{"title":"Just Entering Propagation","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe newest arrivals in the Prop House — plants that have only just begun propagation (seed and cutting stage) within the last few months. Auto-maintained by the weekly Prop House sync.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"baptisia-australis","title":"Baptisia australis","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Woodlanders began in 1980, this was about the only Baptisia known to gardeners; we went on to introduce many of the species that have since become popular garden perennials. \u003cem\u003eBaptisia australis\u003c\/em\u003e, blue wild indigo, is a long-lived native, essentially a prairie plant of open glades on limestone soil, with handsome olive-green compound leaves topped in spring by spikes of bright indigo-blue, pea-like flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNamed the Perennial Plant of the Year in 2010, blue wild indigo is as tough as a perennial comes: nitrogen-fixing, drought-tolerant, deer-resistant, and long-lived, growing a deep taproot that lets the plant shrug off heat and dry spells. The black seed pods that follow the flowers rattle into fall and add a second season of interest. Native to the eastern and midwestern United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant blue wild indigo in a sunny, well-drained spot, in a border, a prairie or meadow planting, or a native garden, where the blue spring spires read against fresh green and the bold, shrubby clump holds its shape all season. Site once and leave undisturbed, since the deep root resents moving. Lovely with peonies, amsonia, and early grasses.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057816735859,"sku":"BAPT-AUST-01G","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-614.jpg?v=1720136585"},{"product_id":"baptisia-minor","title":"Baptisia minor","description":"\u003cp\u003eBaptisia minor is the dwarf of the blue false indigos, a compact native perennial that gives all the drama of the well-known Baptisia australis on a smaller, tidier frame. Often treated botanically as Baptisia australis var. minor, the plant stands lower and more compact, yet carries full-sized spires of indigo-blue, pea-shaped flowers held well clear of the blue-green foliage. Much admired in the Woodlanders garden, this is a perennial that settles into a sunny bed for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus name comes from the Greek bapto, to dip or to dye, for the old use of these plants as a homegrown substitute for true indigo. Colonial dyers, following a practice learned in part from the Cherokee, boiled wild indigo to draw a blue far less brilliant than the real Indigofera, and the common names false indigo and wild indigo still carry that history. Being a legume, Baptisia also feeds the soil, fixing nitrogen through deep roots, and the inflated seed pods ripen charcoal-black and rattle in the wind, good for dried arrangements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn spring the blue racemes draw queen bumblebees and other long-tongued native bees, and the foliage serves as a larval host for the wild indigo duskywing and the frosted elfin among other butterflies. Deer and rabbits leave the plant alone, put off by the alkaloids that make every part mildly toxic to eat, so a word of care is due where the seed pods might tempt a curious child. In the garden, few native perennials give so much for so little fuss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaptisia minor wants full sun and average, well-drained soil, and asks mainly for patience, sending down a deep taproot that makes the plant slow to establish, long-lived, and best left unmoved once planted. Native to the prairies and glades of the south-central United States, the dwarf blue false indigo suits a sunny border, a rock or gravel garden, a meadow, or a native planting, where the spring blue, blue-green summer mounds, and black autumn pods carry three seasons of interest. Give the plant room, sun, and time, and the plant repays all three.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057816932467,"sku":"BAPT-MINO-01G","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-617.jpg?v=1720136596"},{"product_id":"baptisia-alba","title":"Baptisia alba","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBaptisia alba\u003c\/em\u003e, white wild indigo, is a striking native perennial of tall spires of white, pea-like flowers over deep blue-green foliage. Native to the eastern and central United States, the species carries a rich history as a dye plant, used by Native American peoples and early settlers as a substitute for true indigo, and the genus name, from the Greek bapto, to dip, records that role.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond the beauty, white wild indigo fixes nitrogen to enrich the soil and draws bees and butterflies to the spring flowers. Drought-tolerant, long-lived, and low in fuss, the plant grows a deep taproot that resents disturbance, so site once and let the plant settle in place. A piece of American garden history for a sunny border or a naturalized planting, with handsome black seed pods that rattle into fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhoto courtesy of David Brenda.