{"title":"Coming Fall 2027","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe propagation house keeps a long calendar, and this shelf sits well out on it. These plants are pointed at the fall of 2027, woody stock and slow perennials that will spend two full growing seasons coming up to size before they meet the cool planting window built for them. This is the unhurried end of the catalog, where a plant is worth the wait precisely because so few nurseries are willing to keep one this long. Leave your name; we are already growing them on.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"acer-fabri","title":"Acer fabri","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcer fabri, known as Faber's maple or emerald jade maple, is a small evergreen to semi-evergreen tree of rounded habit whose slender, prominently veined, pointed leaves are entirely unlobed; few would guess the plant for a maple until the winged seeds appear. The new growth flushes a fine copper red, and the samaras ripen red as well before fading to brownish yellow in late summer, so the tree carries color without depending on the usual autumn display.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFaber's maple is a rare species in cultivation, native to China, and a favored subject for bonsai, where the glossy foliage and tidy proportions show to advantage. In the open garden these trees have performed very well across several areas of the southern United States, holding their leaves through mild winters and shedding them only when hard cold arrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse the tree as an evergreen specimen or small patio tree where the glossy leaves and red new growth can be enjoyed up close, in a sheltered spot with good drainage and even moisture. Native to China.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805758579,"sku":"ACER-FABR-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1591.jpg?v=1720136119"},{"product_id":"anisacanthus-wrightii-pumpkin","title":"Anisacanthus wrightii 'Pumpkin'","description":"\u003cp\u003eA pumpkin-orange selection of the classic flame acanthus, \u003cem\u003eAnisacanthus wrightii\u003c\/em\u003e 'Pumpkin' trades the usual scarlet for warm, glowing orange, lighting the late-season garden with the same slender, tubular, hummingbird flowers. The clone was discovered at the San Antonio Botanic Garden and is generally taken to be the selection known as 'Pumpkin'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the scarlet-flowered species, 'Pumpkin' draws hummingbirds and butterflies through the whole warm season, and thrives on heat and drought, a natural for xeriscaping and low-water gardens. Native in parentage to Texas and adjacent Mexico, hummingbird bush asks for sun and sharp drainage and little else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHardy, drought tolerant, and easy, 'Pumpkin' blooms from late spring through fall with minimal care. The open, airy frame suits a mixed border, a cottage garden, or a wildflower planting, and a hard cut in late winter keeps the shrub dense and floriferous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotos courtesy of the JC Raulston Arboretum.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057810411635,"sku":"ANIS-WRIG-PUMP-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Anisacanthuswrightii_Pumpkin_RaulstonArboretum2.jpg?v=1731872643"},{"product_id":"buddleia-loricata","title":"Buddleia loricata","description":"\u003cp\u003eBuddleia loricata, the mountain sagewood, is a rugged evergreen from the high Drakensberg of South Africa and Lesotho, and one of the hardiest of all the butterfly bushes. Unlike the familiar deciduous buddlejas, this species holds narrow, crinkled, sage-like leaves the year round, dark green above and felted silvery white beneath. The species epithet loricata means clad in mail or armored, a nod to that tough, quilted foliage, while the genus honors the English clergyman-botanist Adam Buddle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the warm months the shrub carries dense terminal heads of small, sweetly honey-scented flowers, creamy white to pale yellow and often lit with an orange eye. Butterflies and bees work the fragrant clusters as they do on the common buddlejas, but here the show comes on an evergreen, mountain-tough plant rather than a rangy summer one. In the wild, mountain sagewood grows among rocks and in sheltered, moist gullies high on the slopes, well above six thousand feet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat alpine origin gives the mountain sagewood an unusual toughness, shrugging off frost and cold that would cut down more tender kin, and standing among the most cold-hardy buddlejas in cultivation. Give the shrub full sun and well-drained soil, where the plant asks little once established and holds a neat, bushy form on non-invasive roots. Little known and still largely untested in American gardens, this is a plant for the curious grower and the collector.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet Buddleia loricata where the fragrance and the pollinators can be enjoyed, in a sunny border, a rock garden, a low hedge, or a butterfly planting. The evergreen, silver-backed foliage earns a place even out of bloom, and the sweet summer flower heads bring in the winged traffic buddlejas are loved for. For a fragrant, frost-hardy, evergreen alternative to the usual butterfly bush, the mountain sagewood is a quietly rewarding choice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057819193459,"sku":"BUDD-LORI-01G","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/buddleja-loricataJohnGrimshaw.jpg?v=1784298596"},{"product_id":"citrus-myrtifolia-chinotto","title":"Citrus myrtifolia 'Chinotto'","description":"\u003cp\u003eCitrus myrtifolia 'Chinotto' is the myrtle-leaf orange, a small, dense, thornless citrus grown as much for beauty as for fruit. The tidy branches carry little pointed leaves like a myrtle's, sweetly fragrant white flowers, and a long-held crop of small, round, bitter oranges. Compact and slow, the chinotto makes an exceptional container or patio plant, an evergreen jewel that flowers and fruits at an easy, manageable size.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe name hints at China, where the tree is thought to have begun, but chinotto found its lasting fame in Italy, above all around Savona on the Ligurian coast. There the bitter little fruits are candied whole, cooked into marmalade, and pressed into the famous chinotto soft drink and a range of bitter aperitivi. Too sour to eat fresh, chinotto is a fruit for the kitchen and the glass, prized for aroma and bitterness rather than sweetness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders has long led in offering citrus and citrus kin that push north of the usual orange belt, and chinotto is among the more cold-tolerant of the sour oranges, reported to grow well outdoors in Augusta, Georgia. Even so, the tree is tender, and gardeners in colder spots do best to grow the chinotto in a large pot that can move under cover when frost threatens. Give warmth, full sun, and good drainage, and the reward is fragrance, glossy evergreen foliage, and ornamental fruit that lingers for months.