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Nut size large, averaging 55 nuts per pound.
Quality is good, averaging 46% kernel.
Stuart has medium resistance to scab.
Stuart nuts are ready for harvest early in the season.
This is a Type 2 pollinator, which requires a Type 1 pollinator for nut production.

Nut size is medium, averaging 48 nuts per pound.
Quality is good, averaging 44% kernel.
Gloria Grand is a consistent producer as a mature tree. Good resistance to scab.
This is a Type 1 pollinator which requires a Type 2 pollinator for nut production.

Nut size is large, averaging 48 nuts per pound.
Quality is excellent averaging 53% kernel.
Oconee has medium resistance to scabs but produces a very high quality nut.
This is a Type 1 pollinator which requires a Type 2 pollinator for nut production.

Nut size is small, averaging 77 nuts per pound.
Quality is good with 51% kernel.
They may be small nuts, but they are a very high quality nut.
Elliot has excellent scab resistance.
This is a Type 2 pollinator, which requires a Type 1 pollinator for nut production.

Nut size is large, averaging 48 nuts per pound.
The quality is good, averaging 51% kernel.
Desirable is consistent at producing large, well-filled nuts year after year after year.
Resistance to scab is low.
Desirable is a Type 1 pollinator, which requires a Type 2 pollinator for nut production.

Desirable is good for planting in east, south & central Texas.

Nut size is medium, averaging 55 nuts per pound.
Quality is good with average of 48% kernel.
Creek begins bearing at a young age. It produces long, slender nuts.
Creek has good scab resistance.
This is a Type 1 pollinator, which requires a Type 2 pollinator for nut production.

Nut size is medium, averaging 55 nuts per pound.
Quality is good with 51% kernel.
Cape Fear produces well filled out nuts starting at an early age; alternate year bearing is common in its mature age.
Cape Fear has good scab resistance.
This is a Type 1 pollinator and requires a Type 2 pollinator for nut production.

Cape Fear is recommended for yard tree use only for the eastern & southern portions of Texas. Not recommended for Georgia but may have merit in some situations. Highly recommended for North Florida. Recommended for planting throughout the state of Alabama. Not recommended for planting in Louisiana.

Nut size medium, averaging 67 nuts per pound.
Quality is good, averaging 57% kernel.
Caddo is consistent at beginning production at a young age and maintains a high production yield in maturity.
Average harvest time is early season in October.
Caddo has average scab resistance and is recommended to be on a spraying schedule.
Caddo is a type 1 pollinator, which requires a Type 2 pollinator for fruiting.
Caddo is recommended for planting in Georgia & all of Texas.

Veronia angustifolia is native in the US in the following states:
Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina & North Carolina.

This is a short-lived perennial named for William Vernon, an English botanist who studied plants in North America. Angustifolia comes from the Latin: "angust" meaning narrow & "foli" meaning leaf.

It blooms June through September in its native range and is very striking. It stopped me dead in my tracks the first time I saw it. The blooms are so bright and attractive, airily waving in the breeze. You can see emerging growth in the spring, consisting of a basal rosette of elliptically shaped leaves with toothed edges.This makes a beautiful showing for the back of a border, towering above smaller plants in front. Unfortunately, it is rarely offered for sale even in native nurseries, but it is easily propagated by seed. Seeds may be available through the Florida Wildflowers Growers Cooperative.

Panicled Tick Trefoil is one of those "survivor" plants. In other words, if you get it, it's hard to get rid of it. It actually thrives on disturbed sites, and it prefers disturbance from wildfires and selective logging.
The caterpillars of many butterflies feed on the leaves, such as Silver-Spotted Skipper, Hoary Edge, both the Southern and Northern Cloudywing, and the Eastern Tailed Blue. The caterpillars of the Gray Hairstreak feed on the flowers and juvenile seedpods. The seeds are eaten by Wild Turkey, Quail, Deer Mouse, and White-Footed mouse, and the foliage is eaten by White Tailed Deer and other hoofed herbivorous mammals. Cotton tailed rabbits eat the foliage.

The Houma Indians of Louisiana would steep the roots in whiskey to treat cramps and weakness.

WARNING!!!!!!
This plant is an invasive. It has been declared a category 1 invasive by the Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council & is prohibited in the state. Please see:
http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/nod...
Also:
http://www.issg.org/database/s...
It escaped from cultivation in 1982 and has established itself in many counties in north and central Florida. Birds and raccoons love the berries and thus spread the plant. It is a prolific seeder with amazing germination percentages. It can spend years in a juvenile state until larger plants above it are removed, at which time the juvenile plants then grow into adults. It can withstand fire, hard cutting back, or hard freezes and then come back with renewed vigor.
It may not be long before this is listed as an invasive in other states, as well as in Australia. It has naturalized in Texas and Hawaii. It has invaded Georgia and Louisiana. It is considered an environmental weed in Australia and has naturalized in New South Wales. It crowds out native vegetation.

