{"title":"Coming Winter 2028","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe far end of the propagation house, where the seedlings just up and the cuttings just rooted are counted in years rather than months. Winter 2028 stock is mostly the genuinely slow: oaks and other woody plants grown from seed, conifers that will not be rushed, natives we raise in small numbers with no shortcut available. There is nothing to do here but choose, and wait well. We will keep them coming.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"afrocarpus-falcatus","title":"Afrocarpus falcatus","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe yellowwoods are to South Africa roughly what the live oaks are to the Lowcountry: the tree everyone knows, the tree in the old photographs, the tree the furniture was made from. \u003cem\u003eAfrocarpus falcatus\u003c\/em\u003e, the Outeniqua yellowwood, is the tallest of them, a conifer of coastal and montane forest from the Eastern Cape north through Mozambique and Malawi, reaching thirty to sixty feet in cultivation and a great deal more in the deep forest at Tsitsikamma. The famous specimens live for centuries and carry trunks two or three feet through. Yellowwoods collectively are treated as South Africa's national tree, and cutting one is regulated by law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing about the plant looks like a conifer to an eye trained on pines. There are no needles and no woody cones; instead the branches carry sprays of narrow, flat, slightly sickle-shaped leaves about two inches long, blue-green and soft in outline, and the seed is a fleshy yellow drupe that birds eat and distribute. This is the Podocarpaceae, an old southern-hemisphere family that split from the northern conifers a very long time ago and never adopted any of the northern habits. \u003cem\u003eFalcatus\u003c\/em\u003e means sickle-shaped, for the curve of the leaf, and the genus name is simply the African branch of the group, separated from \u003cem\u003ePodocarpus\u003c\/em\u003e proper in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn cultivation the tree is well known in coastal California and in the mildest parts of the Southeast, where the qualities that recommend the plant are the ones a slow conifer offers: dense evergreen structure, a clean pyramidal habit when young broadening with age, no litter to speak of, and a tolerance of heat that many conifers lack. The wood behind the reputation is pale, fine-grained, and worked for centuries into furniture, floorboards, roof beams, and boats; a good deal of the yellowwood antique trade in South Africa came off this one species.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive the tree deep, fertile, well-drained soil and full sun to light shade, and give real room to a plant that intends to become large. Water through establishment; established specimens are notably tough. One honest caution about hardiness: this is a zone 9 tree that succeeds in the milder parts of zone 8, and a hard Piedmont winter will find the limit. Plant in a sheltered position with good drainage, accept that a severe freeze may burn the foliage, and understand that patience is the whole proposition with a conifer that measures growth in decades. Cuttings of this plant came off the Armstrong Campus in Savannah in August 2026, which is a fair test of the mild coastal end of the range.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057807560819,"sku":"AFRO-FALC-01G","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/3734AC9F-35A5-41F3-9F84-A1983C656BDA.jpg?v=1787792955"},{"product_id":"antigonon-leptopus","title":"Antigonon leptopus","description":"\u003cp\u003eFew vines work as hard for as little as the coral vine. \u003cem\u003eAntigonon leptopus\u003c\/em\u003e comes out of Mexico with heart-shaped leaves, tendrils that grab any small object within reach, and long sprays of small papery flowers in a hot, slightly unreasonable pink from midsummer until frost stops the show. The flowers are borne in such quantity that the whole plant seems to fizz, and the common names have piled up accordingly: coral vine, queen's wreath, Mexican creeper, chain of love, and, in the Gulf South, confederate vine. Bees find the plant before you do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpeed is the practical argument. In the Deep South this vine freezes to the ground most winters, returns from a tuberous root once the soil warms, and covers a trellis or a good stretch of fence in a single season, which makes the plant genuinely useful for anyone who needs a screen this year rather than in five. Only in frost-free gardens does the growth stay evergreen and woody. That tuber is worth knowing about for two reasons: the swollen root is what carries the vine through a Southern winter under mulch in a protected spot, and in Mexico the tubers are dug and eaten, growing surprisingly large with age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name is a small puzzle. \u003cem\u003eAntigonon\u003c\/em\u003e is usually read as Greek for against-angled or with-angles, apparently for the zigzag of the flowering stems, though botanists have never entirely agreed; \u003cem\u003eleptopus\u003c\/em\u003e is more straightforward, meaning slender-stalked, for the thin wiry stems that carry those heavy sprays of bloom. The family is Polygonaceae, which puts this vine in company with buckwheat, rhubarb, and the smartweeds, and once you know that, the papery flower parts stop looking like petals and start looking like the family trait they actually are.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite the vine in full sun against a fence, an arbor, or an ugly chain-link run that needs disappearing, in ordinary well-drained soil, and give something thin for the tendrils to grip; the plant climbs by twining tendrils rather than clinging, so a smooth post is useless. Water through establishment and then very little. One honest caution comes with the vigor: in genuinely frost-free, humid climates, Florida and Hawaii among them, coral vine has escaped and is listed as an invasive, spreading by seed, tuber, root sucker, and stem fragment. Where winter cuts the plant to the ground each year, that risk largely disappears, but gardeners in zone 9b and warmer should site the vine where the tubers can be dug and the seedlings pulled, and should not plant near wild land.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057810641011,"sku":"ANTI-LEPT-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1728.jpg?v=1720136377"},{"product_id":"callicarpa-americana-bok-tower","title":"Callicarpa americana ‘Bok Tower’","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCallicarpa americana\u003c\/em\u003e 'Bok Tower' is the white-fruited form of the American beautyberry, swapping the species' electric magenta for clusters of clean, pearly white berries that ring the arching stems in late summer and fall. The pale fruit is cool and luminous, lovely against the green leaves and a striking foil to the purple-berried kinds, and just as good for the birds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe selection comes from Polk County, Florida, chosen by Jonathan Shaw at Bok Tower Gardens, and performs best in warm southern zones where winters stay mild. Blooming a little later than the species, 'Bok Tower' carries small white flowers in summer before the white berries follow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse white beautyberry in a shrub border, a naturalized planting, or a native garden, where the white fruit lights a shaded spot and plays against darker foliage and the purple beautyberries. Like the species, the leaves are the famous southern insect repellent, and the shrub fruits best cut back hard in late winter. A five-to-seven-foot native for warm gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057820962931,"sku":"CALL-AMER-BOK-TOWE-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/9A3E38AB-C67C-49B2-B03E-690FBE66BD77.jpg?v=1727119296"},{"product_id":"campsis-x-tagliabuana-madame-galen","title":"Campsis x tagliabuana 'Madame Galen'","description":"\u003cp\u003eCampsis x tagliabuana 'Madame Galen' is the trumpet vine at its most garden-worthy, a vigorous deciduous climber hung all summer with clusters of big, flaring, orange to salmon-red trumpets. The vine is a hybrid between the American trumpet creeper, Campsis radicans, and the Chinese Campsis grandiflora, combining the toughness of one parent with the refinement of the other. Raised in the nineteenth century by the Tagliabue brothers at their nursery near Milan, 'Madame Galen' has remained the favorite form of the cross ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom high summer into early fall the flowers open in loose, drooping clusters, each a three-inch trumpet in shades from cantaloupe to ruby, and hummingbirds work them from dawn to dusk. The genus name comes from the Greek for bending, a nod to the curving stamens tucked inside each bloom. Few hardy vines match this one for sheer flower power over so long a season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrumpet vine climbs by clinging aerial rootlets and will scale a wall, a fence, an arbor, or a stout pergola, though the mature vine grows heavy and wants a strong support. 'Madame Galen' is less rampant than the wild American species, but the plant can still sucker and spread, so site the vine where that vigor is welcome and prune hard each year to keep the display in bounds. A note for sensitive gardeners: the foliage and sap can irritate skin, the source of the old folk name cow-itch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive Campsis x tagliabuana 'Madame Galen' full sun for the heaviest bloom and any reasonable, well-drained soil, and expect fast, exuberant growth. Train the vine up a hot wall, along a fence, or over a sturdy arbor where the summer trumpets and their hummingbirds can be enjoyed at close range. Tough, drought-tolerant once established, and spectacular in flower, this is a classic climber for a big, sunny space.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057826140275,"sku":"CAMP-TAGL-MADA-GALE-01G","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-811.jpg?v=1720136981"},{"product_id":"camptosema-praeandinum","title":"Camptosema praeandinum","description":"\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders collected this one in the pre-Andean foothills of northwest Argentina, which is exactly what the name says: \u003cem\u003epraeandinum\u003c\/em\u003e, before the Andes. The plant grows wild there between three and five thousand feet, in country that bakes by day and chills hard at night, and that upbringing shows. Heat that flattens lesser things does not faze this vine, which still comes back through a Zone 8 winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe habit is a conversation in itself. Call this a shrub that never quite committed to standing alone, or a vine that forgot to fully climb. Given something to lean on, the plant scrambles four to six feet, clothed in soft trifoliate leaves that look borrowed from a green bean. The payoff is the bloom: long racemes of coral-orange flowers rising straight from the leaf axils, the kind of color that reads from across the garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArturo Burkart named the species in 1970, and botanists have since shuffled the plant toward a new genus, \u003cem\u003eCerradicola\u003c\/em\u003e, though it will answer to either name at the nursery. Our friends at Yucca Do grew it first in Texas and called it tough enough for the worst of their summers. We believe them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFull sun, sharp drainage, and a trellis or a strong-shouldered neighbor to climb. Little else asked, much given.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057826271347,"sku":"CAMP-PRAE-01G","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/CamptosemapraeandinumWoodlanders.jpg?v=1779289102"},{"product_id":"citrus-reticulata-nuclem","title":"Citrus reticulata 'NuClem'","description":"\u003cp\u003eNuClem is a special clementine among the cold-hardy citrus, a nucellar selection of the familiar clementine mandarin. Our friend and citrus guru Tom McClendon, who shared this one with us, explains it best: \"NuClem is a nucellar Clementine, meaning that it comes true from seed. Most Clementines are polyembryonic, meaning that seeds will almost always produce hybrids with other citrus nearby. NuClem also is distinctive in its cold-hardiness, having proven reliably hardy in Montezuma, GA, making it probably on par with Satsuma. Fruit is globular, about two inches in diameter, with a mildly adherent peel more like an orange than a mandarin. Fruit quality is excellent.