Robinia sp. Native Use the bamboo as a

Use the bamboo as a dense low groundcover and lawn alternative

easily trained on a low fence

when the European kin of this shrub

staying small and spreading slowly into dense patches and colonies by underground runners

and shrugs off heat

Robinia sp. Native Use the bamboo as aThis showy little locust came to Woodlanders by a happy accident. Planted years ago alongside a row of black locusts, Robinia pseudoacacia, on a nearby farm, one tree surprised everyone by opening not the usual white but clusters of vivid rose purple pea flowers over compound leaves, followed by small, rough, slightly bristly seed pods. The origin is uncertain: a North American species, likely, but possibly a seedling from seed received years ago from