{"title":"Coming Summer 2026","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe nearest shelf in the propagation house. These plants were rooted or potted long enough ago that they are filling their containers now, hardening off through the heat, a season or less from a size we are willing to ship. Summer is not the gentlest time to plant in the Deep South, so many will go out toward the cooler end of the season, watered in and given a little shade to start. If one here is on your list, put your name down; this is the group most likely to become available first.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"amsonia-montana","title":"Amsonia montana","description":"\u003cp\u003eDwarf bluestar is the compact, well-behaved member of the clan, a tidy mound of upright stems and soft green leaves topped in late spring with clusters of powder-blue, star-shaped flowers. Often treated as a low form of the eastern bluestar, \u003cem\u003eAmsonia montana\u003c\/em\u003e stays small and shapely, a fine choice where the taller bluestars would sprawl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanding only about a foot, dwarf bluestar suits the front of a border, a rock garden, a container, or any tight, sunny spot, where the spring flowers and the gold fall color both earn their keep on a small frame. Like the rest of the genus, the plant carries a milky sap that deer and rabbits refuse, and asks little once settled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow dwarf bluestar in sun to part shade in most well-drained soils with moderate moisture, and shear lightly after bloom to keep the mound dense. Easy, long-lived, and tidier than the tall cousins.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057809920115,"sku":"AMSO-MONT-01G","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1228.jpg?v=1720136338"},{"product_id":"asclepias-incarnata-ice-ballet","title":"Asclepias incarnata 'Ice Ballet'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe white-flowered form of swamp milkweed, \u003cem\u003eAsclepias incarnata\u003c\/em\u003e 'Ice Ballet' carries the same upright, well-mannered habit as the species but trades rosy pink for clusters of pure, cool white, held atop sturdy three-to-four-foot stems through summer. The effect is fresh and luminous in a moist border, and just as useful to wildlife.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike all swamp milkweeds, 'Ice Ballet' is a native of wet meadows and streambanks, happy in rain gardens, pond edges, and any moist or irrigated bed. The fragrant white umbels feed monarchs, other butterflies, and bees, the foliage serves as a monarch host, and the milky sap keeps deer at bay. Clump forming and tidy, the plant holds structure through the season without running.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant 'Ice Ballet' in full sun to part shade in moist to wet soil, where the white flowers can cool a hot summer planting and weave through pink and purple companions. Native to the eastern United States, easy to grow, and as valuable to pollinators as it is pretty. Leave the slender pods to ripen for silky, wind-borne seed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057813164147,"sku":"ASCL-INCA-ICE-BALL-01G","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1227.jpg?v=1720136461"},{"product_id":"aspidistra-elatior-variegata","title":"Aspidistra elatior 'Variegata'","description":"\u003cp\u003eA boldly striped form of the cast iron plant, \u003cem\u003eAspidistra elatior\u003c\/em\u003e 'Variegata' carries the same broad, leathery, evergreen blades, each brushed lengthwise with bands of creamy white over deep glossy green. The variegation lights up a shaded corner, and the toughness is all there too: this is a near-indestructible evergreen for difficult, low-light places.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA useful quirk: the white striping holds best on lean soil, so resist the urge to feed heavily, and the plant keeps the brightest variegation when grown a little hungry and somewhat root-bound. Native in parentage to China and Japan, slow and steady, with foliage that lasts for years before aging out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow variegated cast iron plant in shade to part shade, in well-drained soil, as a striking foliage accent, an evergreen groundcover under trees, or a container plant for a covered porch or a bright room indoors. The bold, architectural leaves bring structure and light to shaded plantings, and the variegation stays put rather than reverting to plain green.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057814016115,"sku":"ASPI-ELAT-VARI-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/F122E6EB-29EC-40DF-A597-9BFE0B5A8CB3.jpg?v=1724700130"},{"product_id":"aster-laevis-bluebird","title":"Aster laevis ‘Bluebird’","description":"\u003cp\u003eSmooth aster is one of the cleanest and most dependable of the fall natives, and 'Bluebird' is among the best forms. \u003cem\u003eAster laevis\u003c\/em\u003e 'Bluebird' builds an upright, vase-shaped clump of smooth, blue-green foliage, then opens, in late summer and fall, sprays of violet-blue daisies centered in gold, a generous late feast for bees and butterflies as the season winds down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA selection noted for sturdy, self-supporting stems and clean, mildew-resistant foliage that stays handsome where lesser asters tatter. Native to eastern North America, smooth aster thrives in full sun and well-drained soil, takes drought in stride once established, and asks very little. The smooth, almost waxy leaves are part of the appeal, cool blue-green all season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant 'Bluebird' in a sunny border, a meadow, or a native planting, where the violet-blue haze can close the gardening year alongside goldenrod, grasses, and other late bloomers. Deer tend to leave the foliage alone, and the strong stems rarely need staking. A pollinator magnet exactly when the season's nectar runs short.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057814540403,"sku":"ASTE-LAEV-BLUE-01Q","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-606.jpg?v=1720136500"},{"product_id":"aster-grandiflorus","title":"Symphyotrichum grandiflorum","description":"\u003cp\u003eA native aster with a regional accent. Most of the asters Americans plant are wide-ranging species that turn up from Maine to Texas and read essentially the same wherever they grow. Symphyotrichum grandiflorum is more particular, with a native range small and specific: the Atlantic Coastal Plain of Virginia and the Carolinas, plus the Piedmont of the Carolinas, and little more. A few hundred miles of sandy roadsides, dry pine-oak woods, abandoned fields, and forest edges from the Tidewater into the rolling country west of the fall line. For a gardener in the Carolinas or Georgia, this is one of the few asters that is genuinely here, a piece of the actual Atlantic Coastal Plain flora rather than a borrowed prairie species filling in for a missing native.