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike other citrus, NuClem is an evergreen tree with fragrant white spring flowers, best given a sandy, well-drained soil and watered as needed. In gardens where the tree is borderline hardy, plant in a spot sheltered from north and northwest winds, and give extra protection during hard freezes. Grow in the ground through zones 8 to 10, or in a large container to overwinter farther north.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057836068979,"sku":"CITR-RETI-NUCL-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2152.jpg?v=1720137313"},{"product_id":"citrus-hybrid-yuzuquat","title":"Citrus hybrid 'Yuzuquat'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Yuzuquat is a tri-generic hybrid, a curiosity even among unusual citrus. One parent is the yuzu, itself a cross of \u003cem\u003eCitrus ichangensis\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCitrus reticulata\u003c\/em\u003e; the other is the 'Nagami' kumquat, \u003cem\u003eFortunella margarita\u003c\/em\u003e. From that three-way pedigree comes an attractive evergreen citrus that bears sour, juicy, lemon-like fruits about the size of a chicken egg.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fruits make a fine substitute for the common commercial lemon, bright and aromatic in the kitchen, and the tree is considerably more cold hardy than a true lemon, an important difference for Southern gardeners. The Yuzuquat thrives and bears heavily in Augusta, Georgia, proof of a constitution well beyond the usual lemon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, grow the Yuzuquat in full sun and sharp, well-drained soil, in the ground through zones 8 and 9 or in a large container to overwinter farther north. Site where the fragrant white spring blossom and the yellow fruit can both be enjoyed, and keep a plant near the kitchen for a hardy lemon off the branch. A productive, good-looking citrus for the cook and the collector alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057836429427,"sku":"CITR-HYBR-YUZU-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2093.jpg?v=1720137340"},{"product_id":"citrus-x-citrus-c-paradisi-x-poncirus-trifoliata-x-c-sinensis-u-s-119","title":"Citrus 'U.S. 119'","description":"\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders has long led in offering citrus and citrus hybrids hardy well beyond the usual citrus belt, and U.S. 119 is one of the most refined of the group. A complex USDA hybrid, a citrumelo crossed back with a sweet orange, the tree runs one quarter trifoliate orange, one quarter grapefruit, and one half sweet orange, a pedigree chosen to keep the toughness of the trifoliate while pushing the fruit toward genuine quality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result shows in the fruit: a handsome orange with a smooth peel and few seeds, the flesh sweet, in the old note, \"with just a touch of trifoliate aftertaste.\" Evergreen and good-looking, U.S. 119 has been said to be quite cold hardy, though, honestly, not yet widely tested, which makes the tree a fine candidate for the adventurous grower willing to trial a promising, little-known citrus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, grow U.S. 119 in full sun and sharp, well-drained soil, in the ground through zones 8 to 10 or in a large container to overwinter farther north. Site where the fragrant white spring blossom and the smooth orange fruit can both be enjoyed, and pair with other hardy citrus in a collector's edible planting. A promising fruit for gardeners pushing citrus toward the colder edge of the map.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057838395507,"sku":"CITR-CITR-C-PARA-03G","price":86.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1827.jpg?v=1720137393"},{"product_id":"clytostoma-callistegioides","title":"Clytostoma callistegioides","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eClytostoma callistegioides\u003c\/em\u003e is one of those vines that feels as though the plant wandered out of an old botanical expedition: vigorous, evergreen, and brimming with the sort of charm collectors once crossed oceans to find. A close relative of our native crossvine (\u003cem\u003eBignonia capreolata\u003c\/em\u003e), this South American cousin shares the same athletic climbing spirit but dresses in glossier, more refined foliage and carries larger flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose flowers are long, fluted trumpets in a soft violet-purple, some reaching five inches, opening in spring like a quiet fanfare over the vine. Early plant explorers in Argentina and southern Brazil noted the habit of draping over thickets and climbing the warm, wooded edges, where the lavender bloom lit up the understory after summer rains. The genus \u003cem\u003eClytostoma\u003c\/em\u003e (now often folded into \u003cem\u003eBignonia\u003c\/em\u003e) enjoyed a moment of admiration among nineteenth-century horticulturists, who prized exotic trumpet vines for bold flowers and an easy disposition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClimbing by tendrils, this violet trumpet vine is a natural for an arbor, a fence, a pergola, or the sun-washed corner of a garden wall. In warm climates the plant is remarkably carefree, evergreen and steady and generous with bloom, and the spring flowers draw butterflies and hummingbirds. In a prolonged dry spell a little extra water is welcome, a nod to those rain-nourished subtropical origins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHardy in Zone 9 and worth a thoughtful trial in sheltered pockets of Zone 8, \u003cem\u003eClytostoma callistegioides\u003c\/em\u003e rewards gardeners who enjoy plants with a sense of place and history: handsome, free-flowering, and just unusual enough to spark curiosity, exactly the kind of plant Woodlanders has always championed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhoto courtesy of Yasuko and Suzanne.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057845538931,"sku":"CLYT-CALL-01G","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Clytostomacallistegioides2.png?v=1722701133"},{"product_id":"cornus-florida-welchs-junior-miss","title":"Cornus florida 'Welch's Junior Miss'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCornus florida\u003c\/em\u003e, the flowering dogwood, is the beloved understory tree of the eastern North American woods, widely planted for the great show of white spring bracts (the true flowers are the small green knot at the center), and, in selections like this one, pink. A deciduous woodland tree that grows in moist, well-drained soil in sun or high, dappled shade, the dogwood rewards careful planting: set the root flare high, and never plant too deep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Welch's Junior Miss' is a fine pink-flowered selection of Deep South provenance, which makes this cultivar the best pink dogwood for the warmer zones, where many northern pinks color poorly in the heat. The tree was selected by the late 'Chick' Welch of Wilmer, Alabama, near Mobile, and carries a warm, clear pink that holds up in the southern spring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite 'Welch's Junior Miss' as a specimen near a patio, a path, or a window framed for spring, or at a woodland edge among native azaleas and other understory companions, where the pink bracts can be read against a darker backdrop. Give high shade or morning sun with afternoon shelter in the Deep South, and the glossy red fall fruit will draw songbirds while the foliage turns wine-red.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057851666547,"sku":"CORN-FLOR-WELC-JUNI-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1972.jpg?v=1720137684"},{"product_id":"cryptomeria-japonica-barabits-gold","title":"Cryptomeria japonica 'Barabits Gold'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCryptomeria japonica\u003c\/em\u003e is the sugi, the national tree of Japan, the conifer that lines the approach to the shrines at Nikko in avenues planted four centuries ago and still standing. The species makes a very large tree in time, which is exactly the problem for most gardens, and the reason the dwarf and compact selections have been collected so avidly. 'Barabits Gold' is one of the better ones: a small, dense, upright form whose ascending shoots break bright gold at the tips in spring and hold that colour well through the growing season, deepening toward bronze-green as the year turns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cultivar carries a Hungarian name. Barabits is a nursery family from Sopron in western Hungary with a long record of conifer selection, and this plant came out of that work rather than out of Japan, which is a reminder that the sugi has been a garden plant in Europe for well over a century and has thrown selections wherever people paid attention. The species name is the interesting one though: \u003cem\u003eCryptomeria\u003c\/em\u003e means hidden parts, from the Greek, for the way the flower structures sit concealed within the scales, and \u003cem\u003ejaponica\u003c\/em\u003e for a tree that is in fact native to both Japan and parts of China.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat sets a cryptomeria apart in the hand is the foliage. The leaves are short awls, spirally arranged and standing out from the shoot on every side, so a branchlet is soft and slightly bristling rather than flat and combed like a yew or a hemlock. On 'Barabits Gold' the new growth pushes upward and outward at the tips, catching light, so the gold reads as a scatter of small flames over a dark interior rather than as a solid yellow mass. That is a considerably more useful effect in a mixed planting than a gold conifer that shouts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant in full sun to partial shade in fertile, moist, well-drained soil; the species dislikes drought and shows unhappiness as browning interior foliage, and a little afternoon shade in the hot Southeast is welcome rather than necessary. Give even moisture, mulch the root run, and avoid dry windy exposures. Cryptomeria are reliably hardy through zone 6 and grow well throughout the Southeast, which makes this one of the rare plants on our propagation bench that asks no gamble at all. Site the shrub where the spring flush can be seen against something dark, and give room to a plant that stays small but not tiny.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057854451827,"sku":"CRYP-JAPO-BARA-GOLD-01G","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/F6DF4061-3330-41EF-8D80-E2E908A84EF2.jpg?v=1787793512"},{"product_id":"cyrilla-racemiflora-graniteville","title":"Cyrilla racemiflora 'Graniteville'","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Graniteville' is a low, ground-hugging selection of \u003cem\u003eCyrilla racemiflora\u003c\/em\u003e, the native Titi, and one of the more distinctive forms of a plant already known for variability. Where the species can build into a small tree, this Woodlanders introduction stays wide and knee-high, and the story behind the plant is a piece of local botanizing: we propagated 'Graniteville' from an almost prostrate individual found years ago on an eroded sandhills seepage slope near Graniteville, South Carolina, and the ground-hugging habit has held true ever since in cultivation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTiti itself is a wetland native of remarkable range, spread across the southeastern coastal plain from Virginia to Florida and west to Texas, at home in the wet, acid ground along swamps and blackwater streams. The genus honors the Neapolitan botanist Domenico Cirillo, and the country names, leatherwood and burnwood bark among them, nod to the tough, spongy bark and twisted stems that flake in cinnamon tones on older wood. 'Graniteville' carries all of that heritage in a frame built to spread rather than climb.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn summer the selection bears the same slender racemes of tiny, fragrant white flowers that make Titi such a generous nectar plant, alive with bees, followed in fall by glossy foliage that colors warm orange and red where winters turn cool. Four to five feet tall at most but spreading eight to ten, 'Graniteville' reads as a fine-textured mound that spills over a slope or a low wall rather than a shrub that stands upright.