{"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\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmelanchier x grandiflora\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eSorbus\u003c\/em\u003e, 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":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Amelanchierxgrandiflora_AutumnBrilliance_UOS.jpg?v=1787183856"},{"product_id":"amelanchier-x-grandiflora-princess-diana","title":"Amelanchier x grandiflora 'Princess Diana'","description":"\u003cp\u003eApple serviceberry, \u003cem\u003eAmelanchier x grandiflora\u003c\/em\u003e, 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, was propagated and introduced by Tom Watson of Christom Farms Nursery in Cambridge, Wisconsin in 1983, 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 \u003cem\u003eSorbus\u003c\/em\u003e, 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":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Amelanchierxgrandiflora_PrincessDiana_1.jpg?v=1787183970"},{"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":"aucuba-japonica-var-borealis","title":"Aucuba japonica var. borealis","description":"\u003cp\u003eAucuba japonica is one of the great problem-solvers of the shade garden, a glossy broadleaf evergreen that thrives in the dry, difficult shade where few other shrubs will, and var. borealis is the toughest of the clan. Drawn from the cold northern reaches of the plant's Japanese range, this small-leaved form was selected for hardiness, holding very shiny, dark green, leathery leaves through winters that would burn a common aucuba. 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":"bignonia-anisostichus-capreolata-var-atrosanguinea","title":"Bignonia capreolata var. atrosanguinea","description":"\u003cp\u003eCrossvine is a vigorous, semi-evergreen native climber that ascends by tendrils and adhesive holdfasts, and var. \u003cem\u003eatrosanguinea\u003c\/em\u003e is the red one: where the typical crossvine flowers orange, this striking selection, introduced by Woodlanders, carries abundant deep red to red-purple trumpets, often over narrower, longer leaves. The flowers even smell faintly of mocha on a warm day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fine vine for a wall, a fence, or a trellis in sun or part shade, where the red spring trumpets draw hummingbirds in numbers. Like all crossvines, this red form suckers from the roots and can spread in beds, and is best planted on an isolated support where the roaming can be managed. Native to the southeastern United States, fast and tough once established.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057818144883,"sku":"BIGN-CAPR-VAR-ATRO-01G","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-807.jpg?v=1720136655"},{"product_id":"buddleia-cordata-ssp-tomentella","title":"Buddleia cordata ssp. tomentella","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuddleia cordata\u003c\/em\u003e ssp. \u003cem\u003etomentella\u003c\/em\u003e is a striking, large evergreen shrub with broad, somewhat heart-shaped leaves in soft gray-green, the lighter undersides flashing in every breeze. First collected by Yucca-Do Nursery near Los Lerios in Coahuila, Mexico, the plant was originally offered by Woodlanders as Buddleia sp. 'Los Lerios', and the true identity was later confirmed by Dr. Jon Lindstrom of the University of Arkansas, a longtime customer and plantsman of note.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRemarkably hardy for a Mexican evergreen, reliable in zone 8, this robust shrub thrives in a sunny site with well-drained soil. In summer, dense terminal clusters of tiny greenish to creamy-white flowers gather at the branch tips, an unusual but quietly handsome display. In form and effect, Dr. Lindstrom notes, the shrub can resemble a sumac, lending a soft, architectural presence to the garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a specimen or part of a mixed border, Buddleia cordata ssp. tomentella offers year-round gray-green foliage, summer bloom for pollinators, and a fascinating backstory, a plant for the collector and the adventurous gardener. 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But the real draw is the foliage: long, sage-like leaves, softly textured and silvered beneath, a rare and quiet kind of beauty. As Dr. Michael Dirr once noted, \"All visitors to our trials have become enamored with the foliage.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSage-leaf butterfly bush also has a long life in South African folk medicine, an herbal tea and remedy in the home gardens of its native range. Grown here for the silvered foliage and the lavender bloom, the plant wants a sunny spot with well-drained soil and room to take its natural, upright, architectural form: a fine specimen, a texture contrast in a dry or Mediterranean-style garden, or a backbone for a wildlife planting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotos courtesy of Julian Sutton and John Wursten.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057819226227,"sku":"BUDD-SALV-01G","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/buddleja-salviifolia-1AndrewLargeWoodlanders2.jpg?v=1747576534"},{"product_id":"callicarpa-formosana","title":"Callicarpa formosana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCallicarpa formosana\u003c\/em\u003e, the Taiwan beautyberry, is a handsome deciduous shrub that lines the stems with vivid purple berries in fall, the clusters glowing against the fading leaves for strong late-season color. Native to Taiwan and southern China, the Taiwan beautyberry is built for warm climates and keeps a fuller, more robust frame than the smaller Asian beautyberries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmall pink-lavender flowers open in summer before the purple fruit follows, and birds work the berries through fall and winter. Easy and undemanding, the shrub wants full sun to light shade and well-drained soil, and holds a compact shape once established.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse Taiwan beautyberry in a shrub border, a mixed bed, or a wildlife planting, where the purple fall fruit suits both formal and naturalistic schemes. Like the rest of the genus, the shrub fruits on new wood, so a hard late-winter cut keeps the shrub compact and fruitful. 