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet Citrus myrtifolia 'Chinotto' in full sun in a warm, sheltered garden or a roomy container of free-draining mix, where the perfume of the flowers and the bright, long-lasting fruit can be enjoyed close at hand. Neat, evergreen, and richly scented in bloom, the chinotto works as a patio specimen, a fragrant accent by a door, or a small evergreen for a mild-climate border. For the cook and the collector alike, few citrus are so useful in so little space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhoto courtesy of UC RIverside\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057835970675,"sku":"CITR-MYRT-CHIN-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Citrusmyrtifolia_Chinotto_USDA.avif?v=1784303053"},{"product_id":"conradina-grandiflora","title":"Conradina grandiflora","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis small to medium shrub is in the mint family. It is a small shrub with gray-green narrow Rosemary-like aromatic leaves. The flowers are bluish and larger than other Conradinas. It is native on old dunes and deep sandy soil at scattered locations along the east coast of Florida. It needs a sunny site with well-drained sandy soil. Conradina grandiflora is a federally listed endangered species.\u003cstrong\u003e NOT FOR SALE IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/woodlanders.net\/blogs\/news\/an-exploration-of-the-conradina-genus\"\u003eLearn more about the Conradina genus here\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057846554739,"sku":"CONR-GRAN-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1674.jpg?v=1720137599"},{"product_id":"cyrilla-racemiflora","title":"Cyrilla racemiflora","description":"\u003cp\u003eTiti is one of the quiet workhorses of the southern wetland, an evergreen to semi-evergreen shrub or small tree that ranges farther than almost any other native of the region, from the coastal plain of southern Virginia down through Florida and west to eastern Texas. In the wild the plant haunts the edges of swamps, bays, and blackwater streams, standing in the wet, acid ground where few woody plants thrive, yet takes with surprising ease to ordinary garden soil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus honors Domenico Cirillo, the Neapolitan botanist and physician, and Cyrilla wears several country names that each catch something true. Leatherwood and burnwood bark point to the tough, spongy bark and the twisted stems that peel in cinnamon flakes on an old plant; titi is the older vernacular of the Deep South. For years botanists puzzled over how far the range really ran, since look-alike material from the West Indies and tropical America was once folded into the same species and is now kept separate, which leaves \u003cem\u003eCyrilla racemiflora\u003c\/em\u003e as a plant of the southeastern United States after all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummer is the season to notice Titi. Long, slender racemes of tiny white flowers pour from the branch tips in profusion, lightly fragrant and loud with bees, and the plant counts among the more important nectar sources of the southern honey flow, giving a dark, distinctive honey. There is a catch that beekeepers know well, since the pollen has been linked to purple brood, a condition that can trouble honeybee larvae, so Titi is generous and complicated in equal measure. The show carries on into fall, when the glossy foliage colors warm orange and red where the winters turn cool.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, use Titi as a large multi-stemmed shrub or a small specimen tree along a pond edge, in a rain garden, or in any wet, difficult corner where little else will hold, though the plant is equally willing in an ordinary border. Site where the fragrant summer bloom and the pollinator traffic can be enjoyed up close, and let Titi screen or naturalize alongside clethra, itea, and native bay. Because Woodlanders ships across the country, expect evergreen to semi-evergreen foliage in the Deep South and a more deciduous, warmly coloring habit toward the northern end of the range.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhoto courtesy of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/garden.org\/users\/profile\/springcolor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eJulia.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057855172723,"sku":"CYRI-RACE-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Cyrillaracemiflora.png?v=1722788776"},{"product_id":"diospyros-texana","title":"Diospyros texana","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiospyros texana, the Texas persimmon, is a small, tough native tree grown above all for the bark, which peels away in thin flakes to reveal a smooth, mottled patchwork of white, gray, and pink beneath. Intricately and crookedly branched, this is a sculptural little tree, as handsome bare in winter as it is in leaf. A creature of the Texas hill country and northern Mexico, the Texas persimmon shrugs off heat, drought, and lean limestone soil that would defeat softer plants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmall, fragrant, urn-shaped white flowers open in spring, and because the tree is dioecious, only female plants set fruit, and only where a male grows nearby. That fruit is worth waiting for, a round, sweet, black persimmon ripening in late summer, good fresh or in jams, and long used to make a black dye for hides. Birds, foxes, and other wildlife take the crop as eagerly as any gardener, and the flowers feed bees.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe persimmons belong to the ebony family, and Texas persimmon carries the family trait in a dense, nearly black heartwood, prized for carving and small turned goods. Unlike the common persimmon of the eastern woods, Diospyros virginiana, this southwestern cousin stays small and semi-evergreen, holding the dark, leathery little leaves late into the season in mild winters and dropping them where the cold bites harder. Slow-growing and long-lived, the tree rewards patience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive Diospyros texana full sun and well-drained soil, ideally on the alkaline, rocky ground this tree knows best, and expect a tough, drought-proof specimen for a courtyard, patio, or xeric border. The peeling bark and twisting branches make a year-round focal point, while the fruit and flowers earn a place in any wildlife or native planting. For a small, water-wise tree with real character, few natives of the Southwest can match the Texas