{"title":"Sun Lovers","description":"\u003cp\u003eSun lovers are the plants built for full exposure, the ones that flower hardest and stand strongest where the light is unbroken and the heat is real. Give them six hours of sun or more and they repay it with bloom, color, and vigor that shade-grown plants cannot match. This is the largest and most varied group we grow, spanning perennials, shrubs, and small trees united by a single appetite for light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the landscape these are the plants that carry the big, sunny gestures: the long flowering borders, the pollinator plantings humming from spring to frost, the hot banks and hell strips where little else will grow. Because the group is so broad, sun is only the starting point; pair for height, bloom time, and texture and a full-sun bed can change week to week across the whole season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe lean heavily into sun-loving plants because they do the most ecological work for the least fuss. Open, sunny plantings feed the widest range of bees, butterflies, and other pollinators, and many sun lovers are also drought-tolerant natives that thrive on heat and neglect once established. A well-planned sun garden is generous to wildlife and easy on water and time alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive them full sun and good drainage, resist the urge to overwater once they are settled, and let the group's diversity work for you. For the driest, hottest sites reach into our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/drought-tolerant-plants\"\u003eDrought-Tolerant Plants\u003c\/a\u003e; for the shadier edges of the same garden, our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/shade-lovers\"\u003eShade Lovers\u003c\/a\u003e collection picks up where the light gives out; and our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/southeast-natives\"\u003eSoutheastern Natives\u003c\/a\u003e offer sun-loving plants matched to local conditions.\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":"abutilon-megapotamicum","title":"Abutilon megapotamicum","description":"\u003cp\u003eAbutilon megapotamicum is the trailing one of the flowering maples, a slender, half-vining deciduous shrub that drapes and clambers rather than standing stiffly upright. Its species name means \"of the big river,\" for the Rio Grande basin of southern Brazil where it grows wild, and like the rest of its tribe it belongs not to the maples its leaves suggest but to the mallow family, in company with hibiscus and hollyhock.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flowers are its whole charm: curious hanging lanterns, each a swollen red calyx from which a skirt of yellow petals and a dark tuft of stamens protrude, swinging along the branches from late summer well into fall. Hummingbirds and bees find them readily. A Victorian favorite for the conservatory and the hanging basket, it has never quite gone out of fashion among gardeners who like a plant that does something unexpected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt can be used in several ways: left to spill several feet across a bed in a single season, trained up a support or trellis, or planted in a basket where the lanterns can dangle. Give it full sun to part shade and well-drained soil. In zone 8 it behaves as a dieback shrub, cut down by frost and returning from the base; in warmer zones it holds more of its frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite it where the hanging flowers can be read at eye level or above, against a wall, over the edge of a raised bed, or from a basket on the porch, where its long season of quirky bloom can be enjoyed up close.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805234291,"sku":"ABUT-MEGA-01G","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-265.jpg?v=1720136098"},{"product_id":"abutilon-pictum","title":"Abutilon pictum","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eTwo things the common names get wrong: it is not Chinese, and it is not a maple. Abutilon pictum comes from the warm river country of southern Brazil and its neighbors, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, and the maple lives only in the leaves, which are lobed and toothed enough to have fooled people into \"flowering maple.\" It belongs instead to the mallow family, in good company with hibiscus, hollyhock, okra, and cotton, and it carries that resemblance in every five-petaled bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003epictum means painted, and the painting is in the veins: bell-shaped flowers of warm orange, each petal overlaid with fine crimson lines, hung on long thin stalks like lanterns strung along the branch. They open from spring well into fall, are sweet enough to eat, and hummingbirds find them without being told. The Victorians kept this as a parlour plant, a tender thing for the conservatory shelf, and a century and a half on it still has that faintly old-fashioned, hothouse charm. One confession from the family album: several of its speckle-leaved cousins owe their gold-dusted foliage to a virus, kept on purpose and passed plant to plant. This one stays honestly green.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eIn zone 8 they behave as a dieback shrub, cut hard after the first frost, mounded against the cold, rising again with the heat to hang lanterns from May clear through October. A sheltered corner and a little sun are the whole of the asking. For all the misnamings, it is still one of the surest ways to keep a hummingbird returning to the same warm wall, summer after summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eStanding on:\u003c\/em\u003e It is native to southern Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, in the family Malvaceae; \"Chinese-lantern\" and \"flowering maple\" are common names, and pictum means \"painted.