Ilex verticillata 'Maryland Beauty' 25/6 Restock and whose six-inch panicles of

and whose six-inch panicles of tubular scarlet-red flowers open in spring just as the ruby-throated hummingbirds return north

Camellia honors Georg Joseph Kamel

On female plants the flowers give way to clusters of raisin-sized

just as the previous year's fruit ripens to warty

Sweetbay is one of the very few magnolias that thrive in wet

Ilex verticillata 'Maryland Beauty' 25/6 Restock and whose six-inch panicles ofIlex verticillata 'Maryland Beauty' is winterberry doing what winterberry does best, and a little more of it. This native deciduous holly loses the leaves in fall to reveal bare gray stems packed with fruit, and 'Maryland Beauty' was singled out from the northern strain for an especially heavy crop of bright red berries, a dense, glowing display that holds through the winter. Where many winterberries grow tall and upright, 'Maryland Beauty' stays low