{"title":"Coming Summer 2027","description":"\u003cp\u003eA little further down the bench, and a little further out. These plants are still finding their roots now, cuttings and young liners that will need the better part of a year and more before they reach a shippable size. Summer-2027 stock leans toward the woody and the slow, the trees and shrubs that reward a grower's patience rather than a quick turnaround. Nothing here is in a hurry; mark the ones you mean to have, and we will carry them the rest of the way.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"abutilon-megapotamicum","title":"Abutilon megapotamicum","description":"\u003cp\u003eAbutilon megapotamicum is the trailing one of the flowering maples, a slender, half-vining deciduous shrub that drapes and clambers rather than standing stiffly upright. Its species name means \"of the big river,\" for the Rio Grande basin of southern Brazil where it grows wild, and like the rest of its tribe it belongs not to the maples its leaves suggest but to the mallow family, in company with hibiscus and hollyhock.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flowers are its whole charm: curious hanging lanterns, each a swollen red calyx from which a skirt of yellow petals and a dark tuft of stamens protrude, swinging along the branches from late summer well into fall. Hummingbirds and bees find them readily. A Victorian favorite for the conservatory and the hanging basket, it has never quite gone out of fashion among gardeners who like a plant that does something unexpected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt can be used in several ways: left to spill several feet across a bed in a single season, trained up a support or trellis, or planted in a basket where the lanterns can dangle. Give it full sun to part shade and well-drained soil. In zone 8 it behaves as a dieback shrub, cut down by frost and returning from the base; in warmer zones it holds more of its frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite it where the hanging flowers can be read at eye level or above, against a wall, over the edge of a raised bed, or from a basket on the porch, where its long season of quirky bloom can be enjoyed up close.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805234291,"sku":"ABUT-MEGA-01G","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-265.jpg?v=1720136098"},{"product_id":"adina-rubella","title":"Adina rubella","description":"\u003cp\u003eA medium to large deciduous shrub closely related to the native buttonbush, \u003cem\u003eAdina rubella\u003c\/em\u003e wears smaller leaves and bears similar but daintier flowers: round, scented heads of pale pink and white, each bristling with styles into a small Sputnik, carried over a long season from early summer well into fall. The pincushion blooms draw bees and butterflies just as the buttonbushes do, and an open, arching habit gives the shrub a fine-textured grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to the streamsides and sandy banks of central and southeastern China and South Korea, the Chinese buttonbush takes happily to wet ground and ordinary soil alike, reaching perhaps ten feet in a warm climate. In Chinese and Korean folk medicine the plant has a long use, the leaves and bark prepared for dysentery, diarrhea, skin complaints such as eczema, and toothache, though the shrub reaches Western gardens as an ornamental and a pollinator plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA graceful, water-loving shrub for a pond edge, a rain garden, a streambank, or any moist, sunny to part-shaded spot where the long season of fragrant buttons can be enjoyed. \u003cem\u003eAdina rubella\u003c\/em\u003e tolerates wet feet that defeat many shrubs, pairs naturally with the native buttonbush and other moisture lovers, and can be cut back in late winter to keep the arching frame tidy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057806905459,"sku":"ADIN-RUBE-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-267.jpg?v=1720136178"},{"product_id":"amelanchier-x-grandiflora-autumn-brilliance","title":"Amelanchier x grandiflora 'Autumn Brilliance'","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmelanchier x grandiflora is the apple serviceberry, a naturally occurring cross between two eastern natives, the downy serviceberry and the smooth Allegheny serviceberry, and 'Autumn Brilliance' is the selection that made the group famous. The Illinois nurseryman Willet Wandell found this seedling in his Urbana nursery and introduced the plant to gardens in 1986 under U.S. Plant Patent 5,717, choosing the seedling above all for the blaze of autumn color behind the name. Decades on, 'Autumn Brilliance' remains the most widely planted serviceberry in the trade, prized for a vigorous, gracefully branched frame and reliable good looks in every season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe show begins in early spring, when clusters of white flowers open from pink-tinged buds ahead of the leaves and draw the season's first bees. By June the blossoms have become small pomes that ripen through red to deep purple-black, sweet and blueberry-like with a whisper of almond, so good that cedar waxwings, robins, and bluebirds usually harvest the crop before a cook can. Summer foliage is a clean blue-green, and then autumn arrives with the trait Wandell selected, a vivid wash of orange and red held more evenly and brilliantly than on ordinary seedlings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eServiceberries carry a tangle of country names. Shadbush recalls the spring bloom that once coincided with the shad running up the rivers; Juneberry marks the month the fruit ripens; and serviceberry itself most likely traces to Sorbus, the rowans with similar small pomes. The fruit has fed people here for a very long time, gathered fresh, cooked, or dried by many Indigenous nations and later baked by settlers into the pies and preserves that keep the Juneberry name alive. Apple serviceberry offers that same harvest on a manageable garden tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the reasons 'Autumn Brilliance' earned such a following is unusually good resistance to the rust, leaf spot, and mildew that trouble lesser serviceberries, though no serviceberry is wholly immune. Grow the tree in full sun to part shade and moist, well-drained soil, as a single-stemmed specimen for the lawn or a multi-stemmed clump at the woodland edge. Underplanted with ferns, spring ephemerals, redbud, and dogwood, this small tree rewards the gardener in every season, from the first white bloom to the smooth gray winter bark.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057809166451,"sku":"AMEL-GRAN-AUTU-BRIL-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"amelanchier-x-grandiflora-princess-diana","title":"Amelanchier x grandiflora 'Princess Diana'","description":"\u003cp\u003eApple serviceberry, Amelanchier x grandiflora, is the graceful natural hybrid of two eastern native serviceberries, the downy and the smooth Allegheny, and 'Princess Diana' is among the loveliest selections of the group. The plant appeared in a cultivated garden in Elm Grove, Wisconsin in the mid-1980s and was granted U.S. Plant Patent 6,041 in 1987, chosen for a wide, gracefully spreading canopy, generous white bloom, and fall color that arrives early and holds late. Where many serviceberries grow stiffly upright, 'Princess Diana' reaches outward, a small tree with the airy, layered poise the name suggests.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn April, before or with the first leaves, the branches fill with showy white flowers rising from yellow buds, an early feast for bees. The new foliage unfolds with a bronze cast, deepens to green through summer, then turns brilliant scarlet and red in autumn, the trait that anchors the plant's reputation. Between bloom and fall color come the berries, small pomes ripening from red to deep bluish-purple by June, sweet and blueberry-flavored, and stripped almost overnight by waxwings, robins, and thrushes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe old names tell the plant's story. Shadbush marks a bloom timed to the spring shad runs, Juneberry names the month the fruit ripens, and serviceberry most likely descends from Sorbus, the rowans whose small pomes the fruit recalls. Serviceberry fruit has long been food across North America, eaten fresh, dried into cakes, and pounded with fat and meat into pemmican by many Indigenous peoples, and later gathered by settlers for the Juneberry pies and jams still made today. 'Princess Diana' brings that heritage into a compact, ornamental tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGardeners reach for 'Princess Diana' where a graceful small tree is wanted, as a lawn specimen, at a woodland edge, or among naturalized native plantings, and growers report good resistance to the leaf spot that can mar serviceberry foliage. Give full sun to part shade and average, well-drained soil, with even moisture through establishment. The reward is a true four-season tree: white flowers, June fruit for the birds, early and lasting red fall color, and a smooth gray winter silhouette spreading wide against the sky.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057809264755,"sku":"AMEL-GRAN-PRIN-DIAN-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"araucaria-angustifolia","title":"Araucaria angustifolia","description":"\u003cp\u003eAraucaria angustifolia is a living relic, one of the last of an ancient conifer family that shaded the dinosaurs across the supercontinent of Gondwana. The Paraná pine belongs to the Araucariaceae, kin to the Chilean monkey puzzle, the Norfolk Island pine, the Australian bunya, and the famously rediscovered Wollemi pine, a lineage once spread worldwide and now scattered mostly across the Southern Hemisphere. Despite the common name, the tree is no true pine at all, but something far older and stranger, holding stiff, sharp, dark green leaves on the branch for a decade or more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the wild, Araucaria angustifolia crowns the highland forests of southern Brazil, reaching into northern Argentina and Paraguay, the defining emergent of the Araucaria moist forests within the greater Atlantic Forest. A century of logging for that pale, valuable timber, together with clearing for farms and plantations, has taken an estimated ninety-seven percent of the original range, and the species is now listed by the IUCN as Critically Endangered. To grow one is to keep a piece of a vanishing forest alive, and to plant a tree that may outlast the gardener by generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus name honors the Arauco region of southern Chile and the Araucano, or Mapuche, people in whose homeland the first-known species grows, while angustifolia simply means narrow-leaved. In southern Brazil the tree means winter food. Female trees, quite separate from the males, ripen enormous cones packed with a hundred or more large seeds called pinhão, gathered by the ton and boiled or roasted through the cold months, ground into flour, and celebrated at seasonal festivals. The harvest is shared with the forest, for the azure jay caches the seeds and, forgetting some, plants the next generation, a partnership on which the tree's survival partly depends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiven room, Araucaria angustifolia grows tall and columnar, self-pruning to a clean trunk topped by whorls of upturned branches that flatten with age into the candelabra or umbrella crown that names the tree, well over a hundred feet in habitat and more slowly in cultivation. For Southern gardeners the appeal is practical as well as romantic, since this species tolerates the region's heat and humid summers far better than the Chilean monkey puzzle, asking mainly for full sun and well-drained soil. Site the tree in the open as a rare specimen and living fossil, where the bold, prehistoric silhouette can stand alone against the sky.