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Native to Australia, this selection defies expectations for the genus by thriving outdoors in upstate South Carolina, where winters are usually too cold for bottlebrushes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cultivar was introduced by Ted Stephens of Nurseries Caroliniana, who noticed the plant's resilience and long bloom in Clemson, South Carolina. 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Where the wild plant blooms a deep maroon, 'Athens' opens soft, buttery yellow, an unexpected and elegant turn on a familiar shrub.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pale flowers carry a ripe, almost tropical perfume, closer to melon and pineapple than the strawberry scent of the maroon forms. Bloom comes in mid to late spring and returns here and there through summer, the flowers tucked among glossy mid-green leaves that furnish the shrub densely from spring to the clear yellow of autumn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis selection was shared with the plantsman Dr. Michael Dirr by Jane Symmes of the now-closed Cedar Lane Farms in Madison, Georgia. Dirr named the plant 'Katherine' for his daughter, but the name 'Athens', honoring the University of Georgia town where the selection took hold, became the one most gardeners use. Dirr rated this group among the most sun and heat tolerant of all the sweetshrubs he trialed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrowing six to eight feet tall and wide, 'Athens' sweetshrub takes part shade to full sun and a wide range of well-drained soils, spreading slowly by suckers into a loose colony over time. 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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. 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China has cultivated \u003cem\u003eCamellia oleifera\u003c\/em\u003e for over two thousand three hundred years for the oil pressed from the seeds, a light, sweetish, monounsaturated cooking oil chemically close to olive oil (around eighty percent oleic acid in both), used for cooking, traditional cosmetics, hair tonics, and the historic rust-proofing of Japanese woodworking tools and chef's knives. Tea oil sits with olive, palm, and coconut among the four major woody oil crops on Earth. This is a working tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSecond, the tea-oil camellia is also the quiet foundation of cold-hardy camellia growing in North America, and almost no one knows it. In the late 1970s a run of brutal winters at the US National Arboretum in Washington, D.C. destroyed 941 of the 956 camellias in the collection. Among the handful that came through unharmed were specimens of \u003cem\u003eCamellia oleifera\u003c\/em\u003e. Dr. William Ackerman, then a research geneticist at the Arboretum, took notice, and beginning in 1979 crossed the cold-hardy species, especially the cultivar 'Lu Shan Snow', with \u003cem\u003eC. sasanqua\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eC. hiemalis\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eC. vernalis\u003c\/em\u003e. The resulting Winter Series hybrids, released in 1991 ('Polar Ice', 'Snow Flurry', 'Winter's Hope', 'Winter's Joy', 'Pink Icicle', 'Winter's Star', and others), are the reason camellias can now be grown reliably into USDA zone 6. Every fall-blooming Ackerman hybrid on the East Coast traces back to this one species.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThird, and this is the part most people miss on hearing the words tea-oil camellia, the plant is beautiful. Smooth, peeling, cinnamon-to-tan bark clothes mature trunks; the glossy, finely toothed, willow-textured leaves are evergreen; and single white flowers two to three inches across, sometimes flushed pink at the edge, open around a generous boss of golden stamens from October into January, carrying a soft sweet fragrance unusual among fall-blooming camellias. Spent petals drop individually, the trait growers call self-grooming, so the plant never slumps into the brown decay that troubles many older japonicas. Slow-growing and eventually ten to twenty feet over decades, the tea-oil camellia builds into a multi-trunked large shrub or a small tree, depending on the pruning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA plant for the gardener building a tea garden beside a \u003cem\u003eCamellia sinensis\u003c\/em\u003e, for the collector after the species behind every modern cold-hardy hybrid, or for anyone in zone 6 or 7 wanting a fragrant, fall-flowering evergreen with documented winter survival to fifteen below zero. 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The clean white bloom and slightly fine-textured foliage give the plant a quiet, luminous presence in shade, a contrast to the heavier reds and pinks that dominate the genus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe flowers open in late winter, when the cool-season garden most wants light, the white petals loose and semi-double around a center of soft yellow stamens. 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The cross is between \u003cem\u003eCamellia saluenensis\u003c\/em\u003e and the old japonica 'Donckelaeri', made by Colonel Stephenson Clarke at Borde Hill in England; the \u003cem\u003ewilliamsii\u003c\/em\u003e group to which the plant belongs began with J.C. Williams at Caerhays, whose saluenensis crosses gave the genus a new hardiness and an unmatched freedom of bloom. 'Donation' carried that promise furthest, and the Royal Horticultural Society has long honored the plant with an Award of Garden Merit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe flowers are the reason: large, semi-double, and a clear orchid-pink, up to four or five inches across, the petals threaded with faintly deeper pink veins around a center of gold stamens. Bloom comes in abundance through the mid and late season, late winter into spring, on an upright, vigorous evergreen frame clothed in glossy dark foliage. Like the better williamsii hybrids, 'Donation' drops the spent flowers cleanly rather than holding onto browning blooms, so the plant stays tidy through a long flowering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrow 'Donation' in semi-shade, in sandy, slightly acidic soil kept mulched and watered, as a specimen, an informal screen, or the flowering anchor of a shaded border. 