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
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Hydrangea quercifolia (oakleaf hydrangea)
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Cornus kousa (“Kousa” dogwood)
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Clematis armandii (“Armand Clematis”)
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Quercus sharmardii (Shumark oak tree from seedling grown by Doug Unkenholtz, 1998)
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Dryopteris erythrosorac (autumn fern)
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Buxom sempervirens (common boxwood)
Lamppost bed
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Gaura lindheimeri (gaura “Belleza White” and “Whirling Butterflies”)
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Lantana camera (lantana “Sundance White”)
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Farinacea (saliva “Victoria Blue” and “Blue by You”)
West (La Prado Drive)
Bed fronting open porch
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Hydrangeaceae (hydrangea “Sister Therese” and “White Wedding”)
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Gardenia jasminoides (gardenia “White Gem”)
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Variegated career (sedge)
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Asarum canadense (wild ginger)
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Crataegus (Hawthorne bush)
Pot - Paeonia lactiflora (“Sarah Bernhardt” peonies)
(house side)
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Edgeworthia papyrifera (paper bush)
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Lemon Balm
2 pots by porch steps - Camellia sasanqua “Yuletide”
Bed under kitchen window
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Viburnum Nantucket (“Nantucket” viburnum)
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Cyrtomium falcatum (holly ferns)
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Viburnum awabuki
Pots siding screened porch steps
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Pieris japonica (“Temple Bells” japonica)
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Parrotia Persica
Bed bordering screened porch
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Cephalotaxus harringtonia “Prostrata” (spreading Japanese plum yews)
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Polygonatum (Solomon seal)
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Cyrtomium falcatuim (holly fern)
Bed fronting screened porch (LaPrado side)
(near porch)
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Carex evergold (carex)
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Cornus kousa (“Kousa” dogwood)
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Geranium maculation (wild geranium or wild cranesbill)
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Isopyrum biternatum (false rue anemone)
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Thalicitrum thalictroides (rue anemone)
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Polygonatum Variegatum (varigated Solomon seal and Solomon’s seal)
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Epimedium (fairy wings)
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Kalimeris Pinn. Hortensie (Mongolian aster)
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Asteraceae divaricata (White wood aster)
(center)
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Pittosporum tabira (Japanese pittosporum)
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Halesia carolina (Carolina silverbell tree)
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Dicentra spectabilis (bleeding heart“Alba”)
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Astilbe chinensis (Chinese astilbe “Vision in White”)
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Aquilegia (Colorado columbine)
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Allium hollandicaum (“Purple Sensation”)
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Phlox divaricata (wild blue flocks and “Mary Zahl” flocks)
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Fatsia japonica (fatsia)
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Anthyrium (ghost fern)
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Athyrium nipponicum (Japanese painted fern “Pictum")
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Polystihum acrostichoides (Christmas fern)
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Lysimachia nummularia (creeping Jenny, moneywort)
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Maresii (Varigated Hydrangea “sargent”)
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Miscanthus sinensis (Miscanthus “Maiden Grass”)
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Helleborus orientalis - Hugge “Sven”
Bed bordering white street fence
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Helleborus arqutifolius (Coriscan Hellebore/Lenten roses)
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Helleborus “Dark and Handsome”
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Helleborus “Blushing Bridesmaid”
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Callicarpa (beautyberry)
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Aspidistra (iron plant)
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Hosta (blue elegans”)
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Hosta (“fandance” and lemon lime)
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Lonicera sempervirens (trumpet honeysuckle) on fence
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Cornus amomum (silky dogwood)
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Anthyrium engustum forma rubellun (“Lady in Red” fern)
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Polystichum tsus-simense (Korean rock fern)
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Thelypteris recursive (Japanese beech fern)
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Dryopteris cycadian (shaggy wood fern)
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Thelypteris kunthii (Southern shield fern)
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Polystichum polyblelpharum (Japanese tassel fern)
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Dryopteris tokyensis (Tokyo wood fern)
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Matteuccia struthiopteris King Ostrich Fern
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Cystopteris Protrusa (fragile fern)
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Asteraceae Divaricata (White wood aster)
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Baptista alba (White false indigo)
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Porteranthus stipulata (American ipecac)
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Pycnanthemum muticum (Blunt Mountain mint)
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Arum italicum (Italian arum)
