Shrubs

Ornamental and broad-leaf plants that offer a variety of sizes and heights; many great accent plants in this category

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Abelia grandiflora
Common Name: Abelia Glossy
Dark green summer leaves turn bronze in fall. The small white bell-shaped flowers that adorn this dense shrub from early summer to frost are slightly fragrant. Branches can be left to arch or can be uniformly trimmed.

Abelia grandiflora 'Compacta'
Common Name: Abelia Compact
A low-growing, compact, evergreen to semi-evergreen shrub with shiny green foliage. Its slender branches hold clusters of small pinkish-white, bell-shaped flowers from early summer to frost. Its delicate leaves make them a candidate for topiaries.

Abelia grandiflora 'Edward Goucher'
Common Name: Abelia Edward Goucher
Arching branches hold masses of lavender-pink clusters of bell-shaped slightly fragrant flowers from early summer to frost. Its dark green ovate leaves turn purplish bronze in fall. This abelia is best as an informal hedge with its arching branches...

Abelia grandiflora 'Rose Creek'
Common Name: Abelia Rose Creek
Rose Creek Abelia's evergreen leaves emerge with a pinkish cast, turn lustrous dark green in summer, then darken to purple-green in winter. Cluster after cluster of white, fragrant, tubular flowers about a half-inch long load its delicate branches fr...

Abelia grandiflora 'Sherwoodii'
Common Name: Abelia Sherwoodii
A hardy, quick growing evergreen or semi-deciduous shrub (cooler climates) with arching branches. Grows 3-4 feet tall and 5 feet wide. Lightly fragrant, bell-shaped lavender pink flowers are heaviest late summer through fall and sporadically througho...

Aucuba japonica
Common Name: Aucuba Dwarf Green
A dwarf broadleaf evergreen, this aucuba has an erect, dense growth habit with extremely dark green leaves. The plant thrives in the shade and is suitable for north and east sides of a building or under the canopies of large trees.

Aucuba japonica 'Picturata'
Common Name: Aucuba Picturata
Slow-growing dense shrub with shiny dark green yellow-flecked leaves that encircle golden yellow centers. An accent plant suitable for shade, its upright stems bear small, purple, star-shaped flowers in Spring.

Aucuba japonica 'Variegata'
Common Name: Aucuba Variegated Gold Dust
Extremely shade tolerant, this aucuba has shiny, bright green foliage variegated with yellow flecks. One of the few shrubs that thrives without direct sunlight, it is a good choice for areas under trees or dark corners in the landscape. Its leather...

Aucuba japonica 'Variegata Mr Goldstrike'
Common Name: Aucuba Variegated Mr Goldstrike
Extremely shade tolerant, this aucuba has shiny, bright green foliage variegated with yellow flecks. One of the few shrubs that thrives without direct sunlight, it is a good choice for areas under trees or dark corners in the landscape. Its leather...

Bambusa multiplex 'Fatherleaf'
Common Name: Fatherleaf Bamboo
Featherleaf Bamboo is similar to Fernleaf in appearance. This bamboo is great for hedges and containers. This strong, tough bamboo stays where you put it and grows fast. A Clumping bamboo

Berberis gladwynensis
Common Name: Barberry 'William Penn'
'William Penn' Barberry is a mounded shape of arching branches bearing dark green leaves that turn bronze-red in Winter. In Spring, yellow flowers cluster at the base of the leaves and become the red fruit in August that songbirds enjoy. With its ye...

Berberis thunbergii 'Crimson Pygmy'
Common Name: Barberry Crimson Pygmy
Fastly becoming a staple of the landscape, the Crimson Pygmy Barberry's compact mounded shape is perfect for borders or as a foreground plant. New leaves emerge from orange to scarlet, and by fall, they are a deep crimson. Inconspicuous waxy yellow/...

Berberis thunbergii 'Rose Glow'
Common Name: Barberry Rose Glow
If you want interesting color, Rose Glow Barberry is the ticket. With mature leaves brighter reddish purple than the Crimson Pygmy, its new leaves emerge in a mottled pattern of creamy white, pastel and rose-pink. Inconspicuous yellow flowers in Spr...

Berberis trifoliolata 'Agarita'
Common Name: Agarita
Agarita is a rounded shrub withgray-green, holly-like foliage and clusters of fragrant yellow flowers from February through April. The fruit that follows is a bright red berry that is attracts birds and which makes a delicious jelly. Best shape in fu...

Buddleia  'Nanho Purple'
Common Name: Butterfly Bush Nanho Purple
Deciduous shrub with low-spreading foliage. Long, tapering and fragrant rich purple flowers adorn this plant all summer. Attracts butterflies. Full sun produces best growth and flowering results. Spring fertilization is recommended. Plant is drought ...

Buddleia davidii 'Nanho Blue'
Common Name: Butterfly Bush Nanho Blue
Profuse bloomers with gray-green to dark green leaves. Large, fragrant 6-8" long flower heads. A must for your butterfly garden! Blooms July all the way to fall Attributes: Pest tolerant, good for naturalizing, attracts birds, hummingbirds butterfl...

Buddleja davidii 'Black Knight'
Common Name: Butterfly Bush 'Black Knight'
A deciduous shrub with an arching, spreading habit which typically grows 6-8' tall. Can be cut back in late winterto maintain size.Features spike-like 4-10" long terminal clusters of very dark purple flowers which bloom from June to September and som...

Buddleja davidii 'Pink Delight'
Common Name: Butterfly Bush 'Pink Delight'
A deciduous shrub with an arching, spreading habit which typically grows 6-8' tall. Can be cut back in late winterto maintain size.Features spike-like 4-10" long terminal clusters of pink flowers which bloom from June to September and sometimes to fi...