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat habit is the whole point in the garden. Use 'Graniteville' where a low, wide Titi can pour: down a sunny bank, over a retaining wall, along a pond edge, or massed as a tall, fine-textured groundcover in damp ground. Give the plant room to spread, enjoy the summer bloom and pollinator traffic up close, and keep good company with clethra, itea, and native ferns. As with the species, and because Woodlanders ships nationwide, expect semi-evergreen foliage in the Deep South and a more deciduous, warmly coloring habit toward the northern end of the range.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057855303795,"sku":"CYRI-RACE-GRAN-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-346.jpg?v=1720137799"},{"product_id":"exbucklandia-populnea","title":"Exbucklandia populnea","description":"\u003cp\u003eExbucklandia populnea is a rare evergreen tree that fools nearly everyone who meets it. The large, glossy, leathery leaves, sometimes shallowly three-lobed and carried on long stalks, look for all the world like those of a tulip poplar, yet the tree belongs to the witch-hazel family, a kinship few would ever guess. Bold and architectural, with bronze-red new growth and curious upright stipules capping each shoot, this is a foliage tree of real presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flowers are a modest affair, small and reddish, gathered in little rounded heads and easy to overlook; the foliage is the whole show. Broad, deep green, and evergreen, the leaves flutter in the wind like an aspen's and flush bronze in cool weather, giving the tree a lush, almost tropical look uncommon in a hardy evergreen. In the mountains of southern China and the eastern Himalayas where the tree grows wild, the wood is valued for timber, but in the garden the draw is purely ornamental.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to the montane forests of southern China, the Himalayas, and mainland Southeast Asia, Exbucklandia is virtually unknown in Western gardens, a genuine collector's tree and one Woodlanders was among the first to offer in the United States. Serious plantspeople have sought the tree for years, drawn by the bold foliage and the botanical curiosity of a witch-hazel relative that looks like a poplar. Slow and evergreen, the tree makes a striking, uncommon addition to a mild-climate garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow Exbucklandia populnea in part shade to sun in moist, fertile, well-drained, acid soil, sheltered while young, in a climate no colder than about zone 7b. Give room, since the tree grows large in time, and site where the bold, poplar-like evergreen leaves can be appreciated as the centerpiece they deserve to be. 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Plants of the World Online still accepts the name Fokienia hodginsii, while several recent phylogenetic studies nest the genus inside Chamaecyparis and would have the tree called Chamaecyparis hodginsii. We keep the older name because that is what the plant is known and traded by, and both are defensible depending on whose treatment you follow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name records two accidents of history. Fokien is the old transliteration of Fujian, the Chinese province where the species was first collected, and the epithet honors Hodgins, who sent the original material west. In Vietnam the tree is pơmu, and that name carries far more weight locally than the Latin one. Pơmu wood is aromatic, dense, and famously slow to rot, and the trade in that wood has been both the making and the near unmaking of the species.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverything about this tree comes back to the scent of the wood. Distilled from foliage and heartwood, pemou oil is sold in the West as Siam wood and is unusual in being almost entirely sesquiterpenes, chiefly nerolidol and fokienol. Published work on the leaf oil has found real activity against Gram-positive bacteria. In southern China and Vietnam the timber has gone into doors, window frames, carved panels, and furniture, and often enough into coffins that English picked up the name coffinwood. The H'Mong of the northern Vietnamese mountains split pơmu for roof planks and wall partitions. All that value has come at a cost. Illegal logging continues to thin the mature trees across most of the range despite legal protection, and the IUCN lists the species as Near Threatened.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere in Aiken, South Carolina, the tree has grown very well for a number of years, which is more than most conifers of this provenance manage in the humid Southeast. Give reasonably moist but well-drained ground, acid rather than sweet, and either full sun for a dense columnar habit or partial shade for something looser and more open. Full shade will not do. Expect forty to sixty feet in time and twenty-five to thirty-five feet across, with a narrow pyramidal crown filling in unhurriedly. Hardiness runs to zone 8, and gardeners north of that line should not count on the tree outdoors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stock behind these plants was struck from cuttings taken on the Armstrong Campus in Savannah, Georgia, in August of 2026. 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Tough as the Texas brush country that bore it, this is a plant grown as much for form as for foliage, and a favorite subject for bonsai.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story behind this selection is a Woodlanders original. In 1992, on the Texas gulf coast in Calhoun County, Woodlanders' Bob McCartney and the legendary Texas plantsman Lynn Lowrey came upon a single weeping desert olive growing among the ordinary kind. Cuttings taken a few years later, in the company of the botanist Patrick McMillan, became the stock that Woodlanders propagated and introduced to gardens, and every plant offered here traces back to that one wild find.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesert olive is a plant of dry, sunny, difficult places, at home in lean, rocky, alkaline soil, brushing off heat, drought, wind, and even salt. The weeping form has proved just as adaptable in the garden, thriving well beyond the Texas range on almost any well-drained soil in full sun. Tiny yellow-green flowers open very early in spring, among the first food for bees, and on female plants give way to small, olive-like, blue-black fruits that birds are quick to find.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive Forestiera angustifolia 'Weeping' full sun and sharp drainage, and let the cascading branches spill over a wall, a slope, a large container, or the edge of a raised bed. Left to itself the plant spreads wide and low; pruned or trained, the plant makes a superb bonsai or a compact weeping specimen. For a tough, drought-proof native with genuine character and a real Woodlanders pedigree, few shrubs are as quietly remarkable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057871065203,"sku":"FORE-ANGU-WEEP-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Fosteria-angustifolia-Woodlanders-WeepingJLBG.webp?v=1784308986"},{"product_id":"gelsemium-sempervirens-hardy-margarita","title":"Gelsemium sempervirens (hardy) ‘Margarita’","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarolina jessamine is the state flower of South Carolina and one of the most beloved evergreen vines of the South, prized for the wash of fragrant yellow trumpets that opens the gardening year. 'Margarita' is the cold-hardy answer to that beauty, a selection that carries the same sweet-scented gold well north of where the species usually gives out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNamed by Gene Cline, a true native-plant pioneer, from a plant found in northern Georgia, 'Margarita' has proven hardy and grown well as far north as Washington, DC, holding evergreen where ordinary Carolina jessamine would sulk or freeze. The bright yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers are fragrant and generous, opening in late winter and early spring with a scattering of repeat bloom in fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond the extra cold nerve, this is the familiar jessamine in every good way: a well-mannered twining vine, evergreen, tolerant of a range of soils and sites, and happiest in a sunny spot with little competition. The glossy foliage gives structure the year round, and the vine climbs a fence, a trellis, a post, or an arbor with an easy, non-clinging grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive 'Margarita' full sun to part shade and ordinary, well-drained soil, and the plant asks little once established. One honest caution belongs with the fragrance: like all jessamines, every part of Gelsemium sempervirens is poisonous if eaten, so site the vine away from where small children or pets might be tempted by the flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057874243699,"sku":"GELS-SEMP-HARD-MARG-01G","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-821.jpg?v=1720138286"},{"product_id":"gelsemium-sempervirens-pale-yellow","title":"Gelsemium sempervirens 'Pale Yellow'","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarolina jessamine is the twining gold of the Southern spring, native to the southern United States and honored as the state flower of South Carolina. An evergreen vine of easy grace, the plant clothes a fence or trellis in glossy, narrow leaves and, as winter loosens, opens a wash of fragrant yellow trumpets that scent the whole garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNatural variation in Gelsemium sempervirens is genuinely rare, which makes this selection a quiet treasure. The pale yellow-flowered form was found years ago by Chris Early in the piney country of northwestern Florida, and the soft, primrose-toned blooms set the plant apart from the deep golden yellow of the ordinary species, a subtle difference that reads clearly against the dark foliage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffered as a Woodlanders introduction, 'Pale Yellow' carries all the virtues of the Carolina jessamine in a gentler key: the same sweet fragrance, the same evergreen polish, the same easy constitution in sun or light shade. The vine twines rather than clings, so a fence, a mailbox post, a trellis, or an arbor gives the growth something to climb.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive a sunny to lightly shaded spot and ordinary, well-drained soil, and the plant asks little more. One honest caution: like all jessamines, every part of Gelsemium sempervirens is poisonous if eaten, so site the vine away from where small children or pets might be tempted by the flowers. 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Each bloom opens three to five inches across in vivid, pure scarlet, five slightly separated petals arranged in a clean star, with the long staminal column thrust boldly from the center and tipped in bright yellow pollen. The show runs from mid-summer through early fall, and though each flower lasts a single day, the plant opens a steady succession over many weeks. Hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies all work the blooms, so the color comes with constant motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe foliage is nearly as talked-about as the flowers. Deeply cut into slender, palmate lobes, the leaves resemble those of a maple or, notoriously, of cannabis, a resemblance that has raised more than one eyebrow over a perfectly innocent native plant. Botanically this is a true mallow of the Malvaceae, and the species name \u003cem\u003ecoccineus\u003c\/em\u003e simply means scarlet, for the flowers. Upright and clean, the deep green leaves set off the red bloom to perfection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, use scarlet rose mallow at the back of a large sunny border, at a pond or stream edge, in a rain garden, or anywhere a bold vertical accent and hot late-summer color are wanted. The plant grows naturally in very wet ground, along streams, ponds, and swamps, but adapts happily to ordinary well-drained garden soil given plenty of sun. 