{"title":"Coming Winter 2027","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe cool-season shelf, a year and change out. Dormant-season plants take their time in propagation as much as in the garden, and these are the trees and shrubs we expect to release into the winter of 2027, once they have put on the growth a single season cannot give them. Slow is the whole idea here. If you garden on a long horizon, this is your shelf; leave your name and we will write when the dormant window comes around.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"amelanchier-nantucketensis","title":"Amelanchier nantucketensis","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong the rarest of the serviceberries, Amelanchier nantucketensis is a low, thicket-forming shrub that Eugene Bicknell first described in 1911 from the sandplains of Nantucket, the Massachusetts island whose name the plant carries. Nantucket serviceberry belongs to a small, taxonomically slippery group within the rose family, so closely tangled with neighboring shadbushes that botanists have argued for more than a century over whether this is a true species or a stabilized hybrid. What sets the plant apart is disarmingly small: petals shorter than those of any other serviceberry in the Northeast, often dusted with pollen along their own margins, a quirk called andropetaly that appears nowhere else in the group.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the wild, colonies cling to open, sandy, sun-baked ground, the pine barrens, sandplain grasslands, and maritime heaths scattered thinly from Nova Scotia and Maine down the coast to Long Island, with the stronghold on Nantucket itself. This is a shrub built for lean living, spreading quietly by underground stolons into low drifts rather than rising into a single crown. White flowers open in mid-spring on short, erect racemes, feeding early bees and butterflies, and give way by early summer to small pomes that birds strip almost as fast as they ripen. Because Nantucket serviceberry is globally uncommon and state-protected across much of that range, growing nursery-propagated stock is a small act of conservation as much as gardening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus name travels from amelanchièr, the old Provençal word for the European serviceberry, while the English names carry their own folklore. Shadbush marks the moment the flowers open, timed to the spring run of shad up the rivers; serviceberry most likely descends from Sorbus, the rowans whose small red pomes the fruit resembles, though a fond old story ties the word to the funeral services held once spring thawed the ground. Serviceberry fruit across the genus is sweet and blueberry-like with a faint almond note from the seeds, long gathered for pies, jams, and preserves, and this species offers the same edible reward on a smaller, wilder scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders is indebted to Richard Lynch of the Sweetbay Magnolia Bioreserve on Staten Island, New York, for the original stock behind these plants, a lineage worth preserving. In the garden, Nantucket serviceberry asks for full sun and sharp, sandy, acidic soil, the leaner the better, and repays neglect once established. Set the shrub where a low, suckering colony is welcome, along a sunny bank, at a meadow or woodland edge, or woven into a coastal or native planting beside little bluestem, bearberry, lowbush blueberry, and bayberry. Deer tend to pass the plant by, and the autumn foliage warms to orange and red before the bare, twiggy winter frame takes over.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057809363059,"sku":"AMEL-NANT-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1235.jpg?v=1720136300"},{"product_id":"ardisia-japonica-hakuokan","title":"Ardisia japonica 'Hakuokan'","description":"\u003cp\u003eArdisia japonica 'Hakuokan' is a jewel of the Japanese shade garden, a low evergreen groundcover whose small, glossy, leathery leaves are edged in a clean band of creamy white. The green species, called yabukoji in Japan and marlberry in English, has grown wild in the woodland understory of Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan for ages, spreading quietly by underground runners into knee-low colonies. 'Hakuokan', a name that reads roughly as white royal crown, is a variegated selection prized by collectors, slower and more compact than the plain species and all the more luminous for the pale margin that catches light in a dim corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlants like this one carry a long cultural history. From the Edo period, Japanese growers cultivated an art of koten engei, the classical horticulture of collecting foliage variants, natural sports, and variegated forms, displayed in special pots and ranked in printed lists modeled on sumo. Yabukoji stood among the traditional subjects of that pursuit, and named variegated forms such as 'Hakuokan' descend from exactly that connoisseur's eye for the beautiful mutation. The bright red berries that follow the flowers have long earned the plant a place in Japanese New Year arrangements as a token of good fortune.