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Woodlanders Woodlanders is a mail-order purveyor of rare plants sourced from down the street and across the world.

10/13/2026

Native Plant Open House! Saturday, October 24, 9am to 2pm, with the South Carolina Native Plant Society.

925 Park Ave SE, Aiken, right across the train tracks from the farmers market. Come for the market, leave with a tree that was here before any of us!

This one is all natives, nothing else on the benches. Shrubs and trees, flowering perennials, a few things that only grow in a handful of counties and happen to be ours. The Native Plant Society folks will be on hand to talk you through what goes where, which is more help than we usually get at the register. Fall does the work for you: cool air up top, roots busy underground, everything settling in all winter while you sit inside doing nothing.

Bring a wagon. Bring a friend with a truck. Bring restraint, or don’t!

See you the 24th!

These are the grandchildren of a legend.The Wye Oak of Wye Mills, Maryland, was the greatest white oak in the country. T...
10/13/2026

These are the grandchildren of a legend.

The Wye Oak of Wye Mills, Maryland, was the greatest white oak in the country. The tree stood for more than four hundred and sixty years, served as Maryland's state tree, and finally came down in a storm in 2002. Quercus alba 'Grandchildren of Wye Oak' are seedling-grown descendants of that tree.

White oak is the grandfather of the eastern forest: pale flaky bark, deeply lobed blue-green leaves turning russet and wine-red about now, and acorns sweet enough that Native peoples across the East gathered, leached and ground them into meal. Deer, turkeys, squirrels and jays still count on them every fall.

A small tree in a one-gallon pot is the right way to plant an oak. The roots settle undisturbed, and within a few years the little tree has caught up to anything planted big. Choose the spot with care, since a white oak resents being moved once settled, and plant for the century rather than the season.

21 in stock at woodlanders.net.

A citrus with a Georgia birth certificate.The Thomasville citrangequat was raised in 1909 by Walter T. Swingle, the USDA...
10/10/2026

A citrus with a Georgia birth certificate.

The Thomasville citrangequat was raised in 1909 by Walter T. Swingle, the USDA's great citrus breeder, and first fruited in Thomasville, Georgia. A three-way cross: the Willits citrange (sweet orange by trifoliate orange) crossed again with the Nagami kumquat. What came out is one of the most cold-hardy edible citrus a gardener can plant, shrugging off cold down near ten degrees.

Fragrant white blossom in spring, then egg-shaped fruit, yellow to orange, ripening from January into April. Tart and tangy picked young, mellowing to a kumquat-like flavor when fully ripe, somewhat seedy, and wonderful in a marmalade. The branches carry thorns, so set the tree a step back from the path.

By federal citrus quarantine, we cannot ship citrus to Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, or Texas.

19 in stock at woodlanders.net.

Threadleaf bluestar spends spring in powder blue and October in gold.Amsonia hubrichtii is grown for two seasons at once...
10/08/2026

Threadleaf bluestar spends spring in powder blue and October in gold.

Amsonia hubrichtii is grown for two seasons at once. In late spring, clusters of soft blue stars over a billow of needle-fine foliage. Then, right about now, the whole clump turns a clear glowing yellow that holds for weeks and catches low autumn light like nothing else in the border. Native to the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas, and we believe Woodlanders first offered the plant to gardeners well before the Perennial Plant Association named the species Perennial Plant of the Year in 2011.

Milky sap in every stem means deer and rabbits leave the foliage alone. Give full sun for the strongest fall color, and room to swell into a soft three-foot mound beside late asters and grasses. Cut to the ground in late winter and the plant comes back without fuss, year after year.

40 in stock at woodlanders.net.

Most asters have quit by now. Tatarian aster is only getting started.Aster tataricus opens in late September and keeps g...
10/06/2026

Most asters have quit by now. Tatarian aster is only getting started.

Aster tataricus opens in late September and keeps going into November, lavender-blue flowers with a yellow eye, massed in flat clusters on stems five or six feet tall that never seem to need a stake. At that height the bloom reads as a haze at eye level rather than a mound down at your knees. Monarchs staging for the trip south work the flowers hard.