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057811132531,"sku":"ARAU-ANGU-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/AraucariaangustifoliaRickFencl.jpg?v=1784305075"},{"product_id":"aster-oblongifolius-raydons-favorite","title":"Aster oblongifolius 'Raydon's Favorite'","description":"\u003cp\u003eAromatic aster is the toughest and most fragrant of the fall asters, and 'Raydon's Favorite' is the classic selection. \u003cem\u003eAster oblongifolius\u003c\/em\u003e 'Raydon's Favorite' forms a dense, rounded mound of small leaves that release a clean, balsam-like scent when brushed, and in early to mid fall vanishes under a haze of lavender-blue, gold-centered daisies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA selection prized for compact, sturdy growth and reliable late bloom, aromatic aster is a creature of dry, sunny, even lean and alkaline ground, shrugging off drought and heat where softer perennials sulk. Native across much of the central and eastern United States, the plant feeds bees and butterflies deep into autumn, long after most flowers have gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant 'Raydon's Favorite' in full sun and well-drained soil, in a border, a dry prairie or meadow, a rock garden, or a low-water planting, where the blue fall haze pairs naturally with goldenrod and ornamental grasses. Deer-resistant and drought tolerant, with aromatic foliage that adds a second sense to the display. Shear in early summer for a tighter, more floriferous mound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotos courtesy of Mt. 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The genus name is a Latin rendering of the Japanese aokiba, for the ever-green leaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere most aucubas are content only from the middle South and warmer, var. borealis pushes the boundary north, recorded surviving four degrees Fahrenheit at the U.S. National Arboretum in the winter of 1994. That cold tolerance, roughly to USDA zone 6, makes the northern Japanese aucuba a rare thing, a broadleaf evergreen for shade in gardens too cold for the rest of the genus. Like all aucubas, the plant is dioecious, and female plants carry glossy red berries into winter when a male grows nearby.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAucuba has long been a city gardener's ally, shrugging off pollution, salt, deep shade, and neglect, and this hardy form brings that resilience to colder ground. Set the shrub in part to full shade in good, moisture-retentive but well-drained soil, as a foundation planting on a north wall, a filler in a shaded border, or an evergreen anchor in a woodland corner. The small, dark, lacquered leaves catch what little light reaches them and give substance to the dim places.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe small maroon spring flowers pass almost unnoticed, for the ornament here is the foliage and, on pollinated females, the scarlet fruit. A gentle caution worth noting: the leaves and berries contain compounds that can cause stomach upset if eaten, so site the plant accordingly where small children graze. Slow, durable, and quietly handsome, var. borealis rewards the patient gardener with decades of evergreen presence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057815982195,"sku":"AUCU-JAPO-BORE-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Aucubajaponicavar.borealisJCRA.jpg?v=1784297897"},{"product_id":"aucuba-sp-himalayica","title":"Aucuba sp. (himalayica?)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is one of the quiet mysteries of the Woodlanders collection, a narrow-leaved evergreen aucuba received years ago from the U.S. National Arboretum under the name Aucuba himalayica, and quite possibly the slender japonica form known as 'Longifolia' instead. Either way the plant is a striking departure from the usual aucuba, trading broad, spotted leaves for long, willow-like, finely serrated blades of glossy dark green. Woodlanders has not seen this aucuba offered anywhere else, which makes the plant a true collector's piece whatever the correct name proves to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe uncertainty is real and worth telling honestly. A genuine Himalayan species, Aucuba himalaica, does exist, distinguished from the Japanese aucuba chiefly by narrow leaves and fine hairs on the young shoots and flower stalks, where japonica is smooth. Because the narrow-leaved japonica form 'Longifolia' looks much the same, plants passed along as himalaica are often one or the other, and only a close look at the new growth settles the question. Woodlanders offers the plant as received, an intriguing narrow-leaf aucuba awaiting a final verdict.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhatever the label, this is an aucuba, and aucubas are among the most forgiving of shade evergreens, tolerant of deep shade, dry soil, city pollution, and general neglect. The genus name comes from the Japanese aokiba, for the evergreen leaves, and like the rest of the clan this narrow-leaved form is dioecious, with small maroon spring flowers and, on pollinated females, red berries in the cooler months. The elegant, tapered foliage gives the plant a lighter, more refined look than the broad-leaved aucubas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet this narrow-leaved aucuba in part to full shade in good, well-drained soil with steady moisture, as a foundation shrub, a shaded border filler, or a distinctive evergreen in a woodland planting. The slim leaves read almost like bamboo from a distance and pair well with ferns, hellebores, and other shade companions. As with all aucubas, the leaves and berries can upset the stomach if eaten, a small caution to weigh where children play.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057816047731,"sku":"AUCU-HIMA-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-281.jpg?v=1720136557"},{"product_id":"aucuba-japonica-rozannie","title":"Aucuba japonica 'Rozannie'","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost aucubas demand a matchmaker, a male plant set near a female before a single red berry will form, but Aucuba japonica 'Rozannie' needs no such arrangement. This compact, deep green selection is self-fertile, setting large, glossy scarlet fruit without a separate pollinator, and fruiting even more heavily when a male happens to grow nearby. Add to that lustrous, coarsely toothed, unspotted foliage and a tidy three-to-four-foot frame, and 'Rozannie' becomes one of the most useful aucubas for a shaded garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders obtained this clone from the Massachusetts plantsman David Geiger. The great plantsman Michael Dirr, in his Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, allowed that he was impressed by the plant's characteristics while warning that it may be too slow for commercial production, and slow the plant certainly is. That deliberate pace is the price of a dense, refined, long-lived shrub, and patient gardeners have long considered the trade a fair one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAucuba japonica has anchored southern shade gardens for generations, prized for thriving in the dry, sunless corners that defeat other evergreens. The genus name is a Latin form of the Japanese aokiba, for the ever-green leaves. 'Rozannie' keeps all that toughness, tolerating deep shade, poor soil, pollution, and drought once established, while offering something the old spotted laurels cannot, a reliable crop of red berries on a single plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet 'Rozannie' in part to full shade in good, well-drained soil with occasional summer water, as a foundation shrub, a low evergreen in a shaded border, or a handsome container plant for a dim courtyard. The dark, glossy leaves and winter berries brighten the gloom, and the compact habit suits smaller spaces. As with every aucuba, the leaves and berries are mildly toxic if eaten, worth a thought where children play.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057816113267,"sku":"AUCU-JAPO-ROZA-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2174.jpg?v=1720136560"},{"product_id":"bejaria-befaria-racemosa","title":"Bejaria (Befaria) racemosa","description":"\u003cp\u003eBejaria racemosa, the tarflower, is one of the odd and lovely surprises of the Florida scrub, a heath-family shrub that looks nothing like the rest of the clan. Where blueberries and azaleas carry small, fused, bell-shaped blooms, tarflower opens wide flowers of seven separate petals, white to soft pink and sweetly fragrant, held in loose summer racemes. The genus honors the eighteenth-century Spanish botanist Jose Bejar, and though older books spell the name Befaria, botanists have since settled on Bejaria.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe common names tarflower and flycatcher come from the plant's strangest habit. The buds, young twigs, and flowers are coated in a sticky, resinous film that catches small insects like flypaper, and whether the shrub draws any nourishment from the trapped visitors or simply fends off nectar thieves is a question botanists still debate. Either way, the large native bees strong enough to work the blooms pass freely, doing the real business of pollination while ants and small flies stay stuck at the door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTarflower belongs to the fire-shaped scrub and sandy pine flatwoods of Florida and the neighboring Deep South, thriving on lean, acid sand where richer soil and standing water would spell trouble. Like the blueberries and azaleas nearby, the plant depends on sharp drainage and an acid root run, and repays those conditions with fragrant summer flowers and a quietly picturesque, often twisting form. Bees, butterflies, and at least one native moth make use of the plant through the season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeldom offered in the trade and famously particular about transplanting, tarflower is a collector's shrub and a conversation piece for the native, xeric, or pollinator garden. Give Bejaria racemosa full sun to light shade and very sandy, sharply drained, acid soil, and resist the urge to pamper the roots. Sited well, this uncommon Florida native rewards the patient gardener with sticky, seven-petaled, honey-scented flowers found on nothing else in the border.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057817489523,"sku":"BEJA-BEFA-RACE-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Bejaria_Befaria_racemosaAlanCresslar.jpg?v=1784298434"},{"product_id":"calycanthus-floridus-michael-lindsey","title":"Calycanthus floridus 'Michael Lindsey'","description":"\u003cp\u003eCalycanthus floridus 'Michael Lindsey' is the sweetshrub gardeners reach for when fragrance is the whole point. The species, Carolina allspice, is a southeastern native beloved for reddish-brown flowers that smell of ripe fruit, but the scent varies wildly from seedling to seedling, and 'Michael Lindsey' was chosen precisely for a rich, dependable perfume. Add glossy dark green foliage and clear golden fall color, and this selection has become a benchmark, one the plantsman Michael Dirr called the standard by which other introductions will be measured.