Rare & Unusual
242 plants in this collection
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![Anredera cordifolia, Madeira vine, sprays of tiny fragrant cream-white flowers]()
![Baccharis dioica, broombush falsewillow, rare salt-tolerant shrub behind coastal dunes]()
![Buxus harlandii, Harland boxwood, dense twiggy evergreen foliage]()
![Camellia saluensis 'Appleblossom', single apple-blossom-pink flowers on a bushy evergreen camellia.]()
![Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Shiva', sawara cypress, billowing silver-blue dwarf conifer.]()
![Citrumelo 'Dallas', cold-hardy citrus hybrid, ripe fruit among leathery green leaves.]()
![Citrumelo 'Dunstan', cold-hardy citrus, ripe yellow globes among green leaves.]()
![Citrus 'Morton', hardy citrange, ripe orange fruit among green foliage.]()
Citrus ‘Morton’ (Citrus sinensis x Poncirus trifoliata) $40.00 /Morton Citrange
- Zones 6–10
- 10–15 ft
![Citrus reticulata 'Changsha', hardy mandarin, ripe orange fruit among willow-like leaves.]()
![Citrus taiwanica, Taiwan orange, sour fruit among winged green leaves.]()
![Citrus US-1516, hardy rootstock, glossy citrus foliage on thorny stems.]()
![Cryptomeria japonica 'Lemonade']()
![Unidentified Euonymus species, low evergreen groundcover with striking red spiky capsules]()
![Hibiscus dasycalyx, narrow linear leaves and ivory maroon-eyed flower.]()
![Itea oldhamii Taiwan sweetspire in bloom, racemes of small white flowers over evergreen foliage.]()
![Lindera strychnifolia, the evergreen spicebush known as wu yao, showing glossy three-veined leaves with bronze new growth.]()
![Chinese bayberry (Myrica rubra) branch heavy with red, bead-textured yangmei fruit]()
1 Gallon2 Gallon![Yunnan olive (Olea yunnanensis) leathery Osmanthus-like leaves]()
![Osmanthus armatus]()
About the Rare & Unusual Collection
Woodlanders 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.
This 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 Curiosities.