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Where \u003cem\u003eCamellia japonica\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCamellia sasanqua\u003c\/em\u003e have long defined the genus in cultivation here, those two represent only a sliver of a far broader Asian lineage. \u003cem\u003eC. euryoides\u003c\/em\u003e, a shrub or small tree of the subtropical forests of Fujian, Guangdong, and Jiangxi, belongs to that richer world of species camellias: subtler, finer in texture, and made for gardeners curious about the genus beyond its showiest forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders gave the plant the common name Mockorange Camellia, a nod to an unusual character. The small leaves and the profuse, modestly scaled white flowers of early spring read more like a \u003cem\u003ePhiladelphus\u003c\/em\u003e than the bold, lacquered blooms most people expect of a camellia, and one of the real pleasures here is the quiet taxonomic surprise: many visitors do not recognize the shrub as a camellia at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe value lies in nuance rather than extravagance. Finer foliage lets the Mockorange Camellia settle naturally into woodland plantings, semi-shaded borders, and gardens where scale and leaf texture are weighed with care, the kind of place a broad-leaved evergreen would feel too heavy or too formal. 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The habit is open and upright, the leaves small and fine for the genus, and in early spring the branches carry masses of small pink flowers, roughly an inch across and lightly double, in such profusion that the spent petals often fall to lay a soft pink carpet on the ground beneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe effect is quiet and charming rather than showy, a fine-textured change from the heavy formal doubles. Like most camellias, the rose-flowered camellia is at finest in semi-shade, in sandy, slightly acidic soil kept mulched and watered, where the airy frame and clouds of pink bloom light a shaded border. 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'Cinnamon Cindy' is a hybrid between \u003cem\u003eCamellia japonica\u003c\/em\u003e 'Kenyo-tai' and a Chinese species, \u003cem\u003eCamellia lutchuensis\u003c\/em\u003e, and the reason anyone made that cross is fragrance. \u003cem\u003eC. lutchuensis\u003c\/em\u003e is a small-flowered species from the Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan carrying a scent that almost no garden camellia possesses, and breeders have spent decades trying to move that quality into plants with flowers worth looking at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result here is upright and relatively narrow, eight to ten feet in time on a three to six foot frame, with small light green leaves that emerge distinctly reddish and darken as they mature. Flowers are two to three inches across, rose-form and full-petaled, white with pink washing through the outer petals, and they come in the depths of winter. The scent is the point: warm and sweet, strongest on a mild afternoon, and genuinely rare in this genus. Anyone who has stood in a camellia garden in January wondering why such extravagant flowers smell of nothing at all will understand immediately what this plant is for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders was one of the first to offer this hybrid, which we received some years ago from the U.S. National Arboretum. The Arboretum's camellia program has been among the most productive in the country, and the fragrant hybrids that came out of crossing \u003cem\u003eC. lutchuensis\u003c\/em\u003e with garden japonicas are one of its quieter successes. Camellias themselves belong to Theaceae, the tea family, and the same genus gives us \u003cem\u003eCamellia sinensis\u003c\/em\u003e and every cup of tea ever drunk, a piece of botanical geography most people never connect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant in semi-shade in sandy, slightly acid soil, kept mulched and watered; morning sun with afternoon shade suits best. 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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. The effect is fresh and a little old-fashioned at once, carried on glossy evergreen foliage and the easy autumn-into-winter habit that makes the sasanquas such dependable garden shrubs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike the rest of the clan, 'Julia Mackintosh' takes sun more readily than the japonicas and asks only for a sheltered spot in well-drained, acidic soil. 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From that single Central Asian introduction descend the chitalpas grown across America today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough late spring and summer the plant carries upright clusters of ruffled, trumpet-shaped flowers in soft pink and lavender, larger and showier than the desert willow's and borne over a long, reblooming season. Being a sterile hybrid, chitalpa sets little or no seed, so the messy bean-like pods of a true catalpa never appear, leaving a cleaner, tidier tree. Hummingbirds and bees work the flowers through the warm months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe desert willow parent gives chitalpa real toughness, a fast-growing, drought-tolerant constitution that thrives in full sun and sharp drainage once established. The willow-like leaves, long and narrow, fall somewhere between the two parents, and the tree suits hot, dry, water-wise gardens as well as an ordinary sunny border. In the arid Southwest, growers should know that chitalpa can be affected by a bacterial scorch disease, so healthy, well-sited plants and good culture matter most there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse Chitalpa tashkentensis as a flowering specimen or small patio tree in a sunny, well-drained spot, where the long season of pink trumpets and their pollinators can be enjoyed. Fast to establish, undemanding, and free of catalpa's litter, the plant brings a soft, tropical-looking bloom to lean, dry ground that would defeat showier trees. 