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Botanical Name     Common Name
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Cabbage 'Bravo'
Common Name: Cabbage

Outstanding field performance. Very hardy, disease resistant. Large, round cabbage heads are uniform and a beautiful blue-green color. Use close spacing (10-12") for market and wide spacing (18-24") for sauerkraut.

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Cabbage 'Early Jersey Wakefield'
Common Name: Cabbage
A nice dark-leaved conical head cabbage. Excellent flavor. Mature size approximately 7 inches....

Caladium hortulanum
Common Name: Caladium

Large showy leaves in many different colors! Striking in any shade landscape or container. Another plant that we list in the annual catagory, but is a bulb and can perennialize. There is much debate how to get your Caladiums to survive. Some garde...


Calibrachoa 'Mixed Calibrachoa'
Common Name: Mixed Calibrachoa

This bright annual comes in a wide variety of colors. Small prolific blooms add a beautiful pop to any garden or container. Great filler and spiller for combination planters. Does well in the heat and blooms all summer.

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Callitropsis leylandii
Common Name: Leyland Cypress

One of our most popular plants. Used throughout the region to acheive a quick and attractive privacy screen. In the landscape Leyland Cypress will grow about 3 feet each year which makes it a great choice for projects that need quick results. Suit...


Camellia japonica
Common Name: Camellia
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Camellia oleifera
Common Name: Camellia

Compact upright habit. Dr. William Ackerman of the U.S.D.A. hybridized camellias utilizing C. oleifera as a parent. He selected varieties which were superior from over 2,500 hybrids. They all bloom in the fall (September through December) , and re...


Camellia sasanqua
Common Name: Camellia

This tidy evergreen shrub is smaller than Japonicas and blooms in the fall. They are slightly more sun tolerant but also slightly less cold tolerant. They should be protected from cold winds that can nip the buds.

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Cantaloupe 'Hale's Best Jumbo'
Common Name: Hale's Best Jumbo Cantaloupe
Heavy netting round fruit with deep orange flesh that is very tasty. Fruits usually bear to be about 4-4.5 lbs each....

Carex oshimensis ''Evergold''
Common Name: Japanese Sedge

This evergreen sedge is prized for its cascading habit and striking varigation. 

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Carpinus Caroliniana
Common Name: American Hornbeam

The American Hornbeam can grow wider than it is tall. It can be multi trunked with the trunks reaching 1' each. Small leaves grow parallel to each other on the branch and have many small veins through the leaf. Gets unique catkin flowers in the sp...


Catharanthus roseus
Common Name: Vinca

Large overlapping flower petals in a mixture of colores and upright, dark green-leafed plants that branch early. Vinca is the best landscape choice for North Carolina's hot dry summers. We usually have vinca ready between the last week in April an...


Celosia
Common Name: Celosia
Rich green foliage that is covered with bright mixture of colorful plumosa-feather type flowers. Excellent garden performers in full sun to partial shade that will bloom the entire summer....

Cephalotaxus harringtonia
Common Name: Japanese Plum Yew

This is an easy to grow evergreen that is popular to grow in the lanscape due to its compact size and attractive foliage.

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Cercis Canadensis
Common Name: Forest Pansy Redbud

Redbuds are one of the first plants to bloom in spring. The Forest Pansy has a darker purple bloom than other redbuds. Leaves appear after the blooms. Leaves have a true heart shape and nice purple/green color.

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Chaenomeles speciosa
Common Name: Quince

This thorny shrub flowers beautiful peach or red clusters of flowers down its branches from March to April. Also produces fruit that is inedible unless it is used in preserves. This is a tough and easy to grow shrub that is related to roses. Can g...


Chamaecyparis pisifera
Common Name: Gold Cypress
This plant tolerates some drought and a little salt and will grow in dry soil. Suitable soil is well-drained/loamy, sandy or clay. The pH preference is an acidic to slightly alkaline (less than 6.8 to 7.7) soil. Gold Mop Cypress should be grown in ...

Chrysanthemum 'Orange/Bronze'
Common Name: Orange/Bronze Garden Mum

Perennial garden mum with orange/bronze flowers.

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Chrysanthemum 'Purple'
Common Name: Purple Garden Mum

Perennial garden mum ranging in shades from purple to lavender

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Chrysanthemum 'Red'
Common Name: Red Garden Mum

Perennial garden mum with red flowers.


