{"title":"Coming Fall 2026","description":"\u003cp\u003eFall is the season a Southern gardener waits for, when the heat finally breaks and woody plants can go in the ground with a long, cool runway to root before spring. The plants gathered here are timed for exactly that window: shrubs and trees sized up over summer, perennials settled into their pots, ready to travel once the nights turn. Many are Southeastern natives that belong in the fall-planted border and along the restoration edge alike. Ask us to write when your choice is ready, and set the plant into the best window the calendar gives us.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"allium-cernuum","title":"Allium cernuum","description":"\u003cp\u003eA graceful native onion, \u003cem\u003eAllium cernuum\u003c\/em\u003e, the nodding onion, lifts loose clusters of pink to lavender, bell-shaped flowers that bend over in a soft arc at the top of slender stems, swaying through mid and late summer above tufts of grassy, blue-green foliage. The nodding habit gives the plant a particular charm, and the flowers draw native bees, butterflies, and other pollinators in good numbers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative across much of North America, including the piedmont and mountains of the mid-Atlantic, the nodding onion thrives in well-drained soil and full sun to part shade, tolerating rocky slopes and dry hillsides once established. Deer and rabbits leave the oniony foliage alone. The mildly oniony leaves and bulbs are edible, with a long record in Indigenous cooking and folk medicine, and the city of Chicago is thought to take the name from an Algonquin word for this wild onion. Our most ornamental native onion, easy and long-lived.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"1 Quart","offer_id":43055335800947,"sku":"ALLI-CERN-01Q","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"1 Gallon","offer_id":43055335833715,"sku":"ALLI-CERN-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/AlliumcernuumMBGWoodlanders5.jpg?v=1747170635"},{"product_id":"amelanchier-obovalis","title":"Amelanchier obovalis","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoastal serviceberry is the compact, low-growing member of a beloved native clan, a small deciduous shrub of the Atlantic coastal plain that spreads gently into colonies and opens clouds of white, five-petaled flowers in early spring, among the first shrubs to bloom as the woods wake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe spring flowers give way to small clusters of sweet, blue-purple fruit in early summer, edible straight from the bush or baked into pies and preserves, and as good for birds as for people. Native from New York and Massachusetts south to Georgia and Alabama, often in dry pine barrens and open woods, the shrub takes naturally to lean, well-drained, sunny ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanding only three to five feet, coastal serviceberry suits the small garden where the taller serviceberries would overwhelm, lovely in a native border, a wildlife planting, or a naturalized edge in sun to part shade. The early bloom, the edible berries, and the easy, colony-forming habit make this a generous, low-key native. Drought tolerant once established.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057809559667,"sku":"AMEL-OBOV-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1593.jpg?v=1720136314"},{"product_id":"aspidistra-elatior-variegata","title":"Aspidistra elatior 'Variegata'","description":"\u003cp\u003eA boldly striped form of the cast iron plant, \u003cem\u003eAspidistra elatior\u003c\/em\u003e 'Variegata' carries the same broad, leathery, evergreen blades, each brushed lengthwise with bands of creamy white over deep glossy green. The variegation lights up a shaded corner, and the toughness is all there too: this is a near-indestructible evergreen for difficult, low-light places.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA useful quirk: the white striping holds best on lean soil, so resist the urge to feed heavily, and the plant keeps the brightest variegation when grown a little hungry and somewhat root-bound. Native in parentage to China and Japan, slow and steady, with foliage that lasts for years before aging out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow variegated cast iron plant in shade to part shade, in well-drained soil, as a striking foliage accent, an evergreen groundcover under trees, or a container plant for a covered porch or a bright room indoors. The bold, architectural leaves bring structure and light to shaded plantings, and the variegation stays put rather than reverting to plain green.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057814016115,"sku":"ASPI-ELAT-VARI-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/F122E6EB-29EC-40DF-A597-9BFE0B5A8CB3.jpg?v=1724700130"},{"product_id":"aster-laevis-bluebird","title":"Aster laevis ‘Bluebird’","description":"\u003cp\u003eSmooth aster is one of the cleanest and most dependable of the fall natives, and 'Bluebird' is among the best forms. \u003cem\u003eAster laevis\u003c\/em\u003e 'Bluebird' builds an upright, vase-shaped clump of smooth, blue-green foliage, then opens, in late summer and fall, sprays of violet-blue daisies centered in gold, a generous late feast for bees and butterflies as the season winds down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA selection noted for sturdy, self-supporting stems and clean, mildew-resistant foliage that stays handsome where lesser asters tatter. Native to eastern North America, smooth aster thrives in full sun and well-drained soil, takes drought in stride once established, and asks very little. The smooth, almost waxy leaves are part of the appeal, cool blue-green all season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant 'Bluebird' in a sunny border, a meadow, or a native planting, where the violet-blue haze can close the gardening year alongside goldenrod, grasses, and other late bloomers. Deer tend to leave the foliage alone, and the strong stems rarely need staking. A pollinator magnet exactly when the season's nectar runs short.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057814540403,"sku":"ASTE-LAEV-BLUE-01Q","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-606.jpg?v=1720136500"},{"product_id":"aster-grandiflorus","title":"Symphyotrichum grandiflorum","description":"\u003cp\u003eA native aster with a regional accent. Most of the asters Americans plant are wide-ranging species that turn up from Maine to Texas and read essentially the same wherever they grow. Symphyotrichum grandiflorum is more particular, with a native range small and specific: the Atlantic Coastal Plain of Virginia and the Carolinas, plus the Piedmont of the Carolinas, and little more. A few hundred miles of sandy roadsides, dry pine-oak woods, abandoned fields, and forest edges from the Tidewater into the rolling country west of the fall line. For a gardener in the Carolinas or Georgia, this is one of the few asters that is genuinely here, a piece of the actual Atlantic Coastal Plain flora rather than a borrowed prairie species filling in for a missing native.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flower is the show. Heads an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half across, large for a wild aster, hence the species name grandiflorum, with twenty to thirty narrow ray florets in a deep, saturated violet-purple around a tight golden disk. The color carries enough blue to read cool and enough red to read warm, the kind of saturated violet that catches autumn light beautifully. The flowers open at a useful time, October into November, when most of the other asters have already finished and the garden is otherwise leaning toward seed heads, late grasses, and the first frost. Among native asters, grandiflorum is one of the latest to bloom and the largest-flowered, two genuine differentiators the more common species cannot match.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plants stand one to three feet tall on stiff, hairy, upright stems, with narrow, lance-shaped leaves and lower clasping foliage. Not a soft, billowy, fall-flowering aster, but an upright, structural one, more architectural than romantic. Dry, sandy soils suit the plant well, and poor conditions that defeat showier perennials are taken in stride, which is part of why grandiflorum has persisted along Coastal Plain roadsides where the native communities have largely disappeared. A long list of late-season insects works the flowers, including specialist Andrena bees that depend on Symphyotrichum and a few related genera for their pollen; without late asters, these bees lose their season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the gardener building a late-fall pollinator garden, anyone planting the actual flora of the Carolinas rather than a generic native mix, or the late-season designer wanting a structural, drought-tough, deep-purple punctuation when most other asters are spent, grandiflorum earns a place.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057815097459,"sku":"ASTE-GRAN-01Q","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Woodlanders_aster_grandiflorus_1.jpg?v=1730230236"},{"product_id":"bouvardia-ternifolia","title":"Bouvardia ternifolia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBouvardia ternifolia\u003c\/em\u003e, the firecracker bush, is a compact, heat-loving shrub of the southwestern United States and Mexico, hung from late spring to frost with clusters of long, slender, scarlet-red tubular flowers. Few plants pull hummingbirds in like this one: the bright tubes are pitched exactly for their bills, and the bloom keeps coming through the hottest months when little else holds color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhorls of narrow leaves clothe a tidy, two-to-three-foot frame. A creature of sun and lean, dry, well-drained ground, the firecracker bush shrugs off heat and drought and thrives where water is scarce. Native to the desert Southwest, root-hardy in zone 8 and a year-round shrub in frost-free gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant firecracker bush in a hot, sunny border, a rock or gravel garden, a dry bank, or a xeric planting, where the scarlet tubes draw hummingbirds and butterflies all season. 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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. 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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-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. 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This upright, densely leafy evergreen carries small, single, funnel-shaped flowers in soft pink, opening from late winter into spring, and stands as one of the two parents behind the celebrated Camellia williamsii hybrids that carried camellia growing into colder gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA word on the name, since accuracy matters: the correct spelling is Camellia saluenensis, for the Salween River, the great river known in China as the Nu Jiang that cuts through western Yunnan, where the plant grows wild on the mountains between the Salween and the Shweli between roughly one and three thousand meters. The trade has long shortened the epithet to saluensis, and that shorter form still lingers in older labels and in our web address, though saluenensis is the name to trust. The Scottish plant hunter George Forrest collected and introduced the species around 1917, sending seed home to J.C. Williams at Caerhays in Cornwall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt Caerhays, Williams crossed Forrest's plants with Camellia japonica and raised the first Camellia williamsii hybrids, among them 'J.C. Williams,' 'St Ewe,' and 'Mary Christian,' while at Borde Hill Colonel Stephenson Clarke used the same species to raise the most famous of them all, the soft pink 'Donation.' The williamsii hybrids inherited from this parent their hardiness, their long free-flowering season, and the tidy habit of dropping spent blooms cleanly rather than clinging to them, browned, the way a japonica will. The genus honors Georg Josef Kamel, the Moravian Jesuit whom Linnaeus commemorated, though he never saw the plant that bears his name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, treat Camellia saluenensis as the collector's original behind the famous hybrids: an upright, bushy shrub for dappled shade and acidic, humus-rich, well-drained soil, hardy through USDA zones 7 to 9 with a little shelter at the cold edge, where the species is a touch more tender than the offspring. The single pink flowers open early, when the garden is still bare, and draw the first bees; the glossy foliage holds all year. 