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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. Few trees carry a scent so tied to comfort and the kitchen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057834528883,"sku":"CINN-BURM-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Cinnamomum_burmannii_HongKongEducation.jpg?v=1784301073"},{"product_id":"clematis-armandii","title":"Clematis armandii","description":"\u003cp\u003eClematis armandii is the evergreen clematis, a bold, glossy-leaved vine that breaks nearly every rule of the genus. Where most clematis drop their leaves and climb daintily, this one holds large, leathery, dark green trifoliate leaves the year round and grows with real vigor, then smothers itself in fragrant white flowers at the very start of spring. 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. Vigorous and fast, hardy through about zone 7, the plant can grow heavy and tangled over time and rewards a strong support and a yearly tidy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrain Clematis armandii up an arbor, a pergola, a stout trellis, or a fence, where the early flowers and their fragrance can be met at close range and the glossy foliage screens the year round. A vine for southern and mild gardens, this is one of the finest evergreen climbers for scent and early bloom. As with all clematis, the leaves and sap are mildly toxic if eaten and can irritate skin, a small caution worth noting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057838788723,"sku":"CLEM-ARMA-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-814.jpg?v=1720137414"},{"product_id":"clematis-morefieldii","title":"Clematis morefieldii","description":"\u003cp\u003eClematis morefieldii, Morefield's leather flower, is one of the rarest of the native clematis, a delicate climbing vine known in the wild from only a small pocket of limestone country around Huntsville, Alabama, and just into Tennessee. Like the other leather flowers, this species trades broad, flat blooms for small, nodding, urn-shaped flowers, here a soft, downy pink, their sepal tips curling back at the rim. 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. Few clematis carry so much meaning on so delicate a frame.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057839214707,"sku":"CLEM-MORE-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-937.jpg?v=1720137434"},{"product_id":"clethra-tomentosa-cottondale","title":"Clethra tomentosa 'Cottondale'","description":"\u003cp\u003eClethra alnifolia and the southern Clethra tomentosa are stoloniferous deciduous shrubs commonly called Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush. They form colonies in moist acid soil and make good garden subjects. They are valued for their terminal spikes of fragrant white flowers in summer. Plant in sun or semi-shade and provide adequate moisture. This clone of the southern species has light colored backs of leaves and amazing flower racemes up to 16 inches long! This Woodlanders introduction is a plant we selected from the wild in the Florida Panhandle. It was the highest rated Clethra clone tested in trials at Longwood Gardens. Clethra tomentosa is native to the southern U.S.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057843343475,"sku":"CLET-TOME-COTT-01G","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1348.jpg?v=1720137506"},{"product_id":"cliftonia-monophylla-berry-pink","title":"Cliftonia monophylla 'Berry Pink'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCliftonia monophylla\u003c\/em\u003e 'Berry Pink' is a rare, pink-flowered selection of the Black Titi, a native evergreen shrub or small tree of the southeastern coastal plain that normally blooms in white. The species haunts the acid bogs, pond margins, and titi swamps from the Carolinas to the Gulf, where the early flowers make the buckwheat tree one of the first and most important nectar sources of the southern year, the source of the prized titi honey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis exceptional pink form was found by the noted plantsman Jim Berry in the Florida Panhandle, and we named the clone in his honor. 'Berry Pink' carries delicate rosy-pink flowers in early spring, warmed by orange anthers, in such profusion that the whole crown becomes a soft cloud of color above glossy evergreen leaves. As a garden plant the shrub is graceful and substantial, lovely as a specimen or a flowering backdrop in the moist, acidic ground where the roots run happiest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a further curiosity for the collector: \u003cem\u003eCliftonia\u003c\/em\u003e is a monotypic genus, meaning \u003cem\u003eCliftonia monophylla\u003c\/em\u003e stands alone as the only species in the whole lineage, with no close cousins anywhere. Site 'Berry Pink' in sun to part shade at a pond edge, a rain garden, a native or pollinator planting, or the moist margin of a woodland, and let the early pink bloom feed the first bees of the season.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057843507315,"sku":"CLIF-MONO-BERR-PINK-01G","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/IMG-7555.heic?v=1771974031"},{"product_id":"crataegus-harbisonii","title":"Crataegus harbisonii","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCrataegus harbisonii\u003c\/em\u003e is a small, thorny, deciduous hawthorn with unusually large leaves for the genus, white spring flowers, and red fall fruit. 