Buddleja davidii 'Royal Red'
Common Name: Butterfly Bush 'Royal Red'
A deciduous shrub with an arching, spreading habit which typically grows 6-8' tall. Can be cut back in late winterto maintain size.Features spike-like 4-10" long terminal clusters of very dark majenta purple flowers which bloom from June to September...

Buddlejah davidii 'Isle de France'
Common Name: Butterfly Bush Isle de France
The Purple Butterfly Bush, Buddleia davidii 'ilsle de France' flowers summer and fall and is easy to grow. With a name like Butterfly Bush you might expect a plant to be attractive to butterflies. In fact, it's more than attractive; it's a magnet for...

Buxus microphylla 'Winter Gem'
Common Name: Boxwood 'Winter Gem'
Winter Gem Boxwood is a hardy, small-leaved, evergreen shrub that maintains it color in Winter. An all around versatile choice for the landscape, this shrub can be used to enclose an island bed, define different areas in the landscape, surround a fo...

Buxus microphylla var. japonica
Common Name: Boxwood Japanese
Grown in America since the 1890's, the Japanese Boxwood is the most adaptable of all boxwood varieties. Its dense, rounded, evergreen growth makes it a perfect choice for row plantings as well as specimen or container plants with a formal look. Lea...

Buxus microphylla var. koreana
Common Name: Boxwood Wintergreen
The Wintergreen Boxwood's slow growth habit (around 2" per year in height) makes it desireable for a large variety of uses, including: hedges, foundation, mass, specimen or accent plantings, formal gardens, shrub borders and even bonsai. This boxwoo...

Callicarpa americana
Common Name: Beautyberry
Beautyberry is a deciduous. fast growing shrub noted for its brightly colored, tightly clustered berries that remain on the bush into winter.Plant them in a natural woodland setting under tall shade trees or as an informal hedge along the perimeter o...

Callistemon citrinus 'Little John'
Common Name: Bottlebrush 'Little John'
A miniature evergreen with thin strap-like leaves, the Littlejohn's flowers are scarlet-red and resemble fluffy bottle brushes or fiber optic puffs. The showy flowers appear in spring and throughout the season. The plant, with its dark green leaves ...

Callistemon rigidus
Common Name: Bottlebrush
The Bottlebrush can be grown as a small upright tree or large shrub. Its deep green needle-like leaves hug strong branches adorned in summer with deep red bottlebrush spikes. The red and green contrast make this plant a striking specimen plant or liv...

Camellia sasanqua 'Kanjiro'
Common Name: Camellia Kanjiro

Camellia sasanqua 'Yuletide'
Common Name: Camellia Yuletide

Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca Pendula'
Common Name: Cedar Weeping Blue Atlas
Weeping Blue Atlas Cedar is an evergreen conifer that adorns the garden with soft, silvery blue needles around twisted branches that arch toward the ground. The gardener can train the conifer to conform to a desired silhouette, much like a large bon...

Chaenomeles speciosa
Common Name: Flowering Quince

Chrysothamnus nauseosus 'Chamisa'
Common Name: Chamisa
Billowing clouds of deep yellow flowers cover the bush, providing a dramatic backdrop or centerpiece to any xeric garden. Largeshrub with thin blue-gray leaves. Rabbit Brush can be clipped to make a tough drought tolerant hedge.

Cotoneaster apiculatus
Common Name: Cotoneaster Cranberry
Cranberry cotoneaster is a dense, broad-upright, somewhat mounding deciduous shrub with stiffly arching branches. Typically grows to 3' tall with a spread to 6'. Small pinkish flowers in late spring give way to red (cranberry-like) berries (pomes) wh...

Cotoneaster dammeri 'Royal Beauty'
Common Name: Cotoneaster Royal Beauty
Coral Beauty Cotoneaster is a low spreading evergreen shrub with waxy dark green foliage and prolific dark red berries that provide fall and winter interest. The small white flowers that appear in late May are showy when the shrub is planted en mass...

Cotoneaster glaucophyllus
Common Name: Cotoneaster Grey
Cotoneaster's showy red berries appear after clusters of white flowers, making it a great specimen not only for summer, but for winter too. Its gracefully arching branches are covered in woolly gray-green foliage which adds texture to a shrub bed or ...

Cotoneaster horizontalis
Common Name: Cotoneaster Rockspray
Rockspray cotoneaster is a valuable landscape plant which offerers good foliage, flowers and fruit.It provides shelter for small birds. Mass as a woody ground cover for sunny areas in the landscape including banks or slopes where it can also provide ...

Cotoneaster parneyi
Common Name: Cotoneaster Red Clusterberry

Crataegus phaenopyrum
Common Name: Washington Hawthorn
Type: deciduous tree Annual Growth Rate: 12 to 18 inches Flowers: White Fruit: Orange This is a dense, round-headed tree, to 30 ft., with slender thorns up to 3 in. long. Broadly triangular, deciduous leaves turn yellow to orange or scarlet...

Cuphea hyssopifolia
Common Name: Mexican Heather

Cytisus scoparius
Common Name: Scotch Broom

Dalea frutescens
Common Name: Dalea Black

Dasylirion wheeleri
Common Name: Desert Blue Spoon
The trunkcan bepartially underground. Bluish-green leaves have thorns on the edges and areusually twisted. The name comes from the junction of the leaf with the trunk whichforms a wooden spoon. Blooms with very small, bell-shaped, white flowers on a...

Duranta erecta 'Sapphire Showers'
Common Name: Duranta
It does best in full sun with frequent deep watering and is hardy to about 20-25 F. A good choice for espaliers, as a small tree or large bush; all forms benefit from frequent selective pruning. Flowers are very attractive to butterflies.

Equisetum hyemale
Common Name: Horse Tail Reed
An ancient grass species, horsetail reed grows in clumps of dark green bamboo-like stems without leaves or flowers. Horsetail reed is outstanding in wet areas like marshes, ponds, streams or low-lying wet or damp areas. It can also be used in patio...