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The pinnately compound leaves turn a warm golden brown in fall and release a clean, spicy scent when crushed, and the tree stands among the most valuable of native hosts, feeding the caterpillars of the luna moth and the great hickory horned devil. The hard, shock-resistant wood has long gone into tool handles and, famously, the smoke that flavors hickory-smoked meats.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive Carya ovata full sun and room, on moist, well-drained soil, and plant while the tree is young, since a deep taproot makes an older hickory very hard to move. This is a tree for the long view, a canopy shade tree for a large lawn, a woodland, or a wildlife planting where the nuts and autumn gold can be enjoyed for lifetimes. 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Cloudless Sulphur and Sleepy Orange butterflies find the shrub irresistible as both nectar source and larval host, and tend to arrive in numbers when the flowers open, a fact that either delights or mildly alarms a gardener, depending on how attached one is to the foliage. The caterpillars, for the record, are a vivid chartreuse and genuinely handsome. That is the bargain on offer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe taxonomists, characteristically, cannot agree on the name. \u003cem\u003eCassia bicapsularis\u003c\/em\u003e appears in the older literature; current consensus leans toward \u003cem\u003eSenna bicapsularis\u003c\/em\u003e, though the debate continues in the way botanical debates do, at length, and largely among people who care deeply. Woodlanders lists the plant as \u003cem\u003eCassia\u003c\/em\u003e here in the old tradition, without taking sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn zones 9 and warmer the shrub behaves as a large, fast evergreen reaching eight feet or more. 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From early summer into fall, creamy-white pincushion balls about an inch across stud the branches, each a sphere of tiny tubular flowers with projecting styles that lend a fireworks effect, intensely fragrant and alive with bees, butterflies, and other pollinators.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA plant of wet places in the wild, buttonbush thrives along pond edges, in rain gardens, ditches, and seasonally flooded ground, and tolerates standing water that defeats most shrubs, yet takes an ordinary garden bed in stride given sun and steady moisture. The rounded seed heads that follow the flowers persist into winter and feed waterfowl and other birds, a second season of interest after the bloom. 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The Chinese name, chuan gui, places the tree in Sichuan and the mountains of the south, where the tree grows large and the aromatic bark has long been valued.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders grows a subtropical species that has surprised us with cold tolerance: proven hardy in Aiken, South Carolina, and even at Raleigh, North Carolina, well north of where a tree of this heritage has any right to thrive. In frost-free and near-frost-free gardens, the wilson cinnamon makes a handsome, dense, broad-canopied evergreen for shade and screening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, give this tree room. Reaching well over fifty feet in China, the wilson cinnamon wants an open, uncrowded site in moist but well-drained, fertile soil, in sun or light shade. Plant as a specimen, a large evergreen screen, or the high canopy of a warm-climate garden, where the spicy-scented foliage rewards anyone who brushes past. A collector's tree, and a conversation piece for gardeners pushing the limits of subtropical evergreens.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057834496115,"sku":"CINN-WILS-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1428.jpg?v=1720137240"},{"product_id":"cistus-x-purpureus","title":"Cistus x purpureus","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe rockroses bloom as if for a single day, and in a sense they do. Each papery flower of \u003cem\u003eCistus\u003c\/em\u003e x purpureus lasts only from morning to evening before dropping, yet through late spring the shrub opens fresh bloom after fresh bloom, so the whole plant seems perpetually covered. The flowers are the draw: two to three inches wide, crushed-silk petals of pinky purple, each stamped at the base with a deep maroon blotch, a marking that earned the old garden name orchidspot rockrose. Rockroses are not roses, and are not related; the resemblance is only in the open, five-petalled face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA hybrid of two Mediterranean species, \u003cem\u003eCistus ladanifer\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCistus creticus\u003c\/em\u003e, this rockrose has been grown in gardens since the early nineteenth century and ranks among the hardiest of the clan. The narrow, dark green, faintly resinous leaves carry the aromatic, sun-warmed scent of the Mediterranean maquis, the same family of shrubs that yields labdanum, the fragrant resin long used in perfumery. Long a favorite in European and Californian gardens, this rockrose does well in the South too, given the one thing all rockroses insist on: a hot, sunny, airy site with very sharp drainage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, treat rockrose as a sun-baked Mediterranean and ask little else. Plant on a hot bank, in a gravel or dry garden, along a wall, or at the front of a sunny border, in lean, fast-draining soil and full sun, free from crowding. Drought, wind, and salt spray are all taken in stride, which makes this shrub a natural for coastal and xeric plantings. Best treated as short-lived and not moved once settled, since rockroses resent transplanting; site them right the first time and enjoy the yearly flood of bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057834823795,"sku":"CIST-PURP-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/059317F1-0A53-480D-8659-1BDAE4528F64.jpg?v=1773760417"},{"product_id":"citrus-aurantium","title":"Citrus aurantium","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe sour orange is grown across the warm world as an ornamental and even a street tree, and stands somewhat naturalized in Florida. The fruit is famous for marmalade and useful little else, since the flesh is fiercely sour and bitter, not for eating out of hand. This particular unnamed selection has a Woodlanders story: we propagated the tree from a single specimen found growing on the edge of an abandoned sandy field in a remote corner of Appling County, Georgia, with no house anywhere near. What drew us was the crop, abundant, large, and very showy, loose-skinned and easy to peel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEasy to peel, yes, and utterly inedible. The fruits tasted, in a word, nasty. So here is a handsome orange to plant purely for looks, and as a well-deserved treat for anyone inclined to help themselves to fruit that is not theirs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond the garden, the sour orange, \u003cem\u003eCitrus aurantium\u003c\/em\u003e, carries one of the deepest medicinal and culinary histories of any citrus. The fragrant flowers yield neroli and orange-blossom water for perfume and flavor; the bitter peel flavors liqueurs and marmalade; and in traditional Chinese medicine the dried immature fruit and peel, zhi shi and zhi qiao, have been used for centuries as digestive remedies. In the garden here, though, the tree earns a place for the showy fruit and the sweetly fragrant spring bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057836200051,"sku":"CITR-AURA-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2082.jpg?v=1720137323"},{"product_id":"citrus-x-citrus-ponciris-trifoliata-x-citrus-reticulata-changsha-x-english-large","title":"Hardy Citrus 'Changsha x English Large'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a cold-hardy citrus hybrid bred to carry oranges into gardens too cold for ordinary citrus, a cross between the trifoliate orange, Poncirus trifoliata, in the large-flowered form called 'English Large', and the notably hardy Changsha mandarin, Citrus reticulata. Both parents are prized for cold tolerance, and stacking the two produces a small, thorny tree that shrugs off freezes that would kill a true orange. The cross matches the well-known US-852 citrandarin, a hardy-citrus line from the USDA breeding program.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is a small, thorny tree, semi-evergreen in mild winters and briefly deciduous in hard ones, carrying fragrant white spring flowers and small orange fruits. The chief value here is toughness rather than dessert quality, since the fruit runs small and seedy, a curiosity and an ornament more than a fresh-eating orange. Where the appeal lies is in growing recognizable citrus, in flower and in fruit, far outside the citrus belt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders has been a leader in cold-hardy citrus for decades, and this Poncirus and Changsha hybrid fits squarely in that tradition, hardy to somewhere near zero degrees and reliable through zone 7. The trifoliate orange parent lends both the cold hardiness and the fierce thorns, which make the tree a formidable barrier or security hedge as well as a conversation piece. Fragrant in spring and studded with little oranges in fall, this is citrus for the adventurous northern gardener.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive the hybrid full sun and well-drained soil, and expect steady growth into a small, well-armed tree. Use the plant as a cold-hardy citrus novelty for the edible-landscape enthusiast, a thorny living fence, or a collector's piece with a real breeding pedigree behind it. For a gardener who has always wanted to grow an orange where oranges are not supposed to grow, few plants are as satisfying.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhoto used is straight Changsha, we do not yet have a photo of this hybrid.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057838461043,"sku":"CITR-PONC-TRIF-CHAN-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Citrus_reticulata_Changsha_Woodlanders_2.jpg?v=1731555826"},{"product_id":"clerodendrum-indicum","title":"Clerodendrum indicum","description":"\u003cp\u003eClerodendrum indicum, the Turk's turban, is a bold, tropical-looking perennial that stages two very different shows in a single season. First come tall, nearly unbranched stems, ringed with long narrow leaves and topped in summer by great airy sprays of long-tubed white flowers, shooting outward like a burst of fireworks, which earns the plant its other names, tube flower and skyrocket. Then, as the blooms fade, the real surprise arrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach spent flower leaves behind a shining, blue-black berry cradled in an enlarged, star-shaped calyx that flushes deep red, and it is this jewel-like fruit, not the flower, that gives the Turk's turban its name and its longest season of beauty. Native to India, Myanmar, and tropical Asia, the plant has an exotic, almost theatrical presence, and has naturalized here and there across the warm Southeast. Butterflies and bees work the white summer flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn frost-free gardens Turk's turban grows woody and shrub-like, but through most of the South the plant behaves as a die-back perennial, cut down by frost and resprouting vigorously each spring to bloom by late summer. Given full sun, rich soil, and ample water, the stems shoot up fast in the heat. One caution belongs on the label: the plant spreads by suckers and can colonize a bed if left unchecked, so site the Turk's turban where that vigor is welcome, or contain the roots.