Florida native rewards the patient gardener with sticky, seven-petaled, honey-scented flowers found on nothing else in the border.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057817489523,"sku":"BEJA-BEFA-RACE-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Bejaria_Befaria_racemosaAlanCresslar.jpg?v=1784298434"},{"product_id":"buddleia-davidii-attraction","title":"Buddleia davidii ‘Attraction’","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuddleia davidii\u003c\/em\u003e 'Attraction' is a more compact butterfly bush than the usual run of the species, forming a rounded shrub of arching branches lined with gray-green leaves. From summer into fall, royal red, fragrant flowers gather in nodding panicles six to ten inches long, drawing butterflies and bees in profusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFast and easy in full sun and well-drained, moist, fertile soil, 'Attraction' can be cut back hard in spring before new growth, since the bloom comes on the current season's wood. As with the species, deadhead the spent flowers before they set seed: this keeps the rebloom coming and keeps the self-sowing in check, which matters where the common butterfly bush is unwelcome. Native, in the species, to China.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse 'Attraction' in a sunny border, a cottage garden, or a pollinator planting, where the deep red panicles draw butterflies through the heat of summer. Compact at four to six feet, and a strong red in a genus mostly given to purples and pinks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057818636403,"sku":"BUDD-DAVI-ATTR-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/0D0AA9F4-DA1B-4E53-B86F-DB6F7570DF21.jpg?v=1772026729"},{"product_id":"buddleia-alternifolia","title":"Buddleia alternifolia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuddleia alternifolia\u003c\/em\u003e, the fountain or alternate-leaf butterfly bush, stands apart from the usual butterfly-bush crowd. A deciduous shrub native to northwestern China, the fountain butterfly bush is the most cold-hardy of the genus, and is grown above all for a weeping form and an early-season flood of fragrant, lavender-purple bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn shape the shrub recalls a small weeping willow, the long, arching branches cloaked in narrow, silver-green leaves set alternately, a key difference from other butterfly bushes. In late spring and early summer the branches erupt into a waterfall of softly scented blossoms, densely packed along the previous year's wood, an elegant cascade and a magnet for butterflies and bees.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause the flowers come on old wood, prune right after bloom to protect the next year's display. Left unpruned, the fountain butterfly bush settles into a naturally flowing eight-to-fifteen-foot fountain, a striking specimen for a cottage garden, an informal border, or a naturalistic planting. Tough and drought-tolerant once established, and reliably hardier than the modern butterfly-bush hybrids.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057818734707,"sku":"BUDD-ALTE-01G","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/0B9E2FF4-06DE-4F18-A79F-BF748D95DA4C.jpg?v=1772275407"},{"product_id":"buddleia-lindleyana","title":"Buddleia lindleyana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuddleia lindleyana\u003c\/em\u003e, Lindley's butterfly bush, is the elegant outlier of the genus, an open, arching shrub from China hung in summer with long, slender, gracefully curved racemes of purple-violet flowers. Where most butterfly bushes carry stiff cone-shaped panicles, this one drapes, the curving spikes nodding from the tips of the branches from June until frost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTough and fast, Lindley's butterfly bush thrives in full sun or part shade in well-drained soil and shrugs off heat and drought. The flowers, though unscented, draw butterflies and hummingbirds all season. One caution: the shrub spreads by underground suckers and can colonize over time, so site where the roaming can be managed or where a thicket is welcome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse Lindley's butterfly bush at the back of a sunny border, along a fence, or in a naturalistic planting where the arching, dark-leaved form and curved violet racemes can be appreciated. Eight to ten feet, with a wilder, more graceful habit than the common butterfly bushes. Deer tend to leave the foliage alone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057818833011,"sku":"BUDD-LIND-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-290.jpg?v=1720136691"},{"product_id":"buddleia-x-weyeriana-honeycomb","title":"Buddleia x weyeriana ‘Honeycomb’","description":"\u003cp\u003eA yellow-flowered butterfly bush, \u003cem\u003eBuddleia\u003c\/em\u003e x \u003cem\u003eweyeriana\u003c\/em\u003e 'Honeycomb' is a vigorous hybrid of \u003cem\u003eBuddleia globosa\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBuddleia davidii\u003c\/em\u003e that the late Dr. Michael Dirr judged better than the older 'Sungold'. The plant came to Dirr from Crathes Castle Garden in Scotland, bought as the variety 'E.H. Wilson' but proving to be a very different and superior yellow butterfly bush, named 'Honeycomb' and a standout in Georgia trials, flowering as late as Thanksgiving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe honey-scented, creamy-yellow to golden-orange flowers gather in rounded clusters, like little globes, from midsummer well into late fall, on both new and old wood, a long and generous nectar source for butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds. As a hybrid, 'Honeycomb' sets little or no viable seed, a well-behaved, non-self-sowing alternative to the common butterfly bush.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant 'Honeycomb' in a sunny border, a cottage garden, or a pollinator planting, where the unusual gold flowers and long season earn a place; the blooms are good for cutting too. Six to eight feet, fast and tough, deer-resistant, and drought-tolerant once established. Cut back in late winter to keep the shrub bushy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057818898547,"sku":"BUDD-X-WEYE-HONE-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1217.jpg?v=1720136694"},{"product_id":"buddleia-davidii-x-globosa-miss-ruby","title":"Buddleia davidii x globosa \"Miss Ruby\" PP 19,950","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Miss Ruby' is the butterfly bush that finally cracked the color barrier: a striking, near-sterile hybrid of \u003cem\u003eBuddleia davidii\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBuddleia globosa\u003c\/em\u003e carrying racemes of bright, purplish pink, a magenta few other butterfly bushes can touch. The shrub was bred by Dr. Dennis Werner at the JC Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh, North Carolina, the source of our cuttings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA relatively new introduction, 'Miss Ruby' won first place in the Royal Horticultural Society's 2008 butterfly-bush trials and has been a favorite since. Compact and free-flowering, fragrant, and drawing butterflies and hummingbirds all season, the shrub sets almost no viable seed, so the magenta show comes without the self-sowing of the old kinds. Plant in full sun in well-drained, fertile soil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse 'Miss Ruby' in a sunny border, a cottage garden, or a pollinator planting, where the hot magenta reads against silver and green. Cut the shrub back hard in spring once new growth shows, and the flowers return on the current season's wood by summer. Four to six feet, and one of the most colorful butterfly bushes going.