\" The flowers attract bees and hummingbirds and are edible with a sweet flavor; A. striatum\/'Thompsonii'-type relatives develop prized variegated foliage from Abutilon mosaic virus, while A. pictum itself does not. It is in the mallow family alongside hibiscus and is grown as a greenhouse or conservatory plant in cooler climates.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805332595,"sku":"ABUT-PICT-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Abutilon_pictum_Woodlanders_2.jpg?v=1731858115"},{"product_id":"abutilon-pictum-souvenir-de-bonn","title":"Abutilon pictum ‘Souvenir de Bonn’","description":"\u003cp\u003eCall it a flowering maple if you like, but there is not a drop of maple in it. \u003cem\u003eAbutilon pictum\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to the mallow family, alongside hibiscus, hollyhock, okra, and cotton, and only the lobed, maple-shaped leaves account for the nickname. What the leaves of 'Souvenir de Bonn' actually do is carry a wide, irregular margin of cream around their green, a variegation bold enough to earn the plant its place on looks alone. The flowers settle the matter. All season they dangle from the branches like small paper lanterns, apricot to salmon, each bell veined through with crimson, swinging on thin stalks where the hummingbirds find them. 'Souvenir de Bonn' is among the oldest abutilons still in gardens, a parlor plant out of the conservatory age, when a variegated flowering maple was the sort of thing one kept in a bright room through winter and carried out to the terrace each summer. The species hails from Brazil; the cultivar name is a keepsake of Bonn, a souvenir that outlasted whoever first carried it home. They are tender, frost being their one real enemy, and in our climate they may sail through a mild winter outdoors or die to the ground and return from the root. Either way they earn their keep, blooming spring to frost and beyond, asking only for sun, rich soil, and water enough to keep the show going. Set them where you pass close, on a patio or against a warm wall, where the lanterns can be read at eye level.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805430899,"sku":"ABUT-PICT-SOUV-BONN-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/FB4414F2-02FF-489A-9968-C12C6A4FC2C8.jpg?v=1725542880"},{"product_id":"acer-barbatum","title":"Acer barbatum","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcer barbatum is a medium to large deciduous tree of rounded, oval form, a southern cousin of the northern sugar maple and sometimes filed under Acer saccharum subsp. floridanum or Acer floridanum. The Florida maple is built for heat in a way the northern relative is not, smaller in every part, with leaves that are whitish beneath and a constitution suited to long, humid summers. In the wild these trees favor fertile, moist, well-drained, often calcareous ground, frequently along streams and in rich hammocks from Virginia south to the Florida panhandle and west into Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike all the sugar maples, their rising sap has long meant sweetness; the syrup industry of the North rests on close kin, and the southern trees can be tapped as well, though they yield more modestly. The fall color is a clean, unhurried yellow, sometimes warming toward orange, and the bark of older trunks takes on the handsome gray, longitudinally ribbed character of the northern sugar maple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a garden tree the Florida maple earns a place as a durable, well-mannered shade maple for the South, at home as a lawn specimen, a street or park tree, or a canopy over a woodland planting. Give these trees room to round out, and underplant with shade-tolerant natives that appreciate the dappled light beneath. Native to the southeastern United States.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057805856883,"sku":"ACER-BARB-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-3.jpg?v=1720136130"},{"product_id":"acer-griseum","title":"Acer griseum","description":"\u003cp\u003eFew trees carry a collector's story as plainly as the paperbark maple. Ernest Henry Wilson gathered seed of \u003cem\u003eAcer griseum\u003c\/em\u003e in central China in 1901 for the Veitch nursery, and for most of the twentieth century nearly every paperbark grown in Western gardens traced back to that introduction and one that followed. The maple sets abundant winged samaras, yet most are empty, a parthenocarpic habit that leaves only a small fraction viable. That quirk is why the species has always been scarce, slow to propagate, and quietly treasured wherever a good specimen takes hold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bark is the glory of the tree. Within two or three years the trunk and larger limbs begin to shed in papery curls of cinnamon to coppery red brown, and the peeling layers cling rather than fall, catching low winter light until the whole canopy seems lit from within. Three-part leaves, blue green through summer, turn scarlet and orange before dropping, while the small greenish yellow spring flowers pass almost unnoticed, content to leave the bark and the autumn fire to carry the season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSlow and well mannered, the paperbark maple settles at twenty to thirty feet with a rounded, oval crown, a scale that suits a small lawn, a courtyard, or the corner of a mixed border. Site this maple where the trunk can be read at close range, beside a path, a patio, or a window framed for winter, and give the bark a dark backdrop of evergreens to play against. Adaptable to clay and to both acid and alkaline ground, the tree asks only for reasonable drainage and a few patient years of watering to establish.