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse Clerodendrum indicum at the back of a sunny border or as a bold tropical accent, where the skyrocket flowers and the red-and-blue fruit can carry a planting from midsummer into fall. In its native range the leaves have long been used in traditional medicine for asthma and other complaints of the chest, a piece of the plant's history rather than any advice for the garden. For drama on a big scale in a hot, sunny spot, few perennials deliver quite like the Turk's turban.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057840984179,"sku":"CLER-INDI-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/ClerodendrumindicumForestKimStarr2.jpg?v=1784304362"},{"product_id":"clethra-alnifolia-anne-bidwell","title":"Clethra alnifolia ‘Anne Bidwell’","description":"\u003cp\u003eSummersweet, \u003cem\u003eClethra alnifolia\u003c\/em\u003e, is one of the great fragrant natives of the eastern United States, a shrub of moist woods and pond edges whose white summer spikes carry a honey-and-clove perfume across the whole garden. Colonists called the plant Sweet Pepperbush, for the peppercorn-like seed heads that follow, and Summersweet, for the scent; the flowers even lather softly in water and once served as a field soap.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Anne Bidwell' is the selection to grow for sheer flower power. Raised in Massachusetts from a commercial seed source, this summersweet is most remarkable for the flowers: densely clustered, multi-branched spikes far larger than the straight species, some eight to ten inches long, borne in such profusion that the bush seems to foam white. The blooms open around two weeks later than most selections, in mid to late August, stretching the summersweet season and the fragrance deep into the late-summer garden. The habit stays fairly compact and upright, dressed in lustrous dark green leaves that turn clear yellow in fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant 'Anne Bidwell' where the late, oversized spikes can be met at close range, beside a path, a seat, or a window left open on a warm evening, and where the bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds are part of the pleasure. Wonderfully at home in moist shrub borders, rain gardens, and the heavy, damp shade that defeats showier plants. Pair with ferns, itea, and other moisture-loving companions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057842851955,"sku":"CLET-ALNI-ANNE-BIDW-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-322.jpg?v=1720137481"},{"product_id":"cleyera-fortunei","title":"Cleyera japonica 'Fortunei'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCleyera japonica\u003c\/em\u003e was for generations placed in the tea family, the Theaceae, alongside camellia and tea themselves, and the resemblance still reads in the glossy, leathery, deep green leaves. Later molecular study moved the genus out of that family and into the Pentaphylacaceae, so the old tea-family listing has since been dropped, though the kinship of appearance remains. In the plant's native Japan the species carries a sacred weight few garden shrubs can claim: this is the sakaki, written with a character that fuses the signs for tree and for god, and the branches are cut for tamagushi, the leafy wands offered at Shinto shrines for blessing and purification. Small, sweetly scented cream flowers open in early summer, followed by berries that ripen from red to black.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Fortunei' is the old variegated form, long cultivated in Japan and known only in this dress, the narrow leaves edged in a clean creamy white that lifts the whole shrub in shade. Grow in well-drained, fertile soil with ample moisture, in sun or semi-shade. One word of caution repays repeating: this is a true \u003cem\u003eCleyera\u003c\/em\u003e, not the different Asian shrub \u003cem\u003eTernstroemia gymnanthera\u003c\/em\u003e that nurseries so often sell under the Cleyera name, a plant now sharing the same family, Pentaphylacaceae, but never the same genus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse 'Fortunei' as a refined evergreen for a shaded or part-shaded border, a woodland edge, or a courtyard where the variegated foliage and quiet red-to-black berries carry the year. The slow, upright habit suits an informal screen or a specimen near a path where the leaf edges can be read at close range. Pair with darker broadleaf evergreens and shade companions that throw the cream margins forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotos courtesy of OnlinePlantGuide.com and John Grimshaw.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057843409011,"sku":"CLEY-JAPO-FORT-01G","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-329.jpg?v=1720137510"},{"product_id":"colquhounia-coccinea","title":"Colquhounia coccinea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eColquhounia coccinea\u003c\/em\u003e is a showy, soft-wooded shrub of the mint family, clothed in medium-sized leaves that are downy and pleasantly rough to the touch. Through late summer and fall come dense terminal spikes of orange-scarlet, yellow-throated flowers, a hot late-season color that hummingbirds and pollinating insects work eagerly. Plant in a sunny, well-drained site with good soil, where the arching stems can be trained against a warm wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name carries a curl of history: Colquhoun is a Scottish Highland clan, and the source of the surname Calhoun so famous in Southern history and place names. \u003cem\u003eColquhounia coccinea\u003c\/em\u003e hails from the Himalayas and western China, reached England before 1850, and remains little known in American gardens. Our own material derives from a collection made by Frank Bell in China.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse the Himalayan mint shrub where the late flowers can close the season with warmth: against a sheltered south-facing wall, at the back of a sunny border, or in a mixed planting among salvias and other late bloomers. In the colder parts of the range the top growth may be cut down by hard frost, but the roots return in spring, so site in a protected pocket and cut the old stems back as new growth resumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhoto courtesy of A. Barra.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057846030451,"sku":"COLQ-COCC-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Colquhouniacoccinea.png?v=1722714256"},{"product_id":"conradina-canescens","title":"Conradina canescens","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe conradinas are dense, aromatic, low shrubs of the mint family, dressed in small, usually needle-like green or gray leaves and hung with little pale purple flowers. Six or seven species grow wild in the southern United States, most of them in Florida on sand or very sandy soil, and the genus carries an unusual weight of rarity: four species are federally listed, \u003cem\u003eC. brevifolia\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eC. etonia\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eC. glabra\u003c\/em\u003e as endangered and \u003cem\u003eC. verticillata\u003c\/em\u003e as threatened, with two more carrying state protection in Florida. \u003cem\u003eConradina canescens\u003c\/em\u003e is the exception and the common one, a somewhat variable plant of the Gulf Coast dunes of northwest Florida and adjacent Alabama and Mississippi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe species holds the back slope of the primary dunes and any face of the secondary dunes, and runs inland into sand pine scrub and dry longleaf pineland, from Escambia County east to Wakulla. Pale lavender flowers with dark purple spotting on the lower lip open from March into November, heaviest in spring, and native bees work them throughout. The plant burns to the ground in a fire and comes back from seed, which is exactly the arrangement the whole sandhill flora has arrived at. Beach mice shelter in the mounds, and a specialist plant bug lives on the woody mints and almost nothing else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCanescens\u003c\/em\u003e means turning white, for the fine gray pubescence over leaves and flowers, and the genus honors Solomon White Conrad, 1779 to 1831, a Philadelphia printer and bookseller who lectured in mineralogy and ended as professor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania. Gray false rosemary would grace an herb garden handsomely and looks the part, though nothing in the literature documents a culinary or medicinal tradition for any \u003cem\u003eConradina\u003c\/em\u003e, and we would not invent one. The foliage is rich in camphor and 1,8-cineole and is a documented natural source of ursolic acid, which accounts for both the resinous scent and the habit this shrub has of chemically discouraging close neighbors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite gray false rosemary where the fine gray foliage and pale flowers can be read up close: a rock or gravel garden, a hot sunny bank, a sandy coastal bed, or the front of a dry border, among other sun-and-drought lovers that will not crowd the low mound. Full sun, sharp drainage, and lean sand; drought tolerant once established and a natural for xeriscape and low-water planting. Deer pass the aromatic leaves by. Nursery-grown plants are softer than wild ones and appreciate a season of shelter before facing open coastal wind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/woodlanders.net\/blogs\/the-node\/an-exploration-of-the-conradina-genus\"\u003eLearn more about the Conradina genus here\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhoto courtesy of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wildflower.org\/gallery\/result.php?id_image=45869\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAlan Cressler\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057846227059,"sku":"CONR-CANE-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/IMG-7513.heic?v=1771508232"},{"product_id":"coreopsis-integrifolia","title":"Coreopsis integrifolia","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoreopsis integrifolia, the Chipola River coreopsis, is a rare southeastern native that saves its show for the end of the season. When most of the summer flowers have gone over, this tickseed lifts deep golden-yellow daisies, each centered with a dark maroon eye, on slender stems well above the foliage, bringing fresh color to the fall garden. A choice and uncommon perennial, known in the wild from only a handful of counties, the plant is as valuable to the gardener as it is to the pollinators working late.