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders owes this plant to the plantsman Allen Bush, who selected, named, and introduced 'Michael Lindsey' through his Holbrook Farm and Nursery in Fletcher, North Carolina, now long closed. The clone earned a Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Gold Medal on merit, chief among the reasons that reliable fruity fragrance carried on flowers of deep reddish-brown. In warm weather the scent, variously read as strawberry, pineapple, or melon, drifts on the air rather than waiting to be found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus name joins the Greek words for calyx and flower, for the curious bloom in which petals and sepals look alike, a ring of narrow, strappy, magnolia-like tepals. Those flowers run a clever trap, since the fruity scent lures small beetles inside, where they shelter and feed before carrying pollen out to the next bloom, an ancient pollination bargain older than bees on flowers. The aromatic bark and leaves, spicy when bruised, gave rise to the allspice names, though every part carries the alkaloid calycanthine and should never be eaten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite Calycanthus floridus 'Michael Lindsey' where people pass close, beside a path, a doorway, a patio, or a seat, so the fragrance is part of the day. The shrub takes full sun to part shade and average, well-drained soil, growing dense and rounded and asking little, and the cut flowers scent a room. For a native, trouble-free, deer-resistant shrub that earns a place on perfume alone, this is among the very best.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057822306419,"sku":"CALY-FLOR-MICH-LIND-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1911.jpg?v=1720136858"},{"product_id":"camellia-longicarpa","title":"Camellia longicarpa","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost American gardeners know two camellias, the winter-blooming Camellia japonica and the autumn-blooming Camellia sasanqua, each in a hundred named forms. Camellia longicarpa belongs to a different and far less familiar company: the small-flowered wild camellias of section Theopsis, scarcely grown on this side of the Pacific. Woodlanders remains one of the few nurseries offering these lesser-known species to gardeners who want the wild plant rather than the show cultivar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to the ravine forests of Sichuan and western Hunan, where the plant grows as an understory shrub or small tree between roughly five hundred and seventeen hundred meters, this camellia carries slender, long-tipped leaves and small, waxy, cup-shaped white flowers, faintly fragrant, opening from late summer into autumn when almost no other camellia is in bloom. The name longicarpa means long-fruited, a nod to the unusually elongated seed capsule that sets the species apart from the rounder-fruited members of the group. Taxonomy here is unsettled; some botanists now treat Camellia longicarpa as a synonym of Camellia synaptica, and both names lead to the same slender white-flowered plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus honors Georg Josef Kamel, the Moravian Jesuit and pharmacist who botanized in the Philippines and whom Linnaeus chose to commemorate, though Kamel never laid eyes on a camellia. Like the rest of the clan, this species asks for the classic camellia site: dappled shade, shelter from harsh sun and drying wind, and an acidic, humus-rich soil kept moist but never waterlogged. The forest-ravine origin is the whole instruction, a plant of cool, leafy, half-lit places.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is no tea and no seed oil to claim here; despite the famous economic cousins in the genus, Camellia longicarpa is purely an ornamental for the collector and the shade garden. The reward is quieter and rarer than a japonica in full flush: fine, airy foliage on a graceful small tree, and a scatter of scented white cups in the shortening days of late summer, a camellia that flowers when the others have long since finished. For the gardener who already grows the common two and wants the wild original, this is a plant to seek out and a species to help keep in cultivation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057824927859,"sku":"CAME-LONG-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-306.jpg?v=1720136920"},{"product_id":"camellia-hybrid-julia-mackintosh","title":"Camellia hybrid 'Julia Mackintosh'","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Julia Mackintosh' is a Woodlanders introduction with a family story behind the name. A chance \u003cem\u003eCamellia sasanqua\u003c\/em\u003e seedling that came up here at the nursery, the plant was selected and propagated by George Mitchell and named for the late Julia Mackintosh, who with her husband Robert founded Woodlanders. The parentage is unrecorded, though the flowers point to 'Leslie Ann', one of the nursery's long-time favorites, as the likely mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bloom is the charm. Tight buds show a deep reddish-pink while closed, then open to a white, softly ruffled, semi-double interior that keeps a reddish cup at the base, the color bleeding out to pink before it meets the white. 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The whole plant is aromatic, from the leathery leaves to the spicy bark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bark is the prize, peeled, dried, and curled into quills or milled to the familiar warm-sweet powder used across baking, curries, and mulled drinks. A note worth making: cassia cinnamons like this one are naturally higher in coumarin than Ceylon cinnamon, a compound best taken in moderation, so the spice is for flavor rather than daily medicine. New leaves emerge with a soft pink flush, the small creamy flowers are barely noticed, and the little dark fruits that follow draw birds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders grows a number of cinnamons, and this one arrived through the generosity of the late Bill Cawthon, a friend who shared cuttings and reported the tree half hardy in southeastern Alabama, at the cold edge of zone 8. That observation is a starting point rather than a promise, since Woodlanders has not yet trialed this cinnamon for cold hardiness in the local climate. In frost-free gardens the tree grows into a handsome evergreen; in colder spots the plant makes a fragrant container specimen to shelter through winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive Cinnamomum burmannii full sun to part shade and rich, evenly moist, well-drained soil, and expect steady, moderate growth into a dense, rounded canopy. Grown for fragrance, foliage, and the sheer interest of raising the source of a pantry staple, the tree suits a warm Southern garden, a large container, or a collector's grouping of useful plants. 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Few vines open so much bloom so early, and fewer still carry evergreen foliage handsome enough to grow for the leaves alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn late winter and early spring the vine bursts into wide clusters of small, starry white flowers, sweetly scented of vanilla and almond, an early feast for bees drifting out on the first warm days. The species honors Pere Armand David, the French missionary-naturalist who botanized across nineteenth-century China and lent his name to the dove tree and to Pere David's deer as well. Bloom comes on the previous year's wood, so any pruning is best done right after flowering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArmand clematis wants the classic clematis compromise, roots cool and shaded, top in the sun, in moist, rich, well-drained soil. Shelter matters too, for the evergreen leaves can burn in harsh, drying winter wind, so a warm wall or a sheltered corner suits the vine best. 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The stems and leaves carry a fine coat of whitish hairs, giving the whole plant a soft, silvered look.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis is a federally listed endangered species, discovered only in 1982 and named for the young botanist James Morefield who found it. Because wild populations are so few, Morefield's leather flower is protected, and its sale and movement are regulated; \u003c\/strong\u003enursery-propagated plants like these help take the pressure off the wild colonies while sharing a genuine botanical treasure. Growing one is a small act of conservation as much as gardening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor all the rarity, the plant proves adaptable in the garden. Native to well-drained limestone soils, Morefield's leather flower takes to ordinary garden ground with good drainage and a sunny or lightly shaded spot, climbing modestly by twining leaf-stalks and dying back to the ground each winter to return in spring. Pinkish, nodding flowers open through late spring and summer, followed by the silky, feathered seed heads typical of the clematis clan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive Clematis morefieldii a small trellis, an arbor, or a low fence, ideally on the neutral-to-alkaline soils this vine favors, where the downy pink bells can be seen at close range. A choice vine for the native, pollinator, or collector's garden, this is a plant with a real story to tell, both a rarity and a conservation success in cultivation. 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A choice and uncommon perennial, known in the wild from only a handful of counties, the plant is as valuable to the gardener as it is to the pollinators working late.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the wild this coreopsis grows along the banks and floodplains of blackwater streams from the Carolina and Georgia coastal plain down to the Florida Panhandle, with the stronghold along the Chipola River that lends the common name. Genuinely rare and ranked as imperiled, the species is a conservation-worthy native that nursery propagation helps to keep and to share. Unlike the dry-loving tickseeds, this one relishes moisture, thriving in the damp, rich soils of a streamside home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name tickseed comes from the small, flat seeds, thought to resemble ticks, and coreopsis itself joins the Greek words for bug and appearance in the same idea. The dark-green leaves are smooth-edged, the trait behind the species name integrifolia, or entire-leaved, and the plant spreads slowly by underground runners into a modest, well-behaved colony rather than an aggressive mat. In fall the flowers draw bees and butterflies to a late and welcome meal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive Coreopsis integrifolia full sun to part shade and moist, rich soil, and unlike most tickseeds the plant will happily take a damp spot, a rain garden, or the edge of a pond or stream. Massed in a sunny border or a moist native planting, the deep yellow fall daisies close the season with real warmth. 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Behind that modest description stands one of the rarest trees in North America: Harbison's hawthorn was perhaps once fairly common around central Tennessee, but is now all but extinct in the wild.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hawthorn expert Ron Lance, after intensive searches of the formerly known and likely sites around Nashville, could locate only a couple of surviving wild specimens. The plants Woodlanders offers are progeny of those few remaining trees, propagated by Mr. Lance. Because Harbison's hawthorn is not yet federally listed as endangered, growing this tree is entirely legal, and a real chance to hold, and perhaps help save, a genuinely imperiled native.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite Harbison's hawthorn in full sun to part shade in well-drained soil, as a specimen or in a native and conservation planting, where the white flowers feed spring pollinators and the red haws draw birds. 