Callicarpa americana ‘Welch's Pink’ Groundcover Shrubs Pine-leaved bottlebrush earns the name

Pine-leaved bottlebrush earns the name honestly: the foliage is fine

feeding early bees and butterflies

acclimated trees shrug off 10 degrees Fahrenheit without permanent injury

thorny frame makes an effective informal hedge or security planting

drought-hardy frame of the other

Callicarpa americana ‘Welch's Pink’ Groundcover Shrubs Pine-leaved bottlebrush earns the nameEveryone who grows the native beautyberry knows the plant by the autumn display: those improbable whorls of magenta purple fruit circling every stem like something a florist arranged and forgot to bill for. 'Welch's Pink' is that plant, in a color the species was not supposed to have. Matt Welch found the original while working at the SFA Mast Arboretum and the Pineywoods Native Plant Center in Nacogdoches, a single wild plant fruiting clear, warm