A true aster, too, one of the few left after the botanists moved nearly all the North American species into Symphyotrichum. The Old World plants kept the name. This one is native to Siberia, Mongolia, northern China, Korea and Japan, and our stock came to us from the JC Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh.

One honest note: in rich, moist ground the plant runs by rhizome and will build a colony in a few years. Give room, or divide every three or four.

Only 8 left at woodlanders.net.

Tomorrow morning the sign goes out and the gate swings open, and honestly, this is our favorite day of the season.Join u...
10/02/2026

Tomorrow morning the sign goes out and the gate swings open, and honestly, this is our favorite day of the season.

Join us Saturday, October 3rd, from 9 AM to 2 PM at 925 Park Avenue SE in Aiken for the Woodlanders fall sale. Azaleas, berries, trees, edibles, shrubs, citrus, and a good many treasures you won't see anywhere else. Fall really is the loveliest time to plant here in the South. The roots settle in and get cozy all winter while the tops rest, and come spring they take off.

Our three can't-ship plants will be there too, Conradina verticillata, Spiraea virginiana and Hibiscus dasycalyx, in small numbers, so come early if one of them is on your list.

(And yes, our chalkboard is missing a c. We love the sign anyway.)

See you in the morning, friends.

10/02/2026

To our Georgia and South Carolina neighbors — we’re opening our gates this Saturday!! October 3 from 9am to 2pm, we will be hosting a fall plant sale at the nursery. And this time we’ll have a whole new collection of citrus!! As a mail order nursery, we don’t often open up to the public so when we do, we make sure it’s a fabulous time. We hope to see you at the nursery. 925 Park Ave SE, Aiken SC 29801

Additional upcoming dates: October 24, November 7 & 21

10/01/2026

To our Georgia and South Carolina neighbors: we’re opening our gates this Saturday!! October 3 from 9am to 2pm, we will be hosting a fall open house at the nursery. And this time we’ll have a whole new collection of citrus!! As a mail order nursery, we don’t often open up to the public so when we do, we make sure it’s a fabulous time. We hope to see you at the nursery. 925 Park Ave SE, Aiken SC 29801

Additional upcoming dates: October 24, November 7 & 21

Pomegranates are supposed to be garnet red, but 'Eight Ball' had other plans, and we adore the result.Punica granatum 'E...
10/01/2026

Pomegranates are supposed to be garnet red, but 'Eight Ball' had other plans, and we adore the result.

Punica granatum 'Eight Ball' ripens round fruit so deeply colored they look nearly black, about two and a half inches across, like something that just rolled off a pool table. Tony Avent found the seedling in 1986 at Plant Delights, in a batch of pomegranates that had made it through a nine-below-zero winter with hardly a scratch, and introduced the plant in 1997. The color runs so deep that even the tissue just under the bark shows purple.

Bright orange flowers arrive in summer, then the fruit darkens slowly through fall, a real conversation piece in the garden. Give full sun, sharp drainage, and room for a deciduous shrub of about eight feet. Deer mostly leave pomegranates alone, which is always a small mercy.

One gentle note: 'Eight Ball' is grown more for the wonder than the dessert, since the arils are fewer and paler than a grocery-store pomegranate. But oh, what a sight on the branch.

14 in stock at woodlanders.net.

From up here the nursery looks almost tidy. Down on the ground it's row after row of plants we've been tending all year,...
09/29/2026

From up here the nursery looks almost tidy. Down on the ground it's row after row of plants we've been tending all year, and on Saturday, October 3rd, we'd love for you to come walk through them with us.

Our fall retail sale day runs 9 AM to 2 PM at 925 Park Avenue SE in Aiken. Explore a hand selected variety of our best plants, ask the crew anything (they grew every one of these plants and could happily talk about them all afternoon), and take home something you won't find anywhere else nearby. Shrubs, trees, natives, citrus, edibles, and plenty of the rare and the wonderful.

A few plants can only go home with you in person, too. Conradina verticillata, Spiraea virginiana and Hibiscus dasycalyx are protected, so we can't ship them, and sale day is your chance.

Come early, bring a friend, and leave some room in the car. We can't wait to see you.

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925 Park Avenue SE
Aiken, SC
29801

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