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The genus name comes from kazura, a Japanese word for a twining vine, and the species epithet means long-peduncled, for the slender stalks that let each flower hang clear of the foliage. Chinese gardeners and herbalists know the plant as nan wu wei zi, the southern five-flavor fruit, a nod to the close cousin Schisandra, whose berries are said to carry all five tastes at once. The French botanists Achille Finet and François Gagnepain gave the vine a formal name in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe obtained this species from Nanjing Botanic Garden in China, and so far as we can tell Woodlanders was the first nursery to offer the plant in this country. Very little of the species has ever made the trip west. What has arrived proves neat, clean, and vigorous in cultivation, hardy through USDA zones 7 to 10, and altogether easier to grow than the rarity would suggest. Your neighbor will likely not have this one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe flower story here is one of the odder ones in botany. Unlike most of the genus, which keeps male and female plants separate, Kadsura longipedunculata is monoecious, carrying both kinds of flower on the same vine, so a single plant can set fruit alone. The blooms open at night from midsummer into early autumn, cream to pale yellow with some forms flushed red, warming themselves several degrees above the surrounding air and releasing a fruity scent dominated by methyl butyrate across a four or five hour window. The whole performance is aimed at one insect: a female gall midge of the genus Megommata, who arrives to eat pollen. The female flowers offer the same warmth and the same perfume and no reward whatsoever, a small deceit that gets them pollinated all the same. Fruit follows in fall as a rounded scarlet cluster of fleshy carpels, closer to a raspberry than to anything in the grape family, edible raw or cooked and fragrant enough that the oil has been pressed for perfume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn China the roots and root bark are a long-standing article of the herbal trade, sold as hong mu xiang and zi jin pi, prepared as decoctions and wine infusions to move blood and ease the pain of rheumatism, traumatic injury, and gastric complaint, with the leaves turned to canker sores and menstrual trouble. Modern laboratories have taken an interest as well. Something over three hundred compounds have been catalogued from the plant, chiefly dibenzocyclooctadiene lignans of the kadsulignan and anwulignan sort along with schiartane triterpenoids, and early work has looked at hepatoprotective and sedative activity. All of that is best read as tradition and preliminary research, not as a prescription.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, treat this kadsura as a woodland-edge plant: rich, moist, well-drained soil, part shade, shelter from harsh afternoon sun and drying wind, and something to twine on. A fence, an arbor, a post at the corner of a shade border, or an old tree will all serve. The vine climbs to roughly eight or ten feet, sometimes twelve, twines rather than smothers, and holds glossy foliage through the winter across most of the range. Ferns, hydrangeas, aucuba, and Danae make good company below. 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Rare in gardens and known mostly to breeders and botanic collections, this Chinese species trades the familiar look of the summer crepe myrtle for something bolder and stranger: broad, blue-green leaves far larger than those of the common sort, and open, pyramidal panicles of lavender-pink bloom carried through the warm months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus honors Magnus von Lagerström, the Swedish merchant who fed plants to his friend Linnaeus, and Lythraceae, the loosestrife family, is home. Elmer Merrill named this species in 1925; the epithet \u003cem\u003elimii\u003c\/em\u003e points to a collector surnamed Lim, though the person behind the name has largely slipped from the record. Native to the provinces of Fujian, Hubei, and Zhejiang, where the plant grows in low mountains and mixed forest, \u003cem\u003eLagerstroemia limii\u003c\/em\u003e carries a coarse, furrowed bark rather than the polished, exfoliating trunk that gardeners prize in \u003cem\u003eLagerstroemia fauriei\u003c\/em\u003e and the common crepe myrtle. The pleasures here lie in leaf and flower, not in bark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor all the obscurity, this species has quietly shaped the crepe myrtles in many American gardens. At the United States National Arboretum, Donald Egolf drew \u003cem\u003eLagerstroemia limii\u003c\/em\u003e into the breeding program that produced the mildew-resistant hybrids named for Native American peoples, and the plant stands in the parentage of three-way selections such as 'Arapaho' and 'Cheyenne,' lending cold hardiness and warm, reddish flower color to the line. The headline disease resistance of that famous series came mostly from \u003cem\u003eLagerstroemia fauriei\u003c\/em\u003e, but limii earned a place at the table for toughness and bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, treat this crepe myrtle as a large, multi-stemmed shrub or a small tree of fifteen to twenty-five feet, sited in full sun where the summer panicles draw bees and the big blue-green leaves make a cool foil for hotter colors nearby. The species is hardier than the common crepe myrtle, comfortable through USDA zones 7 to 9, and forgiving of heat, drought, and city air once established. 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The small, pointed, glossy dark green leaves release a sweet, spicy scent when crushed, and the epithet apiculata notes the little pointed tip on each leaf. In summer the branches fill with small, waxy, four-petaled white flowers, sweetly fragrant and heavy with nectar, so valued in South America that the myrtle is an important honey plant. Purple-black berries follow, edible and pleasantly sweet, eaten fresh in Chile and cooked into sauces and jams, and much loved by birds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the tree's homeland the plant carries the Mapuche name luma and the Spanish arrayan, and the dense, heavy wood has long been prized for tool handles and turnery. Slow and shrubby when young, the Chilean myrtle builds with age into a large multi-stemmed shrub or small tree of twenty feet and more, and the bark only improves over the years. The plant takes kindly to hard pruning and is a favorite subject for bonsai, where the cinnamon bark can be admired in miniature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong a signature plant of California gardens, the Chilean myrtle also does well in the milder Southeast, asking only for full sun to part shade and moist, well-drained soil. Give the plant a spot where the bark can be seen and touched, near a path, a patio, or a low wall, and limb up the lower branches with age to reveal the trunks. 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All share the sweetbay's gifts: leaves silvery white beneath that flash in the wind, and creamy, intensely fragrant flowers with a clean lemon scent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Dodd's Small Leaf' is a distinctive clone of the southern, evergreen variety, and the plant came to us with a good story. To the amusement of the late, great Tom Dodd, Jr., we did not even recognize the plant as a sweetbay when we first saw it exhibited by Tom Dodd Nurseries at the Atlanta trade show some years ago: where a typical sweetbay carries four- or five-inch leaves, this form bears leaves barely two inches long, with small flowers to match. Mr. Dodd shared several plants with us, and they are now sizeable trees at Hopelands Gardens here in Aiken, South Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lineage carries a little mystery. There are said to be several clones named for Alabama rivers, though we believe they are much alike, and we do not know for certain which one we grow. Mr. Dodd recalled that the seed-parent tree, apparently an ordinary sweetbay, stood at Coden, Alabama, and that a number of seedlings raised at the nursery came out as this small-leaf form. Recent word suggests we are propagating the clone 'Tensaw', reputedly the only one that roots readily from cuttings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhatever the name, the plant is a charmer: a fine-textured, small-leaved evergreen sweetbay, more delicate in effect than the ordinary kind and lovely as a multi-stemmed small tree at a pond edge, a stream margin, a moist border, or the woodland edge. Give moist, acidic soil in sun to part shade, and enjoy the lemon-scented summer flowers, which draw pollinators and feed the caterpillars of the eastern tiger swallowtail. 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A vine for porches and pergolas, the evergreen wisteria prizes quiet bloom over brash spectacle, and carries both fragrance and folklore in the tendrils.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to the humid woodlands of China, Vietnam, and Taiwan, this member of the pea family wears dense, leathery, deep-green leaves, each compound leaf composed of seven to thirteen softly pointed leaflets whose netted veining gives the species the name reticulata, netted. In bloom, the evergreen wisteria is transformed: panicles of bluish-violet, pea-shaped flowers with golden centers hang like garlands of amethyst, scenting the air with a heady mix of cedar and camphor from the height of summer well into fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFar more manageable than the rampant true wisterias, the evergreen wisteria is a restrained, well-mannered climber for zones 8 to 10, happy in fertile, loamy, evenly moist soil in dappled to full sun. Prune faded flowers to prevent seeding and to spur fresh bloom, and at the cold edge of the range shelter the plant in a pot for winter. Pollinators work the flowers heavily, and with age the slender stems thicken into woody, twisting trunks like the old vines of courtyard walls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a second life to this vine. In traditional Chinese medicine the dried stem, known as ji xue teng, has a long history as a remedy for the blood and circulation, and modern study has isolated genistein and flavonoids of interest. 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Native to the frequently burned pinelands of the southern United States, the plant is an adaptation to that fiery world, staying small and spreading slowly into dense patches and colonies by underground runners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe small leaves are aromatic, releasing the clean, resinous bayberry scent when brushed or crushed, and on female plants small, dark, waxy berries ripen along the stems, the same wax that scents a bayberry candle and a welcome winter food for birds. The plant belongs to the bayberry family, Myricaceae, and like the rest of the clan fixes nitrogen from the air, thriving in the lean, sandy, acid soils that starve other shrubs. Once listed as Myrica pusilla or Myrica cerifera pumila, the dwarf is now placed in the genus Morella.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders may have been among the first nurseries to offer this useful little native to gardeners, and it deserves the wider audience. As a low, evergreen, colony-forming groundcover, dwarf waxmyrtle covers dry, sunny banks, binds sandy soil against erosion, and knits together the front of a native or coastal planting, all with the salt tolerance and toughness of the family. Deer leave the aromatic foliage alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive dwarf waxmyrtle a sunny, well-drained, sandy or acid spot and let the plant spread into a soft evergreen mat one to two feet high. Little care is needed once established, since heat, drought, poor soil, and salt are all taken in stride. Pair with wiregrass, muhly, and other pineland natives for a low-maintenance, wildlife-friendly groundcover, and shear if a tidier edge is wanted. 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The bark is reddish brown with fine longitudinal striations while the young branches stay green. Flowers come between May and July, yellow to yellowish white and barely an eighth of an inch long, followed by round fruits about half an inch across seated in persistent tepals. Nobody grows this tree for the flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name has been through the mill. The species was described by the French botanist Hector Léveillé from material collected in Guizhou by Julien Cavalerie, a missionary whose name is attached to a long list of Chinese plants, and was transferred to Nothaphoebe by Yen C. Yang in 1945. That is the name under which the tree entered western cultivation and the name most nurseries still use, misspelled along the way as Notophoebe or Nothophoebe about as often as not. Plants of the World Online now returns the species to Phoebe as Phoebe cavaleriei. We list the accepted name with the familiar trade name alongside, so the tree can be found under either.