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flower is the show. Heads an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half across, large for a wild aster, hence the species name grandiflorum, with twenty to thirty narrow ray florets in a deep, saturated violet-purple around a tight golden disk. The color carries enough blue to read cool and enough red to read warm, the kind of saturated violet that catches autumn light beautifully. The flowers open at a useful time, October into November, when most of the other asters have already finished and the garden is otherwise leaning toward seed heads, late grasses, and the first frost. Among native asters, grandiflorum is one of the latest to bloom and the largest-flowered, two genuine differentiators the more common species cannot match.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plants stand one to three feet tall on stiff, hairy, upright stems, with narrow, lance-shaped leaves and lower clasping foliage. Not a soft, billowy, fall-flowering aster, but an upright, structural one, more architectural than romantic. Dry, sandy soils suit the plant well, and poor conditions that defeat showier perennials are taken in stride, which is part of why grandiflorum has persisted along Coastal Plain roadsides where the native communities have largely disappeared. A long list of late-season insects works the flowers, including specialist Andrena bees that depend on Symphyotrichum and a few related genera for their pollen; without late asters, these bees lose their season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the gardener building a late-fall pollinator garden, anyone planting the actual flora of the Carolinas rather than a generic native mix, or the late-season designer wanting a structural, drought-tough, deep-purple punctuation when most other asters are spent, grandiflorum earns a place.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057815097459,"sku":"ASTE-GRAN-01Q","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Woodlanders_aster_grandiflorus_1.jpg?v=1730230236"},{"product_id":"callicarpa-dichotoma-issai","title":"Callicarpa dichotoma 'Issai'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCallicarpa dichotoma\u003c\/em\u003e 'Issai', the purple beautyberry, is a compact, cold-hardy selection grown for a heavy crop of glossy, violet-purple berries that ring the stems from late summer well into fall. Smaller and tidier than the American beautyberry, 'Issai' fruits young and freely, often setting berries on a single plant, and holds the color long after the leaves have gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmall pink-lavender flowers open in summer, an unobtrusive lead-in to the berries, which are the show. A four-to-five-foot shrub that keeps a neat, rounded shape, the purple beautyberry suits a small garden, a mixed border, or a mass planting where the fall fruit can light up the bed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant 'Issai' in sun or part shade in average, well-drained soil. Like the rest of the genus, the shrub fruits on the current year's growth, so cut back hard in late winter for the heaviest crop and a compact frame. Easy, reliable, and a top choice for fall color where space is limited.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057820307571,"sku":"CALL-DICH-ISSA-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1518.jpg?v=1720136773"},{"product_id":"calycanthus-hybridus-venus","title":"Calycanthus hybridus ‘Venus’","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCalycanthus\u003c\/em\u003e 'Venus' is a white-flowered sweetshrub bred by Dr. Tom Ranney at North Carolina State University, drawing on three species at once: the Eastern Carolina allspice (\u003cem\u003eCalycanthus floridus\u003c\/em\u003e), the California sweetshrub (\u003cem\u003eCalycanthus occidentalis\u003c\/em\u003e), and the Chinese sweetshrub (\u003cem\u003eCalycanthus chinensis\u003c\/em\u003e, long known as \u003cem\u003eSinocalycanthus\u003c\/em\u003e). The result is a deciduous shrub that carries the best of all three: hardiness, substance, and an unusual flower.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlump, yellow-green buds open to broad white blooms, magnolia-like and a little smaller than a star magnolia, washed with yellow and a flush of purple at the center. The flowers are fragrant, ripe and fruity in the manner of strawberries and melon, and appear from late spring into summer above glossy, dark green leaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Venus' grows upright and full, roughly five to six feet tall and wide, and asks little beyond sun or light shade and a moist, well-drained soil. Clean foliage, a long season of bloom, and a tidy, non-running habit make this hybrid an easy choice for a mixed border, a fragrant foundation planting, or anywhere a white-flowered shrub is wanted near a path or seat.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057822339187,"sku":"CALY-HYBR-VENU-01G","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1949.jpg?v=1720136861"},{"product_id":"calycanthus-x-raulstonii-hartlage-wine","title":"Calycanthus x raulstonii 'Hartlage Wine'","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn of careful hands and watchful eyes at the JC Raulston Arboretum in North Carolina, \u003cem\u003eCalycanthus\u003c\/em\u003e × \u003cem\u003eraulstonii\u003c\/em\u003e 'Hartlage Wine' is a sweetshrub of uncommon grace. Richard Hartlage made the cross as an undergraduate at North Carolina State University in 1991, pairing the Southern native Carolina allspice (\u003cem\u003eCalycanthus floridus\u003c\/em\u003e) with the refined Chinese sweetshrub (\u003cem\u003eCalycanthus chinensis\u003c\/em\u003e); the seedling first flowered in 1996, and the hybrid name honors J.C. Raulston, the arboretum's late director.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom late spring the branches open deep wine-red blooms touched with gold at the center, each broad and open like a small magnolia, nearly three inches across and lightly sweet. The show begins in May and lingers through summer, with flowers returning here and there into early fall above lush, glossy, deep green leaves that close the season in soft gold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrowing upright and full, eight to ten feet tall and wide, 'Hartlage Wine' asks for little more than good soil and a touch of shade from the hottest sun. Unlike the native kin, this hybrid does not run underground, staying well-mannered and easy to manage in a thoughtful garden. Long-blooming, deer-resistant, and rich with seasonal presence, the shrub belongs by a shaded path or at a woodland edge, the sort of plant that stays with a gardener long after the last bloom fades.