{"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":"afrocarpus-falcatus","title":"Afrocarpus falcatus","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe yellowwoods are to South Africa roughly what the live oaks are to the Lowcountry: the tree everyone knows, the tree in the old photographs, the tree the furniture was made from. \u003cem\u003eAfrocarpus falcatus\u003c\/em\u003e, the Outeniqua yellowwood, is the tallest of them, a conifer of coastal and montane forest from the Eastern Cape north through Mozambique and Malawi, reaching thirty to sixty feet in cultivation and a great deal more in the deep forest at Tsitsikamma. The famous specimens live for centuries and carry trunks two or three feet through. Yellowwoods collectively are treated as South Africa's national tree, and cutting one is regulated by law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing about the plant looks like a conifer to an eye trained on pines. There are no needles and no woody cones; instead the branches carry sprays of narrow, flat, slightly sickle-shaped leaves about two inches long, blue-green and soft in outline, and the seed is a fleshy yellow drupe that birds eat and distribute. This is the Podocarpaceae, an old southern-hemisphere family that split from the northern conifers a very long time ago and never adopted any of the northern habits. \u003cem\u003eFalcatus\u003c\/em\u003e means sickle-shaped, for the curve of the leaf, and the genus name is simply the African branch of the group, separated from \u003cem\u003ePodocarpus\u003c\/em\u003e proper in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn cultivation the tree is well known in coastal California and in the mildest parts of the Southeast, where the qualities that recommend the plant are the ones a slow conifer offers: dense evergreen structure, a clean pyramidal habit when young broadening with age, no litter to speak of, and a tolerance of heat that many conifers lack. The wood behind the reputation is pale, fine-grained, and worked for centuries into furniture, floorboards, roof beams, and boats; a good deal of the yellowwood antique trade in South Africa came off this one species.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive the tree deep, fertile, well-drained soil and full sun to light shade, and give real room to a plant that intends to become large. Water through establishment; established specimens are notably tough. One honest caution about hardiness: this is a zone 9 tree that succeeds in the milder parts of zone 8, and a hard Piedmont winter will find the limit. Plant in a sheltered position with good drainage, accept that a severe freeze may burn the foliage, and understand that patience is the whole proposition with a conifer that measures growth in decades. Cuttings of this plant came off the Armstrong Campus in Savannah in August 2026, which is a fair test of the mild coastal end of the range.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057807560819,"sku":"AFRO-FALC-01G","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/3734AC9F-35A5-41F3-9F84-A1983C656BDA.jpg?v=1787792955"},{"product_id":"antigonon-leptopus","title":"Antigonon leptopus","description":"\u003cp\u003eFew vines work as hard for as little as the coral vine. \u003cem\u003eAntigonon leptopus\u003c\/em\u003e comes out of Mexico with heart-shaped leaves, tendrils that grab any small object within reach, and long sprays of small papery flowers in a hot, slightly unreasonable pink from midsummer until frost stops the show. The flowers are borne in such quantity that the whole plant seems to fizz, and the common names have piled up accordingly: coral vine, queen's wreath, Mexican creeper, chain of love, and, in the Gulf South, confederate vine. Bees find the plant before you do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpeed is the practical argument. In the Deep South this vine freezes to the ground most winters, returns from a tuberous root once the soil warms, and covers a trellis or a good stretch of fence in a single season, which makes the plant genuinely useful for anyone who needs a screen this year rather than in five. Only in frost-free gardens does the growth stay evergreen and woody. That tuber is worth knowing about for two reasons: the swollen root is what carries the vine through a Southern winter under mulch in a protected spot, and in Mexico the tubers are dug and eaten, growing surprisingly large with age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name is a small puzzle. \u003cem\u003eAntigonon\u003c\/em\u003e is usually read as Greek for against-angled or with-angles, apparently for the zigzag of the flowering stems, though botanists have never entirely agreed; \u003cem\u003eleptopus\u003c\/em\u003e is more straightforward, meaning slender-stalked, for the thin wiry stems that carry those heavy sprays of bloom. The family is Polygonaceae, which puts this vine in company with buckwheat, rhubarb, and the smartweeds, and once you know that, the papery flower parts stop looking like petals and start looking like the family trait they actually are.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite the vine in full sun against a fence, an arbor, or an ugly chain-link run that needs disappearing, in ordinary well-drained soil, and give something thin for the tendrils to grip; the plant climbs by twining tendrils rather than clinging, so a smooth post is useless. Water through establishment and then very little. One honest caution comes with the vigor: in genuinely frost-free, humid climates, Florida and Hawaii among them, coral vine has escaped and is listed as an invasive, spreading by seed, tuber, root sucker, and stem fragment. Where winter cuts the plant to the ground each year, that risk largely disappears, but gardeners in zone 9b and warmer should site the vine where the tubers can be dug and the seedlings pulled, and should not plant near wild land.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057810641011,"sku":"ANTI-LEPT-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1728.jpg?v=1720136377"},{"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-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":"barleria-cristata","title":"Barleria cristata","description":"\u003cp\u003eCalled Philippine violet, though neither Philippine nor a violet, \u003cem\u003eBarleria cristata\u003c\/em\u003e is a showy subtropical shrub that saves its display for the close of the year, opening dark blue-violet, trumpet-shaped flowers through late summer and autumn when much of the garden is winding down. A perennial in zones 8 and 9 and a four-to-six-foot shrub in zone 10, native to India and Myanmar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn zone 8 the tops are killed by frost; cut the plants back, mound about ten inches of coarse sand over the stubs, and mulch over with pine straw. As the weather warms, remove the covering to let new shoots emerge. Given rich soil and ample water, the Philippine violet makes a fine addition to the subtropical garden, valued for that long, late season of cool blue bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse Barleria cristata in a warm, sunny to lightly shaded border, where the late flowers extend color into fall and draw bees and butterflies. Fast and easy in heat and humidity, a reliable performer for the Deep South and a worthwhile experiment, with winter protection, at the cold edge of the range.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057817194611,"sku":"BARL-CRIS-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Barleria_cristata_Woodlanders_1.jpg?v=1731873171"},{"product_id":"callicarpa-americana-bok-tower","title":"Callicarpa americana ‘Bok Tower’","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCallicarpa americana\u003c\/em\u003e 'Bok Tower' is the white-fruited form of the American beautyberry, swapping the species' electric magenta for clusters of clean, pearly white berries that ring the arching stems in late summer and fall. The pale fruit is cool and luminous, lovely against the green leaves and a striking foil to the purple-berried kinds, and just as good for the birds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe selection comes from Polk County, Florida, chosen by Jonathan Shaw at Bok Tower Gardens, and performs best in warm southern zones where winters stay mild. Blooming a little later than the species, 'Bok Tower' carries small white flowers in summer before the white berries follow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse white beautyberry in a shrub border, a naturalized planting, or a native garden, where the white fruit lights a shaded spot and plays against darker foliage and the purple beautyberries. Like the species, the leaves are the famous southern insect repellent, and the shrub fruits best cut back hard in late winter. A five-to-seven-foot native for warm gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057820962931,"sku":"CALL-AMER-BOK-TOWE-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/9A3E38AB-C67C-49B2-B03E-690FBE66BD77.jpg?v=1727119296"},{"product_id":"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":"citrus-reticulata-nuclem","title":"Citrus reticulata 'NuClem'","description":"\u003cp\u003eNuClem is a special clementine among the cold-hardy citrus, a nucellar selection of the familiar clementine mandarin. Our friend and citrus guru Tom McClendon, who shared this one with us, explains it best: \"NuClem is a nucellar Clementine, meaning that it comes true from seed. Most Clementines are polyembryonic, meaning that seeds will almost always produce hybrids with other citrus nearby. NuClem also is distinctive in its cold-hardiness, having proven reliably hardy in Montezuma, GA, making it probably on par with Satsuma. Fruit is globular, about two inches in diameter, with a mildly adherent peel more like an orange than a mandarin. Fruit quality is excellent.