JC Raulston Arboretum Plant Sale
Spring Plant Sale 2025
The JC Raulston Arboretum's first plant sale was in 2010. This plant availability list for 2025 remains on this site as an archive of what we offered that year.
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Acer palmatum 'Hessei'
Japanese maple
Deeply divided red and dark green leaves with long narrow lobes. Fall foliage has flashes of reds and oranges.Acer palmatum 'Jubilee'
Japanese maple
An upright deciduous tree with a broad canopy. Deeply divided leaves feature rose-green coloration, and then turn to scarlet in autumn. The light foliage needs some protection from afternoon sun.Acer palmatum 'Nebula'
Japanese maple
A Japanese maple with a reticulated variegation pattern. New leaves are silvery pink with green veins that mature to bright green with dark green veins. Fall color is a bright red. An upright habit with a broad canopy.
Acer palmatum 'Peve Starfish'
Japanese maple
Amazing convexum group Japanese maple from the Netherlands. Small tree with curiously cupped leaves giving a 3-D effect. Foliage emerges brilliant scarlet before turning maroon. Subsequent summer flushes are bright cherry for a 2-toned effect. Fall color is fire-engine red.Acer palmatum 'Winter Red'
coral bark Japanese maple
Fiery red bark in winter. Leafs out in spring with chartreuse green leaves that compliment the bark. Fall colors are bright golden yellows and small splotches of red.Acer sieboldianum 'Shoryû-no-tsume'
full moon Japanese maple
'Shoryu-no-tsume' means 'claw of the dragon' which refers to the unusual leaf shape. Fall foliage is red.Achillea millefolium 'Balvinviolet'
New Vintage Violet yarrow
A compact variety with magenta-violet flowers that keeps its color longer into the summer. Re-flowers very well for a yarrow if spent flowers are removed.Achillea millefolium 'Balvinwhite'
New Vintage White yarrow
Compact, white-flowered perennial with soft, fern-like foliage. Drought tolerant once established. Deadheading promotes rebloom. Rejuvenate in late summer by cutting back hard. Butterflies attracted: American Copper, Banded Hairstreak, Lorquin's Admiral, West Coast Lady.
Achillea millefolium 'FLORACHYE2'
Milly Rock Yellow Terracotta Improved yarrow
Compact mounding form with bright flowers all summer (as long as spent blooms are pinched off). Performs best in well-drained soils.
Acorus calamus 'Variegatus'
sweet flag
A variegated form of sweet flag with white and green-striped iris-like foliage. Will grow in average to wet garden soils but in the wild it is native to boggy areas. Spreads slowly via rhizomes into a colony. The leaves and rhizomes are fragrant when bruised.
Acorus gramineus 'Ogon'
sweet flag
A small (to 15") grass-like plant with brilliant butter-yellow variegated foliage. Good for accent, mass plantings, water's edge, or shallow ponds. Excellent choice to brighten up a dark moist area of the garden.
Adiantum 'Golden Michael'
maidenhair fern
This excellent garden fern features yellow-tinged foliage contrasting against the dark black stipes. Spreads slowly into a 3' wide patch.
Adiantum pedatum
American maidenhair fern
Maidenhair fern is a native southeast U.S. fern. Like all ferns, this is quite deer resistant while looking delicate and elegant.
Aesculus parviflora
bottlebrush buckeye
Bottlebrush buckeye is a deciduous shrub with a spreading growth habit and upright panicles of white flowers in summer. Resistant to the leaf scorch that plagues most Aesculus, it rewards you in the autumn with a nice yellow fall color.Agastache 'Guava Lava'
anise hyssop
A brightly colored hybrid and a favorite of pollinators. 'Guava Lava' begins to bloom in the heat of the summer and continues for many weeks. Coral orange flowers are held on equally colorful mauve pink calyxes. Even after the flower has finished, the calyxes remain attractive.Agastache mexicana 'Balsumlilac'
Summerlong Lilac Mexican giant hyssop
A hummingbird attracting plant with rose colored summer flowers and aromatic foliage (lemon and anise) that repels deer. Love's heat and can take drought. Lean, well-drained soils are best.
Agastache 'Morello'
hummingbird mint
This selection features huge, dense inflorescences of deep burgundy rose. New foliage in spring is a dark color, fading to green when it gets hot.Agave isthmensis 'Kabuto Gani'
century plant
Agave lophantha 'Quadricolor'
thorn-crested century plant
One of the very hottest variegated agaves around. Propagated only by offsets. Dramatic foliage starts pale green in the center surrounded by deep green with a broad creamy white margin and burgundy darkening to gray-black sharp teeth along the margins.Agave titanota 'Genryu Kifukurin'
century plant
This selection is a variegated form of this small agave with a wide white edge to the each leaf. The leaf pattern is brightest when the new growth emerges and fades somewhat during the high heat of summer. Agave titanota is a ferociously-spined species handle with care! Not cold hardy in Raleigh, so it is best grown as a container plant.Agave vilmoriniana 'Stained Glass'
century plant
Variegated agave with blue-green edged leaves with pale creamy yellow. Nearly spineless, so friendly to handle. Not cold hardy in Raleigh, so best in a container. Usually blooms at around 10 years old and then dies, but produces small plantlets along the flower stalk.Ajuga 'Flashy Flamingo'
Feathered Friends carpet bugle
Narrow-leaved creeping ground cover with chartreuse leaves. The pale pink flowers attract hummingbirds and are a stunning contrast with the bright foliage.Ajuga 'Pleasant Pheasant'
Feathered Friends carpet bugle
Narrow-leaved creeping ground cover with coppery leaves. The blue flowers attract hummingbirds.
Ajuga reptans 'Catlin's Giant'
carpet bugle
'Catlin's Giant' features bronze-green foliage and whorls of blue flowers on spikes up to 8" tall. Flowers appear in April-May. Does very well in shady areas where grass will not grow. Spreads via stolons and can spread aggressively in ideal conditions.Allium 'Bubble Bath'
ornamental onion
3" pale lavender flowers in the summer on top of bluish-green foliage. The onion-y foliage is deer resistant.Items 1–25 of 258