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057822404723,"sku":"CALY-RAUL-HART-WINE-01G","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1889.jpg?v=1720136864"},{"product_id":"camellia-crapnelliana","title":"Camellia crapnelliana","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo camellias do most of the work in American gardens, \u003cem\u003eCamellia japonica\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCamellia sasanqua\u003c\/em\u003e, in countless named forms. The Far East holds far more, and Woodlanders is among the few nurseries offering the lesser-known species to gardeners here. \u003cem\u003eCamellia crapnelliana\u003c\/em\u003e, the Crapnell camellia, is one of the most distinctive: a slow, upright evergreen first described from Hong Kong Island and named for the collector Crapnell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe species is grown as much for bark and fruit as for bloom. Mature trunks peel and glow a warm cinnamon-red, a feature rare among camellias, and the large, dark green, finely toothed leaves give the plant real presence the year round. In late winter come the flowers: single and white, the broad petals faintly ruffled at the edge and gathered around a boss of golden stamens. They are followed by woody, globular seed capsules the size of a small orange, among the largest fruit in the whole genus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike most camellias, the Crapnell camellia is happiest in semi-shade, in sandy, slightly acid soil kept mulched and watered, sheltered from hard freezes at the cold edge of zones 8 and 9. Site this plant where the cinnamon bark can be read at close range, by a path, an entry, or a courtyard wall, and underplant with ferns and other shade lovers that will not hide the trunk. A collector's evergreen, and a quiet piece of camellia history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057824632947,"sku":"CAME-CRAP-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/CamelliacrapnellianaWoodlanders.jpg?v=1730390731"},{"product_id":"camellia-japonica-kujaku-tsubaki","title":"Camellia japonica 'Kujaku Tsubaki'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe name means peacock camellia, and the vanity here is all in the foliage. Long, narrow leaves with peculiar fishtailed tips drape from the branches in a pronounced weeping habit, more willow than camellia, more Japanese woodblock print than Southern border. This is not the camellia a grandmother grew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost \u003cem\u003ejaponica\u003c\/em\u003e cultivars spend their lives chasing the perfect bloom. 'Kujaku Tsubaki' went a different way. Originating in Mikawa, in Aichi Prefecture, and documented in \u003cem\u003eCamellia Cultivars of Japan\u003c\/em\u003e as early as 1966, the plant belongs to a small lineage of Japanese selections grown as much for architectural habit and leaf as for flower. Where most camellias stand dense and upright, this one arches and trails, the foliage suggestive of a \u003cem\u003eSalix\u003c\/em\u003e or a peach in full leaf, the kind of plant a visitor stops to identify before noticing the flowers at all. The narrow leaves often carry faint yellow markings from a benign, long-established virus, part of the peacock effect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the flowers do come, they are tubular and deeply red, the petals splashed with irregular white, restrained and almost demure against the extravagance of everything else on the plant. They hang pendulous from the branches, never upright.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrowth is slow, a direct consequence of that weeping habit, but given time 'Kujaku Tsubaki' can reach small-tree proportions. This is a camellia for the gardener willing to wait, and patient enough to have grown past needing the flower to do all the work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057824993395,"sku":"CAME-JAPO-KUJA-TSUB-01G","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-305.jpg?v=1720136923"},{"product_id":"cistus-x-purpureus","title":"Cistus x purpureus","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe rockroses bloom as if for a single day, and in a sense they do. Each papery flower of \u003cem\u003eCistus\u003c\/em\u003e x purpureus lasts only from morning to evening before dropping, yet through late spring the shrub opens fresh bloom after fresh bloom, so the whole plant seems perpetually covered. The flowers are the draw: two to three inches wide, crushed-silk petals of pinky purple, each stamped at the base with a deep maroon blotch, a marking that earned the old garden name orchidspot rockrose. Rockroses are not roses, and are not related; the resemblance is only in the open, five-petalled face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA hybrid of two Mediterranean species, \u003cem\u003eCistus ladanifer\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCistus creticus\u003c\/em\u003e, this rockrose has been grown in gardens since the early nineteenth century and ranks among the hardiest of the clan. The narrow, dark green, faintly resinous leaves carry the aromatic, sun-warmed scent of the Mediterranean maquis, the same family of shrubs that yields labdanum, the fragrant resin long used in perfumery. Long a favorite in European and Californian gardens, this rockrose does well in the South too, given the one thing all rockroses insist on: a hot, sunny, airy site with very sharp drainage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, treat rockrose as a sun-baked Mediterranean and ask little else. Plant on a hot bank, in a gravel or dry garden, along a wall, or at the front of a sunny border, in lean, fast-draining soil and full sun, free from crowding. Drought, wind, and salt spray are all taken in stride, which makes this shrub a natural for coastal and xeric plantings. 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Like other sweet orange and trifoliate orange crosses, Morton makes an attractive ornamental evergreen, with fragrant white spring flowers and orange fruit, but the fruit here sets the cultivar apart: large, smooth-skinned, and remarkably like a true orange, with very few seeds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorton is said to approach edibility more closely than most citranges. Straight from the branch the flavor is still too sharp for most, but the juice, diluted and sweetened, makes a very refreshing orange ade. Cold-hardy from the trifoliate side of the family, the tree suits the collector of hardy citrus and the gardener who wants a good-looking evergreen that fruits where tender citrus cannot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, grow Morton in full sun and sharp, well-drained soil, in the ground through zones 7 to 10 or in a large container farther north. Site where the fragrant spring bloom and the bright orange fruit can both be enjoyed, give room for a broad grower, and pair with other hardy citrus in an edible or ornamental planting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057835249779,"sku":"CITR-MORT-CITR-SINE-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Citrus_Morton_Citrus_sinensis_x_Poncirus_trifoliata_Woodlanders.jpg?v=1731555639"},{"product_id":"clethra-alnifolia-anne-bidwell","title":"Clethra alnifolia ‘Anne Bidwell’","description":"\u003cp\u003eSummersweet, \u003cem\u003eClethra alnifolia\u003c\/em\u003e, is one of the great fragrant natives of the eastern United States, a shrub of moist woods and pond edges whose white summer spikes carry a honey-and-clove perfume across the whole garden. Colonists called the plant Sweet Pepperbush, for the peppercorn-like seed heads that follow, and Summersweet, for the scent; the flowers even lather softly in water and once served as a field soap.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Anne Bidwell' is the selection to grow for sheer flower power. Raised in Massachusetts from a commercial seed source, this summersweet is most remarkable for the flowers: densely clustered, multi-branched spikes far larger than the straight species, some eight to ten inches long, borne in such profusion that the bush seems to foam white. The blooms open around two weeks later than most selections, in mid to late August, stretching the summersweet season and the fragrance deep into the late-summer garden. The habit stays fairly compact and upright, dressed in lustrous dark green leaves that turn clear yellow in fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant 'Anne Bidwell' where the late, oversized spikes can be met at close range, beside a path, a seat, or a window left open on a warm evening, and where the bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds are part of the pleasure. Wonderfully at home in moist shrub borders, rain gardens, and the heavy, damp shade that defeats showier plants. 