Showtimes
Showtimes is your ticket to what's in flower at the JC Raulston Arboretum where there's always something in flower.
Flower data presented in Showtimes is based upon information recorded in our photograph collection. By this, we mean we're not out in the gardens on a weekly basis taking flower data as done by some public gardens. The flower times presented here are based upon thousands of plants we've photographed at the JCRA through the years. As we photograph more and more plants, the Showtimes listing continues to grow.
December
At this time, we've photographed 164 taxa in flower at the JC Raulston Arboretum in December. A listing with photographs and a graphical representation of all taxa throughout the year are also available. Click on the plant's botanical name to learn more about the plant.
- Abelia ×grandiflora 'Kaleidoscope' – variegated glossy abelia
- Abutilon megapotamicum 'Little Imp' – flowering maple
- Ageratina ligustrina
- Ajania pacifica – silver and gold chrysanthemum
- Arbutus unedo 'Compacta' – compact strawberry tree
- Aucuba japonica 'Kameba'
- Buddleja cordata – Mexican butterfly-bush
- Camellia 'Autumn Spirit' – sasanqua camellia
- Camellia 'Carolina Moonmist' – Cochran hybrid camellia
- Camellia ×hiemalis 'Dazzler' – camellia
- Camellia ×hiemalis 'Green's Blues' – hybrid camellia
- Camellia ×hiemalis 'Rose of Autumn' – hybrid camellia
- Camellia ×hiemalis 'Shishi Gashira' – hybrid camellia
- Camellia japonica – Japanese camellia
- Camellia japonica 'Benten-shiratama' – Japanese camellia
- Camellia japonica (Korean germplasm) – Japanese camellia
- Camellia japonica 'Ta Fuku Benten' – variegated Japanese camellia
- Camellia japonica 'Tama Peacock' – picotee Japanese camellia
- Camellia japonica 'White By The Gate' – Japanese camellia
- Camellia oleifera – tea-oil camellia
- Camellia (oleifera hybrid, weeping)
- Camellia sasanqua 'Fuji-no-yuki'
- Camellia sasanqua 'Green 01-006' – October Magic Carpet sasanqua camellia
- Camellia sasanqua 'Green 94-035' – October Magic Orchid sasanqua camellia
- Camellia sasanqua 'Reverend Ida' – sasanqua camellia
- Camellia sasanqua 'Sarrel' – sasanqua camellia
- Camellia sasanqua 'TDN 1116' – Bella Rouge / Hot Flash sasanqua camellia
- Camellia 'Snow Flurry' – Ackerman hybrid camellia
- Camellia ×vernalis 'Egao Corkscrew' – contorted vernal camellia
- Camellia ×vernalis 'Egao Pink Halo' – vernal camellia
- Camellia ×vernalis 'Egao Spring Snowfall' – vernal camellia
- Camellia ×vernalis 'Ginryu' – vernal camellia
- Camellia ×vernalis 'Hiryû' – vernal camellia
- Camellia ×vernalis 'Shibori Egao' – hybrid camellia
- Camellia 'Winter's Charm' – Ackerman hybrid camellia
- Camellia 'Winter's Dream' – Ackerman hybrid camellia
- Camellia 'Winter's Star' – Ackerman hybrid camellia
- Camellia 'Yoimachi' – camellia
- Camellia 'Yume' – hybrid camellia
- Ceanothus 'Minmarose' – Marie Rose summer lilac
- Ceratostigma griffithii 'Snow Flurries' – white Griffith's leadwort
- Cercis canadensis 'Crosswicks Red' – eastern redbud
- Cercis chinensis 'Celestial Plum' – smooth redbud
- Chaenomeles japonica 'Atsuya Hamada' – Japanese flowering quince
- Chaenomeles japonica 'Hime' – Japanese flowering quince
- Chaenomeles 'Orange Storm' – Double Take hybrid flowering quince
- Chaenomeles ×superba 'Jet Trail' – hybrid flowering quince
- Chimonanthus nitens – evergreen chimonanthus
- Chimonanthus praecox – fragrant wintersweet
- Chimonanthus praecox 'Luteus' – wintersweet
- Chrysanthemum 'Sheffield Pink' – chrysanthemum
- Colletia paradoxa
- Cornus officinalis 'Kintoki' – dwarf Japanese cornel
- Crocus imperati 'De Jager' – crocus
- Crocus laevigatus 'Fontenayi'
- Crocus ochroleucus – autumn-flowering crocus
- Cyclamen cilicium
- Cyclamen coum – baby cyclamen
- Cyclamen hederifolium Ashwood Nurseries Silver Leaf Group – hardy cyclamen
- Dahlia imperialis (double white) – tree dahlia
- Dianthus (ex. 'Blue Hills')
- Erica ×darleyensis 'Furzey' – Darley heath
- Erica ×darleyensis 'White Perfection' – Darley heath
- Eriobotrya japonica 'Coppertone' – loquat
- Erysimum linifolium 'Bowles Mauve' – alpine wallflower
- Farfugium japonicum 'Aureomaculatum' – leopard plant
- Fatsia japonica – Japanese fatsia
- Fatsia japonica 'Variegata' – variegated Japanese fatsia
- Ficaria verna 'Coppernob' – fig buttercup
- Forsythia ×intermedia 'White Gold' – variegated border forsythia
- Galanthus elwesii – snowdrop