Euonymus alatus
Common Name: Burning Bush
This shrub is one of the great beauties of the autumn season. It is distinguished by vibrant scarlet foliage and small red-orange fruit in the fall as well as unusual corky "wings" which flare out along its branches. Formal or informal hedge, grou...

Euonymus japonica 'Aureo Variegata'
Common Name: Euonymus 'Gold Spot'
Compact, upright, densely branched shrub with large, leathery, oval, glossy dark green leaves blotched with yellow. In summer, small greenish white flowers sometimes followed by round pink fruits.

Euonymus japonicus 'Grandifolius'
Common Name: Euonymus 'Japanese'
The Evergreen Euonymus, also called Japanese Euonymus, is one of the most durable landscape plants in the South and the West Coast. It has a round-topped, upright habit and grows well in poor soils. Able to resist drought, it even stands up to seasid...

Euonymus japonicus 'Microphyllus'
Common Name: Euonymus Box Leaf

Euonymus japonicus 'Ovatus Aureus'
Common Name: Euonymus 'Golden'
Evergreen shrub with large, glossy, oval shaped leaves that are dark forest green and broadly edged in bright golden yellow.

Euonymus kiautschovicus
Common Name: Euonymus 'Manhattan'
Manhattan Euonymus excels as an informal screen, espalier, sheared hedge or worked into a formal English-style arched enclosure. In summer, foliage is glossy, dark green, and small greenish-white flowers appear in summer. Pinkish fruit in fall cont...

Fallugia paradoxa
Common Name: Apache Plume
This evergreen shrub, a member of the Rose Family (Rosaceae), grows up to 6 feet high. Round, white flowers, with yellow centers, 1 to 2 inches wide, bloom April through June. They have 5 petals, many stamens and grow from the rim of small cups.The s...

Fatsia japonica
Common Name: Japanese Aralia
As a bold statement in a shade garden, the Japanese Aralia can't be beat. Its huge, deeply lobed leaves emerge from long stems and dominate the space. Flowers on mature plants are white and produce small black fruit. The tropical look lends itself...

Ficus benjamina 'Wintergreen'
Common Name: Weeping Fig Tree
The Ficus benjamina is the houseplant most people think of when mentioning an indoor tree. This floor plant adds a tropical natural beauty to the home with its shinny leaves and attractive trunk. In addition to being seen inside residential and comme...

Forestiera neomexicana
Common Name: New Mexico Privet

Forsythia intermedia 'Lynwood Gold'
Common Name: Forsythia Lynwood Gold

Gardenia jasminoides
Common Name: Gardenia 'Frostproof'
Frost-proof gardenia is a hardy, resilient evergreen that thrives in full sun. Its narrow foliage is repulsive to deer and other critters, but its double white blooms are appealing and extremely fragrant. Cut blooms last indoors for a long time. T...

Gardenia jasminoides 'August Beauty'
Common Name: Gardenia August Beauty
'August Beauty' has lustrous dark green leaves that remain attractive all year. If planted stragetically in areas such as walkways, entryways, under windows or around patios, the sweet fragrance of its waxy white blooms make a visit to the garden a s...

Gardenia jasminoides 'Radicans'
Common Name: Gardenia Dwarf

Hibiscus moscheutos
Common Name: Hibiscus Hardy

Hibiscus moscheutos 'Painted Lady'
Common Name: Hibiscus Painted Lady

Hibiscus syriacus 'Amplissimus'
Common Name: Althea Amplissimus
Althea Amplissimus will be covered with double red blossoms 3-5 inches in diameter from mid June untill early fall. Rose-of-Sharon is valued for large flowers produced in summer when few other shrubs bloom It is useful as a garden accent due to its s...

Hibiscus syriacus 'Aphrodite'
Common Name: Althea Aphrodite
Deciduous shrub with green leaves through the season and no real fall color -- The wonderful attribute are the flowers -- Perfect, 5-petaled, pink with red throat in single form start in July and last through the season.

Hibiscus syriacus 'Ardens'
Common Name: Althea Ardens
Ardens Altheawill be covered inpurple double blossoms 3-5 inches in diameter starting around the middle of June and continuing until early fall. Rose-of-Sharon is valued for large flowers produced in summer when few other shrubs bloom It is useful as...

Hibiscus syriacus 'Blushing Bride'
Common Name: Althea Blushing Bride
Also known as "Rose of Sharon," this shrub has double, rich pink flowers fading to white. Blooms from early summer to first frost. Growth habit is upright and compact when young, open and spreading with age. Double blossoms display rich pink colo...

Hibiscus syriacus 'Collie Mullens'
Common Name: Althea Collie Mullens

Hibiscus syriacus 'Diana'
Common Name: Althea Diana
Deciduous. Large pure white flowers that remain open at night.

Hibiscus syriacus 'Helene'
Common Name: Althea Helene
Bright green foliage, blooms are white with a deep reddish-purple eye. Blooms in summer. Tall, upright, deciduous shrub, easily trained to single trunked tree form. Produces spectacular white blossoms with deep red eye in summer. One of the last...

Hibiscus syriacus 'Jeanne de Arc'
Common Name: Althea Jeanne de Arc
Rose-of-Sharon is valued for large flowers produced in summer when few other shrubs bloom It is useful as a garden accent due to its strict, upright habit. The open, loose branches and light green leaves make Rose-of-Sharon ideally suited to formal o...

Hibiscus syriacus 'Lady Stanley'
Common Name: Althea Lady Stanley
Double pink blossoms opening non stop mid June through September.Rose-of-Sharon is valued for large flowers produced in summer when few other shrubs bloom It is useful as a garden accent due to its strict, upright habit. The open, loose branches and ...