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057818964083,"sku":"BUDD-DAVI-MISS-RUBY-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/13D11DDA-0B97-4E9A-B090-D50EB7C24DA5.jpg?v=1727143282"},{"product_id":"buddleia-davidii-x-fallowiana-lochinch","title":"Buddleia davidii x fallowiana 'Lochinch'","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Lochinch' is one of the most refined of the butterfly bushes, a cross of \u003cem\u003eBuddleia davidii\u003c\/em\u003e and the silvery \u003cem\u003eBuddleia fallowiana\u003c\/em\u003e that takes the best of both: dense, fragrant panicles of soft lavender-blue, each tiny flower lit by a small orange eye, over handsome gray-green, almost silver foliage. Compact and rounded, the shrub blooms all summer into fall on the new growth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEasy and tough, 'Lochinch' wants full sun and well-drained soil, takes heat and drought in stride once established, and draws butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds the length of the season. Deer tend to pass the gray foliage by. Deadhead spent panicles to keep the bloom coming and to limit self-sowing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse 'Lochinch' in a sunny border, a cottage garden, or a pollinator planting, where the silvery leaves and lavender-blue flowers cool a hot summer scheme. Cut the shrub back hard in early spring before new growth, since the flowers come on the current season's wood. Five to seven feet, fragrant, and reliably floriferous.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057818996851,"sku":"BUDD-DAVI-FALL-LOCH-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/9E08DEB6-2752-4A0F-A693-D65CF078CCB3.jpg?v=1724938156"},{"product_id":"buddleia-cordata-ssp-tomentella","title":"Buddleia cordata ssp. tomentella","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuddleia cordata\u003c\/em\u003e ssp. \u003cem\u003etomentella\u003c\/em\u003e is a striking, large evergreen shrub with broad, somewhat heart-shaped leaves in soft gray-green, the lighter undersides flashing in every breeze. First collected by Yucca-Do Nursery near Los Lerios in Coahuila, Mexico, the plant was originally offered by Woodlanders as Buddleia sp. 'Los Lerios', and the true identity was later confirmed by Dr. Jon Lindstrom of the University of Arkansas, a longtime customer and plantsman of note.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRemarkably hardy for a Mexican evergreen, reliable in zone 8, this robust shrub thrives in a sunny site with well-drained soil. In summer, dense terminal clusters of tiny greenish to creamy-white flowers gather at the branch tips, an unusual but quietly handsome display. In form and effect, Dr. Lindstrom notes, the shrub can resemble a sumac, lending a soft, architectural presence to the garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a specimen or part of a mixed border, Buddleia cordata ssp. tomentella offers year-round gray-green foliage, summer bloom for pollinators, and a fascinating backstory, a plant for the collector and the adventurous gardener. Drought-tolerant once established.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057819062387,"sku":"BUDD-CORD-SSP-TOME-01G","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Buddleiacordatassp.tomentellaWoodlanders1.jpg?v=1755116341"},{"product_id":"buddleia-loricata","title":"Buddleia loricata","description":"\u003cp\u003eBuddleia loricata, the mountain sagewood, is a rugged evergreen from the high Drakensberg of South Africa and Lesotho, and one of the hardiest of all the butterfly bushes. Unlike the familiar deciduous buddlejas, this species holds narrow, crinkled, sage-like leaves the year round, dark green above and felted silvery white beneath. The species epithet loricata means clad in mail or armored, a nod to that tough, quilted foliage, while the genus honors the English clergyman-botanist Adam Buddle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the warm months the shrub carries dense terminal heads of small, sweetly honey-scented flowers, creamy white to pale yellow and often lit with an orange eye. Butterflies and bees work the fragrant clusters as they do on the common buddlejas, but here the show comes on an evergreen, mountain-tough plant rather than a rangy summer one. In the wild, mountain sagewood grows among rocks and in sheltered, moist gullies high on the slopes, well above six thousand feet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat alpine origin gives the mountain sagewood an unusual toughness, shrugging off frost and cold that would cut down more tender kin, and standing among the most cold-hardy buddlejas in cultivation. Give the shrub full sun and well-drained soil, where the plant asks little once established and holds a neat, bushy form on non-invasive roots. Little known and still largely untested in American gardens, this is a plant for the curious grower and the collector.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet Buddleia loricata where the fragrance and the pollinators can be enjoyed, in a sunny border, a rock garden, a low hedge, or a butterfly planting. The evergreen, silver-backed foliage earns a place even out of bloom, and the sweet summer flower heads bring in the winged traffic buddlejas are loved for. For a fragrant, frost-hardy, evergreen alternative to the usual butterfly bush, the mountain sagewood is a quietly rewarding choice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057819193459,"sku":"BUDD-LORI-01G","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/buddleja-loricataJohnGrimshaw.jpg?v=1784298596"},{"product_id":"buddleia-salvifolia","title":"Buddleja salviifolia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuddleja salviifolia\u003c\/em\u003e, the sage-leaf butterfly bush, is a medium to large evergreen shrub from the sun-soaked hillsides of South Africa, and despite the exotic origin the plant has proven remarkably hardy in southeastern gardens, coming through winters at the University of Georgia's Athens trials with quiet resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn late spring and early summer the shrub carries airy clusters of pale lavender flowers, soft in tone and lightly fragrant. But the real draw is the foliage: long, sage-like leaves, softly textured and silvered beneath, a rare and quiet kind of beauty. As Dr. Michael Dirr once noted, \"All visitors to our trials have become enamored with the foliage.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSage-leaf butterfly bush also has a long life in South African folk medicine, an herbal tea and remedy in the home gardens of its native range. Grown here for the silvered foliage and the lavender bloom, the plant wants a sunny spot with well-drained soil and room to take its natural, upright, architectural form: a fine specimen, a texture contrast in a dry or Mediterranean-style garden, or a backbone for a wildlife planting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotos courtesy of Julian Sutton and John Wursten.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057819226227,"sku":"BUDD-SALV-01G","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/buddleja-salviifolia-1AndrewLargeWoodlanders2.jpg?v=1747576534"},{"product_id":"buxus-balearica","title":"Buxus balearica","description":"\u003cp\u003eA seldom-offered evergreen, \u003cem\u003eBuxus balearica\u003c\/em\u003e is the bold-leaved boxwood: an upright shrub or small tree related to the common boxwood, \u003cem\u003eBuxus sempervirens\u003c\/em\u003e, but with noticeably larger, glossier leaves. Less cold-hardy than the common box, the Balearic boxwood is a fine choice for warmer gardens, where the big evergreen leaves give a lush, polished presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to the Balearic Islands of the Mediterranean and to southwestern Spain, the Balearic boxwood is easy and adaptable in sun or semi-shade in well-drained soil, drought-tolerant once established, and deer-resistant like the rest of the genus. Small, fragrant, greenish-yellow flowers open in spring, modest but pleasantly scented.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse Balearic boxwood as a specimen, an informal evergreen screen, or a bold-textured anchor in a Mediterranean or dry garden, where the large leaves set the plant apart from the fine-leaved common boxwoods. A rare and handsome evergreen for the warm-climate garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotos in bloom courtesy of Missouri Botanical Garden.