{"title":"Rare \u0026 Unusual","description":"\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders exists because of the plants that are hard to find. Some are rare in the wild and always were, endemic to one river system or one ridge. Some were common once and are not now. Some were never rare at all, only overlooked, passed hand to hand between gardeners while the trade moved on to whatever shipped more easily. All of them are here for the same reason: nobody else was going to grow them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the whole of that part of the catalog, several hundred plants deep and changing constantly, since rarity and availability are the same problem seen from two directions. Filter by zone, sun, and soil to find what will actually live where you garden, and read the listings; most carry the story of where the plant came from and who kept the line going. For the smallest and strangest end of the list, see \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/curiosities\"\u003eCuriosities\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"abelia-chinensis","title":"Abelia chinensis","description":"\u003cp\u003eA seldom-seen species with old-world charm, Abelia chinensis is a deciduous shrub native to China and one of the foundational parents of the widely grown Abelia x grandiflora. Far less common in American gardens than its hybrid offspring, the true species offers its own quiet distinctions: larger foliage, a fuller habit, and a long summer season of bloom that makes it a thoughtful choice for collectors and pollinator gardeners alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt grows upright to gently arching, reaching four to six feet in height and spread, with leaves notably larger than those of the typical hybrid Abelias. In summer it covers itself in a profusion of small white, lightly fragrant flowers that draw butterflies, bees, and other pollinators in real numbers. The tubular blooms appear in clusters along the stems and carry on well into early fall, each one cradled in a rosy calyx that lingers after the petals drop and gives the shrub a soft pink haze late in the season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a surprisingly hardy plant, flowering reliably into USDA zone 5, though in the coldest winters it may die back toward the ground and return from the base in spring. In warmer zones it holds a fuller above-ground form and takes well to light pruning for shape or renewal. Give it full sun to part shade and well-drained soil; it prefers steady moisture but shows good drought tolerance once established.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden its graceful habit and long bloom suit it to an informal hedge, a mixed border, or a naturalistic planting where pollinators are welcome. Set it where the late-summer flowers and lingering pink calyces can be enjoyed up close, and where its history as the parent of a garden mainstay can be quietly appreciated.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057804972147,"sku":"ABEL-CHIN-01G","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Abelia_chinensis_peganum_CCBYSA20.jpg?v=1748735441"},{"product_id":"abeliophyllum-distichum","title":"Abeliophyllum distichum","description":"\u003cp\u003eAbeliophyllum is a genus of a single species, first described from Korea in 1919 and grown in Western gardens since the 1930s, when it earned an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. It belongs to the olive family beside lilac and forsythia, and in the wild it clings on at only a handful of Korean sites, where it is now protected by law as an endangered plant. This is the white-flowered species itself, the parent of the better-known pink form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is among the earliest shrubs to bloom, opening before forsythia and most everything else. In late winter, fragrant white flowers tinged faintly with pink break from purplish buds along the bare grey wood, weeks ahead of any leaf, carrying a clean almond sweetness on cold air. A multi-stemmed deciduous shrub of four to six feet, it is hardy through hard winters and altogether tougher than its delicate flowering suggests.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive it full sun to part shade and ordinary well-drained soil with good moisture; it flowers most freely in sun. It can run a little leggy if neglected, so prune right after bloom to keep it shapely, since the flowers form on the previous year's wood. Dark green foliage follows and carries the plant quietly through the season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, treat it as a herald of spring. Plant it where you pass close in the cold months, by a door or along a path, so the fragrance finds you, and cut branches to force indoors. It is lovely among hellebores, snowdrops, and early bulbs, and rare enough to be a quiet conversation piece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805070451,"sku":"ABEL-DIST-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-263.jpg?v=1720136088"},{"product_id":"alnus-maritima","title":"Alnus maritima","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeaside alder is a medium to large deciduous shrub, sometimes a small tree, with glossy, oval, toothed leaves and a habit of doing things backward. Where every other native alder flowers in spring, \u003cem\u003eAlnus maritima\u003c\/em\u003e opens elongated catkins in the fall, then carries small, woody, pinecone-like fruits through winter for quiet ornament.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe native range is as unusual as the bloom time. Seaside alder grows wild in only a few places: a limited area on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and adjacent Delaware, a single area in Oklahoma, and a more recently discovered population in north Georgia. Genetic studies suggest these widely separated stands are distinct subspecies, the remnants of a once far more widespread plant. Our material comes from the eastern population.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRare in cultivation but easy and adaptable, seaside alder takes to moist, sunny places and to ordinary garden soil, and like other alders fixes nitrogen at the roots to enrich poor ground. A fine choice for a pond edge, a rain garden, a streambank, or any damp spot needing soil stabilization, where the fall catkins and persistent little cones earn a second look. Hardy in zones 6 to 9.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057808576627,"sku":"ALNU-MARI-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2112.jpg?v=1720136254"},{"product_id":"alpinia-sp","title":"Alpinia sp","description":"\u003cp\u003eA hardy evergreen ginger of unsettled name, this \u003cem\u003eAlpinia\u003c\/em\u003e forms dense, upright clumps of lance-shaped leaves that hold their fresh green right through the year in a mild climate, bringing a lush, tropical structure to the shade garden. In the warm months, bright yellow flower spikes rise above the foliage for an unexpected lift of color in deep shade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plant came to Woodlanders by way of Frank Bell, who collected the ginger in 1998 in Sichuan Province, China, and the stock has proven adaptable in regional gardens. A fine evergreen filler for sheltered, shaded ground, grown as much for the bold year-round foliage as for the summer bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive this ginger the shade, shelter, and moist, fertile soil of a woodland border or a courtyard bed, where the clumps can knit together into a leafy groundcover. Hardy in zones 8 to 10, evergreen where winters stay mild, and easily lifted into a container to overwinter at the cold edge of the range.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057809100915,"sku":"ALPI-SP-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/591C10BB-C8AB-4893-ADB3-1C50F336F4E1.jpg?v=1758067839"},{"product_id":"amelanchier-nantucketensis","title":"Amelanchier nantucketensis","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong the rarest of the serviceberries, Amelanchier nantucketensis is a low, thicket-forming shrub that Eugene Bicknell first described in 1911 from the sandplains of Nantucket, the Massachusetts island whose name the plant carries. Nantucket serviceberry belongs to a small, taxonomically slippery group within the rose family, so closely tangled with neighboring shadbushes that botanists have argued for more than a century over whether this is a true species or a stabilized hybrid. What sets the plant apart is disarmingly small: petals shorter than those of any other serviceberry in the Northeast, often dusted with pollen along their own margins, a quirk called andropetaly that appears nowhere else in the group.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the wild, colonies cling to open, sandy, sun-baked ground, the pine barrens, sandplain grasslands, and maritime heaths scattered thinly from Nova Scotia and Maine down the coast to Long Island, with the stronghold on Nantucket itself. This is a shrub built for lean living, spreading quietly by underground stolons into low drifts rather than rising into a single crown. White flowers open in mid-spring on short, erect racemes, feeding early bees and butterflies, and give way by early summer to small pomes that birds strip almost as fast as they ripen. Because Nantucket serviceberry is globally uncommon and state-protected across much of that range, growing nursery-propagated stock is a small act of conservation as much as gardening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus name travels from amelanchièr, the old Provençal word for the European serviceberry, while the English names carry their own folklore. Shadbush marks the moment the flowers open, timed to the spring run of shad up the rivers; serviceberry most likely descends from Sorbus, the rowans whose small red pomes the fruit resembles, though a fond old story ties the word to the funeral services held once spring thawed the ground. Serviceberry fruit across the genus is sweet and blueberry-like with a faint almond note from the seeds, long gathered for pies, jams, and preserves, and this species offers the same edible reward on a smaller, wilder scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders is indebted to Richard Lynch of the Sweetbay Magnolia Bioreserve on Staten Island, New York, for the original stock behind these plants, a lineage worth preserving. In the garden, Nantucket serviceberry asks for full sun and sharp, sandy, acidic soil, the leaner the better, and repays neglect once established. Set the shrub where a low, suckering colony is welcome, along a sunny bank, at a meadow or woodland edge, or woven into a coastal or native planting beside little bluestem, bearberry, lowbush blueberry, and bayberry. Deer tend to pass the plant by, and the autumn foliage warms to orange and red before the bare, twiggy winter frame takes over.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057809363059,"sku":"AMEL-NANT-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1235.jpg?v=1720136300"},{"product_id":"amorpha-laevigata","title":"Amorpha laevigata","description":"\u003cp\u003eSmooth false indigo is a rare deciduous shrub of sandy southern streambanks, carrying pinnate, compound leaves whose leaflets are notably large and rounded, a softer, more luxuriant texture than the ferny foliage of the common false indigos. In early summer the branch tips raise slender spikes of tiny blue to purple flowers, each lit with the bright orange anthers typical of the genus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plant is genuinely rare in the wild, known from only a very few localities on sandy stream banks in Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana. We thank our friend Ron Lance for collecting seed of this uncommon species and sharing it with us; Woodlanders may be the first to offer the plant to the gardening public.