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Elkourie House

1929

 

Plant List
April 2026

Owners: Jeanne Jackson and Mark Lester

 

Original Garden Design:  Mary Zahl Designs

 

Landscape Work:  Will Newton, Landscape Services, Inc.

 

Screen Porch:  John Carraway, Architect; McGuire Construction Co.

North (Bonita Drive)

            Beds on either side of front door

  • Hydrangea quercifolia  (oakleaf hydrangea)

  • Cornus kousa  (“Kousa” dogwood)

  • Clematis armandii (“Armand Clematis”)

  • Quercus sharmardii (Shumark oak tree from seedling grown by Doug Unkenholtz, 1998)

  • Dryopteris erythrosorac  (autumn fern)

  • Buxom sempervirens (common boxwood)

 

Lamppost bed

  • Gaura lindheimeri (gaura “Belleza White” and “Whirling Butterflies”)

  • Lantana camera (lantana “Sundance White”)

  • Farinacea  (saliva “Victoria Blue” and “Blue by You”)

 

West (La Prado Drive)

            Bed fronting open porch

  • Hydrangeaceae (hydrangea “Sister Therese” and “White Wedding”)

  • Gardenia jasminoides (gardenia “White Gem”)

  • Variegated career (sedge)

  • Asarum canadense (wild ginger)

  • Crataegus (Hawthorne bush)

 

Pot - Paeonia lactiflora (“Sarah Bernhardt” peonies)

 

(house side)

  • Edgeworthia papyrifera (paper bush)

  • Lemon Balm

 

2 pots by porch steps - Camellia sasanqua “Yuletide”

Bed under kitchen window

  • Viburnum Nantucket (“Nantucket” viburnum)

  • Cyrtomium falcatum (holly ferns)

  • Viburnum awabuki

 

Pots siding screened porch steps

  • Pieris japonica (“Temple Bells” japonica)

  • Parrotia Persica

 

Bed bordering screened porch

  • Cephalotaxus harringtonia “Prostrata” (spreading Japanese plum yews)

  • Polygonatum (Solomon seal)

  • Cyrtomium falcatuim (holly fern)

 

Bed fronting screened porch (LaPrado side)

     (near porch)

  • Carex evergold (carex)

  • Cornus kousa (“Kousa” dogwood)

  • Geranium maculation (wild geranium or wild cranesbill)

  • Isopyrum biternatum (false rue anemone)

  • Thalicitrum thalictroides (rue anemone)

  • Polygonatum Variegatum (varigated Solomon seal and Solomon’s seal)

  • Epimedium (fairy wings)

  • Kalimeris Pinn. Hortensie (Mongolian aster)

  • Asteraceae divaricata (White wood aster)

 

(center)

  • Pittosporum tabira (Japanese pittosporum)

  • Halesia carolina (Carolina silverbell tree)

  • Dicentra spectabilis (bleeding heart“Alba”)

  • Astilbe chinensis (Chinese astilbe “Vision in White”)

  • Aquilegia (Colorado columbine)

  • Allium hollandicaum (“Purple Sensation”)

  • Phlox divaricata (wild blue flocks and “Mary Zahl” flocks)

  • Fatsia japonica (fatsia)

  • Anthyrium (ghost fern)

  • Athyrium nipponicum (Japanese painted fern “Pictum")

  • Polystihum acrostichoides (Christmas fern)

  • Lysimachia nummularia (creeping Jenny, moneywort)

  • Maresii (Varigated Hydrangea “sargent”)

  • Miscanthus sinensis (Miscanthus “Maiden Grass”)

  • Helleborus orientalis - Hugge “Sven”

 

 

 

 

Bed bordering white street fence

  • Helleborus arqutifolius (Coriscan Hellebore/Lenten roses)

  • Helleborus “Dark and Handsome”

  • Helleborus “Blushing Bridesmaid”

  • Callicarpa (beautyberry)

  • Aspidistra (iron plant)

  • Hosta (blue elegans”)

  • Hosta (“fandance” and lemon lime)

  • Lonicera sempervirens (trumpet honeysuckle) on fence

  • Cornus amomum (silky dogwood)

 

  •  Anthyrium engustum forma rubellun (“Lady in Red” fern)

  • Polystichum tsus-simense (Korean rock fern)

  • Thelypteris recursive (Japanese beech fern)

  •  Dryopteris cycadian (shaggy wood fern)

  • Thelypteris kunthii (Southern shield fern)

  • Polystichum polyblelpharum (Japanese tassel fern)

  • Dryopteris tokyensis (Tokyo wood fern)

  • Matteuccia struthiopteris King Ostrich Fern

  • Cystopteris Protrusa (fragile fern)

 

  • Asteraceae Divaricata (White wood aster)

  • Baptista alba (White false indigo)

  • Porteranthus stipulata (American ipecac)

  •  Pycnanthemum muticum (Blunt Mountain mint)

  • Arum italicum (Italian arum)