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn midsummer, small star-shaped flowers of white blushed with pink nod in little clusters beneath the leaves, followed in autumn by round, coral-red berries that hold through winter against the evergreen foliage, one of the plant's quiet pleasures. The genus name Ardisia comes from the Greek ardis, a spear point, for the sharp tip of the flower's anthers, and japonica marks the plant long associated with Japanese gardens. Low, slow, and evergreen, 'Hakuokan' asks little and gives a long season of interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond the garden, the green species holds a serious place in Chinese herbal tradition, where the whole herb, known as zi jin niu, was gathered and decocted chiefly for coughs and complaints of the lungs, a use modern laboratories have traced to a well-studied compound called bergenin. In cultivation, set 'Hakuokan' in part to full shade, in moist, humus-rich, acidic soil, as a refined groundcover for woodland beds, shaded borders, and Japanese-style plantings, where the white margins lift the gloom. Pair the plant with ferns, hostas, and hellebores, shelter the foliage from hot afternoon sun, and let the slow colony knit itself together over time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057811329139,"sku":"ARDI-JAPO-HAKU-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Ardisia_japonica_Hakuakan_NC.webp?v=1784297451"},{"product_id":"camellia-fraterna","title":"Camellia fraterna","description":"\u003cp\u003eCamellia fraterna is a camellia stripped back to wild beginnings, a species from the hills of eastern China far removed from the big, blowsy blooms of the garden japonicas and sasanquas. Where those carry a few large flowers, this one covers slender, upright branches in a snowfall of small, single, white flowers, faintly pink outside and softly fragrant, that arch the stems with their sheer number. The small, pointed evergreen leaves and open, airy habit give the plant an easy, natural grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a plant more prized by camellia breeders and collectors than known to the wider trade. Camellia fraterna belongs to a group of small-flowered, fragrant species, and hybridizers have used the plant to pass on both traits, standing behind charming miniatures such as 'Tiny Princess'. The genus name honors Georg Kamel, the Jesuit pharmacist, and the species name fraterna means brotherly, likely for a close kinship to related species, though the botanist who named the plant left no note of his reasoning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike most woodland camellias, Camellia fraterna is happiest in dappled to part shade, in acid, humus-rich soil kept moist but well drained and lightly mulched. Bloom comes in late winter into spring, early enough to lift the tail of the cold season, and the plant is slow and steady rather than rushed. Hardy to roughly USDA zone 8, this species suits the milder South and sheltered spots in cooler gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the collector, the fragrance gardener, or anyone drawn to camellias in their wilder form, Camellia fraterna offers something the showy hybrids cannot, an abundance of small, scented, honest flowers on a graceful frame. Use the shrub in a woodland border, a shaded mixed planting, or a camellia collection, where the arching, flower-laden branches read as quietly elegant. Uncommon in cultivation, this species is a find worth seeking out.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057822601331,"sku":"CAME-FRAT-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/CamelliafraternaOnlinePlantGuide.jpg?v=1784299610"},{"product_id":"camellia-lutchuensis","title":"Camellia lutchuensis","description":"\u003cp\u003eFragrance is the rarest thing in a camellia, and Camellia lutchuensis is the great exception, a species grown less for the size of the flower than for the scent that rises from it. The blooms are small, single, and white around a center of yellow stamens, carried in profusion on a twiggy, airy shrub, and they release a sweet, sometimes spicy perfume unusual in a genus famous for having almost none.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name records the origin. Lutchu, or Loochoo, is an old Western rendering of the Ryukyu Islands, the long arc of subtropical islands south of Japan, and the species is native there and on Taiwan, reaching only the southernmost fringe of China around Guangxi and Hong Kong. Older nursery copy that files the plant simply as Chinese sells the truth short; the heart of the range is the Ryukyus. The genus itself honors Georg Josef Kamel, the Moravian Jesuit and pharmacist who botanized in the Philippines and whom Linnaeus chose to commemorate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong camellia breeders this modest shrub is a celebrity, the fountainhead of nearly every fragrant hybrid in the trade. From the early 1960s onward, hybridizers crossed Camellia lutchuensis into garden camellias to carry the scent forward, and the parade of perfumed offspring runs long: 'Cinnamon Cindy,' 'Fragrant Pink,' 'High Fragrance,' 'Scentuous,' 'Sweet Emily Kate,' and many more, all tracing their fragrance to this one wild parent. Grown on its own roots, the species offers that heritage undiluted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCamellia lutchuensis is a touch tender, happiest in USDA zones 8 and 9, though sheltered forms have proven reasonably hardy to zone 7b, and north of that the twiggy, restrained habit takes well to a large pot that can winter under cover. Give the plant dappled shade and an acidic, moist, well-drained soil, and above all site the shrub where the nose will find it: beside a door, a path, or a window where the late-winter-into-spring scent can drift indoors. The flowers are small; the fragrance is the whole point.