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike other citrus, NuClem is an evergreen tree with fragrant white spring flowers, best given a sandy, well-drained soil and watered as needed. In gardens where the tree is borderline hardy, plant in a spot sheltered from north and northwest winds, and give extra protection during hard freezes. Grow in the ground through zones 8 to 10, or in a large container to overwinter farther north.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057836068979,"sku":"CITR-RETI-NUCL-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2152.jpg?v=1720137313"},{"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":"citrus-x-citrus-c-paradisi-x-poncirus-trifoliata-x-c-sinensis-u-s-119","title":"Citrus 'U.S. 119'","description":"\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders has long led in offering citrus and citrus hybrids hardy well beyond the usual citrus belt, and U.S. 119 is one of the most refined of the group. A complex USDA hybrid, a citrumelo crossed back with a sweet orange, the tree runs one quarter trifoliate orange, one quarter grapefruit, and one half sweet orange, a pedigree chosen to keep the toughness of the trifoliate while pushing the fruit toward genuine quality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result shows in the fruit: a handsome orange with a smooth peel and few seeds, the flesh sweet, in the old note, \"with just a touch of trifoliate aftertaste.\" Evergreen and good-looking, U.S. 119 has been said to be quite cold hardy, though, honestly, not yet widely tested, which makes the tree a fine candidate for the adventurous grower willing to trial a promising, little-known citrus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, grow U.S. 119 in full sun and sharp, well-drained soil, in the ground through zones 8 to 10 or in a large container to overwinter farther north. Site where the fragrant white spring blossom and the smooth orange fruit can both be enjoyed, and pair with other hardy citrus in a collector's edible planting. A promising fruit for gardeners pushing citrus toward the colder edge of the map.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057838395507,"sku":"CITR-CITR-C-PARA-03G","price":86.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1827.jpg?v=1720137393"},{"product_id":"clytostoma-callistegioides","title":"Clytostoma callistegioides","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eClytostoma callistegioides\u003c\/em\u003e is one of those vines that feels as though the plant wandered out of an old botanical expedition: vigorous, evergreen, and brimming with the sort of charm collectors once crossed oceans to find. A close relative of our native crossvine (\u003cem\u003eBignonia capreolata\u003c\/em\u003e), this South American cousin shares the same athletic climbing spirit but dresses in glossier, more refined foliage and carries larger flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose flowers are long, fluted trumpets in a soft violet-purple, some reaching five inches, opening in spring like a quiet fanfare over the vine. Early plant explorers in Argentina and southern Brazil noted the habit of draping over thickets and climbing the warm, wooded edges, where the lavender bloom lit up the understory after summer rains. The genus \u003cem\u003eClytostoma\u003c\/em\u003e (now often folded into \u003cem\u003eBignonia\u003c\/em\u003e) enjoyed a moment of admiration among nineteenth-century horticulturists, who prized exotic trumpet vines for bold flowers and an easy disposition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClimbing by tendrils, this violet trumpet vine is a natural for an arbor, a fence, a pergola, or the sun-washed corner of a garden wall. In warm climates the plant is remarkably carefree, evergreen and steady and generous with bloom, and the spring flowers draw butterflies and hummingbirds. In a prolonged dry spell a little extra water is welcome, a nod to those rain-nourished subtropical origins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHardy in Zone 9 and worth a thoughtful trial in sheltered pockets of Zone 8, \u003cem\u003eClytostoma callistegioides\u003c\/em\u003e rewards gardeners who enjoy plants with a sense of place and history: handsome, free-flowering, and just unusual enough to spark curiosity, exactly the kind of plant Woodlanders has always championed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhoto courtesy of Yasuko and Suzanne.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057845538931,"sku":"CLYT-CALL-01G","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Clytostomacallistegioides2.png?v=1722701133"},{"product_id":"cryptomeria-japonica-barabits-gold","title":"Cryptomeria japonica 'Barabits Gold'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCryptomeria japonica\u003c\/em\u003e is the sugi, the national tree of Japan, the conifer that lines the approach to the shrines at Nikko in avenues planted four centuries ago and still standing. The species makes a very large tree in time, which is exactly the problem for most gardens, and the reason the dwarf and compact selections have been collected so avidly. 'Barabits Gold' is one of the better ones: a small, dense, upright form whose ascending shoots break bright gold at the tips in spring and hold that colour well through the growing season, deepening toward bronze-green as the year turns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cultivar carries a Hungarian name. Barabits is a nursery family from Sopron in western Hungary with a long record of conifer selection, and this plant came out of that work rather than out of Japan, which is a reminder that the sugi has been a garden plant in Europe for well over a century and has thrown selections wherever people paid attention. The species name is the interesting one though: \u003cem\u003eCryptomeria\u003c\/em\u003e means hidden parts, from the Greek, for the way the flower structures sit concealed within the scales, and \u003cem\u003ejaponica\u003c\/em\u003e for a tree that is in fact native to both Japan and parts of China.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat sets a cryptomeria apart in the hand is the foliage. The leaves are short awls, spirally arranged and standing out from the shoot on every side, so a branchlet is soft and slightly bristling rather than flat and combed like a yew or a hemlock. On 'Barabits Gold' the new growth pushes upward and outward at the tips, catching light, so the gold reads as a scatter of small flames over a dark interior rather than as a solid yellow mass. That is a considerably more useful effect in a mixed planting than a gold conifer that shouts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant in full sun to partial shade in fertile, moist, well-drained soil; the species dislikes drought and shows unhappiness as browning interior foliage, and a little afternoon shade in the hot Southeast is welcome rather than necessary. Give even moisture, mulch the root run, and avoid dry windy exposures. Cryptomeria are reliably hardy through zone 6 and grow well throughout the Southeast, which makes this one of the rare plants on our propagation bench that asks no gamble at all. Site the shrub where the spring flush can be seen against something dark, and give room to a plant that stays small but not tiny.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057854451827,"sku":"CRYP-JAPO-BARA-GOLD-01G","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/F6DF4061-3330-41EF-8D80-E2E908A84EF2.jpg?v=1787793512"},{"product_id":"dendropanax-trifidus","title":"Dendropanax trifidus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDendropanax trifidus\u003c\/em\u003e is one of those quiet, aristocratic evergreens that rewards a second look and then a third. To the casual eye the plant reads as a glossy, tropical-looking small tree, something you would expect to sulk at the first frost; in truth this is a tough, warm-temperate native of the coastal forests of southern Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, hardy well into the Southeast and unbothered by heat, humidity, or a mild winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus name tells part of the story. \u003cem\u003eDendropanax\u003c\/em\u003e joins the Greek for tree, dendron, to panax, the same root behind ginseng and the old idea of a cure-all, so the botanical name reads almost as tree ginseng. The kinship is real, because this is a member of the Araliaceae, the ivy and ginseng family, cousin to English ivy, to \u003cem\u003eFatsia\u003c\/em\u003e, to \u003cem\u003eAralia\u003c\/em\u003e, and to ginseng itself, and the rounded summer umbels of small yellow-green flowers, followed by clusters of black autumn drupes, echo that family resemblance exactly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Japanese common name is the poetry, though. Gardeners there call this tree kakuremino, the cloak of invisibility, after a magical straw cape from folklore that hid whoever wore it. The name was borrowed for the plant because the deeply cut, three-lobed juvenile leaves resemble that mythical mino, the woven rain cloak, and it also happens to describe how the tree behaves in a planting, slipping quietly into the green background until the light catches the lacquered leaves. The species name, \u003cem\u003etrifidus\u003c\/em\u003e, meaning split into three, records the same lobed juvenile foliage, which is only half the trick: as the tree matures the leaves gradually give up their lobes and settle into simple, entire ovals, so a single specimen in transition often carries both leaf forms at once, a botanical curiosity called heteroblasty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere in the United States the plant is still barely known. This particular tree grew in our own garden in Aiken, South Carolina for years, and \u003cem\u003eDendropanax trifidus\u003c\/em\u003e was very possibly first offered to American gardeners by Woodlanders. Use the dense, upright form as a rare evergreen for shade: a woodland understory, a shaded courtyard, or a narrow green screen in a tight side yard, where the glossy foliage lends a tropical calm that belies real hardiness. 