persimmon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057860644979,"sku":"DIOS-TE-ANA-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DiospyrostexanaSusanShroederFruit.jpg?v=1784306507"},{"product_id":"exochorda-racemosa","title":"Exochorda racemosa","description":"\u003cp\u003ePearlbush is named for the week before the show rather than the show itself. Along each slender arching branch, the flower buds swell into round, hard, pure white beads strung out in a line, and for a few days in very early spring the shrub looks convincingly like a plant hung with pearls. Then the buds open into cupped white flowers an inch or so across, six to ten of them to a raceme, and the whole irregular upright frame of eight to ten feet goes white at a point in the year when almost nothing else has started. The plant is sure to attract attention in flower, and does very well in the South, where pearlbush is a dependable herald of spring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus name is an odd and rather good one, built from the Greek \u003cem\u003eexo\u003c\/em\u003e, outside, and \u003cem\u003echorde\u003c\/em\u003e, a cord, for the fibrous strands that sit outside the placenta in the ovary, which is the sort of detail only a botanist with a hand lens would ever have chosen to name a plant after. Gardeners went with pearlbush instead. \u003cem\u003eExochorda\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to Rosaceae, the rose family, in the company of spiraea and physocarpus, and the species came into Western gardens from China in the middle of the nineteenth century. The native range runs across China and Central Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is no ethnobotany to report here, no medicine, dye or food use of any consequence; pearlbush has always been an ornamental and nothing else. The flowers draw early bees at a moment in the year when forage is thin, which is a quieter argument for the plant than the bloom but a real one. Autumn colour is negligible and the summer foliage is plain, so this is a shrub that earns a season and then steps back, best sited where something else takes over later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant pearlbush in well-drained soil in full sun or part shade; the shrub tolerates a wide range of conditions and shrugs off heat and drought once established. Give room for the arching habit and prune straight after flowering, since next spring's buds form on old wood, and take out a proportion of the oldest stems at the base every few years to keep new growth coming rather than shearing the outline. Hardy through USDA zones 4 to 8. One honest caution, and it is our own observation rather than anything from a book: pearlbush naturalizes sparingly here in Aiken, so keep an eye out for seedlings near woodland edges if you garden where that matters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057869459571,"sku":"EXOC-RACE","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1891.jpg?v=1720138114"},{"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-juniperina-x-rosmarinifolia-canberra-gem","title":"Grevillea 'Canberra Gem'","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrevillea 'Canberra Gem' is a bold and unusual Australian evergreen, a hybrid of Grevillea juniperina and Grevillea rosmarinifolia that brings fine texture, vivid color, and a touch of the exotic to an adventurous garden. The narrow, needle-like foliage is often mistaken for a conifer, until late winter, when the shrub reveals a true identity in a profusion of rose-red, spider-like flowers that spill from the branches and catch the eye clear across the garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bloom is long and generous, running from late winter well into spring, each cluster a tangle of curling styles that read, up close, like something between a sea creature and a firework. The nectar-rich flowers are a magnet for hummingbirds and bees, and the plant carries them against dark, evergreen, rosemary-fine leaves that hold structure and interest the year round.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong admired by plant enthusiasts and championed by Christopher Lloyd in Color for Adventurous Gardeners, 'Canberra Gem' remains oddly underused, especially in American gardens. Helen Johnstone of the Hardy Plant Society has noted the rarity in cultivation and praised the shrub as both a statement plant and a conversation piece, for gardeners after something a little out of the ordinary with real visual impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive 'Canberra Gem' full sun and well-drained, neutral to acidic soil, and the plant settles into a low-maintenance, drought-tolerant, deer-resistant evergreen ideal for a Mediterranean-style planting, a gravel bed, a dry border, or a coastal garden. Among the hardier grevilleas, the shrub tolerates temperatures into the low twenties Fahrenheit once established, especially in a sheltered site with sharp drainage. Grevilleas dislike rich soil and phosphorus, so skip the fertilizer and let the plant thrive on lean ground.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057876177011,"sku":"GREV-JUNI-ROSM-CANB-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2166.jpg?v=1749144745"},{"product_id":"heteropterys-glabra","title":"Heteropterys glabra","description":"\u003cp\u003eRedwing is grown less for the flowers than for what follows them. Through the warm months this fast, twining, semi-woody climber carries loose clusters of small clear-yellow flowers along the stems, pretty enough in passing, but the real event comes after, when each pollinated bloom ripens into a bright red winged fruit, a samara built exactly like the spinning key of a maple. In quantity the red keys smother the vine and glow against the small, neat foliage, an unexpected and long-lasting display that few visitors can name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe resemblance to maple is pure coincidence. Redwing belongs to the Malpighiaceae, the tropical family of the acerola or Barbados cherry, and comes by the winged fruit through an entirely separate line: the genus name \u003cem\u003eHeteropterys\u003c\/em\u003e, from the Greek for different wings, marks the unequal wings on the samara, while \u003cem\u003eglabra\u003c\/em\u003e notes the smooth, hairless leaves. Native to South America, the vine brings a touch of the subtropics to a warm-temperate garden and remains genuinely uncommon in cultivation, a plant for the collector and the curious.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a garden plant, redwing is easygoing and quick. The long, flexible stems climb and scramble readily, so give the vine a sturdy support to clothe: an arbor, a pergola, a fence, or a large trellis in full sun to part shade. Growth is fast once established, the small leaves cast light, dappled shade, and the plant asks only for reasonable drainage and warmth. Where winters bite, the top may die back and return, or a plant can be grown in a large pot and wintered under cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, treat redwing as a warm-season screen or a conversation piece where the red-keyed fruit can be seen at close range: along a rail, over a gateway, or against a wall where the color reads. Pair with other subtropical climbers and hot-border plants, and site where late-summer sun can light the ripening samaras. Nothing else in the garden will look quite like the vine hung with red maple keys that never came from a maple.