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The loose, open frame and small, spicy-scented leaves would earn a quiet place on their own, but the flowers are the event: showy scarlet tubes carried over a long summer season, held out like little trumpets that hummingbirds cannot resist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScarlet calamint belongs to a genus of old-world and new-world herbs long valued for aromatic, savory foliage, and the crushed leaves of this southern native release the same clean, spicy scent that keeps deer and other browsers at a polite distance. The plant is a creature of sandhills and sunny sandy flatwoods, at home where sharp drainage and lean soil defeat softer things.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive scarlet calamint full sun and fast-draining, sandy soil, and site the shrub where the summer-long scarlet show and the hummingbird traffic can be watched up close: a hot bank, a gravel or xeric border, a rock garden, or the front of a sunny native bed. Pair with other sun-and-drought lovers such as salvias and grasses, and let the aromatic foliage line a path where brushing past releases the scent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhoto credit to Jonas Meyer.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/woodlanders.net\/blogs\/news\/clinopodium-the-soft-power-of-the-mint-family\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLearn more about the Clinopodium genus with our guide.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057845145715,"sku":"CLIN-COCC-01G","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/5C746564-9851-451B-A8A2-96F63DB56889.jpg?v=1782135232"},{"product_id":"cotinus-obovatus","title":"Cotinus obovatus","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe American smoketree, \u003cem\u003eCotinus obovatus\u003c\/em\u003e, is an uncommon small to medium native tree, kin to the familiar European smoketree but bolder in leaf and rarer in gardens. The common name comes from the fruiting stage, when the loose, fuzzy flower panicles blur the whole crown into a soft haze of smoke. The broad, oval, blue-green leaves are noticeably larger than those of the European \u003cem\u003eCotinus coggygria\u003c\/em\u003e, and they close the year in a spectacular blaze of orange, yellow, and red-purple, some of the finest fall color of any native tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the wild the American smoketree turns up in widely scattered pockets, usually on limestone, from eastern Tennessee to central Texas, which points to the tree's real preferences: sharp drainage and a tolerance, even a liking, for sweet, alkaline soil. Give well-drained ground, a touch of lime where soils are acid, and full sun for the strongest fall color. The tree is often smaller and shrubbier in cultivation than in the wild, and the scaly, characterful bark adds winter interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite the American smoketree as a specimen where the smoke and the fall color can both be enjoyed, in a lawn, a mixed border, or a dry, sunny bank, and pair with other tough, well-drained-soil natives. A handsome, drought-tolerant, and increasingly hard-to-find tree for the collector of native woody plants.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057852289139,"sku":"COTI-OBOV-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-978.jpg?v=1720137702"},{"product_id":"fontanesia-phillyreioides","title":"Fontanesia phillyreioides","description":"\u003cp\u003eFontanesia is one of those quiet shrubs that rewards a close look and a little curiosity. A deciduous member of the olive family, Oleaceae, and a near relative of the privets, the plant carries narrow, lanceolate, opposite leaves several inches long on a fine, twiggy frame, and shares the easy, adaptable constitution that makes the privets so obliging in difficult ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA gentle taxonomic puzzle hangs over the genus. Botanists have long debated whether the shrub of the Middle East and the one of China are one species or two: the former has been called Fontanesia phillyreoides, the latter Fontanesia fortunei, and the two are so alike that even the experts hedge. The plants we offer were labeled as the Middle Eastern species at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia, and are said to be the smaller-growing of the pair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhatever the name, the plant can reach a fair size in good conditions. One growing as Fontanesia fortunei in our Citywide Arboretum here in Aiken, South Carolina, stands over twenty feet tall with stems six inches thick, a reminder that this modest privet relative has ambitions once settled in. In late spring, small greenish-white flowers open in slender clusters, followed by flat, winged fruit in the privet manner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhatever the label, Fontanesia earns a place as an easy, drought-tolerant screen or informal hedge, a tough and unfussy backdrop that asks little once established. Collectors will want the shrub simply for the pleasure of growing an uncommon olive-family curiosity; everyone else can enjoy a reliable, fine-textured green wall for sun or light shade. Give any soil that drains, full sun to part shade, and room to grow into the ample frame.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057870508147,"sku":"FONT-PHIL-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2129.jpg?v=1720138173"},{"product_id":"grevillea-rosmarinifolia","title":"Grevillea rosmarinifolia","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrevillea rosmarinifolia is a fine-textured Australian evergreen, a rounded to semi-prostrate shrub whose narrow, deep green leaves look uncannily like rosemary, giving the plant both the species name and a handsome, needled presence the year round. The likeness is only skin-deep, for this is a member of the protea family, Proteaceae, worlds away from any herb.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flowers are the surprise: clusters of small, spider-like blooms in red tipped with cream, curling and intricate, borne in dense racemes along the branches. Where most shrubs rest, rosemary grevillea flowers through the cool months, from fall into winter and on toward spring, a rare source of color and nectar when the garden is otherwise quiet. Hummingbirds and bees find the blooms readily.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTough and undemanding, the plant thrives in full sun and sharp drainage, taking heat, wind, and drought once established, and reaching perhaps four to six feet, often lower and wider or nearly prostrate. Rosemary grevillea suits a dry border, a gravel garden, a hot bank, or a coastal planting in the milder South, and works beautifully in native-style or water-wise schemes alongside other lean-soil companions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne quirk is worth knowing: like all grevilleas, this shrub is sensitive to phosphorus, so skip ordinary fertilizers and rich compost and let the plant settle in on poor, fast-draining ground. Give sun, drainage, and restraint at the feeding trough, and rosemary grevillea rewards with evergreen structure and flowers in the off-season for very little trouble.