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| Azalea, Alabama |
Zones: 6, 7, 8
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A compact Azalea, growing 5 to 7 feet tall, Alabama Azalea is our most lusciously fragrant. It's pure white with yellow blotched flowers and long stamens appear in mid-spring along with the emerging leaves, and the scent is heaven-sent. Grow it in high, open shade, and well-drained soil right outside your bedroom window. Cat# 1276
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| Sweet Or Smooth Azalea |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7
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Sweet Azalea is named for its highly fragrant early summer flowers which are white to pale pink with red stamens. It is erect, loosely branched, and native to stream banks and swamp and bog edges of the southeast. As such, it prefers evenly moist acidic soil in sun to light shade. Sweet Azalea may be the tallest and fastest growing of our native azaleas, and fall foliage color may be a good red. Maybe you have a damp area in your yard close to the house where a combination of Sweet Azalea, Summersweet, and Goldflame Honeysuckle could perfume your surroundings all summer long. Cat# 1181
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| Azalea, Coast |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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Coast Azalea is a 41/2 foot tall, erect, suckering shrub with bluish-green foliage and fragrant, pinkish-white, long-stamened, mid-spring flowers that usually open before plants leaf out. This species occurs naturally in the coastal plain from Delaware to South Carolina in flat pine woods and savannahs, usually where it is moist but also in xeric sand hills. This suggests its use in high open shade in moist to dry areas with good drainage. Cat# 1182
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| Rhododendron calendulaceum |
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| Azalea, Flame |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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Flame Azalea is common to the Appalachians where it lights up the late spring woods with every pale and brilliant shade of yellow, orange, red, and salmon. The 2 inch, non-fragrant flowers are borne in open trusses just as their leaves are beginning to come out. Plants are loosely branched and upright growing to about 6 feet. Fall foliage color is yellow or pale red. It likes good soil that is well drained, and bright indirect light. Cat# 1311
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| Piedmont Azalea |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Perhaps the most common of the azaleas native to the southeast, Piedmont Azalea inhabits moist to dry areas in light shade. It is stoloniferous and an erect grower to 9 feet. Mid-spring flowers range from white to deep pink and are very sweetly fragrant. In addition to its wonderful smell, Piedmont Azalea is particularly useful because it tolerates drier conditions and because it naturalizes fairly readily eventually forming small colonies. Cat# 1277
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| Rhododendron cumberlandense |
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| Azalea, Cumberland |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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Cumberland Azalea is a beautiful deciduous azalea that occurs on wooded slopes in the Cumberland Plateau of Kentucky and Tennessee and in the mountains of Georgia, North Carolina, and Alabama. It is a low growing and later blooming azalea (early to mid-summer) with beautiful trusses of orange to red flowers that are not fragrant. In cultivation, it will be from 1 to 6 feet tall and wide, and prefers full sun in the north to partial shade in the south with well drained, but good, acidic soil. These are grown from seed so their colors and heights will vary. A beautiful azalea for the home garden. Cat# 1533
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Photo courtesy of Tom Barnes
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| Rhododendron periclymenoides |
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| Pinxterbloom Azalea |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Pinxterbloom occurs naturally along streams and in bogs in light woods. It is well adapted, though, to drier, rocky soils. Mid to late spring flowers are 1 1/2 to 2 inches wide, are borne in trusses of 6 to 12, and appear just before the leaves emerge. The delicate petals curl back exposing long stamens and styles. Flowers range from soft pink to dark pink and are sweetly scented and very beautiful. Growing to about 6 feet tall, it is more densely branched than other deciduous azaleas and spreads by stolons or underground runners. It is a terrific choice for naturalizing in moister areas. Cat# 1312