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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In the wild the vine belongs to wet bottomland forests and swamp margins, and also climbs in the rich, moist coves of the southern Appalachians, hauling itself up tree trunks on hairy aerial rootlets, the holdfasts that let the plant grip bark, brick, or stone without any support at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe botany holds a couple of quiet surprises. Woodvamp sits in the hydrangea family, and modern taxonomists have gone so far as to fold the plant into \u003cem\u003eHydrangea\u003c\/em\u003e itself, so the family resemblance in those lacecap flower heads is no accident. The genus name comes from the Latin for ten, a reference to flower parts often set in tens, and the whole small genus contains only two species: this southeastern American climber and a single counterpart, \u003cem\u003eDecumaria sinensis\u003c\/em\u003e, in central China, one of those elegant plant disjunctions that link the woodlands of the American Southeast to those of East Asia across the width of the globe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn flower the vine is understated and lovely, carrying flat, rounded clusters of small, fragrant, creamy-white blooms in early summer, followed by small urn-shaped seed capsules, with the glossy, dark green foliage turning soft yellow before dropping in fall. Woodvamp climbs more flatly and behaves more politely than most self-clinging vines, which makes the plant a welcome native alternative to the imported climbing hydrangea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive woodvamp a vertical surface to grip: a shaded masonry wall, a sturdy fence, a stone pillar, or the trunk of a mature tree, where the bloom stays low enough to enjoy rather than vanishing into a high canopy. The holdfasts do the work, so no ties or trellis are needed. Handsome against brick or stone in a courtyard, woodvamp suits native plant gardens, shaded courtyards, and woodland edges, underplanted at the base with ferns, hostas, and other shade lovers, and asks for full sun to semi-shade in moist, well-drained soil.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057859235955,"sku":"DECU-BARB-01G","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Decumariabarbara.png?v=1722789137"},{"product_id":"dicliptera-suberecta","title":"Dicliptera suberecta","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDicliptera suberecta\u003c\/em\u003e is a member of the acanthus family, Acanthaceae, and hails from the grasslands of Uruguay and Argentina, a heritage that shows in a love of heat, sun, and lean soil. Gardeners know the plant by two names that between them tell the whole story: Uruguayan firecracker plant, for the volley of tubular blooms, and hummingbird plant, for the traffic those blooms draw.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe foliage charms first. Soft, velvety, and washed a cool bluish-grey, the leaves and stems carry a fine down that catches the light and reads almost silver in a sunny border. From midsummer into fall the mound erupts in clusters of narrow, tubular flowers in warm coral and brick-red, held at the branch tips like small fireworks caught mid-burst. Each bloom is shaped precisely for a hummingbird's bill, and the plant earns the common name daily through the hottest months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor all the delicacy of the coloring, this is a tough, forgiving perennial subshrub. Heat, humidity, and drought scarcely trouble a settled plant, and the silvery leaves stay handsome even between flushes of bloom. In the cooler end of the range the top growth dies back and returns from the base in spring, so a winter mulch and a little patience are all the plant asks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, use \u003cem\u003eDicliptera suberecta\u003c\/em\u003e at the front of a sunny, well-drained border, spilling over a wall or path edge, or in a container or hanging basket where the coral flowers can dangle at eye level. The soft grey mound cools hotter neighbors and pairs easily with salvias, agastache, and ornamental grasses in a pollinator or cottage planting. Set the plant where the hummingbirds can be watched from a window, and expect an audience all summer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057860284531,"sku":"DICL-SUBE-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/70B410FC-39D9-466B-9C44-A717108AFEF2.jpg?v=1783640979"},{"product_id":"ehretia-anacua","title":"Ehretia anacua","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnacua, \u003cem\u003eEhretia anacua\u003c\/em\u003e, is one of the signature small trees of the south Texas brush country and the lower Rio Grande, a member of the borage family that goes by a small crowd of names. The rough, sandpapery upper surface of the leaves earns the tag sandpaper tree, while old-timers along the border call the tree anacua or, corrupted through generations, knockaway. Evergreen to semi-evergreen depending on the winter, the anacua holds dark green, leathery leaves that feel like fine grit under a thumb.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn spring, and often again after summer rains, the tree covers itself in dense two-to-three-inch panicles of small, white, sweetly fragrant flowers, a display heavy enough to look like a late snow and rich enough to draw clouds of bees. The flowers give way to small, round drupes about a quarter inch across that ripen from green through yellow to orange. The fruit is edible and pleasantly sweet, if a little mealy, and has long been eaten fresh or cooked into jellies, though people tend to lose the race to the birds and mammals that strip a fruiting anacua in short order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnacua shifts shape with the site. On good ground with room and water the tree matures into a round-crowned specimen twenty to forty feet tall with handsome, flaking, cinnamon-and-gray bark, while on dry, poor soils the same species stays lower and suckers into a dense, multi-stemmed thicket. Both forms are useful: the single-trunk tree makes a tough, drought-proof shade or street tree for hot climates, and the suckering form reads as a wildlife hedge or screen. Let the anacua stand as a specimen where the spring bloom and the fruiting birds can be enjoyed, or plant a run of them for cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLittle troubles this tree. Native to south Texas and northeastern Mexico and hardy in USDA zones 8 through 11, the anacua takes full sun, tolerates a wide range of soils including thin, alkaline, caliche ground, and shrugs off heat and drought once established. Frost at the cold edge of the range may cut back young growth, but the tree returns. Uncommon in cultivation outside the native south Texas, the anacua deserves a wider audience among gardeners who want a tough, fragrant, wildlife-feeding native for difficult sites.