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Chrysanthemum 'White'
Common Name: White Garden Mum

Perennial garden mum with white blooms.

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Chrysanthemum 'Yellow'
Common Name: Yellow Garden Mum

Perennial garden mum with yellow blooms.

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Coleus 'Mix'
Common Name: Mixed Shade Loving Coleus
Coleus is one of the most colorful plants you can grow in a shade garden. Wonderful selection for a child's garden because of all of the foliage color & interest. Do not confuse with the ones we grow in 4" pots that are for the sun. In the landsca...

Coleus Sunlover
Common Name: Sunlover

Sun loving coleus with beautifully vibrant foliage in many different colors. Great in combinations or standalone.

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Collards
Common Name: Collards

A southern staple. Carolina collards are less bitter than other varieties and have a slightly thinner leaf. 

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Colocasia antiquorum 'Illustris'
Common Name: Illustris Elephant Ear
Talk about a conversation piece. This colocasia has intense colors, dark plum leaves that appear black with bright lime green veins that turn darker with age. The leaf grows on dark burgundy-black stems. It has an 6' spread at a mature size. Loo...

Colocasia esculenta 'Black Magic'
Common Name: Black Magic Elephant Ear
This colocasia has intense colors, dark plum leaves that appear black. The leaf grows on dark burgundy-black stems. It has an 8' spread at a mature size. Black Magic grows well on water banks and in boggy areas. Looks stunning when paired with Ip...

Compliments 'Poly Pot Covers'
Common Name: Poly Pot Covers
Available in green or gold....

Coreopsis
Common Name: Coreopsis

Coreopsis is the toughest, most durable perennial available! This neat, low-growing plant becomes a cheerful mass of yellow flowers from late spring to summer. Conmpact habit is perfect for rock gardens and border edges. Also makes a good small sc...


Coriandrum savitum
Common Name: Coriander (Cilantro)
Pungent leaves used fresh or dried in Mexican and Asian cuisine. Leaves are known as cilantro....

Corn 'White'
Common Name: White Corn
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Corn 'Yellow'
Common Name: Yellow Corn
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Cornus florida
Common Name: Flowering Dogwood
Dogwood is a standard tree in many gardens where it is used by the patio for light shade, in the shrub border to add spring and fall color or as a specimen in the lawn or groundcover bed. It can be grown in sun or shade but shaded trees will be less ...

Cornus kousa
Common Name: Kousa Dogwood
Growth is best on moist, loamy, well-drained soil with mulch or leaf litter accumulated over the roots. Kousa Dogwood is not particularly drought- or heat-tolerant, requiring irrigation during drought periods in summer. Sensitive to reflected heat s...

Cosmos 'Mix (Lilac, Red, Pink, White)'
Common Name: Sonata Mix

Stocky plants with hugh flowers on a dwarf, upright plant.  This mixed variety includes lilac, red, pink and white colors.

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Cryptomeria Japonica
Common Name: Japanese Cedar
This plant tolerates drought and will grow in very dry soil. Suitable soil is well-drained/loamy, sandy or clay. The pH preference is an acidic to slightly alkaline (less than 6.8 to 7.7) soil. This is one of the nicest cultivars with medium green fo...

Cryptomeria japonica Globosa Nana 'Globosa Nana'
Common Name: Globosa Nana Japenese Cedar
This plant tolerates drought and will grow in very dry soil. Suitable soil is well-drained/loamy, sandy or clay. The pH preference is an acidic to slightly alkaline (less than 6.8 to 7.7) soil. Provide an acid soil and protection from winter winds. ...

Cucumber 'Burpless'
Common Name: Burpless Cucumber
Dark green fruit with sweet bitterfree skin. 10-12" long. Resistant to downy and powdery mildew and mosaic. Produces both male and female flowers separately on the same plant....

Cucumber 'Bush Pickle'
Common Name: Bush Cucumber
Ideal pickling type for space-saving gardens and containers. 4-5" slightly tapered fruit. Produces both male and female flowers separatley on the same plant....

Cucumber 'Pickling'
Common Name: Pickling Cucumber
8-9" long slicing cucumber that is ideal for pickling slices. Vigorous for home gardens with dark green skin....
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