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"1 Gallon","offer_id":42961950474355,"sku":"ACER-GRIS-01G","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"1 Quart","offer_id":42961950507123,"sku":"ACER-GRIS-01Q","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/AcergriseumWoodlanders-3.jpg?v=1750637242"},{"product_id":"adina-rubella","title":"Adina rubella","description":"\u003cp\u003eA medium to large deciduous shrub closely related to the native buttonbush, \u003cem\u003eAdina rubella\u003c\/em\u003e wears smaller leaves and bears similar but daintier flowers: round, scented heads of pale pink and white, each bristling with styles into a small Sputnik, carried over a long season from early summer well into fall. The pincushion blooms draw bees and butterflies just as the buttonbushes do, and an open, arching habit gives the shrub a fine-textured grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to the streamsides and sandy banks of central and southeastern China and South Korea, the Chinese buttonbush takes happily to wet ground and ordinary soil alike, reaching perhaps ten feet in a warm climate. In Chinese and Korean folk medicine the plant has a long use, the leaves and bark prepared for dysentery, diarrhea, skin complaints such as eczema, and toothache, though the shrub reaches Western gardens as an ornamental and a pollinator plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA graceful, water-loving shrub for a pond edge, a rain garden, a streambank, or any moist, sunny to part-shaded spot where the long season of fragrant buttons can be enjoyed. \u003cem\u003eAdina rubella\u003c\/em\u003e tolerates wet feet that defeat many shrubs, pairs naturally with the native buttonbush and other moisture lovers, and can be cut back in late winter to keep the arching frame tidy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057806905459,"sku":"ADIN-RUBE-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-267.jpg?v=1720136178"},{"product_id":"aesculus-parviflora-var-serotina","title":"Aesculus parviflora var. serotina","description":"\u003cp\u003eA wide-spreading, suckering, multi-stemmed deciduous shrub of slow, deliberate growth, \u003cem\u003eAesculus parviflora\u003c\/em\u003e var. \u003cem\u003eserotina\u003c\/em\u003e carries the same upright white bottlebrush flowers as the bottlebrush buckeye, but opens them two to three weeks later, well into the heat of summer. The overall shape is irregular and almost stratified, the branches layering horizontally, and the medium to dark green leaves turn a clear yellow in fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe late bloom is the point. Where the straight species flowers in early July, var. serotina extends the bottlebrush season into August, a gift of nectar for hummingbirds, swallowtails, and native bees when little else in the shade garden offers any. A vigorous grower that may reach a larger size than the species, the late bottlebrush buckeye suits shrub borders and large mass plantings, and seldom needs pruning, though an old colony can be cut to the ground to renew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive var. serotina room to form a broad colony in moist, well-drained, organic soil, in part shade or, with steady moisture, more sun. Paired with the earlier-blooming species, a planting can carry six weeks of white bottlebrush spikes across July and August. The seeds, like those of every buckeye, are poisonous if eaten, so site with that in mind near paths and play areas.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057807036531,"sku":"AESC-PARV-SERO-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Aesculusparvifloravar.serotinaWoodlanders-1.jpg?v=1750639271"},{"product_id":"aesculus-pavia","title":"Aesculus pavia","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe red buckeye is the South's hummingbird herald, a clump-forming, round-topped deciduous shrub or small tree whose lustrous, palmately compound leaves break very early, often before the last frosts, and whose six-inch panicles of tubular scarlet-red flowers open in spring just as the ruby-throated hummingbirds return north. The bright bloom, unusual among the buckeyes, draws hummingbirds and bees in numbers and gives the plant a long place in the affection of native-plant gardeners across the southern United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative peoples knew the buckeye well, though not as food without effort: every part is poisonous, rich in the saponin aescin and the glycoside aesculin, and the bright seeds are the most dangerous. The same saponins made the buckeye useful, the crushed seeds and branches tossed into still pools to stupefy fish, which rose to the surface to be gathered, while leached and roasted nuts could be eaten and the lather of the seeds served as a soap. Handsome as the seeds are, treat the red buckeye as ornamental, and keep the poisonous parts away from children and livestock.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy late summer the red buckeye often drops the leaves early, so site where a summer gap reads as seasonal rather than sad, among other shrubs or at a woodland edge that fills in around the bare frame. Plant in sun to part shade in moist, well-drained soil, and enjoy the early flowers as one of the first nectar sources of the southern spring. Lovely with native azaleas and dogwoods that bloom in the same season.