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057816965235,"sku":"BAPT-ALBA-01G","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Baptisia-alba-closeup_lg-DavidBrenda.jpg?v=1725495481"},{"product_id":"caesalpinia-gillesii","title":"Caesalpinia gilliesii","description":"\u003cp\u003eFew hardy shrubs put on a show like Caesalpinia gilliesii, the desert bird of paradise, whose summer flowers open clear yellow and send out a spray of long scarlet stamens like fireworks caught mid-burst. A legume from the dry country of Argentina and Uruguay, long naturalized across the American Southwest, the plant carries ferny, blue-green, mimosa-like foliage that sets off the flamboyant bloom. Botanists now place the species in the genus Erythrostemon, meaning red stamen, though gardeners still know the plant as Caesalpinia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe species name honors John Gillies, the Scottish physician who botanized in Argentina in the early nineteenth century. Borne in tall upright clusters through the heat of summer, the flowers draw hummingbirds and pollinators by day, and the long stamens and evening scent suggest a partnership with night-flying moths as well. Flat, curved seed pods follow, ripening until they twist open and fling the seeds free.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a plant for hot, dry, difficult places, thriving in full sun and sharp drainage where heat and drought defeat softer shrubs. Fast-growing and root-hardy, Caesalpinia gilliesii stays evergreen in warm winters and dies back to the ground in colder ones, resprouting in spring, which lets the plant reach into the middle South and the high desert alike. A word of caution belongs on the label, since the green seed pods and seeds are toxic if eaten, worth keeping in mind where children and pets roam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse Caesalpinia gilliesii as a xeric specimen, an informal screen, or a background shrub in a hot, sunny border, water-wise landscape, or desert-style planting. The lacy foliage and spectacular summer flowers bring an exotic, almost tropical air to ground that stays bone dry, and the hummingbird traffic is a bonus. Give the plant full sun, excellent drainage, and room to show off, and expect little trouble in return.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotos courtesy of Miguel Gonzalez\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057819979891,"sku":"CAES-GILL-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/CaesalpiniagilliesiiMiguelGonzalez.png?v=1784299361"},{"product_id":"camellia-rosaeflora","title":"Camellia rosaeflora","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCamellia rosaeflora\u003c\/em\u003e is a graceful species camellia from China, one of the lesser-known kinds Woodlanders keeps in circulation for American gardeners. The habit is open and upright, the leaves small and fine for the genus, and in early spring the branches carry masses of small pink flowers, roughly an inch across and lightly double, in such profusion that the spent petals often fall to lay a soft pink carpet on the ground beneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe effect is quiet and charming rather than showy, a fine-textured change from the heavy formal doubles. Like most camellias, the rose-flowered camellia is at finest in semi-shade, in sandy, slightly acidic soil kept mulched and watered, where the airy frame and clouds of pink bloom light a shaded border. A lovely and uncommon species for the collector and for the gardener after something softer in the camellia season.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057824534643,"sku":"CAME-ROSA-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-308.jpg?v=1720136895"},{"product_id":"campsis-x-tagliabuana-madame-galen","title":"Campsis x tagliabuana 'Madame Galen'","description":"\u003cp\u003eCampsis x tagliabuana 'Madame Galen' is the trumpet vine at its most garden-worthy, a vigorous deciduous climber hung all summer with clusters of big, flaring, orange to salmon-red trumpets. The vine is a hybrid between the American trumpet creeper, Campsis radicans, and the Chinese Campsis grandiflora, combining the toughness of one parent with the refinement of the other. Raised in the nineteenth century by the Tagliabue brothers at their nursery near Milan, 'Madame Galen' has remained the favorite form of the cross ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom high summer into early fall the flowers open in loose, drooping clusters, each a three-inch trumpet in shades from cantaloupe to ruby, and hummingbirds work them from dawn to dusk. The genus name comes from the Greek for bending, a nod to the curving stamens tucked inside each bloom. Few hardy vines match this one for sheer flower power over so long a season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrumpet vine climbs by clinging aerial rootlets and will scale a wall, a fence, an arbor, or a stout pergola, though the mature vine grows heavy and wants a strong support. 