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057824731251,"sku":"CAME-LUTC-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1344.jpg?v=1720136914"},{"product_id":"clethra-pringlei","title":"Clethra pringlei","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost of the summersweets drop their leaves and sleep through winter; \u003cem\u003eClethra pringlei\u003c\/em\u003e keeps them. This Mexican member of the clan is a broad-leaved evergreen, a large, slow-growing shrub or small tree from the mountain woodlands of northeastern Mexico, and one of the more surprising plants in the genus for a gardener who knows only the deciduous American kinds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Mexican clethra was brought into cultivation by the plant explorers at Yucca-Do Nursery in Texas, and remains a relatively new and little-known introduction. The broad, fleshy, elliptic leaves, toothed toward the tip, emerge a warm bronze and settle to deep glossy green, holding the plant handsome the year round. In summer come the long racemes of white flowers, carrying a distinctive cinnamon fragrance rather than the honey-clove of the northern summersweets, a scent worth planting for on its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRare and a touch tender, the Mexican clethra is a plant for the adventuresome southern gardener in zones 8 to 10, best given a warm, sheltered site in full sun to part shade where the new wood can ripen before winter and the evergreen frame is spared the hardest freezes. Site where the cinnamon-scented racemes can be met at close range, in a courtyard, a sheltered border, or the heart of a collector's bed, and pair with other broadleaf evergreens that share the taste for warmth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057842786419,"sku":"CLET-PRIN-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-977.jpg?v=1720137478"},{"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":"cornus-kousa","title":"Cornus kousa","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis elegant small tree carries a graceful, vase-shaped habit that rounds out with age. Blooming two to three weeks after \u003cem\u003eCornus florida\u003c\/em\u003e, the kousa dogwood opens striking, pointed flower bracts in late spring to early summer, extending the dogwood season. The bracts surround clusters of tiny true flowers in a star-like display that sets this dogwood apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn late summer come vibrant, raspberry-like fruits, red and rounded, that draw birds and are edible for people too, sweet-pulped if a little soft in texture. The exfoliating bark peels away in patches, revealing a mosaic of rich brown, gray, and tan that adds real winter beauty once the branches are bare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotably more drought-tolerant and more disease-resistant than \u003cem\u003eCornus florida\u003c\/em\u003e, the kousa dogwood suits a wide range of North American climates, at home in both city gardens and naturalized landscapes. 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To grow one is to hold a genuine botanical treasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rarity of the Georgia plume is written into the plant's very biology. Georgia plume cannot fertilize itself, and in the wild the plants spread by root suckers into large single clones with no compatible mate nearby, so viable seed is almost never set and wild seedlings are essentially unknown. That reproductive puzzle, not a lack of admirers, is why the species is so seldom offered and so highly prized; nursery-grown plants like these help take the pressure off the few remaining wild colonies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn June and July the erect, branching plumes open dozens of small, four-petaled white flowers, lightly fragrant and alive with bees. Georgia plume asks for the same conditions as a native azalea, a well-drained, sandy, acid soil in full sun or light shade, and will not tolerate wet feet or heavy ground. Given the right spot, the plant proves surprisingly adaptable and even cold-hardy well north of its Georgia home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse Elliottia racemosa as a specimen and centerpiece in a native, heath, or woodland garden, among azaleas and blueberries in acid, sandy beds where the summer plumes can be admired at close range. Deciduous, with reportedly fine reddish fall color, this is a connoisseur's plant with a real conservation story behind it. Because rarity, demand, and our limited supply all press against one another, we must regret to limit this plant to one per customer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057864544371,"sku":"ELLI-RACE-01G","price":76.