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057819816051,"sku":"BUXU-BALE-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/BuxusbalearicaMBG2.jpg?v=1730297635"},{"product_id":"caesalpinia-gillesii","title":"Caesalpinia gilliesii","description":"\u003cp\u003eFew hardy shrubs put on a show like Caesalpinia gilliesii, the desert bird of paradise, whose summer flowers open clear yellow and send out a spray of long scarlet stamens like fireworks caught mid-burst. A legume from the dry country of Argentina and Uruguay, long naturalized across the American Southwest, the plant carries ferny, blue-green, mimosa-like foliage that sets off the flamboyant bloom. Botanists now place the species in the genus Erythrostemon, meaning red stamen, though gardeners still know the plant as Caesalpinia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe species name honors John Gillies, the Scottish physician who botanized in Argentina in the early nineteenth century. Borne in tall upright clusters through the heat of summer, the flowers draw hummingbirds and pollinators by day, and the long stamens and evening scent suggest a partnership with night-flying moths as well. Flat, curved seed pods follow, ripening until they twist open and fling the seeds free.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a plant for hot, dry, difficult places, thriving in full sun and sharp drainage where heat and drought defeat softer shrubs. Fast-growing and root-hardy, Caesalpinia gilliesii stays evergreen in warm winters and dies back to the ground in colder ones, resprouting in spring, which lets the plant reach into the middle South and the high desert alike. A word of caution belongs on the label, since the green seed pods and seeds are toxic if eaten, worth keeping in mind where children and pets roam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse Caesalpinia gilliesii as a xeric specimen, an informal screen, or a background shrub in a hot, sunny border, water-wise landscape, or desert-style planting. The lacy foliage and spectacular summer flowers bring an exotic, almost tropical air to ground that stays bone dry, and the hummingbird traffic is a bonus. Give the plant full sun, excellent drainage, and room to show off, and expect little trouble in return.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotos courtesy of Miguel Gonzalez\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057819979891,"sku":"CAES-GILL-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/CaesalpiniagilliesiiMiguelGonzalez.png?v=1784299361"},{"product_id":"callicarpa-americana","title":"Callicarpa americana","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe genus name says it: \u003cem\u003eCallicarpa\u003c\/em\u003e, from the Greek kallos, beauty, and karpos, fruit, beautiful fruit, a genus named for exactly what it does. \u003cem\u003eCallicarpa americana\u003c\/em\u003e, the American beautyberry, is the southeastern native that gives the genus a calling card. From late August into November, the plant sets dense clusters of small drupes in a luminous magenta-purple, a color that registers as almost unreal in the late-summer landscape, somewhere between fuchsia and amethyst, with no real precedent among native fruits. The berries gather in tight whorls around the stem at every leaf node, all the way down the arching branches, so that a mature shrub in October looks less like a shrub bearing fruit than a ribbon of purple glass beads strung along the branches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe species ranges across the southeastern coastal plain and Piedmont, west into Texas and northern Mexico, with outlier populations in Bermuda, the Bahamas, and Cuba, growing along forest edges, in pine flatwoods, on old-field margins, and in the dappled understory of mixed hardwood-pine canopies. So much a part of the southern landscape that to many southerners the beautyberry feels native to memory itself, the shrub has only really been embraced as a garden plant in recent decades. William Bartram, the eighteenth-century Quaker naturalist whose Travels (1791) remains the foundational botanical document of the American South, described Callicarpa in the Carolina and Georgia woods he walked, and the southern poet Kathryn Stripling Byer used the beautyberry in her poem Beautyberry as a figure for endurance, beauty in the face of adversity, a fair description of how the plant actually lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe other story is more recent. In the rural Mississippi of his grandfather's generation, the USDA botanist Charles Bryson had been told that crushed beautyberry leaves, rubbed on the skin or stuffed under a farm animal's harness, kept biting insects away. Bryson passed the tip to Charles Cantrell, a chemist at the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Oxford, Mississippi, and Cantrell and colleagues isolated three terpenoid compounds from the leaves: callicarpenal, intermedeol, and spathulenol. In peer-reviewed testing against the mosquitoes that carry yellow fever and malaria, callicarpenal worked at roughly 79 percent the strength of DEET; against the blacklegged ticks that carry Lyme disease, and lone star ticks, callicarpenal was statistically equal to DEET; against fire ants, also effective. The USDA patented the compounds. The grandfather was right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, the American beautyberry is a forgiving, durable, slightly unruly deciduous shrub, four to six feet tall and as wide, with an open, arching frame that takes a light pruning in late winter to stay compact and fruit heavily. The shrub blooms and fruits on new wood, so cutting back to twelve or eighteen inches each spring sharply increases the show. The early-summer flowers are small and pale lavender-pink, pretty up close, easy to miss from a distance, and busy with native bees and small butterflies. But the fruit is the event: more than forty species of southeastern birds work the clusters in fall and winter, from bobwhite and cardinals to mockingbirds and thrashers, along with deer, raccoons, foxes, and opossums. The berries are mildly edible, long used for jelly, though the wildlife usually clears them faster than any cook could.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the native gardener, the wildlife gardener, the ethnobotanist, or anyone who wants to plant a real piece of the flora of the American South: the plant Bartram saw, the plant Bryson's grandfather knew, the plant the USDA validated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/woodlanders.net\/blogs\/news\/the-tale-of-callicarpa-americana-beauty-berries-and-botanical-magic\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eClick here for our in-depth article on this plant.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057820274803,"sku":"CALL-AMER-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Callicarpa_americana_close_up.jpg?v=1777573718"},{"product_id":"callicarpa-americana-bok-tower","title":"Callicarpa americana ‘Bok Tower’","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCallicarpa americana\u003c\/em\u003e 'Bok Tower' is the white-fruited form of the American beautyberry, swapping the species' electric magenta for clusters of clean, pearly white berries that ring the arching stems in late summer and fall. The pale fruit is cool and luminous, lovely against the green leaves and a striking foil to the purple-berried kinds, and just as good for the birds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe selection comes from Polk County, Florida, chosen by Jonathan Shaw at Bok Tower Gardens, and performs best in warm southern zones where winters stay mild. Blooming a little later than the species, 'Bok Tower' carries small white flowers in summer before the white berries follow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse white beautyberry in a shrub border, a naturalized planting, or a native garden, where the white fruit lights a shaded spot and plays against darker foliage and the purple beautyberries. Like the species, the leaves are the famous southern insect repellent, and the shrub fruits best cut back hard in late winter. A five-to-seven-foot native for warm gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057820962931,"sku":"CALL-AMER-BOK-TOWE-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/9A3E38AB-C67C-49B2-B03E-690FBE66BD77.jpg?v=1727119296"},{"product_id":"callicarpa-formosana","title":"Callicarpa formosana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCallicarpa formosana\u003c\/em\u003e, the Taiwan beautyberry, is a handsome deciduous shrub that lines the stems with vivid purple berries in fall, the clusters glowing against the fading leaves for strong late-season color. Native to Taiwan and southern China, the Taiwan beautyberry is built for warm climates and keeps a fuller, more robust frame than the smaller Asian beautyberries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmall pink-lavender flowers open in summer before the purple fruit follows, and birds work the berries through fall and winter. Easy and undemanding, the shrub wants full sun to light shade and well-drained soil, and holds a compact shape once established.