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Grown almost entirely for that striking foliage, this is a shrub for the collector rather than the crowd, and one virtually unknown in North American gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plant belongs to the Daphniphyllaceae, a small family with a single genus, and the name Daphniphyllum simply means Daphne-leaf, for foliage that recalls the laurels. Like the rest of the genus, this species is dioecious, carrying male and female flowers on separate plants, so a pair is needed for the small, glaucous, blue-black fruits to follow. The flowers themselves are quiet, greenish and without petals, opening in spring; the leaves are the whole point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to the hills and forest margins of southern China and northern Vietnam, Daphniphyllum calycinum is a genuine rarity in Western horticulture, offered by only a handful of specialist nurseries and seldom seen on this side of the world. That scarcity, together with the bold, glaucous-backed foliage, is exactly the draw for the collector. Reddish leaf-stalks and new growth add a further quiet flourish to the evergreen frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow Daphniphyllum calycinum much as a rhododendron, in part to full shade and moist, well-drained, humus-rich, acidic soil, sheltered from harsh sun and wind. Slow-growing and evergreen, the shrub makes a bold-textured anchor for a woodland or shade planting where something out of the ordinary is wanted. 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Woodlanders was the first nursery to offer the species in the United States, and one of our own trees was the first to display the showy, pink-bracted flowers in the Western Hemisphere, a small piece of horticultural history rooted in South Carolina soil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tree carries the name of Augustine Henry, the Irish botanist and physician who found the tree in 1887 in the remote forests of Hubei Province while serving as a medical officer in China. Two decades later, in 1907, the great plant hunter Ernest Henry Wilson collected seed for the Veitch Nurseries, and from those introductions \u003cem\u003eEmmenopterys henryi\u003c\/em\u003e made a slow way into the arboretums and botanic gardens of Europe and North America, always as a coveted rarity rather than a common tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart of the legend is the tree's famous reluctance to flower. A young \u003cem\u003eEmmenopterys\u003c\/em\u003e may grow vigorously for years, even decades, before offering a first bloom, which is exactly what has made each flowering an event reported in the horticultural press. When the tree finally performs, usually in late summer, the reward is a spectacular display of large, creamy-white flowers, sweetly fragrant, some cradled by an enlarged, leaf-like white bract that flushes pink to rose as the season turns, so a flowering tree can look, from a distance, dusted with giant snowflakes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiven time and space, \u003cem\u003eEmmenopterys henryi\u003c\/em\u003e makes a large, handsome, deciduous shade tree, upright and vigorous, with bold, glossy foliage that earns a place long before the first flowers arrive. Hardy in USDA zones 6 through 9, the tree wants full sun to part shade, deep, fertile, well-drained soil, and steady moisture while young. This is a specimen for the patient collector, an heirloom planted as much for the gardeners who will one day see the tree bloom as for the one who sets it in the ground. 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The renowned plantsman Michael Dirr, in his Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, allows that if one wants to grow a heath in the southeastern United States, this hybrid represents a credible starting point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDarley Dale heath makes a low, spreading, evergreen mound to about two feet, clothed in fine, needle-like, deep green foliage that often takes on bronze or cream tips on new growth. The real gift is the season of bloom: from late fall through early spring, when little else is flowering, the stems line themselves with small, urn-shaped, rose-pink flowers held in leafy terminal sprays, a quiet run of color across the coldest, grayest months and an early nectar source for any bees abroad on a mild winter day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLow, dense, and neat, Darley Dale heath is a natural weaver and edger. Plant a drift as an evergreen groundcover on a sunny slope, run a ribbon along the front of a border or a path, or set the plant among dwarf conifers and other acid-lovers for a heath-and-heather tapestry of contrasting textures. The winter flowers pair beautifully with the bare red stems of dogwoods and the pale bark of birches, and a mass planting reads as a soft, living carpet even out of bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive the plant what the mountain parents want: full sun to light shade and moist but sharply drained, acidic soil enriched with peat, leaf mold, or compost. Heaths resent heavy, wet clay and standing water, so drainage is the one non-negotiable. Shear lightly right after flowering to keep the mound tight, taking care not to cut back into bare old wood, which does not resprout well. Hardy in USDA zones 5 through 8, undemanding once settled, Darley Dale heath earns its keep in the very season most gardens go quiet. 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Botanists now file the plant under the sprawling Ficus sarmentosa complex, as Ficus sarmentosa var. nipponica, though it remains best known to gardeners by the older name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike other climbing figs, this vine grips by tiny aerial rootlets, the holdfasts that let the plant scale brick, stone, or bark without any trellis, knitting itself into a smooth evergreen sheet. Young clinging shoots hug the surface flat and small; older, free-standing stems grow coarser and bear the small figs typical of the genus, whose flowers stay hidden inside, pollinated only by their particular fig wasps. The effect on a wall is lush and softly tropical.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA little hardier than common creeping fig, Ficus nipponica holds evergreen through the milder South, roughly zones 8 and 9, and has taken brief cold near zero degrees in sheltered spots. Give sun to part shade and ordinary, well-drained soil, and the vine climbs steadily, faster with summer water, into a durable green cover. A word of caution belongs here: the milky sap can irritate skin, and the clinging growth can work into mortar and paint, so keep the vine to sound masonry and away from wood siding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse Ficus nipponica to green a shaded wall, a courtyard, a retaining wall, or a tree trunk, wherever an evergreen, self-clinging cover is wanted and a rarer, larger-leaved alternative to creeping fig appeals. Vigorous once established, the vine repays a yearly trim to keep the cover neat and off gutters and windows. For a lush, low-fuss evergreen curtain in a warm garden, this uncommon Japanese fig is a quietly excellent choice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057869820019,"sku":"FICU-NIPP-01G","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/FicusnipponicaMoongyuLee.jpg?v=1784307316"},{"product_id":"ficus-roxburghii","title":"Ficus roxburghii","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the forests of the Himalayan foothills and across monsoon Asia grows a fig of ancient bearing, Ficus roxburghii, known to botanists today as Ficus auriculata and to gardeners as the elephant-ear fig. This is no dainty exotic. In the tropics the plant makes a bold small tree; in the American South, where hard frost cuts back the top, the fig returns from the root each year as a heroic perennial, with a presence as memorable as a live oak draped in Spanish moss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere in the Deep South, where the soil runs sandy and red and winter knocks more gently, the elephant-ear fig has found a second home. Joe LeVert of Augusta, Georgia, a true Southern plantsman, first brought the plant to our attention; his thriving, root-hardy specimen, proven through many a Southern winter, became the mother of our current stock, a plant born of grit, heritage, and care.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe leaves are the glory, sometimes stretching fifteen inches or more across, round, glossy, and substantial, rising like lacquered shields to turn any bed into a living tapestry of the tropics. In the warmest gardens the fig also bears in the curious way called cauliflory, the fat, downy fruit erupting directly from the trunk and old wood rather than the twigs. Those figs are genuinely good, eaten fresh or cooked, folded into jams and curries, or sliced green into a Vietnamese salad, and the tree carries deep ethnobotanical weight across the native range, valued for food, folklore, and traditional medicine alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant the elephant-ear fig where the roots can stretch and where water is not a stranger, in fertile, moisture-retentive soil with shelter from wind and hard frost. Give a warm, protected corner, a shaded wall or a wind-still glen, and the fig repays the kindness with almost prehistoric grandeur, the boldest foliage a Southern garden can hold short of a banana. 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The glossy green leaves are edged in irregular strokes of ivory, as though touched by the brush of some moonlit painter in the pine woods, and the whole shrub glimmers softly through every season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis uncommon cultivar was introduced by Bob Byrnes of Trail Ridge Nursery in Florida, a nurseryman known for a discerning eye and a commitment to preserving Southern rarities. 'Variegata' stands as one of the very few variegated forms of this Southeastern native, bringing a fresh, luminous texture to the woodland garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the species, this tree belongs to the tea family, Theaceae, and shares a lineage with the stately camellias and the storied Franklinia alatamaha. The summer flowers are large, white, and pristine, three to four inches across, with five silky petals cupping a golden crown of stamens, opening one by one through the long summer days as a cooling counterpoint to the heat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Variegata' is best grown with care and intention, for Gordonia is no plant for an ill-suited site. The tree wants acidic, sandy soil with excellent drainage and steady moisture, the conditions of a seepage slope or a sandy pinewood flat, and falters in heavy or compacted ground. Where the plant is happy, though, growth comes slowly but with dignity, offering evergreen structure, summer bloom, and foliage that brightens even a shady border, a tree for the collector, the connoisseur, and the gardener who wishes to celebrate the subtle beauty of the American South.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057875947635,"sku":"GORD-LASI-VARI-01G","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Gordonialasianthus_Variegata_Woodlanders2.jpg?v=1753130498"},{"product_id":"hedychium-coccineum","title":"Hedychium coccineum","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis ginger relative is a tall herbaceous perennial spreading by rhizomes. Showy spikes of reddish flowers on terminals of tall plants with long corn-like leaves. It spreads to form colonies in rich moist soil in sunny or semi-shady areas. 