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Up close, the scale leaves show chalky white bands on their undersides and the small round cones sit closer to Chamaecyparis and Calocedrus. Botanists have argued about where the tree belongs for more than a century and have not finished. Plants of the World Online still accepts the name Fokienia hodginsii, while several recent phylogenetic studies nest the genus inside Chamaecyparis and would have the tree called Chamaecyparis hodginsii. We keep the older name because that is what the plant is known and traded by, and both are defensible depending on whose treatment you follow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name records two accidents of history. Fokien is the old transliteration of Fujian, the Chinese province where the species was first collected, and the epithet honors Hodgins, who sent the original material west. In Vietnam the tree is pơmu, and that name carries far more weight locally than the Latin one. Pơmu wood is aromatic, dense, and famously slow to rot, and the trade in that wood has been both the making and the near unmaking of the species.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverything about this tree comes back to the scent of the wood. Distilled from foliage and heartwood, pemou oil is sold in the West as Siam wood and is unusual in being almost entirely sesquiterpenes, chiefly nerolidol and fokienol. Published work on the leaf oil has found real activity against Gram-positive bacteria. In southern China and Vietnam the timber has gone into doors, window frames, carved panels, and furniture, and often enough into coffins that English picked up the name coffinwood. The H'Mong of the northern Vietnamese mountains split pơmu for roof planks and wall partitions. All that value has come at a cost. Illegal logging continues to thin the mature trees across most of the range despite legal protection, and the IUCN lists the species as Near Threatened.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere in Aiken, South Carolina, the tree has grown very well for a number of years, which is more than most conifers of this provenance manage in the humid Southeast. Give reasonably moist but well-drained ground, acid rather than sweet, and either full sun for a dense columnar habit or partial shade for something looser and more open. Full shade will not do. Expect forty to sixty feet in time and twenty-five to thirty-five feet across, with a narrow pyramidal crown filling in unhurriedly. Hardiness runs to zone 8, and gardeners north of that line should not count on the tree outdoors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stock behind these plants was struck from cuttings taken on the Armstrong Campus in Savannah, Georgia, in August of 2026. 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'Margarita' is the cold-hardy answer to that beauty, a selection that carries the same sweet-scented gold well north of where the species usually gives out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNamed by Gene Cline, a true native-plant pioneer, from a plant found in northern Georgia, 'Margarita' has proven hardy and grown well as far north as Washington, DC, holding evergreen where ordinary Carolina jessamine would sulk or freeze. The bright yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers are fragrant and generous, opening in late winter and early spring with a scattering of repeat bloom in fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond the extra cold nerve, this is the familiar jessamine in every good way: a well-mannered twining vine, evergreen, tolerant of a range of soils and sites, and happiest in a sunny spot with little competition. The glossy foliage gives structure the year round, and the vine climbs a fence, a trellis, a post, or an arbor with an easy, non-clinging grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive 'Margarita' full sun to part shade and ordinary, well-drained soil, and the plant asks little once established. One honest caution belongs with the fragrance: like all jessamines, every part of Gelsemium sempervirens is poisonous if eaten, so site the vine away from where small children or pets might be tempted by the flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057874243699,"sku":"GELS-SEMP-HARD-MARG-01G","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-821.jpg?v=1720138286"},{"product_id":"hyalis-argentea-var-argentea","title":"Hyalis argentea var. argentea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHyalis argentea\u003c\/em\u003e var. \u003cem\u003eargentea\u003c\/em\u003e is a plant that spends most of a growing season being mistaken for something else. The leaves are narrow, silver, and whorled along willowy upright stems, so the whole clump reads as an ornamental grass from any distance at all, and the effect is entirely convincing until the flowers open. Then the family shows: this is an aster relative, in the Asteraceae, and the flowers on the taller stems carry only a few ray florets each but are attractive in a spare, high-desert way that suits the foliage exactly. A sub-shrub or perennial to about three feet, clump-forming and modestly stoloniferous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is a Woodlanders introduction from Mendoza Province, Argentina, and has been hardy and evergreen here in Aiken, South Carolina. That combination is the whole reason the plant is worth your attention. Mendoza sits in the rain shadow of the Andes, high, bright, and dry, and the silver of the foliage is the plant's answer to that light. What was not obvious in advance is that the same construction would carry a South Carolina winter without losing the leaves, which is a genuinely useful trait in a silver plant; most of the silver perennials Southern gardeners try either rot in humidity or go bare and ugly in January.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe names describe what you see. \u003cem\u003eHyalis\u003c\/em\u003e comes from the Greek for glassy or transparent, apparently for the papery, translucent quality of the flower bracts, and \u003cem\u003eargentea\u003c\/em\u003e is simply silvery. The genus is small and South American, and this is very nearly the only member anyone in North American horticulture has grown. Older references file the family as Compositae; Asteraceae is the current name for the same group, and both turn up on labels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse the plant as a silver accent in a sunny, sharply drained site, and place with the same logic you would use for a small grass: in a drift, at the front of a border, along a gravel path, or spilling toward a walk where the low winter light can catch the foliage. Pair with agaves, \u003cem\u003eDasylirion\u003c\/em\u003e, rosemary, muhly grass, and the drier salvias. Water through establishment and then very little; the enemy is wet feet rather than cold. Divide or transplant in early spring if the clump spreads further than wanted. Very few American nurseries carry this plant, and the ones that do got the plant from here.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057885352051,"sku":"HYAL-ARGE-ARGE-01G","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/42EA0A98-4560-490B-84A5-872634B9664F.jpg?v=1787793894"},{"product_id":"ilex-integra","title":"Ilex integra","description":"\u003cp\u003eIlex integra is the holly for people who do not think they like hollies, an evergreen tree from Japan whose leaves carry no spines at all. The dark green foliage is smooth-edged, glossy, and thick, giving a clean, almost magnolia-like calm, and on female trees the show comes in fall and winter, when bright red berries gather along the branches against the deep green.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe botanical name marks the difference: integra means entire or undivided, for those untoothed, spineless leaves. In Japan the tree is the mochi-no-ki, the mochi tree, a name that reaches past the garden into old craft, for the sticky inner bark was long boiled down into torimochi, the birdlime once smeared on branches to catch small birds and insects. The same tree has been planted at shrines as a sacred tree, valued as much for meaning as for beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and the milder middle of China, Ilex integra grows slowly into a dense, upright small tree, in time reaching twenty to thirty feet. The plant favors the mild, humid conditions of the coastal Southeast, thriving in fertile, well-drained soil in sun or part shade, and rewards patience with a tidy, year-round evergreen presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSlow, clean, and handsome, the mochi tree suits a formal garden, a courtyard, an evergreen screen, or a specimen spot near an entry where the red winter berries can be enjoyed. The spineless leaves make the tree friendly to brush against, an advantage along a path or a seating area. Set a male holly within range for the fullest berry set, and pair the tree with camellias, fatsia, and other broadleaf evergreens for a quiet, layered planting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057891184755,"sku":"ILEX-INTE-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-99.jpg?v=1720138811"},{"product_id":"kalmia-hirsuta","title":"Kalmia hirsuta","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis low shrub with tiny evergreen leaves grows in moist peaty sand in the southern pine flatwoods from South Carolina to Florida and Alabama. The pink summer flowers may be needed to convince some people that this is indeed a Kalmia. It is a charming little shrub for a moist but well-drained sandy acid soil in the sun or semi shade. Care must be taken to insure it is not overtopped or overwhelmed by competing vegetation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057905995891,"sku":"KALM-HIRS-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-426.jpg?v=1720139192"},{"product_id":"lagerstroemia-limii","title":"Lagerstroemia limii","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLagerstroemia limii\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003elimii\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eLagerstroemia limii\u003c\/em\u003e carries a coarse, furrowed bark rather than the polished, exfoliating trunk that gardeners prize in \u003cem\u003eLagerstroemia fauriei\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eLagerstroemia limii\u003c\/em\u003e into the breeding program that produced the mildew-resistant hybrids named for Native American peoples, and the plant stands in the parentage of three-way selections such as 'Arapaho' and 'Cheyenne,' lending cold hardiness and warm, reddish flower color to the line. The headline disease resistance of that famous series came mostly from \u003cem\u003eLagerstroemia fauriei\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. 