'Madame Galen' is less rampant than the wild American species, but the plant can still sucker and spread, so site the vine where that vigor is welcome and prune hard each year to keep the display in bounds. A note for sensitive gardeners: the foliage and sap can irritate skin, the source of the old folk name cow-itch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive Campsis x tagliabuana 'Madame Galen' full sun for the heaviest bloom and any reasonable, well-drained soil, and expect fast, exuberant growth. Train the vine up a hot wall, along a fence, or over a sturdy arbor where the summer trumpets and their hummingbirds can be enjoyed at close range. Tough, drought-tolerant once established, and spectacular in flower, this is a classic climber for a big, sunny space.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057826140275,"sku":"CAMP-TAGL-MADA-GALE-01G","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-811.jpg?v=1720136981"},{"product_id":"chitalpa-tashkentensis","title":"Chitalpa tashkentensis","description":"\u003cp\u003eChitalpa tashkentensis is a plant with a passport, an intergeneric hybrid that pairs the American desert willow, Chilopsis linearis, with a catalpa, and carries the frilled trumpet flowers of one parent on the willowy, drought-hardy frame of the other. The name itself is a splice, Chilopsis joined to Catalpa, while tashkentensis records the birthplace, the botanical garden at Tashkent, in Uzbekistan, where the cross was raised in the 1960s. From that single Central Asian introduction descend the chitalpas grown across America today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough late spring and summer the plant carries upright clusters of ruffled, trumpet-shaped flowers in soft pink and lavender, larger and showier than the desert willow's and borne over a long, reblooming season. Being a sterile hybrid, chitalpa sets little or no seed, so the messy bean-like pods of a true catalpa never appear, leaving a cleaner, tidier tree. Hummingbirds and bees work the flowers through the warm months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe desert willow parent gives chitalpa real toughness, a fast-growing, drought-tolerant constitution that thrives in full sun and sharp drainage once established. The willow-like leaves, long and narrow, fall somewhere between the two parents, and the tree suits hot, dry, water-wise gardens as well as an ordinary sunny border. In the arid Southwest, growers should know that chitalpa can be affected by a bacterial scorch disease, so healthy, well-sited plants and good culture matter most there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse Chitalpa tashkentensis as a flowering specimen or small patio tree in a sunny, well-drained spot, where the long season of pink trumpets and their pollinators can be enjoyed. Fast to establish, undemanding, and free of catalpa's litter, the plant brings a soft, tropical-looking bloom to lean, dry ground that would defeat showier trees. For a water-wise garden that still wants flowers, chitalpa is an inspired, well-traveled choice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057833971827,"sku":"CHIT-TASH-01G","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/ChitalpatashkentensisMBG.jpg?v=1784300577"},{"product_id":"citrus-hybrid-yuzuquat","title":"Citrus hybrid 'Yuzuquat'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Yuzuquat is a tri-generic hybrid, a curiosity even among unusual citrus. One parent is the yuzu, itself a cross of \u003cem\u003eCitrus ichangensis\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCitrus reticulata\u003c\/em\u003e; the other is the 'Nagami' kumquat, \u003cem\u003eFortunella margarita\u003c\/em\u003e. From that three-way pedigree comes an attractive evergreen citrus that bears sour, juicy, lemon-like fruits about the size of a chicken egg.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fruits make a fine substitute for the common commercial lemon, bright and aromatic in the kitchen, and the tree is considerably more cold hardy than a true lemon, an important difference for Southern gardeners. The Yuzuquat thrives and bears heavily in Augusta, Georgia, proof of a constitution well beyond the usual lemon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, grow the Yuzuquat in full sun and sharp, well-drained soil, in the ground through zones 8 and 9 or in a large container to overwinter farther north. Site where the fragrant white spring blossom and the yellow fruit can both be enjoyed, and keep a plant near the kitchen for a hardy lemon off the branch. A productive, good-looking citrus for the cook and the collector alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057836429427,"sku":"CITR-HYBR-YUZU-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2093.jpg?v=1720137340"},{"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. 