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhoebe is a genus of Chinese and southeast Asian evergreens best known for nanmu, the fragrant, close-grained timber reserved for imperial halls and coffins under the Ming and Qing, and several members of the genus are endangered today for exactly that reputation. Phoebe cavaleriei is not one of the great timber trees. This is a modest tree of montane forest margins in Sichuan, northeastern Yunnan, and Guizhou, between roughly sixteen hundred and six thousand feet, scarce in cultivation anywhere and scarcer still in American gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZone 9, or the warmest part of zone 8, suits best. Late unripened growth tends to freeze back here in Aiken, which is the usual price of a fast-growing evergreen at the cold edge of the range, and the plant comes back. A specimen at Hopelands Gardens, a few minutes from the nursery, now stands over thirty-five feet, which says more than any hardiness table. Plant on good, well-drained soil in sun or semi-shade, sheltered from the worst winter wind, and expect twenty-five to forty-five feet in time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur propagation stock was taken as cuttings on the Armstrong Campus in Savannah, Georgia, in August of 2026.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057929326707,"sku":"NOTO-CAVA-01G","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/51FB3007-2F34-4CCC-B6C9-B4B7708028D6.jpg?v=1788212887"},{"product_id":"olea-europaea-farga","title":"Olea europaea 'Farga'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe olive is an evergreen Mediterranean tree, sometimes a very large shrub, with narrow leathery leaves gray-green above and silver beneath, and small fragrant white flowers carried in axillary racemes in late summer. Fruit ripened in dry climates is the source of commercial olives and olive oil. In the humid Southeast the olive has never been a dependable fruit producer, whatever the winter hardiness, and the honest advice is to grow one here for the silver evergreen structure and treat any crop as a bonus. There is now a commercial grove in south Georgia, so perhaps a suitable variety has been found, though the University of Georgia's own assessment of adaptability and productiveness in the state remains carefully undecided.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFarga is the heirloom olive of the Baix Maestrat, the coastal country where Castellón meets southern Catalonia, and the variety carries a claim no other olive can make. That corner of Spain holds the largest concentration of millenary olive trees in the world, several thousand of them, with enormous hollow, fluted, gnarled trunks, and the great majority are Farga. Researchers at the Technical University of Madrid dated one, the Farga de l'Arión, at roughly seventeen hundred years, which puts that tree in contention for the oldest olive alive. The oil pressed from the ancient groves now carries a Slow Food Presidium of the Maestrat millenary trees.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFarga yields less than the modern workhorse varieties, and has been returning to favor for the very reasons that once counted against the variety: extreme longevity, real toughness on poor ground, and an unusual genetic makeup including a rare chlorotype that makes the population valuable to anyone studying olive resilience. Two practical notes follow from the biology. Farga is recorded as male sterile, so a second olive of a different variety needs to stand within pollen range for any fruit at all. And when a crop does come, the oil is picked early and tastes of that choice: medium bitterness, a definite peppery finish, and a green aroma of cut grass and unripe almond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow as a multi-stemmed small tree at a terrace corner, along a drive, or against warm masonry where afternoon light can find the silver leaf undersides. Full sun without compromise, and sharp drainage above all else. Olives forgive poor rocky ground and do not forgive standing water, and Phytophthora root rot is the usual killer in this part of the world. Humidity brings peacock spot and anthracnose, both manageable with airflow pruning that opens the center of the canopy and with drip rather than overhead irrigation. Old trees go hollow and characterful, so choose a position worth keeping for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a very old Spanish variety that we propagated originally from a tree at what was then Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia. The current batch was struck from cuttings taken on the Armstrong Campus again in August of 2026.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057930637427,"sku":"OLEA-EURO-FARG-01G","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/E59E43DB-A5EA-4F18-AB4B-741434992D6F.jpg?v=1788212985"},{"product_id":"olea-europaea-favarol","title":"Olea europaea 'Favarol'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe olive is an evergreen Mediterranean tree or large shrub, the narrow leathery leaves gray-green above and silver below, the flowers small, white, and fragrant in axillary racemes in late summer. Where summers are dry, that fruit becomes table olives and oil. Where summers are wet, as here, the crop is unreliable and the tree earns a place for other reasons entirely: for the color of the foliage in low light, for the character an old trunk develops, and for the fact that an olive in a Carolina garden is still an unlikely and pleasing thing. A commercial grove has gone in down in south Georgia, which is encouraging, though the University of Georgia is still calling the question open.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFavarol belongs to the olive groves of the Garda Trentino, at the head of Lake Garda in the far north of Italy, which is about as far north as olives are farmed anywhere in the world. Records of the variety reach back to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Favarol survives as one of a handful of minor local cultivars that the sheer antiquity of olive growing around Garda has preserved, while the rest of Italy consolidated around a few commercial names. Genetic survey work on the ancient Garda trees places Favarol close to Mignolo Toscano. Whether that northern latitude has left the variety any hardier than a Tuscan or Andalusian olive is an open question, and a fair reason to try one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFavarol is self-sterile, which is the ordinary arrangement among olives and worth planning around: another variety flowering at the same time and within pollen range, or no fruit. Established trees are notably drought tolerant, as anything off a stony northern Italian hillside would need to be. Growth is slow, and slow growth in an olive is no fault, being exactly what produces the dense, twisting wood that makes old specimens so good to look at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifteen to twenty-five feet here, rather than the thirty a Spanish oil variety will reach, which makes Favarol the more manageable of our olives for a courtyard or a small garden. Full sun, and drainage that is genuinely sharp. Plant high rather than deep, keep clear of irrigated lawn, and prune in late winter to hold the center of the canopy open, since moving air is the cheapest defense against peacock spot and anthracnose through a wet summer. The silver foliage sits well against warm stone, gravel, and the Mediterranean herbs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA very old Italian variety, propagated by Woodlanders from a tree at what was then Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia. This batch was struck from cuttings taken on the Armstrong Campus again in August of 2026.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057930702963,"sku":"OLEA-EURO-FAVA-01G","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/5CDCB100-8D95-4CA4-BD0E-411837DE56BD.jpg?v=1788212985"},{"product_id":"olea-europaea-lucques","title":"Olea europaea 'Lucques'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe olive is an evergreen Mediterranean small tree or large shrub with grey-green leathery leaves and small, fragrant white flowers in axillary racemes in late summer. Fruit produced in dry climates is the source of commercial olives and olive oil. While the species is generally winter hardy in the warmer parts of the southeastern United States, the olive has not been a dependable fruit producer in our humid climate, and has never been readily available in the South. There is now a substantial commercial grove in south Georgia, so perhaps a suitable variety has been found; the question is more open than it was twenty years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Lucques' is an old variety from the south of France that is highly favored in some circles, and the circles in question are worth describing. This is the green table olive of Languedoc, grown in the Aude and the Hérault and protected there by an AOP since 2017. The fruit is long, slender, and distinctly crescent-shaped with a pointed tip, and stays bright green through curing rather than dulling. The flesh is fine and firm without being crunchy, comes away cleanly from the pit, and carries a light, sweet, nutty flavor that French tasters describe in terms of avocado and hazelnut. Every autumn the cured Lucques crop is genuinely awaited. The name points at Lucca in Italy, where tradition says the variety originated before finding a permanent home across the border.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe olive has been a garden and orchard plant for so long that the botany is almost beside the point, but a few things are worth knowing. \u003cem\u003eOlea\u003c\/em\u003e is simply the Latin for olive, from the same root that gave us oil itself; the tree belongs to the Oleaceae alongside ash, lilac, jasmine, and osmanthus, which explains the small fragrant flowers rather better than the fruit does. Old trees become gnarled and hollow-trunked and go on producing for centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe propagated this variety originally from a tree at what was then Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia, and the cuttings behind this batch came off the Armstrong campus again in August 2026, two generations of the same Savannah tree. Plant in deep, well-drained, fertile soil in full sun, with sharp drainage as the non-negotiable requirement; olives tolerate poor and rocky ground far better than wet ground. Water through establishment and then sparingly. Prune in late winter to open the canopy. One honest caution: grow this tree in the Southeast for the silver evergreen structure and the history, and treat any fruit as a bonus rather than a plan.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057930768499,"sku":"OLEA-EURO-LUCQ-01G","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2109.jpg?v=1720139853"},{"product_id":"pinckneya-bracteata-pubens","title":"Pinckneya bracteata (pubens)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePinckneya is a large shrub or small deciduous tree with showy pink flowers that are not flowers at all. What carries the colour is a single enlarged sepal on some of the blooms, expanded into a soft rose-pink blade three or four inches long, so a tree in full display looks convincingly like a poinsettia that has escaped into a Georgia bog. The true flowers are smaller, greenish-yellow, tubular, and easy to overlook beside the bracts. The leaves are oval and four to five inches long, and the whole plant is loose and open rather than dense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe range is small and particular: scattered locations from southeastern South Carolina through Georgia into Florida, always in moist, acid ground that is not subject to standing water. In the wild you find the tree along the edges of bayheads, in pitcher-plant bogs, at the margins of swamp forest, and in moist pine and cypress savanna. That habitat description is also the growing instruction, and it explains the plant's reputation. Pinckneya is not an easy plant to grow, but the tree grows well where the tree is happy, and is striking when in flower. Plant in sun or part shade, in acid soil that stays moist without ever going stagnant, and do not fight the plant on drainage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe common name Feverbark alludes to the tree having once been used as a substitute for quinine to treat malaria, and the claim has better foundations than most folk remedies. Pinckneya sits in the Rubiaceae, the coffee and madder family, in close company with \u003cem\u003eCinchona\u003c\/em\u003e, the South American genus that is the actual source of quinine. The inner bark is bitter and was collected in Georgia and Florida for intermittent fevers through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with nineteenth-century medical writers rating the bark as nearly equal to the official Peruvian article. The genus commemorates Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, the South Carolina soldier and statesman, and the species was described from William Bartram's collections, which puts this tree in the same historical company as \u003cem\u003eFranklinia\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA connoisseur plant, rare and not readily available, and worth the trouble for anyone with the right ground. Site the tree at a pond edge, in a rain garden, or in the moist low corner most gardens have and few know what to do with, where the bracts can be seen against dark evergreen. Nursery-propagated plants also keep a scarce Southeastern native in cultivation, which matters for a species this narrowly distributed. Our cuttings came from Screven County, Georgia, in August 2026, on the same collecting trip that produced the Armstrong campus material.