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057881157747,"sku":"HETE-GLAB-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-828.jpg?v=1720138492"},{"product_id":"ilex-glabra-nigra","title":"Ilex glabra ‘Nigra’","description":"\u003cp\u003eIlex glabra 'Nigra' is the inkberry chosen for good looks in every season, a compact, rounded evergreen holly with unusually rich, dark green leaves. Where the wild inkberry can bronze and dull through a hard winter, this selection was picked to hold a deeper, cleaner green, and the smooth, spineless foliage stays handsome on a tidy frame that runs lower and denser than the run of the species.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe species is one of the great native broadleaf evergreens of the East. Ilex glabra, inkberry or gallberry, grows through the sandy, acid soils of the coastal plain from Nova Scotia to Florida and west to the Gulf, in wet pinelands and bog edges. The epithet glabra means smooth, for the neat, unarmed leaves, and 'Nigra', black or dark, names both the deep foliage and, on female plants, the small black berries that give inkberry the common name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Nigra' has earned a place. The horticulturist Michael Dirr, who has spent decades searching for better inkberries, judged this clone about the best in his Georgia trials, praising the dark, persistent foliage and the compact habit. Those are exactly the traits that turn a useful native into a garden staple: color that holds, a shape that stays full, and the toughness inkberry brings from the wild bogs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeat and evergreen to the base, 'Nigra' works as a low clipped or informal hedge, a foundation planting, a massing, or a dark green backdrop for perennials, and takes shearing without complaint. Give the roots moist, acidic soil in sun to part shade, and pair the shrub with azaleas, camellias, sweetbay, and native ferns in the same acid company. For berries, set a male inkberry nearby; the spring flowers feed bees either way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057889480819,"sku":"ILE-GLAB-NIGR-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1370.jpg?v=1720138765"},{"product_id":"kalmia-latifolia-croft-carpet","title":"Kalmia latifolia 'Croft Carpet'","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost mountain laurels are shrubs with presence, upright and woody and faintly aristocratic. 'Croft Carpet' flips the script. This rare, prostrate selection of Kalmia latifolia stays low and spreads into a dense evergreen mat, delivering the understory finish that designers chase in shade gardens: lush, deliberate, and quietly polished. A specimen at the JC Raulston Arboretum measured only about one foot tall while spreading many times as wide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn late spring and early summer, 'Croft Carpet' scatters the ground-hugging canopy with rounded clusters of soft, cup-shaped flowers, white to pink and freckled with rose inside, exactly the intricate blooms that make mountain laurel a native icon. Like every Kalmia, the flowers hide a bit of botanical theater: ten stamens sit under tension in small pockets of the corolla and spring forward to dust visiting insects with pollen the moment a bee trips them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus Kalmia was named by Linnaeus for the botanist Pehr Kalm, one of the early plant explorers of eastern North America, and latifolia means broad-leaved. In the wild, mountain laurel forms evergreen thickets along woodland slopes and edges wherever soils run naturally acidic. 'Croft Carpet' takes that woodland heritage and turns the habit sideways, offering a way to bring year-round structure to places where turf fails and most shrubs feel too bulky. You can read more in the Woodlanders \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/woodlanders.net\/blogs\/news\/a-guide-to-kalmias-the-famed-mountainlaurel\"\u003eGuide to Kalmias\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne caution belongs with all this charm. Every green part of mountain laurel, along with the pollen and any honey from the flowers, contains grayanotoxins and is poisonous to livestock, wildlife, and people, so 'Croft Carpet' is grown as an ornamental and pollinator groundcover, never a medicinal or edible plant. In the garden, use this low laurel as a carpet layer beneath high pines and oaks, as a ribbon stitching together boulders and paths, or as an evergreen slope stabilizer, a modern native alternative to pachysandra or ivy with far more character. The toxic foliage keeps deer at bay as a welcome bonus.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057906323571,"sku":"KALM-LATI-CROF-CARP-01G","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1860.jpg?v=1720139202"},{"product_id":"lomatia-myricoides","title":"Lomatia myricoides","description":"\u003cp\u003eLomatia myricoides is an Australian rarity that has quietly proven itself in the American Southeast, and that combination is the whole appeal. A member of the Proteaceae, the great Southern Hemisphere family of banksias, grevilleas, and the waratah, this evergreen shrub spreads wide and low, clothed in long, narrow, sharply toothed leaves, and carries sprays of creamy-white, spidery flowers in the heat of midsummer, sweetly fragrant at close range.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the wild the plant lines mountain watercourses through New South Wales and eastern Victoria, which earns the honest common name of river lomatia; the label crinklebush, sometimes hung on this species, actually belongs to a cousin, Lomatia silaifolia. The genus name comes from the Greek loma, a fringe or border, for the winged margin of the seed, and the epithet myricoides notes leaves that recall a Myrica, the bayberry. Coming from Australian mountains above three thousand feet, this is one of the hardiest and most adaptable of the proteas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere most of the family demand perfect drainage and sulk at the first whiff of phosphorus, river lomatia is comparatively easygoing, a riverbank plant that accepts ordinary garden soil and regular water better than most of the family. Woodlanders has grown the shrub with real satisfaction here in Aiken, South Carolina, and may well have been among the first to offer the species in the United States outside California, where Australian plants have long been landscape staples. As with any protea, go easy on fertilizer and give the roots sharp drainage, and the plant rewards the gamble.