Hibiscus syriacus 'Minerva'
Common Name: Althea Minerva
Deciduous. Single,lavender-pink with reddish-purple eye. Petals are ruffled.

Hydrangea macrophylla
Common Name: Hydrangea Endless Summer
Deciduous long-blooming shrub with numerous gigantic flowerheads. 'Endless Summer' means exactly that--an endless riot of blooms throughout the summer.

Hydrangea macrophylla
Common Name: Hydrangea Pink
Deciduous long-blooming shrub with numerous gigantic flowerheads. Blooms throughout the summer.

Hydrangea quercifolia
Common Name: Hydrangea Oakleaf
Oakleaf hydrangea is a sturdy deciduous shrub with large oak-like leaves that are borne on bowing open-branched limbs. The beautiful white flowers form a cone-shape cluster that emerges creamy white to pink. The dried flowerheads in autumn and winter...

iiex hybrida 'Conaf Oakleaf'
Common Name: Oakleaf Holly

Ilex  'Nellie R. Stevens'
Common Name: Holly Nellie R. Stevens
'Nellie R. Stevens' is extremely fruitful and loaded with berries in Winter. In Summer, cool shiny dark green leaves grasp a dense pyramidal shape that makes this plant the perfect solution to a manicured lawn. Its drought and heat tolerance, along...

Ilex  'Oakland'
Common Name: Holly 'Oakland'
Oak Leaf Holly is an upright holly that grows in an irregular columnar form. Its dark green glossy leaves emerge purplish green in spring, and its branches are adorned in fall with orange-red berries. The tree is self-fruitful, with no need of a p...

Ilex attenuata 'Fosteri'
Common Name: Holly Foster
Foster holly, with its shiny, dark green leaves, is a conical shrub that can also be grown as a free-standing tree. This fast growing evergreen's narrow form provides vertical interest and makes it perfect flanking an entryway or as a fill-in for th...

Ilex cornuta 'Burfordii'
Common Name: Burford Holly
Upright, dense rounded, spreading shrub. Does well in full sun to light shade. Drought and heat tolerant; use as a small tree or hedge; flowers attract bees

Ilex cornuta 'Burforidii Nana'
Common Name: Holly Dwf Burford
Shiny green leaves and clusters of red berries in the Fall make this smaller replica of the Burford Holly prized as a year-round shrub. Insignificant white flowers in Spring keep most allergy sufferers from experiencing too much discomfort, if any. A...

Ilex cornuta 'Carissa'
Common Name: Holly Carissa
Carissa is a sturdy, durable shrub perfect for foundation planting. The shrub is compact and has 3" leaves which are lustrous green above and flat olive underneath.

Ilex cornuta 'Needlepoint'
Common Name: Holly Needlepoint
Very similar to the Burfordi varieties, the Needlepoint has one advantage over them. With their prickly pointed leaves, the Needlepoint can be planted around foundations as a deterrent to intruders. Foliage is slightly more slender and elongated th...

Ilex crenata
Common Name: Holly 'Sky Pencil'
Sky Pencil Holly provides vertical interest in the landscape as a tall, multi-stemmed, narrowly fastigiate, evergreen shrub. It has waxy, dark evergreen leaves and can be planted as a single specimen, a narrow hedge, or mixed among other garden shru...

Ilex decidua 'Warren's Red'
Common Name: Holly Possum Haw 'Warren's Red
When you pass by a Possum Haw holly after its red and yellow berries appear, you'll do a double-take! The gray branches, when laden with berries, make a portrait against the sky or its backdrop. The colorful berries last throughout winter unless ea...

Ilex vomitoria
Common Name: Holly Dwarf Yaupon
Dwarf Yaupon holly forms compact mounds with tiny dark-green leaves. This cultivar produces no berries. Because of its small leaves, it can be sheared into a low hedge for formal gardens and its versatility allows its use as a border, foundation pl...

Ilex vomitoria
Common Name: Holly Yaupon Pom Pom

Ilex vomitoria 'Condeaux'
Common Name: Holly Dwarf Yaupon 'Bordeaux'
Holly forms compact mounds with tiny dark-green leaves on grey stems. New growth is burgandy.This cultivar produces white flowers followed by transluent red berries. Because of its small leaves, it can be sheared into a low hedge for formal gardens a...

Ilex vomitoria 'Hightower'
Common Name: Holly Hightower
Hightower Yaupon has waxy, dark green leaves resting on gray stems. Bright red berries appear on the upright female plant through Spring. As a mass planting, these hollies can create a dividing screen between properties. They also make nice specim...

Ilex vomitoria 'Kathy Ann'
Common Name: Holly Kathy Ann
'Kathy Ann' has an upright and spreading growth habit and is a prolific producer of dark red berries that birds love to eat. Foliage is the deepest green and almost twice the size of the species, and the bark is a whitish color.

Ilex vomitoria 'Pride of Houston'
Common Name:
'Pride of Houston' yaupon is an upright and spreading variety that will show a distinct vase shape after about ten years. The uniform growth habit of this female cultivar lends itself to a variety of uses--topiaries, espaliers, specimens, screens an...

Ilex vomitoria 'Shadow's Female'
Common Name: Holly Shadows Yaupon
'Shadow's Female' is a female upright yaupon holly that, when planted alone develops into an umbrella shape, but when planted en masse is thicket forming. In Fall, it is adorned with an abundance of brilliant red berries that are prized by cedar wax...

Ilex x attenuata 'East Palatka'
Common Name: Holly East Palatka
East Palatka Holly is a pyramidal shaped evergreen shrub with light green lance-shaped leaves. The female plant produces a profusion of bright red berries in Fall and Winter, mostly toward the top of the tree. When planted in a row, their uniformit...