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057941024883,"sku":"PINC-BRAC-PUBE-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/7582C99F-8BB7-4912-B415-E9EB4F71B5FF.jpg?v=1787794483"},{"product_id":"polyspora-axillaris","title":"Polyspora axillaris","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePolyspora axillaris\u003c\/em\u003e, the fried egg tree, is a glossy, small evergreen tree or large shrub of the tea family, Theaceae, native to southern China, Taiwan, and Vietnam and still rarely cultivated in the United States. A close relative of the native loblolly bay (\u003cem\u003eGordonia lasianthus\u003c\/em\u003e), the plant bears abundant, showy white flowers three inches across.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe flowers are the whole show: large, crisp white, camellia-like blooms with a bold central boss of bright yellow stamens, so like a fried egg that the common name writes itself. Bloom comes in late fall and winter, an elegant splash of white when little else in the garden is flowering, and the mildly fragrant, nectar-rich blooms draw the season's bees.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe glossy, dark green, leathery leaves make a dense, handsome canopy the rest of the year, and the plant suits mild regions best, zone 9 and the warmer parts of zone 8. Give full sun to part shade and acid, well-drained soil, with afternoon shade in the fiercest heat, and shelter the large flowers from strong wind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders originally propagated cuttings of this uncommon species from a specimen then in cultivation at the famous Tom Dodd Nurseries in Semmes, Alabama. A collector's evergreen for the adventurous southern gardener who wants camellia-like flowers at an unexpected season.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhoto courtesy of Jim Robbins.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057945251955,"sku":"POLY-AXIL-01G","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Polysporaaxillaris-JimRobbins.jpg?v=1725917053"},{"product_id":"punica-granatum-california-sunset","title":"Punica granatum 'California Sunset'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePunica granatum\u003c\/em\u003e 'California Sunset' turns the pomegranate into something closer to a florist's confection. The flowers arrive fully double, coral to salmon-red and streaked with creamy white, each one fluted and ruffled like an old boutonniere carnation rather than the tidy scarlet trumpet of the wild species. Because the petals are packed so tightly, the flowers rarely set fruit, which is precisely the point: this is a pomegranate grown for the long parade of bloom from early summer into fall, not for the leathery globes at the end of the season.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe plant carries two names and a small tangle of history. In Europe the shrub is still \u003cem\u003ePunica granatum\u003c\/em\u003e 'Madame Legrelle', or 'Legrellei', after Madame Legrelle d'Hanis of Belgium, who introduced the cultivar to horticulture shortly before 1858 after receiving the plant from her friend Madame Parmentier, a Belgian gardener then living in Illinois. American nurseries later rechristened the same shrub 'California Sunset', a nod to the Mediterranean-style gardens of the West Coast where the heat-loving pomegranate felt at home. One plant, two continents, and a name for each.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBehind the ornamental lies one of the oldest cultivated plants on earth. The species has been grown across Persia, the Levant, and the Mediterranean since antiquity, valued for fruit, dye, medicine, and a thick freight of myth, from Persephone's stolen seeds to the many-chambered fruit as an emblem of fertility and abundance. The botanical name tells a geographic story of its own: \u003cem\u003egranatum\u003c\/em\u003e means seeded or grainy, the root of the word grenade, while \u003cem\u003ePunica\u003c\/em\u003e points to Carthage and the Punic peoples through whom Rome first came to know the fruit. 'California Sunset' keeps the lineage and trades the harvest for spectacle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, treat the shrub as a long-blooming ornamental for a hot, sunny, well-drained spot: a mixed border, a cottage planting, a courtyard, or a large container where the ruffled flowers can be studied at close range. Give full sun for the heaviest bloom, sharp drainage, and room for the deciduous, twiggy frame to reach eight to ten feet. Pair 'California Sunset' with other sun-and-drought lovers such as rosemary, salvias, and ornamental grasses, and site the plant where the summer-long flush of coral and cream can carry a bed through the hottest months, when many shrubs have long since finished.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057949249651,"sku":"PUNI-GRAN-CALI-SUNS-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-473.jpg?v=1720140355"},{"product_id":"stewartia-monodelpha","title":"Stewartia monadelpha","description":"\u003cp\u003eTall stewartia is an upright deciduous tree of medium size, and for most of the year the reason to grow one is the trunk. The bark sheds in thin flakes to leave a smooth surface of cinnamon and orange-brown, warm enough to pull the eye across a winter garden from some distance, and the effect only improves as the tree ages. Abundant small white flowers follow in summer and the leaves turn red and purple in fall, but the bark is the long argument. Reckon on twenty to twenty-five feet in a garden, though in the forests of Japan the species has been recorded at eighty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo name stories meet in this tree. The genus honors John Stuart, third Earl of Bute, an eighteenth-century patron of botany whose name Linnaeus wrote down as Stewart, an error the rules of nomenclature have since made permanent. The epithet \u003cem\u003emonadelpha\u003c\/em\u003e means one brotherhood, and describes the stamens, which are fused at the base into a single tube rather than standing free. In Japan, where the tree is native to Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu, the name is himeshara, princess shara, a diminutive of the shara given to the larger-leaved \u003cem\u003eStewartia pseudocamellia\u003c\/em\u003e. That shara comes in turn from the sal tree of Buddhist tradition, under which the Buddha is said to have died; Japanese gardeners long ago transferred the association to a hardy local stand-in, and the stewartias have carried the borrowed name ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flowers open through early and midsummer, white, cupped and camellia-like, an inch or so across with a boss of orange anthers at the center, and they are borne in real quantity rather than as an occasional event. \u003cem\u003eStewartia\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to Theaceae, the tea family, alongside \u003cem\u003eCamellia\u003c\/em\u003e and the vanished \u003cem\u003eFranklinia alatamaha\u003c\/em\u003e, and the flower is where that kinship is most obvious. Among gardeners this species has a reputation as the most forgiving stewartia, more tolerant of ordinary garden conditions than a genus famous for sulking usually manages, which makes tall stewartia the sensible place to start for anyone who has killed one before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite the tree where the winter trunk will be lit and looked at, near a path, a drive, or a window, in moist, acid, well-drained soil with plenty of leaf mold, in morning sun with afternoon shade in the South. Stewartias resent root disturbance, so plant once and mulch well rather than shifting the tree around later. Underplant with ferns, epimedium and spring ephemerals that will not fight at the root, and leave the lower limbs high enough that the bark stays visible. Hardy through USDA zones 6 to 8. There is no ethnobotanical tradition here beyond the borrowed Buddhist name and a little use of the timber in Japan, which is fair enough for a tree grown honestly for beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057999319155,"sku":"STEW-MONO-01G","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/StewartiamonadelphaUWashingtonBotanicGarden.jpg?v=1787185835"},{"product_id":"stewartia-sinensis","title":"Stewartia sinensis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis small tree of Chinese origin has showy white flowers and fall foliage that is red or reddish, and the smooth whitish trunks with exfoliating bark are an important ornamental feature. In truth the bark is the reason most people plant one. Old stems shed in thin plates to leave a polished, mottled surface in cream, buff, and cinnamon that looks best in winter when nothing distracts from it, and improves every year for decades. The flowers arrive in early summer, white and cupped, about two inches across with a central boss of yellow stamens, unmistakably the work of a relative of \u003cem\u003eCamellia\u003c\/em\u003e. Then autumn brings a clean red. Very few small trees do three distinct things this well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tea family connection is not incidental. \u003cem\u003eStewartia\u003c\/em\u003e sits in Theaceae alongside \u003cem\u003eCamellia\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFranklinia\u003c\/em\u003e, and the family resemblance runs right through the flower. The genus name honors John Stuart, third Earl of Bute, a patron of botany whose name Linnaeus rendered with a w, and nomenclatural rules have preserved that spelling ever since. \u003cem\u003eSinensis\u003c\/em\u003e places this species in China, where it grows in mountain forests, and it is one of a group of Asian stewartias that have proven considerably easier in cultivation than the two American species.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur propagation stock comes from cuttings taken at Hopelands Gardens, a few minutes from the nursery here in Aiken. Local provenance of that kind is worth more than it sounds: these are cuttings off a tree that has already proven it will grow in this soil and this heat, rather than material shipped in from a cooler climate and hoped for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDirr, in his \u003cem\u003eManual of Woody Landscape Plants\u003c\/em\u003e, says: \"....a delightful small landscape plant that should be more widely used.\" and: \"Hardy to Boston and should be pursued by discriminating gardeners.\" That second remark is worth attending to, because the cold hardiness surprises people. This is a tree that will grow well north of where the American silky camellia gives up, and it asks less of a gardener in every respect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA plant for moist but well-drained acidic soil in sun or half shade, reaching fifteen to twenty-five feet. Like the whole genus, this species dislikes root disturbance, so plant young into a permanent position and mulch rather than cultivate around the base. Steady moisture matters, particularly while establishing; a droughty site produces a stunted tree that never develops the bark. Site where the winter trunk will actually be seen, near a path, a drive, or a window, since bark this good is wasted at the back of a border. Underplant with hellebores, epimedium, ferns, or low evergreens that will not compete hard at the surface, and resist the urge to limb up too early. 