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-69.jpg?v=1720137991"},{"product_id":"gardenia-sp-kleims-hardy","title":"Gardenia jasminoides 'Kleim's Hardy'","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Kleim's Hardy' is a small, mounding evergreen gardenia with lustrous black-green leaves and single, star-shaped ivory flowers, and one of the most cold-tolerant gardenias in the trade. Where most gardenias pile petal on petal, this one opens flat and simple, five or six broad ivory petals flaring around a boss of creamy-yellow stamens, and carries the same heavy, sweet perfume in a lighter, cleaner frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plant earned a following after reports that a specimen came through 3 degrees F in Raleigh, North Carolina untouched. Dr. Michael Dirr, in his Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, has questioned whether the gardenia is truly that hardy, and honesty says the jury is still out at the very cold edge; even so, 'Kleim's Hardy' ranks among the toughest of a tender tribe and is well worth a sheltered try where ordinary gardenias will not survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGardenia jasminoides comes from the warm woodlands of China and Japan, where the plant has been grown for well over a thousand years and the fragrant flowers scent tea and perfume. In the Southern garden 'Kleim's Hardy' behaves like the rest of the clan, wanting a semi-shaded site with fertile, acid soil, and makes an excellent container plant given winter protection in cold areas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLow and neat, reaching only two or three feet, 'Kleim's Hardy' suits the front of a border, an edging along a path, a foundation bed, or a large pot by a door where the summer fragrance can be met at close range. Plant among camellias, azaleas, and other acid-lovers, give steady moisture and a cool root run, and enjoy a gardenia scaled for small spaces and stretched a little further into the cold.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057872998515,"sku":"GARD-JASM-KLEI-HARD-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Gardeniajasminoides_Kleim_sHardy_Woodlandersfront.jpg?v=1730235530"},{"product_id":"hedychium-coccineum-disney","title":"Hedychium coccineum 'Disney'","description":"\u003cp\u003eHedychium coccineum 'Disney' is a hardy ginger lily that brings the tropics to a temperate garden, sending up tall leafy canes each summer and crowning them, from late summer into fall, with bold spikes of fragrant orange flowers. Each bloom throws out long, whiskery stamens for a bottlebrush effect, and the whole spike carries a sweet perfume that drifts on warm evening air. 'Disney' is among the best and most upright selections of the scarlet ginger lily, holding the flower heads proudly above the foliage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lush, lance-shaped leaves clothe upright canes to five or seven feet through the growing season, a wall of tropical green that makes a fine backdrop or a bold accent all on its own. The scarlet ginger lily hails from the Himalayas, and that mountain origin is exactly what makes 'Disney' hardier than most gingers, able to weather winters that would finish a tender one. Butterflies and hummingbirds work the orange flowers through the late season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow 'Disney' from spreading rhizomes in full sun to part shade, in rich, moist, well-drained soil, and give plenty of heat and water through the summer for the fullest growth and bloom. In all but the warmest gardens the canes die to the ground with the first hard frost and resprout from the rhizomes in spring, so cut the spent stems down after frost and mulch the roots where winters are cold. Where the plant is happy, the clump widens a little each year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse Hedychium coccineum 'Disney' where the size and scent can be enjoyed, at the back of a sunny border, beside a patio or pool, or in a big container, paired with cannas, bananas, and other bold tropicals. The fragrant orange spikes are magnets for butterflies and hummingbirds, and the whole planting reads as pure exotic luxury on a plant tough enough to come back year after year. 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That introduction, named 'Mariesii' in his honor, opened Western eyes to the wild, flat-topped grace of the lacecap and became the parent of a whole line of classic cultivars, among them 'Mariesii Grandiflora', 'Mariesii Lilacina', and the blue 'Mariesii Perfecta'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere a mophead crowds every flower into a solid ball, a lacecap tells the truth about how the flower head is built. Hydrangea macrophylla 'Mariesii' spreads a flat, delicate plate of tiny fertile flowers across the center, then rings the edge with a lace of large, showy, sterile florets, the whole effect airier and more naturalistic than the mophead. Like all bigleaf hydrangeas, the plant reads the soil: acid ground turns the florets blue, alkaline ground shifts them toward pink, and gardeners can steer the color with sulfur or lime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bigleaf hydrangeas carry a quiet cultural history in their Japanese homeland, where a sweet-leaved relative yields amacha, the fermented-leaf tea poured over images of the Buddha each spring; the ornamental garden forms are not that tea plant, and hydrangea foliage should not be eaten. Unlike the wholly sterile mopheads, the lacecap's true flowers at the center offer nectar and pollen, so 'Mariesii' earns the visits of bees and other pollinators that a snowball hydrangea cannot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, 'Mariesii' brings an old-fashioned, woodland-edge softness that the mopheads lack. Set the shrub in a shaded border, along a path, or against a dark backdrop of evergreens where the pale lacecaps seem to float, and give the plant morning sun with afternoon shade in hot climates. Trim faded heads to tidy the shrub and coax a later flush, keep the soil moist, and hold the pH below six if a true blue is the goal. Four to six feet high and wide, the shrub settles easily into a mixed planting without taking over.