Camellia transnokoensis (Camellia)
Other names: Mount Noko camellia
C. transnokoensis is an upright, borderline hardy, evergreen shrub with small, glossy, oblong to broadly lance-shaped, toothed, dark green leaves and, along the stems in early spring, clusters of reddish-pink buds opening to small, fragrant, single white flowers with yellow stamens.
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2.5m max. spread |
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3.5m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Helwingia japonica (Japanese helwingia)
Other names: Helwingia rusciflora, Osyris japonica
H. japonica is an upright, often suckering, deciduous shrub with lance-shaped, glossy, dark green leaves and clusters of green flowers blooming from the leaf midrib in spring followed by spherical, glossy, black fruit on female plants.
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2m max. spread |
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2m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Pieris 'Forest Flame' (Pieris 'Forest Flame')
Other names: Pieris japonica 'Forest Flame'
'Forest Flame' is an evergreen shrub with green foliage that starts off red, changes to pink and cream and finally becomes green. Panicles of small, cream flowers are produced in spring.
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2.5m max. spread |
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4m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Daphne odora 'Aureomarginata' (Gold-edged winter daphne)
Other names: Daphne odora 'Marginata', Daphne japonica 'Striata'
'Aureomarginata' is a compact, evergreen shrub with dark-green leaves edged with yellow. It bears clusters of fragrant purplish-pink flowers with white centres in early spring.
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1.5m max. spread |
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1.5m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Other names: Wasabia japonica, Japanese horseradish, Japanese horse radish
W. wasabi is a tender, slow-growing, mound-forming, evergreen perennial with a thick, edible rhizome-like underground stem, long-stalked, glossy, heart-shaped, mid-green leaves and racemes of tiny, white flowers in spring.
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0.6m max. spread |
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0.6m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Rhododendron 'Wombat' (Azalea 'Wombat')
Other names: Japanese azalea 'Wombat', Azalea japonica 'Wombat'
'Wombat' is a prostrate, spreading, evergreen shrub with small, dark green leaves and clusters of bright pink flowers in early summer.
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1.5m max. spread |
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0.5m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Fatsia japonica 'Variegata' (Japanese aralia 'Variegata')
Other names: Aralia sieboldii var. variegata, Fatsia japonica silver variegated, Paperplant 'Variegata', Fatsia japonica 'Camouflage'
'Variegata' is a bushy, rounded, suckering, evergreen shrub with leathery, glossy, deeply-lobed, dark green leaves edged with cream. Clusters of small white flowers in autumn are followed by black fruit.
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4m max. spread |
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4m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Bauhinia variegata (Orchid tree)
Other names: Mountain ebony, Purple orchid tree, Poor man's orchid, Ebony wood, Camel's foot tree, Kuchnar, Bauhinia purpurea
B. variegata is a tender, semi-evergreen tree or shrub. It has large lobed, heart-shaped leaves and in late winter to early spring, bears showy, fragrant, orchid-like purple-pink flowers, followed by large fruit pods.
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8m max. spread |
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12m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Rhododendron 'Red Red' (Rhododendron 'Red Red')
Other names: Evergreen azalea 'Red Red', Azalea japonica 'Red Red', Japanese azalea 'Red Red'
'Red Red' is a compact, rounded, evergreen shrub with oval to elliptic, dark green leaves, red in winter, and clusters of funnel-shaped, red flowers in late spring.
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0.9m max. spread |
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0.9m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Daphne odora 'Marianni' (Daphne 'Marianni')
Other names: Japan daphne 'Marianni', Winter dapne 'Marianni', Daphne japonica 'Marianni', Daphne odora 'Rogbret'
'Marianni' is a borderline hardy, rounded, evergreen shrub bearing leathery, glossy, dark green leaves with broad, yellow margins and rounded clusters of fragrant, tubular, pink flowers in late winter and early spring.
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1.5m max. spread |
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1.5m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
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