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057876013171,"sku":"GREV-ROSM-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-372.jpg?v=1720138334"},{"product_id":"grevillea-juniperina-x-rosmarinifolia-canberra-gem","title":"Grevillea 'Canberra Gem'","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrevillea 'Canberra Gem' is a bold and unusual Australian evergreen, a hybrid of Grevillea juniperina and Grevillea rosmarinifolia that brings fine texture, vivid color, and a touch of the exotic to an adventurous garden. The narrow, needle-like foliage is often mistaken for a conifer, until late winter, when the shrub reveals a true identity in a profusion of rose-red, spider-like flowers that spill from the branches and catch the eye clear across the garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bloom is long and generous, running from late winter well into spring, each cluster a tangle of curling styles that read, up close, like something between a sea creature and a firework. The nectar-rich flowers are a magnet for hummingbirds and bees, and the plant carries them against dark, evergreen, rosemary-fine leaves that hold structure and interest the year round.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong admired by plant enthusiasts and championed by Christopher Lloyd in Color for Adventurous Gardeners, 'Canberra Gem' remains oddly underused, especially in American gardens. Helen Johnstone of the Hardy Plant Society has noted the rarity in cultivation and praised the shrub as both a statement plant and a conversation piece, for gardeners after something a little out of the ordinary with real visual impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive 'Canberra Gem' full sun and well-drained, neutral to acidic soil, and the plant settles into a low-maintenance, drought-tolerant, deer-resistant evergreen ideal for a Mediterranean-style planting, a gravel bed, a dry border, or a coastal garden. Among the hardier grevilleas, the shrub tolerates temperatures into the low twenties Fahrenheit once established, especially in a sheltered site with sharp drainage. Grevilleas dislike rich soil and phosphorus, so skip the fertilizer and let the plant thrive on lean ground.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057876177011,"sku":"GREV-JUNI-ROSM-CANB-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2166.jpg?v=1749144745"},{"product_id":"hosta-yingeri","title":"Hosta yingeri","description":"\u003cp\u003eHosta yingeri is one of the more recent hostas to reach gardens and one of the most distinct, a species found only on a scatter of rocky islands in the Huksan Archipelago off the southwestern coast of Korea. The American plantsman Barry Yinger collected the plant on Taehuksan Island in 1985, and the botanist Samuel B. Jones formally named the species in 1989 in Yinger's honor. For a genus most gardeners associate with the woodlands of Japan, this Korean islander broadened the family map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat sets the plant apart is a hard, lacquered shine. The elliptic leaves are thick and almost succulent, a deep to medium green polished to a gloss on top and a pale grey-green beneath, built to endure sun-warmed rock and salt wind. Rather than the soft, quilted mounds of a classic blue hosta, this Korean species forms a low, tidy rosette barely a foot high, more chiseled than billowy, holding a clean shape through the season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flowers are the real surprise. Where most hostas hang their bells to one side of the stem, Hosta yingeri spaces near-radial, star-shaped purple flowers evenly all the way around the scape in late summer, with an unusually long second set of stamens giving each bloom a spidery, almost orchid-like poise. Bees work the flowers, and the airy purple spikes rise well above the glossy leaves just as the summer garden starts to tire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike other hostas, the plant belongs to a long tradition of shade gardening across East Asia, where the tightly rolled spring shoots of several species, called urui in Japan, are gathered as a seasonal vegetable. In the garden, Hosta yingeri earns a spot at the front of a shady bed, tucked into a shaded rock garden, or edging a woodland path where the polished leaves can catch what little light reaches them. Ferns, sedges, and epimediums make natural companions, and the glossy, substantial foliage shrugs off much of the slug damage that plagues thinner-leaved hostas, though deer will still browse a tender clump.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057884926067,"sku":"HOST-YING-01G","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1305.jpg?v=1720138629"},{"product_id":"illicium-floridanum-variegated","title":"Illicium floridanum (variegated)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe anise trees, genus Illicium, are aromatic broadleaf evergreens of the star-anise family, Schisandraceae, their Latin name meaning an allurement, for the spicy scent of the leaves. Illicium floridanum, the Florida anise, is a Southeastern native of shaded streambanks and moist ravines from Georgia to Louisiana, valued as one of the finest flowering evergreens for shade. This is a variegated selection, carrying the usual two-inch, starfish-shaped maroon flowers over foliage marked with a subtle, quiet green-on-green variegation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe variegation is understated, a soft patterning of lighter and darker green rather than the bold cream or gold of a splashier plant, and it gives the dark evergreen foliage a gentle, dappled depth in the shade. The crushed leaves are anise-scented, characteristic of the genus, and, as with every Florida anise, the foliage and fruit are toxic if eaten and unrelated in use to culinary star anise. That toxicity is also why deer leave the plant alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis form was found in northwest Florida by Steve Riefler, who noticed the pairing of the deep maroon-purple flowers with the subtle leaf variegation, an uncommon combination in a native shrub. Like the wild species, the plant builds into a medium, rounded evergreen of eight to ten feet, adaptable to most garden soils that are not too dry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSite the variegated Florida anise in shade or semi-shade with moist, rich soil, where the quiet foliage patterning and dark flowers can be seen up close. Use as a woodland specimen, a shaded foundation shrub, or an evergreen screen in a damp, shady spot, and let the subtle variegation lighten a dim corner. Ferns, hostas, hellebores, and native azaleas make fitting company; keep the ground evenly moist and mulched.