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057885876339,"sku":"HYDR-MACR-MARI-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-383.jpg?v=1720138668"},{"product_id":"ilex-vomitoria-folsoms-weeping","title":"Ilex vomitoria 'Folsom's Weeping'","description":"\u003cp\u003eYaupon is the fine-textured evergreen holly of the Southeast, native along the coastal plain from Virginia to Texas and a member of the holly family, Aquifoliaceae. The species wears small, glossy, oval leaves on gray twigs, tolerates salt, drought, and hard shearing, and has long anchored Southern gardens as hedge, screen, and topiary. 'Folsom's Weeping' breaks from that upright habit entirely: a tall female selection whose branches spill downward in long, pendulous curtains, so that a single mature plant reads as a green fountain rather than a shrub.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYaupon holds a deeper claim on the region than ornament. The roasted leaves and twigs made the caffeinated 'black drink' that Indigenous peoples of the Southeast brewed for ceremony and trade, and that later served coastal colonists as a homegrown coffee or tea. This holly is North America's only caffeine-bearing native plant. The forbidding species name, vomitoria, comes from a European misreading of the ritual purging that sometimes attended the drink, wrongly pinned on the plant, which is not emetic in normal use; the softer common name descends from the Catawban ya'pa, a diminutive meaning 'small tree.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe weeping form was first found in Folsom, Louisiana in 1952 by J.A. Foret, and named by the late Tom Dodd, Jr. of Semmes, Alabama, one of the great Gulf Coast plantsmen. Long a prized accent in Southern gardens and stubbornly hard to find in small sizes, these plants set the same crop of small translucent scarlet berries as any female yaupon when a male grows nearby, the fruit hanging along the drooping branches from fall well into spring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive 'Folsom's Weeping' room to be a specimen. A single plant makes a living exclamation point beside a gate, at the turn of a path, or against a plain wall where the cascading silhouette can be read against the sky; several set in a row weep into an unusual informal screen. Underplant with low evergreens or a groundcover so the sweeping lower branches have something quiet to fall against, and site a male yaupon such as 'Dewerth' within range to load the branches with winter fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057889939571,"sku":"ILE-VOMI-FOLS-WEEP-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1223.jpg?v=1720138778"},{"product_id":"illicium-floridanum","title":"Illicium floridanum","description":"\u003cp\u003eIllicium floridanum, the Florida anise, is a lush evergreen shrub of the southern woods, prized for glossy, dark green leaves that release a clean anise or licorice scent when crushed. In mid-spring the plant hangs itself with curious flowers, two inches across and shaped like deep maroon starfish, their many narrow petals radiating from the center. Dense, shade-loving, and richly aromatic in leaf, Florida anise brings a bold, tropical-looking evergreen presence to a shady garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flowers hold a curious secret of their own. Where the crushed leaves smell sweetly of anise, the blooms carry an odd, fishy odor that draws the flies and beetles that pollinate them, which has earned the plant the affectionate nickname stinkbush. A more important caution belongs on the label as well: despite the name and the anise-scented foliage, Florida anise is not the source of the star anise used in cooking, that is a different species, and every part of this plant is toxic and should never be eaten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the wild, Florida anise grows in the rich, moist, shaded ravines and stream banks of the Gulf coastal plain, from the Florida panhandle across to Louisiana, an understory shrub of cool, damp, low places. That heritage tells the gardener exactly what the plant wants: shade, rich acid soil, and steady moisture, the opposite of a hot, dry border. Deer, put off by the aromatic, toxic foliage, leave the plant alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive Illicium floridanum part to full shade in moist, rich, acid soil, and use the shrub as a bold evergreen for a woodland garden, a shady border, a screen in the shade, or a damp low spot where little else will thrive. The dense foliage screens and softens, the maroon flowers intrigue, and the crushed leaves scent the hand of anyone who brushes past. 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Keteleer, a French nurseryman of the era, while the epithet davidiana remembers Armand David, the missionary-naturalist who botanized widely in China.