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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. 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Native to the frequently burned pinelands of the southern United States, the plant is an adaptation to that fiery world, staying small and spreading slowly into dense patches and colonies by underground runners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe small leaves are aromatic, releasing the clean, resinous bayberry scent when brushed or crushed, and on female plants small, dark, waxy berries ripen along the stems, the same wax that scents a bayberry candle and a welcome winter food for birds. The plant belongs to the bayberry family, Myricaceae, and like the rest of the clan fixes nitrogen from the air, thriving in the lean, sandy, acid soils that starve other shrubs. Once listed as Myrica pusilla or Myrica cerifera pumila, the dwarf is now placed in the genus Morella.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders may have been among the first nurseries to offer this useful little native to gardeners, and it deserves the wider audience. As a low, evergreen, colony-forming groundcover, dwarf waxmyrtle covers dry, sunny banks, binds sandy soil against erosion, and knits together the front of a native or coastal planting, all with the salt tolerance and toughness of the family. Deer leave the aromatic foliage alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive dwarf waxmyrtle a sunny, well-drained, sandy or acid spot and let the plant spread into a soft evergreen mat one to two feet high. Little care is needed once established, since heat, drought, poor soil, and salt are all taken in stride. Pair with wiregrass, muhly, and other pineland natives for a low-maintenance, wildlife-friendly groundcover, and shear if a tidier edge is wanted. 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The bark is reddish brown with fine longitudinal striations while the young branches stay green. Flowers come between May and July, yellow to yellowish white and barely an eighth of an inch long, followed by round fruits about half an inch across seated in persistent tepals. Nobody grows this tree for the flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name has been through the mill. The species was described by the French botanist Hector Léveillé from material collected in Guizhou by Julien Cavalerie, a missionary whose name is attached to a long list of Chinese plants, and was transferred to Nothaphoebe by Yen C. Yang in 1945. That is the name under which the tree entered western cultivation and the name most nurseries still use, misspelled along the way as Notophoebe or Nothophoebe about as often as not. Plants of the World Online now returns the species to Phoebe as Phoebe cavaleriei. We list the accepted name with the familiar trade name alongside, so the tree can be found under either.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhoebe is a genus of Chinese and southeast Asian evergreens best known for nanmu, the fragrant, close-grained timber reserved for imperial halls and coffins under the Ming and Qing, and several members of the genus are endangered today for exactly that reputation. Phoebe cavaleriei is not one of the great timber trees. This is a modest tree of montane forest margins in Sichuan, northeastern Yunnan, and Guizhou, between roughly sixteen hundred and six thousand feet, scarce in cultivation anywhere and scarcer still in American gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZone 9, or the warmest part of zone 8, suits best. Late unripened growth tends to freeze back here in Aiken, which is the usual price of a fast-growing evergreen at the cold edge of the range, and the plant comes back. A specimen at Hopelands Gardens, a few minutes from the nursery, now stands over thirty-five feet, which says more than any hardiness table. 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In the humid Southeast the olive has never been a dependable fruit producer, whatever the winter hardiness, and the honest advice is to grow one here for the silver evergreen structure and treat any crop as a bonus. There is now a commercial grove in south Georgia, so perhaps a suitable variety has been found, though the University of Georgia's own assessment of adaptability and productiveness in the state remains carefully undecided.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFarga is the heirloom olive of the Baix Maestrat, the coastal country where Castellón meets southern Catalonia, and the variety carries a claim no other olive can make. That corner of Spain holds the largest concentration of millenary olive trees in the world, several thousand of them, with enormous hollow, fluted, gnarled trunks, and the great majority are Farga. Researchers at the Technical University of Madrid dated one, the Farga de l'Arión, at roughly seventeen hundred years, which puts that tree in contention for the oldest olive alive. The oil pressed from the ancient groves now carries a Slow Food Presidium of the Maestrat millenary trees.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFarga yields less than the modern workhorse varieties, and has been returning to favor for the very reasons that once counted against the variety: extreme longevity, real toughness on poor ground, and an unusual genetic makeup including a rare chlorotype that makes the population valuable to anyone studying olive resilience. Two practical notes follow from the biology. Farga is recorded as male sterile, so a second olive of a different variety needs to stand within pollen range for any fruit at all. And when a crop does come, the oil is picked early and tastes of that choice: medium bitterness, a definite peppery finish, and a green aroma of cut grass and unripe almond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow as a multi-stemmed small tree at a terrace corner, along a drive, or against warm masonry where afternoon light can find the silver leaf undersides. Full sun without compromise, and sharp drainage above all else. Olives forgive poor rocky ground and do not forgive standing water, and Phytophthora root rot is the usual killer in this part of the world. Humidity brings peacock spot and anthracnose, both manageable with airflow pruning that opens the center of the canopy and with drip rather than overhead irrigation. Old trees go hollow and characterful, so choose a position worth keeping for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a very old Spanish variety that we propagated originally from a tree at what was then Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia. 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Where summers are wet, as here, the crop is unreliable and the tree earns a place for other reasons entirely: for the color of the foliage in low light, for the character an old trunk develops, and for the fact that an olive in a Carolina garden is still an unlikely and pleasing thing. A commercial grove has gone in down in south Georgia, which is encouraging, though the University of Georgia is still calling the question open.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFavarol belongs to the olive groves of the Garda Trentino, at the head of Lake Garda in the far north of Italy, which is about as far north as olives are farmed anywhere in the world. Records of the variety reach back to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Favarol survives as one of a handful of minor local cultivars that the sheer antiquity of olive growing around Garda has preserved, while the rest of Italy consolidated around a few commercial names. Genetic survey work on the ancient Garda trees places Favarol close to Mignolo Toscano. Whether that northern latitude has left the variety any hardier than a Tuscan or Andalusian olive is an open question, and a fair reason to try one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFavarol is self-sterile, which is the ordinary arrangement among olives and worth planning around: another variety flowering at the same time and within pollen range, or no fruit. Established trees are notably drought tolerant, as anything off a stony northern Italian hillside would need to be. Growth is slow, and slow growth in an olive is no fault, being exactly what produces the dense, twisting wood that makes old specimens so good to look at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifteen to twenty-five feet here, rather than the thirty a Spanish oil variety will reach, which makes Favarol the more manageable of our olives for a courtyard or a small garden. Full sun, and drainage that is genuinely sharp. Plant high rather than deep, keep clear of irrigated lawn, and prune in late winter to hold the center of the canopy open, since moving air is the cheapest defense against peacock spot and anthracnose through a wet summer. The silver foliage sits well against warm stone, gravel, and the Mediterranean herbs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA very old Italian variety, propagated by Woodlanders from a tree at what was then Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia. 