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse Taiwan beautyberry in a shrub border, a mixed bed, or a wildlife planting, where the purple fall fruit suits both formal and naturalistic schemes. Like the rest of the genus, the shrub fruits on new wood, so a hard late-winter cut keeps the shrub compact and fruitful. A five-to-six-foot beautyberry for the warm-climate garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotos courtesy of the JC Raulston Arboretum.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057821192307,"sku":"CALL-FORM-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/JMW4199.jpg?v=1720557306"},{"product_id":"callicarpa-americana-welchs-pink","title":"Callicarpa americana ‘Welch's Pink’","description":"\u003cp\u003eEveryone who grows the native beautyberry knows the plant by the autumn display: those improbable whorls of magenta-purple fruit circling every stem like something a florist arranged and forgot to bill for. 'Welch's Pink' is that plant, in a color the species was not supposed to have.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatt Welch found the original while working at the SFA Mast Arboretum and the Pineywoods Native Plant Center in Nacogdoches, a single wild plant fruiting clear, warm pink where every neighbor fruited purple. Michael Dirr, not one to leave a question unanswered, grew out several thousand seedlings expecting the color to break apart. None did. Every one came true. What Welch found in the East Texas piney woods proved genuinely stable, a new expression baked into the genetics rather than a fluke of one season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe berries are larger than the typical species and carry a clear, bright pink, not pastel, not blush, but a frank, saturated color that reads from a distance and holds through the first hard frosts. The fruit whorls encircle each stem from August through October and often persist into winter, until the birds decide otherwise. Before any of that, small pink flowers appear in midsummer, modest enough to miss, vivid enough to be glad you didn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeeds come true to the pink, so a naturalized colony stays a colony, with no purple reversions drifting back through the planting over time. In a woodland edge, a rain-garden margin, or a border where autumn needs something to say for itself, 'Welch's Pink' makes the point plainly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057821257843,"sku":"CALL-AMER-WELC-PINK-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Callicarpaamericana_Welch_sPink_KeithMearns.jpg?v=1784801111"},{"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-paludosus-hybrid","title":"Callistemon paludosus (hybrid?)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn evergreen bottlebrush with arching to pendulous branches and dark green, lance-shaped leaves, \u003cem\u003eCallistemon paludosus\u003c\/em\u003e carries terminal, pink bottlebrush spikes freely in midsummer, an unusual color in a genus mostly given to red. Relatively cold-hardy for a bottlebrush, this is a graceful, easy shrub for a hot, sunny spot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pink flowers raise a question: in the wild the straight Callistemon paludosus is described as yellow-flowered, so this plant may be a hybrid with one of the red-flowered species. The trail behind this plant is a long one, reaching Woodlanders from Joe Levert of Augusta, Georgia, by way of Tom McClendon before him and, most likely, Yucca-Do Nursery in Texas before that, which raised the original from seed sent by the University of California, Santa Cruz. A long journey for a fine plant for the sunny garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse the pink bottlebrush in a sunny border, a hot bank, or a coastal planting, where the arching branches and pink brushes draw hummingbirds and bees through the heat of summer. Drought tolerant once established, and a distinctive pink note among the usual reds. 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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","title":"Calycanthus floridus","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome plants are loved for how they look. \u003cem\u003eCalycanthus floridus\u003c\/em\u003e is loved for how they smell, which is a different and older kind of attachment. The flowers are strange and handsome in their own right, an inch or two across, dark maroon going toward burgundy, built from many narrow strap-like segments with no clear line between petal and sepal, somewhere between a small magnolia and something from the bottom of the sea. But the reason this shrub has been passed down through Southern gardens for three centuries is what happens when the flowers open on a warm day: a deep fruit-bowl perfume, strawberry and pineapple and ripe banana, that drifts well beyond the plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere is the honest catch, and it is the whole reason provenance matters with this one. The fragrance is gloriously inconsistent. Grown from seed, the scent varies wildly plant to plant, some intoxicating, some barely there, which is why old garden wisdom says to smell before you buy and why the good forms have always been passed hand to hand rather than left to chance. The leaves and bark carry their own spice when bruised, so even between bloom and a fragrance you can rely on, there is something to crush between your fingers on the walk past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe history runs deep. Calycanthus came into cultivation in 1726 and never left; Jefferson planted nineteen of them at Monticello in 1778, recording them under the country name \"bubby flower,\" and the shrub has carried a small constellation of names ever since, Carolina allspice, sweet Betsy, sweet bubby, strawberry-bush. The flowers were once tucked into the top drawer of a dresser to scent the linens, which tells you most of what you need to know about how people have felt about them. This is an heirloom in the truest sense, a plant kept alive by being wanted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey make a dense, rounded shrub of six to nine feet, suckering gently into a colony over time, and they are as easygoing as they are old-fashioned: untroubled by pests, indifferent to soil, happy from full sun into real shade. There is a tradeoff worth knowing. In full sun they flower and scent most heavily but spread more freely; in shade they grow slower and stay more contained. Either way the foliage turns clean gold in fall and the curious urn-shaped pods hang on into winter. Native to the woodlands of the Southeast, \u003cem\u003eCalycanthus floridus\u003c\/em\u003e asks for almost nothing and gives back a fragrance you will cross the yard for.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Bare Root (~2')","offer_id":42820149018739,"sku":"CALY-FLOR-BARE","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"1 Gallon","offer_id":42820149051507,"sku":"CALY-FLOR-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/CalycanthusfloridusWoodlanders1MBG.jpg?v=1738787407"},{"product_id":"calycanthus-floridus-athens","title":"Calycanthus floridus 'Athens'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCalycanthus floridus\u003c\/em\u003e 'Athens', also circulated under the name 'Katherine', is a yellow-flowered selection of the Eastern sweetshrub, a deciduous native of the Southeastern woodlands long grown for fragrance, adaptability, and strange, many-tepaled flowers. Where the wild plant blooms a deep maroon, 'Athens' opens soft, buttery yellow, an unexpected and elegant turn on a familiar shrub.