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet river lomatia where the arching, fine-textured habit can spread, in full sun to part shade, as an evergreen anchor, an informal screen, or a source of long-lasting cut foliage and flowers. The summer bloom is subtle rather than shouting, a haze of fragrant cream against dark leaves, and the shrub is reportedly untroubled by deer. For the collector who wants a conversation piece that actually performs, this cold-hardy Australian is a quietly rewarding choice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057913958515,"sku":"LOMA-MYRI-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/LomatiamyricoidesBenWalcott.jpg?v=1784330508"},{"product_id":"neviusia-alabamensis","title":"Neviusia alabamensis","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlabama snow-wreath is one of the Southeast's rarest native shrubs and one of the easiest to grow, a combination that ought to put the plant in far more gardens than it occupies. In spring the arching, thicket-forming branches foam with feathery white flowers, and the trick of them is that there are no petals at all: the show is pure stamen, dozens of white filaments per bloom spraying out against five small greenish sepals, like little bottlebrushes of light along the stems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA member of the rose family, snow-wreath keeps company with kerria and jetbead in the tribe Kerrieae, and shares their trick of petalless flowers. The genus honors the Reverend Reuben Nevius, an Alabama clergyman and amateur botanist who found the plant on a limestone bluff above the Black Warrior River near Tuscaloosa in the late 1850s; Asa Gray described and named it in 1858. The epithet alabamensis fixes the plant to that first home ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the wild, Neviusia alabamensis is genuinely rare and oddly scattered, clinging to calcareous bluffs and wooded limestone slopes in a handful of counties in northern Alabama, barely into Georgia and Tennessee, with a strange disjunct outpost in the Ozarks. Conservation assessments rank the species as imperiled, the small populations often clonal and shy of setting seed. Growing a nursery-propagated plant is a quiet way to keep an uncommon native in gardens rather than leaving the whole story to a few threatened wild colonies, and the Woodlanders stock traces to the J. C. Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh, a fitting home for a scarce Southeastern shrub.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor all that rarity, snow-wreath is an obliging garden shrub. Give the plant well-drained soil in full sun to part shade, and the suckering, arching habit fills in to a graceful thicket four to eight feet high, undemanding once established and untroubled by pests. Prune right after the spring bloom, since the flowers come on old wood, and remove suckers if the colony wanders too far. Set snow-wreath at a woodland edge, in a shrub border, or in a mass where the early feathery white can be enjoyed up close, and enjoy a piece of Southern botanical history that most gardeners have never seen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057928540275,"sku":"NEVI-ALAB-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Arboretum_3.28.25-061.jpg?v=1784332327"},{"product_id":"osmanthus-heterophyllus-purpureus","title":"Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Purpureus'","description":"\u003cp\u003eHolly osmanthus is a large evergreen Asian shrub whose leaves do a convincing impression of holly, spined, glossy and hard, so convincing that people reach for the plant expecting berries and are surprised twice: first by the fragrance, and then by the fact that the leaves are set in opposite pairs, which no holly ever manages. 'Purpureus' adds one thing to that reliable frame. New growth breaks a deep purple-black, holds the color for weeks, and settles into dark green still tinged with purple, so the shrub flushes dark twice a year rather than green.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis clone was raised at Kew Gardens in England in 1880 and has been passed hand to hand ever since, and among growers 'Purpureus' carries a reputation as the most cold-hardy form of \u003cem\u003eOsmanthus heterophyllus\u003c\/em\u003e, which is why the plant turns up in gardens well north of where the species is usually attempted. The genus name is a plain description built from the Greek \u003cem\u003eosme\u003c\/em\u003e, fragrance, and \u003cem\u003eanthos\u003c\/em\u003e, flower. The epithet \u003cem\u003eheterophyllus\u003c\/em\u003e means variable-leaved, and the plant earns it: juvenile growth low on the shrub is fiercely spined, while the upper and older growth often loses the teeth entirely and goes smooth-edged. \u003cem\u003eOsmanthus\u003c\/em\u003e sits in Oleaceae, the olive family, alongside lilac, forsythia and jasmine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flowering is the reason to plant one where people walk. In autumn, small waxy white flowers open in tight clusters in the leaf axils, easy to miss on the branch and impossible to miss on the air, throwing a sweet apricot-and-jasmine scent that carries across a garden on a still October evening. This is a shrub sited by the nose rather than the eye. In Japan the related \u003cem\u003eOsmanthus fragrans\u003c\/em\u003e scents tea and sweets; holly osmanthus has no such culinary tradition and is grown for the perfume where it stands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse 'Purpureus' as a hedge, a screen, a barrier planting where the spined lower growth does real work, or as a slow specimen at ten to twelve feet, in sun or semi-shade in fertile, moist, well-drained soil. Set the shrub beside a path, a gate, or a door so the autumn scent is walked through rather than admired from a distance, and let the purple new growth read against something plain. Deer leave the plant alone, which the spines explain. Growth is slow, so buy the size you can wait for. Hardy through USDA zones 6 to 9. One honest caution: those spines are genuinely sharp, so keep the shrub back from where bare arms brush past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057931128947,"sku":"OSMA-HETE-PURP-01G","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-172.jpg?v=1720139863"},{"product_id":"osmanthus-heterophyllus-rotundifolius","title":"Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Rotundifolius'","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong the false hollies, 'Rotundifolius' is the gentle contrarian. Where the species arms the youthful leaves with fierce holly spines, this old form lays them down entirely: the leaves are small, thick, and rounded, nearly circular and spineless, a heavy, puckered dark green that reads more like boxwood or a miniature bergenia than an osmanthus. The oddity is the whole appeal, a curiosity that stops a plantsman mid-path.