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The species belongs to Hunan Province in China, where gardeners have grown the shrub for nearly three thousand years, where the flower serves as the emblem of Chengdu, a city known on its account as the City of Hibiscus, and where classical texts on materia medica describe the flowers and leaves in medicinal detail. The name stuck here out of regional habit rather than botanical or historical accuracy, and the plant is indifferent to the label.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 'Plena' actually is: a fully double-flowered form of one of the most theatrically interesting shrubs available to Southern gardeners. The flowers of \u003cem\u003eH. mutabilis\u003c\/em\u003e change color over the course of a single day, driven by a steady accumulation of anthocyanins in the petals. A bloom opens white in the morning, blushes pink by midday, and deepens to rose-red by evening. In the straight species each flower lasts a day before dropping; in 'Plena' the fully double, peony-form flowers hold longer, and the layered petals make the color shift more gradual and more visible. On a mature plant in October you will find all three colors at once on the same shrub, white, pink, and red in various stages of the day's progression. The effect is anything but subtle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe shrub is fast-growing and substantial. In the Deep South the plant can reach ten feet or more in a single season, carrying large, palmately lobed leaves with a soft, slightly fuzzy texture that lends a lush, almost tropical character. In zone 7 the top dies to the ground in winter and returns vigorously from the roots each spring; in zone 8 and warmer the plant grows effectively woody and persistent. Either way, the space is well earned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond the spectacle, the plant carries a long ethnobotanical history: in traditional Chinese medicine the leaves and flowers, known as Fu Rong, have been used for centuries in cooling poultices and washes for burns, boils, and skin inflammation. In the garden, give 'Plena' full sun and rich, moist, well-drained soil at the back of a large border or as a specimen with room to spread, and enjoy a shrub that saves the finest show for autumn, when so much else has finished.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057883910259,"sku":"HIBI-MUTA-PLEN-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-374.jpg?v=1720138583"},{"product_id":"hypericum-prolificum","title":"Hypericum prolificum","description":"\u003cp\u003eHypericum prolificum lives up to the name, prolific, disappearing each summer under a heavy crop of bright yellow flowers, each three-quarters of an inch to an inch across and stuffed with a golden brush of stamens. The shrub is dense and rounded, with arching branches, narrow shiny leaves, and reddish, exfoliating bark that peels to show paler layers once the foliage thins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name reads as a promise of abundance, and the old common name St. John's Wort ties the shrub to a long line of yellow-flowered kin gathered at the Midsummer feast of Saint John; the genus name Hypericum, from the Greek hyper and eikon, above and image, remembers sprigs hung over doorways and holy pictures to guard the house. The native American species carried something of that reputation into practice: the Cherokee used shrubby St. John's Wort and relatives as astringent and wound herbs and in remedies for respiratory complaints, a folk tradition set out more fully in the notes below.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew native shrubs are so obliging. Hypericum prolificum ranges across the eastern United States from New York and Ontario south and west, at home on rocky ground and dry wooded slopes, in old fields, on gravel bars, and in low, moist valleys, and hardy from the cold of USDA zone three through the heat of zone eight. That breadth of tolerance, drought, brief flooding, poor rocky or sandy or clay soil, even a little salt, makes the shrub one of the toughest woody plants a gardener can choose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor all that reliability the shrub is oddly scarce in gardens, a gap Woodlanders has long worked to close. Dr. Michael Dirr put the case plainly in his Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: \"I do not believe the Hypericums have been adequately explored and developed as landscape plants in the United States.\" Set shrubby St. John's Wort in a sunny, well-drained border, a low hedge, or a tough bank, and the summer-long gold, tidy rounded form, and peeling bark answer his complaint. Little bluestem, aromatic aster, and other sun-loving natives round out the planting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057888071795,"sku":"HYPE-PROL-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-396.jpg?v=1720138721"},{"product_id":"ilex-vomitoria-male-will-fleming","title":"Ilex vomitoria (male) ‘Will Fleming’","description":"\u003cp\u003eYaupon is the small-leaved evergreen holly of the Southeast, native along the coastal plain from Virginia to Texas and a member of the holly family, Aquifoliaceae. The wild plant is a broad, twiggy shrub, so a yaupon that grows straight up like a green column is a genuine oddity. 'Will Fleming' is exactly that: a male selection with a strict fastigiate habit, reaching twelve to fifteen feet tall on a base only two or three feet wide, a living exclamation mark carrying the fine yaupon leaf all the way up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYaupon is more than an architectural curiosity. Roasted yaupon leaves and twigs were the source of the caffeinated 'black drink' that Indigenous peoples of the Southeast brewed for ceremony, council, and trade, and that coastal colonists later drank as a homegrown coffee or tea. Yaupon remains North America's only caffeine-bearing native plant. The harsh species name, vomitoria, records a European misreading of the ritual purging that sometimes attended the drink, a charge the holly did not earn, being no emetic in ordinary use; the common name, from the Catawban ya'pa, means simply 'small tree.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe narrow form was found in east Texas by Will Fleming, whose name the plant now carries, and has become one of the most useful hollies in the Southern palette for tight spaces. As a male, 'Will Fleming' sets no berries, but doubles as a pollinator for female yaupons within range. One caution earns mention: with age the upright stems can lean and splay, so most gardeners tie or lightly shear the column now and then to keep the crisp vertical line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNothing draws the eye upward like a true column, and 'Will Fleming' delivers one where space is tight: flanking a doorway, marking the corners of a formal bed, punctuating a long border, or standing in a row as a narrow living screen along a fence or property line. Pair with low mounding evergreens or perennials at the base, give full sun for the densest growth, and keep a female yaupon nearby if berries are wanted elsewhere in the planting. Drought, salt, and shearing leave the plant untroubled.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057890070643,"sku":"ILEX-VOMI-WILL-FLEM-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-113.jpg?v=1720138781"},{"product_id":"ilex-cassine-female","title":"Ilex cassine (female)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIlex cassine, the dahoon holly, is an elegant evergreen native of the southern wetlands, and this is a fruiting female, the sex that carries the crop of small, glossy red berries. Unlike the fiercely spined American holly, dahoon holds narrow, smooth-edged, bright green leaves that are a pleasure to plant near a path, and in fall and winter the branches string themselves with scarlet fruit against that clean green. Grown as a large shrub or a small tree, dahoon is one of the most useful evergreen hollies for the South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA word every holly buyer should hear: this is a dioecious plant, with male and female flowers on separate plants, so a female like this one will only set berries when a male dahoon, or another compatible holly blooming at the same time, grows within reach of the bees. Plant a male somewhere nearby and the reward is heavy, reliable fruit; plant a female alone and the berries will not come. The small greenish-white spring flowers feed bees, and the winter berries feed the birds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDahoon is a plant of swamps, pond edges, and wet flatwoods along the coastal plain from the Carolinas to Texas, and takes happily to wet ground, standing water, and heavy rain where many evergreens sulk. In the garden the plant is more forgiving still, thriving on ordinary moist, acid soil in full sun or part shade, asking mainly that the roots not bake dry. Growth is steady rather than fast, building over the years into a dense, glossy screen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse Ilex cassine as an evergreen screen or hedge, a berrying specimen, or a small tree for a rain garden, a pond margin, or any low, wet spot that needs a handsome, non-prickly evergreen. The persistent red fruit brings birds through the winter, and the smooth foliage makes the plant safe and pleasant beside walks and seating. For a native, wildlife-friendly, wet-tolerant evergreen holly, few match the easygoing dahoon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057894953075,"sku":"ILE-CASS-FEMA-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Ilexcassine_female.jpg?v=1784325148"},{"product_id":"ilex-cornuta-dor","title":"Ilex cornuta 'D'Or'","description":"\u003cp\u003eIlex cornuta 'D'Or' is the golden-fruited version of a garden classic, a glossy evergreen Chinese holly hung through fall and winter with large, clear yellow berries in place of the usual red. The dark green, leathery leaves are nearly spineless, most carrying just a single spine at the tip, so the effect is polished rather than fierce, the bright fruit standing out cleanly against the deep foliage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plant began as a happy accident. Sometime in the 1950s, on a Burford holly in Columbus, Georgia, a single branch sported yellow fruit rather than red, and the horticulturist Fred Galle spotted the oddity and propagated it at Callaway Gardens. 'D'Or', French for of gold, records the color, and in every other respect the holly matches the familiar 'Burfordii': the same vigor, the same handsome habit, the same single-spined leaf, but with berries the color of amber.