Jasminum nudiflorum
Common Name: Winter Jasamine

Juniperus  'Andorra Compacta'
Common Name: Juniper 'Andorra'
Andorra juniper has dense upright foliage short enough to make an excellent ground cover, especially with its multi-seasonal interest. Its four season color ranges from bright green in spring, deep green in summer, bronze/green in fall and bronze/pu...

Juniperus chinensis 'Torulosa'
Common Name: Juniper 'Hollywood'
The drama queen of junipers, the female cultivar 'Hollywood' bears upright twisted limbs that are draped in sharp bright green needles. This fast growing juniper is a true star that tolerates all conditions, but doesn't like a wet stage. .

Juniperus horizontalis 'Bar Harbor'
Common Name: Juniper 'Bar Harbor'
Bar Harbor Juniper creeps energetically atop the soil, making it a perfect ground cover or camouflage for an ugly slope. Summer foliage is gray-green, with winter color being slate.

Juniperus horizontalis 'Blue Rug'
Common Name: Juniper 'Blue Rug'
Blue Rug Juniper is a perfect low-growing groundcover that hugs the landscape with its silver-blue evergreen foliage. A slope or bank can be transformed by the beauty of this juniper, or a single accent can brighten a dull spot.

Juniperus procumbens 'Nana'
Common Name: Juniper Nana Procumbens
What's not to like about a with such grand versatility? 'Procumbens nana' forms a cushiony mat of bluish green needles that spread or cascade according to plant site. One of the best and most reliable of groundcover junipers, it mounds on itself wi...

Juniperus x pfitzeriana 'Sea Green'
Common Name: Juniper Sea Green
Sea Green Juniper is a lovely vase-shaped shrub with drooping arches of finely textured bright green foliage. Sea Green makes an excellent hedge, border or parking lot island plant. Used commercially, it tolerates heat from asphalt, unrelenting sun...

Kalmia latifolia
Common Name: Mountain Laurel
Texas mountain laurel grows in the limestone soils of central Texas and can be grown as a small tree or a delightful evergreen shrub. Dense thickets of lavender to pink flower clusters rest on crooked stems. Trunk has rough bark.

Lantana camara 'Dallas Red'
Common Name: Lantana 'Dallas Red'
'Dallas Red's blooms are HOT in varied shades of yellow, orange and red. The beautiful blooms, along with the textured dark green leaves, make this plant perfect as a groundvover, bank cover, mass planting or hedge.

Lantana camara 'White'
Common Name: Lantana White
White flower clusters and forest green rough leaves abound on this upright shrub that can pinch hit as a groundcover or a container plant.

Leucophyllum frutescens
Common Name: Silverado Sage

Leucophyllum frutescens 'Compacta'
Common Name: Sage Compact
Compact Texas Sage is a thick evergreen shrub with appealing silver foliage and rose-purple flowers that bloom throughout the season, often after summer rain. Compact sage is highly desirable in both desert and residential landscapes as a hedge, spe...

Leucophyllum frutescens 'Green Cloud'
Common Name: Sage Green Cloud
Green Cloud Sage blooms off and on throughout the summer with darker purple flowers than other varieties and has dark green leaves. It commands interest as an informal hedge or backdrop for a perennial border or an accent to a rock garden.

Leucophyllum frutescens 'Heavenly Cloud'
Common Name: Sage Heavenly Cloud
'Heavenly Cloud' sage has striking magenta flowers and medium green leaves. The plant is mostly evergreen and fast growing with an unusual upright growth habit. It is suitable for a rock garden, specimen or backdrop planting for low-growing perenni...

Leucophyllum langmaniae 'Lynn's Legacy'
Common Name: Sage Lynn's Legacy

Leucophyllum langmaniae 'Rio Bravo'
Common Name: Sage Rio Bravo
'Rio Bravo' repeats blooming throughout the warmer months of summer and fall. A more formal look than other sages is effected by its tight habit and rounded form. No pruning is required to maintain its shape. The green essence of its leaves and dense...

Ligustrum japonicum
Common Name: Ligustrum Japanese
Japanese Ligustrum has eliptical evergreen leaves with a sharp point. In spring, clusters of white flowers are followed by green berries that ripen into dull black clusters reminiscent of bunches of grapes. The more mature it gets, the more pleasin...

Ligustrum japonicum
Common Name: Wax Ligustrum 1 ball
Waxleaf ligustrum is a highly adaptable evergreen shrub that can affect several different looks in the landscape. Its tough dark green leaves have a pear shape, flowers are ivory in spring, and round black fruit cascades from the shrub in fall.

Ligustrum japonicum
Common Name: Wax Ligustrum Pyramid
This product has lustrous evergreen foliage with ivory flower clusters in spring, but unlike its natural tendencies, has been trimmed into a pyramid shape.

Ligustrum japonicum
Common Name: Wax Ligustrum
An evergreen with an upright spherical growth habit, this highly versatile shrub has lustrous dark green foliage. It produces ivory flower clusters in spring, followed bv dark cascading grape-like berries.

Ligustrum japonicum
Common Name: Wax Ligustrum 3 ball

Ligustrum japonicum
Common Name: Wax Ligustrum 2 ball

Ligustrum japonicum 'Rotundifolium 'Coriaceum''
Common Name: Ligustrum Curly Leaf
Curly leaf ligustrum grows vigorously and is distinguished by wavy spirally leaves. The shrub, which can also be trained as a small tree, grows into a thick upright form with large glossy green leaves. In May, ivory flowers adorn the plant.

Ligustrum sinense 'Variegata'
Common Name: Variegated Privet
Variegated privet adds shine to the landscape with petite ivory and light green leaves that cover the bush in abundant glory. The variegated privet can also be trained as a small tree where it sparkles when surrounded by purple-toned shrubs such as ...