PLEASE, if you must have this plant, grow it responsibly in climates where it is NOT likely to survive in the wild. Grow it as a houseplant.

It takes 2 years before the plant will bloom and produce fruit.

THIS IS LISTED ON THE FEDERAL NOXIOUS WEED LIST. IT IS LISTED AS A CATEGORY 1 INVASIVE IN FLORIDA. IT IS PROHIBITED IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA.

This will smother entire trees to the point of killing them. It shades out native vegetation and prevents seeds from sprouting beneath it. It has become a huge problem in the Florida Everglades. Two moths whose larvae eat the vine have been introduced to control it. Great, let's get 2 more non-natives going to wipe out a non-native. How many times do we have to do this to learn that 9 times out of 10 we just end up with more problems from the "introduced cure"?
The dense growth habit of this plant creates a fire hazard by providing a "fire tower" for small ground fires to quickly spread to the tree canopy.
This is native to Africa, Southeast Asia, South Pacific Islands, and Australia.
It spreads by rhizomes as well as spores.
It was first found naturalized in Florida in 1965. Since its introduction in Florida as an ornamental, it has overtaken a whopping 200,000 acres. It covers everything in its path, smothering out native vegetation and trees. It has taken over entire islands in the Everglades. It is more common in the southern half of the state, but it is making its way north to the central portions. Its northern range is believed to run along the coast of Florida to the Georgia state line.

THIS IS LISTED ON THE FEDERAL NOXIOUS WEED LIST. IT IS LISTED AS A CATEGORY 1 INVASIVE IN GEORGIA, TEXAS & FLORIDA. IT IS PROHIBITED IN THESE STATES. THIS PLANT IS NON NATIVE TO THE U.S.

This will smother entire trees to the point of killing them. It shades out native vegetation and prevents seeds from sprouting beneath it. It has become a huge problem in the Florida Everglades. Two moths whose larvae eat the vine have been introduced to control it. Great, let's get 2 more non-natives going to wipe out a non-native. How many times do we have to do this to learn that 9 times out of 10 we just end up with more problems from the "introduced cure"?
The dense growth habit of this plant creates a fire hazard by providing a "fire tower" for small ground fires to quickly spread to the tree canopy.

It spreads by rhizomes as well as spores.

It is native to Africa, Asia, and Australia and was introduced into the U.S. as an ornamental from Japan in the 1930s.

This plant is often confused with Lygodium microphyllum, aka Old World Climbing Fern, which is just as bad as this one. The way to tell them apart is by the differing leaf characteristics. The Japanese climbing fern has leaves that are arranged opposite on the vine and are finely divided and lacy.

To truly understand how this cultivar of Calycathus came into being you should read about its parents in the comment I made here:
Sweet Shrub (Calycanthus x raulstonii 'Hartlage Wine')

Building upon this breeding program, Dr. Tom Ranney of the NCSU Woody Plant Breeding Center made more crosses and back crossed to the same parents, plus incorporated the genes of the yellow flowered C. floridus ‘Athens' Sweet Shrub (Calycanthus floridus 'Athens')
and this is how we now have the cultivar 'Venus.' It is a rapidly growing cultivar with large blooms, which nearly cover the plant. The blooms of Venus are white with vivid maroon-streaked inner petals.

This Calycanthus is actually a cross between C. floridus and its rare asian relative, C. chinensis, also known as Chinese wax plant. It has larger blooms than its parent father, C. floridus; however, the blooms do not bear the intensity of fragrance of the North American native Calycanthus cultivars.

The name Raulston is in honor of J. C. Raulston (director of the N.C. State University Arboretum), who had obtained cuttings of C. chinensis and had grown them in the Arboretum. The similarity of the fruits of C. floridus and C. chinensis was noticed, and that led to an experiment to determine whether the two could be crossed. Years later, the cross finally bloomed and we have a new hybrid.

This particular member of the Calycanthus is native to the mountains of central and northern California. According to the USDA plants profile, it is currently present in California and Washington.

The blooms of this particular Calycanthus have been described as smelling like wine. Other sources say it smells like vinegar. Perhaps the wine went bad?

In its natural state in California, it grows along streams and rivers, so it may require extra watering when drought conditions are present.