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pale flowers carry a ripe, almost tropical perfume, closer to melon and pineapple than the strawberry scent of the maroon forms. Bloom comes in mid to late spring and returns here and there through summer, the flowers tucked among glossy mid-green leaves that furnish the shrub densely from spring to the clear yellow of autumn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis selection was shared with the plantsman Dr. Michael Dirr by Jane Symmes of the now-closed Cedar Lane Farms in Madison, Georgia. Dirr named the plant 'Katherine' for his daughter, but the name 'Athens', honoring the University of Georgia town where the selection took hold, became the one most gardeners use. Dirr rated this group among the most sun and heat tolerant of all the sweetshrubs he trialed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrowing six to eight feet tall and wide, 'Athens' sweetshrub takes part shade to full sun and a wide range of well-drained soils, spreading slowly by suckers into a loose colony over time. Deer-resistant, drought-tolerant once established, and altogether low-maintenance, the shrub belongs wherever fragrance is wanted up close: a woodland border, a native planting, or beside a door or path where the scent can be caught mid-stride.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057822208115,"sku":"CALY-FLOR-ATHE-01G","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Calycanthusfloridus_Athens_JCRAWoodlanders2.jpg?v=1749161653"},{"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-hybridus-venus","title":"Calycanthus hybridus ‘Venus’","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCalycanthus\u003c\/em\u003e 'Venus' is a white-flowered sweetshrub bred by Dr. Tom Ranney at North Carolina State University, drawing on three species at once: the Eastern Carolina allspice (\u003cem\u003eCalycanthus floridus\u003c\/em\u003e), the California sweetshrub (\u003cem\u003eCalycanthus occidentalis\u003c\/em\u003e), and the Chinese sweetshrub (\u003cem\u003eCalycanthus chinensis\u003c\/em\u003e, long known as \u003cem\u003eSinocalycanthus\u003c\/em\u003e). The result is a deciduous shrub that carries the best of all three: hardiness, substance, and an unusual flower.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlump, yellow-green buds open to broad white blooms, magnolia-like and a little smaller than a star magnolia, washed with yellow and a flush of purple at the center. The flowers are fragrant, ripe and fruity in the manner of strawberries and melon, and appear from late spring into summer above glossy, dark green leaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Venus' grows upright and full, roughly five to six feet tall and wide, and asks little beyond sun or light shade and a moist, well-drained soil. Clean foliage, a long season of bloom, and a tidy, non-running habit make this hybrid an easy choice for a mixed border, a fragrant foundation planting, or anywhere a white-flowered shrub is wanted near a path or seat.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057822339187,"sku":"CALY-HYBR-VENU-01G","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Calycanthushybridus_Venus_JohnGrimshaw.jpg?v=1784858664"},{"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\/Calycanthusxraulstonii_HartlageWine_NWBotanista.jpg?v=1784858896"},{"product_id":"camellia-oleifera","title":"Camellia oleifera","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree things to know about this camellia. First, the tea-oil camellia is the most economically important non-tea member of the genus. China has cultivated \u003cem\u003eCamellia oleifera\u003c\/em\u003e for over two thousand three hundred years for the oil pressed from the seeds, a light, sweetish, monounsaturated cooking oil chemically close to olive oil (around eighty percent oleic acid in both), used for cooking, traditional cosmetics, hair tonics, and the historic rust-proofing of Japanese woodworking tools and chef's knives. Tea oil sits with olive, palm, and coconut among the four major woody oil crops on Earth. This is a working tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSecond, the tea-oil camellia is also the quiet foundation of cold-hardy camellia growing in North America, and almost no one knows it. In the late 1970s a run of brutal winters at the US National Arboretum in Washington, D.C. destroyed 941 of the 956 camellias in the collection. Among the handful that came through unharmed were specimens of \u003cem\u003eCamellia oleifera\u003c\/em\u003e. Dr. William Ackerman, then a research geneticist at the Arboretum, took notice, and beginning in 1979 crossed the cold-hardy species, especially the cultivar 'Lu Shan Snow', with \u003cem\u003eC. sasanqua\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eC. hiemalis\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eC. vernalis\u003c\/em\u003e. The resulting Winter Series hybrids, released in 1991 ('Polar Ice', 'Snow Flurry', 'Winter's Hope', 'Winter's Joy', 'Pink Icicle', 'Winter's Star', and others), are the reason camellias can now be grown reliably into USDA zone 6. Every fall-blooming Ackerman hybrid on the East Coast traces back to this one species.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThird, and this is the part most people miss on hearing the words tea-oil camellia, the plant is beautiful. Smooth, peeling, cinnamon-to-tan bark clothes mature trunks; the glossy, finely toothed, willow-textured leaves are evergreen; and single white flowers two to three inches across, sometimes flushed pink at the edge, open around a generous boss of golden stamens from October into January, carrying a soft sweet fragrance unusual among fall-blooming camellias. Spent petals drop individually, the trait growers call self-grooming, so the plant never slumps into the brown decay that troubles many older japonicas. Slow-growing and eventually ten to twenty feet over decades, the tea-oil camellia builds into a multi-trunked large shrub or a small tree, depending on the pruning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA plant for the gardener building a tea garden beside a \u003cem\u003eCamellia sinensis\u003c\/em\u003e, for the collector after the species behind every modern cold-hardy hybrid, or for anyone in zone 6 or 7 wanting a fragrant, fall-flowering evergreen with documented winter survival to fifteen below zero. A genuinely useful plant masquerading as a beautiful one, or the reverse, depending on which side you come at it from.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057822568563,"sku":"CAME-OLEI-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-307.jpg?v=1720136871"},{"product_id":"camellia-fraterna","title":"Camellia fraterna","description":"\u003cp\u003eCamellia fraterna is a camellia stripped back to wild beginnings, a species from the hills of eastern China far removed from the big, blowsy blooms of the garden japonicas and sasanquas. Where those carry a few large flowers, this one covers slender, upright branches in a snowfall of small, single, white flowers, faintly pink outside and softly fragrant, that arch the stems with their sheer number. The small, pointed evergreen leaves and open, airy habit give the plant an easy, natural grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a plant more prized by camellia breeders and collectors than known to the wider trade. Camellia fraterna belongs to a group of small-flowered, fragrant species, and hybridizers have used the plant to pass on both traits, standing behind charming miniatures such as 'Tiny Princess'. The genus name honors Georg Kamel, the Jesuit pharmacist, and the species name fraterna means brotherly, likely for a close kinship to related species, though the botanist who named the plant left no note of his reasoning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike most woodland camellias, Camellia fraterna is happiest in dappled to part shade, in acid, humus-rich soil kept moist but well drained and lightly mulched. Bloom comes in late winter into spring, early enough to lift the tail of the cold season, and the plant is slow and steady rather than rushed. Hardy to roughly USDA zone 8, this species suits the milder South and sheltered spots in cooler gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the collector, the fragrance gardener, or anyone drawn to camellias in their wilder form, Camellia fraterna offers something the showy hybrids cannot, an abundance of small, scented, honest flowers on a graceful frame. Use the shrub in a woodland border, a shaded mixed planting, or a camellia collection, where the arching, flower-laden branches read as quietly elegant. Uncommon in cultivation, this species is a find worth seeking out.