JC Raulston Arboretum Plant Sale
Spring Plant Sale 2014
The JC Raulston Arboretum's first plant sale was in 2010. This plant availability list for 2014 remains on this site as an archive of what we offered that year.
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Abelia ×grandiflora 'Hopleys'
Miss Lemon variegated glossy abelia
'Hopleys' will fill your garden with beautiful gold and cream variegated evergreen foliage which turns pink in autumn. Dainty pale pink flowers from July to October. A plant introduction from Hopleys Nursery, United Kingdom. Some leaves may drop depending on severity of the winter.
Abelia ×grandiflora 'Kaleidoscope'
glossy abelia
Foliage is bright yellow and light green in the spring and golden yellow with a dark green center in the summer. Cool weather adds orange and red. White, tubular flowers bloom summer to fall. 
Abelia ×grandiflora 'Margarita'
Twist of Orange variegated glossy abelia
A fine textured, variegated glossy abelia with colorful foliage year-round and bright red stems. Like all glossy abelia, it will grow in sun or shade and is tolerant of most conditions once it is well-established. Look for pink-tinged, white flowers held by showy rose calyces over an extended period. 
Acer cissifolium
ivy-leaf maple
We collected this lovely maple near Mt. Ontaki in Japan. It is a small tree with bright gold-red fall color. Spring flowers are a cheery yellow, quite showy, and appear before foliage. Easy to grow with some shade in the Southeast. Prune to a single stem or leave as a multi-stemmed tree.Acer palmatum 'Chishio'
Japanese maple
Chishio' is one of the very best bright, pink-red spring color cultivars you can find. Spring color is long-lasting and leaves are small and very attractive. In summer it becomes an attractive green. In the fall, the leaves turn an orange to red color.Acer palmatum 'Emerald Lace'
lace-leaf Japanese maple
Stunning red leaves in spring that change to red-brown in summer. As the summer progresses, the leaf veins change to green and then bright red in fall. It is slow growing and its upright form makes it a good choice for growing in a container. Reaches about 6' tall in a container.
Acer palmatum 'Orangeola'
red lace-leaf Japanese maple
This hard to find, cultivar of Japanese maple is noted for its deep red-purple laceleaf foliage, appearing bright orange when first emerging in spring. Not as wide spreading as other laceleaf cultivars, it fits better into small gardens. Watch for its fiery orange to orange-red fall colors, too.
Acer palmatum 'Pixie'
compact Japanese maple
'Pixie' is a smaller form of the popular 'Bloodgood' Japanese maple. It has dark purple-red leaves that keep their rich color even in the heat of the summer. Leaves turn fire red in fall. Its form is compact and upright, making it a good choice for containers as well as growing in the landscape.
Acer pictum subsp. mono
painted maple
This small to medium-sized maple is one of our very favorites with a nicely formed, rounded head. The fall color is typically a beautiful clear yellow. These plants are from seed we collected in Japan in 2011, where it was growing near the gorgeous Ryuzu Falls in Nikko. Acer pseudosieboldianum
Korean maple
This is a wonderful small maple from Korea and China that is unaccountably rare in cultivation. Four inch to 5" doubly serrate leaves turn spectacular colors in the fall. It is also commonly known as purplebloom maple for the purple-red spring flowers. These are seedlings, not grafted plants.
Acer shirasawanum
full moon maple
While often grouped with the other Jpanese maples, the full moon maple has a much bolder look with larger, wider leaves. These seedlings were collected in 2011 in the mountains of Japan where the blazing fall color was the brightest in the woods.
Acorus gramineus 'Oborozuki'
variegated sweet flag
A wonderful semi-evergreen, marginal aquatic perennial that features a grass-like tuft of narrow golden with green stripes leaf blades (1/4“ wide) that fan outward to 6-12” tall. It is commonly grown in water gardens and boggy areas. Foliage is sweetly fragrant when bruised.
Aesculus parviflora
bottlebrush buckeye
Bottlebrush buckeye is a deciduous shrub with a spreading growth habit to 10' and upright panicles of white flowers in summer. Since it does not lose its leaves to leaf scorch, it will reward you in the autumn with yellow fall color.
Aesculus pavia (yellow)
yellow-flowered red buckeye
Red buckeye is one of the showiest native plants around. The spikes of long tubular red flowers are hummingbird magnets in sunny spots or as part of the woodland garden. The palmately compound (hand-like) leaves look great for the rest of the summer.
Afrocarpus falcatus
African yellowwood
This lovely podocarp relative is native to southern Africa and makes a soft textured, specimen conifer. In its native habitat, it is a large tree, but will be much slower in the landscape. These are fairly tender, so grow it in a protected spot. As an unusual houseplant, it tolerates low light conditions.Agapanthus 'Storm Cloud'
lily-of-the-Nile
This is one of the darkest blues available in hardy agapanthus. Bold clumps of strappy foliage give rise to 4' flower stems bearing clusters of up to 100 flowers.Agave toumeyana var. bella
hardy century plant
This lovely agave grows to only about 6" by 10" in attractive rosettes. Offsets readily form a tight colony perfect for a small scale ground cover or filling a pot. Always grow in a well-drained soil to ensure survival. Mature plants bear 4' flower spikes attractive to people and hummingbirds.
Akebia quinata
chocolate vine
A lovely, quick growing vine with attractive compound leaves and purple spring flowers that smell like chocolate.Alchemilla mollis 'Thriller'
lady's mantle
Lady's mantle makes clumps of soft green foliage topped in June with electric yellow flowers. This selection is larger and more floriferous than the species.Alpinia koshunensis
Taiwan shell ginger
Taiwan shell ginger is likely too tender to grow outside but would make a very nice container specimen with foliage to about 4' tall and erect flower spikes with thick textured blossoms that are white on the outside and bright yellow and red inside.
Alstroemeria 'Koice'
Inca Ice Peruvian lily
A mound of bright yellow leaves emerge in late spring. Leaves will remain yellow when given at least several hours of sunlight each day. In late summer 2' flower spikes produce white flowers followed by purple berries
Ampelaster carolinianus
climbing aster
This native climbing aster can be grown as a mounding shrub or encouraged to grow up a post or trellis. Pink flowers appear in October brightening the garden at the end of the season. Tolerant of dry or damp soils once established.Anemone hupehensis 'Pretty Lady Emily'
windflower
This little windflower or Japanese anemone is only half the height of the typical form. Semi-double pink flowers on 18" stems appear in late summer when the garden is often looking tired.
Angelica keiskei
Japanese angelica
Native to Japan, this plant makes a great bold-textured garden specimen, forming a 18" by 3' wide basal rosette of glossy dark evergreen leaves. After a couple of years, an ashitaba rosette is topped with a thick 5' tall spike of upright-facing large white umbels in mid-July. Aquilegia 'Clementine Blue'
columbine
This spur-less columbine has double blue flowers more reminiscent of a clematis than a typical columbine. The soft green foliage makes a lovely clump even after the long bloom period of the flowers has passed.Items 1–25 of 259