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057807102067,"sku":"AESC-PAVI-01G","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-7.jpg?v=1720136191"},{"product_id":"agave-americana","title":"Agave americana","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe century plant is the great architectural agave, a broad rosette of thick, gray green, spine-tipped leaves that can spread six to eight feet across, each leaf edged with hooked teeth and ending in a hard dark spine. The form is bold and symmetrical, a piece of living sculpture for a hot, dry corner, and the silver cast of the foliage carries the planting through every season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew plants have served people longer. Native to Mexico and the warm reaches of Texas, \u003cem\u003eAgave americana\u003c\/em\u003e is the maguey of Mesoamerica, the source of pulque, the milky fermented sap once drunk as a sacred and medicinal beverage, and of pita, the strong leaf fiber twisted into rope, net, and cloth across the pre-Columbian world. The flowers were eaten, and folk medicine turned the sap to use as a poultice and a digestive remedy. The common name century plant nods to the long wait for bloom: after years, often a decade or two, a single rosette throws up a flower stalk twenty feet or more, opens yellow flowers, sets seed, and then dies, leaving offsets to carry on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive the century plant full sun and sharp drainage, a gravel garden, a hot bank, a raised bed, or a large container, and let the rosette stand as a focal point among other sun-and-drought lovers. Site away from paths and play areas, since the spines are formidable, and enjoy a planting that asks for almost nothing once established. Hardy in zones 8 to 10, evergreen, and as tough as any plant in the dry garden.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057807790195,"sku":"AGAV-AMER-01G","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/AgaveAmericana.jpg?v=1720139274"},{"product_id":"agave-lophantha-splendida","title":"Agave lophantha 'Splendida'","description":"\u003cp\u003eA small, bright green agave with a clean white stripe down the center of each short, broad, toothed leaf, \u003cem\u003eAgave lophantha\u003c\/em\u003e 'Splendida' is a compact, clumping selection of a species native to South Texas and Mexico. The variegated rosettes stay neat and low, a jewel-box agave for a trough, a container, or the front of a hot, sunny bed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe selection has a Woodlanders pedigree. This smaller, tighter clone was found some years ago near Jacksonville, Florida, by our friend Joe Levert of Augusta, Georgia, keeper of a remarkable collection of palms, citrus, and other subtropicals on the campus of Aquinas High School. Joe shared the plant with Ted Stephens of Nurseries Caroliniana, who named the agave 'Splendida' and is credited with the introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike most agaves, 'Splendida' wants sun and sharp drainage, asking little once settled. The clumping habit makes for easy increase, and the white-striped rosettes look their best where the foliage can be read up close. The listed height is for the rosette; like all agaves, the flower stalk rises far taller, once, before that rosette gives way to a ring of offsets. Hardy to the upper single digits, a fine choice for a xeric bed, a rock garden, or a pot to move under cover in the coldest spells.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057807822963,"sku":"AGAV-LOPH-SPLE-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Agavelophantha.jpg?v=1720139789"},{"product_id":"aleurites-fordii","title":"Aleurites fordii","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe tung oil tree is a handsome medium-sized deciduous tree, broad and spreading, with large heart-shaped to lobed leaves up to ten inches across and showy panicles of white flowers, blushed pink and orange at the throat, that open in spring before or with the new foliage. Few flowering trees of the Deep South make a fuller spring show.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAleurites fordii\u003c\/em\u003e earns the name from the large seeds, which yield tung oil, a fast-drying oil long prized for paints, varnishes, and wood finishes. Native to China, the tung oil tree was once an important crop across the Deep South, and the legacy of those old groves lingers: the tree grows fast and self-sows freely, naturalizing along roadsides and field edges where the climate is warm. The seeds and leaves are poisonous, so the tree is grown for ornament and history rather than harvest, and is best sited away from where children might gather the fallen fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive the tung oil tree full sun to light shade and well-drained soil, with room for the wide, rounded crown to spread, and enjoy one of the showiest spring-flowering trees for zones 8 to 10. A vigorous grower that sows volunteers freely, the tree is happiest where the odd seedling can be pulled or mown, and gathering the spent fruit keeps a planting in bounds. Striking as a lawn specimen or at a woodland edge, the bold foliage casting a generous summer shade, a piece of agricultural history for the warm-climate garden.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057808248947,"sku":"ALEU-FORD-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1610.jpg?v=1720136235"},{"product_id":"allium-cernuum","title":"Allium cernuum","description":"\u003cp\u003eA graceful native onion, \u003cem\u003eAllium cernuum\u003c\/em\u003e, the nodding onion, lifts loose clusters of pink to lavender, bell-shaped flowers that bend over in a soft arc at the top of slender stems, swaying through mid and late summer above tufts of grassy, blue-green foliage. The nodding habit gives the plant a particular charm, and the flowers draw native bees, butterflies, and other pollinators in good numbers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative across much of North America, including the piedmont and mountains of the mid-Atlantic, the nodding onion thrives in well-drained soil and full sun to part shade, tolerating rocky slopes and dry hillsides once established. Deer and rabbits leave the oniony foliage alone. The mildly oniony leaves and bulbs are edible, with a long record in Indigenous cooking and folk medicine, and the city of Chicago is thought to take the name from an Algonquin word for this wild onion. 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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. 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Butterflies and hummingbirds work the spikes all season.