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the wild this coreopsis grows along the banks and floodplains of blackwater streams from the Carolina and Georgia coastal plain down to the Florida Panhandle, with the stronghold along the Chipola River that lends the common name. Genuinely rare and ranked as imperiled, the species is a conservation-worthy native that nursery propagation helps to keep and to share. Unlike the dry-loving tickseeds, this one relishes moisture, thriving in the damp, rich soils of a streamside home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name tickseed comes from the small, flat seeds, thought to resemble ticks, and coreopsis itself joins the Greek words for bug and appearance in the same idea. The dark-green leaves are smooth-edged, the trait behind the species name integrifolia, or entire-leaved, and the plant spreads slowly by underground runners into a modest, well-behaved colony rather than an aggressive mat. In fall the flowers draw bees and butterflies to a late and welcome meal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive Coreopsis integrifolia full sun to part shade and moist, rich soil, and unlike most tickseeds the plant will happily take a damp spot, a rain garden, or the edge of a pond or stream. Massed in a sunny border or a moist native planting, the deep yellow fall daisies close the season with real warmth. For a gardener who wants late color, pollinator value, and a rare native worth conserving, this Chipola coreopsis is a quiet treasure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057846882419,"sku":"CORE-INTE-01G","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-628.jpg?v=1720137611"},{"product_id":"cornus-kousa-var-chinensis","title":"Cornus kousa var. chinensis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis Chinese dogwood is a spreading, small to medium deciduous tree with clean foliage and showy white-bracted flowers. Unlike the native American flowering dogwood, the bracts are sharply pointed. The tree flowers about a month later than \u003cem\u003eCornus florida\u003c\/em\u003e, and is apparently immune or resistant to some of the disease problems that trouble \u003cem\u003eCornus florida\u003c\/em\u003e in certain areas. A fine ornamental for an open, semi-shady lawn or border.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a variety of the kousa dogwood, this Chinese form carries the same star-like early-summer bloom, glossy foliage that reddens in fall, and raspberry-like fruit the birds enjoy, on a slightly more open, spreading frame. The showy bracts open white and often blush pink as they age, floating against fresh green since the tree blooms after leafing out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite the Chinese dogwood as a specimen near a patio or path, or at a woodland edge among azaleas and other understory companions, where the late-spring bracts read against a darker backdrop. Give high shade or morning sun with afternoon shelter in the hottest gardens, and enjoy a dogwood that shrugs off much of the disease that troubles the natives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057848029299,"sku":"CORN-KOUS-VAR-CHIN-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-49.jpg?v=1720137656"},{"product_id":"distylium-racemosum","title":"Distylium racemosum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDistylium racemosum\u003c\/em\u003e is the type species of the genus and the most tree-like of the isu trees, an evergreen member of the witch-hazel family, Hamamelidaceae. The genus name comes from the Greek for \"two styles,\" for the paired styles at the center of each small flower, while the species epithet \u003cem\u003eracemosum\u003c\/em\u003e notes the short racemes along which those flowers are held.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to the subtropical forests, stream banks, and mountain slopes of eastern Asia, from southern Japan and the Ryukyu Islands through Korea's Jeju Island to southeastern China, Taiwan, and northern Vietnam, this is a slow-growing broadleaf evergreen that ranges from a large shrub to a sizeable tree. Glossy, leathery, dark green leaves and smooth reddish-brown bark give the plant a polished, year-round presence, and in the open the crown rounds and spreads with age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn late winter and early spring, small petal-less flowers open in short racemes, showing as puffs of red stamens before giving way to capsule-like fruit. The bloom is quiet, best noticed up close, but arrives early enough to feed the first bees of the year. In Japan, where the tree can grow large, the fine-grained wood has long been valued for furniture and crafts, a reminder that this restrained ornamental has a working life as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDistylium racemosum\u003c\/em\u003e remains uncommon in American gardens, though the tree was introduced well before the low, shrubby forms of the related \u003cem\u003eDistylium myricoides\u003c\/em\u003e that have lately become popular. According to Dirr's Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, the species may prove hardy as far north as zone 6. Give the plant room to develop as an evergreen specimen, a tall screen, or a clipped hedge, and pair with camellias, mahonia, and ferns in a woodland setting where the glossy foliage anchors the planting through every season.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057861169267,"sku":"DIST-RACE-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-68.jpg?v=1720137930"},{"product_id":"erythrina-herbacea-alba-de-soto","title":"Erythrina herbacea alba ‘De Soto’","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 'De Soto' coral bean is an extremely rare white-flowered form of the familiar southeastern native \u003cem\u003eErythrina herbacea\u003c\/em\u003e, whose usual dress is fire-engine scarlet. Where the wild coral bean lights the spring with red, this selection raises the same slender, tubular spires in clean, cool white, a startling and lovely departure that Woodlanders introduced some years ago and is pleased to offer again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story behind the plant is as singular as the color. Every 'De Soto' in cultivation traces back to a single wild plant discovered on an island near Tampa, Florida, and propagated from that one white-flowered individual. In the essentially frost-free climate where the parent grew, that plant built into a large woody shrub; farther north, as with the ordinary coral bean, the top dies down each winter and the plant returns each spring as a herbaceous perennial from a thick, woody rootstock. Every plant we sell is our own propagation carried forward from that original line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden 'De Soto' brings the same architecture and hummingbird appeal as the red coral bean, only in a rarer key. The white spires read cool and luminous against dark foliage and pair beautifully with softer whites, blues, and silvers where the scarlet form would demand a hotter scheme. Set the plant at the back of a sunny native border or a pollinator garden, and let the spring flowers draw hummingbirds and early bees. As with all coral beans, the bright seeds that follow are poisonous, so keep the plant clear of nibbling children and pets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCulture is that of the species. Give 'De Soto' full sun, rich but well-drained soil, and generous summer water, and the plant will shrug off heat with ease. In USDA zones 8 through 10 the coral bean may hold as a woody shrub; at the cold edge, cut the stems back after frost, mound coarse sand and pine straw over the crown, and uncover in spring. For the collector of native rarities, a white-flowered coral bean with a genuine wild pedigree is a quiet treasure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057866444915,"sku":"ERYT-HERB-DE-SOTO-01G","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/0DD8A460-160A-443D-90AB-2AFE83832D00.jpg?v=1787183317"},{"product_id":"ficus-roxburghii","title":"Ficus roxburghii","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the forests of the Himalayan foothills and across monsoon Asia grows a fig of ancient bearing, Ficus roxburghii, known to botanists today as Ficus auriculata and to gardeners as the elephant-ear fig. This is no dainty exotic. In the tropics the plant makes a bold small tree; in the American South, where hard frost cuts back the top, the fig returns from the root each year as a heroic perennial, with a presence as memorable as a live oak draped in Spanish moss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere in the Deep South, where the soil runs sandy and red and winter knocks more gently, the elephant-ear fig has found a second home. Joe LeVert of Augusta, Georgia, a true Southern plantsman, first brought the plant to our attention; his thriving, root-hardy specimen, proven through many a Southern winter, became the mother of our current stock, a plant born of grit, heritage, and care.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe leaves are the glory, sometimes stretching fifteen inches or more across, round, glossy, and substantial, rising like lacquered shields to turn any bed into a living tapestry of the tropics. In the warmest gardens the fig also bears in the curious way called cauliflory, the fat, downy fruit erupting directly from the trunk and old wood rather than the twigs. Those figs are genuinely good, eaten fresh or cooked, folded into jams and curries, or sliced green into a Vietnamese salad, and the tree carries deep ethnobotanical weight across the native range, valued for food, folklore, and traditional medicine alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant the elephant-ear fig where the roots can stretch and where water is not a stranger, in fertile, moisture-retentive soil with shelter from wind and hard frost. Give a warm, protected corner, a shaded wall or a wind-still glen, and the fig repays the kindness with almost prehistoric grandeur, the boldest foliage a Southern garden can hold short of a banana. Root-hardy to about zone 8 with a deep winter mulch, and a superb container subject that can be wheeled under cover farther north.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057870278771,"sku":"FICU-ROXB-01G","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/E15C645A-9997-4D89-A163-EEB1756C1647.jpg?v=1751288759"},{"product_id":"fontanesia-phillyreioides","title":"Fontanesia phillyreioides","description":"\u003cp\u003eFontanesia is one of those quiet shrubs that rewards a close look and a little curiosity. A deciduous member of the olive family, Oleaceae, and a near relative of the privets, the plant carries narrow, lanceolate, opposite leaves several inches long on a fine, twiggy frame, and shares the easy, adaptable constitution that makes the privets so obliging in difficult ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA gentle taxonomic puzzle hangs over the genus. Botanists have long debated whether the shrub of the Middle East and the one of China are one species or two: the former has been called Fontanesia phillyreoides, the latter Fontanesia fortunei, and the two are so alike that even the experts hedge. The plants we offer were labeled as the Middle Eastern species at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia, and are said to be the smaller-growing of the pair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhatever the name, the plant can reach a fair size in good conditions. One growing as Fontanesia fortunei in our Citywide Arboretum here in Aiken, South Carolina, stands over twenty feet tall with stems six inches thick, a reminder that this modest privet relative has ambitions once settled in. In late spring, small greenish-white flowers open in slender clusters, followed by flat, winged fruit in the privet manner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhatever the label, Fontanesia earns a place as an easy, drought-tolerant screen or informal hedge, a tough and unfussy backdrop that asks little once established. Collectors will want the shrub simply for the pleasure of growing an uncommon olive-family curiosity; everyone else can enjoy a reliable, fine-textured green wall for sun or light shade. Give any soil that drains, full sun to part shade, and room to grow into the ample frame.