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA choice native for a sunny to lightly shaded border, a streamside planting, or a collector's bed, where the bold compound foliage and purple summer spikes earn their place and the flowers feed bees and butterflies. Like other false indigos, smooth false indigo fixes nitrogen at the roots and asks little once established. Six to eight feet, in well-drained, even sandy, soil.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057809592435,"sku":"AMOR-LAEV-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"amsonia-ludoviciana","title":"Amsonia ludoviciana","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost bluestars are smooth, cool customers; \u003cem\u003eAmsonia ludoviciana\u003c\/em\u003e is the outlier of the group. The Louisiana bluestar belongs to the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, and shares the clan's five-petaled, star-shaped flowers and milky sap, but the leaves set the species apart: narrow and willowy, and unusually clothed beneath with a grey-white felt, a woolly tomentum that catches the light and lends the whole plant a soft, silvered cast rare in the genus. In spring, clustered flowers of a clean sky-blue open at the tips of the upright stems, quiet and steely and worked over by the first butterflies of the season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a real story behind these plants. Woodlanders obtained the Louisiana bluestar years ago from Brookgreen Gardens on the South Carolina coast, where the perennial had grown in cultivation since the celebrated botanist Dr. J. K. Small introduced the plant there in perhaps the 1920s. For a long stretch the species was feared lost, thought extinct in the wild, before being rediscovered in Louisiana; today botanists record scattered, uncommon populations from South Carolina west through Louisiana and Mississippi. Growing a nursery-raised plant of this rank keeps a rare Southeastern native in gardens and in circulation, a quiet piece of conservation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe names carry their own small histories. The genus \u003cem\u003eAmsonia\u003c\/em\u003e honors Charles Amson, an eighteenth-century physician of colonial Virginia, while the epithet \u003cem\u003eludoviciana\u003c\/em\u003e means simply of Louisiana, the state that sheltered the rediscovered plants. Like the milkweeds to which the bluestars are related, the stems run with a milky latex that browsing deer and rabbits leave strictly alone, so the plant reads as both delicate and durable: pollinators come for the spring nectar, and almost nothing comes to graze.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden the Louisiana bluestar earns a place three seasons running. Site the plant in full sun to light shade and give lean, well-drained ground; despite wet-flatwoods origins the deep-rooted perennial shrugs off drought once settled, and only floppy, over-lush growth comes of rich soil. The spring flowers read against the silvered foliage, the fine-textured mound holds all summer, and in autumn the leaves turn a warm butter-gold that lights the border before the stems die back for winter. Set a plant among little bluestem, coneflower, and baptisia for a sunny native planting, or let a drift carry the cool blue through the edge of a meadow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057809985651,"sku":"AMSO-LUDO-01G","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1077.jpg?v=1720136343"},{"product_id":"anredera-cordifolia","title":"Anredera cordifolia","description":"\u003cp\u003eMadeira vine is a fast, twining, deciduous climber with fleshy, heart-shaped leaves and sprays of tiny, fragrant cream-white flowers in late summer and fall. \u003cem\u003eAnredera cordifolia\u003c\/em\u003e climbs by winding tuberous stems, and a warty crop of aerial tubers along the stems, some as large as a small potato, is the surest mark of the plant and a ready means of increase.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to South America despite the name, Madeira vine has been grown for centuries across warm regions, both as an ornamental and as a leaf-and-tuber vegetable, the leaves and tubers being edible. The vine is vigorous, and in some warm regions, notably parts of Australia, has naturalized aggressively enough to be treated as a weed; in the southern United States, as far as we know, the plant has not caused that kind of trouble. Where winters turn cold, give a deep mulch to carry the roots through.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross Southeast and East Asia the same vine is the famous binahong, long valued in folk medicine, above all for healing wounds. Grown here for the fragrant flowers and lush, fast cover on a trellis, an arbor, or a fence, where the sweet scent and quick screen earn a place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotos courtesy of Forest and Kim Starr.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057810608243,"sku":"ANRE-CORD-01G","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/andredracordifoliaMauiHawaiiForestandKimStarr.jpg?v=1752075764"},{"product_id":"araucaria-angustifolia","title":"Araucaria angustifolia","description":"\u003cp\u003eAraucaria angustifolia is a living relic, one of the last of an ancient conifer family that shaded the dinosaurs across the supercontinent of Gondwana. The Paraná pine belongs to the Araucariaceae, kin to the Chilean monkey puzzle, the Norfolk Island pine, the Australian bunya, and the famously rediscovered Wollemi pine, a lineage once spread worldwide and now scattered mostly across the Southern Hemisphere. Despite the common name, the tree is no true pine at all, but something far older and stranger, holding stiff, sharp, dark green leaves on the branch for a decade or more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the wild, Araucaria angustifolia crowns the highland forests of southern Brazil, reaching into northern Argentina and Paraguay, the defining emergent of the Araucaria moist forests within the greater Atlantic Forest. A century of logging for that pale, valuable timber, together with clearing for farms and plantations, has taken an estimated ninety-seven percent of the original range, and the species is now listed by the IUCN as Critically Endangered. To grow one is to keep a piece of a vanishing forest alive, and to plant a tree that may outlast the gardener by generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus name honors the Arauco region of southern Chile and the Araucano, or Mapuche, people in whose homeland the first-known species grows, while angustifolia simply means narrow-leaved. In southern Brazil the tree means winter food. Female trees, quite separate from the males, ripen enormous cones packed with a hundred or more large seeds called pinhão, gathered by the ton and boiled or roasted through the cold months, ground into flour, and celebrated at seasonal festivals. The harvest is shared with the forest, for the azure jay caches the seeds and, forgetting some, plants the next generation, a partnership on which the tree's survival partly depends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiven room, Araucaria angustifolia grows tall and columnar, self-pruning to a clean trunk topped by whorls of upturned branches that flatten with age into the candelabra or umbrella crown that names the tree, well over a hundred feet in habitat and more slowly in cultivation. For Southern gardeners the appeal is practical as well as romantic, since this species tolerates the region's heat and humid summers far better than the Chilean monkey puzzle, asking mainly for full sun and well-drained soil. Site the tree in the open as a rare specimen and living fossil, where the bold, prehistoric silhouette can stand alone against the sky.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057811132531,"sku":"ARAU-ANGU-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/AraucariaangustifoliaRickFencl.jpg?v=1784305075"},{"product_id":"ardisia-japonica-hakuokan","title":"Ardisia japonica 'Hakuokan'","description":"\u003cp\u003eArdisia japonica 'Hakuokan' is a jewel of the Japanese shade garden, a low evergreen groundcover whose small, glossy, leathery leaves are edged in a clean band of creamy white. The green species, called yabukoji in Japan and marlberry in English, has grown wild in the woodland understory of Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan for ages, spreading quietly by underground runners into knee-low colonies. 'Hakuokan', a name that reads roughly as white royal crown, is a variegated selection prized by collectors, slower and more compact than the plain species and all the more luminous for the pale margin that catches light in a dim corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlants like this one carry a long cultural history. From the Edo period, Japanese growers cultivated an art of koten engei, the classical horticulture of collecting foliage variants, natural sports, and variegated forms, displayed in special pots and ranked in printed lists modeled on sumo. Yabukoji stood among the traditional subjects of that pursuit, and named variegated forms such as 'Hakuokan' descend from exactly that connoisseur's eye for the beautiful mutation. The bright red berries that follow the flowers have long earned the plant a place in Japanese New Year arrangements as a token of good fortune.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn midsummer, small star-shaped flowers of white blushed with pink nod in little clusters beneath the leaves, followed in autumn by round, coral-red berries that hold through winter against the evergreen foliage, one of the plant's quiet pleasures. The genus name Ardisia comes from the Greek ardis, a spear point, for the sharp tip of the flower's anthers, and japonica marks the plant long associated with Japanese gardens. Low, slow, and evergreen, 'Hakuokan' asks little and gives a long season of interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond the garden, the green species holds a serious place in Chinese herbal tradition, where the whole herb, known as zi jin niu, was gathered and decocted chiefly for coughs and complaints of the lungs, a use modern laboratories have traced to a well-studied compound called bergenin. In cultivation, set 'Hakuokan' in part to full shade, in moist, humus-rich, acidic soil, as a refined groundcover for woodland beds, shaded borders, and Japanese-style plantings, where the white margins lift the gloom. Pair the plant with ferns, hostas, and hellebores, shelter the foliage from hot afternoon sun, and let the slow colony knit itself together over time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057811329139,"sku":"ARDI-JAPO-HAKU-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Ardisia_japonica_Hakuakan_NC.webp?v=1784297451"},{"product_id":"asimina-obovata","title":"Asimina obovata","description":"\u003cp\u003eAsimina obovata is the bigflower pawpaw, a Florida native that carries the largest, showiest blooms in a genus better known for its fruit. The pawpaws are the temperate outliers of the Annonaceae, the custard apple family whose tropical members include the cherimoya, soursop, and ylang-ylang, and Asimina alone among them ventures north into the sandy uplands of the American Southeast. The genus name descends from an early Native American word for the fruit, carried into English through the French asiminier, while obovata describes the egg-shaped leaves, broadest above the middle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn spring, as the new leaves emerge, the plant opens creamy white flowers several inches across, far larger and paler than the deep maroon bells of the common pawpaw, Asimina triloba. Beetles and flies do the pollinating, and by late summer some flowers give way to aromatic, fleshy green fruits holding large brown seeds. The fruit is edible, though most gardeners rate the flavor below that of the northern pawpaw and grow this species instead for the flowers, the foliage, and the wildlife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a plant of the Florida scrub, at home in the peninsula's dry sandhills and sandy ridges where little else will grow, in blazing sun and sharp, fast-draining sand. Bigflower pawpaw earns a place in the native and butterfly garden as a larval host for the zebra swallowtail, whose caterpillars feed only on Asimina leaves, and for the pawpaw sphinx moth as well. Where the common pawpaw wants rich, moist woodland, this southern cousin asks for the opposite, lean sand and excellent drainage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive Asimina obovata full sun to light shade and the sandiest, sharpest soil available, with little competition from neighbors. Like other pawpaws the plant sends down a deep taproot and resents disturbance, so site the shrub thoughtfully and let the roots settle undisturbed. In a sandhill restoration, a xeric native border, or a butterfly garden, the big white spring flowers and clean summer foliage make this rare Florida endemic a quietly distinctive choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotos courtesy of Jay Horn and Alan Cressler\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057813393523,"sku":"ASIM-OBOV-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/AsiminaobovataJayHorn.jpg?v=1784297285"},{"product_id":"aster-georgiana","title":"Symphyotrichum georgianum","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the open oak-hickory woodlands and fire-maintained savannas that once covered the upland South, Georgia aster was a fixture, a late-season native sending up violet-blue flowers in October and November at the precise moment when almost everything else had finished. That landscape is largely gone now, and the aster went with most of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat remains are scattered populations in Georgia, Alabama, the Carolinas, and a handful of other Piedmont sites, stands that persist not because the plant is particularly fragile, but because Georgia aster requires something modern land management rarely provides: disturbance, and fire specifically. The species evolved in ecosystems shaped by regular burning, where the suppression of woody growth kept the canopy open and the light reaching the ground. Take away the fire, and the shrubs move in; take away the shrubs, and the aster comes back. The plant itself is not the problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis makes Symphyotrichum georgianum a genuinely interesting garden subject, not just botanically significant but ecologically legible in a way few native perennials manage. In cultivation the aster spreads steadily by underground rhizomes, forming colonies that expand politely over time rather than aggressively. The October flowers are a vivid violet-blue, borne in loose branching clusters on stems that reach three to four feet, late enough in the season to overlap with goldenrods and ornamental grasses, early enough to escape the first frosts across most of the native range. Bees and late-season butterflies find the flowers reliably, sometimes in considerable numbers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing Georgia aster is, in a quiet way, a conservation act. The garden populations that exist in cultivation, including the Woodlanders stock, represent a meaningful fraction of what remains of this species in any accessible form. A rare plant worth knowing, and worth growing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057815228531,"sku":"ASTE-GEOR-01Q","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/ScreenShot2024-10-28at12.21.34PM.png?v=1730132547"},{"product_id":"aster-eurybia-spinulosus-spinulosa","title":"Eurybia spinulosa","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis very rare aster, now placed in the genus Eurybia, is a true Florida endemic, native only to the moist pine flatwoods of the lower Apalachicola River. The plant is a botanical oddity: the clumping, foot-tall foliage is narrow, stiff, and grass-like, so unlike the leafy stems of an ordinary aster that a passerby might take the clump for a tuft of sedge. From late spring into early summer, slender flower stems rise above the leaves carrying clusters of inch-wide lavender-purple daisies, each ringing a small yellow eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Apalachicola aster is a plant of serious conservation concern, ranked critically imperiled and listed as endangered by the state of Florida, the narrow native world squeezed by development along the river. That rarity is part of what makes the plant so worth growing: nursery propagation keeps a threatened native in cultivation and takes a little pressure off the wild stands. Our current stock traces to a wild collection Bob McCartney sourced in southern Georgia, and that stock has grown at the nursery for about ten years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHappily, the pineland aster has proven willing. The plant has grown well and multiplied in containers here, and should settle readily into a sunny garden bed with sandy, sharply drained soil. The grassy clumps stay tidy and upright, and the late-spring lavender flowers arrive as many earlier perennials fade, drawing bees and other small pollinators to a quiet turn of the year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeldom seen in gardens and rarer still in the wild, this is a collector's native for the sunny meadow, the sandy border, or the rock garden, where the stiff grassy texture plays against softer neighbors. Because the plant is so little known in cultivation, we welcome your reports on how the aster performs for you; every garden trial helps secure the future of a genuine Florida rarity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057815359603,"sku":"ASTE-EURY-SPIN-SPIN-01Q","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/8CF9B34B-C34E-406E-B612-D0C4CD7B732B.jpg?v=1785812256"},{"product_id":"aucuba-japonica-var-borealis","title":"Aucuba japonica var. borealis","description":"\u003cp\u003eAucuba japonica is one of the great problem-solvers of the shade garden, a glossy broadleaf evergreen that thrives in the dry, difficult shade where few other shrubs will, and var. borealis is the toughest of the clan. Drawn from the cold northern reaches of the plant's Japanese range, this small-leaved form was selected for hardiness, holding very shiny, dark green, leathery leaves through winters that would burn a common aucuba. The genus name is a Latin rendering of the Japanese aokiba, for the ever-green leaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere most aucubas are content only from the middle South and warmer, var. borealis pushes the boundary north, recorded surviving four degrees Fahrenheit at the U.S. National Arboretum in the winter of 1994. That cold tolerance, roughly to USDA zone 6, makes the northern Japanese aucuba a rare thing, a broadleaf evergreen for shade in gardens too cold for the rest of the genus. Like all aucubas, the plant is dioecious, and female plants carry glossy red berries into winter when a male grows nearby.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAucuba has long been a city gardener's ally, shrugging off pollution, salt, deep shade, and neglect, and this hardy form brings that resilience to colder ground. Set the shrub in part to full shade in good, moisture-retentive but well-drained soil, as a foundation planting on a north wall, a filler in a shaded border, or an evergreen anchor in a woodland corner. The small, dark, lacquered leaves catch what little light reaches them and give substance to the dim places.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe small maroon spring flowers pass almost unnoticed, for the ornament here is the foliage and, on pollinated females, the scarlet fruit. A gentle caution worth noting: the leaves and berries contain compounds that can cause stomach upset if eaten, so site the plant accordingly where small children graze. Slow, durable, and quietly handsome, var. borealis rewards the patient gardener with decades of evergreen presence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057815982195,"sku":"AUCU-JAPO-BORE-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Aucubajaponicavar.borealisJCRA.jpg?v=1784297897"},{"product_id":"aucuba-sp-himalayica","title":"Aucuba sp. (himalayica?)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is one of the quiet mysteries of the Woodlanders collection, a narrow-leaved evergreen aucuba received years ago from the U.S. National Arboretum under the name Aucuba himalayica, and quite possibly the slender japonica form known as 'Longifolia' instead. Either way the plant is a striking departure from the usual aucuba, trading broad, spotted leaves for long, willow-like, finely serrated blades of glossy dark green. Woodlanders has not seen this aucuba offered anywhere else, which makes the plant a true collector's piece whatever the correct name proves to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe uncertainty is real and worth telling honestly. A genuine Himalayan species, Aucuba himalaica, does exist, distinguished from the Japanese aucuba chiefly by narrow leaves and fine hairs on the young shoots and flower stalks, where japonica is smooth. Because the narrow-leaved japonica form 'Longifolia' looks much the same, plants passed along as himalaica are often one or the other, and only a close look at the new growth settles the question. Woodlanders offers the plant as received, an intriguing narrow-leaf aucuba awaiting a final verdict.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhatever the label, this is an aucuba, and aucubas are among the most forgiving of shade evergreens, tolerant of deep shade, dry soil, city pollution, and general neglect. The genus name comes from the Japanese aokiba, for the evergreen leaves, and like the rest of the clan this narrow-leaved form is dioecious, with small maroon spring flowers and, on pollinated females, red berries in the cooler months. The elegant, tapered foliage gives the plant a lighter, more refined look than the broad-leaved aucubas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet this narrow-leaved aucuba in part to full shade in good, well-drained soil with steady moisture, as a foundation shrub, a shaded border filler, or a distinctive evergreen in a woodland planting. The slim leaves read almost like bamboo from a distance and pair well with ferns, hellebores, and other shade companions. As with all aucubas, the leaves and berries can upset the stomach if eaten, a small caution to weigh where children play.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057816047731,"sku":"AUCU-HIMA-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-281.jpg?v=1720136557"},{"product_id":"baccharis-dioica","title":"Baccharis dioica","description":"\u003cp\u003eA rare, semi-evergreen shrub, \u003cem\u003eBaccharis dioica\u003c\/em\u003e resembles the common groundsel bush, \u003cem\u003eBaccharis halimifolia\u003c\/em\u003e, but is quite distinct. In 1979, just before Hurricane Frederic did tremendous damage to the Mobile, Alabama area, we found this plant growing behind the dunes on Dauphin Island.