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The large, glossy, leathery leaves, sometimes shallowly three-lobed and carried on long stalks, look for all the world like those of a tulip poplar, yet the tree belongs to the witch-hazel family, a kinship few would ever guess. Bold and architectural, with bronze-red new growth and curious upright stipules capping each shoot, this is a foliage tree of real presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flowers are a modest affair, small and reddish, gathered in little rounded heads and easy to overlook; the foliage is the whole show. Broad, deep green, and evergreen, the leaves flutter in the wind like an aspen's and flush bronze in cool weather, giving the tree a lush, almost tropical look uncommon in a hardy evergreen. In the mountains of southern China and the eastern Himalayas where the tree grows wild, the wood is valued for timber, but in the garden the draw is purely ornamental.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to the montane forests of southern China, the Himalayas, and mainland Southeast Asia, Exbucklandia is virtually unknown in Western gardens, a genuine collector's tree and one Woodlanders was among the first to offer in the United States. Serious plantspeople have sought the tree for years, drawn by the bold foliage and the botanical curiosity of a witch-hazel relative that looks like a poplar. Slow and evergreen, the tree makes a striking, uncommon addition to a mild-climate garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow Exbucklandia populnea in part shade to sun in moist, fertile, well-drained, acid soil, sheltered while young, in a climate no colder than about zone 7b. Give room, since the tree grows large in time, and site where the bold, poplar-like evergreen leaves can be appreciated as the centerpiece they deserve to be. For the collector who wants something almost no one else can grow, few trees are as quietly astonishing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057869394035,"sku":"E-BUCK-POPU-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/ExbucklandiapopulneaJackAldridge.jpg?v=1784307150"},{"product_id":"forestiera-angustifolia-weeping","title":"Forestiera angustifolia 'Weeping'","description":"\u003cp\u003eForestiera angustifolia 'Weeping' is a distinctive pendulous form of the Texas desert olive, an intricately branched native shrub whose cascading, weeping branches make it a living piece of sculpture. Fine and twiggy, clothed in small narrow leaves, the plant drapes and tumbles in a way the wild shrub never does, and reveals a fine tracery of branches in winter once the leaves have fallen. Tough as the Texas brush country that bore it, this is a plant grown as much for form as for foliage, and a favorite subject for bonsai.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story behind this selection is a Woodlanders original. In 1992, on the Texas gulf coast in Calhoun County, Woodlanders' Bob McCartney and the legendary Texas plantsman Lynn Lowrey came upon a single weeping desert olive growing among the ordinary kind. Cuttings taken a few years later, in the company of the botanist Patrick McMillan, became the stock that Woodlanders propagated and introduced to gardens, and every plant offered here traces back to that one wild find.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesert olive is a plant of dry, sunny, difficult places, at home in lean, rocky, alkaline soil, brushing off heat, drought, wind, and even salt. The weeping form has proved just as adaptable in the garden, thriving well beyond the Texas range on almost any well-drained soil in full sun. Tiny yellow-green flowers open very early in spring, among the first food for bees, and on female plants give way to small, olive-like, blue-black fruits that birds are quick to find.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive Forestiera angustifolia 'Weeping' full sun and sharp drainage, and let the cascading branches spill over a wall, a slope, a large container, or the edge of a raised bed. Left to itself the plant spreads wide and low; pruned or trained, the plant makes a superb bonsai or a compact weeping specimen. For a tough, drought-proof native with genuine character and a real Woodlanders pedigree, few shrubs are as quietly remarkable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057871065203,"sku":"FORE-ANGU-WEEP-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Fosteria-angustifolia-Woodlanders-WeepingJLBG.webp?v=1784308986"},{"product_id":"lagerstroemia-limii","title":"Lagerstroemia limii","description":"\u003cp\u003eLagerstroemia limii is the crepe myrtle almost nobody grows, and that is precisely the reason to seek the plant out. Rare in gardens and known mostly to breeders and botanic collections, this Chinese species trades the familiar look of the summer crepe myrtle for something bolder and stranger: broad, blue-green leaves far larger than those of the common sort, and open, pyramidal panicles of lavender-pink