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe species behind the sport, Ilex cornuta, is the Chinese holly, native to eastern China and Korea and long grown in the South for glossy evergreen toughness. The epithet cornuta means horned, for the stiff spines that arm the leaves of the wild form, though generations of selection have softened that armament in garden clones like this one. Holly flowers are small and white, easy to miss, but the bees find them, and on a female holly such as 'D'Or' they set the fruit that follows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRarely offered, 'D'Or' deserves a spot where the yellow fruit can be enjoyed against evergreen green: a sunny to lightly shaded bed with well-drained soil, a specimen by an entry, an unusual evergreen hedge, or a foil for red-berried hollies nearby. Like the standard Burford, the plant can grow considerably larger than a label suggests, so give the roots room. A few cuttings of the golden-berried branches bring something different to a winter arrangement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057896001651,"sku":"ILE-CORN-DOR-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1943.jpg?v=1720138915"},{"product_id":"illicium-henryi","title":"Illicium henryi","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe anise trees, genus Illicium, are aromatic broadleaf evergreens of the star-anise family, Schisandraceae, their name from the Latin illicium, an allurement, for the scent of the leaves. Illicium henryi, the Henry anise, is the Chinese member of the group, a handsome, dense, pyramidal to rounded evergreen with waxy flowers in shades of coppery pink to deep carmine red and aromatic, glossy foliage. The plant honors Augustine Henry, the great Irish plant collector who botanized central China at the close of the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHenry anise owes its place in American gardens largely to Woodlanders, who introduced the plant to the trade here after obtaining stock from the famous Hillier Nurseries in England. Much admired in the Woodlanders garden over the years, Henry anise has since become a little more widely grown, though the plant remains uncommon, a connoisseur's evergreen for the shade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe flowers are the draw, up to twenty narrow tepals apiece in a rich pink to red, waxy and star-like, carried in spring against dark evergreen leaves. As with the other ornamental anises, the aromatic foliage is not the culinary star anise, and the plant is best enjoyed for looks and scent rather than any use in the kitchen. The same aromatic oils that scent the leaves keep browsing deer at bay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive Henry anise shade or semi-shade and good soil that stays moist but drains well, and the plant builds slowly into a clean, dense evergreen of eight to twelve feet. Use as a specimen, a shade screen, or a refined evergreen anchor in a woodland border, where the waxy spring flowers can be admired at close range. Camellias, ferns, hydrangeas, and other broadleaf evergreens make fitting company in the same cool, shaded ground.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057897738355,"sku":"ILLI-HENR-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-120.jpg?v=1720138967"},{"product_id":"kalmia-latifolia","title":"Kalmia latifolia","description":"\u003cp\u003eMountain laurel is the aristocrat of the American heath family (Ericaceae), a broadleaf evergreen native from southern Maine to the Florida panhandle and west toward Indiana and Louisiana, most at home on the acid, rocky slopes of the Appalachians. Linnaeus named the genus Kalmia for his student Pehr Kalm, the Finnish-Swedish naturalist who botanized the eastern colonies in the 1740s, and the species epithet latifolia means broad-leaved. To gardeners the shrub answers to a whole drawer of common names: calico bush for the patterned flowers, spoonwood for the wood, and simply mountain laurel across most of the range.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn late spring and early summer, mountain laurel covers a dense, rounded, glossy-leaved frame with rounded clusters of cup-shaped flowers, white to soft pink and freckled with deeper rose inside. The buds are the real showpiece, crimped and fluted like tiny cake decorations before they open. Each flower carries the family's signature mechanism: ten stamens bent back into small pockets in the corolla and held under spring tension, ready to snap forward and dust a visiting bee the instant the bloom is jostled. A mature plant, with reddish, sinuous bark and leathery leaves, holds structure through all four seasons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe common name spoonwood records how deeply people once relied on this shrub. The hard, close-grained wood was carved into spoons and small utensils by Indigenous peoples of the East and later turned for tool handles, bowls, wreaths, and even the gearing of early wooden clocks. That usefulness came with a sharp warning, though. Every green part of mountain laurel, along with the pollen and any honey made from the flowers, contains grayanotoxins, and the foliage has poisoned livestock, wildlife, and people alike. For that reason the shrub is grown strictly as an ornamental and wildlife plant, never a medicinal or edible one, and the leaves are best kept well away from grazing animals and curious mouths.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, mountain laurel is the backbone broadleaf evergreen for acid, woodland soil. Give the shrub the dappled light of a high pine or oak canopy, plant high rather than deep so the shallow roots never drown, and mulch with pine straw to keep the root run cool and sour. Mountain laurel settles beautifully among rhododendrons, blueberries, inkberry, and native ferns, and the toxic foliage doubles as reliable deer resistance where browsing pressure runs high. Slow to build but long-lived and quietly magnificent once established, this is a shrub to plant for decades rather than seasons.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057905635443,"sku":"KALM-LATI-01G","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/IMG_4820.jpg?v=1775586914"},{"product_id":"leucothoe-populifolia","title":"Leucothoe populifolia","description":"\u003cp\u003eLeucothoe populifolia, still fondly called Agarista populifolia by those who knew the plant before the name changed, is the giant of a genus otherwise built low to the ground. Where most leucothoes hug the shade at knee height, this one climbs, sending up tall, erect stems that arch at the tips into a fountain of glossy evergreen leaves, and given years and room the shrub can pass for a small multi-stemmed tree of twelve to fifteen feet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn spring the arching branches hang with small, creamy-white, bell-shaped flowers, sweetly fragrant and shaped like the blossoms of a blueberry or a lily of the valley, a family resemblance that is no accident, since Leucothoe belongs to the heath family, Ericaceae, in company with blueberries, azaleas, and mountain laurel. The genus carries an old Greek myth in the name: Leucothoe was a princess loved by the sun god Apollo and, in the telling, transformed into a fragrant shrub. The epithet populifolia simply means poplar-leaved, a nod to the broad, tapering foliage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe species is a Southeastern native with an oddly punctuated range, growing wild in the low country of southeastern South Carolina and down through Florida, yet somehow skipping Georgia in between. Gardeners well north of that native ground grow the plant happily, prizing the year-round screen of dark, polished leaves and the flush of coppery bronze on the new growth. As with other members of the heath family, every part carries grayanotoxins and is not for eating, which is also why deer tend to leave the foliage alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite Leucothoe populifolia where a tall evergreen is wanted but a stiff wall of conifer would feel wrong: as a soft screen along a property line, a backdrop to a shade border, or a graceful anchor at the edge of woodland. The plant asks for the conditions of the native swamp margins, meaning moist, acid, humus-rich soil that still drains, and the dappled light of high shade. Underplant with ferns, hostas, and native azaleas, or let the arching stems rise behind hydrangeas for a layered, woodland-edge planting that keeps its good looks straight through winter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057910911091,"sku":"LEUC-POPU-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-131.jpg?v=1720139306"},{"product_id":"lithocarpus-edulis-variegata","title":"Lithocarpus edulis 'Variegata'","description":"\u003cp\u003eA broadleaf evergreen with a story, this variegated tanbark oak came into the country from Japan through the late Dr. Fred Meyer of the United States National Arboretum, a botanist and tireless plant explorer, and was almost certainly first offered to American gardeners by Woodlanders. The draw is the foliage: dense, leathery, glossy leaves, each dark green blade split by an irregular central streak of gold and cream, so that a whole tree seems lit from within. Plant Delights later distributed the same selection under the name 'Starburst,' and both names point to this one bright-leaved plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLithocarpus is the genus of stone oaks, or tanbark oaks, close kin to the true oaks in Fagaceae but set apart by stiff, upright flower spikes rather than the dangling catkins of Quercus, and by acorns so hard-shelled they gave the genus its name, from the Greek for stone fruit. The species epithet, edulis, means edible, and records a genuine use: in Japan the acorns of this tree, mateba-shii, have long been gathered for food, roasted and ground after leaching away the tannins that make so many acorns bitter. The bark, like that of the other tanbark oaks, once fed the leather-tanning trade with its tannins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeft to grow, Lithocarpus edulis makes a rounded evergreen tree of twenty-five to thirty-five feet, slow and deliberate in youth and dense with age, bearing creamy upright flower spikes in early summer and, in autumn, the hard little acorns. The variegated form is grown for leaf rather than crop, but a mature specimen still flowers and fruits. Hardy through USDA zones 7 to 9 and tolerant of coastal wind and city air, the tree serves as a luminous evergreen screen, a specimen to light a shaded corner, or a slow-building anchor where a gardener wants substance that holds all winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is an old-fashioned generosity to a tree like this, an evergreen that feeds wildlife, once fed people, and carries a variegation striking enough to stop a visitor mid-path. Give the tanbark oak deep, well-drained soil and an open spot with room to spread, full sun to part shade, and a little shelter while young. Growers report that deer leave the foliage alone, one more argument for a plant that asks little and offers a great deal, including a direct link to the exploring botanists who once carried such things home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057913008243,"sku":"LITH-EDUL-VARI-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Lithocarpusedulis_Variegata.jpg?v=1784327238"},{"product_id":"malvaviscus-drummondii-x-arboreus-big-momma","title":"Malvaviscus drummondii x arboreus 'Big Momma'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis shrubby plant has showy red flowers and leaves that are intermediate between the parent species (which see). A relatively recent Texas introduction by Greg Grant, this should prove a garden worthy plant that is likely to be a bit more cold-hardy than the Malvaviscus arboreus parent. Some consider Malvaviscus drummondii to be a variety of Malvaviscus arboreus but we find them quite different and distinct.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057922478195,"sku":"MALV-DRUM-ARBO-BIG-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1967.jpg?v=1720139596"},{"product_id":"manettia-cordifolia-glabra","title":"Manettia cordifolia (glabra)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe firecracker vine earns the name in high summer, when a delicate twining stem lights up with a long, generous run of small, scarlet, tubular flowers. Manettia cordifolia is the true red-flowered species, all crimson with no yellow tip, quieter in vigor than the candy-corn firecracker vines of the houseplant trade, and the better-mannered for that, climbing just enough to be useful without ever becoming a thug.