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot recognizing the shrub, we sent material to the recognized authority on the genus at Southern Methodist University, who identified the plant as Baccharis dioica, a Caribbean species new to Alabama. Otherwise known in the United States only from southernmost Florida, where the species is now considered extirpated, this rare broombush has proven winter hardy for years in our South Carolina garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA salt-tolerant, drought-tolerant shrub for a hot, sunny, coastal or seaside garden, where few other shrubs will take the wind and salt. Like the rest of the genus, Baccharis dioica carries male and female flowers on separate plants, the females bearing soft white seed fluff in fall. A botanical rarity and a piece of Gulf Coast natural history for the collector and the coastal gardener.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdditional photos courtesy of George D. Gann.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057816604787,"sku":"BACC-DIOI-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/BaccharisdioicaGeorgeDGannWoodlanders2.jpg?v=1755116489"},{"product_id":"bejaria-befaria-racemosa","title":"Bejaria (Befaria) racemosa","description":"\u003cp\u003eBejaria racemosa, the tarflower, is one of the odd and lovely surprises of the Florida scrub, a heath-family shrub that looks nothing like the rest of the clan. Where blueberries and azaleas carry small, fused, bell-shaped blooms, tarflower opens wide flowers of seven separate petals, white to soft pink and sweetly fragrant, held in loose summer racemes. The genus honors the eighteenth-century Spanish botanist Jose Bejar, and though older books spell the name Befaria, botanists have since settled on Bejaria.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe common names tarflower and flycatcher come from the plant's strangest habit. The buds, young twigs, and flowers are coated in a sticky, resinous film that catches small insects like flypaper, and whether the shrub draws any nourishment from the trapped visitors or simply fends off nectar thieves is a question botanists still debate. Either way, the large native bees strong enough to work the blooms pass freely, doing the real business of pollination while ants and small flies stay stuck at the door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTarflower belongs to the fire-shaped scrub and sandy pine flatwoods of Florida and the neighboring Deep South, thriving on lean, acid sand where richer soil and standing water would spell trouble. Like the blueberries and azaleas nearby, the plant depends on sharp drainage and an acid root run, and repays those conditions with fragrant summer flowers and a quietly picturesque, often twisting form. Bees, butterflies, and at least one native moth make use of the plant through the season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeldom offered in the trade and famously particular about transplanting, tarflower is a collector's shrub and a conversation piece for the native, xeric, or pollinator garden. Give Bejaria racemosa full sun to light shade and very sandy, sharply drained, acid soil, and resist the urge to pamper the roots. Sited well, this uncommon Florida native rewards the patient gardener with sticky, seven-petaled, honey-scented flowers found on nothing else in the border.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057817489523,"sku":"BEJA-BEFA-RACE-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Bejaria_Befaria_racemosaAlanCresslar.jpg?v=1784298434"},{"product_id":"buddleia-cordata-ssp-tomentella","title":"Buddleia cordata ssp. tomentella","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuddleia cordata\u003c\/em\u003e ssp. \u003cem\u003etomentella\u003c\/em\u003e is a striking, large evergreen shrub with broad, somewhat heart-shaped leaves in soft gray-green, the lighter undersides flashing in every breeze. First collected by Yucca-Do Nursery near Los Lerios in Coahuila, Mexico, the plant was originally offered by Woodlanders as Buddleia sp. 'Los Lerios', and the true identity was later confirmed by Dr. Jon Lindstrom of the University of Arkansas, a longtime customer and plantsman of note.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRemarkably hardy for a Mexican evergreen, reliable in zone 8, this robust shrub thrives in a sunny site with well-drained soil. In summer, dense terminal clusters of tiny greenish to creamy-white flowers gather at the branch tips, an unusual but quietly handsome display. In form and effect, Dr. Lindstrom notes, the shrub can resemble a sumac, lending a soft, architectural presence to the garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a specimen or part of a mixed border, Buddleia cordata ssp. tomentella offers year-round gray-green foliage, summer bloom for pollinators, and a fascinating backstory, a plant for the collector and the adventurous gardener. Drought-tolerant once established.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057819062387,"sku":"BUDD-CORD-SSP-TOME-01G","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Buddleiacordatassp.tomentellaWoodlanders1.jpg?v=1755116341"},{"product_id":"buddleia-loricata","title":"Buddleia loricata","description":"\u003cp\u003eBuddleia loricata, the mountain sagewood, is a rugged evergreen from the high Drakensberg of South Africa and Lesotho, and one of the hardiest of all the butterfly bushes. Unlike the familiar deciduous buddlejas, this species holds narrow, crinkled, sage-like leaves the year round, dark green above and felted silvery white beneath. The species epithet loricata means clad in mail or armored, a nod to that tough, quilted foliage, while the genus honors the English clergyman-botanist Adam Buddle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the warm months the shrub carries dense terminal heads of small, sweetly honey-scented flowers, creamy white to pale yellow and often lit with an orange eye. Butterflies and bees work the fragrant clusters as they do on the common buddlejas, but here the show comes on an evergreen, mountain-tough plant rather than a rangy summer one. In the wild, mountain sagewood grows among rocks and in sheltered, moist gullies high on the slopes, well above six thousand feet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat alpine origin gives the mountain sagewood an unusual toughness, shrugging off frost and cold that would cut down more tender kin, and standing among the most cold-hardy buddlejas in cultivation. Give the shrub full sun and well-drained soil, where the plant asks little once established and holds a neat, bushy form on non-invasive roots. Little known and still largely untested in American gardens, this is a plant for the curious grower and the collector.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet Buddleia loricata where the fragrance and the pollinators can be enjoyed, in a sunny border, a rock garden, a low hedge, or a butterfly planting. The evergreen, silver-backed foliage earns a place even out of bloom, and the sweet summer flower heads bring in the winged traffic buddlejas are loved for. For a fragrant, frost-hardy, evergreen alternative to the usual butterfly bush, the mountain sagewood is a quietly rewarding choice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057819193459,"sku":"BUDD-LORI-01G","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/buddleja-loricataJohnGrimshaw.jpg?v=1784298596"},{"product_id":"buxus-balearica","title":"Buxus balearica","description":"\u003cp\u003eA seldom-offered evergreen, \u003cem\u003eBuxus balearica\u003c\/em\u003e is the bold-leaved boxwood: an upright shrub or small tree related to the common boxwood, \u003cem\u003eBuxus sempervirens\u003c\/em\u003e, but with noticeably larger, glossier leaves. Less cold-hardy than the common box, the Balearic boxwood is a fine choice for warmer gardens, where the big evergreen leaves give a lush, polished presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to the Balearic Islands of the Mediterranean and to southwestern Spain, the Balearic boxwood is easy and adaptable in sun or semi-shade in well-drained soil, drought-tolerant once established, and deer-resistant like the rest of the genus. Small, fragrant, greenish-yellow flowers open in spring, modest but pleasantly scented.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse Balearic boxwood as a specimen, an informal evergreen screen, or a bold-textured anchor in a Mediterranean or dry garden, where the large leaves set the plant apart from the fine-leaved common boxwoods. A rare and handsome evergreen for the warm-climate garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotos in bloom courtesy of Missouri Botanical Garden.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057819816051,"sku":"BUXU-BALE-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/BuxusbalearicaMBG2.jpg?v=1730297635"},{"product_id":"buxus-sempervirens-unraveled","title":"Buxus sempervirens 'Unraveled'","description":"\u003cp\u003eA twisting, weeping take on the classic boxwood, \u003cem\u003eBuxus sempervirens\u003c\/em\u003e 'Unraveled' breaks the upright, clipped mold of the genus entirely. The branches arch and twist into a loose, cascading, almost sculptural form, dense with the familiar small evergreen leaves but carried on a frame that drapes rather than stands. A selection from the JC Raulston Arboretum, 'Unraveled' brings a wild, playful edge to a plant usually grown for rigid formality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHardy, evergreen, and low in fuss, 'Unraveled' keeps a compact three-to-four-foot scale and asks little beyond well-drained soil. The arching habit makes the shrub a standout specimen, a soft note at the front of a border, a draping accent over a wall or large container, or a curiosity in a rock garden, equally at home in formal and informal settings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike all boxwoods, 'Unraveled' is evergreen, deer-resistant, and best given good air circulation, since the genus can be troubled by boxwood blight. Grown in sun to shade, the twisting form holds year-round structure with a character all its own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057819881587,"sku":"BUXU-SEMP-UNRA-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Buxussempervirens_Unraveled_Woodlanders.png?v=1730819915"},{"product_id":"buxus-harlandii","title":"Buxus harlandii","description":"\u003cp\u003eA small boxwood with narrow, bright green leaves and an unusually showy spring bloom, this is apparently the true \u003cem\u003eBuxus harlandii\u003c\/em\u003e. The boxwoods commonly sold in the South as B. harlandii, including the variety 'Richard', are, according to Dr. Todd Lasseigne, another Asian species, \u003cem\u003eBuxus bodinieri\u003c\/em\u003e; the real harlandii is much less often seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe confusion is old and well documented. Henry Fletcher Hance described the species from Chinese material in the early 1870s, and on the herbarium sheet that anchors the name two different plants were mounted side by side, one the true \u003cem\u003eharlandii\u003c\/em\u003e and one a form of \u003cem\u003eBuxus microphylla\u003c\/em\u003e var. \u003cem\u003esinica\u003c\/em\u003e. Generations of nurseries went on propagating the wrong half of the sheet. The name honors William Aurelius Harland, colonial surgeon at the Victoria Seamen's Hospital in Hong Kong and an early student of the local flora, who botanized around the harbor between hospital rounds and corresponded with Hance until his death in the late 1850s. In the wild the plant grows from Hong Kong and the Guangdong islands south to Hainan and into Vietnam, rooted among rocks and river cobble at low elevation, which explains both the appetite for sharp drainage and the dislike of hard winters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders acquired this plant from a small nursery in north Florida. The true Harland boxwood is best known to bonsai growers, who prize the fine bright foliage, the dense twiggy frame, and the handsome corky bark that ages faster than most box. Where common boxwood reads as a green mass, harlandii reads as a set of small deliberate lines, which is exactly what earns the plant a pot and a bench.