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There is now a substantial commercial grove in south Georgia, so perhaps a suitable variety has been found; the question is more open than it was twenty years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Lucques' is an old variety from the south of France that is highly favored in some circles, and the circles in question are worth describing. This is the green table olive of Languedoc, grown in the Aude and the Hérault and protected there by an AOP since 2017. The fruit is long, slender, and distinctly crescent-shaped with a pointed tip, and stays bright green through curing rather than dulling. The flesh is fine and firm without being crunchy, comes away cleanly from the pit, and carries a light, sweet, nutty flavor that French tasters describe in terms of avocado and hazelnut. Every autumn the cured Lucques crop is genuinely awaited. The name points at Lucca in Italy, where tradition says the variety originated before finding a permanent home across the border.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe olive has been a garden and orchard plant for so long that the botany is almost beside the point, but a few things are worth knowing. \u003cem\u003eOlea\u003c\/em\u003e is simply the Latin for olive, from the same root that gave us oil itself; the tree belongs to the Oleaceae alongside ash, lilac, jasmine, and osmanthus, which explains the small fragrant flowers rather better than the fruit does. Old trees become gnarled and hollow-trunked and go on producing for centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe propagated this variety originally from a tree at what was then Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia, and the cuttings behind this batch came off the Armstrong campus again in August 2026, two generations of the same Savannah tree. Plant in deep, well-drained, fertile soil in full sun, with sharp drainage as the non-negotiable requirement; olives tolerate poor and rocky ground far better than wet ground. Water through establishment and then sparingly. Prune in late winter to open the canopy. One honest caution: grow this tree in the Southeast for the silver evergreen structure and the history, and treat any fruit as a bonus rather than a plan.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057930768499,"sku":"OLEA-EURO-LUCQ-01G","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2109.jpg?v=1720139853"},{"product_id":"pinckneya-bracteata-pubens","title":"Pinckneya bracteata (pubens)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePinckneya is a large shrub or small deciduous tree with showy pink flowers that are not flowers at all. What carries the colour is a single enlarged sepal on some of the blooms, expanded into a soft rose-pink blade three or four inches long, so a tree in full display looks convincingly like a poinsettia that has escaped into a Georgia bog. The true flowers are smaller, greenish-yellow, tubular, and easy to overlook beside the bracts. The leaves are oval and four to five inches long, and the whole plant is loose and open rather than dense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe range is small and particular: scattered locations from southeastern South Carolina through Georgia into Florida, always in moist, acid ground that is not subject to standing water. In the wild you find the tree along the edges of bayheads, in pitcher-plant bogs, at the margins of swamp forest, and in moist pine and cypress savanna. That habitat description is also the growing instruction, and it explains the plant's reputation. Pinckneya is not an easy plant to grow, but the tree grows well where the tree is happy, and is striking when in flower. Plant in sun or part shade, in acid soil that stays moist without ever going stagnant, and do not fight the plant on drainage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe common name Feverbark alludes to the tree having once been used as a substitute for quinine to treat malaria, and the claim has better foundations than most folk remedies. Pinckneya sits in the Rubiaceae, the coffee and madder family, in close company with \u003cem\u003eCinchona\u003c\/em\u003e, the South American genus that is the actual source of quinine. The inner bark is bitter and was collected in Georgia and Florida for intermittent fevers through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with nineteenth-century medical writers rating the bark as nearly equal to the official Peruvian article. The genus commemorates Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, the South Carolina soldier and statesman, and the species was described from William Bartram's collections, which puts this tree in the same historical company as \u003cem\u003eFranklinia\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA connoisseur plant, rare and not readily available, and worth the trouble for anyone with the right ground. Site the tree at a pond edge, in a rain garden, or in the moist low corner most gardens have and few know what to do with, where the bracts can be seen against dark evergreen. Nursery-propagated plants also keep a scarce Southeastern native in cultivation, which matters for a species this narrowly distributed. Our cuttings came from Screven County, Georgia, in August 2026, on the same collecting trip that produced the Armstrong campus material.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057941024883,"sku":"PINC-BRAC-PUBE-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/7582C99F-8BB7-4912-B415-E9EB4F71B5FF.jpg?v=1787794483"},{"product_id":"pithecoctenium-cynanchoides","title":"Pithecoctenium cynanchoides","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePithecoctenium cynanchoides\u003c\/em\u003e, the monkey's comb, is a vigorous, tendril-climbing vine of the trumpet-creeper family, Bignoniaceae, native to the warm woodlands and thickets of South America. Semi-evergreen in mild climates, the vine climbs by many-branched tendrils and clothes a support quickly in heart-shaped, three-parted leaves, the terminal leaflet often turned into a grasping tendril of its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough the warm season the vine carries showy, tubular flowers, creamy white with a soft yellow throat, held in short terminal clusters and drawing pollinators. The bloom is handsome, but the real curiosity comes after: a thick, woody, flattened capsule covered in dense bristles, so like a stiff comb or hairbrush that the plant earned the name monkey's comb, and dries to a striking oddity that splits to release papery winged seeds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive \u003cem\u003ePithecoctenium cynanchoides\u003c\/em\u003e a sturdy trellis, arbor, pergola, or fence in full sun to part shade and well-drained, fertile soil, and room for a fast, twenty-foot climber to run. Water through dry spells while establishing, then let the vine take the heat in stride, and prune after flowering to keep the growth in bounds and spur the next season's bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSite the monkey's comb where both the flowers and the extraordinary combed fruit can be met at close range, on a warm wall, a garden structure, or a fence along a path, and treat the plant as a conversation piece as much as a flowering vine. 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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. 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From the endangered Florida native Chapman's rhododendron, \u003cem\u003eRhododendron chapmanii\u003c\/em\u003e, the plant inherits broadleaf evergreen foliage and Deep South heat tolerance; from the hardy white-flowered form of \u003cem\u003eRhododendron dauricum\u003c\/em\u003e, a species of northeastern Asia, the plant takes cold hardiness and early bloom. The species name dauricum points to Dauria, the region of southeastern Siberia where that parent grows wild, while chapmanii honors Alvan Wentworth Chapman, the nineteenth-century botanist of the Southern flora.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn early spring the shrub covers itself in bright lavender to pinkish-purple flowers, an early and generous display that arrives while much of the garden is still waking. Unlike the deciduous native azaleas, this is a true broadleaf evergreen, holding small, neat green leaves through the year, so the plant earns its place long after the flowers have passed. Compact and rounded at three to five feet, 'Chapmanii Wonder' keeps a tidy, well-behaved presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat makes the plant so satisfying is the rare combination the cross achieved: genuine cold hardiness paired with real heat tolerance, so this rhododendron thrives where many of its kin struggle at one end of the range or the other. Little seen in the nursery trade, the shrub is something of a collector's find. As with all Rhododendron, though, the leaves and nectar carry grayanotoxins and are not to be eaten by people or pets; this is a plant for the eye rather than the table.