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Plant GuideEmperor I® Japanese maple
Acer palmatum ‘Wolff’I’ll never forget when, in the mid-1990s, I called up a renowned nurseryman in Pennsylvania with questions about a holly, and he shifted the conversation to a new Japanese maple…
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Plant GuideJapanese wisteria
Wisteria floribundaDramatic clusters of blue-violet to red-violet flowers with an intoxicating fragrance grace this vigorous twining climber.
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Plant GuidePaperbark maple
Acer griseum
This slow-growing understory tree has highly ornamental, peeling orange-cinnamon bark.
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Plant Guide‘Alba’ white redbud
Cercis canadensis ‘Alba’Small white flowers appear in profusion on leafless branches in early spring.
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Plant GuidePagoda dogwood
Cornus alternifoliaThis plant owes its name to its distinctive layered branches, which resemble the tiered, spreading roofline of an elaborate pagoda.
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Plant GuideToyon, Christmas berry, California holly
Heteromeles arbutifoliaThis evergreen, California-native shrub grows to 20 feet tall and wide and produces abundant clusters of tiny white flowers in early summer, which attract beneficial insects that help control pests.
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Plant Guide
Tea-oil camellia
Camellia oleiferaThis small tree from China can reach a little over 20 feet tall and about half as wide.
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Plant Guide‘Golden Shadow’ paper mulberry
Broussonetia papyrifera 'Golden Shadow'This golden-leaved version of the southern paper mulberry can be treated as a cutback shrub to control size and for best production of brilliant golden yellow, large, lobed leaves.
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Plant GuideWhite fringetree
Chionanthus virginicus
This North American native is unrivaled in beauty for its pendulous and diaphanous clusters of fragrant white blossoms, which appear in May or June.
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Plant GuideOcotillo
Fouquieria splendensThis southwestern native shrub grows to 20 feet tall and 15 feet wide and sports long, dull, spiny stems that green up and leaf out after a rain, followed by…
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