Plant Profile: Southern Live Oak (Quercus virginiana)
Karen One of the icons of the deep South, the live oak is often shown draped with Spanish moss. Its huge massive size, wide-spreading horizontal branches, and stiff, glossy, leathery leaves…
Plant Profile: Shrubby St. Johnswort (Hypericum prolificum)
This native of eastern and central United States is a small compact deciduous shrub with medium texture and rounded form. It produces yellow flowers about one inch across with five…
Plant Profile: Bottlebrush Buckeye (Aesculus parviflora)
A native of woodlands in southeastern United States, bottlebrush buckeye is a wide, suckering deciduous shrub that needs plenty of room to grow. In summer, its palmately compound leaves are…
Plant Profile: St. Dabeoc’s Heath (Daboecia cantabrica)
Native of western Ireland, France, Northern Spain, and Portugal, this evergreen shrub can be upright and tidy or prostrate and unkempt. It grows up to two feet tall and wide,…
Plant Profile: Silver Linden (Tilia tomentosa)
Tolerant of pollution, salt, and wind, silver linden is a tall deciduous tree that can be a useful shade tree in cities as well as towns. The heart shaped leaves…
Plant Profile: Rose ‘Black Magic’
‘Black Magic’ is one of the most popular dark red exhibition and florist roses. The almost black color of the pointed buds becomes slightly redder as the high centered flowers…
Plant Profile: Japanese Pagoda Tree (Styphnolobium/Sophoras japonica)
A native of China and Korea, the tree was brought to Japan, Europe, and North America where it is valued for its creamy white fragrant flowers that hang in clusters…
Plant Profile: Rosa ‘Moonstone’
This popular exhibition rose has large flowers that open from fat buds and are usually borne singly on long stout stems. The long petals are white on the reverse and…
Plant Profile: Yellowwood (Cladrastis lutea)
A rarely seen native of Southeastern United States, yellowwood is a medium-sized deciduous tree grown as an ornamental in diverse areas of the country for its fragrant flowers. In late…
Plant Profile: Shrub Lantana (Lantana camara)
Shrub lantana is a tropical evergreen shrub native to Central America and the West Indies often grown as an annual in zones 7 and colder. It offers an abundance of…