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| Plumleaf Azalea |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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How about an azalea that blooms in mid summer? This one has rich orange-red flowers and has a rounded full shape to 8 feet or so. It grows naturally in sandy soil areas in the southeast so drainage is important! No fragrance or fall color, but what other azalea blooms so late? Use this one as an accent shrub in light shade. Cat# 1278
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| Swamp Azalea |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Swamp Azalea occurs over a wide range in swamps and wetlands from Maine to Florida and Alabama. It is stoloniferous, has open spreading branches, and can grow up to 15 feet or so in the wild but usually grows to around 5 feet in cultivation. The flowers are white or rarely pink and sweetly clove scented in early summer. The leaves, flowers, and young twigs are very sticky to the touch. If you had a stream, pond, or seepage area in partial shade and wanted a spreading shrub, this one would be perfect. Cat# 1183
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| Fragrant Sumac |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Sumacs are rapidly becoming "the" plants to have for durability, toughness, great fall color and the ability to stabilize soil over large areas. Growing wild in much of the eastern United States in rocky, open woodlands, Fragrant Sumac is a must have deciduous plant for that kind of difficult spot. We first saw it growing in gravely, lousy soil with Little Bluestem, Tennessee Coneflower, and Silkgrass where it formed open 6 foot rounded shrubs - kind of straggly but very tough and durable. Forms vary from low, spreading, and suckering, to taller and upright which is what we have. The bright green leaves look like rounded poison ivy leaves but are non-allergenic and turn bright red, yellow-orange and purple infall. Modest yellow flowers appear in spring followed by small dark red fruits (on female plants) in fall. It is the stems that are pungently fragrant. Use Fragrant Sumac in sun or light shade in dryish soil and surround it with other Drought Busters where it can become the backbone of a very low maintenance garden. This has become one of our most favorite shrubs. Cat# 1184
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| Gro-low Sumac |
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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'Gro-low' is a dwaf selection of Fragrant Sumac. It has the same round-lobed, poison ivy shaped leaves and great fall color, and ability to colonize poor soil, but it differs in growing only 2 to 3 feet tall and up to 9 feet wide. This makes 'Gro-low' a great ground cover choice for banks, road cuts or anywhere you need to stabilize the soil in mostly sunny places. The spreading branches tend to root where they touch the soil so eventually a fairly thick tangle is produced. Of course no plant is going to grow well, if at all, in rock hard subsoil, but for that steep bank in full sun with lousy, dry soil, try 'Gro-low', Aromatic Aster, and maybe some Silkgrass. Those should go a long way towards stabilizing and beautifying your problem bank. Cat# 1313
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| Flameleaf Sumac, Shining Sumac |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Flameleaf or Shining Sumac occurs in every state from the Rocky Mountains east along roads, woods edges, and fields. It is a pioneer species invading open or disturbed areas before other woody plants come in. And in the fall, its foliage color is beyond compare - flaming scarlet, orange, and sometimes burgundy. This semi-woody shrub forms open colonies via root suckering that are 7 to 15 feet tall and 10 to 20 feet wide, tallest in the center, gradually shorter at the edges. The leaves are 18 inches long or so, with opposite leaflets, shiny green in the summer, then blazing scarlet in fall, before dropping off for the winter. Female plants have 12-inch clusters of mid-summer greenish flowers that bear showy, fuzzy maroon fruits in the fall that wildlife adores. Male plants have dark maroon flower clusters. This plant is very coarse in texture and it can grow quite quickly, but in the right place, it can be absolutely stunning. It can be pruned to be a tree or its root suckers can be regularly mowed off. It can be used to stabilize a bank and for erosion control. But when massed, and planted where you can take advantage of back lighting and combined with Plumegrass and late asters, the result is hard to beat. All it needs is full sun and dryish soil. Cat# 1454
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| White Star Sedge |
Zones: 6, 7, 8, 9
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Common in moist or wet open areas or thin woods along the coastal plain from Virginia to Texas, White Star Sedge looks like a grass with daisy-like flowers with long, drooping, pointed petals. It is actually a grass-like plant called a sedge. The "flowers" are composed of 5 or 6 conspicuous drooping white bracts or leaves surrounding inconspicuous flowers on 1 to 2 foot stems. White Star Sedge can be fairly aggressive in moist soil with sun or part shade and could be used a a bright green ground cover. Drier sites will slow the spread. The white "flowers" are effective all summer into fall. Cat# 1077