Pindo palms are one of the most cold hardy of the feather palms. They have beefy trunks, covered with persistent leaf bases. The fronds are gracefully arching and curve back down toward the ground and then in toward the trunk. It is a slow but steady grower. They will begin producing fruit at about 8 or 9 years of age. The fruit can be messy when it falls on sidewalks, driveways, or patio areas, so you will want to plant it far enough away from those areas so that it doesn't cause problems. I would say 12 to 15 feet would certainly do it.
This is a palm that can be planted beneath power lines because of its height limit.

Native to South America, ranging through northern Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and southern Brazil.

When mature, it produces copious amounts of fruit. The fruit is wonderfully fragrant, and if you get anywhere near it, your nose will pick up the sweet, tropically fruity aroma. The fruits are used to make jelly and wine. They are very fibrous and have a single large seed, slightly larger than a cherry pit and dark brown in color. You can chew the fruit and spit out the fiber, or bite into it and suck on the juice. Be careful as the juice will run down your hands and arms. Yes, they are that juicy! The flavor has been described in many, many ways, all involving a mixture of more commonly known fruit flavors.

In my personal experience, the first thing that hits your taste buds is tartness, but not horribly so. Less than a second later, strawberry mingles in, followed by banana, and then a sweet mango-orange flavor, all of the flavors mixing together in a delicious fusion, all the while tickling your nose with the scents of the tropics.

Tuscarora Crepe Myrtle is a stunner! The blooms are absolutely vibrant. The Tuscarora has tan, heavily exfoliating bark, which reveals a slightly deeper shade of trunk underneath. The bloom period for this Crepe Myrtle runs about 70 days, starting in early July. It puts on a show, too, with heavy bloom where the panicles are 8 inches wide by 12 inches long. Tuscarora sports an upright vase shape and has a slightly slower growth rate than many varieties, but its spectacular floral display makes up for the slower growth rate.
Tuscarora is one of the cultivars developed by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture National Arboretum, and as such has outstanding mildew resistance. The Arboretum introduced it in 1981.
This cultivar is a great choice for limited spaces because of its growth habit.

This is my all time favorite cherry for just plain eating. If you've never tried a Rainier cherry before, you owe it to yourself to try them. It is my personal opinion they are perfect in every way: texture, flavor, they have it all.

The Rainier cherry was developed by Harold Fogle at Washington State University in 1952 and is named after Mt. Rainier. They are a cross between the Van & the Bing cultivars. It was a big surprise that they turned out with the light yellow to medium orange-yellow skin they sport. When ripe, they develop a red blush. They have a thin skin & the flesh is creamy yellow. They are so sweet! You will see them with little brown spots on them, but this is not rot; it is in actuality an extra sweet sugar spot. Their flesh does not tend to crack unless they get abnormal rainfall or watering during the ripening of the fruit. 1/3 of the Rainier cherry crop is eaten by birds.

Rainier cherries are most often grafted onto the Mazzard cherry which is a wild, sweet cherry. They will produce fruit in 3 to 5 years. They are a low-chill cherry, requiring 1000 to 1500 annual chilling hours for good bloom & fruit production. They require a pollinator. Sam Sweet blooms at the same time & makes a good pollinator. Also used as pollinators are Lapins, Bing, Van, and Lambert. Conversely, the Rainier is used as a pollinator for the dark, sweet varieties.

They grow best in loamy sand and require good drainage.

Native to Al, Ct, DC, De, Fl, Ga, Il, Ky, La, Ma, Md, Mo, Ms, NC, NY, Oh, Pa, SC, Tn, Va, WV.

Leaves are opposite, simple, have smooth margins, and are oblong, glossy, aromatic & leathery, 4 - 6" long & 2-3" wide. Blooms are axillary with straplike petals.Very resistant to disease & insect problems.
It is recommended that you purchase or obtain your plant while it is in bloom as strength of fragrance varies greatly from individual to individual.
The plant suckers prolifically. It has a moderate growth habit. It adapts to many types of soil, but it naturally grows as an understory plant along streams & moist woodlands, where it is inclined to display a more open shape. It does grow well in full sun, where it blooms more prolifically & has a more rounded habit, although shaping is required to maintain such, and in full sun it has a slower growth rate.
The leaves, seed pods, stems, and bark are spicily aromatic, reminiscent of cinnamon.
It prefers moist soil, but it will survive periods of drought.
Often planted near doorways or outdoor spaces in order to take advantage of the wonderful fragrance.
An easy to grow plant & much underused. Pollinated by insects.