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFruit picture courtesy of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wildflower.org\/gallery\/result.php?id_image=28529\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRachel Cywinski\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057864151155,"sku":"EHRE-ANAC-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-985.jpg?v=1720137979"},{"product_id":"emmenopterys-henryi","title":"Emmenopterys henryi","description":"\u003cp\u003eRare in cultivation and rarer still in bloom, \u003cem\u003eEmmenopterys henryi\u003c\/em\u003e is a Chinese tree of the coffee family, \u003cem\u003eRubiaceae\u003c\/em\u003e, and a close relative of the native fever tree, \u003cem\u003ePinckneya\u003c\/em\u003e. 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. Photos courtesy of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/landscapeplants.oregonstate.edu\/plants\/erica-darleyensis\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eOregon State University\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057865724019,"sku":"ERIC-DARL-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Ericaxdarleyensis1.jpg?v=1723236937"},{"product_id":"ficus-nipponicum","title":"Ficus nipponica","description":"\u003cp\u003eFicus nipponica is a handsome evergreen climbing fig from Japan and temperate East Asia, a self-clinging vine that dresses walls, masonry, and tree trunks in glossy green the year round. Where the familiar creeping fig, Ficus pumila, carries small rounded leaves, this rarer relative bears larger, more pointed foliage and a somewhat tougher constitution. 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. Root-hardy to about zone 8 with a deep winter mulch, and a superb container subject that can be wheeled under cover farther north.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057870278771,"sku":"FICU-ROXB-01G","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/784D3884-ACB6-4837-BE96-C9CCCC554EEF.jpg?v=1788297858"},{"product_id":"fothergilla-x-intermedia-mt-airy","title":"Fothergilla × intermedia 'Mt. Airy'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe native fothergillas were choice but scarcely available garden shrubs when Woodlanders first began to offer them back in 1980. This one, a hybrid of Fothergilla gardenii and F. major, was found by Dr. Michael Dirr at the Mt. Airy Arboretum in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has since become the most widely grown fothergilla of all, and deservedly so.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFothergilla belongs to the witch-hazel family, Hamamelidaceae, and shares that family's gift for honey-scented bloom on nearly bare stems. In early spring, before the leaves unfold, 'Mt. Airy' opens fat white bottlebrushes made not of petals but of a haze of cream stamens tipped in yellow anthers, sweetly fragrant and alive with the first bees of the season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the plant does the trick that made the selection famous. Where many fothergillas color unevenly, 'Mt. Airy' turns reliably and brilliantly in fall, the neat blue-green summer leaves igniting into clear yellow, orange, and red all at once, a bonfire held on a tidy four-to-six-foot frame. Few shrubs of the size give so much across so many months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse 'Mt. Airy' in a mixed or native border, at a woodland edge, or in a foundation planting where the spring fragrance and autumn fire can both be enjoyed at close range. The rounded, well-behaved habit needs little pruning, deer generally pass the shrub by, and the plant pairs beautifully with blueberries, itea, native azaleas, and other acid-loving companions. Give sun to part shade and good, well-drained soil.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057872212083,"sku":"FOTH-INTE-MT-AIRY-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-366.jpg?v=1720138227"},{"product_id":"gardenia-sp-variegata","title":"Gardenia sp. 'Variegata'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis striking, rather upright gardenia is a Woodlanders introduction that has since become more widely available, grown less for bloom than for the boldly marked leaves. Each glossy leaf is splashed and margined in strong yellow, so the whole shrub reads as a soft fountain of gold and green, a rare thing among broadleaf evergreens and a bright note for a shaded corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plant came to us many years ago from Brookside Gardens in Maryland, who had found the variegated form in Japan, and has proven a durable, good-natured grower. Single white flowers appear now and then, carrying the familiar gardenia sweetness, but bloom is sparse and beside the point; the foliage is the reason to grow this one, holding color and polish the year round.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGardenia jasminoides comes from the warm woodlands of China and Japan, long cultivated for fragrance, dye, and medicine, and the variegated form asks for the same easy conditions as any gardenia: acid, well-drained soil, steady moisture, and shelter from hard frost. This selection has proven hardy here to at least 11 degrees F, and takes happily to a cool greenhouse where winters are colder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse the variegated gardenia where the gold-marked leaves can light a dim spot: the front of a shaded border, a foundation bed, a large container, or a conservatory. Give a little shade to keep the pale variegation from scorching in fierce sun, and pair with dark-leaved companions that throw the gold forward. Grown for foliage first, this is an evergreen that earns a place every month of the year.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057873096819,"sku":"GARD-VARI-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/IMG-2594.heic?v=1786682967"},{"product_id":"gordonia-lasianthus","title":"Gordonia lasianthus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/woodlanders.net\/blogs\/the-node\/loblolly-bay-gordonia-lasianthus-the-swamp-s-camellia-and-a-masterclass-in-place-based-design\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRead the full plant profile, with design and field notes, on our blog.