Understory Planting Plants

Buy Sparkling Wine™ Redbud online. A compact, purple-leafed redbud with glossy, dark-purple leaves. Dark lavender flowers appear in spring before the foliage. Excellent grown as a landscape specimen

Buy Little Woody Redbud online. This vase-shaped redbud is a great compact growing C. canadensis cultivar. It showcases slightly wrinkly, heart-shaped leaves that appear after the light pink spring flowers disappear. This makes an amazing and unique specimen tree for any full sun landscape!

Buy Golden Falls® Weeping Redbud online. Tired of green and red-leafed weeping redbuds? Check out Golden Falls® Weeping Redbud! This introduction by the JC Raulston Arboretum at North Carolina State University showcases beautiful golden yellow leaves in spring that are edged in orange. These stellar leaves will also hold their color better in the heat of summer than other yellow-leafed cultivars. This makes another true standout in any landscape as a specimen or add to the collection of any connoisseur!

Buy Carolina Sweetheart® Redbud online. 'Carolina Sweetheart' was developed by Dr. Tom Ranney at North Carolina State University. This could be the most wonderful redbud you have ever laid eyes on. Spring flowers typical to the species open first, followed by beautiful variegated leaves that are a mixture of pink, red, white, purple, and green. This color is much more heat resistant to fading than other variegated Redbuds and will make a wonderful addition in just about any home!

Buy Purple Rain Weeping Redbud online. A purple-leafed weeping redbud, 'Purple Rain' is characterized by a very vigorous and fast growth habit. Dark purple leaves are produced in spring after pink flowers have appeared. The leaves mature to purplish-dark green in summer, and fall color shows off a great bright yellow explosion of color. The weeping habit helps to provide winter interest in the landscape.

Buy Purple Vase Redbud online. Purple Vase Redbud is a tight and upright vase-shaped redbud that produces dark purple leaves in the spring, right after the tremendous showing of pink flowers. Like its cousin, Summer's Tower™ Redbud, it is also known to be a heat and drought tolerant tree. It's perfect for street plantings, or a specimen in tight spaces!

Buy Royal White Redbud online. Royal White Redbud is a more compact growing tree than the typical White Redbud. It also blooms earlier and produces abundant large flowers. The characteristic heart-shaped leaves on this small tree make it an attractive specimen or accent for landscapes.

Buy Tennessee Pink Redbud online. Also known as Pretty 'n Pink Redbud, Tennessee Pink Redbud is noteworthy due to the clear pink flowers that it produces in early spring. These flowers are produced in tight clusters all along the branches. Some consider this to be a smaller growing cultivar of Eastern Redbud.

Buy Vanilla Twist Weeping Redbud online. Vanilla Twist Weeping Redbud was created by crossing Lavender Twist™ Weeping Redbud with Royal White Redbud. It is truly a unique weeper, and will be a favorite of any collector! Featuring white flowers in early spring, followed by green leaves that cover the umbrella-shaped habit until fall.

Buy Don Egolf Miniature Redbud online. Is somewhat more compact in growth habit than 'Avondale'. When in flower, it really is a sight to behold, with its bright pink flowers so tightly packed on the stems as to obscure the bark. The floral display is all the more impressive because you'll find flowers solid from the branches all the way to the ground. The plant in full flower actually looks a lot like a pinata done in shrub form. We must not fail to mention that this variety is completely sterile, so there is no need to worry about reseeding or untidy pods hanging on all winter.

Buy Oklahoma Redbud online. Is one of the most desirable varieties of redbud. It has deep colored, wine-red blooms and rounded, glossy leaves. Grows more dense than most redbuds. Excellent for grouping.

Buy Pink Pom Poms Redbud online. Pink Pom Poms Redbud is a phenomenal development that showcases fully double, bright pink flowers that are more reminiscent of a flowering cherry than a redbud. This tree is truly remarkable, and it is long blooming and sterile.

Buy Merlot Redbud online. Is a deciduous tree that sports large rounded glossy dark purple leaves; its tight dense habit make it perfect for smaller yards. Strong, bright pink sweetpea-like blooms are borne on the bare stems in early spring.

Buy Blizzard Dwarf Hinoki False Cypress online. Blizzard Dwarf Hinoki False Cypress is a soft textured evergreen conifer that produces new growth that is creamy white at the tips of each branch, creating an awesome visual display of variegation typically not seen in conifers. As the foliage matures, it turns a smooth green color. Very slow growing, it makes an excellent specimen plant and it's a unique shrub that's a must-have for collectors and lovers of Japanese gardens.

Buy White Turtlehead online. Is a favorite North American native wildflower for shady areas. This midseason blooming perennial has white turtle head-shaped flowers late in the season.

Buy Pink Spike Bugbane online. Has dark bronze to black foliage with soft pink, bottlebrush flowers. Needs full shade in warmer climates. Great plant for the back of the border.

Buy Vanilla Spice® Summersweet online. Is a standout plant with attractive glossy, dark green leaves and extra large flowers. The individual flowers are fragrant, pure white and roughly double in size compared to typical. An excellent summer flowering shrub.

Buy Sugartina® 'Crystalina' Summersweet online. Is a short and compact growing Clethra that has fragrant, pure white flowers in late summer. It has dark glossy foliage and holds its tight, dense shape without pruning. The dark green foliage turns yellow in fall. An excellent native plant for the home landscape.

Buy Hummingbird Summersweet online. A trouble-free, attractive native shrub. Fragrant, long-lasting, white flowers are produced in July and August. Shiny dark green foliage on compact upright plants turns yellow to golden brown in fall. An excellent summer flowering shrub.

Buy Ruby Spice Summersweet online. A summer blooming compact bush. Fragrant, deep rich pink flowering selection with fragrant blooms that do not fade to white. Blooms have a cinnamon fragrance. Upright oval growth habit. Glossy dark green leaves become golden yellow in fall.

Buy Sixteen Candles Summersweet online. An improved variety of Clethra that holds flowers upright like candles on a birthday cake. Superior dense, mounded habit and larger blooms. Dark green foliage. Fragrant white flowers in mid-summer and yellow fall color. An excellent summer flowering shrub.

Buy Sweet Fern online. Don't be fooled by its name...Sweet Fern is not a fern, but rather a deciduous shrub that grows in similar locations, and having fern-like foliage. Deep green leaves appear in spring and are aromatic when crushed, hence the name "sweet". It's a great plant for understory plantings with well drained soils.