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• Enter any botanic/scientific, common, variety/cultivar, or plant/item type, in full or any part, like:  Cham. or Chamaecyparis or Hinoki, Thuja or Arbor, Emerald, kousa, Foster, Parsoni, Cypress, Iris, Stella, Patriot, Pin, October, Rug, Adagio, Husker; multistem/multi/mlt = cultivated, (multistem,multi)/(mlt) =natural, clump/clp, shrubform/shr, treeform/tfm, variegated/vrg, weeping/wpg, topiary/top, spiral/spl, pom pom/pom, poodle/pdl, tiered/trd, espalier /esp,  standard/std, staked/stk, trellis/trl, sod, turf, fern, bamboo, cycad, palm, vine, aquatic, conifer, grass, fruiting, wildflower etc..
   

• If you are looking for a specific variety, be BRIEF and UNIQUE:  enter powis (instead of Artemesia 'Powis Castle', or enter spartan (instead of Juniper chinensis 'Spartan').  Your entry must fit the database entry EXACTLY (but NOT completely), so search ONLY for what you are looking for to avoid discrepancies with what is in the database.  The search tool will look for ONLY and EXACTLY for what you have entered, so keep your entry to the bare ESSENTIAL.   You can always look (and/or copy-paste) at the full variety names on the Varieties page to see full names as they appear in the database.  Alternatively, you can look for ALL Artemesia by entering artemesia or all juniper by entering juniperus.  Also, visit the Searching - Search Tips page.
   

• Abbreviations- Where space allows, full words are used.  Otherwise the following is used-white=wht, black=blk, yellow=ylw, purple=prp, orange=org, salmon=slm, pink=pnk,aquatic=aqt, wetland/bog=wet, xeriscape (dry conditions)-xrc, clump=clp, multistem=mlt  
   

• Deference is given to widely acknowledged and published sources (Dirr, Armitage, etc), although when not available from these sources, growers and other listed sources are used.  Conflicting details and information about plants do occur as a result.
   

• Some names may be separated or joined (Bluebird versus Blue Bird)
   

• Press your F11 key for full screen view, press F11 again to return to normal.
   

• Enter what is BRIEFest- and UNIQUE (Moudry, Lynwood etc.) for specific results, OR BRIEFest and GENERAL term (oak, quercus, grass etc.) for broad results.  Revise, expand or narrow your search depending on results obtained versus desired.  
   

• Empty results?  Check spelling variations, spacing or use another (briefest and unique) part of the name.  Or try a broader term, then focus in, based on what you see from from those results.  Whatever you enter must exactly match with what is in the database, so be brief and try different versions/parts of the name to get a result.  Therefore, the less you enter = the more chances to get some match.
   

• Click All to see those plants in all areas, or- 
   

• click Carolinas to see North & South Carolina;
   

• click East to see W.Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania; 
   

• click New England to see New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine; 
   

• click Midwest to see Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota; 
   

• click South to see Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida; 
   

• click Oregon; or click West to see states TX-OK-KS-NB-SD-ND >>> west.
   

• The search results will show all listed plants with those letters/word included. You can sort the results (point and click on Plant Name, Nursery, Town, County, Zip, Area, State, size).  Then if you like, from those results, refine or expand your search by entering more specific or more general word/letters to search again, then sort those results.  Where provided, plant size/description is at maturity, or designated "per nursery".  
   

• Stock/Sizes are indicated by either a specific size/type (3 gallon, Bare Root, Liner, Pot/Quart, etc) OR by a range (1-7 gal, 1-4in. B&B, 5-10ft. B&B, etc).  If a range is given, not all sizes in that range are offered, but one or more are.  The grower might also have other stock of that plant not listed.
   

• This website has a directory of growers and nurseries with ball and burlap, field grown, container, bare root, liners and landscape stocks of trees, shrubs, groundcovers, woodies. perennials, conifers, palms, ferns, vines, grasses and aquatics and can serve as a buyers guide or locator for landscape architects, designers, builders, management, turf, growers, nurseries, and garden centers as well as government, education, extension and other green industry professionals looking for evergreen, deciduous, herbaceous, tropical, topiary, turf, cycad, wetland, xeriscape, broadleaf, bamboo, cactus, wildflower and native plant material. 
   

• No prices are shown or available unless by a grower's advertising.
   

• Use the Varieties and Collections pages to find and copy / paste the best/unique words for searching.
   

• Use the Picosearch box at top  center to find plant names and grower names on the site.  This does not match names with growers, it will only find the names searched for

 search results examples

 search results for "Hotshot" (Rose) in New England, sorted by state

 search results for "Zygocactus" nationwide

Search results for "Edward Gaucher" (Abelia) in the Midwest, sorted by state-