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOften called fir-like, Keteleeria is a close cousin of the true firs (Abies) but forms a small, ancient genus separate from them. Young trees make a stately, symmetrical pyramid, broadening into a dignified, open-crowned specimen with age. The glossy, deep green needles are arranged in flattened sprays along the branches for a texture at once soft and architectural, and the erect, cylindrical, light brown cones, reminiscent of fir cones and often quite large, ripen and then break apart on the branch rather than falling whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the wild, Keteleeria davidiana favors mountainous ground with warm summers and comparatively mild winters, conditions that closely mirror much of the American Southeast and hint at why the tree suits Southern gardens better than most exotic conifers. The Woodlanders plants are seed-grown from trees once cultivated at the University of Georgia's experimental facility in Tifton, Georgia, an important site for testing plants under hot summers and mild winters. Though that collection has since been lost, these seedlings carry that regional trial work forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the landscape, give this conifer full sun, reliably well-drained soil, and room to develop the natural form, which reaches roughly forty to sixty feet over time. The species performs best where winters are not extreme and drainage is dependable. 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Set against the typical species, these western-Gulf plants carry noticeably larger leaves and flowers, with soft down on the undersides of the leaves and on the flower buds, and grow as small to medium trees of a more open, airy habit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA word of honesty on the name, since a curious gardener will go looking: ludoviciana is a horticultural rather than a formally accepted botanical name, and today's taxonomists fold these Louisiana plants into the southern variety australis or simply into the species itself. Distinct in the garden, if not in the current books. The species carries real history: sweetbay was among the very first American trees grown in Europe, sent from Virginia in the late 1600s by the missionary-naturalist John Banister to Bishop Compton's London garden, the first magnolia known to European cultivation. Virginiana honors Virginia, where Banister collected; ludoviciana means simply of Louisiana.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe flowers are the point in early summer: creamy-white, cupped, and powerfully lemon-scented, opening a few at a time over weeks and closing at night, followed by cone-like clusters of scarlet-seeded fruit that draw birds in fall. The leaves flash silver-white undersides in every breeze. Sweetbay is a creature of swamp and streambank, happy with wet feet where other magnolias drown, yet adaptable to ordinary moist garden soil, and this warm-provenance form is best in USDA zones 7 to 9, evergreen in the Deep South and semi-evergreen to deciduous in colder winters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe aromatic bark earned sweetbay the old name swamp sassafras, and a genuine early-American medicine: colonists and Native peoples steeped the bitter, spicy bark and seed cones as a tonic and diaphoretic for colds, fevers, and rheumatism. The tree is a host as well, feeding the caterpillars of the eastern tiger swallowtail and the sweetbay silkmoth. 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Dark green, leathery, lance-shaped leaves ride in whorls of three along the long, sparingly branched stems, and from late spring well into fall the branch tips carry showy, lightly fragrant flower clusters. 'Double Pink' bears fully double, rose-like flowers in a soft, warm pink.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFew shrubs are so at home in heat and hardship. Oleander has graced Mediterranean gardens since Roman times, turns up in the wall paintings of Pompeii, and thrives on exactly the conditions that defeat softer plants: blazing sun, drought, lean soil, and salt spray off the sea. That toughness makes the shrub a mainstay of coastal and roadside plantings across the warm world, and in colder climates a fine tub plant to summer outdoors and shelter under glass for winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne caution belongs in every oleander listing: all parts of the plant are poisonous, holding cardiac glycosides that are dangerous if eaten. The practical garden risk is low, since the intense bitterness keeps animals and people off, and as the old Woodlanders catalog has always put it, oleander is poisonous but not likely to be ingested except by beach goers who choose oleander sticks to cook wieners. The moral is simple: never grill on an oleander stick, and site the shrub away from where small children or livestock might nibble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive 'Double Pink' full sun and well-drained soil and let the shrub do what oleander does best: a fast informal hedge, a screen, a sunny border anchor, or a large container on a hot terrace. The soft double pink flowers cool a bright summer scheme and read beautifully against the dark green foliage. 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The tiny, glossy leaves line up in flat, two-ranked sprays, fern-like and neat, on threadlike stems only eight or ten inches high, building a dense green carpet that can be mowed or edged like a lawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite the fern-like delicacy, this is a true bamboo, a member of the grass family from Japan, and the epithet distichus describes exactly that two-ranked leaf arrangement, while Pleioblastus means many shoots, for the several branches at each node. The Woodlanders start traces to the late Adam Turtle, the well-known bamboo grower of Our Bamboo Nursery in Summertown, Tennessee, who kept a famous collection and knew this plant as the most dwarf of the runners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd a runner it is, which is the one thing to understand before planting. 