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057870508147,"sku":"FONT-PHIL-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2129.jpg?v=1720138173"},{"product_id":"fothergilla-gardenii-blue-mist","title":"Fothergilla gardenii ‘Blue Mist’","description":"\u003cp\u003eFothergilla gardenii is a small deciduous shrub, usually three to four feet tall, and a native of the southeastern coastal plain, where the plant haunts moist, peaty pinelands and bogs. A member of the witch-hazel family, Hamamelidaceae, and a close cousin of the witch-hazels themselves, dwarf fothergilla shares the family gift for honey-scented late-winter and spring bloom on bare or barely-leafed stems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flowers are the first delight: showy white bottlebrushes, an inch or two long, made not of petals but of a haze of long cream stamens tipped in yellow anthers, sweetly fragrant, opening in spring before or with the emerging leaves. Because the color comes from the stamens rather than petals, the whole shrub reads as a soft cloud of white, a woodland-edge plant that carries real presence for its modest size.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Blue Mist' is the reason to seek this particular selection, chosen at the Morris Arboretum in Pennsylvania for the cool, glaucous blue cast of the summer foliage, a rare and welcome color among small shrubs. Honesty compels a note that Woodlanders has always made plainly: 'Blue Mist' does not carry the fiery autumn color of some other fothergillas, trading the blaze of fall for that distinctive blue-green summer dress. The plant is adaptable to most garden soils in sun or light shade, hardy well north of the wild range, and deservedly popular.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse dwarf fothergilla at the front of a moist, acid border, along a woodland edge, or in a mixed native planting where the blue foliage can cool the greens around the plant and set off darker leaves. The spring bloom feeds early bees, deer tend to pass the shrub by, and the compact frame suits small gardens and foundation beds. Pair with blueberries, itea, native azaleas, and other acid-loving companions in moist, humus-rich ground.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057872048243,"sku":"FOTH-GARD-BLUE-MIST-01G","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Fothergilla_gardenii_Blue_Mist_Woodlanders_1.webp?v=1746552252"},{"product_id":"grevillea-rosmarinifolia","title":"Grevillea rosmarinifolia","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrevillea rosmarinifolia is a fine-textured Australian evergreen, a rounded to semi-prostrate shrub whose narrow, deep green leaves look uncannily like rosemary, giving the plant both the species name and a handsome, needled presence the year round. The likeness is only skin-deep, for this is a member of the protea family, Proteaceae, worlds away from any herb.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flowers are the surprise: clusters of small, spider-like blooms in red tipped with cream, curling and intricate, borne in dense racemes along the branches. Where most shrubs rest, rosemary grevillea flowers through the cool months, from fall into winter and on toward spring, a rare source of color and nectar when the garden is otherwise quiet. Hummingbirds and bees find the blooms readily.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTough and undemanding, the plant thrives in full sun and sharp drainage, taking heat, wind, and drought once established, and reaching perhaps four to six feet, often lower and wider or nearly prostrate. Rosemary grevillea suits a dry border, a gravel garden, a hot bank, or a coastal planting in the milder South, and works beautifully in native-style or water-wise schemes alongside other lean-soil companions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne quirk is worth knowing: like all grevilleas, this shrub is sensitive to phosphorus, so skip ordinary fertilizers and rich compost and let the plant settle in on poor, fast-draining ground. Give sun, drainage, and restraint at the feeding trough, and rosemary grevillea rewards with evergreen structure and flowers in the off-season for very little trouble.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057876013171,"sku":"GREV-ROSM-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-372.jpg?v=1720138334"},{"product_id":"grevillea-juniperina-x-rosmarinifolia-canberra-gem","title":"Grevillea 'Canberra Gem'","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrevillea 'Canberra Gem' is a bold and unusual Australian evergreen, a hybrid of Grevillea juniperina and Grevillea rosmarinifolia that brings fine texture, vivid color, and a touch of the exotic to an adventurous garden. The narrow, needle-like foliage is often mistaken for a conifer, until late winter, when the shrub reveals a true identity in a profusion of rose-red, spider-like flowers that spill from the branches and catch the eye clear across the garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bloom is long and generous, running from late winter well into spring, each cluster a tangle of curling styles that read, up close, like something between a sea creature and a firework. The nectar-rich flowers are a magnet for hummingbirds and bees, and the plant carries them against dark, evergreen, rosemary-fine leaves that hold structure and interest the year round.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong admired by plant enthusiasts and championed by Christopher Lloyd in Color for Adventurous Gardeners, 'Canberra Gem' remains oddly underused, especially in American gardens. Helen Johnstone of the Hardy Plant Society has noted the rarity in cultivation and praised the shrub as both a statement plant and a conversation piece, for gardeners after something a little out of the ordinary with real visual impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive 'Canberra Gem' full sun and well-drained, neutral to acidic soil, and the plant settles into a low-maintenance, drought-tolerant, deer-resistant evergreen ideal for a Mediterranean-style planting, a gravel bed, a dry border, or a coastal garden. Among the hardier grevilleas, the shrub tolerates temperatures into the low twenties Fahrenheit once established, especially in a sheltered site with sharp drainage. Grevilleas dislike rich soil and phosphorus, so skip the fertilizer and let the plant thrive on lean ground.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057876177011,"sku":"GREV-JUNI-ROSM-CANB-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2166.jpg?v=1749144745"},{"product_id":"hedychium-coccineum-disney","title":"Hedychium coccineum 'Disney'","description":"\u003cp\u003eHedychium coccineum 'Disney' is a hardy ginger lily that brings the tropics to a temperate garden, sending up tall leafy canes each summer and crowning them, from late summer into fall, with bold spikes of fragrant orange flowers. Each bloom throws out long, whiskery stamens for a bottlebrush effect, and the whole spike carries a sweet perfume that drifts on warm evening air. 'Disney' is among the best and most upright selections of the scarlet ginger lily, holding the flower heads proudly above the foliage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lush, lance-shaped leaves clothe upright canes to five or seven feet through the growing season, a wall of tropical green that makes a fine backdrop or a bold accent all on its own. The scarlet ginger lily hails from the Himalayas, and that mountain origin is exactly what makes 'Disney' hardier than most gingers, able to weather winters that would finish a tender one. Butterflies and hummingbirds work the orange flowers through the late season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow 'Disney' from spreading rhizomes in full sun to part shade, in rich, moist, well-drained soil, and give plenty of heat and water through the summer for the fullest growth and bloom. In all but the warmest gardens the canes die to the ground with the first hard frost and resprout from the rhizomes in spring, so cut the spent stems down after frost and mulch the roots where winters are cold. Where the plant is happy, the clump widens a little each year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse Hedychium coccineum 'Disney' where the size and scent can be enjoyed, at the back of a sunny border, beside a patio or pool, or in a big container, paired with cannas, bananas, and other bold tropicals. The fragrant orange spikes are magnets for butterflies and hummingbirds, and the whole planting reads as pure exotic luxury on a plant tough enough to come back year after year. For a hardy taste of the tropics, few gingers do it better.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057879945331,"sku":"HEDY-COCC-DISN-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Hedychium_Disney_3NC.webp?v=1784309385"},{"product_id":"heptacodium-miconioides","title":"Heptacodium miconioides","description":"\u003cp\u003eHeptacodium miconioides, the seven-son flower, is a large, fountain-shaped shrub or small tree that saves its best for the tail of the year, when most of the garden is winding down. In late summer, tiered clusters of small, fragrant, creamy-white flowers open in whorls of seven, the arrangement behind both the botanical and common names. Bees and butterflies work the late flowers gratefully, in a season when little else is on offer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen comes the real surprise. As the white petals fall, the calyces behind them swell and flush from rose-pink to cherry-red, holding a second, longer-lasting display well into autumn, brighter by far than the flowers that preceded it. And when the leaves finally drop, a third season begins: the bark peels in long tan and brown strips, dressing the winter stems in quiet texture. Few plants pack three seasons into one frame so generously.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe seven-son flower is a tree now rare in the wild of central China, first collected by the great plant hunter Ernest Wilson in 1907 and then, remarkably, lost to Western gardens for more than seventy years. Seed gathered by the 1980 Sino-American Botanical Expedition finally brought the plant into cultivation, where a rare toughness, adaptability, and long season of beauty quickly won a wide following. The sole species in the genus, Heptacodium has no close garden relatives for comparison.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrow Heptacodium miconioides in full sun to part shade in almost any well-drained soil, with even moisture through the establishing years, and expect fast, easy growth into a shrub of fifteen to twenty feet. Leave the plant multi-stemmed for a broad shrub, or limb the plant up to reveal the peeling bark as a small tree; either way the plant earns a spot as a specimen or a late-season pollinator anchor. For three seasons of interest on one tough, low-fuss plant, the seven-son flower is hard to beat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotos courtesy of the Missouri Botanical Garden\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057880961139,"sku":"HEPT-MICO-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/HeptacodiummiconioidesMBG.jpg?v=1784324553"},{"product_id":"hibiscus-mutabilis-rubrum","title":"Hibiscus mutabilis 'Rubrum'","description":"\u003cp\u003eHibiscus mutabilis has been grown in Southern gardens for so long that many people assume the shrub is a native, though the species traces to southern China, where gardeners prized the flowers centuries before the plant traveled west. The species name mutabilis, meaning changeable, describes the wild trick of the ordinary Confederate Rose, whose blooms open white in the morning and deepen to pink and then rose-red by evening. 