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA South American native, ranging from Brazil and Argentina through Paraguay and beyond, this member of the coffee family, Rubiaceae, honors Saverio Manetti, the eighteenth-century Italian physician who ran the botanic garden in Florence. The epithet cordifolia means heart-leaved, though the foliage on garden plants often reads narrower than that suggests, and the older name Manettia glabra, sometimes seen in parentheses, is simply a synonym for the same species. Woodlanders has grown this vine for a long while: the original start came from Edmund Cuthbert of Summerville, South Carolina, before 1980, and the line has been kept going ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRed and tubular, the flowers are built for hummingbirds, and they find the vine reliably through the warm months. Give Manettia cordifolia a sunny spot with moist but well-drained soil and a fence, trellis, or arbor to twine through, and the plant flowers for months on end. In the colder part of the range the vine dies back to the root with frost and returns in spring; farther north, grow the plant in a container that can shelter indoors over winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor all the fireworks in the name, this is a refined and restrained vine, ideal where a heavier tropical climber would swamp a small support: a mailbox post, an obelisk in a border, a patio container with a small tuteur, or a light trellis by a door where the hummingbirds can be watched at work. 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The genus name honors Nyssa, a water nymph of Greek myth, and the tree lives up to the name, thriving along creeks, river swamps, and seasonally flooded bottoms where the soil stays acidic and wet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest known of all is the fruit: elongated, bright red drupes borne on female trees that ripen in late summer, so sharply sour that generations of Southern cooks have turned them into Ogeechee lime jelly, marmalade, and a tart limeade. The spring flowers are small and green, easy to overlook, yet they are the source of one of the South's most prized honeys. Bees working white tupelo, as Nyssa ogeche is also called, produce the celebrated tupelo honey, and the tree carries the fitting nicknames bee tupelo and sour tupelo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn leaf, the Ogeechee tupelo is bold and clean, with large, glossy green leaves that build a full, lush canopy through summer before softening to yellow and orange in fall. Female trees turn genuinely ornamental in fruit, the red drupes hanging clearly against the foliage at a season when many natives have gone quiet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough tied to swamps in the wild, the Ogeechee tupelo is more adaptable than most wetland trees and settles happily into well-drained garden soil as long as moisture is reliable, tolerating both brief flooding and short dry spells once established. 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The blooms themselves are tiny, waxy, and creamy white, tucked so far back among the leaves that a passerby often smells the plant long before finding the flowers, a warm apricot-and-honey perfume that carries across a whole garden on a mild autumn day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn evergreen shrub from the woodlands of China and the eastern Himalaya, sweet osmanthus builds slowly into a dense, rounded plant of fifteen to twenty-five feet, almost tree-like in mild climates, with glossy, finely toothed leaves about three inches long. Southern gardeners have prized the shrub for generations, and Michael Dirr, in his \u003cem\u003eManual of Woody Landscape Plants\u003c\/em\u003e, put the case plainly: the flowers appear over such a great time frame and are so fragrant that to not try the plant is to cheat one's garden. In colder regions the tea olive earns a place under glass, a prized conservatory plant for winter scent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn China the flowers are gui hua, a fixture of kitchen and teahouse as much as garden. The blossoms are steeped with green and black tea to make the fragrant osmanthus tea, simmered with sugar into syrups and jams, and folded into mooncakes, sweet soups, and rice wine, and the scent of osmanthus over a courtyard is bound up with the Mid-Autumn Festival and centuries of poetry. Traditional Chinese medicine has long turned the dried flowers to warming, phlegm-clearing, and digestive uses, a heritage carried in every cup of the amber tea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite sweet osmanthus by the nose rather than the eye: beside a door, along a well-used path, under a window left open in autumn, or near a patio where the evening air pools. The dense evergreen frame also makes a fine informal hedge, a screen, or a backdrop for showier plants, and takes light shaping without complaint. Give full sun to part shade and moist, well-drained soil, with a little afternoon shade in the hottest gardens, and pair with camellias, hollies, and other broadleaf evergreens for a planting that carries structure through the year and perfume through the fall.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057931980915,"sku":"OSMA-FRAG-01G","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-168.jpg?v=1720139878"},{"product_id":"osmanthus-x-burkwoodii-x-osmarea-burkwoodii","title":"Osmanthus x burkwoodii (x Osmarea burkwoodii)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOsmanthus burkwoodii is one of the most reliable and sweetly scented of the spring evergreens, a dense, compact shrub that disappears under clusters of tiny white flowers in April and perfumes the whole garden around it. The small, dark green, leathery leaves are finely toothed and glossy, holding their color and structure through the year, so that the plant earns a place long after the fragrance has faded.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe shrub has a tangled and rather charming pedigree. Raised in England in the 1920s by the nursery firm of Burkwood and Skipwith, the plant began as a cross between two different genera, Osmanthus delavayi from Yunnan and the western-Asian Phillyrea decora, and was first christened with a hybrid genus name of its own, Osmarea burkwoodii. Botanists have since folded Phillyrea into Osmanthus, which quietly demoted the cross to a within-genus hybrid, Osmanthus burkwoodii, though the old Osmarea name still turns up on labels. The genus name is Greek for fragrant flower, and the epithet honors Albert Burkwood, whose name rides on several fine garden hybrids.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden this is an easygoing, slow-growing evergreen, hardy through USDA zones 6 to 8 and happy in full sun to part shade, even in the difficult dry shade under high trees. Give the plant well-drained soil with a little irrigation while establishing, since Osmanthus resents both drought stress when young and standing wet, and the shrub settles into a dense rounded form of five to eight feet, tolerating shearing well for a hedge. The Royal Horticultural Society has given the plant its Award of Garden Merit, a fair mark of dependability.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse Osmanthus burkwoodii as a fragrant spring-flowering hedge or screen, a specimen by a path or door where the scent will be met, or a quiet evergreen backbone in a shrub border, and lean on the dense habit and deer resistance for a low-maintenance planting. 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The scent is the pure osmanthus perfume, a rich sweetness of ripe apricot and peach that carries on the evening air.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike all sweet osmanthus, 'Fudingzhu' is an evergreen from the woodlands of China, here on a manageable frame of ten to fifteen feet, with leathery, glossy, deep green leaves that give year-round structure. The great virtue is length and weight of bloom: heavy flushes in late summer and fall, with scattered flowers possible through much of the year in mild climates, so few shrubs offer so long a season of fragrance on so tidy a plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flowers of sweet osmanthus are gui hua in China, steeped with green and black tea into the fragrant osmanthus tea, simmered into syrups and jams, and folded into mooncakes and rice wine, while traditional Chinese medicine has long turned the dried flowers to warming, phlegm-clearing, and digestive uses. A profuse white-flowered clone like 'Fudingzhu' yields the scented blossom in abundance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite 'Fudingzhu' where the long season of perfume can be enjoyed at close range: beside a door, a path, a patio, or an entry where the evening scent gathers. The dense evergreen suits an informal hedge, a screen, a specimen, or a large container, and takes light shaping without complaint. Give full sun to part shade and moist, well-drained, slightly acidic soil, with afternoon shade in the hottest gardens, and pair with camellias and other broadleaf evergreens for a fragrant, four-season planting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057932963955,"sku":"OSMA-FRAG-FUDI-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2067.jpg?v=1720139906"},{"product_id":"osmanthus-heterophyllus-sasaba","title":"Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Sasaba'","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Sasaba' is the holly osmanthus taken to a theatrical extreme, grown less for flower than for the sheer drama of the leaf. Each dark, glossy, evergreen leaf is cut and incised into narrow, spine-tipped lobes that jut out in every direction, so that the whole shrub reads as a slow green explosion. The Japanese name says it well: sasaba means bamboo leaf, for the narrow, divided foliage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnderneath the fireworks, this is Osmanthus heterophyllus, the holly osmanthus of Japan, in the olive family alongside lilac, jasmine, and the fragrant sweet olive. The genus name is Greek for fragrant flower, and true to that, small waxy white flowers open in autumn and carry a sweet scent several feet on the air, though the flowers are modest and 'Sasaba' is grown first and last for the foliage. One honest note on the armament: fierce as the leaves look, the spines are a touch softer than a true holly's, more bark than bite.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plant has a reputation to match the look. Michael Dirr is often quoted calling 'Sasaba' a plant handler's worst nightmare, and anyone who has potted one up will nod, but that ferocity is exactly the point in the right spot. Slow and dense, the shrub builds over years to a compact upright evergreen of four to seven feet, occasionally more with age, and never loses the fine, spiky texture that sets the shrub apart from every ordinary landscape plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive 'Sasaba' well-drained soil in sun or shade, and the plant proves adaptable and trouble-free, drought-tolerant once established and thoroughly deer-proof for obvious reasons. Use the shrub as a textural specimen where the strange foliage can be studied, as a security barrier under a window, or as a slow evergreen accent in a collector's border. 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Woodlanders is glad to credit the flowering photographs to Juniper Level Botanic Garden and the JC Raulston Arboretum, two gardens that have done much to bring the better osmanthus selections into the trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn China the flowers of sweet osmanthus are gui hua, steeped with green and black tea into the fragrant osmanthus tea, simmered into syrups and jams, and folded into mooncakes and rice wine, while traditional Chinese medicine has long turned the dried flowers to warming, phlegm-clearing, and digestive uses. A yellow-flowered clone like 'Conger Yellow' carries the same scented, useful blossom, with a little extra color for the eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite 'Conger Yellow' where the perfume will be caught in passing: beside a door, along a path, near a patio, or under a window opened to the autumn cool. The dense, upright evergreen also works as an informal hedge, a screen, or a fragrant anchor in a mixed border, and the large leaves give a bolder texture than the ordinary tea olive. 