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are trees that feel as though they were written into the land's original scripture, and Gordonia lasianthus, the loblolly bay, is one of them: a native evergreen of the Southern coastal plain whose white flowers gleam like prayers unfolding in the heat of high summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis noble member of the tea family, Theaceae, shares kinship with the celebrated camellias and with Franklinia alatamaha, that long-lost ghost tree of Georgia's riverbanks. But unlike the mythic cousin, the loblolly bay has remained a quiet and constant presence, thriving in the moist, acidic soils of pinewoods, boggy hollows, and sandy seepage slopes from Virginia to eastern Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaching a stately height in the wild, often thirty to sixty feet, the tree grows straight and tall with smooth gray bark and a narrow crown. The evergreen leaves are glossy and lance-shaped, catching light like bayonets, while the flowers, large, pure white, and golden-throated, open in succession from early summer into August. Each bloom lasts but a day, yet the steady procession brings a quiet brilliance to the woodland edge when most other native trees have long finished flowering. Early American botanists exploring the southeastern wilderness admired the tree, and William Bartram praised the grace of the loblolly bay in the wet pine savannas of Florida.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGordonia can be particular in cultivation, but rewards the careful gardener. The tree prefers moist yet well-drained sandy soils, especially along seeps and natural woodland slopes, and will not abide standing water or heavy, compacted ground, where the plant languishes or perishes. Given the right site, though, the loblolly bay grows straight and tall, flowers faithfully, and offers a taste of the native grandeur of the Southern wilderness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotos courtesy of Will Cook and Scott Zona.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057875783795,"sku":"GORD-LASI-01G","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Gordonia-lasianthus-Scott-Zona--CC-BY-NC.jpg?v=1753130193"},{"product_id":"gordonia-lasianthus-variegata","title":"Gordonia lasianthus 'Variegata'","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome plants elevate the familiar into the extraordinary, and Gordonia lasianthus 'Variegata' does exactly that, taking the quiet majesty of the native loblolly bay and dressing it in a silken fringe of cream. 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":"hibiscus-x-sp-peppermint-flare","title":"Hibiscus x sp. 'Peppermint Flare'","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Peppermint Flare' comes with a well-documented pedigree, which is rare for a hardy hibiscus. The plant arose as a sport, a spontaneous mutation, of the hibiscus 'Flare', a nearly sterile rose-mallow hybrid bred by Dr. Sam McFadden and released through the University of Florida. The Texas horticulturist Greg Grant spotted and selected the peppermint-striped form, and in 2010 the plant was named a Texas Superstar, the designation reserved for tough, proven performers in the Southern heat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name does the describing. Each flower opens enormous, eight to ten inches across, on petals of the palest pink to near white, finely streaked and flecked with scarlet and centered on a deep red eye, the whole effect like a swirl of peppermint candy. The blooms are among the largest of any hardy perennial, and though every one lasts just a day or two, the plants open in long succession from midsummer well into fall on a comparatively short frame of four to five feet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBehind the show stands Hibiscus moscheutos, the native rose-mallow of American marshes and riverbanks, which lends the hybrid both hardiness and a fondness for moisture. That native parentage places 'Peppermint Flare' in the mallow family alongside cotton, okra, and the marshmallows, the soft, mucilaginous herbs of old kitchen gardens. Like the wild rose-mallows, the plant is happiest with steady water and will grow in genuinely wet ground that would rot most perennials.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, 'Peppermint Flare' wants to be seen. Set the plant at the back of a sunny border, beside a pond or in a rain garden, or anywhere a single bold perennial can anchor the late-summer scene, and pair the striped giants with simple green and blue-green companions that keep the peppermint flowers from having to compete. The stems die to the ground in winter and emerge late in spring, so tuck earlier perennials nearby to hold the space until the show returns.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057884139635,"sku":"HIBI-X-PEPP-FLAI-01G","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2023.jpg?v=1720138593"},{"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-female-gold-top","title":"Ilex vomitoria (female) 'Gold Top'","description":"\u003cp\u003eYaupon is the small-leaved evergreen holly of the southeastern coastal plain, native from Virginia to Texas and a member of the holly family, Aquifoliaceae. Tough, salt tolerant, drought tolerant, and endlessly shearable, the species has anchored Southern gardens for generations. 'Gold Top' rings a color change on the familiar green: each spring the new growth flushes a bright yellow-green, gilding the tips of a compact, dense female shrub, and in fall the same plant hangs the usual red yaupon berries when a male grows nearby.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYaupon is more than a well-mannered evergreen. 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\u003e'Gold Top' is a Woodlanders introduction, grown from a single golden-topped plant found in Calhoun County on the Texas coast. The bright new growth is the whole point, a warm chartreuse flush that lights the crown of the shrub in spring and early summer before settling to green, giving a compact yaupon a season of color that the plain species cannot match.