Rhododendron arborescens 'Early' prophouse-winter-2027 Itea oldhamii owes what foothold

Itea oldhamii owes what foothold it has in the United States largely to Woodlanders

real ecological value

Michael Dirr put the case plainly in his Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: "I do not believe the Hypericums have been adequately explored and developed as landscape plants in the United States

Amsonia tabernaemontana grows happily in deep

though a fond old story ties the word to the funeral services held once spring thawed the ground

Rhododendron arborescens 'Early' prophouse-winter-2027 Itea oldhamii owes what footholdThis is a remarkable early blooming form of the sweet azalea, Rhododendron arborescens, the tall, hairless twigged native prized for white summer flowers and an intense heliotrope perfume. Where the species is famous as one of the last azaleas to bloom, carrying fragrant white flowers with showy red stamens well into summer, this selection turns that timing on its head. The plant comes from a disjunct population that Woodlanders discovered in Aiken