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The hybrid gathers the toughness of the native parent and the drama of the exotic one into a single deep-violet flower four to five inches across, the wavy corona filaments frilled and banded in purple and white, carrying a sweet, incense-like fragrance that gives the plant its name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnce summer heat arrives, 'Incense' behaves as though it owns the fence. The vine throws a long succession of large, richly scented flowers from early summer until frost, each a magnet for Gulf fritillaries, native bees, swallowtails, and curious passersby. Fruit set is light, so the whole performance is in the blossom, which is exactly the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite the exotic look, 'Incense' keeps the hardiness of the native parent. In many Southeastern gardens, including here at Woodlanders in Aiken, South Carolina, the vine dies to the ground in winter and returns reliably each year from the root when planted in a protected, well-drained spot, typically hardy to about zone 7 with a little winter protection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFast-growing and tendril-climbing, 'Incense' quickly clothes a trellis, an arbor, a porch post, a mailbox, or a sunny fence. Give full sun, warm and well-drained soil, and a sturdy support, and the vine repays the season with a curtain of jewel-toned flowers. 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Upright and clean-limbed, the tree carries dense, leathery, dark green leaves much like those of the related redbay, glossy and handsome the year round, and grows at a steady pace into a small to medium tree of real presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe plant belongs to Lauraceae, the laurel family, close kin to Persea, the avocado and the native redbays, and to the storied nanmu trees of China. Nanmu is among the most prized timbers in the world, fine-grained, aromatic, and durable, so valued in imperial China that whole logs went into the pillars of the Forbidden City; Phoebe chekiangensis is one of the genuine nanmu species, though the legendary golden-silk grade belongs to a few relatives. The epithet chekiangensis marks the tree's home in Zhejiang province, on the old spelling, in southeastern China.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the wild the species is genuinely rare, listed as vulnerable and protected in China as a second-class species, the wild stands thinned by cutting and slow to regenerate, so growing a nursery tree is a small act of conservation as much as a garden choice. Woodlanders has watched the tree closely: one grew into a beautiful young specimen in a city park here in Aiken, South Carolina, before an ice storm brought the young tree down, a fair reminder that a broadleaf evergreen loaded with ice asks for a sheltered spot at the cold edge of the range. A second specimen grows intertwined with a magnolia at Hopeland Gardens, a verdant love story of some 40 odd years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive Phoebe chekiangensis sun to light shade and good, well-drained but moisture-retentive soil, ideally with some shelter from hard, drying winter wind, and expect an evergreen of USDA zones 8 and 9. The flowers are small and quiet and the little dark fruits sit on reddish cups, but the reason to grow the tree is the foliage and the form, a lustrous evergreen anchor for a Southern garden, at home among camellias and ferns. 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In cultivation the plant grows as a neat, small evergreen shrub of two to three feet, clothed in narrow, leathery dark green leaves about an inch long.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the wild, though, the climbing fetterbush does something no other \u003cem\u003ePieris\u003c\/em\u003e does. Rooted in the acid muck of cypress swamps, the plant climbs the trunks of pond cypress (\u003cem\u003eTaxodium ascendens\u003c\/em\u003e), threading stems high up beneath the loose outer bark and then pushing out horizontal, leafy branches that seem, uncannily, to sprout straight from the cypress itself. Few gardeners ever see the trick, but it is one of the great curiosities of the American flora.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEarly each spring the plant hangs showy, compound racemes of small white, bell-shaped flowers, like strings of porcelain thimbles, sweetly fragrant and among the first heath flowers to feed the season's pollinators. 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The oval leaves are a deep lustrous green, carried on wine-red petioles and reddish young stems that give the whole plant a warm undertone, and in early summer slender racemes of small, fragrant, creamy-white flowers stand out against the dark foliage before ripening to little cherries that pass from red to near-black.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe species comes from the western edge of Europe, Portugal and Spain, southwestern France, and the Atlantic islands of Macaronesia, and the name lusitanica means of Lusitania, the Roman name for Portugal. In cultivation Portugal laurel earns its keep for a simple reason: the shrub is hardier, more tolerant of chalk and drought, and altogether more refined than the coarser common cherry laurel, and takes the shears beautifully.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat combination makes the plant one of the great hedging and screening evergreens, as happy clipped into a formal wall or a lollipop standard as left to grow into a loose, twenty-foot specimen. The fragrant flowers draw bees in early summer, and birds strip the dark fruits in autumn and sow them about. For year-round structure, a windbreak, a background to brighter planting, or a handsome specimen, few broadleaf evergreens are more useful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne honest caution comes with the virtues. Like the other cherry laurels, Portugal laurel carries cyanogenic compounds in the leaves and seeds; the foliage is poisonous if eaten and gives off a bitter-almond smell of cyanide when crushed, so keep clippings away from children, pets, and livestock, and never burn them in a closed space. Otherwise the plant is easy, thriving in sun or part shade on almost any well-drained soil through USDA zones 7 to 9, drought-tolerant once established, and forgiving of hard pruning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057946824819,"sku":"PRUN-LUSI-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Prunuslusitanica.jpg?v=1784336656"},{"product_id":"rhododendron-x-koromo-shikibu","title":"Rhododendron x 'Koromo Shikibu'","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Koromo Shikibu' is the spider azalea, and there is nothing else in the genus quite like the flower. Instead of the usual funnel, each bloom splits into narrow, strap-like petals that spread apart like the legs of a starfish or a spider, lavender to purplish-pink, spotted darker at the base, and carried in such profusion in spring that the whole shrub seems to shimmer. Once seen, the flower is not forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plant is Japanese, and the exact parentage is a small mystery: often sold as a Kurume azalea, this azalea is more likely a hybrid or form of Rhododendron macrosepalum, the species that carries the spidery, split-petaled trait. The name 'Koromo Shikibu' is usually translated as a court lady's robe, koromo meaning a garment and Shikibu an old court title, though the reference is more poetic than documented. Whatever the pedigree, the American Rhododendron Society thought enough of the plant to name it Azalea of the Year in 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond the flowers, this is a well-behaved evergreen azalea, upright and slowly spreading to three or four feet, clothed in small, hairy leaves that take on a bronze cast through the winter. As an evergreen azalea, this one is less cold-hardy than the native deciduous kinds, best from USDA zones 7 to 9 and worth a sheltered spot at the cold edge, where hard winters may thin the foliage. Give part to full shade, moist but well-drained acidic soil, and steady water.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne honest caution comes with all the azaleas: every part of the plant carries grayanotoxins and is poisonous if eaten, so keep the shrub away from where children or livestock might browse it. Set 'Koromo Shikibu' as a specimen in a shade or woodland garden, in a mass on a shaded slope, or anywhere the strange, strappy flowers will draw a second look, and enjoy a spring show that stops visitors mid-path to ask what on earth it is.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057968844915,"sku":"RHOD-KORO-SHIK-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1104.jpg?v=1720140701"},{"product_id":"rhodoleia-henryi","title":"Rhodoleia henryi","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe lesser-known of the two Hong Kong roses in the Woodlanders collection, Rhodoleia henryi is a handsome evergreen shrub or small tree from southern China and Taiwan, still little grown in the United States and, like much of the genus, occasionally muddled in the naming. Set beside the sister species Rhodoleia championii, this plant carries narrower, more pointed leaves, and the species is reckoned the more cold hardy of the two, a useful distinction for gardeners testing the edge of the range.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth Rhodoleias belong to the witch-hazel family, the Hamamelidaceae, and both open showy pink to red flowers over lovely glossy foliage. On henryi the bloom arrives in late winter and early spring, when little else stirs, in pendulous, tassel-like clusters of long, narrow crimson to deep magenta petals that dangle from the branches like small fireworks or feather dusters. The flowers are lightly fragrant and a genuine treat for the earliest pollinators, and the winter timing makes the plant a quiet piece of drama in a season starved for color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOut of bloom the foliage carries the plant: deep green, leathery, neatly oblong leaves with a soft silvery underside that catches the light, and bronzy-red new growth that adds color even without flowers. Our stock of Rhodoleia henryi was shared with Woodlanders by Sean Hogan, the plantsman behind Cistus Nursery in Portland, Oregon, and a fine mature specimen grows at Hopelands Gardens here in Aiken, South Carolina, proof that the plant performs in the Southeastern garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow henryi as a slow, dense, upright evergreen for a sheltered woodland setting, a shaded border, or a courtyard where the winter bloom and the sculptural foliage can be enjoyed at close range. Give good, well-drained, acidic soil and a spot shaded from hot afternoon sun, and shelter young plants from hard freezes while they settle in. Pair with camellias, tea olive, and other broadleaf evergreens that share the taste for cool, acid ground, and site the plant where a winter walk will pass the flowers. A connoisseur's evergreen, rare in cultivation and rewarding to the patient.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057976545395,"sku":"RHOD-HENR-01G","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2122.jpg?v=1720140866"}],"url":"https:\/\/woodlanders.net\/collections\/prophouse-summer-2027.oembed?page=3","provider":"Woodlanders","version":"1.0","type":"link"}