Ligustrum vicaryi 'Golden Privet'
Common Name: Ligustrum Golden Privet

Ligustrum vulgare 'Lodense'
Common Name: Lodenese Privet

Loropetalum chinense 'Burgundy'
Common Name: Loropetalum Burgundy
Loropetalum is highly prized for its spectacular purple-green to burgundy foliage and pink fringe blooms. It makes a nice accent plant or hedge, or can be trained into a 6'+ ornamental tree. When allowed to grow to maximum height, its denseness pro...

Mahonia bealei
Common Name: Leatherleaf Mahonia
Leatherleaf Mahonias excel as the centerpiece of the shade garden or in areas where the sun is blocked. The mahonia's evergreen holly-like leaves whorl around an erect cane-like trunk. In February, bright lemon-colored blooms appear on long stems th...

Mahonia fortunei
Common Name: Chinese Mahonia
Chinese mahonia is a compact, graceful little shrub that stays in its space and doesn't crowd its neighbors. Its fernlike evergreen foliage and dense structure make it an attractive accent or specimen. The flowers, appearing in autumn, are lemon yell...

Mimosa borealis 'fragrans'
Common Name: Fragrant Mimosa

Myrica cerifera
Common Name: Waxmyrtle
Waxmyrtle is an all-purpose large shrub or small tree suited to a wide variety of soils and conditions. The light olive leaves are fragrant when crushed, and the scented berries that form close to the stem are light olive coated with blue/white wax...

Myrica pusilla
Common Name: Dwarf Wax Myrtle

Nandina compacta
Common Name: Nandina Compacta
Compact Nandina grows upright on canes loaded with evergreen leaflets. New growth emerges lime-green, deepens in summer, then turns shades of orange/red/burgundy in fall. In summer, white cascades of flowers dotted with yellow stamens droop from th...

Nandina domestica
Common Name: Nandina Domestica

Nandina domestica 'Firepower'
Common Name: Nandina Dwarf Firepower
Dwarf Firepower Nandina is a show-stopper with bright lime green foliage in spring and spectacular neon red foliage in fall. Its brilliance lasts throughout winter and adds cheer to a dull brown winter lawn. Imagine stepping into an oriental garden w...

Nandina domestica 'Firestorm'
Common Name: Nandina Firestorm
Nandina 'Firestorm' holds its deep red color throughout the year. New growth appears as long lance-shaped leaves drenched in copper, evolving to blue-green in summer and ending in deep red. The foliage layers upon layer along bamboo-like canes. Ma...

Nandina domestica 'Gulfstream'
Common Name: Nandina Gulfstream
'Gulf Stream' is a dwarf compact nandina with lovely leaflets ascending from upright canes. The dark blue-green summer leaves change to orange/red in fall with intense color peaking in winter. 'Gulf Stream' has rare berries and no suckers.

Nandina domestica 'Harbor Belle'
Common Name: Nandina Harbor Belle
'Harbor Belle' is a petite but sturdy multi-hued nandina often used as a groundcover, border or accent. Spring foliage emerges in various tones of pink, but deepens to green and burgundy as it ages. Small white flowers dot the plant in spring and tu...

Nerium oleander 'Calypso'
Common Name: Oleander Calypso
Oleander 'Calypso' bears cherry red flowers and remains evergreen in protected locations (such as a southern exposure) near Zone 8. The bush grows in an upright rounded shape with long blade-like heavily veined leaves. Leaves are medium to light gre...

Nerium oleander 'Hardy Red'
Common Name: Oleander Red
Oleander 'Hardy Red' bearsbright red flowers and remains evergreen in protected locations (such as a southern exposure) near Zone 8. The bush grows in an upright rounded shape with long blade-like heavily veined leaves. Leaves are medium to light gre...

Nerium oleander 'Petite Pink'
Common Name: Oleander Petite Pink
Petite pink blooms appear on the tips of leaves from April to November. Tough narrow leaves form around upright branches that comprise the compact shape of this attractive evergreen bush.

Nerium oleander 'Petite Salmon'
Common Name: Oleander 'Petite Salmon'
'Petite Salmon' is a dwarf variety oleander that responds well to pruning, if size retention is important to the grower. Salmon colored flowers have small yellow centers and bloom throughout the season.

Philadelphus  'Mock Orange'
Common Name: Mock Orange

Photinia fraseri
Common Name: Red Tip Photinia
The glossy leaves of Red Tip Photinia emerge red then age to copper and eventually turn to dark green. White flowers appear in spring, but rarely produce berries. The majestic upright habit of Red Tip encourages its use as a privacy screen or tall h...

Phyllostachys areosulcata 'Golden Groove'
Common Name: Bamboo Golden Groove
Useful as a living screen or windbreak, this bamboo reaches heights of 16 - 33 feet. Thecanes are green with a yellow stripe in early growth, later turning all yellow. Plant in full sun and keep well watered during hot summer months.

Phyllostachys aurea 'Golden'
Common Name: Bamboo Golden
Golden bamboo has green foliage supported by hollow solid-jointed canes and grows rapidly to a height of up to 15' high after 20 years. It grows very dense with limbs growing all the way to the ground and makes a good barrier or screen.

Pittosporum tobira
Common Name: Pittosporum Variegated
Variegated pittosporum, with its leathery-smooth curvy leaves, adds drama to a yard dominated by plain dark green. Its spreading growth habit make it a pleasing foundation shrub, and its hue matches a wide range of brick colors or paving stones.

Pittosporum tobira 'Wheeler's Dwarf'
Common Name:
'Wheeler's Dwarf' is a slow growing dwarf pittosporum with glossy dark green leaves with a leathery feel. As a shrub, the plant mounds into a low compact form that requires little or no pruning. While the shrub does not make a good foundation plant...

