(Honeydew™ Honeysuckle, Japanese Honeysuckle)

Japanese honeysuckle is a semi-evergreen vine that is native to eastern Asia and has become naturalized across many regions of the United States. The cultivar 'Hinlon', the Honeydew™ honeysuckle, has dark green leaves with creamy yellow margins and highly fragrant tubular flowers that are white with lilac markings and age to creamy yellow. These bloom from spring to early summer and are followed by red to orange berry-like fruit that is attractive to birds. The dense foliage of Japanese honeysuckle...

(Japanese Honeysuckle, Purpleleaf Japanese Honeysuckle)

Japanese honeysuckle is a rampant evergreen or semi-evergreen vine native to eastern Asia and naturalized across many regions of the United States. Named for its purple-tinged green leaves, the cultivar 'Purpurea' bears highly fragrant purple-red flowers with white interiors from spring intermittently through late summer. The blue-black berry-like fruit attracts birds.

This vigorous and invasive vine can tolerate a wide range of soils and exposures. Many better behaved honeysuckle vines are available,...

(Golden Chain Tree)

Travel the rivers and forests across Brazil's Amazon Basin, and you'll encounter the showy golden chain tree. This semi-deciduous flowering tree is becoming increasingly more rare as its habitat is destroyed. And it is rarely used in tropical gardens because it transplants poorly its seed is viable for only a short time. Somewhat fast-growing, it attains an an upright, slightly rounded habit. The thin, pale gray to tan bark is warty and exudes bitter milky sap if damaged.

The glossy, emerald...

(Brisbane Box, Vinegartree)

Leathery, lush green leaves, pretty white flowers and colorful bark are the ornamental strengths of the Brisbane box. A great tree for urban conditions, this evergreen is native to the eastern Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland. It attains an oval shaped canopy on top of an upright trunk and branches.

The leaves are oval to lance-shaped and leathery, held in whorls. When young they are glossy light green to red and mature to a bright, medium to dark green. In late spring and summer,...

(Chinese Fringeflower, Fringe Flower, Loropetalum)

A member of the witchhazel family, this medium-sized, broadleaf evergreen shrub is native to Japan and China. Fragrant, spider-like, white flowers appear in late winter and early spring and sporadically at other seasons. The arching, spherical habit and rich green rounded leaves are attractive year-round.

Chinese fringeflower grows best in light shade and acid, humus-rich soil. It will handle full sun exposures in fertile and moist soils. In the colder part of its range it will be deciduous,...

(Chinese Fringeflower, Fringe Flower, Loropetalum)

Creamy white flowers and a compact dense habit make the Chinese fringeflower Carolina Moonlight® a good choice for the garden. This vigorous cultivar is a cross between Loropetalum chinense cultivar `Hillier` and Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum cultivar `Blush`and was bred by Carroll Theodore Stephens of North Augusta, South Carolina.

Asian in origin, fringeflower bears fragrant, spidery blooms from late winter to early spring and sporadically throughout the year....

(Chinese Fringeflower, Fringe Flower, Loropetalum, Purple-leaved Chinese Fringeflower)

Redleaf Chinese fringeflower is a broadleaf evergreen shrub native to Japan and China. It bears fragrant, spidery pink flowers in late winter and early spring and sporadically at other seasons. The arching, spherical habit and bronze-green to burgundy, rounded leaves are attractive year-round.

This shrub grows best in light shade and acid, humus-rich soil. In the colder part of its range, give it some winter wind protection. It works well in mixed borders, foundation plantings, and large containers....

(Chinese Fringeflower, Fringe Flower, Loropetalum, Purple-leaved Chinese Fringeflower)

Blush Chinese fringeflower is a large broadleaf evergreen shrub native to Japan and China. A vigorous selection, 'Blush' bears fragrant, spidery, burgundy-pink flowers in late winter and early spring and sporadically at other seasons. The arching, spherical habit and newly emerging leaves are purple-tinged. These rounded leaves turn more green as summer approaches.

This shrub grows best in light shade and acid, humus-rich soil. In the colder part of its range, give 'Blush' protection for winter...

(Chinese Fringeflower, Fringe Flower, Loropetalum, Purple-leaved Chinese Fringeflower)

The robust and colorful Chinese fringeflower, Ever Red®, has rich deep burgundy leaves and vivid red flowers. This evergreen shrub is compact, mildew and disease resistant and drought tolerant once established.

Asian in origin, fringeflower bears fragrant, spidery blooms from late winter to early spring and sporadically throughout the year. Its oval, burgundy leaves are leathery, rough on their upper surface and paler underneath. This selection has an upright to arching habit and offers appeal...

(Chinese Fringeflower, Fringe Flower, Loropetalum, Purple-leaved Chinese Fringeflower)

The hot rose-pink flowers and free spreading habit of Little Rose Dawn® make this an exceptionally beautiful and versatile Chinese fringeflower for the landscape. It was discovered by Mark P. Griffith of Watkinsville, Georgia as a chance sport of Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum cultivar `Ruby.’

Asian in origin, fringeflower bears fragrant, spidery blooms from late winter to early spring and sporadically throughout the year. Its leathery scalloped leaves are evergreen with pale...