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name \u003cem\u003eheterophyllus\u003c\/em\u003e, Greek for different-leaved, describes the whole clan, whose spiny juvenile foliage smooths to entire margins with age, but 'Rotundifolius' takes the smoothing to its logical end. A dense, exceptionally slow grower building to perhaps eight feet over many years, the shrub is native to Japan, where the species is sometimes still listed under the old name \u003cem\u003eOsmanthus ilicifolius\u003c\/em\u003e. Woodlanders offers the plant as an interesting and uncommon evergreen, a touch less cold hardy than the ordinary false hollies and best suited to zones 8 and 9.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe false hollies have long served as guardians in Japanese and Chinese gardens, the spiny leaves hung at doorways to turn away misfortune, yet even the spineless 'Rotundifolius' keeps the family's other gift: in fall, hidden among the rounded leaves, come tiny waxy white flowers with the sweet apricot perfume that makes the whole genus beloved. Scent, not show, is the reward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse 'Rotundifolius' where the curious foliage can be met at close range and puzzled over: beside a path, a gate, or an entry, in a rock garden, a low informal hedge, or a collector's bed among finer-textured companions that set off the heavy leaf. Give sun to part shade and moist, well-drained soil, and the patience a slow shrub asks. The dense evergreen frame is generally passed over by deer, and needs little more than an occasional light shaping.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057931554931,"sku":"OSMA-HETE-ROTU-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1179.jpg?v=1720139872"},{"product_id":"poliomintha-longiflora","title":"Poliomintha longiflora","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoliomintha longiflora is one of the several aromatic plants that go by the name Mexican oregano, and one of the prettiest, a small evergreen shrub that flowers for months and seasons the pot besides. Slender, aromatic leaves clothe a rounded bush two or three feet high, and from spring well into fall the branches carry long, tubular flowers in soft lavender and pink, a steady supply of nectar in the heat when little else blooms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe naming here is honestly a bit tangled. The plant sold as Poliomintha longiflora may in truth be Poliomintha maderensis, and Mexican oregano is a common name shared with several unrelated plants, the commercial spice most often coming from Lippia graveolens. What is not in doubt is the kitchen use: the pungent leaves stand in for oregano in Mexican and Southwestern cooking, a little spicier than the Mediterranean herb. The genus name means gray mint, for the hoary, minty foliage, and longiflora marks the long tube of the flower.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA subshrub of the dry, rocky country of Coahuila and neighboring northern Mexico, this is a plant built for heat and sun and sharp drainage, thoroughly at home in a xeriscape. Credit for bringing the plant into the Texas nursery trade is shared and a little uncertain, given variously to the late Lynn Lowrey, the dean of Texas native-plant introduction, and to Casa Verde Growers of San Antonio; either way, the plant has become a Southwestern favorite.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow Poliomintha longiflora in full sun and fast-draining soil, hardy through USDA zones 8 to 10 and root-hardy a little colder, evergreen where winters are mild and returning from the base where they are not. Little water and less fuss suit the plant, and deer tend to pass it by. Use this one in a xeriscape or rock garden, a pollinator or herb bed, or a container on a hot terrace, where hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies will work the long lavender flowers and a few leaves can be picked for the pot.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057944629363,"sku":"POLI-LONG-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Poliominthalongiflora.jpg?v=1784336321"},{"product_id":"pyracomeles-vilmorinii","title":"Pyracomeles vilmorinii","description":"\u003cp\u003ePyracomeles vilmorinii is the sort of plant collectors trade knowing looks over, a small, fine-textured evergreen so uncommon that most gardeners have never met one. The little leaves are cut into narrow, fern-like divisions along arching, thornless branches, and in spring flat clusters of small white flowers give way by autumn to a scatter of coral-red fruits. The overall effect is airy and delicate, unusual in an evergreen shrub.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rarity has a story. This is a bigeneric hybrid, a cross between two whole genera of the rose family, the firethorn Pyracantha and the fern-leaved Osteomeles, which is why the made-up name Pyracomeles splices the two together. The plant appeared before 1922 at the Chenault nursery in Orleans, France, and was grown on in the celebrated garden of the de Vilmorins at Verrieres, whose name the hybrid carries. From the firethorn side come the flowers and coral fruit; from Osteomeles, the ferny leaves and, happily, no thorns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden Pyracomeles is easygoing and hardy through USDA zones 6 to 9, wanting sun to light shade and well-drained soil, drought-tolerant once settled. Size is the one thing to watch: often a low, mounding shrub of three to six feet, wider than tall, the plant can build larger with age in a warm climate, so give room or plan to prune. The coral fruits feed birds into the colder months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow this one for texture and for rarity: a fine-leaved evergreen for a rock garden, a low informal hedge, the front of a shrub border, or a container, where the ferny foliage sets off coarser neighbors and the spring flowers and fall fruit earn a second look. Thornless and well-mannered, Pyracomeles vilmorinii is the kind of quiet, well-bred plant that a certain sort of gardener falls hard for.