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse 'Gold Top' where the spring gilding will be seen: near an entry, at the front of an evergreen border, or against darker foliage that throws the gold forward. The compact, dense habit clips readily into a low hedge or a rounded specimen, and the red winter berries, set with a male yaupon such as 'Dewerth' nearby, carry the plant into the cold months. Site in sun for the brightest new growth and heaviest fruit, and count on the same salt and drought tolerance that makes yaupon indispensable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057889808499,"sku":"ILEX-VOMI-FEMA-GOLD-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-108.jpg?v=1720138776"},{"product_id":"ilex-vomitoria-yawkey","title":"Ilex vomitoria 'Yawkey'","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. Salt tolerant, drought tolerant, and willing in sun or shade, \u003cem\u003eIlex vomitoria\u003c\/em\u003e shears as cleanly as boxwood and has long been a Southern mainstay for hedges and clipped structure, the females carrying translucent scarlet berries into winter. ‘Yawkey’ rewrites that last detail in a rarer color: this is a yellow-berried yaupon, hung each winter with soft amber-gold fruit instead of red, on an upright, somewhat open and spreading frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe species behind this oddity is no ordinary shrub. 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 unkind species name, \u003cem\u003evomitoria\u003c\/em\u003e, records a European misreading of the ritual purging that sometimes attended the drink, a fault the holly does not carry, since modern analysis of the leaves finds neither emetic nor toxic compounds and caffeine at ordinary tea strength; the common name, from the Catawban ya’pa, means simply small tree. The fruit is the exception, mildly toxic to people and pets, and better left to the birds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe yellow-fruited form was found by F. G. Tarbox, Jr. on the T. A. Yawkey plantation in Georgetown County, South Carolina, and introduced by Brookgreen Gardens, where a single rescued seedling first fruited in 1943. Tarbox had learned of the plant from Dr. F. A. Bell of Georgetown, who had seen a yellow yaupon growing on an old dike. Tarbox described the plant as \u003cem\u003eIlex vomitoria\u003c\/em\u003e variety \u003cem\u003eyawkeyii\u003c\/em\u003e, the berries yellow, four to six millimeters across and slightly flattened; at the time only a couple of other plants were known to exist. Even now the yellow yaupons remain scarce in the trade, which is much of the appeal for collectors and designers hunting something out of the ordinary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the garden ‘Yawkey’ plays against every expectation of a holly. The amber-gold fruit glows where scarlet would shout, lovely against dark evergreens, a gray wall, or a winter sky, and pairs beautifully with a red-berried yaupon for a two-tone planting. The upright, open habit suits an informal screen or a specimen more than a tight clipped hedge, though the plant shears if asked. Site in sun for the best fruit, and keep a male yaupon within bee range for pollination: our straight \u003cem\u003eIlex vomitoria\u003c\/em\u003e male, or the columnar ‘Will Fleming’ where there is no room for a second broad shrub. 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A large, rounded female, six to ten feet high and wide, this native holly drops the summer leaves to reveal bare stems packed with profuse, glossy red berries, and where lesser clones fade, ‘Winter Red’ holds the color clean and bright deep into the season, right through the coldest months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat staying power is why so many gardeners and florists call this the best of the winterberries. The berries color early and cling for months, brilliant against snow, gray bark, or a plain fence, and cut branches are a staple of holiday arrangements, holding fruit indoors for weeks. The plant came out of the nursery of Robert Simpson in Vincennes, Indiana, selected around 1960 and not formally named and introduced until 1977. Simpson did something else worth knowing: he introduced a male clone alongside this one, chosen specifically to pollinate her, and named him ‘Southern Gentleman’. The two were released as a matched pair, and they still work best that way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinterberry is a deciduous holly of eastern North American wetlands, native from Canada to the Gulf along swamp edges, pond margins, and wet woods, and the finely toothed, spineless leaves give no hint of holly until the flowers open. Only females fruit, and only where a male blooms at the same time within bee range, because hollies are insect-pollinated rather than wind-pollinated and pollen does not travel on its own. ‘Winter Red’ flowers late, so a late male, ‘Southern Gentleman’ or ‘Apollo’, is the right partner, set within about forty to fifty feet. The early-flowering ‘Jim Dandy’ will shed pollen weeks too soon and will not do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive ‘Winter Red’ the moist to wet, acidic soil the species loves, in full sun to part shade, and let the big, rounded shrub anchor a rain garden, a pond edge, a wet swale, or the back of a mixed border, glorious in winter and quietly green the rest of the year. Plant several together for a solid wall of berries, and keep a late-blooming male in range to insure the crop. Expect meaningful fruit about three years after planting. The berries feed robins, waxwings and mockingbirds late in winter, once better food has run out, and carry enough saponin to make them worth admiring rather than eating, by people or by dogs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057892954227,"sku":"ILEX-VERT-WINT-RED-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-409.jpg?v=1720138849"},{"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"}],"url":"https:\/\/woodlanders.net\/collections\/prophouse-summer-2027.oembed?page=5","provider":"Woodlanders","version":"1.0","type":"link"}