Smaller trees such as Texas or Oklahoma redbud ( " Cercis texana " ), Mexican plum ( " Prunus mexicana " ), tree-form crape myrtle ( " Lagerstroemia indica " ), yaupon holly ( " Ilex vomitoria " ) ( pruned to tree form ), Bradford pear ( " Pyrus calleryana"
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The garden was originally designed by C . Powers Taylor, the owner of the Rosedale Nursery in Hawthorne, N . Y . He planted the plum trees, now beautiful craggy-limbed specimens; the boxwoods and junipers; and an American native redbud, Cercis canadensis, to stand in for the Judas tree, Cercis siliquastrum, a native of Palestine, from which, according to legend, Judas Iscariot, hanged himself after betraying Jesus.
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The garden was originally designed by C . Powers Taylor, the owner of the Rosedale Nursery in Hawthorne, N . Y . He planted the plum trees, now beautiful craggy-limbed specimens; the boxwoods and junipers; and an American native redbud, Cercis canadensis, to stand in for the Judas tree, Cercis siliquastrum, a native of Palestine, from which, according to legend, Judas Iscariot, hanged himself after betraying Jesus.
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Soaring canopy trees, understory trees, shrubs and ground cover typically found in the Carolina piedmont, include hardwoods White Oak ( Quercus alba ), Southern Red Oak ( Quercus falcata ), Shagbark Hickory ( Carya ovata ), Tulip Poplar ( Liriodendron tulipifera ), Blackgum ( Nyssa sylvatica ), Sweetgum ( Liquidambar styraciflua ); softwoods such as Shortleaf Pine ( Pinus echinata ), and White Pine ( Pinus strobes ); understory trees such as Flowering Dogwood ( Cornus Florida ), Redbud ( Cercis canadensis ) and Sourwood ( Oxydendrum arboreum ); and groundcovers such as Wood Ferns ( Dryopteris spp . ), Virginia Creeper ( Parthenocissus quinquefolia ) and even Poison Ivy ( Toxicodendron toxicarium ).