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the ground, use Harland boxwood as a low evergreen edger, a small specimen, or a container plant, where the compact two to three foot frame and bright narrow leaves can be appreciated up close. Well-drained soil in sun or semi-shade suits the shrub, good air movement discourages boxwood blight, and the deer leave the foliage alone. As with all box, the leaves are toxic if eaten, so site accordingly. An uncommon, choice boxwood for the warm-climate garden.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057819947123,"sku":"BUXU-HARL-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/BuxusharlandiiWoodlanders1.jpg?v=1743381360"},{"product_id":"callicarpa-acuminata","title":"Callicarpa acuminata","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCallicarpa acuminata\u003c\/em\u003e, the black beautyberry, is the Mexican cousin of the familiar American beautyberry, a deciduous shrub of arching branches that, in fall, lines the stems with clusters of small, shiny berries in glossy black rather than the usual purple. The dark fruit is a quiet, sophisticated turn on the beautyberry idea, set off by the green leaves and lingering into the cool months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCollected in Mexico by the late, great Texas plantsman Lynn Lowery, the black beautyberry was perhaps first offered to the international market by Woodlanders. Easy and undemanding, the shrub wants good garden soil in sun or semi-shade, and like other beautyberries fruits best on the current year's growth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse black beautyberry in a shrub border, a woodland edge, or a wildlife planting, where the unusual black berries draw the eye and feed the birds. 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Native across East Asia, from China and Korea into Japan and Vietnam, the purple beautyberry has long been grown for that moment in late summer when clusters of small violet fruits ripen along the stems and hold on well after the leaves have gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Splashy' is the painterly one. Where the species carries plain green leaves, this selection is marked with irregular white blotches and streaks across most of the foliage, as though someone had flicked a loaded brush down the length of each branch. The plant came to us through our friend Ted Stephens of Nurseries Caroliniana, who introduced the selection from Japan, and earned the name 'Splashy' from Woodlanders' own Bob McCartney, who has always had an eye for the right word. 'Splashy' appears to stay lower and more compact than the typical species, and the berries come a little more sparingly, a fair trade for foliage that carries the show from spring until frost. Next to a white house the variegation may read as though the painters got a bit careless, which is either a warning or an invitation, depending on your walls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe beautyberries have a working life beyond ornament. In traditional Chinese medicine, several \u003cem\u003eCallicarpa\u003c\/em\u003e species were valued as blood-staunching and anti-inflammatory herbs, the leaves and roots prepared to calm swelling, ease aching joints, and clear what old texts called heat. Modern laboratory work has taken an interest in the genus as well, isolating diterpenes and flavonoids from \u003cem\u003eCallicarpa dichotoma\u003c\/em\u003e and testing them for anti-inflammatory activity, though this remains early research rather than settled medicine. None of that history is a reason to brew a cutting from the garden; 'Splashy' earns a place for the eye, not the medicine cabinet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, treat the variegation as a source of light. 'Splashy' glows against a dark backdrop, a yew hedge, a stand of evergreens, the shadowed edge of a woodland, where the creamy leaves lift the whole planting and the autumn berries read like scattered amethyst. Give the shrub full sun to part shade and reasonably drained soil, cut the stems back hard in late winter since flowers and fruit both come on new wood, and let the birds find the berries once the color has finished. Massed along a path or set as a single specimen where low light needs breaking, this beautyberry is a quiet, season-long performer that saves a genuine flourish for fall.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057821290611,"sku":"CALL-DICH-SPLA-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Callicarpadichotoma_Splashy_copy.jpg?v=1785192990"},{"product_id":"camellia-fraterna","title":"Camellia fraterna","description":"\u003cp\u003eCamellia fraterna is a camellia stripped back to wild beginnings, a species from the hills of eastern China far removed from the big, blowsy blooms of the garden japonicas and sasanquas. Where those carry a few large flowers, this one covers slender, upright branches in a snowfall of small, single, white flowers, faintly pink outside and softly fragrant, that arch the stems with their sheer number. The small, pointed evergreen leaves and open, airy habit give the plant an easy, natural grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a plant more prized by camellia breeders and collectors than known to the wider trade. Camellia fraterna belongs to a group of small-flowered, fragrant species, and hybridizers have used the plant to pass on both traits, standing behind charming miniatures such as 'Tiny Princess'. The genus name honors Georg Kamel, the Jesuit pharmacist, and the species name fraterna means brotherly, likely for a close kinship to related species, though the botanist who named the plant left no note of his reasoning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike most woodland camellias, Camellia fraterna is happiest in dappled to part shade, in acid, humus-rich soil kept moist but well drained and lightly mulched. Bloom comes in late winter into spring, early enough to lift the tail of the cold season, and the plant is slow and steady rather than rushed. Hardy to roughly USDA zone 8, this species suits the milder South and sheltered spots in cooler gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the collector, the fragrance gardener, or anyone drawn to camellias in their wilder form, Camellia fraterna offers something the showy hybrids cannot, an abundance of small, scented, honest flowers on a graceful frame. Use the shrub in a woodland border, a shaded mixed planting, or a camellia collection, where the arching, flower-laden branches read as quietly elegant. Uncommon in cultivation, this species is a find worth seeking out.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057822601331,"sku":"CAME-FRAT-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/CamelliafraternaOnlinePlantGuide.jpg?v=1784299610"},{"product_id":"camellia-euryoides","title":"Camellia euryoides","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCamellia euryoides\u003c\/em\u003e offers a quiet counterpoint to the camellias most familiar to American gardeners. Where \u003cem\u003eCamellia japonica\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCamellia sasanqua\u003c\/em\u003e have long defined the genus in cultivation here, those two represent only a sliver of a far broader Asian lineage. \u003cem\u003eC. euryoides\u003c\/em\u003e, a shrub or small tree of the subtropical forests of Fujian, Guangdong, and Jiangxi, belongs to that richer world of species camellias: subtler, finer in texture, and made for gardeners curious about the genus beyond its showiest forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders gave the plant the common name Mockorange Camellia, a nod to an unusual character. The small leaves and the profuse, modestly scaled white flowers of early spring read more like a \u003cem\u003ePhiladelphus\u003c\/em\u003e than the bold, lacquered blooms most people expect of a camellia, and one of the real pleasures here is the quiet taxonomic surprise: many visitors do not recognize the shrub as a camellia at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe value lies in nuance rather than extravagance. Finer foliage lets the Mockorange Camellia settle naturally into woodland plantings, semi-shaded borders, and gardens where scale and leaf texture are weighed with care, the kind of place a broad-leaved evergreen would feel too heavy or too formal. What the plant gives instead is a restrained evergreen presence through the year, followed by a delicate early-spring flowering that reads with unusual clarity in shade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCulturally, the Mockorange Camellia asks for what most camellias want: semi-shade, sandy and slightly acidic soil, steady moisture, and a dependable layer of mulch. In those conditions the shrub rewards an attentive gardener twice over, as a lovely evergreen and as a reminder that camellias are far more varied, and far more interesting, than the standard garden palette suggests.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057823715443,"sku":"CAME-EURY-01G","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1129.jpg?v=1720136892"},{"product_id":"camellia-rosaeflora","title":"Camellia rosaeflora","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCamellia rosaeflora\u003c\/em\u003e is a graceful species camellia from China, one of the lesser-known kinds Woodlanders keeps in circulation for American gardeners. The habit is open and upright, the leaves small and fine for the genus, and in early spring the branches carry masses of small pink flowers, roughly an inch across and lightly double, in such profusion that the spent petals often fall to lay a soft pink carpet on the ground beneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe effect is quiet and charming rather than showy, a fine-textured change from the heavy formal doubles. Like most camellias, the rose-flowered camellia is at finest in semi-shade, in sandy, slightly acidic soil kept mulched and watered, where the airy frame and clouds of pink bloom light a shaded border. A lovely and uncommon species for the collector and for the gardener after something softer in the camellia season.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057824534643,"sku":"CAME-ROSA-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-308.jpg?v=1720136895"},{"product_id":"camellia-crapnelliana","title":"Camellia crapnelliana","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo camellias do most of the work in American gardens, \u003cem\u003eCamellia japonica\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCamellia sasanqua\u003c\/em\u003e, in countless named forms. The Far East holds far more, and Woodlanders is among the few nurseries offering the lesser-known species to gardeners here. \u003cem\u003eCamellia crapnelliana\u003c\/em\u003e, the Crapnell camellia, is one of the most distinctive: a slow, upright evergreen first described from Hong Kong Island and named for the collector Crapnell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe species is grown as much for bark and fruit as for bloom. Mature trunks peel and glow a warm cinnamon-red, a feature rare among camellias, and the large, dark green, finely toothed leaves give the plant real presence the year round. In late winter come the flowers: single and white, the broad petals faintly ruffled at the edge and gathered around a boss of golden stamens. They are followed by woody, globular seed capsules the size of a small orange, among the largest fruit in the whole genus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike most camellias, the Crapnell camellia is happiest in semi-shade, in sandy, slightly acid soil kept mulched and watered, sheltered from hard freezes at the cold edge of zones 8 and 9. Site this plant where the cinnamon bark can be read at close range, by a path, an entry, or a courtyard wall, and underplant with ferns and other shade lovers that will not hide the trunk. 