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In the garden the plant makes a deciduous, multi-stemmed shrub or small tree, pyramidal while young and rounding into an oval with age, reaching anywhere from thirteen to thirty-odd feet depending on how patient the gardener turns out to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe genus commemorates John Stuart, third Earl of Bute, an eighteenth-century patron of botany whose surname Linnaeus set down as Stewart when he coined the name. The misspelling is now permanent, fixed in place by the rules of botanical nomenclature, which is a small comedy the plant carries without complaint. The epithet \u003cem\u003erostrata\u003c\/em\u003e means beaked, for the drawn-out point on the seed capsule. \u003cem\u003eStewartia\u003c\/em\u003e sits in Theaceae, the tea family, in the company of \u003cem\u003eCamellia\u003c\/em\u003e and the lost \u003cem\u003eFranklinia\u003c\/em\u003e, and the family resemblance shows plainly the moment the flowers open.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis species spent decades in cultivation with no name of its own. Two different plants were growing at the Arnold Arboretum under the single label \u003cem\u003eStewartia sinensis\u003c\/em\u003e, and in the early 1970s Stephen Spongberg worked out that one of them was a distinct species from southeastern China, describing the plant as \u003cem\u003eStewartia rostrata\u003c\/em\u003e. The flowers open white and cupped in May and June, five petals around a boss of stamens, and the calyx behind them flushes deep beet red and holds that color long after the petals drop, staining the developing capsules through summer. Autumn brings red and orange to the leaves. There is no ethnobotany to speak of here, no old medicine or dye or timber tradition; this is a plant grown for looking at, and honest enough to admit as much.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSite the beaked stewartia as a specimen where the calyx and the smooth young trunk can be read at close range, in dappled shade or morning sun with shelter from hard afternoon light, in moist, acid, well-drained ground enriched with leaf mold. Stewartias resent root disturbance and hate hot dry soil, so plant once, mulch generously, and water through the first summers rather than moving the plant about looking for a better spot. Hardy through USDA zones 5 to 8, a good deal colder than the Southern reputation of the genus suggests. Growing a nursery-propagated plant of a species this scarce is a quiet way of keeping the species in cultivation, which for the rarer stewartias is not a small thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eImage courtesy of Philip de Spoelberch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057999548531,"sku":"STEW-ROST-01G","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/StewartiarostrataPhilippedeSpoelberch.jpg?v=1787185651"},{"product_id":"chamaedaphne-calyculata","title":"Chamaedaphne calyculata","description":"\u003cp\u003eLeatherleaf is the quiet constant of the northern bog. \u003cem\u003eChamaedaphne calyculata\u003c\/em\u003e, the only species in the genus, is a low, thicket-forming evergreen of the heath family that ranges right around the cold northern world, from the peatlands of North America east to the bogs of Finland and Japan, and southward in this country to the pocosins and acid bogs of the coastal plain, as far as South Carolina. Across that vast range, leatherleaf forms the dense, spreading colonies that hold a bog together and shelter the wildlife within.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe common name comes from the foliage: small, leathery, evergreen leaves, dark green above and scurfy-brown beneath, that flush bronze in winter cold. In earliest spring, before much else stirs in the bog, leafy one-sided racemes of little white urn-shaped flowers line the arching stems, a heath in miniature. Some Native peoples steeped the dried leaves as a tea, though the plant belongs to a family rich in grayanotoxins, and the leaves were handled with care, the steeping done gently in a sunny jar rather than a hard boil, to keep the brew mild.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, leatherleaf is a specialist worth the trouble for anyone with wet, acid ground. Use the shrub at a pond edge, in a bog or rain garden, or in a peaty rock garden that stays moist, where the early flowers and year-round evergreen frame can be enjoyed. Pair with other acid-loving bog plants, cranberry, pitcher plants, and sphagnum, and let the colony knit slowly into the dependable green backbone of a wetland planting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058016227443,"sku":"CHAM-CALY-01G","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/CHAMAEDAPHNECALYCULATA1.jpg?v=1722693615"},{"product_id":"bauhinia-petersiana-ssp-macrantha","title":"Bauhinia petersiana ssp. macrantha","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn the deep Kalahari sands, where a hard year brings barely fourteen inches of rain, this bauhinia grows as a spreading, half-scrambling shrub, now and then gathering enough height to pass for a small tree at twenty feet. The leaves give the genus away at a glance: two rounded lobes joined at the base, the shape everyone calls a camel's foot or a cow's hoof, blue-green and leathery enough to shrug off a dry season. Then, in summer, the shrub opens flowers that look too large and too fine for the country they came from, five crinkled white petals with a fringed, almost torn edge, carried in flushes that run on into autumn. In Botswana and Zimbabwe the grey louries and the parrots come to eat them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus carries one of the better jokes in botanical naming. \u003cem\u003eBauhinia\u003c\/em\u003e honors Jean and Gaspard Bauhin, sixteenth-century Swiss brothers and twin botanists, because the paired lobes of a single leaf sit together like two halves of one thing. Every bauhinia leaf you pick up is a small monument to a pair of siblings who catalogued plants in an age before anyone had agreed how that should be done. The species name remembers Wilhelm Peters, the German naturalist whose long expedition through Mozambique in the 1840s sent back a great deal of what Europe first knew of the region, and \u003cem\u003emacrantha\u003c\/em\u003e simply means large-flowered, which, set against the rest of the genus, is fair comment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoffee accounts for most of the common names. Roasted, ground, and brewed, the seeds make a drink close enough to the real thing that the plant travels as koffiebeesklou in Afrikaans, wild coffee bean in English, and Zambezi coffee in the seed trade. The rest of the shrub is nearly as useful: young pods are boiled and eaten as a green in the way of spinach, roots are baked, and the bark yields a serviceable rope. A therapeutic tradition sits alongside the kitchen one across Zimbabwe and Zambia, where the leaves are boiled for the steam and the cooled liquid taken for a cough, macerated roots are decocted for diarrhoea, and pounded leaves in salted water are sprinkled warm on wounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor American gardeners this is frankly a plant for zone 9 and warmer, and we would rather say so plainly than sell you a disappointment. Give the shrub the hottest, sharpest-drained ground you have, sand or a gravelly bank rather than anything that stays wet, and full sun; the plant asks for very little water once settled and flowers better lean than rich. One honest caution comes with the flowers, and that caution is cold. In 9a, site against a south-facing wall and keep frost cloth within reach. North of that, grow this bauhinia in a large container that can spend the winter under glass, which is no hardship for a shrub this drought-tolerant and this happy in a pot. Very few American nurseries have ever offered the plant at all, so growing one is also a quiet way of keeping an uncommon African shrub in cultivation on this side of the ocean.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45409806811251,"sku":"BAUH-PETE-MACR","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/5CA00208-9FE6-4A9B-85C4-3AEF9176B817.jpg?v=1787795427"},{"product_id":"callistemon-phoeniceus","title":"Callistemon phoeniceus","description":"\u003cp\u003eOf the thirty-odd bottlebrushes, this is the one Australian growers reach for when they want the word spectacular to mean something. \u003cem\u003eCallistemon phoeniceus\u003c\/em\u003e is endemic to the southwest corner of Western Australia, a hard, sandy, summer-dry country, and the shrub arrives in spring and summer carrying scarlet brushes four to six inches long, each one finished with a dark tip so the whole spike reads as red shading into near-black. The leaves are the other half of the appeal: thick, stiff, and distinctly blue-green, holding that cool grey cast right through the year, which makes the red land harder than red on ordinary green ever does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus name is a small piece of Greek praise, \u003cem\u003ekallos\u003c\/em\u003e for beauty and \u003cem\u003estemon\u003c\/em\u003e for a thread or stamen, and for once a botanist named a plant for the part that actually matters. What looks like petals is nothing of the kind; the true petals are small, round, greenish, and gone almost before you notice. The show is stamens, dozens to every flower, standing free of one another in a loose forest around the stem. \u003cem\u003ePhoeniceus\u003c\/em\u003e means crimson, from the Tyrian purple-red the Phoenicians traded, and the epithet is doing honest work here. Robert Brown described the genus in 1814; the molecular work of the last twenty years has since argued that the bottlebrushes sit inside \u003cem\u003eMelaleuca\u003c\/em\u003e rather than beside, so you will also find this plant as \u003cem\u003eMelaleuca phoenicea\u003c\/em\u003e. We keep the name gardeners search for and note that a botanist correcting you is not wrong, only reading from a different book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWatch the shoot after bloom and the genus gives away where the plant comes from. The tip does not stop at the flower; the stem pushes a tuft of new leaves straight out past the brush and carries on, so by late summer you find a spent ring of woody capsules sitting partway down a branch with a foot of ordinary foliage beyond. Those capsules stay shut and clustered along the old wood like buttons pressed into the bark, waiting on fire to crack them open over ash-cleared ground. A shrub whose reproduction assumes the landscape will burn is a shrub built for hardship, and the drought toughness gardeners notice first and the fire history they learn later are the same fact seen from two directions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite the plant in the hottest, brightest, sharpest-drained spot on the property, the west-facing bank where a hydrangea would sulk, and expect eight to twelve feet in time. Lean ground gives better brush than rich ground, which buys leaf instead. The one thing no bottlebrush forgives is wet feet in winter, so plant high on heavy clay and let gravity do the work. In flower the nectar draws hummingbirds and carpenter bees the way the same flowers draw honeyeaters at home. One honest caution: \u003cem\u003eC. phoeniceus\u003c\/em\u003e takes frost and drought in stride but has not been proven through a piedmont winter the way our own \u003cem\u003eCallistemon\u003c\/em\u003e 'Woodlander's Hardy' has, so treat the plant as zone 8b to 10, give a sheltered wall in 8a, and consider a container north of that. These are the first cuttings we have struck, and the plant is very rarely offered in American horticulture at all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45409807368307,"sku":"CALL-PHOE-01G","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/0E52B1DC-4003-43DD-BCD7-5BAC53D5ED4C.jpg?v=1787792571"},{"product_id":"callistemon-viminalis","title":"Callistemon viminalis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe weeping bottlebrush is the one most Americans have already met without knowing the name, a small tree of crimson brushes and long hanging branchlets planted through Florida and the Gulf Coast until a hard freeze thins the ranks and somebody plants them again. In the wild \u003cem\u003eCallistemon viminalis\u003c\/em\u003e runs down the eastern edge of Australia from Cape York into northeastern New South Wales, and almost always along water: creek banks, seasonal channels, the damp sand beside a watercourse. That habitat explains the two things that set this species apart from the rest of the genus. The branches hang rather than stand, giving the whole tree a fountain habit that carries even out of flower, and the roots will tolerate heavier ground and less than perfect drainage, which almost no other bottlebrush will.