Peirce’s Woods, Longwood Gardens
This seven-acre area has been developed as an "art form" garden that brings together the most ornamental characteristics of the eastern deciduous forest. Under the high branches of oak, ash, maple and tulip trees, sweeps of native shrubs and native ground cover plantings carpet the woodland floor, punctuated by flowering understory trees. Various "rooms" have been created within the woods, with emphasis on native deciduous azaleas blooming from early spring to summer. The concept of using native plants to create the woodland garden as an art form is one of the first such projects in any public garden.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Pachysandra procumbens | Allegheny Spurge Mountain Spurge | |
Physocarpus opulifolius | Common Ninebark Atlantic Ninebark | |
Quercus alba | White Oak Northern White Oak Eastern White Oak Stave Oak Ridge White Oak Forked-leaf White Oak | |
Quercus bicolor | Swamp White Oak | |
Quercus phellos | Willow Oak Swamp Willow Oak Pin Oak Peach Oak | |
Quercus velutina | Black Oak Quercitron Oak Yellow Oak Smoothbark Oak Yellowbark Oak | |
Rhododendron flammeum | Piedmont Azalea Oconee Azalea | |
Rhynchospora latifolia | Sand-swamp Whitetop Sedge Tall Whitetop Sedge Whitetop Sedge Sand-swamp Whitetop Tall Whitetop Whitetop Colorful Rush | |
Sanguisorba canadensis | Canadian Burnet American Burnet | |
Sarracenia flava | Yellow Pitcherplant Trumpets Yellow Pitcher Plant | |
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