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive 'Chapmanii Wonder' the classic rhododendron situation: filtered light or part shade, shelter from harsh afternoon sun and drying wind, and a moist but sharply drained, acidic soil rich in organic matter. The compact, evergreen habit suits a foundation planting, a shaded border, a woodland edge, or a large container, and the early lavender bloom shows beautifully against darker evergreens or a backdrop of bare spring branches. Combine with ferns, hellebores, and early bulbs for a quietly luminous early-season picture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057974939763,"sku":"RHOD-CHAP-DAUR-WOND-01G","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Rhododendron_Chapmanii_Wonder_Woodlanders_1.jpg?v=1742573055"},{"product_id":"stewartia-sinensis","title":"Stewartia sinensis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis small tree of Chinese origin has showy white flowers and fall foliage that is red or reddish, and the smooth whitish trunks with exfoliating bark are an important ornamental feature. In truth the bark is the reason most people plant one. Old stems shed in thin plates to leave a polished, mottled surface in cream, buff, and cinnamon that looks best in winter when nothing distracts from it, and improves every year for decades. The flowers arrive in early summer, white and cupped, about two inches across with a central boss of yellow stamens, unmistakably the work of a relative of \u003cem\u003eCamellia\u003c\/em\u003e. Then autumn brings a clean red. Very few small trees do three distinct things this well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tea family connection is not incidental. \u003cem\u003eStewartia\u003c\/em\u003e sits in Theaceae alongside \u003cem\u003eCamellia\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFranklinia\u003c\/em\u003e, and the family resemblance runs right through the flower. 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Local provenance of that kind is worth more than it sounds: these are cuttings off a tree that has already proven it will grow in this soil and this heat, rather than material shipped in from a cooler climate and hoped for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDirr, in his \u003cem\u003eManual of Woody Landscape Plants\u003c\/em\u003e, says: \"....a delightful small landscape plant that should be more widely used.\" and: \"Hardy to Boston and should be pursued by discriminating gardeners.\" That second remark is worth attending to, because the cold hardiness surprises people. This is a tree that will grow well north of where the American silky camellia gives up, and it asks less of a gardener in every respect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA plant for moist but well-drained acidic soil in sun or half shade, reaching fifteen to twenty-five feet. Like the whole genus, this species dislikes root disturbance, so plant young into a permanent position and mulch rather than cultivate around the base. Steady moisture matters, particularly while establishing; a droughty site produces a stunted tree that never develops the bark. Site where the winter trunk will actually be seen, near a path, a drive, or a window, since bark this good is wasted at the back of a border. Underplant with hellebores, epimedium, ferns, or low evergreens that will not compete hard at the surface, and resist the urge to limb up too early. 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In the garden the plant makes a deciduous, multi-stemmed shrub or small tree, pyramidal while young and rounding into an oval with age, reaching anywhere from thirteen to thirty-odd feet depending on how patient the gardener turns out to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe genus commemorates John Stuart, third Earl of Bute, an eighteenth-century patron of botany whose surname Linnaeus set down as Stewart when he coined the name. The misspelling is now permanent, fixed in place by the rules of botanical nomenclature, which is a small comedy the plant carries without complaint. 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The flowers open white and cupped in May and June, five petals around a boss of stamens, and the calyx behind them flushes deep beet red and holds that color long after the petals drop, staining the developing capsules through summer. Autumn brings red and orange to the leaves. There is no ethnobotany to speak of here, no old medicine or dye or timber tradition; this is a plant grown for looking at, and honest enough to admit as much.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSite the beaked stewartia as a specimen where the calyx and the smooth young trunk can be read at close range, in dappled shade or morning sun with shelter from hard afternoon light, in moist, acid, well-drained ground enriched with leaf mold. Stewartias resent root disturbance and hate hot dry soil, so plant once, mulch generously, and water through the first summers rather than moving the plant about looking for a better spot. 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The narrow, glossy, deep-green leaves carry a warm anise-tarragon scent and flavor, and in late summer and fall the plant scatters small, single, golden-yellow marigold flowers across a tidy foot-and-a-half mound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the kitchen, Mexican tarragon is the Southern gardener's answer to French tarragon, which sulks in heat and humidity. The chopped leaves bring the same sweet, anise-tinged note to corn on the cob, chayote, green beans, squash, vinegars, and teas, and thrive through the very summers that defeat true tarragon. Native to Mexico and Central America, this is a warm-climate herb that flourishes where French tarragon fails.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plant carries a deep cultural history. The Aztecs burned Tagetes lucida as the sacred incense yauhtli, dedicated to the rain god Tlaloc, folded the leaves into the ceremonial drink chocolatl, and turned to the herb in folk medicine, a tradition alive across Mexico today. 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The leaves give the genus away at a glance: two rounded lobes joined at the base, the shape everyone calls a camel's foot or a cow's hoof, blue-green and leathery enough to shrug off a dry season. Then, in summer, the shrub opens flowers that look too large and too fine for the country they came from, five crinkled white petals with a fringed, almost torn edge, carried in flushes that run on into autumn. In Botswana and Zimbabwe the grey louries and the parrots come to eat them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus carries one of the better jokes in botanical naming. \u003cem\u003eBauhinia\u003c\/em\u003e honors Jean and Gaspard Bauhin, sixteenth-century Swiss brothers and twin botanists, because the paired lobes of a single leaf sit together like two halves of one thing. Every bauhinia leaf you pick up is a small monument to a pair of siblings who catalogued plants in an age before anyone had agreed how that should be done. The species name remembers Wilhelm Peters, the German naturalist whose long expedition through Mozambique in the 1840s sent back a great deal of what Europe first knew of the region, and \u003cem\u003emacrantha\u003c\/em\u003e simply means large-flowered, which, set against the rest of the genus, is fair comment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoffee accounts for most of the common names. Roasted, ground, and brewed, the seeds make a drink close enough to the real thing that the plant travels as koffiebeesklou in Afrikaans, wild coffee bean in English, and Zambezi coffee in the seed trade. The rest of the shrub is nearly as useful: young pods are boiled and eaten as a green in the way of spinach, roots are baked, and the bark yields a serviceable rope. A therapeutic tradition sits alongside the kitchen one across Zimbabwe and Zambia, where the leaves are boiled for the steam and the cooled liquid taken for a cough, macerated roots are decocted for diarrhoea, and pounded leaves in salted water are sprinkled warm on wounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor American gardeners this is frankly a plant for zone 9 and warmer, and we would rather say so plainly than sell you a disappointment. Give the shrub the hottest, sharpest-drained ground you have, sand or a gravelly bank rather than anything that stays wet, and full sun; the plant asks for very little water once settled and flowers better lean than rich. One honest caution comes with the flowers, and that caution is cold. In 9a, site against a south-facing wall and keep frost cloth within reach. North of that, grow this bauhinia in a large container that can spend the winter under glass, which is no hardship for a shrub this drought-tolerant and this happy in a pot. Very few American nurseries have ever offered the plant at all, so growing one is also a quiet way of keeping an uncommon African shrub in cultivation on this side of the ocean.