Click on a genus below to see expanded information about the plant.
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Acacia wrightii
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Texas Cat Claw Acacia - a Texas native shrub or small tree 6' to 10' tall with creamy white flowers and ferny foliage. A choice speciman.
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$6 |
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Aechmea recurvata var Red Form
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Cold hardy terrestrial bromeliad with outstanding red coloring and a vase-like rosette that flushes blue flowers on a red spike in early to mid-spring - very interesting. Partial shade, well drained soil.
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$4 |
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Aesculus pavia
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3 seeds -This Texas buckeye was grown from seed collected in Navasota, TX. The rich-red color form is especially outstanding and blooms two to three weeks later than the other Texas buckeyes - thus extending the bloom season considerably. To plant, lay the seed on its side and push gently into the soil, but do not cover. Germination should occur quickly if kept damp. Small shrublike tree 8' to 10' tall. The unfurling new foliage is quite showy in Spring, and is not affected by late Spring frosts. Carry a seed in your pocket for good luck.
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$6 |
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Agave aff. stricta
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Found in the shade of pine-oak forest in the state of Nueva Leon/Tamaulipa, Mexico. Silver to blue-green thin leaved foliage is most attractive.
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$5 |
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Agave montana Number 1*
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Similar to A. macroculmis, but with stout blunt leaves and strong ghost bud imprint. Resembles a giant artichoke. Partial shade to full sun, well drained soil.
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$4 |
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Agave potatorum*
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Butterfly-shaped, silver-blue leaves with distinct rusty-red teeth. Developes into a beautiful compact specimen to 2-1/2' across. Sun, average soil, dry.
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$4 |
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Agave tenuifolia
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Collected in the state of Quetera, Mexico. Has elegantly arching blue-green pencil-like foliage. Hardy to at least Zone 8, maybe even farther north. Unusual in that it blooms and pups, but the original plant does not die. Originally collected by Yucca Do Nursery.
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$4 |
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Amoreuxia wrightii*
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The 3" bright orange flowers marked with a splash of red are held just above the blue-green foliage; amazing seed pods resemble Japanese lanterns. This Texas native thrives in hot and dry locations but must have excellent drainage. Here it has proven to be a hardy perennial that never fails to surprise and delight visitors. (10 seed)
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$10 |
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Amorphophallus rivieri*
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10 seed per package - Devil's Tongue. Large compound leaves and spotted stems give this a tropical look - certainly a dramatic conversation piece. This plant has been in the garden since 1987 and has bloomed many times, but this is the first time it has set seed. The cadmium-red seed on this 3 foot tall spike is spectacular. (see pic)
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$10 |
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Amyris texensis*
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A South-Texas native which has grown to about 7 feet in the 20 years it has been in the garden. At long last, it is being valued for the beauty and scent of the small white flowers, the bright evergreen foliage, its drought and heat tolerance, and the glossy, purple-black clusters of berries that attract numerous birds. It has survived to 4 degrees in the garden.
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$6 |
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Aristolochia fimbriata
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The foliage of this low trailing vine is beautifully patterned with mottling. Small 1" lacey, yellow flowers. Swallowtail larva host! Sun or shade, any soil, average moisture.
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$5 |
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Baptisia sphaerocarpa*
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Yellow flowering wild indigo. Herbaceous perennial with mounding growth 2 - 3 feet high and wide.
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$6 |
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Bauhinia bartlettii (formerly 'new lavender')
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Glossy green leaves with extra long pointed lobes cover this airy small tree. Has beautiful lavender orchid-like flowers. Full sun in almost any soil, dry.
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$4 |
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Bauhinia lunaroides
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Airy desert shrub with white orchid-like flowers. Attains 8' in a few years. Full sun in almost any soil, dry. Very limited quantities.
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$4 |
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Berberis lycium
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Blue-green foliage on long arching branches with masses of rich yellow flowers. Showy blue-black seed are a midsummer feast for birds.
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$4 |
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Beschorneria rigida
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Rare. This agave like plant performs best for us in a woodland setting. Narrow green foliage and 3' tall flower spike which is topped with nodding peachy-red and green bells in early spring. Our plant was grown from seed collected near the town of Zacoaltipan,in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico in 1998.
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$10 |
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Beschorneria septentrionalis*
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Sculptural rosette, bright red inflorescence reaches 4'. Cylindrical red flowers are tipped emerald green. Shade, rich well drained soil, average moisture.
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$4 |
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Caesalpinia mexicana*
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Small to medium shrub (can reach 10 or more feet) with slightly coarser foliage than C. pulcherrima. Produces solid yellow bloom spikes and is very heat and drought tolerant. Can be damaged by temperatures below teens, but usually recovers quickly. An excellent choice for dry spots in full sun.
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$4 |
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Canna warscewizii
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We love species cannas. This one has wonderful red-streaked foliage and cherry-red flowers. The individual flowers on species cannas are small, but bloom continuously. Also of interest are the red turning chocolate brown seed pods. Cannas love heat, so plant in the spring.