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Crataegus viridis (2 green hawthorn trees “Winter King”)
Bed with bronze birdbath
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Iris tectorum (white “Japanese roof” iris)
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Hosta “Guacamole”
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Hosta “Sum and Substance”
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Hosta “Sum of all”
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Anemone hupehbensis (Japanese anemone - pink
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Symphyotrichum cordifolium (blue wood aster)
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Dryopteris erythrosora (autumn fern)
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Polystichum polyblepharum (Japanese tassel fern)
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Epimeidian
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Coriscan hellebore (Lenten roses)
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Amelanchier (serviceberry tree)
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Camellia japonica ( japonica “White by the Gate”)
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Tiarella cordifodia (foam flower “Laird of Skye”)
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Tiarella (foam flower “Fancy Trails”)
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Tiarella (foam flower) “Appalachian Trail”)
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Tiarella (“Sugar and Spice”
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Heuchera villas (Giant Alumroot)
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Heuchera “Timeless Glow”
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Lysimachia (Creeping Jenny)
South (back fence)
Bed bordering back fence
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Cleyera japonica
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Rhododendron (azelea - white)
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Cercis (redbud - “Alba” with white flowers)
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Osmanthus fragrant (tea olive)
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Fatsia japonica (fatsia)
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Dryopteris erythrosora (autumn fern)
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Thelypteris kunthii (Southern shield fern)
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Hydrangea arborescent “Annabelle”
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Leucothoe populifolia (Florida leucothoe)
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Aesculus parviflora (Bottlebrush buckeye)
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Acuba japonica (variegated acuba)
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Tradescantia hirsuticaulis (hairy spiderwort)
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Aspidistra elation (Cast-iron plant)
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Polygonatum (Solomon seal)
Bed fronting play house:
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2 pots of Fatsia japonica by bench - Japanese aralia (“spider web”)
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Hydrangea arborescent “Annabelle”
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Cornus augustata (“Empress of China” evergreen dogwood)
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Camellia sasanqua hiemalis (shishi gashira camellia)
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Iris cristata (“powder blue giant”)
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Gardenia radicans (“Award creeping gardenia”)
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Blephilia subnuda (“Cumberland Pagoda”)
(left of back steps)
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Rhododendro alabamenese - Alabama wild azelea pink
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Rhododendro arborescens - sweet azalea(native white azalea/Cumberland)
Bed fronting screened porch
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Hydrangea quercifolia (oakleaf hydrangea)
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Coriscan Hellebore (Lenten roses)
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Thalictrum pubesceus (meadow rue)
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Daphne odora ( 3 “Marginata”)
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Cornus florida (dogwood)
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Polygonatum (Variegatum solomon seal and solomon’s seal)
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Heucherella ( “Alabama Sunrise”)
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Heucherall (“Solar Eclipse”)
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Heuchera americana (Amer. Alumroot)
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Tricyrtis (toad lily)
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Trillium (“sweet Betsy”)
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Itea virginia (Virginia sweetspire)
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Camellia sasanqua Mine-No-Yuki (sasanqua “white doves”)
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Crataegus viridis (green hawthorn tree “Winter King”)
Bed bordering screened porch
Pot: Acer palmatum dissectum “Crimson Queen” (Japanese maple)
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Acer palmatum (coral-barked Japanese maple “Sango Kaku”)
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Fothergilla (“Witch-alder”)
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Acanthus mollis (bear’s breeches)
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railing Yew (spreading English yew)
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Iris cristata (dwarf Siberia iris “Alba”)
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Maiden hair fern
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Cyrtomium falcatum (holly fern)
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Dryopteris pulcherrima (beautiful wood fern)
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Camillia Mine-no-Yuke (white dove)
East (driveway)
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Bed bordering screened porch
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Buddleia davidii (butterfly bush “white profusion”)
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Denae racemosa (“Poet’s Laurel”)
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Ajuga reptans (ajuga “Carpet Bugleweed”)
Pot - Trachelospernum jasminoides (Confederate Jasmine)
Bed fronting open porch
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Hedychium coronariuu (white ginger lilies)
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Camellia sasanqua (C. hiemalis) (shishi gashira camellia)
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Dryopteris erythrosora (autumn fern)
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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