Pleasant Run Nursery Plant Catalog

Taxodium ascendens Debonair® ('Morris)

Pondcypress

Taxodium ascendens Debonair® has delicate ferny foliage and a very perfect upright habit. This deciduous conifer was introduced by Earl Cully and the Morris Arboretum. It is wet site tolerant.

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Taxodium ascendens 'Nutans'

Pondcypress

Taxodium ascendens 'Nutans' has short, horizontal branching with pendulous, delicate fern-like foliage. Upright and narrow habit, very unusual and showy in the landscape. A deciduous conifer with beautiful orange-buff Fall color. It is wet site tolerant.

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Taxodium distichum 'Fallingwater'

Bald Cypress

Taxodium distichum 'Fallingwater' is a European selection of a very rare deciduous weeping conifer, brought back from Italy by Harald Neubauer of Hidden Hollow Nursery in Tennessee. What he likes about this weeping form is that it keeps maintaining a leader on its own, instead of needing constant coaxing. It is also salt and wet site tolerant.

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Taxodium distichum 'Peve Minaret'

Bald Cypress

Taxodium distichum 'Peve Minaret' is a tight, compact form of our native Baldcypress with interesting dense, fern-like foliage which turns orange-brown in the Fall. A rare deciduous conifer, perfect for smaller gardens or tight spaces. It is also salt and wet site tolerant.

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Taxodium distichum Shawnee Brave®

Bald Cypress

Taxodium distichum Shawnee Brave® is a beautiful deciduous conifer, with soft green foliage in Spring and Summer. The leaves turn an attractive, reddish-tan in Fall before dropping. Form is very attractive in Winter because of its extreme regularity and perfect straight trunk. Extremely tolerant of salt and wet sites, also makes an excellent narrow street tree. An Earl Cully introduction.

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Taxus baccata 'Repandens'

Yew - Spreading English Yew

Taxus baccata 'Repandens' is the most cold tolerant of the baccata Yews, and a wonderful evergreen for shade. An alternate in deer country would be Cephalotaxus harringtonia 'Prostrata'.

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Taxus x media 'Densiformis'

Yew - Dense Anglojap Yew

Taxus x media 'Densiformis' is the classic short-needled evergreen for short hedges, but a waste of time in deer country. An alternate choice would be Cephalotaxus harringtonia var. drupacea.

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Taxus x media 'Hicksii'

Yew - Hicks Anglojap Yew

Taxus x media 'Hicksii' is a beautiful columnar short-needled evergreen for tall, formal hedges, but not worth the effort if not protected from deer. An alternative choice is Cephalotaxus harringtonia 'Fastigiata'. Found on Long Island by the late Henry Hicks.

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Teucrium chamadrys

Germander

Teucrium chamadrys is an evergreen shrub-like plant with small shiny green scalloped leaves. It flowers in late Summer with short spikes of rose-purple which are attractive to insects. It can be made into a short hedge in a formal garden setting because it takes trimming very well. Prefers a dry site.

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Thalictrum rochebrunianum

Meadow Rue

Thalictrum rochebrunianum has tall, showy lavender and yellow flowers in June and July. It needs a moist site, and looks like an enormous Columbine.

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Thalictrum sp. 'Black Stockings'

Meadow Rue

The fluffy lavender flowers of Thalictrum sp. 'Black Stockings' appear in June and July and are held in flat racemes on 6' dark purple stems. Clean green foliage, like a giant Aquilegia.

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Thuja occidentalis 'Emerald' ('Smaragd')

Arborvitae - Eastern or White Cedar

Thuja occidentalis 'Emerald' is the Arborvitae most people know with bright green, neat foliage and a very columnar form. 'Emerald' maintains its color well in Winter and is useful in narrow, restricted locations. Often called 'Emerald Green' in the industry, 'Emerald' is a selection that came back to the US from Denmark.

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Thuja occidentalis 'Emerald' ('Smaragd')

Thuja x 'Green Giant'

Arborvitae

Thuja x 'Green Giant' is probably a cross between T. plicata and T. standishii, with an excellent habit and rate of growth. Makes a tight, uniform evergreen hedge in record time. Becomes a broad pyramid when it has the space. It is also salt tolerant. P.H.S. Gold Medal Plant.

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Thymus praecox 'Coccineus'

Thyme - Creeping

Thymus praecox 'Coccineus' forms a dark green evergreen mat that becomes covered with fuchsia-pink flowers in early Summer, Fall foliage is an attractive bronze. Great for stepping stone areas, and it prefers dry sites.

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Thymus pseudolanuginosus

Thyme - Wooly

Wooly Thyme has tiny grayish-green leaves that look like they're covered with soft silky fur. Insignificant pink flowers are of use to honeybees, but the mat-forming foliage is what makes this groundcover work well in paths and rock gardens. Needs a sunny well-drained site.

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Tiarella cordifolia 'Running Tapestry'

Foamflower

Tiarella cordifolia 'Running Tapestry' has white flowers in Spring over bronze speckled foliage. It is a running form, and a Jim Plyler (Mr. Native Plant) find in PA.

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Tiarella cordifolia 'Running Tapestry'- See Perennials

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Tiarella x 'Candy Striper'

Foamflower

The pinkish-white flowers of Tiarella x 'Candy Striper' appear over deeply incised green leaves with dark maroon stripes down the center of each lobe. A winner from Terra Nova.

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Tiarella x 'Iron Butterfly'

Foamflower

Tiarella x 'Iron Butterfly' has white flowers for an extended time in Spring and Summer, over green leaves with striking purple-black markings. Clump form rather than running.

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Tiarella x 'Jeepers Creepers'

Foamflower

White flowers are produced for a long time in Spring and Summer, and it has purple-black markings on shiny cut green foliage. Tiarella x 'Jeepers Creepers' is a creeping form; a Terra Nova introduction.

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Tiarella x 'Pink Skyrocket'

Foamflower

Tiarella x 'Pink Skyrocket' has pink flowers in Spring and Summer over green foliage. It is a clump form which blooms for a long time, a Terra Nova introduction.

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Tibouchina lepidota 'Ecuador Princess'

Princess Flower

Tibouchina lepidota 'Ecuador Princess' has magenta-purple flowers starting in June which cover the small shrub all Summer and well into the Fall. John Story of Meadowbrook Farm told us that this was much showier and more compact than T. urvilleana, and he was so right.

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Tradescantia x 'Sweet Kate'

Spiderwort

Tradescantia x 'Sweet Kate' has blue flowers starting in June and continuing almost all Summer over yellow-gold foliage. This Spiderwort is still showy in our garden even in October. Does best in shade and likes moist conditions.

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