Woodlanders has offered many kinds of "hardy" Citrus over the years but we hesitate to list this one because of the confused parentage. Dr. John Brown a Texas citrus breeder crossed an open-pollenated seedling from a 'Sanford' Citrange (Ponciris trifoliata X Citrus sinensis) with a 'Changsha' Mandarin (Citrus reticulata) but suspected that the 'Sanford' Citrange had been pollenated with a Citrus maxima (Grapefruit or Pomelo). The seedling progeny of the resultant 'SsnCitChang' hybrid have had trifoliate leaves but seem highly vaiable. If it does have only 1/8 Ponciris "blood" the fruit may indeed prove decent and our citrus expert Dr. Tom McClendon encourages further testing.
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This orange is actually an orange x tangelo hybrid. Tangelo is a grapefruit x mandarin hybrid. It was bred in Florida for cold hardiness but is not widely tested. It has however grown and been productive on the South Carolina coast. The fruit is said to be sweet and for marketing puroposes it is classified as an orange.
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. 'Juanita' Tangerine or Mandarin is a surprisingly cold hardy variety that occurred as a seedling of a commercial "Tangerine". It was planted outdoors in Clarendon County, South Carolina by Juanita Barrineau where it proved to be hardy and productive of fine quality fruit of the typical tangerine or mandarin type. It has supposedly survived temperatures as low as 13 degrees. Plant in a protected site with well-drained sandy soil.
Evergreen Citrus with sweet, thin skinned Mandarin type fruit ripening in fall. Parentage is Clementine Mandarin x Orlando Tangelo; the latter being a hybrid between 'Dancy' Mandarin and 'Duncan' Grapefruit. Hardiness not tested but may be hardy in zone 8 in protected sites.
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This hybrid between Trifoliate Orange and Satsuma Mandarin forms a tree with spreading growth habit and dark green trifoliate leaves. Fruit is variable in shape but is said to make good semi-sweet orange/tangerine juice if slightly diluted to remove the trifoliate aftertaste. Appears to be very hardy.
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This is a medium sized evergreen citrus tree with typical fragrant white flowers and flavorful yellow, nippled grapefruit-like fruits. It should prove an excellent sweet flavored grapefruit type citrus for the coastal areas. It is probably in the citrus group known as "Sweet Lemon".
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This hybrid between the Sour Orange and the Trifoliate Orange has great vigor and very nice foliage with mostly trifoliate leaves. Has flowered and fruited well in northern Alabama. This citrus is quite cold hardy but the plant with it's flowers and sizeable orange fruit may be better for show than anything else as Citradias are but not likely to very palatable.
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. 'Bloomsweet' Grapefruit is not a true grapefruit but certainly a good substitute which has proven hardy and productive in central Georgia. It may be a hybrid between a pummelo and a sour orange. The tree itself is an attractive evergreen with fragrant flowers and the fruit is very palatable and much like the true grapefruit. We thank Mark Crawford of Loch Laurel Nursery in Valdosta, Georgia for sharing propagation material of this citrus with us.
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This hardy hybrid between the Naval Orange and the inedible but hardy Trifoliate Orange (Ponciris trifoliata)was created way back in 1909 under the direction of W.T. Swingle. It is now regarded as a sister seedling of 'Troyer' or it may indeed be the same as 'Troyer'. It is likewise a vigorous upright small tree with slender thorny branches, semi-evergreen foliage, white flowers, and abundant baseball size oranges that make a conversation piece plus a tasty and refreshing ade drink if juice is diluted and sweetened.
Small evergreen tree with foliage and flowers typical of other Mandarin Orange types (Citrus reticulata) and with tasty small fruits like the familiar "Tangerine". These are seedlings from a tree here in Aiken, SC which was acquired from Camellia Forest Nursery in North Carolina who had introduced it from China. The name "Citrus tangerina" is used but not widely accepted as a species. Culture as for other Citrus.
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This unifoliate tree produces small fruit that is tight-skinned, yellow and very acid. It is a tangerine-type fruit that should make good ade drinks. It is known as 'Djerook Leemo' in Java where it originated.
Many popular citrus fruits are hybrids. This one is a real mix. The 'Minneola' Tangelo is a Mandarin Orange crossed with a Grapefruit. This is crossed with the cold-hardy but scarcely edible Ichang Papeda (Citrus ichangensis) and then this is crossed with a 'Temple' Orange (which is a Tangor or Mandarin Orange crossed with a Sweet Orange). We grew these from seed we got at the Citrus Expo. They should turn out to be reasonably cold hardy and should produce excellent fruit.
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This Mandarin Orange was growing in the garden of Dr. Dave Creech near Nacogdoches, Texas. It had an abundance of excellent fruit (Tangerines) in October. Dr. Creech said it had come from the nursery of the late Sherwood Akin of Sibley, Louisiana who grew and experimented with a variety of hardy citrus. Dr. Creech thought it was 'Early St. Ann' Satsuma, a variety released by the Louisiana Citrus Research Station. We question this as 'Early St. Ann' is said to be essentially seedless whereas this had a fair number of seeds. In any case it appears to be quite hardy and has very tasty fruit.
Dryopteris filix-mas, the male fern, is one of the great woodland ferns of the Northern Hemisphere, a large, fine-textured plant found wild across Europe, Asia, and North America and grown in gardens for centuries. The species name means literally the male fern, an old contrast with the more delicate lady fern. The selection 'Undulata Robusta' is a robust, vigorous form with gently undulate, wavy frond margins that catch the light along the edge of each leaf.
Callistemon brachyandrus, the prickly or desert bottlebrush, comes from the arid inland of New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia, and wears that origin in every part. The short, stiff, needle-fine leaves end in a sharp point and give the shrub the prickly common name, a fine gray-green texture quite unlike the broad-leaved bottlebrushes. The brushes are the real surprise: deep red stamens tipped with yellow anthers, so each flower looks dusted with gold, and they open in summer, after most other bottlebrush have finished.
Dryopteris dilatata, the broad buckler fern, is a woodland fern of Europe and temperate Asia, carrying broadly triangular, three-times-divided fronds of dark, rich green above stalks clothed in dark-centered scales. The selection Dryopteris dilatata 'Recurvata' takes that handsome form and adds recurved leaf margins, so each frond reads with extra crinkle and depth, a fine textural plant for the shaded garden.
Callistemon citrinus, the crimson bottlebrush, is the plant most people picture when they hear the common name, and the parent of a good share of the red-flowered selections in the trade. The lance-shaped leaves emerge coppery and pink, harden to a soft gray-green, and give up a clean lemon scent when bruised, the trait the species epithet records. Bright crimson brushes, four inches or so, come in a heavy flush in late spring and then intermittently through the warm months, each one a generous well of nectar for hummingbirds and bees.