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45409806811251,"sku":"BAUH-PETE-MACR","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/5CA00208-9FE6-4A9B-85C4-3AEF9176B817.jpg?v=1787795427"},{"product_id":"callistemon-phoeniceus","title":"Callistemon phoeniceus","description":"\u003cp\u003eOf the thirty-odd bottlebrushes, this is the one Australian growers reach for when they want the word spectacular to mean something. \u003cem\u003eCallistemon phoeniceus\u003c\/em\u003e is endemic to the southwest corner of Western Australia, a hard, sandy, summer-dry country, and the shrub arrives in spring and summer carrying scarlet brushes four to six inches long, each one finished with a dark tip so the whole spike reads as red shading into near-black. The leaves are the other half of the appeal: thick, stiff, and distinctly blue-green, holding that cool grey cast right through the year, which makes the red land harder than red on ordinary green ever does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus name is a small piece of Greek praise, \u003cem\u003ekallos\u003c\/em\u003e for beauty and \u003cem\u003estemon\u003c\/em\u003e for a thread or stamen, and for once a botanist named a plant for the part that actually matters. What looks like petals is nothing of the kind; the true petals are small, round, greenish, and gone almost before you notice. The show is stamens, dozens to every flower, standing free of one another in a loose forest around the stem. \u003cem\u003ePhoeniceus\u003c\/em\u003e means crimson, from the Tyrian purple-red the Phoenicians traded, and the epithet is doing honest work here. Robert Brown described the genus in 1814; the molecular work of the last twenty years has since argued that the bottlebrushes sit inside \u003cem\u003eMelaleuca\u003c\/em\u003e rather than beside, so you will also find this plant as \u003cem\u003eMelaleuca phoenicea\u003c\/em\u003e. We keep the name gardeners search for and note that a botanist correcting you is not wrong, only reading from a different book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWatch the shoot after bloom and the genus gives away where the plant comes from. The tip does not stop at the flower; the stem pushes a tuft of new leaves straight out past the brush and carries on, so by late summer you find a spent ring of woody capsules sitting partway down a branch with a foot of ordinary foliage beyond. Those capsules stay shut and clustered along the old wood like buttons pressed into the bark, waiting on fire to crack them open over ash-cleared ground. A shrub whose reproduction assumes the landscape will burn is a shrub built for hardship, and the drought toughness gardeners notice first and the fire history they learn later are the same fact seen from two directions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite the plant in the hottest, brightest, sharpest-drained spot on the property, the west-facing bank where a hydrangea would sulk, and expect eight to twelve feet in time. Lean ground gives better brush than rich ground, which buys leaf instead. The one thing no bottlebrush forgives is wet feet in winter, so plant high on heavy clay and let gravity do the work. In flower the nectar draws hummingbirds and carpenter bees the way the same flowers draw honeyeaters at home. One honest caution: \u003cem\u003eC. phoeniceus\u003c\/em\u003e takes frost and drought in stride but has not been proven through a piedmont winter the way our own \u003cem\u003eCallistemon\u003c\/em\u003e 'Woodlander's Hardy' has, so treat the plant as zone 8b to 10, give a sheltered wall in 8a, and consider a container north of that. These are the first cuttings we have struck, and the plant is very rarely offered in American horticulture at all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45409807368307,"sku":"CALL-PHOE-01G","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/0E52B1DC-4003-43DD-BCD7-5BAC53D5ED4C.jpg?v=1787792571"},{"product_id":"callistemon-viminalis","title":"Callistemon viminalis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe weeping bottlebrush is the one most Americans have already met without knowing the name, a small tree of crimson brushes and long hanging branchlets planted through Florida and the Gulf Coast until a hard freeze thins the ranks and somebody plants them again. In the wild \u003cem\u003eCallistemon viminalis\u003c\/em\u003e runs down the eastern edge of Australia from Cape York into northeastern New South Wales, and almost always along water: creek banks, seasonal channels, the damp sand beside a watercourse. That habitat explains the two things that set this species apart from the rest of the genus. The branches hang rather than stand, giving the whole tree a fountain habit that carries even out of flower, and the roots will tolerate heavier ground and less than perfect drainage, which almost no other bottlebrush will.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name is unusually literal. \u003cem\u003eCallistemon\u003c\/em\u003e is Greek praise, \u003cem\u003ekallos\u003c\/em\u003e for beauty and \u003cem\u003estemon\u003c\/em\u003e for a thread, because the show is stamens rather than petals; the true petals are small, round, greenish, and drop away almost unnoticed. \u003cem\u003eViminalis\u003c\/em\u003e comes from the Latin \u003cem\u003evimen\u003c\/em\u003e, a pliant shoot, the same root behind the withies a basket maker cuts, and anyone who has watched these branchlets move in a summer storm will grant the point. Under the newer taxonomy the plant is \u003cem\u003eMelaleuca viminalis\u003c\/em\u003e, since molecular work placed the bottlebrushes inside the paperbarks; the nursery trade and the Australian Plant Census have largely kept \u003cem\u003eCallistemon\u003c\/em\u003e, and so do we, while noting the argument honestly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis species carries a piece of Woodlanders history whether or not the botany ever gets settled. Decades ago the growers here selected and fixed a single cold-tough bottlebrush clone and introduced the plant to the American trade as \u003cem\u003eCallistemon\u003c\/em\u003e 'Woodlander's Hardy'. Nobody wrote down the parentage, and to this day the clone is sold variously as a \u003cem\u003ecitrinus\u003c\/em\u003e, as a \u003cem\u003eviminalis\u003c\/em\u003e, and, under the new names, as \u003cem\u003eMelaleuca viminalis\u003c\/em\u003e 'Woodlander's Hardy'. That selection carried the genus a full hardiness zone north, from the Gulf Coast into the piedmont, and now grows coast to coast. The straight species offered here is the wild plant behind at least one half of that argument, which makes growing the two side by side a genuinely interesting exercise for anyone who cares where a garden plant came from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive the tree full sun and room; fifteen to twenty-five feet in time in a mild climate, less where winter cuts back the growth, and the fountain habit wants space rather than a tight corner. Crimson brushes come through spring and summer on new wood, and the nectar pulls hummingbirds and carpenter bees the way the same flowers pull honeyeaters and lorikeets at home. One honest caution, and this one matters: the straight species is a zone 9 to 11 plant, tender where 'Woodlander's Hardy' is tough. Every few winters a hard freeze reminds the Deep South exactly where that line sits. Plant with that knowledge in the Lowcountry and along the Gulf, keep the tree in a container further north, and if what you want is the look with the hardiness, buy the clone we made instead.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45409808056435,"sku":"CALL-VIMI-01G","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/C07F25E0-FBDC-44AD-B34C-1C601F96740E.jpg?v=1787792672"},{"product_id":"camellia-salicifolia","title":"Camellia salicifolia","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost camellias are bought for the flower. This one is bought for the leaf, and anyone who has met the plant in person understands why within about four seconds. \u003cem\u003eCamellia salicifolia\u003c\/em\u003e carries long, thin, lance-shaped leaves that hang rather than sit, closer to a willow or a bamboo than to the stiff glossy ovals of a japonica, so the whole shrub moves in a breeze and reads soft where the rest of the genus reads architectural. New growth comes out coppery and silky, covered in fine hairs, and the young branchlets are villous enough to feel like felt between the fingers. Some growers call the species the willow-leaf camellia and some the Hong Kong camellia; both names point at something true.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wild plant grows under the canopy of evergreen broadleaf forest in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, at moderate elevations between roughly a thousand and twenty-six hundred feet. That is a shade plant's pedigree, and the shrub behaves accordingly in the garden: happiest in high filtered light beneath tall pines or oaks, tolerant of quite deep shade, and unhappy in the full southern sun that a sasanqua will shrug off. Flowers come in autumn and early winter, white, five or six obovate petals, only an inch or so across, and lightly fragrant. Beside a big formal japonica bloom they are almost nothing. Beside the foliage they are exactly the right amount.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpecies camellias like this one matter more than their modest flowers suggest, because breeders keep going back to them. Narrow foliage, fine hairs, scent, and small-flowered grace are traits that the great formal hybrids largely traded away, and \u003cem\u003eC. salicifolia\u003c\/em\u003e has been used in crosses aiming to bring fragrance and a lighter habit back into the group. The genus honors Georg Josef Kamel, the Moravian Jesuit and pharmacist who worked in the Philippines and sent careful plant descriptions back to Europe, and whom Linnaeus commemorated in a genus Kamel himself never worked on. \u003cem\u003eSalicifolia\u003c\/em\u003e is plain description: willow-leaved, from \u003cem\u003eSalix\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite the shrub in a woodland bed where the hanging foliage can be seen against something darker and stiller, and where a hand can reach the new growth in spring, because the felted young shoots are half the pleasure of growing the plant. Eight to fifteen feet in time, open and graceful rather than dense; resist shearing, which destroys the very habit worth having. Acid, humus-rich, well-drained soil, even moisture, and shelter from cold dry wind. One honest caution: this is a subtropical species, hardy in roughly zones 8 to 10 and less cold-tolerant than the japonicas most Southern gardeners know, so give a protected corner in 8a and be prepared to lose the tips in a hard winter. Very few American nurseries have ever offered the plant, which is reason enough to try.