'Rubrum' skips the performance and commits: the single flowers arrive already a saturated rose-red and hold that one deep tone through the day rather than shifting. For gardeners who love the late-season drama of the Confederate Rose but want a single, unwavering color, 'Rubrum' is the selection to plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe shrub belongs to the mallow family, Malvaceae, and shares that clan's signature: a prominent central column of fused stamens rising from the throat of a broad, five-petaled flower. Cotton, okra, and hollyhock are all cousins, and the kinship shows in the softly downy, maple-shaped leaves and the fuzzy seed capsules that earned the alternate common name, Cotton Rose. In the Deep South, 'Rubrum' builds into a large, multi-stemmed shrub of six to eight feet in a single season, flowering in the shortening days of late summer and fall when much of the garden has already gone quiet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond ornament, Hibiscus mutabilis carries a long medicinal history in China, where the plant is known as Mu Fu Rong. Traditional practitioners used the cooling leaves and flowers as poultices for burns, boils, and inflamed skin, and brewed them for coughs and respiratory complaints. Modern laboratory work has taken an interest in these old uses, isolating anti-inflammatory flavonoids from the flowers and an antiviral compound, tiliroside, from the plant, lending some scientific texture to a tradition many centuries old.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, give 'Rubrum' room and a backdrop. The tall, upright shrub reads best from a slight distance, at the back of a sunny border or as a freestanding specimen where the autumn flowers can carry the eye across the yard. Late-blooming salvias, ornamental grasses at mature height, and anything with a quiet green or silver leaf make good neighbors, since the rose-red flowers want a calm setting rather than competition. In the colder end of the range the shrub may die back to the ground in winter and return from the roots, so pair the plant with something that fills the early-season gap. If the common name Confederate Rose sits uneasily, Cotton Rose is the older, equally accurate alternative, and either name points to the same generous, late-flowering shrub.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057884434547,"sku":"HIBI-MUTA-RUBR-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Hibiscusmutabilis_Rubrum_Woodlanders1.jpg?v=1731692344"},{"product_id":"hosta-yingeri","title":"Hosta yingeri","description":"\u003cp\u003eHosta yingeri is one of the more recent hostas to reach gardens and one of the most distinct, a species found only on a scatter of rocky islands in the Huksan Archipelago off the southwestern coast of Korea. The American plantsman Barry Yinger collected the plant on Taehuksan Island in 1985, and the botanist Samuel B. Jones formally named the species in 1989 in Yinger's honor. For a genus most gardeners associate with the woodlands of Japan, this Korean islander broadened the family map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat sets the plant apart is a hard, lacquered shine. The elliptic leaves are thick and almost succulent, a deep to medium green polished to a gloss on top and a pale grey-green beneath, built to endure sun-warmed rock and salt wind. Rather than the soft, quilted mounds of a classic blue hosta, this Korean species forms a low, tidy rosette barely a foot high, more chiseled than billowy, holding a clean shape through the season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flowers are the real surprise. Where most hostas hang their bells to one side of the stem, Hosta yingeri spaces near-radial, star-shaped purple flowers evenly all the way around the scape in late summer, with an unusually long second set of stamens giving each bloom a spidery, almost orchid-like poise. Bees work the flowers, and the airy purple spikes rise well above the glossy leaves just as the summer garden starts to tire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike other hostas, the plant belongs to a long tradition of shade gardening across East Asia, where the tightly rolled spring shoots of several species, called urui in Japan, are gathered as a seasonal vegetable. In the garden, Hosta yingeri earns a spot at the front of a shady bed, tucked into a shaded rock garden, or edging a woodland path where the polished leaves can catch what little light reaches them. Ferns, sedges, and epimediums make natural companions, and the glossy, substantial foliage shrugs off much of the slug damage that plagues thinner-leaved hostas, though deer will still browse a tender clump.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057884926067,"sku":"HOST-YING-01G","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1305.jpg?v=1720138629"},{"product_id":"hydrangea-serrata-woodlander","title":"Hydrangea serrata 'Woodlander'","description":"\u003cp\u003eHydrangea serrata 'Woodlander' is a Woodlanders introduction with a story, a compact, small-leaved mountain hydrangea grown from seed collected at the Chollipo Arboretum in Korea and selected here for real garden charm. Daintier than the big bigleaf hydrangeas, this is a refined shrub of two to four feet, carrying flat lacecap flower heads of clear blue in acid soil, ringed with showy sterile florets around a center of tiny fertile ones. The serrated leaves take on a handsome purplish cast that deepens toward autumn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike all the mountain hydrangeas, the color of the flowers answers to the soil: blue where the ground is acid, as it is in the Woodlanders beds, and shifting toward pink where the soil turns alkaline. The lacecap form is more than pretty, for the ring of fertile florets at the heart of each head draws bees and other pollinators that the sterile mophead hydrangeas leave hungry. Bloom comes in early summer, on wood formed the year before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis little hydrangea has grown well for us in semi-shade, in well-drained, acid soil with steady moisture and a bit of irrigation through dry spells. Hardier and more sun-forgiving than the bigleaf kinds, the mountain hydrangeas still bloom on old wood, so prune only right after flowering, and site the plant where late frosts are less likely to nip the buds. In autumn the small leaves flush red and purple, a quiet last act.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet Hydrangea serrata 'Woodlander' in a shaded or part-shaded border, a woodland edge, a foundation planting, or a large container, where the blue lacecaps and purplish foliage can be enjoyed at close range. Compact and well-mannered, the plant suits small gardens and mixed shade plantings, and the fertile florets keep the bees coming all through the bloom. For a refined, pollinator-friendly hydrangea with a real Woodlanders pedigree, this seed-grown selection is a quiet gem.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057886597235,"sku":"HYDR-SERR-WOOD-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Hydrangeaserrata_Woodlander_BrokenArrow.jpg?v=1784324885"},{"product_id":"ilex-pedunculosa-female","title":"Ilex pedunculosa (female)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIlex pedunculosa is the holly that fools people, an evergreen with smooth, spineless, glossy leaves closer to mountain laurel than to any prickly Christmas holly. The real signature comes in fall, when bright red berries hang from slender stalks an inch or two long, dangling below the branches like tiny cherries, a detail no other cultivated holly quite matches and the source of both the botanical name and the common one, longstalk holly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe epithet pedunculosa points straight to those long peduncles, the stalks from which the fruit depends, and the trait is worth the name. Native to central and southern China, Taiwan, and Japan, this small evergreen tree is also among the very hardiest of the broadleaf evergreen hollies, holding the glossy leaves and setting fruit as far north as USDA zone five, where most evergreen hollies will not grow at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat combination of cold-hardiness, clean spineless foliage, and cherry-like fruit has won admirers, chief among them the horticulturist Michael Dirr, who wrote that longstalk holly should be used more than it is, that the tree is apparently not well known, and that to him it is the most handsome of the evergreen hollies that can be grown in northern gardens. High praise, and deserved, for a plant still hard to find in the trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a female, this longstalk holly needs a male within range to set the long-stalked red berries, which birds relish and deer tend to leave alone. Slow and refined, the plant makes a quietly distinctive specimen, a screen, or an evergreen anchor for a border in sun or part shade and moist, well-drained soil. Give the tree room to show the hanging fruit, and pair the roots with rhododendron, mountain laurel, and other acid-loving evergreens.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057891643507,"sku":"ILEX-PEDU-FEMA-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-106.jpg?v=1720138823"},{"product_id":"ilex-cassine-male","title":"Ilex cassine (male)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIlex cassine\u003c\/em\u003e, the dahoon holly, is one of the most useful evergreen hollies of the South, an upright shrub or small tree with bright green, oval, nearly spineless leaves. Female plants carry heavy crops of small, bright red berries, but this is a male selection, grown not for fruit but as the pollen partner that lets nearby female dahoons set that red winter display.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name carries a deep history and a long-running error. Spanish colonists in sixteenth-century Florida took the Timucua word for the celebrated black drink and wrote it down as cacina, and in 1753 Linnaeus attached that beverage-word to this holly. The plant actually brewed for the black drink was yaupon, \u003cem\u003eIlex vomitoria\u003c\/em\u003e, named properly by Aiton in 1789 and still the only Southeastern native known to carry caffeine. A 2019 survey of the genus found the stimulant alkaloids in yaupon, yerba mate and guayusa, and specifically failed to corroborate older reports of caffeine in dahoon. So this holly wears the name of the drink without the chemistry behind it, which is a better story than the one usually told.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the wild dahoon holly keeps to wet ground, the swamps, pond margins, and low woods of the Southeastern Coastal Plain, though the plant takes readily to ordinary garden soil so long as the ground stays acidic. Handsome and adaptable, the shrub grows into a dense, upright evergreen that tolerates both damp sites and the occasional flood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a non-prickly evergreen, dahoon holly is an easy choice for a screen, a hedge, or a specimen where a softer-leaved holly is wanted, and this male plant does double duty: solid evergreen structure, and the pollen a fruiting female clone requires. Set the shrub within about fifty feet of female dahoons for the best berry set, and pair the planting with wax myrtle, sweetbay, and other moist-ground Southern natives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057893544051,"sku":"ILEX-CASS-MALE-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-92.jpg?v=1720138864"},{"product_id":"ilex-coriacea","title":"Ilex coriacea","description":"\u003cp\u003eIlex coriacea, the large gallberry, is a tall evergreen holly of the Southern wetlands, close kin to the familiar inkberry but built on a bigger scale, with broader, leathery, dark green leaves and larger fruit. On female plants the berries ripen to a shining black, a quiet contrast to the glossy foliage through fall and winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe epithet coriacea means leathery, for those thick, durable leaves, but the plant is better known to some by another common name, sweet gallberry, and to beekeepers most of all. Gallberry flowers pour out nectar, and the pale, mild, slow-to-crystallize honey they yield is among the most prized in Georgia, Florida, and the Carolinas, a regional treasure built entirely on these unassuming white spring blooms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the wild large gallberry belongs to the wet, acid soils of the Southeastern Coastal Plain, from Virginia to Texas, where the shrub often grows alongside the related inkberry holly, Ilex glabra, in baygalls, pocosins, and low pinelands. The larger leaves and larger berries set the two apart, and both thrive where the ground stays damp and sour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeldom seen in gardens, large gallberry rewards a spot with moist, acidic soil and a little care: mulch the roots and keep the plant watered, and the shrub settles into an easy, dense evergreen for a pond margin, a rain garden, a wildlife border, or an informal screen. The spring flowers feed bees, the black fall fruit feeds birds, and a female set near a pollinator will carry the fullest crop. Pair the shrub with inkberry, sweetbay, and swamp azalea in the same damp company.