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA vigorous, shrubby plant native to Argentina, sweet almond verbena can be trained as a small multi-stemmed tree in subtropical gardens or grown as a dieback shrub farther north, cut to the ground by winter and returning from the roots in spring. The dark green leaves are sandpapery to the touch, and the loose, open frame reaches eight to fifteen feet where the season is long.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive sweet almond verbena a sunny spot with well-drained soil, near a path, a patio, or an open window where the evening perfume can be enjoyed. Drought tolerant once established and seldom troubled by deer, the shrub pairs well with other pollinator plants in a sunny border. In zones 8 and 9 expect a return from the roots after a hard winter; farther south, a standing small tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAdditional photo courtesy of Missouri Botanical Garden\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057808773235,"sku":"ALOY-VIRG-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/AloysiavirgataMBG.jpg?v=1784163067"},{"product_id":"amelanchier-x-grandiflora-autumn-brilliance","title":"Amelanchier x grandiflora 'Autumn Brilliance'","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmelanchier x grandiflora is the apple serviceberry, a naturally occurring cross between two eastern natives, the downy serviceberry and the smooth Allegheny serviceberry, and 'Autumn Brilliance' is the selection that made the group famous. The Illinois nurseryman Willet Wandell found this seedling in his Urbana nursery and introduced the plant to gardens in 1986 under U.S. Plant Patent 5,717, choosing the seedling above all for the blaze of autumn color behind the name. Decades on, 'Autumn Brilliance' remains the most widely planted serviceberry in the trade, prized for a vigorous, gracefully branched frame and reliable good looks in every season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe show begins in early spring, when clusters of white flowers open from pink-tinged buds ahead of the leaves and draw the season's first bees. By June the blossoms have become small pomes that ripen through red to deep purple-black, sweet and blueberry-like with a whisper of almond, so good that cedar waxwings, robins, and bluebirds usually harvest the crop before a cook can. Summer foliage is a clean blue-green, and then autumn arrives with the trait Wandell selected, a vivid wash of orange and red held more evenly and brilliantly than on ordinary seedlings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eServiceberries carry a tangle of country names. Shadbush recalls the spring bloom that once coincided with the shad running up the rivers; Juneberry marks the month the fruit ripens; and serviceberry itself most likely traces to Sorbus, the rowans with similar small pomes. The fruit has fed people here for a very long time, gathered fresh, cooked, or dried by many Indigenous nations and later baked by settlers into the pies and preserves that keep the Juneberry name alive. Apple serviceberry offers that same harvest on a manageable garden tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the reasons 'Autumn Brilliance' earned such a following is unusually good resistance to the rust, leaf spot, and mildew that trouble lesser serviceberries, though no serviceberry is wholly immune. Grow the tree in full sun to part shade and moist, well-drained soil, as a single-stemmed specimen for the lawn or a multi-stemmed clump at the woodland edge. Underplanted with ferns, spring ephemerals, redbud, and dogwood, this small tree rewards the gardener in every season, from the first white bloom to the smooth gray winter bark.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057809166451,"sku":"AMEL-GRAN-AUTU-BRIL-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"amelanchier-x-grandiflora-princess-diana","title":"Amelanchier x grandiflora 'Princess Diana'","description":"\u003cp\u003eApple serviceberry, Amelanchier x grandiflora, is the graceful natural hybrid of two eastern native serviceberries, the downy and the smooth Allegheny, and 'Princess Diana' is among the loveliest selections of the group. The plant appeared in a cultivated garden in Elm Grove, Wisconsin in the mid-1980s and was granted U.S. Plant Patent 6,041 in 1987, chosen for a wide, gracefully spreading canopy, generous white bloom, and fall color that arrives early and holds late. Where many serviceberries grow stiffly upright, 'Princess Diana' reaches outward, a small tree with the airy, layered poise the name suggests.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn April, before or with the first leaves, the branches fill with showy white flowers rising from yellow buds, an early feast for bees. The new foliage unfolds with a bronze cast, deepens to green through summer, then turns brilliant scarlet and red in autumn, the trait that anchors the plant's reputation. Between bloom and fall color come the berries, small pomes ripening from red to deep bluish-purple by June, sweet and blueberry-flavored, and stripped almost overnight by waxwings, robins, and thrushes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe old names tell the plant's story. Shadbush marks a bloom timed to the spring shad runs, Juneberry names the month the fruit ripens, and serviceberry most likely descends from Sorbus, the rowans whose small pomes the fruit recalls. Serviceberry fruit has long been food across North America, eaten fresh, dried into cakes, and pounded with fat and meat into pemmican by many Indigenous peoples, and later gathered by settlers for the Juneberry pies and jams still made today. 'Princess Diana' brings that heritage into a compact, ornamental tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGardeners reach for 'Princess Diana' where a graceful small tree is wanted, as a lawn specimen, at a woodland edge, or among naturalized native plantings, and growers report good resistance to the leaf spot that can mar serviceberry foliage. Give full sun to part shade and average, well-drained soil, with even moisture through establishment. The reward is a true four-season tree: white flowers, June fruit for the birds, early and lasting red fall color, and a smooth gray winter silhouette spreading wide against the sky.