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name is unusually literal. \u003cem\u003eCallistemon\u003c\/em\u003e is Greek praise, \u003cem\u003ekallos\u003c\/em\u003e for beauty and \u003cem\u003estemon\u003c\/em\u003e for a thread, because the show is stamens rather than petals; the true petals are small, round, greenish, and drop away almost unnoticed. \u003cem\u003eViminalis\u003c\/em\u003e comes from the Latin \u003cem\u003evimen\u003c\/em\u003e, a pliant shoot, the same root behind the withies a basket maker cuts, and anyone who has watched these branchlets move in a summer storm will grant the point. Under the newer taxonomy the plant is \u003cem\u003eMelaleuca viminalis\u003c\/em\u003e, since molecular work placed the bottlebrushes inside the paperbarks; the nursery trade and the Australian Plant Census have largely kept \u003cem\u003eCallistemon\u003c\/em\u003e, and so do we, while noting the argument honestly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis species carries a piece of Woodlanders history whether or not the botany ever gets settled. Decades ago the growers here selected and fixed a single cold-tough bottlebrush clone and introduced the plant to the American trade as \u003cem\u003eCallistemon\u003c\/em\u003e 'Woodlander's Hardy'. Nobody wrote down the parentage, and to this day the clone is sold variously as a \u003cem\u003ecitrinus\u003c\/em\u003e, as a \u003cem\u003eviminalis\u003c\/em\u003e, and, under the new names, as \u003cem\u003eMelaleuca viminalis\u003c\/em\u003e 'Woodlander's Hardy'. That selection carried the genus a full hardiness zone north, from the Gulf Coast into the piedmont, and now grows coast to coast. The straight species offered here is the wild plant behind at least one half of that argument, which makes growing the two side by side a genuinely interesting exercise for anyone who cares where a garden plant came from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive the tree full sun and room; fifteen to twenty-five feet in time in a mild climate, less where winter cuts back the growth, and the fountain habit wants space rather than a tight corner. Crimson brushes come through spring and summer on new wood, and the nectar pulls hummingbirds and carpenter bees the way the same flowers pull honeyeaters and lorikeets at home. One honest caution, and this one matters: the straight species is a zone 9 to 11 plant, tender where 'Woodlander's Hardy' is tough. Every few winters a hard freeze reminds the Deep South exactly where that line sits. Plant with that knowledge in the Lowcountry and along the Gulf, keep the tree in a container further north, and if what you want is the look with the hardiness, buy the clone we made instead.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45409808056435,"sku":"CALL-VIMI-01G","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/C07F25E0-FBDC-44AD-B34C-1C601F96740E.jpg?v=1787792672"},{"product_id":"camellia-salicifolia","title":"Camellia salicifolia","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost camellias are bought for the flower. This one is bought for the leaf, and anyone who has met the plant in person understands why within about four seconds. \u003cem\u003eCamellia salicifolia\u003c\/em\u003e carries long, thin, lance-shaped leaves that hang rather than sit, closer to a willow or a bamboo than to the stiff glossy ovals of a japonica, so the whole shrub moves in a breeze and reads soft where the rest of the genus reads architectural. New growth comes out coppery and silky, covered in fine hairs, and the young branchlets are villous enough to feel like felt between the fingers. Some growers call the species the willow-leaf camellia and some the Hong Kong camellia; both names point at something true.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wild plant grows under the canopy of evergreen broadleaf forest in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, at moderate elevations between roughly a thousand and twenty-six hundred feet. That is a shade plant's pedigree, and the shrub behaves accordingly in the garden: happiest in high filtered light beneath tall pines or oaks, tolerant of quite deep shade, and unhappy in the full southern sun that a sasanqua will shrug off. Flowers come in autumn and early winter, white, five or six obovate petals, only an inch or so across, and lightly fragrant. Beside a big formal japonica bloom they are almost nothing. Beside the foliage they are exactly the right amount.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpecies camellias like this one matter more than their modest flowers suggest, because breeders keep going back to them. Narrow foliage, fine hairs, scent, and small-flowered grace are traits that the great formal hybrids largely traded away, and \u003cem\u003eC. salicifolia\u003c\/em\u003e has been used in crosses aiming to bring fragrance and a lighter habit back into the group. The genus honors Georg Josef Kamel, the Moravian Jesuit and pharmacist who worked in the Philippines and sent careful plant descriptions back to Europe, and whom Linnaeus commemorated in a genus Kamel himself never worked on. \u003cem\u003eSalicifolia\u003c\/em\u003e is plain description: willow-leaved, from \u003cem\u003eSalix\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite the shrub in a woodland bed where the hanging foliage can be seen against something darker and stiller, and where a hand can reach the new growth in spring, because the felted young shoots are half the pleasure of growing the plant. Eight to fifteen feet in time, open and graceful rather than dense; resist shearing, which destroys the very habit worth having. Acid, humus-rich, well-drained soil, even moisture, and shelter from cold dry wind. One honest caution: this is a subtropical species, hardy in roughly zones 8 to 10 and less cold-tolerant than the japonicas most Southern gardeners know, so give a protected corner in 8a and be prepared to lose the tips in a hard winter. Very few American nurseries have ever offered the plant, which is reason enough to try.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45409808613491,"sku":"CAME-SALI-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/7D1C88FD-ED5B-40E0-A612-F2D69D93B76E.jpg?v=1787797107"},{"product_id":"schima-remotiserrata","title":"Schima remotiserrata","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf you already grow a camellia, a stewartia, or a Franklinia, you know most of what a \u003cem\u003eSchima\u003c\/em\u003e is trying to be. The genus sits in the tea family, evergreen where the American members are deciduous, and carries the family flower in the purest form the family manages: five white petals cupped around a dense boss of gold stamens, two inches or so across, fragrant, and scattered through the crown in summer rather than delivered all at once. \u003cem\u003eSchima remotiserrata\u003c\/em\u003e is a southeast Chinese species, native to Fujian, Guangdong, eastern Guangxi, southern Hunan, and Jiangxi, and almost unknown in American gardens; the epithet refers to the leaf margin, toothed at intervals rather than continuously, which is the field character that separates this species from a shelf full of near relatives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus name is a piece of quiet observation. \u003cem\u003eSchima\u003c\/em\u003e derives from the Greek \u003cem\u003eskiasma\u003c\/em\u003e, a shadow, for the dense shade a mature crown throws. That is not marketing; these are forest trees, and in the wild parts of the genus exceed a hundred feet. In cultivation on this side of the Pacific expect something far more reasonable, an upright evergreen of thirty to fifty feet over a long life, with handsome leathery foliage flushing bronze-red on new growth and holding good colour through winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe family connections are the interesting part, and Woodlanders has a stake in them. \u003cem\u003eSchima\u003c\/em\u003e is closest of the Asian tea-family genera to \u003cem\u003eFranklinia alatamaha\u003c\/em\u003e, the tree John and William Bartram found on the Altamaha River in Georgia in 1765 and which has not been seen in the wild since about 1803. That relationship is close enough to cross: the intergeneric hybrid ×\u003cem\u003eSchimlinia floribunda\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFranklinia\u003c\/em\u003e crossed with \u003cem\u003eSchima argentea\u003c\/em\u003e, is a plant we grow and sell here, as is \u003cem\u003eS. argentea\u003c\/em\u003e itself and \u003cem\u003eS. superba\u003c\/em\u003e. Adding a fourth species to the bench is how a nursery finds out what else the genus will do, and anyone building a Theaceae collection now has another piece to place beside the stewartias and the gordonias.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite the tree in full sun to light high shade, in acid, humus-rich, well-drained soil, and give real room; a shade tree that throws the shade the Greek name promises is not a courtyard plant. Water through establishment and in droughts, and mulch to keep the roots cool. One honest caution: \u003cem\u003eSchima\u003c\/em\u003e is subtropical to warm-temperate, and while young plants of the genus have taken temperatures as low as about eighteen degrees Fahrenheit, frost protection through the first winters is sensible and this species is untested across most of the country. Call the tree zone 8b to 10 for now, plant with a warm wall or an evergreen windbreak behind, and understand that you are helping find out where the limit actually is. That is a fair description of most of the interesting plants we sell.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45409809072243,"sku":"SCHI-REMO-01G","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/3479F5CB-5561-4DE0-B9F9-407511F74024.jpg?v=1787792736"},{"product_id":"sinoadina-racemosa","title":"Sinoadina racemosa","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere is a tree almost nobody in American horticulture has grown, and the reason is not that the plant is difficult. \u003cem\u003eSinoadina racemosa\u003c\/em\u003e is simply obscure: a deciduous member of the madder family ranging from northern Myanmar and Thailand through southern China, Taiwan, the Ryukyu Islands, and into Japan, running fifteen to forty feet tall with grey trunk bark and smooth young branches. In summer the tree carries small flowers packed tight into spherical heads, the heads themselves gathered into open terminal panicles, which is exactly what the epithet \u003cem\u003eracemosa\u003c\/em\u003e is pointing at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnyone who grows a buttonbush will recognise that flower head immediately, and the resemblance is real family resemblance rather than coincidence. Rubiaceae is the coffee and gardenia family, and within it this tree sits in the same tribe as our own \u003cem\u003eCephalanthus occidentalis\u003c\/em\u003e, the buttonbush of Southern pond margins with the little sputnik flowers. The connection reaches further than that: \u003cem\u003ePinckneya bracteata\u003c\/em\u003e, the fever tree of Georgia and Carolina bays, is another Rubiaceae cousin, and we collected cuttings of both plants in the same week. Growing them within sight of one another is a good way to see how far one plant family can travel and still keep the same habits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe naming has been unsettled for two centuries. Siebold and Zuccarini described the plant from Japanese material in the nineteenth century; the species then spent decades filed under \u003cem\u003eAdina\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003eNauclea\u003c\/em\u003e before Ridsdale erected \u003cem\u003eSinoadina\u003c\/em\u003e for the tree in 1978, and some authorities still fold the genus straight back into \u003cem\u003eAdina\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eAdina\u003c\/em\u003e comes from the Greek \u003cem\u003eadinos\u003c\/em\u003e, crowded, for those tight-packed heads, and \u003cem\u003eSino-\u003c\/em\u003e is simply the Chinese half of the range. You may see either name on a label; both point at the same tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn honest note, and we would rather lead with it than bury it. The horticultural literature on this species is close to nonexistent, so what follows is our best reading rather than settled fact. Our cuttings came from a plant growing in the UGA Trial Garden in Athens, Georgia, which is practical evidence of hardiness in the middle of zone 8a and encouraging for the piedmont generally; we would call the tree zone 7b to 9 provisionally and revise as we learn. Site in full sun to light shade in decent, evenly moist, well-drained ground, give room for a small shade tree, and treat the whole exercise as a collaboration. 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