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| Carolina Rose, Pasture Rose |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Carolina Rose is a tough and durable rose that occurs throughout the eastern United States in low moist areas. Its beautiful 2 inch, pink, single flowers occur in early summer and are followed by bright red rose hips in the fall. This plant makes dense thickets of erect bristly stems to 4 or 5 feet tall. Use it as a hedge or screen and watch the wildlife that will appreciate it. It will grow in just about any soil but needs full sun to produce good flowers, fruits, and a soft red fall leaf color. Cat# 1185
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| Ground-Covering Raspberry |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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Growing just 6 inches tall with an indefinite spread, Rubus calycinoides is a very attractive semi-deciduous ground cover. It has 1 inch, 3-lobed, shiny, dark green leaves that are finely puckered and leathery. They turn a beautiful dark bronze for the winter, falling off only when temperatures go below 15 degrees or so. The stems are dark colored and hairy and root in the ground intermittently. Although we've seen pictures of orange raspberry-like fruits and light purple flowers, we haven't seen it in real life. This plant is very useful as a ground cover around shrubs. Or leave pockets for your favorite perennials. It likes full sun or light shade and average soil. Cat# 1186
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| Rudbeckia fulgida var. fulgida |
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| Coneflower, Black-Eyed Susan, Orange |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Sturdy, 2- to 3-foot tall, long-lived perennial with hundreds of 11/2-inch flowerheads on unbranched stems. Flowers rich yellow with crisp black centers. This is a no-fuss-no-muss plant. It is disease and pest resistant, can take some drought, doesn't need staking, and flowers forever from August to the first hard frost when the birds take over and feed on the seeds. Looks great with Goldenrod, Prairie Blazing Star, grasses, Sedum 'Autumn Joy,' Asters, Sunflowers, and Ironweed. Cat# 1187
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| Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii |
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| Orange Coneflower, Black-Eyed Susan |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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The principal differences between this variety and Rudbeckia fulgida var. fulgida are in the flowers, leaves, and in height. Var. sullivantii grows to about 2 feet. It has large flower heads, 2 to 3 inches across with somewhat lax petals or rays, on branched stems. Individual plants of var. sullivantii would have fewer but larger flower heads than those of var. fulgida. Also, the former has much larger leaves which extend further up the stem. Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii is the native plant from which the popular cultivar Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm' has been derived. Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm' is possibly more compact and has larger flowers but truthfully, any of these varieties are terrific garden plants. Var. fulgida might be the better choice for naturalizing less formal gardens or where a taller or later blooming plant is wanted. Cat# 1188
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| Rudbeckia subtomentosa 'Henry Eilers' |
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| Sweet Coneflower |
Zones: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Ranging from Michigan to Texas, Rudbeckia subtomentosa is a plant of the sunny prairies where it has big, yellow, daisy-like flowers. 'Henry Eilers' is a selection that has bright yellow, finely quilled or fluted, 3 inch flowers with brown button centers, on 5 to 6 foot stalks. It gets the name, Sweet Coneflower, because the foliage is slightly vanilla scented. In good soil, it will erupt from the ground. Pair it up with ironweed, mallows, Joe Pye, and big bluestem. In leaner soils, it is milder mannered. Cut flowers last 3 weeks. Amazing! You will love this plant! Cat# 1543
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Photo courtesy of Walters Gardens
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| Three-Lobed Coneflower |
Zones: 5, 6, 7, 8
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A bushy Black-eyed Susan? Four- to five-foot tall perennial with millions of 3-inch flower heads on branched stems from July to September. Forms a large bush, informal and striking. Likes a bit more moisture, and will quickly spread by seed. Striking in front or at the ends of a split rail fence. Cat# 1190
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