Spreading Plants

Dark purple foliage on this Japanese Maple makes it stand out from other purple cultivars.

Coral bark Japanese maple with bright red stems during the spring and winter.

Outstanding grass for use as ground cover. Deer resistant.

Great native shrub with large white flower spikes that extend above the foliage.

Great for training on a fence, arbor or walls, but also good as ground cover in shady woodland gardens.

Great choice for shady areas.  Clumping plant can add interesting texture to a planting

This new Encore Azalea has trumpet-shaped pink flowers with a lavender throat.

Crimson foliage along with a low mounding growth habit make this plant useful in any landscape.  Plant in sun for best color.

Ivory colored berries in the fall distinguish this form of American Beauty Berry. Berries persist well into winter. 

Variegated foliage along with flowers and fruit make this an unusual and interesting plant for the landscape. 

Place in a high profile location so the beautiful flower display can be enjoyed. 

This beautiful compact Camellia stays dense and semi-dwarf. It produces many double red flowers that bloom in the late fall.

This Southern Living selection has a low growth habit similiar to Shi Shi Gashira, but has a beautiful double white flower.

A white anenome-type fall flowering camellia.

Blue-green grass-like foliage that forms dense clumps.

Low growing evergreen that can tolerate dry and shade conditions.

Yellow foliage spreading plum yew that forms a nice upright vase shape.

McCorkle is a vase shaped, dense habit Plum Yew. Moderate growth rate.

Intersting texture makes this low-growing plant stand out in any planting.  

Masses of purplish-pink flowers on this native tree are spectacular and will brighten any landscape in either sun or shade.

One of the darkest purple forms of the native red bud.

Dark purple foliage that lasts into summer gives dramatic impact in the landscape.  Grows best in the sun.

Hearts of Gold has large yellow leaves throughout the summer.

Dark purple foliage that lasts into summer gives dramatic impact in the landscape.  Grows best in the sun.

This yellow leafed cultivar of the native redbud has moderate growth rate and is great as a specimen tree.

An improved gold-colored Falsecypress that retains its color and is more sun tolerant during the heat of the summer.

This dogwood has a red flower with a white center in the spring adding interest in the woodland planting.  It is a strong grower with good resistance to powdery mildew.

The most popular of the red dogwoods.  Good red flower color along with red foliage in the fall make this a good choice to add color in a woodland planting.

The best of the white dogwood cultivars.  An abundance of large white flowers distinguish this improved cultivar from seedling grown dogwoods.

The pink dogwood with its soft color stands out in the landscape and is always a favorite choice.

Small flowers against white bracts in late spring made this tree stand out in the landscape. Large red fruit adds interest in the fall.

An improved form of kousa that grows faster and is fuller at maturity.  Beautiful white flowers in late spring followed with large red fruit in fall.

Often used in mass plantings, this plant's fall color and red stems brighten the winter landscape.

Shrub dogwood with yellow branches that stand out in the winter.

Beautiful specimen tree with dark red purple leaves and showy pinkish purple floral clusters.

Grey green foliage with small densely packed leaves.

Evergreen fern with wide, glossy dark green fronds.

The new Distylium selection has improved cold hardiness. It has a compact habit and small leaves.

A great evergreen foundation shrub that produces red, witch-hazel like flowers.

A low growing Distylium that looks great in mass.

An excellent Distylium with a mounding habit. Features dark blue-green foliage and red flowers.

This hardy plant makes a great screen,, somewhat irregular in appearance but becomes an impenetrable hedge in time. Silver gray foliage and fragrant flowers are a plus for this screen plant.

This wispy grass is perfect for meadow plantings or for use in soil retention and erosion control.

This beautiful ground cover Euonymus does great in the shade.

A low-growing euonymus frequently used as a ground cover to add color to a landscape bed.