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057896853619,"sku":"ILEX-CORI-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1680.jpg?v=1720138943"},{"product_id":"illicium-floridanum-variegated","title":"Illicium floridanum (variegated)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe anise trees, genus Illicium, are aromatic broadleaf evergreens of the star-anise family, Schisandraceae, their Latin name meaning an allurement, for the spicy scent of the leaves. Illicium floridanum, the Florida anise, is a Southeastern native of shaded streambanks and moist ravines from Georgia to Louisiana, valued as one of the finest flowering evergreens for shade. This is a variegated selection, carrying the usual two-inch, starfish-shaped maroon flowers over foliage marked with a subtle, quiet green-on-green variegation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe variegation is understated, a soft patterning of lighter and darker green rather than the bold cream or gold of a splashier plant, and it gives the dark evergreen foliage a gentle, dappled depth in the shade. The crushed leaves are anise-scented, characteristic of the genus, and, as with every Florida anise, the foliage and fruit are toxic if eaten and unrelated in use to culinary star anise. That toxicity is also why deer leave the plant alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis form was found in northwest Florida by Steve Riefler, who noticed the pairing of the deep maroon-purple flowers with the subtle leaf variegation, an uncommon combination in a native shrub. Like the wild species, the plant builds into a medium, rounded evergreen of eight to ten feet, adaptable to most garden soils that are not too dry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSite the variegated Florida anise in shade or semi-shade with moist, rich soil, where the quiet foliage patterning and dark flowers can be seen up close. Use as a woodland specimen, a shaded foundation shrub, or an evergreen screen in a damp, shady spot, and let the subtle variegation lighten a dim corner. Ferns, hostas, hellebores, and native azaleas make fitting company; keep the ground evenly moist and mulched.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057897377907,"sku":"ILLI-FLOR-VARI-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-119.jpg?v=1720138959"},{"product_id":"illicium-henryi","title":"Illicium henryi","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe anise trees, genus Illicium, are aromatic broadleaf evergreens of the star-anise family, Schisandraceae, their name from the Latin illicium, an allurement, for the scent of the leaves. Illicium henryi, the Henry anise, is the Chinese member of the group, a handsome, dense, pyramidal to rounded evergreen with waxy flowers in shades of coppery pink to deep carmine red and aromatic, glossy foliage. The plant honors Augustine Henry, the great Irish plant collector who botanized central China at the close of the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHenry anise owes its place in American gardens largely to Woodlanders, who introduced the plant to the trade here after obtaining stock from the famous Hillier Nurseries in England. Much admired in the Woodlanders garden over the years, Henry anise has since become a little more widely grown, though the plant remains uncommon, a connoisseur's evergreen for the shade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe flowers are the draw, up to twenty narrow tepals apiece in a rich pink to red, waxy and star-like, carried in spring against dark evergreen leaves. As with the other ornamental anises, the aromatic foliage is not the culinary star anise, and the plant is best enjoyed for looks and scent rather than any use in the kitchen. The same aromatic oils that scent the leaves keep browsing deer at bay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive Henry anise shade or semi-shade and good soil that stays moist but drains well, and the plant builds slowly into a clean, dense evergreen of eight to twelve feet. Use as a specimen, a shade screen, or a refined evergreen anchor in a woodland border, where the waxy spring flowers can be admired at close range. Camellias, ferns, hydrangeas, and other broadleaf evergreens make fitting company in the same cool, shaded ground.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057897738355,"sku":"ILLI-HENR-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-120.jpg?v=1720138967"},{"product_id":"illicium-anisatum","title":"Illicium anisatum","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe anise trees, genus Illicium, are aromatic broadleaf evergreens of the star-anise family, Schisandraceae, named from the Latin illicium, an allurement, for the spicy scent the crushed leaves give off. Illicium anisatum is the Japanese anise, called shikimi in its homeland, a glossy, upright evergreen shrub or small tree with leathery, anise-scented leaves and pale creamy-yellow, star-shaped flowers in earliest spring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFew garden plants carry so much ceremony. In Japan the branches and evergreen leaves of shikimi are held sacred, offered at Buddhist altars, temples, and graves, and the dried leaves are ground and burned as incense, a use tied to the way insects avoid the plant and the cut foliage stays fresh. That toxicity is real: Illicium anisatum contains anisatin and related compounds and is poisonous if eaten, unlike the culinary Chinese star anise, Illicium verum, with which the plant has sometimes been dangerously confused. Grow shikimi for beauty and scent, not for the kitchen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUncommon in American gardens, Japanese anise has often been muddled with the native Illicium parviflorum, which has been widely sold and even mislabeled under this name in botanic gardens, though the shared anise fragrance is about where the resemblance ends. The true shikimi is a denser, glossier plant, slow and clean, building to twelve or fifteen feet in time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive Japanese anise a semi-shaded spot with good, moist, but well-drained soil, and the plant repays it with year-round polished evergreen structure. Use as a specimen, a screen, or an anchor in a woodland or courtyard planting, where the early flowers and aromatic leaves can be met at close range. The toxic, fragrant foliage that keeps insects and browsing deer away makes shikimi an easy, trouble-free evergreen. Ferns, hellebores, and camellias make fitting companions in the same shade.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057897803891,"sku":"ILLI-ANIS-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-115.jpg?v=1720138971"},{"product_id":"illicium-floridanum-var-album","title":"Illicium floridanum var. album","description":"\u003cp\u003eIllicium floridanum var. album is the uncommon white-flowered form of the Florida anise, all the beauty and aromatic foliage of the species, with starry spring flowers of clean white in place of the usual deep maroon. Against the glossy, dark green, anise-scented leaves, the pale, many-petaled stars seem to float, lighting up a shady corner where the darker form would simply recede. A choice and seldom-seen selection, the white Florida anise is a connoisseur's evergreen for shade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs with all the Florida anises, there are two scents to know. The leaves, crushed, smell cleanly of anise or licorice, while the flowers carry a faint fishy odor that lures the flies and beetles that pollinate them. And the same caution applies: for all the anise in the foliage, this is not the star anise of the spice rack, which comes from a different species, and every part of this plant is toxic and must never be eaten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the maroon form, the white Florida anise belongs to the moist, shaded woods of the Gulf coastal plain, and asks for the same in the garden: part to full shade, rich acid soil, and steady moisture, well away from hot, dry exposure. Aromatic and toxic, the foliage is reliably passed over by deer. Evergreen and dense, the plant holds a full, glossy canopy the year round and slowly builds into a rounded, well-clothed shrub.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet Illicium floridanum var. album where the pale flowers can brighten the shade, in a woodland garden, a shady border, or a screen beneath taller trees, in moist, rich, acid soil. The white blooms and light-catching foliage lift dim spaces the darker anises cannot, and the aromatic leaves reward a passing hand. For a rare, deer-proof, white-flowered evergreen for shade, few plants are as quietly distinctive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057898033267,"sku":"ILLI-FLOR-ALBU-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Illiciumfloridanumvar.albumJCRA.jpg?v=1784326058"},{"product_id":"itea-virginica-henrys-garnet","title":"Itea virginica ‘Henry's Garnet’","description":"\u003cp\u003eItea virginica, the Virginia sweetspire, is a native shrub of the wetlands, streambanks, and floodplains of the eastern United States, from New Jersey to Florida and west to Texas. Sometimes called Virginia willow for the shape of the leaves, though the plant is no willow at all, the species is prized for arching, fragrant white flower spikes in early summer and for a fall display of orange, red, and burgundy that rivals far showier shrubs. 'Henry's Garnet' is the selection that made the species a garden staple, free-flowering, with six-inch white racemes and a deep maroon-purple fall color that gives the plant its name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe history runs straight through Woodlanders. This clone was first offered by the nursery in 1985, simply as 'Selected Form,' propagated from a plant obtained from the Henry Foundation in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, where it had grown for many years since the pioneering native-plant enthusiast Mary Henry first collected it somewhere in Georgia. The Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College later gave the plant the name 'Henry's Garnet,' for the garnet of the fall color and, fittingly, the college's own colors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEverything good about the wild sweetspire is amplified here. The fragrant white spires arch and nod in early summer, drawing bees and butterflies, and the seeds later feed birds. Come fall the foliage turns a rich, saturated garnet that holds late into the season, deciduous in most of the range but semi-evergreen in the Deep South, where the leaves linger and the fall color is softer. The plant suckers gently into a broad, arching colony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Henry's Garnet' is one of the most useful native shrubs for damp ground, thriving in moist to wet soil where many shrubs sulk, and tolerating clay, periodic flooding, even full shade. Use in a rain garden, along a pond edge, massed on a slope for erosion control, or in a mixed border where the fragrant flowers and garnet fall color earn their keep. Give full sun to part shade for the best flowering and color, and pair with other moisture-lovers such as winterberry, clethra, and swamp azalea.