Openly branching shrub or tree with a rather coarse texture. Should be grown in a large garden. Bark is smooth and gray-brown, with yellowish twigs. The terminal buds have a covering of fine white hairs. Large leaves 4-18 inches long […]

Vigorous, rounded deciduous shrub with egg-shaped mid-green leaves to 6 inches long. In midspring it bears large cup-shaped flowers to 8 inches across up to 19 petals in a purple-red outside and white inside.

Evergreen tree reaching 60 feet in height, with a 3 foot trunk diameter. Bark is light gray, with slender branchlets. Leaves are glossy green, leathery above, pale green below. Flowers are reported as creamy yellow and fragrant, but has not […]

This flowering shrub matures to a height of about 30 feet tall with a width that is slightly less, yeilding an overall, rounded form. Fragrant flowers open anywhere from March to April and are reportedly some of the prettiest of […]

This flowering shrub matures to a height of about 30 feet tall with a width that is slightly less, yeilding an overall, rounded form. Fragrant flowers open anywhere from March to April and are reportedly some of the prettiest of […]

Cross between M.liliiflora and M.kobus var. stellata. A compact growth habit and red-purple flowers, inside and out, 5 inches wide. Later flowering than typical, producing a good spring display. Bloom sporadically in the summer. An erect deciduous shrub reaching 7-15 […]

Deciduous, compact shrub with dark green foliage and dark purple-red flowers. Grows 8 to 12 feet. Foliage tends to look shabby by midsummer, turning blotchy and brown. A parent of many more popular hybrids and clutivars.

White flower with firm tepals, drooping only as the blooms fade. An open pollinated seedling of ‘Ballerina’. Registered 1988. Large shrubs or small trees, with pink or white flowers, 11-16 narrow tepals. It is a hybrid that is not found […]

Large white flowers, numerous tepals. Listed by Hillier Nurseries, England, 1972. Deciduous shrubs, reaching 5-15 feet tall with rough brown or silvery gray bark. Twigs are greeny-yellow. Terminal buds are covered with silvery hairs. Leaves are smooth and dark green […]

White flowers, 4-6 inches across, with narrow tepals. A fast growing tree with a rounded canopy. Large shrubs or small trees, with pink or white flowers, 11-16 narrow tepals. It is a hybrid that is not found in the wild. […]