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45409808613491,"sku":"CAME-SALI-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/7D1C88FD-ED5B-40E0-A612-F2D69D93B76E.jpg?v=1787797107"},{"product_id":"schima-remotiserrata","title":"Schima remotiserrata","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf you already grow a camellia, a stewartia, or a Franklinia, you know most of what a \u003cem\u003eSchima\u003c\/em\u003e is trying to be. The genus sits in the tea family, evergreen where the American members are deciduous, and carries the family flower in the purest form the family manages: five white petals cupped around a dense boss of gold stamens, two inches or so across, fragrant, and scattered through the crown in summer rather than delivered all at once. \u003cem\u003eSchima remotiserrata\u003c\/em\u003e is a southeast Chinese species, native to Fujian, Guangdong, eastern Guangxi, southern Hunan, and Jiangxi, and almost unknown in American gardens; the epithet refers to the leaf margin, toothed at intervals rather than continuously, which is the field character that separates this species from a shelf full of near relatives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus name is a piece of quiet observation. \u003cem\u003eSchima\u003c\/em\u003e derives from the Greek \u003cem\u003eskiasma\u003c\/em\u003e, a shadow, for the dense shade a mature crown throws. That is not marketing; these are forest trees, and in the wild parts of the genus exceed a hundred feet. In cultivation on this side of the Pacific expect something far more reasonable, an upright evergreen of thirty to fifty feet over a long life, with handsome leathery foliage flushing bronze-red on new growth and holding good colour through winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe family connections are the interesting part, and Woodlanders has a stake in them. \u003cem\u003eSchima\u003c\/em\u003e is closest of the Asian tea-family genera to \u003cem\u003eFranklinia alatamaha\u003c\/em\u003e, the tree John and William Bartram found on the Altamaha River in Georgia in 1765 and which has not been seen in the wild since about 1803. That relationship is close enough to cross: the intergeneric hybrid ×\u003cem\u003eSchimlinia floribunda\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFranklinia\u003c\/em\u003e crossed with \u003cem\u003eSchima argentea\u003c\/em\u003e, is a plant we grow and sell here, as is \u003cem\u003eS. argentea\u003c\/em\u003e itself and \u003cem\u003eS. superba\u003c\/em\u003e. Adding a fourth species to the bench is how a nursery finds out what else the genus will do, and anyone building a Theaceae collection now has another piece to place beside the stewartias and the gordonias.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite the tree in full sun to light high shade, in acid, humus-rich, well-drained soil, and give real room; a shade tree that throws the shade the Greek name promises is not a courtyard plant. Water through establishment and in droughts, and mulch to keep the roots cool. One honest caution: \u003cem\u003eSchima\u003c\/em\u003e is subtropical to warm-temperate, and while young plants of the genus have taken temperatures as low as about eighteen degrees Fahrenheit, frost protection through the first winters is sensible and this species is untested across most of the country. Call the tree zone 8b to 10 for now, plant with a warm wall or an evergreen windbreak behind, and understand that you are helping find out where the limit actually is. That is a fair description of most of the interesting plants we sell.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45409809072243,"sku":"SCHI-REMO-01G","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/3479F5CB-5561-4DE0-B9F9-407511F74024.jpg?v=1787792736"},{"product_id":"sinningia-sellovii","title":"Sinningia sellovii","description":"\u003cp\u003eGesneriads are supposed to be houseplants. Somebody should tell \u003cem\u003eSinningia sellovii\u003c\/em\u003e, which comes out of a hard woody tuber the size of a fist, throws arching stems three or four feet long, hangs them with scarlet tubular flowers from early summer until frost, and then dies back to the ground and does the whole thing again the following year in USDA zone 7b. Gardeners who know the family only through florist gloxinias tend to find this genuinely disorienting, which is a good reason to grow the plant near the front gate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe species is Brazilian, from the drier southern grasslands and rocky ground, and the tuber is the key to everything else. Water is stored underground, the top growth is expendable, and the plant treats winter dormancy as an ordinary annual event rather than a crisis. That combination gives you something unusual: a plant with the flowers of the tropics and the habits of a prairie perennial. The flowers themselves are narrow scarlet trumpets, freckled darker inside, dangling in a long procession down each arching stem, and they are shaped for exactly one visitor. Hummingbirds work the stems steadily from June onward, and in a good year the traffic is the point of the planting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth halves of the name are commemorations. \u003cem\u003eSinningia\u003c\/em\u003e honors Wilhelm Sinning, head gardener at the Bonn botanic garden in the early nineteenth century, who grew and distributed much of what Europe first knew of the family. \u003cem\u003eSellovii\u003c\/em\u003e remembers Friedrich Sellow, the German botanist who spent nearly two decades collecting across Brazil and Uruguay, sent tens of thousands of specimens back to Berlin, and drowned in the Rio Doce in 1831 with most of the work still unpublished. A great many South American plants carry that name; this is one of the better ones to have it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive the plant full sun to part shade in gritty, well-drained ground, and site where people walk, because the flowers hang and want to be seen from below rather than looked down on. A raised bed, a wall top, a slope, or a large container all suit. Water moderately in growth and keep the tuber dry in dormancy; wet winter soil is what kills, not cold. Cut the spent stems to the ground after frost blackens them and mark the spot, since the tuber is slow to wake and easy to dig up by accident in spring. Pair with agaves, gaura, muhly grass, and the drier salvias for a hummingbird corner that carries through the hottest weeks of the year, and expect the whole performance to improve as the tuber thickens with age.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45409809137779,"sku":"SINN-SELL-01Q","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/BF36FB12-C522-4C87-89F9-2FA333F19B53.jpg?v=1787792807"},{"product_id":"sinoadina-racemosa","title":"Sinoadina racemosa","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere is a tree almost nobody in American horticulture has grown, and the reason is not that the plant is difficult. \u003cem\u003eSinoadina racemosa\u003c\/em\u003e is simply obscure: a deciduous member of the madder family ranging from northern Myanmar and Thailand through southern China, Taiwan, the Ryukyu Islands, and into Japan, running fifteen to forty feet tall with grey trunk bark and smooth young branches. In summer the tree carries small flowers packed tight into spherical heads, the heads themselves gathered into open terminal panicles, which is exactly what the epithet \u003cem\u003eracemosa\u003c\/em\u003e is pointing at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnyone who grows a buttonbush will recognise that flower head immediately, and the resemblance is real family resemblance rather than coincidence. Rubiaceae is the coffee and gardenia family, and within it this tree sits in the same tribe as our own \u003cem\u003eCephalanthus occidentalis\u003c\/em\u003e, the buttonbush of Southern pond margins with the little sputnik flowers. The connection reaches further than that: \u003cem\u003ePinckneya bracteata\u003c\/em\u003e, the fever tree of Georgia and Carolina bays, is another Rubiaceae cousin, and we collected cuttings of both plants in the same week. Growing them within sight of one another is a good way to see how far one plant family can travel and still keep the same habits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe naming has been unsettled for two centuries. Siebold and Zuccarini described the plant from Japanese material in the nineteenth century; the species then spent decades filed under \u003cem\u003eAdina\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003eNauclea\u003c\/em\u003e before Ridsdale erected \u003cem\u003eSinoadina\u003c\/em\u003e for the tree in 1978, and some authorities still fold the genus straight back into \u003cem\u003eAdina\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eAdina\u003c\/em\u003e comes from the Greek \u003cem\u003eadinos\u003c\/em\u003e, crowded, for those tight-packed heads, and \u003cem\u003eSino-\u003c\/em\u003e is simply the Chinese half of the range. You may see either name on a label; both point at the same tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn honest note, and we would rather lead with it than bury it. The horticultural literature on this species is close to nonexistent, so what follows is our best reading rather than settled fact. Our cuttings came from a plant growing in the UGA Trial Garden in Athens, Georgia, which is practical evidence of hardiness in the middle of zone 8a and encouraging for the piedmont generally; we would call the tree zone 7b to 9 provisionally and revise as we learn. Site in full sun to light shade in decent, evenly moist, well-drained ground, give room for a small shade tree, and treat the whole exercise as a collaboration. Growing an obscure tree well is how the record gets written in the first place, and there are very few American gardens where you can go and look at a mature one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45409815134323,"sku":"SINO-RACE-01G","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Sinoadinaracemosa.jpg?v=1787797449"}],"url":"https:\/\/woodlanders.net\/collections\/prophouse-just-entered.oembed?page=3","provider":"Woodlanders","version":"1.0","type":"link"}