The sweetbay magnolia (Magnolia virginiana) is a graceful, southern evergreen to semi-evergreen tree. It will tend to be more evergreen the farther south it is planted. In nature, it is found most often in moist, acid soils near swamps or stream banks in the eastern United States. It is a small, typically multi-stemmed tree, columnar…
The bottlebrush buckeye (Aesculus parviflora) is a wide-spreading, suckering, multi-stemmed shrub, making it an excellent plant for shrub borders. With its long, bottlebrush-like panicles of white flowers, there are few summer flowering plants that can rival this species. If transplanting, do so in early spring into a moist, well-drained soil that has been adequately prepared…
Wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) is native to North America and can be found growing in open woodlands and along roadsides from eastern Canada through northern Florida and westward into New Mexico. It is a hardy perennial that grows 2 to 3 feet tall and is best propagated by seed. Wild columbine’s most noteworthy characteristic is…