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A cultivar of \u003cem\u003eCamellia edithae\u003c\/em\u003e, a species from the forests of southeastern China little known in Western gardens, this plant blooms in mid to late spring, through April and into May, at the precise moment the last \u003cem\u003ejaponica\u003c\/em\u003e has finished and the garden is turning toward summer. The flowers are fully double and deep rose-red, carried at the stem tips with the density and formality the name promises. 'Heimudan' translates from Chinese as Dark Peony, accurate both as a description of the flower and as a statement of intent. The blooms are heat-tolerant in a way late-season \u003cem\u003ejaponica\u003c\/em\u003e flowers rarely manage, holding color and form through the warming days of spring rather than browning at the edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe foliage is the plant's other argument. \u003cem\u003eCamellia edithae\u003c\/em\u003e carries leaves unlike those of any other camellia in common cultivation: thick, leathery, and deeply furrowed along the veins, a strongly textured, almost sculptural surface. The undersides and the young stems are densely hairy, another trait that sets the species apart from the smooth-leaved \u003cem\u003ejaponica\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003esasanqua\u003c\/em\u003e types. This is a shrub worth growing for eleven months on foliage alone, and then flowering in the twelfth at a moment no other camellia reaches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCamellia edithae\u003c\/em\u003e grows in forests between 200 and 1,000 meters across southeastern China, a range that has produced reasonable cold hardiness for the genus. 'Heimudan' was selected in Fujian Province in 1989 as a natural seedling. Woodlanders is among the very few nurseries making this camellia available to American gardeners, which is either a statement about obscurity or about priorities. We consider it both.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057824665715,"sku":"CAME-EDIT-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/IMG-0266.heic?v=1775232481"},{"product_id":"camellia-lutchuensis","title":"Camellia lutchuensis","description":"\u003cp\u003eFragrance is the rarest thing in a camellia, and Camellia lutchuensis is the great exception, a species grown less for the size of the flower than for the scent that rises from it. The blooms are small, single, and white around a center of yellow stamens, carried in profusion on a twiggy, airy shrub, and they release a sweet, sometimes spicy perfume unusual in a genus famous for having almost none.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name records the origin. Lutchu, or Loochoo, is an old Western rendering of the Ryukyu Islands, the long arc of subtropical islands south of Japan, and the species is native there and on Taiwan, reaching only the southernmost fringe of China around Guangxi and Hong Kong. Older nursery copy that files the plant simply as Chinese sells the truth short; the heart of the range is the Ryukyus. The genus itself honors Georg Josef Kamel, the Moravian Jesuit and pharmacist who botanized in the Philippines and whom Linnaeus chose to commemorate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong camellia breeders this modest shrub is a celebrity, the fountainhead of nearly every fragrant hybrid in the trade. From the early 1960s onward, hybridizers crossed Camellia lutchuensis into garden camellias to carry the scent forward, and the parade of perfumed offspring runs long: 'Cinnamon Cindy,' 'Fragrant Pink,' 'High Fragrance,' 'Scentuous,' 'Sweet Emily Kate,' and many more, all tracing their fragrance to this one wild parent. Grown on its own roots, the species offers that heritage undiluted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCamellia lutchuensis is a touch tender, happiest in USDA zones 8 and 9, though sheltered forms have proven reasonably hardy to zone 7b, and north of that the twiggy, restrained habit takes well to a large pot that can winter under cover. Give the plant dappled shade and an acidic, moist, well-drained soil, and above all site the shrub where the nose will find it: beside a door, a path, or a window where the late-winter-into-spring scent can drift indoors. The flowers are small; the fragrance is the whole point.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057824731251,"sku":"CAME-LUTC-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1344.jpg?v=1720136914"},{"product_id":"camellia-x-cinnamon-cindy","title":"Camellia x 'Cinnamon Cindy'","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo species of camellia are commonly grown in American gardens, \u003cem\u003eCamellia japonica\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCamellia sasanqua\u003c\/em\u003e, and there are countless varieties of each. This plant is neither. 'Cinnamon Cindy' is a hybrid between \u003cem\u003eCamellia japonica\u003c\/em\u003e 'Kenyo-tai' and a Chinese species, \u003cem\u003eCamellia lutchuensis\u003c\/em\u003e, and the reason anyone made that cross is fragrance. \u003cem\u003eC. lutchuensis\u003c\/em\u003e is a small-flowered species from the Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan carrying a scent that almost no garden camellia possesses, and breeders have spent decades trying to move that quality into plants with flowers worth looking at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result here is upright and relatively narrow, eight to ten feet in time on a three to six foot frame, with small light green leaves that emerge distinctly reddish and darken as they mature. Flowers are two to three inches across, rose-form and full-petaled, white with pink washing through the outer petals, and they come in the depths of winter. The scent is the point: warm and sweet, strongest on a mild afternoon, and genuinely rare in this genus. Anyone who has stood in a camellia garden in January wondering why such extravagant flowers smell of nothing at all will understand immediately what this plant is for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders was one of the first to offer this hybrid, which we received some years ago from the U.S. National Arboretum. The Arboretum's camellia program has been among the most productive in the country, and the fragrant hybrids that came out of crossing \u003cem\u003eC. lutchuensis\u003c\/em\u003e with garden japonicas are one of its quieter successes. Camellias themselves belong to Theaceae, the tea family, and the same genus gives us \u003cem\u003eCamellia sinensis\u003c\/em\u003e and every cup of tea ever drunk, a piece of botanical geography most people never connect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant in semi-shade in sandy, slightly acid soil, kept mulched and watered; morning sun with afternoon shade suits best. Because the flowers are small and the fragrance close-range, siting matters more than it does for a big showy japonica. Put this one beside a door, along a path you walk in winter, or under a window that gets opened on a mild day. Water consistently through late summer while next season's buds are forming, and prune, if at all, right after flowering. The narrow upright habit means very little pruning is needed. 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Woodlanders remains one of the few nurseries offering these lesser-known species to gardeners who want the wild plant rather than the show cultivar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to the ravine forests of Sichuan and western Hunan, where the plant grows as an understory shrub or small tree between roughly five hundred and seventeen hundred meters, this camellia carries slender, long-tipped leaves and small, waxy, cup-shaped white flowers, faintly fragrant, opening from late summer into autumn when almost no other camellia is in bloom. The name longicarpa means long-fruited, a nod to the unusually elongated seed capsule that sets the species apart from the rounder-fruited members of the group. Taxonomy here is unsettled; some botanists now treat Camellia longicarpa as a synonym of Camellia synaptica, and both names lead to the same slender white-flowered plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus honors Georg Josef Kamel, the Moravian Jesuit and pharmacist who botanized in the Philippines and whom Linnaeus chose to commemorate, though Kamel never laid eyes on a camellia. Like the rest of the clan, this species asks for the classic camellia site: dappled shade, shelter from harsh sun and drying wind, and an acidic, humus-rich soil kept moist but never waterlogged. The forest-ravine origin is the whole instruction, a plant of cool, leafy, half-lit places.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is no tea and no seed oil to claim here; despite the famous economic cousins in the genus, Camellia longicarpa is purely an ornamental for the collector and the shade garden. The reward is quieter and rarer than a japonica in full flush: fine, airy foliage on a graceful small tree, and a scatter of scented white cups in the shortening days of late summer, a camellia that flowers when the others have long since finished. For the gardener who already grows the common two and wants the wild original, this is a plant to seek out and a species to help keep in cultivation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057824927859,"sku":"CAME-LONG-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-306.jpg?v=1720136920"},{"product_id":"camellia-saluensis","title":"Camellia saluenensis","description":"\u003cp\u003eCamellia saluenensis is not the flashiest camellia in the garden, but few have done more to shape the ones that are. This upright, densely leafy evergreen carries small, single, funnel-shaped flowers in soft pink, opening from late winter into spring, and stands as one of the two parents behind the celebrated Camellia williamsii hybrids that carried camellia growing into colder gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA word on the name, since accuracy matters: the correct spelling is Camellia saluenensis, for the Salween River, the great river known in China as the Nu Jiang that cuts through western Yunnan, where the plant grows wild on the mountains between the Salween and the Shweli between roughly one and three thousand meters. The trade has long shortened the epithet to saluensis, and that shorter form still lingers in older labels and in our web address, though saluenensis is the name to trust. The Scottish plant hunter George Forrest collected and introduced the species around 1917, sending seed home to J.C. Williams at Caerhays in Cornwall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt Caerhays, Williams crossed Forrest's plants with Camellia japonica and raised the first Camellia williamsii hybrids, among them 'J.C. Williams,' 'St Ewe,' and 'Mary Christian,' while at Borde Hill Colonel Stephenson Clarke used the same species to raise the most famous of them all, the soft pink 'Donation.' The williamsii hybrids inherited from this parent their hardiness, their long free-flowering season, and the tidy habit of dropping spent blooms cleanly rather than clinging to them, browned, the way a japonica will. The genus honors Georg Josef Kamel, the Moravian Jesuit whom Linnaeus commemorated, though he never saw the plant that bears his name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, treat Camellia saluenensis as the collector's original behind the famous hybrids: an upright, bushy shrub for dappled shade and acidic, humus-rich, well-drained soil, hardy through USDA zones 7 to 9 with a little shelter at the cold edge, where the species is a touch more tender than the offspring. The single pink flowers open early, when the garden is still bare, and draw the first bees; the glossy foliage holds all year. 