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057822601331,"sku":"CAME-FRAT-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/CamelliafraternaOnlinePlantGuide.jpg?v=1784299610"},{"product_id":"camellia-sasanqua-x-reticulata-california-dawn","title":"Camellia sasanqua x reticulata 'California Dawn'","description":"\u003cp\u003eCamellia 'California Dawn' brings together two very different parents to make a large, generous flower for the far end of the year. A cross between the autumn-blooming Japanese Camellia sasanqua and the big, tender, large-flowered Camellia reticulata of Yunnan, this hybrid opens wide light-pink blooms, semi-double to loose peony form, the petals crimped and waved like crepe paper. The flowers arrive in fall and early winter, when the garden has mostly finished, and this camellia has grown and performed well in the Woodlanders garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plant is a registered cultivar with a clear pedigree: raised by Nuccio's Nurseries of Altadena, California, the seedling first bloomed in 1982 and was registered in 1989. From the sasanqua side come the early, autumn flowering and an easy tolerance of sun; from the reticulata side, the sheer size of the bloom and a measure of tenderness. The name reticulata means net-veined, for the fine netting on the leaves; sasanqua comes straight from the Japanese sazanka. The genus itself honors Georg Josef Kamel, the Jesuit botanist whom Linnaeus commemorated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive 'California Dawn' the standard camellia treatment with one nod to the reticulata blood: dappled shade to a fair amount of sun, acidic and humus-rich soil kept moist but well-drained, a cooling mulch, and shelter from hard winter wind, since the large-flowered Chinese parent makes this hybrid best in USDA zones 8 and 9. Growth is vigorous and upright, filling in faster than most camellias, so allow room for a substantial evergreen shrub.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA large pink camellia in bloom in November is a genuinely useful thing, and 'California Dawn' plays the part well: an evergreen specimen or informal screen that flowers when the borders have gone quiet, handsome against a sheltered wall, and easy in the company of azaleas, pieris, and other acid-soil evergreens. Grow this one for the season it keeps, the loose, crepe-petaled pink flowers lighting the short days when little else will.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057822666867,"sku":"CAME-SASA-RETI-CALI-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1345.jpg?v=1720136877"},{"product_id":"camellia-japonica-imura","title":"Camellia japonica 'Imura'","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Imura' is a refined white form of \u003cem\u003eCamellia japonica\u003c\/em\u003e, grown for elegant semi-double pure white flowers set against narrow, glossy evergreen leaves. The clean white bloom and slightly fine-textured foliage give the plant a quiet, luminous presence in shade, a contrast to the heavier reds and pinks that dominate the genus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe flowers open in late winter, when the cool-season garden most wants light, the white petals loose and semi-double around a center of soft yellow stamens. Like most camellias, 'Imura' is at finest in semi-shade, in sandy, slightly acidic soil kept mulched and watered, where the upright evergreen frame holds the year and the flowers read with particular clarity against a dark background.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057822765171,"sku":"CAME-JAPO-IMUR-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1293.jpg?v=1720136879"},{"product_id":"camellia-japonica-jurys-yellow","title":"Camellia × williamsii 'Jury's Yellow'","description":"\u003cp\u003eBred by Les Jury in New Plymouth, New Zealand, first flowered in 1971 and registered in 1976, 'Jury's Yellow' is the camellia that finally cracked the yellow code, or came as close as Western breeders could get before the Chinese yellow species (\u003cem\u003eCamellia nitidissima\u003c\/em\u003e) made the leap from botanical archive to nursery bench. Jury worked only with white \u003cem\u003ejaponicas\u003c\/em\u003e, betting that the gold of the stamens could be coaxed to bleed into the petaloids at a flower's center. The bet paid off. The result is an anemone-form bloom, nine clean white petals cupped around a thick boss of cream-yellow petaloids, the color of fresh butter rather than crayon yellow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStrictly speaking this is less a yellow camellia than a white camellia with a yellow heart, and that is the version with staying power. 'Gwenneth Morey' and 'Brushfield's Yellow' came out of Australia around the same time, yet 'Jury's Yellow' still turns up on the honors tables at the National Camellia Show in China nearly fifty years after registration. Among Les Jury's introductions, this was also one of the first to be self-grooming: the spent blooms drop cleanly rather than turning to brown sludge on the bush, which sounds minor and is, in truth, the difference between a camellia that earns a place and one a gardener politely ignores for nine months a year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe plant carries an upright, dense habit and dark glossy foliage, holding shape without much intervention and reading beautifully in winter against a pewter sky and bare-limbed trees. We have found 'Jury's Yellow' gracious in part shade, especially under the high canopy of pines or oaks, a forgiving anchor for a woodland border, a courtyard planting, or that particular gap beside a doorway that wants evergreen weight without volume. For the gardener who already has the reds and pinks and is ready for the quieter, more deliberate end of the camellia palette.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057822830707,"sku":"CAME-JAPO-JURY-YELL-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/BC1B208B-76DB-4655-81EC-D6E14E79BC4E.jpg?v=1771618213"},{"product_id":"camellia-x-williamsii-donation","title":"Camellia x williamsii 'Donation'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCamellia\u003c\/em\u003e × \u003cem\u003ewilliamsii\u003c\/em\u003e 'Donation' is widely counted among the finest hybrid camellias ever raised, and a long-standing favorite in our own garden. The cross is between \u003cem\u003eCamellia saluenensis\u003c\/em\u003e and the old japonica 'Donckelaeri', made by Colonel Stephenson Clarke at Borde Hill in England; the \u003cem\u003ewilliamsii\u003c\/em\u003e group to which the plant belongs began with J.C. Williams at Caerhays, whose saluenensis crosses gave the genus a new hardiness and an unmatched freedom of bloom. 'Donation' carried that promise furthest, and the Royal Horticultural Society has long honored the plant with an Award of Garden Merit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe flowers are the reason: large, semi-double, and a clear orchid-pink, up to four or five inches across, the petals threaded with faintly deeper pink veins around a center of gold stamens. Bloom comes in abundance through the mid and late season, late winter into spring, on an upright, vigorous evergreen frame clothed in glossy dark foliage. Like the better williamsii hybrids, 'Donation' drops the spent flowers cleanly rather than holding onto browning blooms, so the plant stays tidy through a long flowering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrow 'Donation' in semi-shade, in sandy, slightly acidic soil kept mulched and watered, as a specimen, an informal screen, or the flowering anchor of a shaded border. A classic for good reason, and an easy, generous camellia for the gardener who wants proven performance with the bloom to match.