'Mini' spreads by shallow underground rhizomes, and while the shallow roots make the bamboo genuinely controllable with an edger, a mowing, or a buried barrier, left alone in open ground the plant will travel. Treat that habit as the price of a superb groundcover: give the bamboo a bed with a firm edge, a strip between paving, a slope to knit together, or a container, and the running becomes an asset rather than a worry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow 'Mini' in sun to part shade in almost any decent soil, hardy through USDA zones 6 to 9, and mow or shear the planting in late winter if hard cold has browned the foliage, so fresh green comes back clean in spring. Use the bamboo as a dense low groundcover and lawn alternative, for erosion control on a bank, among stepping stones, or in the quiet green geometry of a Japanese garden. 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The Japanese name translates, fittingly, as flight of butterflies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe parent species, Prunus incisa, is the Fuji cherry, a dainty early bloomer from the mountains around Mount Fuji, and the epithet incisa points to the deeply cut, doubly toothed leaves. 'Kojo no mai' keeps all the charm at a fraction of the size, slow and compact, reaching only four to eight feet after many years, and finishes the season with a fine show of orange, yellow, and red autumn color before the leaves drop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFew flowering cherries suit a small garden so well. The dwarf scale and the sculptural zig-zag framework make 'Kojo no mai' a natural for a courtyard, a patio, a rock garden, or a large container, and the plant is a longtime favorite for bonsai, where the crooked branches and early bloom come into their own. Four seasons of interest come in a plant you can stand beside: winter structure, spring flower, summer leaf, autumn fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrow 'Kojo no mai' in full sun to part shade in any decent, well-drained soil, hardy through USDA zones 5 to 8 and thoroughly cold-tough. Little pruning is needed beyond shaping, and when you do cut, do it in summer rather than winter, since the flowering cherries are prone to silver leaf and canker through wet dormant wounds. 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Wiry branches carry dense clusters of five-petaled flowers just as the leaves appear, wrapping the low, rounded frame in soft color in early to mid spring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmall, bright red cherries follow in late summer, round and shiny, tart and slightly astringent, best cooked into preserves and jellies or left for the birds. The narrow, lance-shaped leaves emerge fresh green and turn warm yellow to orange in fall, so the two-to-four-foot shrub earns a place across several seasons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA small shrub for a small space, \u003cem\u003ePrunus japonica\u003c\/em\u003e suits the front of a border, a low informal hedge, a container, or a woodland edge, in full sun to part shade and well-drained soil. 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'Eight Ball' carries all of that lineage and then takes the color somewhere the ancients never saw.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, treat 'Eight Ball' as both a conversation piece and a well-behaved fruiting shrub. The narrow, glossy leaves and flamboyant orange summer flowers give the plant ordinary pomegranate grace; the black fruit that follows is the surprise. Give full sun, sharp drainage, and room for a deciduous shrub of eight to ten feet, and site the plant where the fruit can be found and marveled at, near a path, an entry, or a collector's bed. The arils inside are fewer and paler than a dessert pomegranate and the fruit is modest on the tongue, so grow 'Eight Ball' for spectacle and for the story as much as the harvest. 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Full sun and poor, dry, sandy or rocky, acid soil are all the tree wants, and drought only firms up the constitution; the one thing to avoid is wet ground. Fire holds no terror here, since the shrub resprouts vigorously from the base after being cut or burned, which makes bear oak a fine choice for stabilizing a raw sandy bank or reclaiming difficult ground. Hardy through USDA zones 4 to 7, the plant turns reddish-purple in fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew nurseries offer bear oak, which is reason enough for a certain gardener to want one. Use the shrub to naturalize a poor, sunny slope, to anchor a wildlife or pine-barrens planting, or as a rugged, characterful small specimen where nothing fussier would survive. 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Whatever the label, this is a large deciduous red oak of the Southern bottomlands, at home in the floodplain forests of the Gulf Coast and the Mississippi valley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor most of the twentieth century Nuttall oak went overlooked, mistaken in the trade for other red oaks, but the tree has since become a favorite of growers for good reason. Fast, clean, and easy to transplant, Nuttall oak builds a straight trunk and a well-shaped, open crown, and finishes the year in some of the most dependable red-oak fall color of the South, brilliant red and scarlet often lingering into winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe wild home is the bottomland, and it shows in the temperament. Nuttall oak takes heavy, wet clay and seasonal flooding that would drown many oaks, yet adapts just as readily to ordinary garden and street conditions, shrugging off compaction and city air. 