Podocarpus macrophylla
Common Name: Yew Japanese
If you want longevity, Japanese Yews are the ticket. Many ancient yews grace old buildings--some are as old as 200 years plus. Additionally, the shiny flat needles of the Japanese Yew add a more colorful depth to the landscape than the more commonl...

Prunus caroliniana 'Compacta'
Common Name: Compact Cherry Laurel
Compact Cherry Laurel differs from the native species in two ways--its compact growth habit and smaller leaves. The compact variety grows upright, bearing dark green waxy leaves that have a maraschino cherry fragrance when crushed. The scented sprin...

Punica granatum
Common Name: Pomegranate 'Eversweet'
Eversweet Pomegranate's greatest attribute is its sweet, almost seedless, fruit. A long-blooming season produces orange-red flowers and red-skinned fruit. Its attractive green leaves bear colorful flowers and fruit simultaneously, making both a won...

Pyracantha fortuneana 'Graberi'
Common Name: Pyracantha Graberi Espalier
Pyracantha is an evergreen with waxy dark green foliage, showy white flowers, and plump red berries that last into winter. What's not to like? Thorns, you say? Don't let that stop you, because there is nothing more beautiful than an espaliered Pyr...

Pyracantha fortuneana 'Graberi'
Common Name: Pyracantha
Pyracantha grows energetically to form a shrub that looks like its berry-laden arms are reaching out in all directions. An excellent road frontage hedge, firethorn's beauty is unequalled when its artistic free-form is allowed to mature into magnific...

Rhaphiolepis delacouri 'Coates Crimson'
Common Name: Hawthorne Coates Crimson
'Coate's Crimson' is a tall mutation of 'Jack Evans' that bears star-shaped vivid red-purplish blooms, a darker pink than any other hawthorne variety. This evergreen grows in a tight compact form with a rounded habit. The oval lance-shaped leaves are...

Rhaphiolepis indica 'Ballerina'
Common Name: Hawthorne 'Ballerina'
The petite 'Ballerina' is a spreading compact broadleaf evergreen that bears deep pink flowers on shiny green foliage with a reddish winter tinge. Retentive winter fruit is dark blue.

Rhaphiolepis indica 'Clara/Snow'
Common Name: Hawthorne Snow Clara
The Snow variety has slender blade-shaped pale to medium green leaves on a dense round form. White flowers grace the plant from spring to summer, followed by small dark purple fruit.

Rhaphiolepis indica 'Eleanor Tabor'
Common Name: Hawthorne Eleanor Tabor
A broadleaf mounding evergreen with compact growth, 'Eleanor Tabor' is tight and compact, requiring little or no pruning. A patented variety, it is noted for its resistance to leaf spot disease and winter hardiness. Its low growing mounds can be ut...

Rhaphiolepis indica 'Jack Evans'
Common Name: Hawthorne Jack Evans
Spring sets off a showy mass of bright pink double flowers, with less prolific flowering in fall. Small purplish black berries follow the parade of flowers and are retained throughout the winter as a color contrast to the gray-green leaves. The broa...

Rhaphiolepis indica 'Majestic Beauty'
Common Name: Hawthorne Majestic Beauty
As an accent, this sturdy hawthorne is striking when allowed to mature into a lovely ornamental tree. As an evergreen shrub, it excels as a living fence or as background for lower growing shrubs or perennials. In either case, it makes a nice specime...

Rhaphiolepis indica 'Pink Lady'
Common Name: Hawthorne Pink Lady
'Pink Lady' is a fast growing broadleaf evergreen with glossy leaves that emerge bronze and turn to dark green. Its fragrant deep pink flower clusters are long-blooming and make a colorful statement as an accent plant, informal hedge or screen.

Rhaphiolepis umbellata 'Olivia'
Common Name: Hawthorne Olivia
'Olivia' displays large dark green leaves tinged with bronze in winter. The dense mounded shrub, which can mature untrimmed to 5', has fragrant white flowers in April, followed in fall by purplish-black fruit.

Rhus aromatica
Common Name: Sumac Aromatic

Rhus trilobata
Common Name: Sumac Three Leaf

Rosa  ''Radcon' Knockout®'
Common Name: Rose Double Pink Knockout®
Double Pink Knock Out is a brilliant pink semi-double to doublepetaled rose with moss green/blue-hued leaves. The bush forms a compact shrub valued as a flowering hedge, border, foundation plant or accent.

Rosa  'Be-Bop®'
Common Name: Rose 'Be-Bop'®
The dark green leaves of this repeat bloomer contrast with deep red blooms centered in sunny yellow. Although the blooms are single, they mass around a single stem in a glorious display of their velvet beauty.

Rosa  'Carefree SunshineTM  'Radsun'®'
Common Name: Rose 'Carefree Sunshine'
Sunny yellow blooms cluster abundantly on this shrub rose, known for its maintenance free habit. The bright yellow blooms contrast beautifully with its dark green leaves. As a foundation hedge, a border or mass planting, Carefree Sunshine adds chee...

Rosa  'Coral Drift®'
Common Name: Rose 'Coral Drift'®
Coral Drift® , with its low height and spreading habit, is a colorful groundcover for the landscape. This bright coral multi-petaled rose makes an appealing carpet for slopes, borders and large spaces in the landscape.

Rosa  'Double Knockout®'
Common Name: Rose 'Double Knockout'®
The red Double Knock Out® Rose has the formal beauty of the traditional rose with the toughness of its sister single variety. A repeat bloomer throughout the season, it performs well as an accent, mass planting or a hedge.

Rosa  'Home Run®'
Common Name: Rose 'Home Run'®
During a long-blooming season, hot red single-petaled blooms with striking yellow stamens literally drench this plant in color. Dark green disease resistent leaves contrast with the vivid fast repeating blooms for low maintenance beauty wherever pla...