- Galanthus elwesii var. monostictus – one-spotted giant snowdrop
- Gerbera – Garvinea Sweet Dreams Gerber daisy
- Gladiolus dalenii 'Halloweenie' – parrot beak gladiolus
- Hamamelis mollis 'Wisley Supreme' – Chinese witchhazel
- Hamamelis vernalis – Ozark witchhazel
- Hamamelis vernalis f. carnea – red Ozark witchhazel
- Hamamelis vernalis 'Christmas Cheer' – early Ozark witchhazel
- Hamamelis virginiana 'Harvest Moon' – American witchhazel
- Hamamelis virginiana var. henryi – southern witchhazel
- Helleborus bocconei
- Helleborus ×ericsmithii 'Coseh 790' – HGC Shooting Star hybrid hellebore
- Helleborus ×ericsmithii 'Pirouette' – hybrid hellebore
- Helleborus foetidus – bearsfoot hellebore
- Helleborus ×hybridus – Lenten rose
- Helleborus ×hybridus (double flower) – double Lenten rose
- Helleborus ×hybridus (pale pink shades) – Lenten rose
- ×Heucherella 'Sunrise Falls' – trailing foamy bell
- Hyacinthus 'Anastacia'
- Illicium mexicanum 'Aztec Fire' – Mexican anise
- Iris 'Again and Again' – tall bearded reblooming iris
- Iris 'Harvest of Memories' – reblooming tall bearded iris
- Iris 'Striking'
- Iris unguicularis – winter flowering iris
- Jasminum nudiflorum 'Aureum' – golden winter jasmine
- Lamium maculatum 'Beacon Silver' – deadnettle
- Lonicera ×americana 'Pam's Pink' – American honeysuckle
- Magnolia cavaleriei – magnolia
- Magnolia ×loebneri 'Ballerina' – Loebner magnolia
- Magnolia maudiae – smiling forest michelia
- Mahonia 'Arthur Menzies' – grapeholly
- Mahonia eurybracteata subsp. ganpinensis
- Mahonia ilicina – grapeholly
- Mahonia 'J.C. Raulston' – hybrid grapeholly
- Mahonia ×lindsayae 'Cantab' – hybrid mahonia
- Mahonia lomariifolia – Burmese mahonia
- Mahonia 'Marvel' – hybrid mahonia
- Mahonia ×media 'Buckland' – grapeholly
- Mahonia ×media 'Hope' – grapeholly
- Mahonia ×media 'Lionel Fortescue' – grapeholly
- Mahonia ×media 'Underway' – grapeholly
- Mahonia ×media 'Winter Sun' – grapeholly
- Mahonia napaulensis 'Maharajah'
- Mahonia oiwakensis – Chinese mahonia
- Mahonia (Yucca Do hybrids) – grapeholly
- Moraea polystachya – butterfly iris
- Narcissus papyraceus – paper-white narcissus
- Osmanthus armatus – Chinese tea-olive
- Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Ogon' – golden holly tea-olive
- Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Purpureus' – purple-leaf holly tea-olive
- Oxalis regnellii 'Irish Mist'
- Phlox nivalis 'Camla' – trailing phlox
- Prunus incisa – Fuji cherry
- Prunus jacquemontii – Afghan bush cherry
- Prunus mume – Japanese flowering apricot
- Prunus mume 'Big Joe' – white flowering apricot
- Prunus mume 'Bonita' – pink flowering apricot
- Prunus mume 'Tojibai' – white flowering apricot
- Prunus (NA 63480) – U.S. National Arboretum hybrid flowering cherry
- Pulsatilla halleri subsp. styriaca – Steiermark pasque-flower
- Rhododendron 'Conlef' – Autumn Cheer Encore® azalea
- Rosa 'Auscanary' – Malvern Hills rambling rose
- Rosa 'Frycentury' – Day Breaker floribunda rose
- Rosa 'Meiajbeth'
- Rosa 'Radprov' – Orchid Romance floribunda rose
- Rosa 'Spice' – China rose
- Rosmarinus officinalis 'Barbeque' – upright rosemary
- Rosmarinus officinalis 'Majorca Pink'
- Rosmarinus officinalis 'Renzels'
- Ruscus aculeatus var. angustifolius
- Ruscus aculeatus 'Elizabeth Lawrence' – butcher's broom
- Ruscus ×microglossus – butcher's broom
- Salvia 'Jean's Purple Passion' – hybrid sage
- Sarcococca hookeriana var. digyna – Himalayan sweet box
- Sarcococca ruscifolia – fragrant sweet box
- Sarcococca saligna – willow-leaf sweet box
- Sempervivum 'Red Heart'
- Serissa japonica 'Kyoto' – Japanese snow rose
- Spiraea thunbergii 'Mount Fuji' – variegated Thunberg spirea
- Spiraea thunbergii 'Ogon' – Mellow Yellow golden Thunberg spirea
- Stachyurus praecox 'Issai' – golden spike-tail
- Tetraneuris acaulis – angelita daisy
- Tricyrtis ravenii – Raven's toad lily
- Tulbaghia violacea – society garlic
- Verbascum chaixii – nettle-leaved mullein
- Verbena 'Texas Appleblossom' – verbena
- Vernonia lettermannii 'Iron Butterfly' – ironweed
- Viburnum obovatum 'Compacta' – compact Walter's viburnum
- Viburnum obovatum 'Raulston Hardy' – dwarf viburnum
- Viburnum ×pragense 'Decker' – Prague viburnum
- Viburnum tinus 'Compactum' – compact laurustinus
- Yucca gloriosa 'Lone Star' – Spanish bayonet
- Zantedeschia aethiopica 'Green Goddess'
- Zantedeschia aethiopica 'White Giant' – giant calla lily