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057897377907,"sku":"ILLI-FLOR-VARI-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-119.jpg?v=1720138959"},{"product_id":"illicium-anisatum","title":"Illicium anisatum","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe anise trees, genus Illicium, are aromatic broadleaf evergreens of the star-anise family, Schisandraceae, named from the Latin illicium, an allurement, for the spicy scent the crushed leaves give off. Illicium anisatum is the Japanese anise, called shikimi in its homeland, a glossy, upright evergreen shrub or small tree with leathery, anise-scented leaves and pale creamy-yellow, star-shaped flowers in earliest spring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFew garden plants carry so much ceremony. In Japan the branches and evergreen leaves of shikimi are held sacred, offered at Buddhist altars, temples, and graves, and the dried leaves are ground and burned as incense, a use tied to the way insects avoid the plant and the cut foliage stays fresh. That toxicity is real: Illicium anisatum contains anisatin and related compounds and is poisonous if eaten, unlike the culinary Chinese star anise, Illicium verum, with which the plant has sometimes been dangerously confused. Grow shikimi for beauty and scent, not for the kitchen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUncommon in American gardens, Japanese anise has often been muddled with the native Illicium parviflorum, which has been widely sold and even mislabeled under this name in botanic gardens, though the shared anise fragrance is about where the resemblance ends. The true shikimi is a denser, glossier plant, slow and clean, building to twelve or fifteen feet in time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive Japanese anise a semi-shaded spot with good, moist, but well-drained soil, and the plant repays it with year-round polished evergreen structure. Use as a specimen, a screen, or an anchor in a woodland or courtyard planting, where the early flowers and aromatic leaves can be met at close range. The toxic, fragrant foliage that keeps insects and browsing deer away makes shikimi an easy, trouble-free evergreen. Ferns, hellebores, and camellias make fitting companions in the same shade.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057897803891,"sku":"ILLI-ANIS-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-115.jpg?v=1720138971"},{"product_id":"iris-tectorum-blue","title":"Iris tectorum (blue)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe horticulturist Scott Ogden, in \u003cem\u003eGarden Bulbs for the South\u003c\/em\u003e, sets the scene: the Japanese roof iris, \u003cem\u003eIris tectorum\u003c\/em\u003e, is famous in the native country as a flower for planting on sod roofs, just as houseleeks are used on the cottage roofs of France. In gardens the silky green fans of leaves form large patches, a fine subject for the foreground of a shady border, and in April the ruffled, orchid-like blooms appear among the handsome leaves. This is the common form, in which the flowers open a rich mottled blue, veined and freckled toward the center, with white crests.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe common name and the Latin \u003cem\u003etectorum\u003c\/em\u003e, meaning of roofs, both come from a genuine and rather poignant piece of history. \u003cem\u003eIris tectorum\u003c\/em\u003e is native to China, where the species has been grown since at least the seventh century, and reached Japan long ago. During a period of famine and war, so the story goes, an imperial decree reserved all arable land for food crops and made growing flowers on the ground illegal, so Japanese households moved the iris up onto the thatched ridgelines of their roofs, where the plant grew and bloomed out of reach of the law.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe roofs were not only a hiding place. The real value lay underground, in the thick, thumb-sized rhizomes, ground into a fine white powder used as a face cosmetic, the pale makeup of the geisha among the uses, and worked into hair dye and corn plasters besides. In China the same rhizome carries a long medicinal history under the name chuan she gan, taken in traditional practice as a decoction to soothe sore throat, ease cough, and clear what the old texts call heat. Modern laboratories have since studied the flavonoids and other compounds the rhizome holds, though the tradition ran centuries ahead of the chemistry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the garden the roof iris is grown for foliage as much as flower. Set the broad, ribbed, silky green fans at the foreground of a shaded border, along a path, or at the top of a low wall where the fans can spill, and let the mottled blue, white-crested blooms open among the leaves in mid to late spring. Pair with ferns, hostas, and other shade companions in fertile, well-drained soil, give a little afternoon shade where summers are fierce, and divide every few years to keep the clump flowering. Deer tend to leave the fans alone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057899442291,"sku":"IRIS-TECT-BLUE-01G","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-674.jpg?v=1720139020"},{"product_id":"iris-tectorum-album","title":"Iris tectorum 'Album'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe horticulturist Scott Ogden, in \u003cem\u003eGarden Bulbs for the South\u003c\/em\u003e, sets the scene: the Japanese roof iris, \u003cem\u003eIris tectorum\u003c\/em\u003e, is famous in the native country as a flower for planting on sod roofs, just as houseleeks are used on the cottage roofs of France. In gardens the silky green fans of leaves form large patches, a fine subject for the foreground of a shady border, and in April the ruffled, orchid-like blooms appear among the handsome leaves. In the common form these are a rich mottled blue with white crests; even lovelier, Ogden adds, are the white, yellow-crested blooms of the form offered here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe common name and the Latin \u003cem\u003etectorum\u003c\/em\u003e, meaning of roofs, both come from a genuine and rather poignant piece of history. \u003cem\u003eIris tectorum\u003c\/em\u003e is native to China, where the species has been grown since at least the seventh century, and reached Japan long ago. During a period of famine and war, so the story goes, an imperial decree reserved all arable land for food crops and made growing flowers on the ground illegal, so Japanese households moved the iris up onto the thatched ridgelines of their roofs, where the plant grew and bloomed out of reach of the law.