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Even now Oglethorpe oak is known from only a scattering of stands across the Georgia and South Carolina Piedmont, with far-flung outliers in Louisiana and Mississippi, and the species sits on every serious list of oaks of conservation concern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is, despite long mislabeling, a member of the white oak group: the leaves are narrow, elliptic, and untoothed, without the bristle tips of the red oaks, and the acorns ripen in a single season rather than waiting out two. Those leaves are the ornament, slim and refined for an oak, turning soft orange to red in autumn over a clean, rounded crown of moderate size, more at home on a campus or a large lawn than many of the outsized cousins in the genus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe grow Oglethorpe oak because someone must. 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The slim, willow-like leaves and clean orange-to-red fall color are handsome in their own right, but the deeper reason to grow the tree is conservation: every planted Oglethorpe oak is one more foothold for a species the wild is losing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057961472115,"sku":"QUER-OGLE-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1189.jpg?v=1720140582"},{"product_id":"taxodium-ascendens","title":"Taxodium ascendens","description":"\u003cp\u003ePond cypress is the quieter of the two native bald cypresses, a deciduous conifer closely related to the more widespread Taxodium distichum but smaller, tidier, and distinct in leaf. Where bald cypress wears soft, feather-like foliage, pond cypress carries fine, scale-like leaves pressed close and ascending along the shoots, giving the young tree a narrow, almost columnar, pyramidal outline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name Taxodium means yew-like, for the foliage, and ascendens describes the upright set of those scaly leaves. Pond cypress grows most often in the still, acidic waters of depressional wetlands, ponds, and cypress domes across the southern coastal plain, rather than along the moving rivers that bald cypress favors, and produces fewer of the knobby root knees that make bald cypress famous. Old trees flatten and grow picturesque, and in autumn the foliage turns a warm russet-orange before it falls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor all the wetland origins, pond cypress is remarkably adaptable, growing well on ordinary upland soil and tough enough to serve as a street or parking-lot tree that few other conifers could match. The narrow young habit suits tight spaces, and the deciduous, fine-textured canopy casts a light, dappled shade that lawn and underplanting can enjoy. A native of the southern United States, and a fine choice for a wet spot, a pondside, or a rain garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive pond cypress full sun to part shade and a moist to wet, acidic soil, though the tree will take average garden ground once established. Site at a pond edge, in a rain garden or low, damp spot, or as a specimen or street tree where a narrow, deciduous conifer is wanted, and pair with other moisture-loving natives. 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The result is exactly what Aromi chased across more than a thousand crosses: a large-flowered, sweet-scented, heat-tolerant azalea for gardens where the classic mountain sorts fail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn mid spring the shrub comes alive with a glowing display. Tubular, funnel-shaped flowers open two inches across, their brilliant yellow petals lit by a vivid orange-yellow blotch and finished with gently wavy edges that catch the light. As many as fourteen blooms crowd each flat truss, and a soft fragrance drifts from them that draws in bees, butterflies, and passing gardeners alike. Elliptic, olive-green leaves follow, softly downy beneath, giving the plant a quiet presence through summer before autumn closes the season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name reads like the flower looks. That first flush of yellow shot with orange has the quality of daybreak, and 'Aromi Sunrise' honors both the breeder and the moment. The genus name Rhododendron is Greek for rose tree, while azalea comes from azaleos, meaning dry, an old reference to the open, well-drained woods where native species grow. Those same native azaleas have scented Southern springs for generations, though country lore has always known to admire and not to taste: like all Rhododendron, the leaves and nectar hold grayanotoxins and are not edible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Aromi Sunrise' belongs at the woodland edge, in a dappled border, or among high pines where morning sun can ignite the trusses and afternoon shade can spare the foliage. Reaching perhaps four to six feet with an informal, softly spreading frame, the shrub layers beautifully with ferns, native phlox, foamflower, and other deciduous azaleas timed to extend the bloom. Plant in moist, acidic, well-drained soil, mulch the shallow roots, and give the plant room to be seen when the flowers open. 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