bloom carried through the warm months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus honors Magnus von Lagerström, the Swedish merchant who fed plants to his friend Linnaeus, and Lythraceae, the loosestrife family, is home. Elmer Merrill named this species in 1925; the epithet limii points to a collector surnamed Lim, though the person behind the name has largely slipped from the record. Native to the provinces of Fujian, Hubei, and Zhejiang, where the plant grows in low mountains and mixed forest, Lagerstroemia limii carries a coarse, furrowed bark rather than the polished, exfoliating trunk that gardeners prize in Lagerstroemia fauriei and the common crepe myrtle. The pleasures here lie in leaf and flower, not in bark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor all the obscurity, this species has quietly shaped the crepe myrtles in many American gardens. At the United States National Arboretum, Donald Egolf drew Lagerstroemia limii into the breeding program that produced the mildew-resistant hybrids named for Native American peoples, and the plant stands in the parentage of selections such as 'Arapaho' and 'Cheyenne,' lending cold hardiness and warm, reddish-pink flower color to the line. The headline disease resistance of that famous series came mostly from Lagerstroemia fauriei, but limii earned a place at the table for toughness and bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, treat this crepe myrtle as a large, multi-stemmed shrub or a small tree of fifteen to twenty-five feet, sited in full sun where the summer panicles draw bees and the big blue-green leaves make a cool foil for hotter colors nearby. The species is hardier than the common crepe myrtle, comfortable through USDA zones 7 to 9, and forgiving of heat, drought, and city air once established. For the collector who thinks there is nothing new to say about crepe myrtles, Lagerstroemia limii is a quiet and handsome argument to the contrary.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057909108851,"sku":"LAGE-LIMI-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"magnolia-virginiana-dodds-small-leaf","title":"Magnolia virginiana (Dodd's small leaf)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSweetbay magnolia is one of the loveliest and most useful of the native magnolias, a tree of moist and swampy ground across the eastern United States from Massachusetts to Texas. The northern plants, Magnolia virginiana var. virginiana, are shrubby and deciduous; the southern, var. australis, grow into larger, evergreen trees. All share the sweetbay's gifts: leaves silvery white beneath that flash in the wind, and creamy, intensely fragrant flowers with a clean lemon scent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Dodd's Small Leaf' is a distinctive clone of the southern, evergreen variety, and the plant came to us with a good story. To the amusement of the late, great Tom Dodd, Jr., we did not even recognize the plant as a sweetbay when we first saw it exhibited by Tom Dodd Nurseries at the Atlanta trade show some years ago: where a typical sweetbay carries four- or five-inch leaves, this form bears leaves barely two inches long, with small flowers to match. Mr. Dodd shared several plants with us, and they are now sizeable trees at Hopelands Gardens here in Aiken, South Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lineage carries a little mystery. There are said to be several clones named for Alabama rivers, though we believe they are much alike, and we do not know for certain which one we grow. Mr. Dodd recalled that the seed-parent tree, apparently an ordinary sweetbay, stood at Coden, Alabama, and that a number of seedlings raised at the nursery came out as this small-leaf form. Recent word suggests we are propagating the clone 'Tensaw', reputedly the only one that roots readily from cuttings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhatever the name, the plant is a charmer: a fine-textured, small-leaved evergreen sweetbay, more delicate in effect than the ordinary kind and lovely as a multi-stemmed small tree at a pond edge, a stream margin, a moist border, or the woodland edge. Give moist, acidic soil in sun to part shade, and enjoy the lemon-scented summer flowers, which draw pollinators and feed the caterpillars of the eastern tiger swallowtail. Few native trees give so much fragrance and fine texture for so little trouble.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057919889523,"sku":"MAGN-VIRG-DODD-SMAL-01G","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1807.jpg?v=1720139519"},{"product_id":"millettia-reticulata","title":"Callerya reticulata","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCallerya reticulata\u003c\/em\u003e, the evergreen wisteria, is one of the most graceful vines for the Southern garden, and one of the most refined. Once known to botanists as \u003cem\u003eMillettia reticulata\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWisteria reticulata\u003c\/em\u003e, this evergreen climber is not a true wisteria, though the cascading habit and aristocratic bearing recall one. A vine for porches and pergolas, the evergreen wisteria prizes quiet bloom over brash spectacle, and carries both fragrance and folklore in the tendrils.