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057809264755,"sku":"AMEL-GRAN-PRIN-DIAN-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"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":"amelanchier-obovalis","title":"Amelanchier obovalis","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoastal serviceberry is the compact, low-growing member of a beloved native clan, a small deciduous shrub of the Atlantic coastal plain that spreads gently into colonies and opens clouds of white, five-petaled flowers in early spring, among the first shrubs to bloom as the woods wake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe spring flowers give way to small clusters of sweet, blue-purple fruit in early summer, edible straight from the bush or baked into pies and preserves, and as good for birds as for people. Native from New York and Massachusetts south to Georgia and Alabama, often in dry pine barrens and open woods, the shrub takes naturally to lean, well-drained, sunny ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanding only three to five feet, coastal serviceberry suits the small garden where the taller serviceberries would overwhelm, lovely in a native border, a wildlife planting, or a naturalized edge in sun to part shade. The early bloom, the edible berries, and the easy, colony-forming habit make this a generous, low-key native. Drought tolerant once established.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057809559667,"sku":"AMEL-OBOV-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1593.jpg?v=1720136314"},{"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-hubrechtii","title":"Amsonia hubrichtii","description":"\u003cp\u003eThreadleaf bluestar is grown for two seasons at once: a haze of soft, powder-blue stars in late spring, and a billow of fine, needle-thin foliage that turns a blazing clear gold in fall. Native to the Ouachita Mountains of central Arkansas, \u003cem\u003eAmsonia hubrichtii\u003c\/em\u003e forms a large, dense, shrub-like clump of upright stems clothed in those threadlike leaves, and the autumn color alone earns a place in any sunny border.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe believe this now popular plant was first made available by Woodlanders, well before the Perennial Plant Association named the species Perennial Plant of the Year in 2011. The pale blue, half-inch flowers gather in terminal clusters atop three-foot stems, and the milky sap that runs in every Amsonia leaves the plant untouched by deer and rabbits. An easy, long-lived, almost trouble-free native for the sunny border with well-drained soil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive threadleaf bluestar room to swell into a soft, fine-textured mound, lovely massed, repeated down a border, or set where the gold fall color can catch low autumn light. Striking beside late asters and grasses, and a generous foil to bolder leaves through summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotos courtesy of Missouri Botanical Garden.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057809756275,"sku":"AMSO-HUBR-01G","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Amsonia_hubrichtii-MBG-4.jpg?v=1725832439"},{"product_id":"amsonia-tabernaemontana","title":"Amsonia tabernaemontana","description":"\u003cp\u003eEastern bluestar is the bluestar most gardeners know, a robust native perennial with broader, willowy oval leaves and the clear blue, star-shaped flowers that name the genus, carried in clusters at the stem tips in spring. \u003cem\u003eAmsonia tabernaemontana\u003c\/em\u003e grows happily in deep, moist soil in part shade, and rewards almost any reasonable site with bloom and easy good health.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllan Armitage, in Herbaceous Perennial Plants, puts the species on his short list: \"Blue star flower is always on my list of 'no brainers.' Plant and get out of the way.\" The willowy summer foliage turns soft yellow in fall, the milky sap keeps deer and rabbits off, and a settled clump is as close to trouble-free as a perennial comes. Native across the eastern United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive eastern bluestar room to round into a shrubby clump at the middle of a border, in a native planting, or at a woodland edge, lovely with spring bulbs and early perennials and a quiet gold note in autumn. A light shear after bloom keeps the stems upright.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotos courtesy of James Reveal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057809821811,"sku":"AMSO-TABE-01G","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/D670ED74-6253-4CAE-A700-27AD43C92F22.png?v=1726780192"},{"product_id":"amsonia-montana","title":"Amsonia montana","description":"\u003cp\u003eDwarf bluestar is the compact, well-behaved member of the clan, a tidy mound of upright stems and soft green leaves topped in late spring with clusters of powder-blue, star-shaped flowers. Often treated as a low form of the eastern bluestar, \u003cem\u003eAmsonia montana\u003c\/em\u003e stays small and shapely, a fine choice where the taller bluestars would sprawl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanding only about a foot, dwarf bluestar suits the front of a border, a rock garden, a container, or any tight, sunny spot, where the spring flowers and the gold fall color both earn their keep on a small frame. Like the rest of the genus, the plant carries a milky sap that deer and rabbits refuse, and asks little once settled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow dwarf bluestar in sun to part shade in most well-drained soils with moderate moisture, and shear lightly after bloom to keep the mound dense. 