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What sets this plant apart is not a registration certificate but a story: the stock came originally from the Norfolk, Virginia garden of the late Frederic Heutte, the French-born plantsman who served as the first director of Norfolk Botanical Garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeutte, born in Paris in 1899, ran Norfolk's parks for nearly thirty years and, in 1938, helped conceive the azalea and camellia garden that grew into one of the great camellia collections of the Southeast, convinced that the Tidewater climate was made for the genus. A camellia passed hand to hand from a plantsman of that stature carries a provenance all its own, and Woodlanders keeps the line going. The species behind the selection, Camellia saluenensis (long spelled saluensis in the trade), is the wild Yunnan parent of the hardy williamsii hybrids, introduced from the Salween River country by George Forrest around 1917.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus honors Georg Josef Kamel, the Moravian Jesuit and pharmacist whom Linnaeus chose to commemorate. The selection name, 'Appleblossom,' describes the flower exactly: soft pink, single, and open-faced, with the fresh look of orchard bloom in the thin light of late winter. A word of care for the record, since several unrelated camellias circulate under the name 'Apple Blossom,' this is a Woodlanders provenance selection of the Salween species, not those other plants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow 'Appleblossom' as the species prefers: dappled shade, acidic and humus-rich soil kept moist but well-drained, and shelter from cold drying wind, dependable through USDA zones 7 to 9. 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'Judy' climbs high and fast on aerial rootlets, carrying compound deciduous leaves of glossy toothed leaflets, and from midsummer onward produces terminal clusters of trumpets in a clear soft yellow with a darker throat. The flowers are three inches long and shaped precisely for a hummingbird's bill, which is not a coincidence and not lost on the birds; a trumpet creeper in full flower is the busiest thing in a southern garden in July. Bloom continues in waves until frost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a Woodlanders introduction, and one we are fond of. We found the original plant in eastern North Carolina. The well-known yellow-flowered 'Flava' is presumably of more northern provenance, and side by side the two are worth comparing: 'Judy' is the warmer, softer yellow, with the dark throat that 'Flava' lacks. \u003cem\u003eCampsis\u003c\/em\u003e comes from the Greek \u003cem\u003ekampsis\u003c\/em\u003e, a bending, for the curved stamens inside the trumpet, and \u003cem\u003eradicans\u003c\/em\u003e means rooting, describing the aerial rootlets that fasten the stems to whatever they climb. The species is native across the eastern United States, and in the wild you meet it at woodland edges, fence lines, and old field margins, usually thirty feet up a dead pine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich brings up the one thing every buyer should understand before planting. \u003cem\u003eCampsis radicans\u003c\/em\u003e is vigorous, and vigorous here means suckering, self-layering, and capable of prying at siding and gutters with those rootlets. Grown against a house wall it is a maintenance commitment. Grown on a stout free-standing post, arbor, pergola, fence, or a dead tree in a field, it is one of the great American garden plants and almost no work at all. Give it something that can take the weight, keep it off the building, and cut suckers as they appear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull sun for the heaviest flowering, and ordinary soil; rich ground and generous water produce leaves at the expense of flowers, so lean and dry is genuinely better here. Prune hard in late winter, back to a permanent framework, since flowers come on new wood and an unpruned plant becomes a top-heavy tangle that blooms out of sight. Hardy through zone 5, far colder than most people expect of something that looks tropical in bloom. 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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":"cercis-yunnanensis","title":"Cercis yunnanensis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCercis yunnanensis\u003c\/em\u003e, the Yunnan redbud, is an upright, vase-shaped deciduous tree that opens the spring with an abundance of magenta-pink, pea-like flowers, borne in the redbud fashion straight along the bare branches and older wood before the leaves appear. The heart-shaped leaves that follow are the tree's quieter distinction: glossier and more refined than those of most redbuds, giving a polished, clean-textured canopy through summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNative to Yunnan Province and perhaps neighboring parts of south China, this is a redbud for the collector and for the gardener who wants the familiar spring magenta on a slightly different, handsomer frame. 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By all signs this curious form will never become a large tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe appeal lies in the foliage: fine, feathery, silver-blue juvenile needles, soft to the touch and held in dense, billowing sprays that catch the light and lend a misty, cloud-like quality to a planting. Sawara cypress and the many garden forms have long been valued in Japan and beyond for exactly this kind of textural softness, a foil for bolder leaves and darker greens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompact and slow, 'Shiva' suits the smaller garden where a full-sized conifer would overwhelm. Site where the silver-blue color and soft texture can be appreciated, against a dark backdrop of broadleaf evergreens or beside stone, and pair with fine-textured companions in a mixed border or a Japanese-inspired planting. 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The Chinese name, chuan gui, places the tree in Sichuan and the mountains of the south, where the tree grows large and the aromatic bark has long been valued.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders grows a subtropical species that has surprised us with cold tolerance: proven hardy in Aiken, South Carolina, and even at Raleigh, North Carolina, well north of where a tree of this heritage has any right to thrive. In frost-free and near-frost-free gardens, the wilson cinnamon makes a handsome, dense, broad-canopied evergreen for shade and screening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, give this tree room. Reaching well over fifty feet in China, the wilson cinnamon wants an open, uncrowded site in moist but well-drained, fertile soil, in sun or light shade. Plant as a specimen, a large evergreen screen, or the high canopy of a warm-climate garden, where the spicy-scented foliage rewards anyone who brushes past. A collector's tree, and a conversation piece for gardeners pushing the limits of subtropical evergreens.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057834496115,"sku":"CINN-WILS-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1428.jpg?v=1720137240"},{"product_id":"cinnamomum-burmannii","title":"Cinnamomum burmannii","description":"\u003cp\u003eCinnamomum burmannii is the tree behind most of the cinnamon in an American kitchen, an evergreen of the laurel family whose fragrant inner bark, dried and ground, fills the great majority of the spice jars labeled simply cinnamon. Native to the highlands of Indonesia and across tropical Southeast Asia, this glossy-leaved tree is a cassia cinnamon, close kin to true Ceylon cinnamon, to the camphor tree, and to bay laurel, sassafras, and avocado. The whole plant is aromatic, from the leathery leaves to the spicy bark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bark is the prize, peeled, dried, and curled into quills or milled to the familiar warm-sweet powder used across baking, curries, and mulled drinks. A note worth making: cassia cinnamons like this one are naturally higher in coumarin than Ceylon cinnamon, a compound best taken in moderation, so the spice is for flavor rather than daily medicine. New leaves emerge with a soft pink flush, the small creamy flowers are barely noticed, and the little dark fruits that follow draw birds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders grows a number of cinnamons, and this one arrived through the generosity of the late Bill Cawthon, a friend who shared cuttings and reported the tree half hardy in southeastern Alabama, at the cold edge of zone 8. That observation is a starting point rather than a promise, since Woodlanders has not yet trialed this cinnamon for cold hardiness in the local climate. In frost-free gardens the tree grows into a handsome evergreen; in colder spots the plant makes a fragrant container specimen to shelter through winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive Cinnamomum burmannii full sun to part shade and rich, evenly moist, well-drained soil, and expect steady, moderate growth into a dense, rounded canopy. Grown for fragrance, foliage, and the sheer interest of raising the source of a pantry staple, the tree suits a warm Southern garden, a large container, or a collector's grouping of useful plants. 