(Indian Rosewood, Sissoo)

Tall, stately and graceful, Indian rosewood is fast-growing and commercially useful. This deciduous tree is native to India, Pakistan and Nepal where it is widely planted for timber. It is also valuable as an ornamental due to its vase-shaped habit and drooping branches.

The leaves are arranged like a feather. Each leaftlet is round to oval-shaped with a pointed tip. Its spring flowers are fragrant and sweet pea-like flowers and come in shades of pale yellow, white or pink. The fruit is a light...

(Alexandrian Laurel, Poet's Laurel)

Admired for its compact habit and glossy foliage, poet's laurel is a tough evergreen shrub from western Asia that offers foliar beauty year round. It is a shade lover that's notoriously slow growing and somewhat frost tender. Specimens are reliably hardy to Zone 8 but can withstand cold temperatures up to Zone 7 with protection. Small yellow flowers are offered in summer and ornamental red fruits are produced in fall and look great into winter.

The elegant "leaves" of this evergreen are actually...

(Daphne)

Beautiful glossy leaves, purplish-sienna branches, white flowers and red fruits comprise the ornamental repertoire of the acutiloba daphne. This evergreen shrub is native to the highland forests of western and central China. It grows about chest-high with an upright, open, and loosely oval silhouette.

The long, lance-shaped leaves are an attractive glossy emerald green. The leaves' color contrasts the striking purplish-maroon color of the branches. In mid- to late spring, branch tips beat clusters...

(Daphne)

A small, open, upright oval silhouette describes the Fragrant Cloud daphne. It produces larger and more flowers with more intense, intoxicating fragrance compared to the regular acutiloba daphne species. This evergreen shrub is native to the highland forests of western and central China. This cultivar was selected by botanist and plant collector Martyn Rix during a journey to China.

The long, lance-shaped leaves are an attractive glossy emerald green. The leaves' color contrasts the striking...

(Fragrant Daphne, Winter Daphne)

Winter daphne is an intensely perfumed plant that comes from China and Japan. Blooming in the winter with clusters of deep rose-pink flowers makes this plant a prize for the warm temperate garden. Flowers are followed by pretty red fruits that contrast against the glossed leathery dark green leaves.

Unfortunately, this shrub is short-lived and demanding in its culture. Winter daphne requires extremely well-drained but moist neutral soils, so careful watering and mulching is important. It also...

(Fragrant Daphne, White Fragrant Daphne)

Winter daphne is an intensely perfumed plant that comes from China and Japan. Blooming in the winter with clusters of deep rose-pink flowers makes this plant a prize for the warm temperate garden. Flowers are followed by pretty red fruits that contrast against the glossed leathery dark green leaves.

Unfortunately, this shrub is short-lived and demanding in its culture. Winter daphne requires extremely well-drained but moist neutral soils, so careful watering and mulching is important. It also...

(Fragrant Daphne, Variegated Winter Daphne, Winter Daphne)

Variegated winter daphne is an intensely perfumed plant that comes from China and Japan. 'Aureomarginata' ('Marginata') displays attractive glossy, leathery leaves with a variable-width edge of yellow. Blooming in the winter with clusters of red-purple flowers, they are followed by pretty red fruits.

Unfortunately, this shrub is short-lived and demanding in its culture. Winter daphne requires extremely well-drained but moist neutral soils, so careful watering and mulching is important. 'Aureomarginata'...

(Fragrant Daphne, Rebecca Daphne)

Winter daphne is an intensely perfumed plant that comes from China and Japan. Blooming in the winter with clusters of deep rose-pink flowers makes this plant a prize for the warm temperate garden. Flowers are followed by pretty red fruits that contrast against the glossed leathery dark green leaves.

Unfortunately, this shrub is short-lived and demanding in its culture. Winter daphne requires extremely well-drained but moist neutral soils, so careful watering and mulching is important. It also...

(Fragrant Daphne, Winter Daphne)

'Leucanthe' is a pleasant selection of winter daphne is an intensely perfumed shrub that comes from China and Japan. Blooming in the winter with clusters of creamy white flowers makes this plant a prize for the warm temperate garden. Flowers are followed by pretty red fruits that contrast against the glossed leathery dark green leaves.

Unfortunately, this shrub is short-lived and demanding in its culture. Winter daphne requires extremely well-drained but moist neutral soils, so careful watering...

(Daphne)

While most daphne shrubs are prized mainly for their fragrant flowers, Daphne tangutica not only flowers in profusion and over a long period, but also bears numerous red fruits. The berry production extends the ornamental interest of this broadleaf evergreen into nearly three seasons. It's native to the highland forests of southwestern and central China, including Tibet.

The yellow-green branches become purplish-red and brown on this upright but rounded plant. The leathery dull, deep...