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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":"anisacanthus-wrightii","title":"Anisacanthus wrightii","description":"\u003cp\u003eFlame acanthus, better known as hummingbird bush, is a tough, airy deciduous shrub for hot, dry places, hung from late spring until frost with slender orange to red tubular flowers that ruby-throated hummingbirds cannot resist. Small, pointed leaves give a light, open texture, and the long bloom season makes \u003cem\u003eAnisacanthus wrightii\u003c\/em\u003e one of the best hummingbird plants for the southern garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to the streambanks and rocky ground of Texas and the southwestern United States, hummingbird bush shrugs off heat and drought once established and asks for little. Pale, shredding bark adds quiet winter interest after the leaves fall, and no obvious pest or disease troubles the shrub. Compact enough for a large container, hummingbird bush makes a fine patio plant where the birds can be watched up close.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant flame acanthus in a sunny, well-drained spot, in a xeric border, a pollinator garden, or a hot bank, among other sun-and-drought lovers like salvias and agastache. A hard cut in late winter keeps the shrub dense and floriferous. 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The clone was discovered at the San Antonio Botanic Garden and is generally taken to be the selection known as 'Pumpkin'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the scarlet-flowered species, 'Pumpkin' draws hummingbirds and butterflies through the whole warm season, and thrives on heat and drought, a natural for xeriscaping and low-water gardens. Native in parentage to Texas and adjacent Mexico, hummingbird bush asks for sun and sharp drainage and little else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHardy, drought tolerant, and easy, 'Pumpkin' blooms from late spring through fall with minimal care. 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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. 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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. 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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. 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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\/EurybiaspinulosaScottAllenDavis.jpg?v=1757094034"},{"product_id":"baccharis-halimifolia","title":"Baccharis halimifolia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBaccharis halimifolia\u003c\/em\u003e is a plant of edges and thresholds, growing where the land loosens and blurs into water: salt marsh margins, ditches, tidal creeks, and back dunes. In fall, when most things are shutting down, the groundsel bush erupts into a soft storm of white seed fluff, like a marsh firework frozen mid-explosion. This is the shrub that coastal Louisiana calls manglier, that botanists call groundsel bush or eastern baccharis, and that local healers have quietly trusted for generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA semi-evergreen shrub of the aster family, with small, gray-green, toothed leaves, native to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the southeastern United States. Tough and salt-tolerant, the groundsel bush is a creature of disturbed, sunny ground, and seeds itself freely enough to colonize old fields, roadsides, and cleared land well inland, so site where the abundant seedlings can be managed. Female plants carry the showy white seed masses in fall, a rich late nectar source for migrating pollinators along the coast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow groundsel bush in a coastal, wildlife, or rain garden, in sun to part shade, where the salt tolerance and fall display earn a place and the spread can be kept in check. A plant deeply woven into the folk medicine and natural history of the Gulf South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/woodlanders.net\/blogs\/the-node\/baccharis-halimifolia-manglier-story-medicine-and-mystery-along-the-marsh-edge\"\u003eRead the full ethnobotanical story of this plant here.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057816309875,"sku":"BACC-HALI-01G","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-284.jpg?v=1720136572"},{"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. 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The black seed pods that follow the flowers rattle into fall and add a second season of interest. Native to the eastern and midwestern United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant blue wild indigo in a sunny, well-drained spot, in a border, a prairie or meadow planting, or a native garden, where the blue spring spires read against fresh green and the bold, shrubby clump holds its shape all season. Site once and leave undisturbed, since the deep root resents moving. Lovely with peonies, amsonia, and early grasses.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057816735859,"sku":"BAPT-AUST-01G","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-614.jpg?v=1720136585"},{"product_id":"baptisia-minor","title":"Baptisia minor","description":"\u003cp\u003eBaptisia minor is the dwarf of the blue false indigos, a compact native perennial that gives all the drama of the well-known Baptisia australis on a smaller, tidier frame. Often treated botanically as Baptisia australis var. minor, the plant stands lower and more compact, yet carries full-sized spires of indigo-blue, pea-shaped flowers held well clear of the blue-green foliage. Much admired in the Woodlanders garden, this is a perennial that settles into a sunny bed for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus name comes from the Greek bapto, to dip or to dye, for the old use of these plants as a homegrown substitute for true indigo. Colonial dyers, following a practice