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057950462067,"sku":"PYRA-VILM-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/PyracomelesvilmoriniiJCRA1.jpg?v=1784664146"},{"product_id":"rhododendron-calendulaceum","title":"Rhododendron calendulaceum","description":"\u003cp\u003eFlame azalea is the showiest of all the native azaleas, and the one that stops hikers in their tracks on the Appalachian balds each June. The large, funnel-shaped flowers open in a fiery range that runs from clear yellow through gold and apricot to blazing orange and scarlet, carried in loose trusses just as the new leaves expand. For all that color the flowers are, unusually, without scent, but nothing about a flame azalea in full bloom feels the lack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Latin calendulaceum means marigold-colored, for those orange and gold flowers, and the wide, weakly scented blooms have an unusual pollinator to match. Research on flame azalea found that the flowers are effectively pollinated by large butterflies, above all the eastern tiger swallowtail, which carries pollen on its wings from bloom to bloom, one of the very few plants anywhere known to be pollinated this way. Hummingbirds and bees visit too, but the swallowtail does the real work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFlame azalea is a mountain plant, and honesty requires saying so plainly. Native to the higher elevations of the southern Appalachians, the species wants cool, moist, acidic, humus-rich but well-drained soil and resents summer heat, growing more slowly and never quite hitting its stride in the hot, humid Deep South, and is best from USDA zones 5 to 7. Give the plant part shade to sun with cool roots, a woodland edge or a north-facing slope, and the reward is that unmatched late-spring bloom followed by yellow, bronze, and red fall color.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne honest caution comes with the beauty: like all the azaleas and rhododendrons, every part of the plant carries grayanotoxins and is poisonous if eaten, and even honey made from the nectar can be toxic, so site the shrub away from where children or livestock might browse it. Grown well, flame azalea is a treasure for a woodland garden, a native or pollinator planting, or a shaded border, a loose, upright shrub of four to ten feet that earns its place with the most spectacular flowers of any azalea on the continent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotos courtesy of Alan Cressler\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057970286707,"sku":"RHOD-CALE-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/RhododendroncalendulaceumAlanCressler.jpg?v=1784338010"},{"product_id":"rhododendron-x-pastel-casille","title":"Rhododendron x Pastel 'Casille'","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Casille' arose spontaneously, a chance hybrid among three of the southeastern native azaleas: the white, lemon-scented Alabama azalea, Rhododendron alabamense; the fragrant pink Piedmont azalea, R. canescens; and the fiery, unscented Oconee azalea, R. flammeum. From that three-way mingling came a deciduous shrub that blooms in mid-spring in a lively pastel blend, the flowers shifting through pink, white, and soft yellow with a subtle sweetness inherited from the fragrant parents. An exclusive Woodlanders introduction, the plant was named by George Mitchell for his wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpontaneous hybrids like this one are part of what makes the southeastern azaleas so endlessly interesting. Where the ranges of the wild species overlap, the bees mix the pollen and nature runs experiments no breeder would think to try, and now and then a seedling appears worth naming and keeping. 'Casille' is one of those happy accidents, carrying a little of each parent, the fragrance of alabamense and canescens softened over the bright color of flammeum, and blooming in the window when the spring azalea season is at the fullest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tricolor flowers open in mid-spring on an upright frame of six to ten feet, the pastel blend reading softer and more nuanced than any single-colored azalea, with a subtle fragrance to reward a close approach. Early bees and butterflies work the trusses. As with all azaleas, every part of the plant carries grayanotoxins and is poisonous if eaten, so the shrub is one for spring beauty rather than any use, and best kept clear of children and livestock.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow 'Casille' as the native azaleas are grown: in a semi-shady site such as the high, filtered shade of tall pines, in acidic, well-drained soil mulched with pine needles, and with supplemental water on hand for dry spells. Site the shrub at a woodland edge or in a native border where the pastel trusses can be met at close range, and pair with other native azaleas to stretch the fragrant spring season. A one-of-a-kind Woodlanders selection with a personal story behind the name.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057972646003,"sku":"RHOD-PAST-CASI-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/D547FFFA-9E1A-4E45-81F2-7962A310765C.jpg?v=1776365725"},{"product_id":"rhodoleia-championii","title":"Rhodoleia championii","description":"\u003cp\u003eA rare evergreen shrub or small tree from southern China and the neighboring subtropics, Rhodoleia championii is a connoisseur's plant, dramatic in bloom, refined in habit, and quietly excellent the year round. Thick, glossy, rounded leaves cloak the plant in deep green, and their softly glaucous, blue-gray undersides catch the light and every passing breeze, giving even the out-of-flower plant a handsome, layered presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the cool season and into early spring, pendulous clusters of rose-pink to scarlet flowers hang from the leaf axils on short stalks, each bloom framed by whorls of soft, rounded bracts, more jewel than blossom. Hong Kong, where the plant is a treasured native, calls the shrub the King of Hanging Bells and the Hong Kong Rose. The flowers belong unmistakably to the witch-hazel family, the Hamamelidaceae, kin to fothergilla and parrotia, and in the wild the nectar-rich, hanging heads are pollinated chiefly by birds, by white-eyes and sunbirds working the blooms, with bumblebees and honeybees taking a lesser share.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStill uncommon in American gardens, Rhodoleia has real promise in the lower South, where the plant performs beautifully when treated much as a camellia would be: acidic, well-drained soil, light shade, and shelter from hard freezes. Our stock traces to the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, shared with Woodlanders by our longtime friend and plantsman Bob Byrnes of Trail Ridge Nursery, provenance that matters and performance that has proven itself in the Southeast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow the Hong Kong rose as an evergreen specimen where the winter-into-spring bloom can be admired at close range, or train the pliable branches against a warm wall, a courtyard, or an espalier frame where the pendulous flowers can hang free. The dense, glossy, blue-backed foliage gives year-round structure among camellias, tea olive, and other broadleaf evergreens that share the taste for acid, well-drained ground. Give a sheltered spot out of hard freezes at the cold edge of the range, and site the plant where a close look rewards the curious, since the flowers are as strange and beautiful up close as they are showy from across the garden.