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057822863475,"sku":"CAME-WILL-DONA-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-312.jpg?v=1720136886"},{"product_id":"camellia-crapnelliana","title":"Camellia crapnelliana","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo camellias do most of the work in American gardens, \u003cem\u003eCamellia japonica\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCamellia sasanqua\u003c\/em\u003e, in countless named forms. The Far East holds far more, and Woodlanders is among the few nurseries offering the lesser-known species to gardeners here. \u003cem\u003eCamellia crapnelliana\u003c\/em\u003e, the Crapnell camellia, is one of the most distinctive: a slow, upright evergreen first described from Hong Kong Island and named for the collector Crapnell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe species is grown as much for bark and fruit as for bloom. Mature trunks peel and glow a warm cinnamon-red, a feature rare among camellias, and the large, dark green, finely toothed leaves give the plant real presence the year round. In late winter come the flowers: single and white, the broad petals faintly ruffled at the edge and gathered around a boss of golden stamens. They are followed by woody, globular seed capsules the size of a small orange, among the largest fruit in the whole genus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike most camellias, the Crapnell camellia is happiest in semi-shade, in sandy, slightly acid soil kept mulched and watered, sheltered from hard freezes at the cold edge of zones 8 and 9. Site this plant where the cinnamon bark can be read at close range, by a path, an entry, or a courtyard wall, and underplant with ferns and other shade lovers that will not hide the trunk. A collector's evergreen, and a quiet piece of camellia history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057824632947,"sku":"CAME-CRAP-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/CamelliacrapnellianaWoodlanders.jpg?v=1730390731"},{"product_id":"camellia-edithae","title":"Camellia edithae 'Heimudan'","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost gardeners who grow camellias know two of them. \u003cem\u003eCamellia japonica\u003c\/em\u003e opens in winter, \u003cem\u003eC. sasanqua\u003c\/em\u003e in autumn, and between the two a practiced collector can have flowers from October through March. What happens in April is generally someone else's problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Heimudan' solves that problem. A cultivar of \u003cem\u003eCamellia edithae\u003c\/em\u003e, a species from the forests of southeastern China little known in Western gardens, this plant blooms in mid to late spring, through April and into May, at the precise moment the last \u003cem\u003ejaponica\u003c\/em\u003e has finished and the garden is turning toward summer. The flowers are fully double and deep rose-red, carried at the stem tips with the density and formality the name promises. 'Heimudan' translates from Chinese as Dark Peony, accurate both as a description of the flower and as a statement of intent. The blooms are heat-tolerant in a way late-season \u003cem\u003ejaponica\u003c\/em\u003e flowers rarely manage, holding color and form through the warming days of spring rather than browning at the edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe foliage is the plant's other argument. \u003cem\u003eCamellia edithae\u003c\/em\u003e carries leaves unlike those of any other camellia in common cultivation: thick, leathery, and deeply furrowed along the veins, a strongly textured, almost sculptural surface. The undersides and the young stems are densely hairy, another trait that sets the species apart from the smooth-leaved \u003cem\u003ejaponica\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003esasanqua\u003c\/em\u003e types. This is a shrub worth growing for eleven months on foliage alone, and then flowering in the twelfth at a moment no other camellia reaches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCamellia edithae\u003c\/em\u003e grows in forests between 200 and 1,000 meters across southeastern China, a range that has produced reasonable cold hardiness for the genus. 'Heimudan' was selected in Fujian Province in 1989 as a natural seedling. Woodlanders is among the very few nurseries making this camellia available to American gardeners, which is either a statement about obscurity or about priorities. We consider it both.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057824665715,"sku":"CAME-EDIT-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/IMG-0266.heic?v=1775232481"},{"product_id":"camellia-lutchuensis","title":"Camellia lutchuensis","description":"\u003cp\u003eFragrance is the rarest thing in a camellia, and Camellia lutchuensis is the great exception, a species grown less for the size of the flower than for the scent that rises from it. The blooms are small, single, and white around a center of yellow stamens, carried in profusion on a twiggy, airy shrub, and they release a sweet, sometimes spicy perfume unusual in a genus famous for having almost none.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name records the origin. Lutchu, or Loochoo, is an old Western rendering of the Ryukyu Islands, the long arc of subtropical islands south of Japan, and the species is native there and on Taiwan, reaching only the southernmost fringe of China around Guangxi and Hong Kong. Older nursery copy that files the plant simply as Chinese sells the truth short; the heart of the range is the Ryukyus. The genus itself honors Georg Josef Kamel, the Moravian Jesuit and pharmacist who botanized in the Philippines and whom Linnaeus chose to commemorate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong camellia breeders this modest shrub is a celebrity, the fountainhead of nearly every fragrant hybrid in the trade. From the early 1960s onward, hybridizers crossed Camellia lutchuensis into garden camellias to carry the scent forward, and the parade of perfumed offspring runs long: 'Cinnamon Cindy,' 'Fragrant Pink,' 'High Fragrance,' 'Scentuous,' 'Sweet Emily Kate,' and many more, all tracing their fragrance to this one wild parent. Grown on its own roots, the species offers that heritage undiluted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCamellia lutchuensis is a touch tender, happiest in USDA zones 8 and 9, though sheltered forms have proven reasonably hardy to zone 7b, and north of that the twiggy, restrained habit takes well to a large pot that can winter under cover. Give the plant dappled shade and an acidic, moist, well-drained soil, and above all site the shrub where the nose will find it: beside a door, a path, or a window where the late-winter-into-spring scent can drift indoors. The flowers are small; the fragrance is the whole point.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057824731251,"sku":"CAME-LUTC-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1344.jpg?v=1720136914"},{"product_id":"camellia-longicarpa","title":"Camellia longicarpa","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost American gardeners know two camellias, the winter-blooming Camellia japonica and the autumn-blooming Camellia sasanqua, each in a hundred named forms. Camellia longicarpa belongs to a different and far less familiar company: the small-flowered wild camellias of section Theopsis, scarcely grown on this side of the Pacific. Woodlanders remains one of the few nurseries offering these lesser-known species to gardeners who want the wild plant rather than the show cultivar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to the ravine forests of Sichuan and western Hunan, where the plant grows as an understory shrub or small tree between roughly five hundred and seventeen hundred meters, this camellia carries slender, long-tipped leaves and small, waxy, cup-shaped white flowers, faintly fragrant, opening from late summer into autumn when almost no other camellia is in bloom. The name longicarpa means long-fruited, a nod to the unusually elongated seed capsule that sets the species apart from the rounder-fruited members of the group. Taxonomy here is unsettled; some botanists now treat Camellia longicarpa as a synonym of Camellia synaptica, and both names lead to the same slender white-flowered plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus honors Georg Josef Kamel, the Moravian Jesuit and pharmacist who botanized in the Philippines and whom Linnaeus chose to commemorate, though Kamel never laid eyes on a camellia. Like the rest of the clan, this species asks for the classic camellia site: dappled shade, shelter from harsh sun and drying wind, and an acidic, humus-rich soil kept moist but never waterlogged. The forest-ravine origin is the whole instruction, a plant of cool, leafy, half-lit places.