learned in part from the Cherokee, boiled wild indigo to draw a blue far less brilliant than the real Indigofera, and the common names false indigo and wild indigo still carry that history. Being a legume, Baptisia also feeds the soil, fixing nitrogen through deep roots, and the inflated seed pods ripen charcoal-black and rattle in the wind, good for dried arrangements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn spring the blue racemes draw queen bumblebees and other long-tongued native bees, and the foliage serves as a larval host for the wild indigo duskywing and the frosted elfin among other butterflies. Deer and rabbits leave the plant alone, put off by the alkaloids that make every part mildly toxic to eat, so a word of care is due where the seed pods might tempt a curious child. In the garden, few native perennials give so much for so little fuss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaptisia minor wants full sun and average, well-drained soil, and asks mainly for patience, sending down a deep taproot that makes the plant slow to establish, long-lived, and best left unmoved once planted. Native to the prairies and glades of the south-central United States, the dwarf blue false indigo suits a sunny border, a rock or gravel garden, a meadow, or a native planting, where the spring blue, blue-green summer mounds, and black autumn pods carry three seasons of interest. Give the plant room, sun, and time, and the plant repays all three.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057816932467,"sku":"BAPT-MINO-01G","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-617.jpg?v=1720136596"},{"product_id":"baptisia-alba","title":"Baptisia alba","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBaptisia alba\u003c\/em\u003e, white wild indigo, is a striking native perennial of tall spires of white, pea-like flowers over deep blue-green foliage. Native to the eastern and central United States, the species carries a rich history as a dye plant, used by Native American peoples and early settlers as a substitute for true indigo, and the genus name, from the Greek bapto, to dip, records that role.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond the beauty, white wild indigo fixes nitrogen to enrich the soil and draws bees and butterflies to the spring flowers. Drought-tolerant, long-lived, and low in fuss, the plant grows a deep taproot that resents disturbance, so site once and let the plant settle in place. A piece of American garden history for a sunny border or a naturalized planting, with handsome black seed pods that rattle into fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhoto courtesy of David Brenda.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057816965235,"sku":"BAPT-ALBA-01G","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Baptisia-alba-closeup_lg-DavidBrenda.jpg?v=1725495481"},{"product_id":"baptisia-sphaerocarpa","title":"Baptisia sphaerocarpa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBaptisia sphaerocarpa\u003c\/em\u003e, yellow wild indigo, is the sunny member of the wild indigo clan, a tough, rounded native perennial topped in spring with short, dense spikes of clear bright yellow, pea-like flowers over fresh blue-green foliage. Compact and shrubby, the plant brings strong color and structure to a sunny border.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to the south-central United States, from Texas north through the prairies, yellow wild indigo is built for heat and lean, dry ground: nitrogen-fixing, drought-tolerant, deer-resistant, and long-lived, with a deep taproot that lets the plant shrug off drought once settled. Black seed pods follow the flowers and hold into fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant yellow wild indigo in full sun and well-drained soil, in a border, a meadow or prairie planting, or a native and pollinator garden, where the gold spring spikes draw bees and butterflies and the bushy clump holds its shape all season. Site once and leave undisturbed, since the deep root resents moving. Lovely with the blue and white wild indigos and early grasses.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057816998003,"sku":"BAPT-SPHA-01G","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-619.jpg?v=1720136603"},{"product_id":"barleria-cristata","title":"Barleria cristata","description":"\u003cp\u003eCalled Philippine violet, though neither Philippine nor a violet, \u003cem\u003eBarleria cristata\u003c\/em\u003e is a showy subtropical shrub that saves its display for the close of the year, opening dark blue-violet, trumpet-shaped flowers through late summer and autumn when much of the garden is winding down. A perennial in zones 8 and 9 and a four-to-six-foot shrub in zone 10, native to India and Myanmar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn zone 8 the tops are killed by frost; cut the plants back, mound about ten inches of coarse sand over the stubs, and mulch over with pine straw. As the weather warms, remove the covering to let new shoots emerge. Given rich soil and ample water, the Philippine violet makes a fine addition to the subtropical garden, valued for that long, late season of cool blue bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse Barleria cristata in a warm, sunny to lightly shaded border, where the late flowers extend color into fall and draw bees and butterflies. Fast and easy in heat and humidity, a reliable performer for the Deep South and a worthwhile experiment, with winter protection, at the cold edge of the range.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057817194611,"sku":"BARL-CRIS-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Barleria_cristata_Woodlanders_1.jpg?v=1731873171"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/collections\/Callistemon_Clemson_Hardy_Woodlanders.webp?v=1748991286","url":"https:\/\/woodlanders.net\/collections\/sun-lovers.oembed?page=29","provider":"Woodlanders","version":"1.0","type":"link"}