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$4 |
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Casimiroa pringlei*
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Large shrub to 15' with evergreen trifoliate foliage producing a spicy fragrance when crushed and unusual orange edible fruits resembling loquats in mid to late summer. Wonderful host for the yellow, swallowtail butterfly. Full sun, any soil, average moisture. 10 seeds per pack.
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$6 |
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Chamaedorea microspadix*
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Hardy feather palm with black-green fishtail-like foliage and bright orange-red fruit. Deep shade, rich well drained soil, average.
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$4 |
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Chamaedorea radicalis
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A hardy feather palm with black-green narrow foliage and bright orange fruit in summer. Deep shade, rich well drained soil, average.
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$4 |
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Chilopsis linearis*
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Sweet desert willow. Collected in Mexico, in the gypsum sand dunes near Cuatro Cienegas - blooms off and on all summer with various shades of exotic purple flowers. Small shrubby tree with an interesting twisted form.
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$5 |
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Chionanthus retusus
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Chinese fringe tree. Beautiful small tree with glossy, dark green foliage covered with white flowers in spring. Full sun, any soil, average moisture.
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$4 |
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Crataegus greggiana
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Gregg Hawthorne. Seed collected from C. greggiana var Pepo Phipps. A small,compact spherical tree (15') with large white flowers in Spring. Very showy with quarter-sized bright red fruits in Fall.
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$4 |
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Delphinium carolinianum
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15 seed - Tall blue spires in spring.
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$8 |
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Dyckia 'Cherry Coke'*
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Seed was collected in a garden setting from the beautiful D.'Cherry Coke', a fosterianna hybrid.
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$6 |
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Dyckia brevifolia
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The spiky, blue-green rosette is topped in mid summer with a 2-3' spire of yellow-orange bell-like flowers. Wonderful as a pot plant too.
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$6 |
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Dyckia fosteriana
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Collected in a garden setting, Dyckia fosteriana
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$6 |
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Dyckia sulphurea
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Dense rosette of green succulent leaves and tall spikes of yellow flowers.
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$6 |
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Dyckia x collection
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Seed was collected from various Dyckias - brevifolia, fosterianna, and others. For a wonderful collection of unique dyckias, we will include 3 packages of seed (One from each of these species) for $14.
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$14 |
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Echinopsis x COLLECTION
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Seed collected from various hybrid Echinopsis plants growing in the garden. (Formerly Trichocereus) A hardy, columnar cactus to about 6" in diameter with very showy mango, salmon, red, or sunset colored flowers.
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$6 |
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Eleutherine latifolia
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Found in San Louis Potosi, Mexico. Small flowers from June until Fall - will treat you to afternoon blooms of creamy white with yellowish mid-ribs. Leaves are robust and plicate. Rare in cultivation.
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$4 |
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Escholtzia californica ssp. Mexicana*
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A showy poppy with fern-like silver foliage and yellow flowers. Sun, dry.
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$4 |
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Euonymus sp.*
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This small evergreen tree (or large shrub) produces clusters of rich yellow, lantern-like pods filled with cadmium-red seed in December and early January. It has grown to 15 feet in as many years here in the garden. To have these showy colors in the garden at this time of the year is a special treat.
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$6 |
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Forestiera angustifolia
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Desert Olive - This evergreen shrub has dark green glossy foliage with a weeping form and blue drupes. Looks outstanding as a specimen hanging over a wall. Full sun, dry. The birds and the bees love this plant.
http://www.southtexasnatives.org/plants/elbowbush.php
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$6 |
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Freesia laxa
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Formerly Lapeirousia laxa (carmine red). Bright, coral-red flowers on 6-8" stems for several weeks in early spring. This warmly colored irid does especially well in the south, where it is a winter grower, going dormant over the summer.
Scott Ogden includes a photo in his book, "Garden Bulbs for the South" on page 172.
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$4 |
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Gladiolus splendens
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The blooms on this plant are charming and delicate - and cadmium red. They are held on bloom spikes 12" to 15" tall, well above the grass-like foliage. Ideal for the rock or dry garden, it thrives and has naturalized here at the garden with little or no extra water. Blooms in March and April. Prob. zones 8-9. Pictures can be viewed at:
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/Gladiolus/
Gladiolus_splendens_Middelpos_msi.jpg
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$10 |
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Guihaia argyrata
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Dainty Lady Palm. (syn. Trachycarpus argyratus) A slow-growing compact palm, remaining as a small clump in a lightly shaded area of the garden. Will grow to about 4 feet tall. Beautiful palmate leaves show silver on the undersides.
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$10 |
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Hedychium x 'C P Raffle'*
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This spectacular chromium orange flower spike is a show stopper, as is the seed, which to me is reminiscent of bittersweet but on a larger scale.
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$6 |
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Herbertia lahue*
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Prairie nymph - Small Texas Iris relative with bright blue-lavender pinwheel-like flowers in early spring. Sun, average soil. Fills a meadow with blue lights.
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$4 |
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Hesperaloe mamulique*
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'Lynn's Pink' Rich green leaves to 4 foot tall, and bloom spikes covered with pink-blushed-blue bells for months on end that arch 8 to 10 foot tall. Found at Maumulique Pass, Nueva Leon, Mex by Lynn Lowrey in the 1980's, this wonderful selection is easy to grow and will adapt to anything except wet soil. Probably hardy to zone 7.