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One of the hardier evergreen citrus, the tree sets good crops here in Aiken, South Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to Taiwan, this selection came to Woodlanders years ago from Major Collins of Tifton, Georgia, a pioneer in growing cold-hardy citrus, a nice thread of Southern citrus history. Grow the Taiwan orange in full sun and sharp, well-drained soil, in the ground through zones 8 to 11 or in a large container farther north, and site the tree back from paths and seating, since the thorns are formidable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhoto courtesy of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.danlepard.com\/citrus-taiwanica-bitter-oranges\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDan Lepard\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057835151475,"sku":"CITR-TAIW-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/citrustaiwanica-1.jpg?v=1722697967"},{"product_id":"citrus-x-citrus-citrus-sinensis-x-ponciris-trifoliata-morton","title":"Citrus ‘Morton’ (Citrus sinensis x Poncirus trifoliata)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders has long led in offering citrus and citrus hybrids hardy well beyond the usual citrus belt, and the Morton citrange is a handsome one. Like other sweet orange and trifoliate orange crosses, Morton makes an attractive ornamental evergreen, with fragrant white spring flowers and orange fruit, but the fruit here sets the cultivar apart: large, smooth-skinned, and remarkably like a true orange, with very few seeds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorton is said to approach edibility more closely than most citranges. Straight from the branch the flavor is still too sharp for most, but the juice, diluted and sweetened, makes a very refreshing orange ade. Cold-hardy from the trifoliate side of the family, the tree suits the collector of hardy citrus and the gardener who wants a good-looking evergreen that fruits where tender citrus cannot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, grow Morton in full sun and sharp, well-drained soil, in the ground through zones 7 to 10 or in a large container farther north. Site where the fragrant spring bloom and the bright orange fruit can both be enjoyed, give room for a broad grower, and pair with other hardy citrus in an edible or ornamental planting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057835249779,"sku":"CITR-MORT-CITR-SINE-01G","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Citrus_Morton_Citrus_sinensis_x_Poncirus_trifoliata_Woodlanders.jpg?v=1731555639"},{"product_id":"citrus-ichangensis","title":"Citrus cavaleriei (ichangensis)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Ichang papeda is a thorny evergreen small tree of twelve to fifteen feet, and the most cold-tolerant true citrus known to science, reported hardy to roughly five degrees Fahrenheit. The leaves are the tell: unusually large winged petioles, sometimes nearly as big as the blade itself, so each leaf looks like two leaves joined end to end. White flowers open in spring with the sweet heavy scent the whole genus is loved for. Fruit follows, rough-skinned and yellow, orange-sized, packed with large seeds and very little flesh. Sharply aromatic rather than sweet, and nobody would call this dessert fruit, though the zest is fragrant and useful and the juice finds work in marmalade, salt preserving, and drying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name has recently changed, and both versions are worth knowing. Gardeners and citrus breeders have called this plant \u003cem\u003eCitrus ichangensis\u003c\/em\u003e since Walter Tennyson Swingle published the name in 1913, but \u003cem\u003eCitrus cavaleriei\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Léveillé two years earlier, has priority, and Kew's Plants of the World Online now treats \u003cem\u003ecavaleriei\u003c\/em\u003e as the accepted name with \u003cem\u003eichangensis\u003c\/em\u003e as a synonym. Ichang, the older romanization of Yichang in Hubei, marks the place; papeda is the name given to the group of hard, seedy, primitive citrus that sit outside the sweet oranges and lemons in the family tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwingle himself brought the plant to the United States. In 1926 he carried home a healthy young seedling raised for him at Nanking by C. C. Hu, grown from stock out of Hubei Province, and the interest was never ornamental. As the hardiest evergreen species in the genus, this papeda has been the raw material for cold-hardy citrus breeding ever since. The yuzu, now a fixture of Japanese cooking and increasingly of Western kitchens, is a cross of this species with a mandarin. The Ichang lemon is another of the offspring. Almost every serious attempt to push edible citrus north of its comfortable range runs through this tree somewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow in full sun with sharp drainage and shelter from cold drying wind. The species will take temperatures that kill any other evergreen citrus outright, but wet cold is a different matter than dry cold, and a soggy winter root run will do far more damage than the thermometer. In zone 7 give a warm south wall and expect some leaf burn in a hard year; from zone 8 south, plant with confidence. Container culture works well and lets northern growers keep one under glass. Use as a specimen where the fragrance can be reached from a path, and be honest with yourself about the thorns, which are long, stiff, and unforgiving. This is a plant for collectors, citrus breeders, and anyone who enjoys owning the answer to a question nobody expects.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057835610227,"sku":"CITR-ICHA-01G","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/IchangPapedaCRC2327.jpg?v=1787163670"},{"product_id":"citrus-reticulata-var-austera-rangpur","title":"Citrus 'Rangpur'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Rangpur is not truly a lime at all, but Indian gardeners have used the fruit as one for more than five hundred years. \u003cem\u003eCitrus\u003c\/em\u003e x \u003cem\u003elimonia\u003c\/em\u003e, an old natural hybrid of mandarin and citron, bears small, round, deep orange fruits that look like tangerines and taste fiercely sour, with the aromatic bite that makes a fine lime substitute for cooking, cocktails, and marmalade. In India the fruit goes by surkh nimboo, the red lime, prized for exactly that intense, tart juice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvergreen, fragrant in flower, and unusually cold hardy for a citrus of lime character, the Rangpur is widely grown as a dooryard fruit in California yet remains little known in the southern United States, where the plant deserves a wider audience. Woodlanders offers this old hybrid for gardeners curious about hardy, useful citrus beyond the familiar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, grow the Rangpur in full sun and sharp, well-drained soil, in the ground in the warmer parts of zone 8 with a sheltered spot, or in a large container that can move under cover for hard freezes. The white spring blossom is sweetly fragrant, the orange fruit both ornamental and useful, so site where flower and fruit can both be enjoyed. A productive, good-looking plant, and a conversation piece for the cook who wants limes off the branch.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057835741299,"sku":"CITR-RETI-AUST-RANG-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1958.jpg?v=1720137293"},{"product_id":"citrus-reticulata-changsha","title":"Citrus reticulata 'Changsha'","description":"\u003cp\u003eA very old Chinese cultivar, almost certainly named for the capital of Hunan province where the fruit has been grown for centuries, and quite possibly carrying \u003cem\u003eC. ichangensis\u003c\/em\u003e somewhere in the parentage. That suspected ancestry would account for the cold tolerance that has made Changsha the parent stock for nearly every modern hardy citrus breeding program of consequence: Wayne Hanna's seedless work at UGA Tifton, the Arctic Frost satsuma cross out of Texas, and others still in trial.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidely considered the hardiest sweet-fruited mandarin in cultivation. Mature, acclimated trees shrug off 10 degrees Fahrenheit without permanent injury, and reports from the Dallas area document survival into the single digits. Here in Aiken the tree has come through every winter so far, bearing reliably and early, often within a year or two of planting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHabit and bloom\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tree is upright and twiggy, eventually 10 to 15 feet, with narrow willow-like leaves and intensely fragrant spring flowers that the honeybees find before you do. Spines are present on the trunk and main scaffolds, but the fruiting wood is essentially thornless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe fruit\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRipens late fall into early winter. Deep orange, around four inches across, flat-bottomed with shallow pumpkin-like grooves. The rind sits loose on the flesh and slightly bumpy, peeling away in one piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flesh is sweet and low-acid, with none of the kerosene or bitter notes that betray most cold-hardy citrus as compromise plants. This is genuinely a fruit you eat out of hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fruit is also genuinely seedy. Count on that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne word of caution\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe harvest window is short. Pick promptly as the fruit colors up. 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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-aurantium-gou-tou","title":"Citrus aurantium 'Gou Tou'","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong the more intriguing fruits in the Woodlanders citrus collection, the Gou Tou sour orange stands apart, not only for rarity but for a rare combination of hardiness, heavy fruiting, and surprisingly pleasant flavor. Widely cultivated in Southeast Asia, \u003cem\u003eCitrus aurantium\u003c\/em\u003e 'Gou Tou' carries the form of a traditional bitter orange but with a taste that leans toward grapefruit, which makes this one of the most palatable sour oranges a gardener outside the subtropics can grow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fruit looks like a large, slightly rough-skinned orange, with pale orange, juicy flesh that is sour, complex, and citrus-sweet, pleasant enough to eat out of hand for anyone who enjoys a bold citrus bite, and superb for marmalade, sauces, marinades, and general kitchen adventure. Where most sour oranges are relegated to the preserving pot, Gou Tou is both flavorful and refreshing, an unusual thing in a bitter orange.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders propagates this selection from a robust specimen growing at Aquinas High School in Augusta, Georgia, where the tree has proven cold hardy and heavy bearing under the good care and keen eye of plantsman Joe Levert, a longtime friend of the nursery. That success in the Southeast makes Gou Tou a distinctive choice for gardens after cold-tolerant citrus with old-world character. Grow in full sun and sharp, well-drained soil, in the ground through zones 8b to 10 or in a large container farther north.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057836265587,"sku":"CITR-AURA-GOU-TOU-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2074.jpg?v=1720137330"},{"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-poncirus-trifoliata-x-citrus-sinensis-rusk","title":"Citrus 'Rusk'","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong the very first of the citranges, \u003cem\u003eCitrus\u003c\/em\u003e 'Rusk' dates to 1897, when Walter Swingle crossed a Ruby orange with the tough, cold-hardy trifoliate orange, \u003cem\u003ePoncirus trifoliata\u003c\/em\u003e, in the great effort to breed citrus that could take a freeze. The result is a vigorous, tall-growing, notably hardy tree, evergreen to semi-evergreen, and dense with the distinctive three-parted trifoliate leaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fruit is deep orange and juicy, with, in the old description, a \"sprightly acid flavor and only slightly bitter,\" a citrange that \"approaches edibility more closely than most.\" Straight from the branch the flavor is sharp, but diluted juice with a little sugar makes a good drink, bright and refreshing. This is a plant for the collector of hardy citrus and the gardener who enjoys a bit of citrus history on the tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, grow 'Rusk' in full sun and sharp, well-drained soil, hardier than most citrus and holding through zone 7 winters in a sheltered spot, or in a large container farther north. The fragrant white spring blossom and the deep orange autumn fruit both earn a place; site where they can be enjoyed, and give room for a vigorous, upright tree.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057836789875,"sku":"CITR-PONC-TRIF-RUSK-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-974.jpg?v=1720137369"}],"url":"https:\/\/woodlanders.net\/collections\/rare-and-unusual.oembed?page=10","provider":"Woodlanders","version":"1.0","type":"link"}