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe roofs were not only a hiding place. The real prize lay underground, in the thick, thumb-sized rhizomes, which were ground into a fine white powder used as a face cosmetic, the pale makeup of the geisha among the uses, and worked into hair dye and corn plasters besides. In China the same rhizome has a long medicinal life under the name chuan she gan, taken in traditional practice as a decoction to soothe a sore throat, ease cough, and clear what the old texts call heat. Modern laboratories have since taken an interest in the flavonoids and other compounds the rhizome holds, though the tradition, as ever, ran centuries ahead of the chemistry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the garden the white roof iris earns a place for foliage as much as flower. Set the broad, ribbed, pale green fans at the foreground of a shaded border, along a path, or at the top of a low wall where the fans can spill, and let the clean white, yellow-crested blooms light a shady corner in mid to late spring. Pair with ferns, hostas, and other shade companions in fertile, well-drained soil, give a little afternoon shade where summers are fierce, and lift and divide every few years to keep the clump flowering. Deer tend to leave the fans alone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057899573363,"sku":"IRIS-TECT-ALBU-01G","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1600.jpg?v=1720139026"},{"product_id":"jasminum-nudiflorum","title":"Jasminum nudiflorum","description":"\u003cp\u003eJasminum nudiflorum, the winter jasmine, is the great cold-weather bloomer of the genus, a deciduous scrambling shrub from western China that opens bright yellow, six-petaled flowers on bare green stems in the depth of winter, often from January into March, long before the leaves return. The name says as much: nudiflorum, the naked-flowering jasmine, blooming on stripped, leafless wands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnlike the perfumed white jasmines, winter jasmine is scentless, trading fragrance for the far rarer gift of color in the coldest, barest weeks of the year. The arching green stems spread from a central crown and root where they touch the ground, so the plant makes an easy cascade over a wall or bank, a loose mound in the open, or, tied to a support, an informal climber. In China the flower is beloved as yingchun, the one that welcomes spring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat Chinese name carries more than sentiment. Winter jasmine, yingchun, has a long place in traditional Chinese medicine, where the leaves and flowers were used to cool fevers and inflammation and, applied externally, to treat cuts, bruises, swellings, and wounds, and were sometimes brewed as a tea. Modern phytochemical work has found antioxidant and antibacterial compounds in the plant, though the research is still early. This is traditional-use and early-research information, shared for interest only, and not medical advice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinter jasmine is one of the toughest and easiest of the clan, hardy to zone 6, thriving in ordinary soil in sun or part shade, and asking only a hard cut every few years to renew the tangle of stems. Use the plant to spill down a slope or retaining wall, to cover a bank as a groundcover, to soften a fence, or trained up a trellis for a winter show. Full sun brings the heaviest bloom; plant where the yellow flowers can be seen from indoors in the cold months.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057901637747,"sku":"JASM-NUDI-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-423.jpg?v=1720139092"},{"product_id":"kalmia-latifolia-croft-carpet","title":"Kalmia latifolia 'Croft Carpet'","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost mountain laurels are shrubs with presence, upright and woody and faintly aristocratic. 'Croft Carpet' flips the script. This rare, prostrate selection of Kalmia latifolia stays low and spreads into a dense evergreen mat, delivering the understory finish that designers chase in shade gardens: lush, deliberate, and quietly polished. A specimen at the JC Raulston Arboretum measured only about one foot tall while spreading many times as wide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn late spring and early summer, 'Croft Carpet' scatters the ground-hugging canopy with rounded clusters of soft, cup-shaped flowers, white to pink and freckled with rose inside, exactly the intricate blooms that make mountain laurel a native icon. Like every Kalmia, the flowers hide a bit of botanical theater: ten stamens sit under tension in small pockets of the corolla and spring forward to dust visiting insects with pollen the moment a bee trips them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus Kalmia was named by Linnaeus for the botanist Pehr Kalm, one of the early plant explorers of eastern North America, and latifolia means broad-leaved. In the wild, mountain laurel forms evergreen thickets along woodland slopes and edges wherever soils run naturally acidic. 'Croft Carpet' takes that woodland heritage and turns the habit sideways, offering a way to bring year-round structure to places where turf fails and most shrubs feel too bulky. You can read more in the Woodlanders \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/woodlanders.net\/blogs\/news\/a-guide-to-kalmias-the-famed-mountainlaurel\"\u003eGuide to Kalmias\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne caution belongs with all this charm. Every green part of mountain laurel, along with the pollen and any honey from the flowers, contains grayanotoxins and is poisonous to livestock, wildlife, and people, so 'Croft Carpet' is grown as an ornamental and pollinator groundcover, never a medicinal or edible plant. In the garden, use this low laurel as a carpet layer beneath high pines and oaks, as a ribbon stitching together boulders and paths, or as an evergreen slope stabilizer, a modern native alternative to pachysandra or ivy with far more character. The toxic foliage keeps deer at bay as a welcome bonus.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057906323571,"sku":"KALM-LATI-CROF-CARP-01G","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1860.jpg?v=1720139202"},{"product_id":"lindera-megaphylla","title":"Lindera megaphylla","description":"\u003cp\u003eLindera megaphylla is a plant for the patient collector, a broad-leaved evergreen of real presence and pedigree that reveals itself over seasons rather than days. The species comes from the mist-laden mountain forests of western China, where the shrub grows in dappled light among rhododendrons and ancient oaks. Sir Harold Hillier, the great British plantsman, first shared this rarity with Western gardens in the 1970s from his famous nursery, and even now the Chinese spicebush remains uncommon in cultivation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the most imposing members of the laurel family, Lauraceae, Lindera megaphylla grows slowly into a large, upright shrub or small tree. The name says everything about the leaves: megaphylla means large-leaved, and the long, leathery, deep green blades can pass a foot in length, held in whorled clusters that build a lush, layered canopy. Even in winter the evergreen foliage keeps a polished richness, catching low light and standing firm against wind and cold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmall yellow-green flowers emerge in early spring, subtle but botanically charming, and on a female plant with a male nearby they are followed by dark drupes. Like the North American spicebush, Lindera benzoin, this Chinese cousin serves as a host plant for swallowtail butterflies, bringing life and movement to the quiet corners where the shrub is happiest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest planted in moist, acidic, well-drained soil in light shade to filtered sun, Lindera megaphylla is made for the woodland garden, the shade border, or a place where structure and foliage matter more than fleeting bloom. Set the bold evergreen where the architectural leaves can be admired at close range, backed by deciduous trees or paired with rhododendrons, camellias, and ferns for a layered, all-season planting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the gardener who values the rare and the enduring, few evergreens repay the wait so handsomely. 