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$6 |
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Hymenocallis maximiliani
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This is a narrow-leafed species with white petals that dangle from the cups. Blooms May - July, and naturalizes in the south. 12 seed - probably viable only until mid-August 2008.
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$8 |
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Iris spuria
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Heirloom Iris - probably an early hybrid, pre 1920s South Carolina. White with yellow markings, this iris blooms earlier than any of our other Spuria Iris. This is its first time to set seed after 30 years. Blooms best in full sun, but will take dappled shade. Loves alkaline soil, but will adapt to acid soil with the addition of dolomite lime in the fall.
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$6 |
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Ligularia hiberniflora
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20" clumps of glossy green leaves are topped with stalks of showy, bright yellow daisies in mid fall. Outstanding evergreen for shady areas of the garden.
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$4 |
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Lindera angustifolia
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Aromatic, airy, large shrub/small tree from Asia with attractive purple fruit set off by slender, glossy foliage. Leaves turn copper in fall and are held through winter; particularly beautiful when caught by the sunlight. Part sun, average soil.
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$4 |
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Mahonia aff. pallida var Tamazunchale
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This Mahonia was collected south of Tamazunchale, Mexico. It has larger leaflets than the species, and more substance (more leathery). The leaves are very glaucous on the underside (silver), and for us the seedlings come true.
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$6 |
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Mahonia chochoca*
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Mexican tree barberry is rarely offered and choice. These Mahonias have the finest fragrance, flowering in mid winter with bright yellow blooms followed by vivid blue fruit. Very heat and drought tolerant!
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$6 |
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Mahonia chochoca -Curley leaf form*
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All of the great characteristics of M. chochoca with the addition of madly undulating leaves.
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$6 |
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Mahonia gracilis
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Fragrant Mexican barberry has bright yellow fragrant flowers in late winter. Showy compound foliage with bright red petioles.
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$10 |
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Mahonia gracilis var. Hartwegii
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The showy bright red leaf stems distinguish this mahonia from M. gracilis. These red stems beautifully accent the rich green, spineless foliage and deep yellow clusters of winter flowers. The form is a little more open than the species.
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$6 |
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Mahonia lanceolata x
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Rare, large tropical looking barberry with huge panicles of delicate pale, yellow flowers. Part sun, average well drained soil, moist.
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$15 |
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Mahonia lomariifolia*
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This member of the Barberry Family, Chinese Hollygrape, is an evergreen upright, multi-stemmed shrub - 6' to 8' tall. The leaves are long, thick, spiny and glossy green with new growth a beautiful bronze. Bright yellow flowers in winter are followed by impressive blue fruit, a favorite with the Cedar waxwings. Grow in part shade, moist, well-drained soil. Hardy to zone 7 or 8.
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$4 |
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Mahonia pallida*
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A choice species with graceful, arching branches and thin, delicate, cream-yellow panicles of flowers in March and April. A beautiful addition to any
garden; plant in part sun in well-drained soil and give it room to grow.
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$10 |
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Mahonia x lindsayae 'Cantab'
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Seed collected in a garden setting from the beautiful "Cantab'.
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$4 |
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Mahonia X media 'Arthur Menzies'*
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In the early 1990's we sent seed of these hybrids to J.C. Raulston in Raleigh. He was so impressed with the great diversity of the seedlings that they were planted in various locations at the Arboretum. We have 15 or 20 of these planted in the garden. All are consistent and have clusters of bright yellow flowers on 10-12" erect stems. All have long and elegant leaves, but color of each is distinctly different- from rich green to blue-green. The dark purple fruit is equally impressive.
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$6 |
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Mahonia x media 'Charity'
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$6 |
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Mahonia X media 'Lionel Fortescue'
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Showy yellow flowers produced in late winter are followed in early spring by waxy blue fruit. Hybrids between Mahonia japonica and Mahonia lomarifolia.
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$6 |
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Mahonia x media 'Underway'
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Description not available.
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$6 |
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Manfreda undulata
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Lush, undulating, blue-green foliage and 4' flower spikes. Sun, average, dry.
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$4 |
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Maurandya barklaiana*
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Formerly M. grandiflora. Every year this easy vine climbs 10', cascades, and then comes into full flower in late June and continues until October. This especially showy selection was made in the state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico. The flowers are much larger and color is deep blue-purple.
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$6 |
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Myrospermum sousanum
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Small drought tolerant tree with showy white flowers and blue-green fern-like foliage. Sun, average soil, dry.
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$4 |
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Serenoa repens (blue)*
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Small, trunk-forming fan palm with waxy blue-green foliage. Sun, average soil, moist.
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$6 |
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Taxus wallichiana*
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At long last - a Taxus that thrives in our heat and humidity. This small evergreen tree has reached 15' after 15 years in the garden. The pendulant arching branches make this rare tree exceptionally beautiful. Survived 4 degrees here. The red fruits are prized by birds and make a beautiful show in mid-fall.
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$6 |
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