  • Crataegus viridis (2 green hawthorn trees “Winter King”)

 

Bed with bronze birdbath

  • Iris tectorum (white “Japanese roof” iris)

  • Hosta “Guacamole”

  • Hosta “Sum and Substance”

  • Hosta “Sum of all”

  • Anemone hupehbensis (Japanese anemone - pink

  • Symphyotrichum cordifolium (blue wood aster)

 

  • Dryopteris erythrosora (autumn fern)

  • Polystichum polyblepharum (Japanese tassel fern)

  • Epimeidian

 

  • Coriscan hellebore (Lenten roses)

  • Amelanchier (serviceberry tree)

  • Camellia japonica ( japonica “White by the Gate”)

  • Tiarella cordifodia (foam flower “Laird of Skye”)

  • Tiarella (foam flower “Fancy Trails”)

  • Tiarella (foam flower) “Appalachian Trail”)

  • Tiarella (“Sugar and Spice”

  • Heuchera villas (Giant Alumroot)

  • Heuchera “Timeless Glow”

  • Lysimachia (Creeping Jenny)

 

 

South (back fence)

Bed bordering back fence

  • Cleyera japonica

  • Rhododendron (azelea - white)

  • Cercis (redbud - “Alba” with white flowers)

  • Osmanthus fragrant (tea olive)

  • Fatsia japonica (fatsia)

  • Dryopteris erythrosora (autumn fern)

  • Thelypteris kunthii (Southern shield fern)

  • Hydrangea arborescent “Annabelle”

  • Leucothoe populifolia (Florida leucothoe)

  • Aesculus parviflora (Bottlebrush buckeye)

  • Acuba japonica (variegated acuba)

  • Tradescantia hirsuticaulis (hairy spiderwort)

  • Aspidistra elation (Cast-iron plant)

  • Polygonatum (Solomon seal)

 

Bed fronting play house:

  • 2 pots of Fatsia japonica by bench - Japanese aralia (“spider web”)

  • Hydrangea arborescent “Annabelle”

  • Cornus augustata (“Empress of China” evergreen dogwood)

  • Camellia sasanqua hiemalis (shishi gashira camellia)

  • Iris cristata  (“powder blue giant”)

  • Gardenia radicans (“Award creeping gardenia”)

  • Blephilia subnuda (“Cumberland Pagoda”)

 

(left of back steps)

  • Rhododendro alabamenese - Alabama wild azelea pink

  • Rhododendro arborescens - sweet azalea(native white azalea/Cumberland)

 

Bed fronting screened porch

  • Hydrangea quercifolia (oakleaf hydrangea)

  • Coriscan Hellebore (Lenten roses)

  • Thalictrum pubesceus  (meadow rue)

  • Daphne odora ( 3 “Marginata”)

  • Cornus florida (dogwood)

  • Polygonatum (Variegatum solomon seal and solomon’s seal)

  • Heucherella ( “Alabama Sunrise”)

  • Heucherall  (“Solar Eclipse”)

  • Heuchera americana (Amer. Alumroot)

 

  • Tricyrtis (toad lily)

  • Trillium (“sweet Betsy”)

  • Itea virginia (Virginia sweetspire)

  • Camellia sasanqua Mine-No-Yuki (sasanqua “white doves”)

  • Crataegus viridis (green hawthorn tree “Winter King”)

 

Bed bordering screened porch

Pot: Acer palmatum dissectum “Crimson Queen” (Japanese maple)

 

  • Acer palmatum (coral-barked Japanese maple “Sango Kaku”)

  • Fothergilla (“Witch-alder”)

  • Acanthus mollis (bear’s breeches)

  • railing Yew (spreading English yew)

  • Iris cristata (dwarf Siberia iris “Alba”)

  • Maiden hair fern

  • Cyrtomium falcatum (holly fern)

  • Dryopteris pulcherrima (beautiful wood fern)

  • Camillia Mine-no-Yuke (white dove)

 

East (driveway)

  • Bed bordering screened porch

  • Buddleia davidii (butterfly bush “white profusion”)

  • Denae racemosa (“Poet’s Laurel”)

  • Ajuga reptans (ajuga “Carpet Bugleweed”)

 

Pot - Trachelospernum jasminoides (Confederate Jasmine)

 

Bed fronting open porch

  • Hedychium coronariuu (white ginger lilies)

  • Camellia sasanqua (C. hiemalis) (shishi gashira camellia)

  • Dryopteris erythrosora (autumn fern)

  • Hydrangea quercifolia (oakleaf hyrangea “Snowflake”)

 

2 Pots - Kimberly Queen Ferns

 

Red pot - Podocarpus macrophyllus “Buddhist pine” or “Yew pine”)

2 rectangle planters on porch - Sarcococca ruscifolia (“fragrant sweet box”)

 

Driveway

Pot by garage:  Cotinum coggygria “Royal Purple” Smoke Tree

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