Plant Collections
Its plant collections now include over 5,000 total taxa of annuals, perennials, bulbs, vines, ground covers, shrubs, and trees, with significant collections of:
- Acer (maple)
- Aesculus (buckeye)
- Berberis (barberry)
- Buxus (boxwood)
- Cercis (redbud)
- Conifers
- Ilex (holly)
- Magnolia (magnolia)
- Mahonia (grapeholly)
- Nandina (heavenly bamboo)
- Quercus (oak)
- Styracaceae (silverbell family)
- Viburnum
- Wisteria
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