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057976479859,"sku":"RHOD-CHAM-01G","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/IMG_2754.jpg?v=1775092386"},{"product_id":"solanum-rantonnettii","title":"Solanum rantonnettii","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis South American shrub is perhaps correctly Lycianthes rantonetti. It is a scrambling vine-like shrub which is best trained up as a trellis or espalier plant where it can get up to 15 feet in mild areas. It is valued for the loose clusters of bright violet flowers produced over a long period. Needs sun and regular moisture. Can be grown as a container plant and given greenhouse protection where climate is not subtropical.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057997549683,"sku":"SOLA-RANT-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-904.jpg?v=1720141272"},{"product_id":"tsuga-yunnanensis","title":"Tsuga dumosa (yunnanensis)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBotanists now file this hemlock under \u003cem\u003eTsuga dumosa\u003c\/em\u003e, the Himalayan hemlock, though the tree reached American gardens, and reached us, as \u003cem\u003eTsuga yunnanensis\u003c\/em\u003e. The two names describe one tree seen from opposite ends of a very long range: \u003cem\u003edumosa\u003c\/em\u003e, meaning bushy, from the Nepalese and Bhutanese end, and \u003cem\u003eyunnanensis\u003c\/em\u003e from the Chinese. Kew's Plants of the World Online treats the Yunnan name as a synonym, so the accepted name comes first here and the old one stays in parentheses, because that is the name most people will be searching for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders received this hemlock originally from the Arnold Arboretum in Massachusetts. The Arboretum had obtained the tree from China and did not expect the plant to prove hardy that far north. Here in Aiken the story ran the other way. Given a semi-shaded position in the Deep South, the tree settled in and grew into a dark green, graceful pyramid, and Woodlanders has probably been the first nursery in the United States to offer this hemlock to gardeners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the wild, \u003cem\u003eTsuga dumosa\u003c\/em\u003e holds a long belt of the eastern Himalaya, running from Nepal through Bhutan and northeastern India into Myanmar, Tibet and Yunnan, mostly between about 8,500 and 10,500 feet, in cool cloud forest with heavy rainfall and constant humidity. Trees there reach 65 to 80 feet and occasionally a good deal more. In a Southern garden expect something more modest, closer to thirty or forty feet over many years, with slender drooping branchlets and glossy deep green needles laid out in flat sprays.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross the Himalaya the wood has long been split into shingles and used, with the bark, for roofing houses, and worked for construction and furniture. Indian foresters rank the timber below several other Himalayan conifers, which is faint praise for a tree that roofs villages. The bark is rich in tannin and has been used in dyeing. None of that is why anyone plants a hemlock in Carolina, but the tree carries a working life in another part of the world, and that is worth knowing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the plant for gardeners who have wanted a hemlock and watched our native \u003cem\u003eTsuga canadensis\u003c\/em\u003e sulk and decline in Southern heat. Give the tree high shade or a half day of morning sun, moist but well drained acidic soil, shelter from hot dry wind, and room to build a pyramid. 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The cultivar name honors Hillier's Jermyns arboretum in Hampshire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe leaves are the making of the plant. Leathery, elliptic, and prominently veined, they emerge and hold a deep, undulating green, glossier and more refined than those of the familiar David viburnum, and they clothe the rounded frame from the ground up. The dense, even dome needs almost no pruning to keep the shape, which is precisely what recommends the shrub for structured, low-maintenance planting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn late spring, flat-topped clusters of small white flowers open from pink buds and draw bees and other pollinators, and where more than one plant grows to allow cross-pollination, ovoid berries follow in a striking metallic blue-black, an inheritance from the David viburnum parent. The bloom is quiet and the fruit a bonus; the year-round foliage and form are the reason to grow this hybrid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSlowly building a compact dome of roughly three to five feet, 'Jermyn's Globe' suits a low evergreen border, a structured bed, a foundation, or a large container, and performs reliably in filtered sun to part shade across the mild South, where trials in South Carolina have shown the plant at ease. Give moist, well-drained soil and shelter from the harshest sun and wind, and enjoy a tidy, deer-resistant evergreen that holds a neat dome with almost no help. 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The racemes run longer and open later than those of the other native, Wisteria frutescens, extending the native wisteria season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Clara Mack' was found and shared by the late Clara Mack, a true country plant lady of Lexington County, South Carolina, and introduced by Woodlanders, where the selection has won praise at home and abroad. A gift from one gardener to the wider world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKentucky wisteria, once treated as a variety of the American wisteria and now considered a species apart, ranges through the south-central states and shares the family's best trait: restraint. The vine climbs a strong support without the decades-long land grab of the Chinese and Japanese wisterias, and blooms on new wood, so a hard prune never costs the coming flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive 'Clara Mack' a sturdy arbor, pergola, or post in full sun and well-drained soil, and prune after flowering and in late winter to shape. The long white racemes read beautifully against fresh green foliage and carry a sweet scent, a refined, non-invasive native for a structure that can hold a vigorous climber.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058012950643,"sku":"WIST-MACR-CLAR-MACK-01G","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/9C953DA7-FD92-4179-A223-95275ED298B3.jpg?v=1745690222"},{"product_id":"zenobia-pulverulenta-green","title":"Zenobia pulverulenta (green)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the green foliaged form of this fine semi-evergreen ornamental shrub native to the coastal Carolinas. Showy racemes of white bell-shaped flowers in spring. Moist sandy acid soil in sun or semi-shade. See also the 'Woodlanders Blue' selection with blue foliage which is becoming more widely available. 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