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057900851315,"sku":"ITEA-VIRG-HENR-GARN-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-417.jpg?v=1720139063"},{"product_id":"itea-virginica-little-henry","title":"Itea virginica ‘Little Henry’","description":"\u003cp\u003eItea virginica, the Virginia sweetspire, is a native shrub of eastern wetlands and streambanks, prized for arching, fragrant white flower spikes in early summer and a brilliant fall display of red, orange, and burgundy. 'Little Henry' is the dwarf of the clan, a low, mounded selection that reaches only about three feet, packing the fragrant flowers and fiery fall color of the full-sized sweetspires into a tidy, compact plant for smaller spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis dwarf came from Richard Feist of Hummingbird Nursery in Kentucky, a compact, dense selection of the native species, sometimes called Virginia willow though the plant is no willow. Where the standard sweetspires spread into broad colonies, 'Little Henry' stays neat and rounded, well suited to a spot where space is limited but the sweetspire's virtues are still wanted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe plant gives up nothing in the trade for size. Fragrant white spires cover the mound in early summer, drawing bees and butterflies, and in fall the small leaves turn a saturated red and burgundy, deciduous in most of the range and semi-evergreen in the Deep South. As with the larger sweetspires, the plant loves moisture and takes wet ground in stride.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse 'Little Henry' at the front of a border, as a low massing, in a rain garden, along a path, or in a container, anywhere a compact native shrub with fragrant flowers and strong fall color is wanted. Give full sun to part shade and moist soil, and pair with other moisture-lovers or let a drift of the plant carry a slope. Bees and butterflies work the flowers; deer tend to pass the aromatic foliage by.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057900916851,"sku":"ITEA-VIRG-LITT-HENR-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1161.jpg?v=1720139067"},{"product_id":"jasminum-nudiflorum","title":"Jasminum nudiflorum","description":"\u003cp\u003eJasminum nudiflorum, the winter jasmine, is the great cold-weather bloomer of the genus, a deciduous scrambling shrub from western China that opens bright yellow, six-petaled flowers on bare green stems in the depth of winter, often from January into March, long before the leaves return. The name says as much: nudiflorum, the naked-flowering jasmine, blooming on stripped, leafless wands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnlike the perfumed white jasmines, winter jasmine is scentless, trading fragrance for the far rarer gift of color in the coldest, barest weeks of the year. The arching green stems spread from a central crown and root where they touch the ground, so the plant makes an easy cascade over a wall or bank, a loose mound in the open, or, tied to a support, an informal climber. In China the flower is beloved as yingchun, the one that welcomes spring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat Chinese name carries more than sentiment. Winter jasmine, yingchun, has a long place in traditional Chinese medicine, where the leaves and flowers were used to cool fevers and inflammation and, applied externally, to treat cuts, bruises, swellings, and wounds, and were sometimes brewed as a tea. Modern phytochemical work has found antioxidant and antibacterial compounds in the plant, though the research is still early. This is traditional-use and early-research information, shared for interest only, and not medical advice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinter jasmine is one of the toughest and easiest of the clan, hardy to zone 6, thriving in ordinary soil in sun or part shade, and asking only a hard cut every few years to renew the tangle of stems. Use the plant to spill down a slope or retaining wall, to cover a bank as a groundcover, to soften a fence, or trained up a trellis for a winter show. Full sun brings the heaviest bloom; plant where the yellow flowers can be seen from indoors in the cold months.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057901637747,"sku":"JASM-NUDI-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-423.jpg?v=1720139092"},{"product_id":"jasminum-sp","title":"Jasminum sp.","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome plants arrive at the nursery already wearing a mystery, and this jasmine is one of them. The stock was gathered high on a mountain pass above the White Water River in northwestern Yunnan, at roughly ten thousand feet, in the tumbled country of travertine terraces and snow peaks near Baishuitai that the Naxi people hold sacred. The collector, hedging as any honest collector will, noted only that this was probably a scandent shrub, and that guarded phrase is still the truest thing anyone can say about the plant's habit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJasminum\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to Oleaceae, the olive family, in the good company of lilac, forsythia, and privet, a genus of roughly two hundred species scattered across warm Eurasia and Africa. The name travels almost unchanged from the Persian yasmin, carried west through Arabic and Old French before Linnaeus set the word in Latin. Scandent is the botanist's term for a plant that leans and clambers rather than truly twines, and many of the hardy Asian jasmines live exactly this way, arching through neighboring shrubs on long green wands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat color the flowers will be is the open question, and we would rather say so than pretend. High-elevation Yunnan holds jasmines of both persuasions: the white, powerfully fragrant climbers of the \u003cem\u003eJasminum officinale\u003c\/em\u003e group, recorded as high as four thousand meters, and the yellow, faintly scented or scentless scrambling shrubs of the group once called \u003cem\u003eChrysojasminum\u003c\/em\u003e, among them the widespread \u003cem\u003eJasminum humile\u003c\/em\u003e. Because this collection reads as a scrambling shrub rather than a twining vine, a small yellow flower is the likelier outcome, though white has not been ruled out until the plant chooses to bloom. Anyone hoping for the classic jasmine perfume should know that fragrance belongs chiefly to the white species, so we make no promises on that front.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the collector of rare woody plants, the appeal is exactly the gamble. Wild seed and cuttings from three thousand meters in Yunnan should carry real cold tolerance, and we expect the plant to prove comfortable in USDA zones 7 through 9, perhaps colder once tested. Give the jasmine full sun to part shade and sharp drainage, a wall or an old shrub to lean into, and the patience to let a wild thing declare itself. Grow this one for the pleasure of watching an unnamed mountain jasmine settle into a Southern garden, and for the small thrill of being among the first to learn what the plant is.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057902489715,"sku":"JASM-SPEC-01G","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"juniperus-rigida-pendula","title":"Juniperus rigida 'Pendula'","description":"\u003cp\u003eJuniperus rigida, the temple or needle juniper, is a graceful conifer of the windswept hills and old temple gardens of China, Korea, and Japan, distinctive for long, slender, sharply pointed needles that catch the light. 'Pendula' is the weeping form, unfurling those bright needles from arching, drooping limbs in a cascade of green that moves with the wind, a plant of quiet, sculptural dignity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe needles are the signature, longer and more pronounced than most junipers and genuinely sharp to the touch, giving the tree a fine, feathery texture up close and a soft, flowing silhouette from a distance. In winter the foliage takes on a burnished reddish-bronze cast, a subtle seasonal shift that suits the plant's contemplative, weeping habit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTemple juniper asks little: a well-drained site open to the sun, and support or training in youth to lift the weeping form, since the drooping habit needs a leader staked upright to develop a cascading specimen. Hardy and undemanding once established, the tree tolerates heat, cold, and poor soil, and is a favorite subject for bonsai and Japanese-style gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse 'Pendula' as a specimen or accent where the weeping form can be seen whole, beside a gate or water feature, at the turn of a path, in a gravel or Japanese-style garden, or spilling over a low wall. The architectural, flowing silhouette evokes age and stillness, and reads beautifully against stone, raked gravel, or a plain background. Give room for the cascade to develop.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057903800435,"sku":"JUNI-RIGI-PEND-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-126.jpg?v=1720139150"},{"product_id":"justicia-brandegeana-pink","title":"Justicia brandegeana 'Pink'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe shrimp plant earns the name honestly. The arching flower spikes are built of overlapping bronze-to-pink bracts, each one curved and shingled over the next, so that the whole drooping cluster reads unmistakably as the tail of a boiled shrimp. This is the soft pink form, gentler in color than the coppery-salmon type most people picture, and out of the bracts slip the true flowers: slender, white, two-lipped tubes freckled with maroon at the throat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJusticia sits in Acanthaceae and honors James Justice, the eighteenth-century Scot sometimes called the father of Scottish gardening, while the epithet remembers the American botanist Townshend Brandegee. Older books file the plant under Beloperone guttata, and you will still meet that name in nurseries and greenhouses; botanists have since folded Beloperone into the much larger genus Justicia. Gardeners also know the shrimp plant as false hop, since the drooping bracted spikes carry a passing resemblance to the strobiles of the brewer's vine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to Mexico and reaching into Central America, this is a soft-stemmed tropical shrub that flowers with almost comic persistence, nearly year round where frost never comes and through the warm months everywhere else. In USDA zones 9 through 11 the plant stays evergreen and shrubby; in zone 8 the top freezes away and the roots push up fresh growth in spring. North of that, gardeners grow the shrimp plant in a pot, summering the pot outdoors and bringing the plant under cover before the cold. A light pinch now and then keeps a plant from growing lanky and shy of bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHummingbirds find the white tubes quickly, and butterflies work the spikes alongside them, which makes the shrimp plant a small engine of movement in a container or a warm border. There is a quieter history here too: the Huastec Maya of northeastern Mexico kept the plant in their medicine, using the leaves for dysentery and other complaints of the gut and to dress wounds. For most of us the reward is simpler and entirely visible, a tireless, shrimp-pink performance that asks for little more than a bright spot and the occasional trim.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057904226419,"sku":"JUST-BRAN-PINK-01G","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/2FDB5FAD-D0B7-4AC0-81DA-AF79F59CCA79.jpg?v=1727115139"}],"url":"https:\/\/woodlanders.net\/collections\/prophouse-fall-2026.oembed?page=4","provider":"Woodlanders","version":"1.0","type":"link"}