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to the humid woodlands of China, Vietnam, and Taiwan, this member of the pea family wears dense, leathery, deep-green leaves, each compound leaf composed of seven to thirteen softly pointed leaflets whose netted veining gives the species the name reticulata, netted. In bloom, the evergreen wisteria is transformed: panicles of bluish-violet, pea-shaped flowers with golden centers hang like garlands of amethyst, scenting the air with a heady mix of cedar and camphor from the height of summer well into fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFar more manageable than the rampant true wisterias, the evergreen wisteria is a restrained, well-mannered climber for zones 8 to 10, happy in fertile, loamy, evenly moist soil in dappled to full sun. Prune faded flowers to prevent seeding and to spur fresh bloom, and at the cold edge of the range shelter the plant in a pot for winter. Pollinators work the flowers heavily, and with age the slender stems thicken into woody, twisting trunks like the old vines of courtyard walls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a second life to this vine. In traditional Chinese medicine the dried stem, known as ji xue teng, has a long history as a remedy for the blood and circulation, and modern study has isolated genistein and flavonoids of interest. 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Borne five to a bundle in the manner of the white pines, the needles give the whole tree a silvered, weeping softness, and the long, resinous, banana-shaped cones dangle among them like ornaments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to the high Himalaya, from Afghanistan and Pakistan through Nepal and Bhutan to the edge of China, the tree grows on cool mountain slopes between roughly six and thirteen thousand feet. The epithet wallichiana honors Nathaniel Wallich, the Danish surgeon-botanist who ran the Calcutta Botanic Garden and sent the first seed west in the early nineteenth century. Gardeners know the pine as Himalayan white pine, Bhutan pine, or blue pine, for those cool-toned needles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne honest caution belongs at the front of any description. This is a cool-climate mountain pine, at home in USDA zones 5 to 7, and the species resents the heat and humidity of the Deep South; even in cooler inland gardens the pine can be tricky, and in the hot, muggy low country the tree tends to struggle. Grow this one where summers stay relatively mild, in full sun and well-drained soil, with some shelter from fierce, drying wind that can brown the needles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere the climate suits, Pinus wallichiana makes a magnificent specimen or shade tree, casting dense shade under a broad, sweeping crown, more tolerant of city air than many pines and, as a Himalayan white pine that co-evolved with blister rust, generally untroubled by that scourge of the American white pines. In the Himalaya the resinous wood serves for timber, torchwood, and turpentine. 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Fast-growing and open-crowned, this is a Mexican pine grown above all for that pendent, shimmering foliage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNative to the cool mountain escarpments of eastern Mexico, from Hidalgo and Puebla to Veracruz and Oaxaca, the tree carries the Latin name patula, meaning spreading, for the outward, drooping sweep of the needles, borne in bundles of three or four. Mexicans know the pine as pino lloron, the weeping pine, or pino triste, the sad pine, for the same downcast grace. The narrow, curved cones cluster along the branches and often hang on for years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeyond the garden, Pinus patula is one of the great working trees of the world, planted by the million across the highlands of eastern and southern Africa, South America, and beyond for fast-grown timber and pulp, a testament to sheer vigor. That vigor is a gift and a caution: the tree grows quickly and has naturalized aggressively in a few mild countries, so plant with a little forethought. In the garden the pine is tender, happiest in USDA zones 8 to 10 and frost-sensitive while young, wanting full sun and sharp drainage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive Pinus patula room and a mild climate, and the reward is a graceful, fast, evergreen specimen unlike any hardy pine, a fountain of soft green that softens a hard corner or screens a view in a hurry. Site the tree where the weeping habit can be seen against the sky or a dark backdrop, shelter a young plant from hard frost, and let the pine grow into the loose, elegant crown that has made the species a favorite far from its Mexican home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhoto courtesy of Sairus Patel from Standord\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057942466675,"sku":"PINU-PATU-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/PinuspatulaSairusPatelStanford.jpg?v=1784335026"},{"product_id":"rhododendron-atlanticum","title":"Rhododendron atlanticum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRhododendron atlanticum\u003c\/em\u003e, the coastal or dwarf azalea, is a low, colony-forming native of the open pine woods and sandy flatwoods of the mid-Atlantic and Carolina coastal plain. Unlike the tall wild azaleas of the mountains, this species stays close to the ground, often no higher than the knee, and spreads by underground runners, or stolons, into broad, drifting colonies. The bluish, glaucous foliage is a hallmark, cool and sea-gray, and the species name atlanticum simply marks the plant's home along the Atlantic seaboard. The genus name Rhododendron means rose tree in Greek; azalea comes from azaleos, meaning dry, a fitting root for a shrub of sandy, well-drained ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn April, before or just as the new leaves unfold, the shrub covers itself in rounded clusters of white flowers, often flushed pink in the bud and along the tube, each blossom coated in sticky glands and breathing a strong, spicy, clove-like fragrance. For a plant so modest in stature, the perfume is remarkable, and a colony in full bloom can scent an entire corner of the garden. The tubular, long-stamened flowers hold a lightly waxy sheen from the glandular hairs that cover them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe coast azalea belongs to the same beloved tribe of Southern bush honeysuckles grown for fragrance rather than food, and the usual caution applies: like all Rhododendron, the leaves and nectar hold grayanotoxins and are not edible for people or pets. Deer, unfortunately, do not read the warning and will browse the plant, so a colony may need protection where deer pressure runs high. The flowers, meanwhile, feed early butterflies, native bees, and the first hummingbirds of spring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe low, suckering habit makes the coast azalea a natural for the front of a woodland border, a sandy bank, or a naturalistic groundcover-scale drift beneath high pines, where the glaucous blue-gray foliage reads beautifully against darker greens. 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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. 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In habitat the palm can eventually reach fifteen to twenty feet, though cultivated plants are slow and often stay compact, and older specimens sometimes recline on a horizontal trunk rather than standing straight. Small, fragrant, creamy flowers give way to round black fruit in the wild.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe path to a name was long. Carl Schoenfeld and John Fairey of the pioneering Yucca Do Nursery first collected the palm on expeditions into the mountains of Tamaulipas in the late 1980s, puzzled by trunkless sabals that ran along the limestone rather than standing upright, and offered the earliest seed-grown plants in their 1990 catalog. For years the plant passed among collectors as Sabal sp. Tamaulipas, prized for cold tolerance to rival dwarf palmetto yet dismissed by some authorities as merely a Mexican form of \u003cem\u003eSabal minor\u003c\/em\u003e. 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These seeds are Woodlanders' first seed offering in decades, and a chance to grow one of the newest and least common hardy palms from the very beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePalms in the genus \u003cem\u003eSabal\u003c\/em\u003e have long been woven into daily life across their range. Related species such as the cabbage palmetto gave the Seminole the broad fans that thatched their chickees, along with leaves for hats, mats, and baskets, a craft that continues in Gullah communities of the Southeast. The fruit fed many Indigenous peoples, dried and ground into a sweet, prune-flavored meal, and the tender growing bud was eaten as heart-of-palm, a harvest that kills the palm. Little of this tradition is recorded for the Tamaulipas palmetto specifically, a plant known to science only recently, yet the kinship places the species in one of the most useful genera of the Americas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, the Tamaulipas palmetto offers something uncommon: a true fan palm for gardeners in zones eight and warmer who thought palms were beyond their reach. The blue-green fans bring architecture to a gravel garden, a courtyard, or a dry Mediterranean bed, and the roots, schooled on limestone, shrug off drought and alkaline soil once settled in. Pair the palm with agaves, yuccas, hardy cacti, and bold ornamental grasses for a xeric planting with real presence, and site young plants where their slow, deliberate growth can be admired up close. 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