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The species belongs to the southeastern and eastern United States, ranging from New Jersey and Ohio south to Florida and Texas, at home in open woods, sandy pinelands, roadsides, and dry clearings, where the plant seeds about gently and never becomes a nuisance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor all the plainness of the flowers, the Carolina wild petunia is a pollinator engine, feeding bees, butterflies, wasps, and even hummingbirds through a long season, and serving as a larval host plant for the common buckeye and white peacock butterflies, whose caterpillars feed on the foliage. Growing this native, in other words, does real work: not just nectar, but the leaves that raise the next generation of butterflies. Few small perennials give so much back to the garden's wildlife.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, the wild petunia belongs at the front of a border, in a native or pollinator planting, a wildlife garden, or an open, sunny bed, where the low, bushy form and steady bloom fill in among grasses and other natives. Give full sun to part shade and ordinary well-drained soil, and the plant asks little more, tolerating drought once established and blooming hardest in sun. 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The bloom comes in the freshness of mid to late spring, the flowers hovering above serrated, nettle-like leaves, and in a generous year a lighter second flush may follow in late summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the wild the plant keeps to dry woodland edges, open woods, and rocky outcrops across the Southern mountains, and that upbringing shapes what the sage wants in the garden: lean, dry, sharply drained ground, on the alkaline rather than the acid side, in sun to part shade. Unlike the showy tender sages from warmer countries, the nettleleaf sage is a plant of quiet, durable virtue, drought tolerant once settled and content on ground that defeats fussier perennials.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flowers draw bees and other pollinators, and deer tend to pass the nettle-textured foliage by. Seldom seen in the trade, this native deserves wider growing, and sits naturally at a woodland edge, in a native or pollinator planting, or in a naturalistic border among other Southeastern wildflowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite \u003cem\u003eSalvia urticifolia\u003c\/em\u003e in sun to part shade in dry, well-drained soil, and let the plant naturalize gently at a woodland edge, in a native bed, or in a cottage or gravel garden. Pair with other lean-ground natives that share the taste for dry, sunny to lightly shaded conditions, give little water once established, and cut the old stems down after bloom. A modest, hardy, low-maintenance native for the gardener who values the quiet things.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057986965619,"sku":"SALV-URTI-01G","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-725.jpg?v=1720141071"},{"product_id":"silene-caroliniana-short-and-sweet","title":"Silene caroliniana \"Short and Sweet\"","description":"Silene caroliniana is native in woodlands locally but this selection from our friends at North Creek Nurseries is excellent. 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A shrub or small tree of the shaded understory, the plant carries flat, soft, dark-green needles and, on female plants, the fleshy scarlet arils that mark every yew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tree is almost certainly a relict, a cool-climate survivor left stranded when the ice ages retreated, holding on in the deep, humid, spring-fed ravines that keep the Apalachicola bluffs cooler than the surrounding coastal plain. Yews are generally plants of cool northern and mountain forests, so a wild yew this far south is a botanical marvel and a living fragment of a colder past, closely related to the Mexican yew and long separated from it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRarity gives the plant real weight. Florida yew is listed as critically endangered, clinging to a range of only a couple dozen river miles with fewer than a few thousand individuals left, pressed by fungal disease, changing groundwater, and the fact that endangered-plant law does not protect plants on private land. The genus carries a famous footnote in medicine, too: the bark of yews yields taxol, the cell-dividing compound behind a major cancer drug, first synthesized by chemists working in nearby Tallahassee. All parts of the plant except the fleshy red aril are poisonous if eaten, so site the tree away from children and livestock.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, give Florida yew the conditions of the home ravines: cool, moist but well-drained, neutral to slightly alkaline soil, and the shelter of semi-shade out of hot afternoon sun. Use the plant as a rare evergreen understory shrub or small tree in a shaded woodland or collector's garden, and know that in growing so scarce a native, the gardener helps keep a critically endangered species alive. 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Unlike the many deciduous ferns that vanish in winter, this species keeps a steady, structural presence in the shaded garden, one of the reasons the plant is prized where an evergreen fern is wanted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe finely divided, pinnately compound fronds rise and arch from a slowly creeping rhizome, so that a single plant knits gradually into a soft, continuous colony rather than a lone clump. That gentle, running habit makes the fern a fine, self-knitting groundcover for shade, filling the spaces between larger woodland plants without overwhelming them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA member of the marsh-fern family, Thelypteridaceae, the species belongs to a large, worldwide group of ferns of moist woods and stream margins. 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Bloom comes in flushes through the warm months, each triggered by rain, so the plant keeps up a cheerful, unpredictable rhythm of color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFoster's pink rain lily suits the front of a border, a rock garden, a gravel planting, a path edge, or a container, in full sun to part shade and well-drained, sandy or loamy soil. 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Where most camellias are grown for flowers, this species is prized above all for the great woody seed capsules that follow them, among the largest in the entire genus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe flowers are no afterthought, large and single, white to the palest pink around a boss of golden stamens, opening in the cool months to give an early show. They give way to the famous fruit: rounded, rough-skinned capsules that can reach four to five inches across, thick-walled and heavy, an oddity that has made the species a favorite of collectors and botanic gardens. The seeds carry a high oil content, and in parts of China the plant is grown as an oil camellia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFound naturally in subtropical evergreen forest, \u003cem\u003eCamellia gigantocarpa\u003c\/em\u003e grows into a handsome small tree or large shrub with the glossy, leathery evergreen foliage of the genus. 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