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is no tea and no seed oil to claim here; despite the famous economic cousins in the genus, Camellia longicarpa is purely an ornamental for the collector and the shade garden. The reward is quieter and rarer than a japonica in full flush: fine, airy foliage on a graceful small tree, and a scatter of scented white cups in the shortening days of late summer, a camellia that flowers when the others have long since finished. For the gardener who already grows the common two and wants the wild original, this is a plant to seek out and a species to help keep in cultivation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057824927859,"sku":"CAME-LONG-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-306.jpg?v=1720136920"},{"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. This is a camellia for the gardener willing to wait, and patient enough to have grown past needing the flower to do all the work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057824993395,"sku":"CAME-JAPO-KUJA-TSUB-01G","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-305.jpg?v=1720136923"},{"product_id":"camellia-japonica-tama-no-ura","title":"Camellia japonica 'Tama no ura'","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Tama no ura' is among the most celebrated of all wild-found camellias, and the story is part of the plant. In 1947 a charcoal worker came upon a single old \u003cem\u003eCamellia japonica\u003c\/em\u003e, by repute some two hundred years old, growing deep in the forest near Tamanoura on Fukue Island in the Goto archipelago, off Nagasaki. The flowers stopped him: single, bright red, and edged crisply in white, a clean picotee never before recorded in the wild. 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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The leaves still make tea, so this is an ornamental and a useful plant at once, a little prettier in flower than the straight species and just as willing in the garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmall pink blooms with bright yellow stamens open in early fall, set against fine, willow-textured evergreen leaves on an upright, rounded frame. Like the species, the pink tea plant takes well to hedging, foundation use, or a large container, and the tender new flushes can be picked and brewed at home. 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Ralph Peer pioneered field recording and sits in both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Blues Hall of Fame, then turned that same restless curatorial instinct on camellias late in life, founding the Los Angeles Camellia Society in 1948 and rising to president of the American Camellia Society by 1957. The man who recorded the Carter Family also decided which sasanquas deserved to be remembered. In 1961, one of them was this one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe is, despite the species name, an American plant. 'Leslie Ann' began as a chance seedling raised by Ray Davis of Mobile, Alabama, and first bloomed in 1954. Mobile is the right birthplace for her: the city has grown camellias since a single plant arrived from Liverpool in 1838, and more than a century later that obsession was still throwing seedlings worth naming. Davis grew his out, watched the first flowers open, and recognized what most chance seedlings never earn, a reason to keep going.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat he kept is a flower that resists being called simply pink or white. The bloom opens as a tight rosette and unfurls gradually to three and a half or four inches across, white washed with rose and finished at the petal edges in a fine lavender-pink line, around a center of yellow stamens. The edging reads almost like a picotee, drawn rather than brushed. An unusual lasting quality holds each bloom close to two weeks, with a few petals twisting as they age, so an established plant in full October bloom carries a layered, slightly windblown look rather than a flat uniform one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe habit is the quiet surprise. Where most sasanquas read as dense shrubs, 'Leslie Ann' grows open and upright, and gardeners who know her keep reaching for the same comparison: the Juniper Level Botanic Garden likens the plant to a flowering cherry far more than a camellia. That openness earns a use a stiffer shrub cannot, a narrow profile for a tight space, a candidate for espalier against a warm wall, or simply a specimen given room to throw her branches. She blooms when most of the garden has finished, from mid-fall into early winter, and does it on the year's old wood without fuss.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057825222771,"sku":"CAME-SASA-LESL-ANN-01G","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Camelliasasanqua_LeslieAnn_Woodlanders1.jpg?v=1731726758"},{"product_id":"camellia-sinensis","title":"Camellia sinensis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the tea plant. Not a tea plant but the tea plant. Every cup of green tea, black tea, white tea, oolong, and pu-erh on Earth comes from a single species, \u003cem\u003eCamellia sinensis\u003c\/em\u003e. The differences in flavor and color come from the timing of the harvest and the way the leaves are handled afterward: green tea from the youngest leaves, briefly steamed; white tea from the unopened buds; black tea from fully oxidized older leaves; oolong from partial oxidation. One plant, many fates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeople have cultivated the species in China for at least three thousand years. The native range is debated, somewhere in the borderlands where southwestern China meets Myanmar, northeast India, and the eastern Himalayas, but humans have moved the plant for so long that a clean point of origin is essentially impossible to recover. Tea began as Buddhist monastic practice, became court refinement, and is now the most-consumed beverage in the world after water. \u003cem\u003eCamellia\u003c\/em\u003e honors Georg Joseph Kamel, a seventeenth-century Moravian Jesuit who worked as a pharmacist and naturalist in the Philippines and wrote widely about Asian plants, though he never actually saw a tea plant; Linnaeus named the genus for him anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat admirers of the showy \u003cem\u003ejaponica\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003esasanqua\u003c\/em\u003e camellias do not always realize is that \u003cem\u003eCamellia sinensis\u003c\/em\u003e is a fine ornamental in its own right. The leaves are smaller, narrower, and more refined than the glossy paddles of the ornamental species, fine-toothed, deep green, with a willow-like texture. Small fragrant white flowers, each with a generous boss of yellow stamens, open from late fall into early winter, often half-tucked under the foliage like a quiet detail. The plant takes well to hedging, shaping, foundation use, container growing, or simply being left alone to round out at four to eight feet. Hardier than the ornamental camellias, the small-leaved \u003cem\u003eCamellia sinensis\u003c\/em\u003e var. \u003cem\u003esinensis\u003c\/em\u003e that Woodlanders grows is reliably hardy through zone 7 and has been pushed into zone 6b with shelter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Southerners the plant carries an unexpected regional weight: South Carolina is home to the only commercial tea plantation in the continental United States, the Charleston Tea Garden on Wadmalaw Island, less than two hours from Aiken, growing \u003cem\u003eCamellia sinensis\u003c\/em\u003e for tea since the 1960s. Plant a few in the garden and you join a small, very Lowcountry tradition. A mature, well-kept plant will produce tea for a hundred years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the gardener who wants an ornamental that also does something useful, the collector ready to add the species that started it all, or anyone who has ever wanted to step out the back door, snip a handful of new leaves, and brew a pot.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057825321075,"sku":"CAME-SINE-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/ScreenShot2024-08-01at9.40.57PM.png?v=1722562931"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/collections\/Aesculusparvifloravar.serotinaWoodlanders-1.jpg?v=1773667370","url":"https:\/\/woodlanders.net\/collections\/large-shrubs.oembed?page=16","provider":"Woodlanders","version":"1.0","type":"link"}