Rosa  'Julia Child®'
Common Name: Rose 'Julia Child'®
The Julia Child Rose® has ruffly yellow blooms on a rounded shrub with dark green glossy leaves. Its licorice perfume is pleasingly apparent when planted en masse.

Rosa  'Oklahoma'
Common Name: Rose Oklahoma
The Oklahoma rose was designated the official state flower of Oklahoma in 2004. One of the most fragrant of hybrid tea roses, the Oklahoma rose is dark red, nearly black velvet in warm weather. Long pointed buds open into huge, fully double blooms th...

Rosa  'Radcon Knockout®'
Common Name: Rose Pink Knockout®
Pink Knock Out® is a brilliant pink single to semi-double petaled rose with moss green/blue-hued leaves. The bush forms a compact shrub valued as a flowering hedge, border, foundation plant or accent.

Rosa  'Sunny Knockout®'
Common Name: Rose 'Sunny Knockout'®
TheSunny Knock Out Rose has the formal beauty of the traditional rose with the toughness of its sister single variety. A repeat bloomer throughout the season, it performs well as an accent, mass planting or a hedge.

Rosa  'Tequila'
Common Name: Rose Tequila
This floribunda roseproduces clusters of medium sizeflowers that aregoldenyellow in bud and fade to butter yellow as they open and age. Foliage is dark green. Flowers are fragrant.

Rosmarinus officinalis
Common Name: Rosemary Upright
Upright rosemary is a herbaceous perennial with evergreen needles on vertical woody stems. Rosemary is attractive as a formal sheared border shrub or a single accent plant. An essential for the herb garden, its cures and culinary uses are plentiful....

Sambucus nigra 'Black Lace'
Common Name: Elderberry 'Black Lace'
Black Lace Elderberry has the elegance of a Japanese Maple with the easy-to-grow nature of the common elderberry. The lacy black lacy foliage is covered in masses of pink blooms that emit a lemony fragrance. Use around limestone rocks for a great t...

Sasa pygmaea
Common Name: Bamboo Dwarf
Dense growth crowds out weeds in open spaces beneath trees and shrubs. Though quite effective for erosion control, beware potential for invasiveness where conditions are right.

Sophora secundiflora
Common Name: Texas Mountain Laurel

Spiraea  'prunifolia'
Common Name: Spirea 'Bridal Wreath'
Bridal Wreath spirea is a beautiful waterfall of white blooms rushing toward the lawn on a cool Spring morning. Double white flowers larger than Baby's Breath but smaller than a rose ascend on the arching branches and are later replaced by lime green...

Spiraea bumalda 'Anthony Waterer'
Common Name: Spiraea Anthony Waterer
'Anthony Waterer' Spirea blooms on new wood with large flat clusters of cherry pink blooms. Spring foliage emerges light maroon and later turns to lime green. With its compact rounded form, it is an attractive choice for a small garden, such as a b...

Spiraea bumalda 'Goldflame'
Common Name: Spirea Goldflame

Spiraea bumalda 'Lime Mound'
Common Name: Spirea Lime Mound

Spiraea japonica 'Gold Mound'
Common Name: Spirea Goldmound

Spiraea japonica 'Walbuma'
Common Name: Spirea Magic Carpet

Spiraea nipponica 'Snowmound'
Common Name: Spirea 'Snowmound'
'Snowmound' spirea grows upright in a vase shape when young, but arches when more mature. Dark teal leaves emerge in Spring after bursts of white flowers ascend on twiggy fountain-like branches. 'Snowmound' excels in a group venue, informal hedge, bo...

Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
Common Name: Coralberry

Syringa hyacinthiflora 'Esther Staley'
Common Name: Lilac Esther Staley

Syringa hyacinthiflora 'Excel Lavender'
Common Name: Lilac Excel Lavender

Syringa hyacinthiflora 'Giant'
Common Name: Lilac Clarke's Giant Blue

Syringa hyacinthiflora 'Lavender Lady'
Common Name: Lilac Lavender Lady

Syringa hyacinthiflora 'Miss Kim'
Common Name: Lilac Miss Kim

Syringa hyacinthiflora 'Sensation'
Common Name: Lilac Sensation

Syringa vulgaris
Common Name: Lilac Common
Fragrance attracts! The memory of one whiff of a lilac bloom drives gardeners to all lengths to get one of these planted in their yard. The deciduous tall shrub has deep green heart-shaped leaves with a light purple summer bloom. Plant lilacs to f...

Taxus cuspidata 'Monloo'
Common Name: Emerald Spreader

Taxus media 'Densiformis'
Common Name: Yew

Taxus media 'Hicksii'
Common Name: Hicksii Yew

Ternstroemia gymnanthera
Common Name: Cleyera
Cleyera's tear-shaped leaves emerge red, later turning to a deep glossy green. The leaves remain shiny throughout the year and white flowers appear on previous growth in spring, followed by red berries. Although the flowers and berries are not parti...

Teucrium chamaedrys Germander chamaedrys
Common Name: Chamaedrys Germander
Grown for its attractive, dark green aromatic foliage and its light pink to deep purple flowers, which blossom in summer and early fall. This garden workhorse can be used in troughs, containers, low hedges, knot gardens, rock gardens, or as edging. I...

Viburnum rufidulum 'Rusty Blackhaw'
Common Name: Viburnum Rusty Blackhaw
This viburnum is a shrubor tree,usually growing to 18 ft. but sometimes taller with barkseparating into dark, rectangular plates. Twigs reddish brown with a thin light gray coating. Leaves in pairs, often on short spurs, the petioles covered with rus...

Vitex agnus-castus
Common Name: Vitex
Vitex, also known as "Lilac Chaste Tree", is renown throughout the South as a warm climate alternative to old-fashioned Persian Lilac. Lavender flower spikes look like brushy torches of lavender on stems that hold gray-green hemp-like foliage. The ...
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