Fothergilla gardenii Allen Bush peony-form flowers hold longer

peony-form flowers hold longer

usually prostrate mat

or spilling over a low wall

For anyone in the Middle Atlantic who has watched a gardenia die to the ground every hard winter

for whatever gnat or late fly is still working

Fothergilla gardenii Allen Bush peony-form flowers hold longerThis one is named for a doctor and a place. The epithet gardenii honors Alexander Garden, the Scottish physician who settled in Charleston in 1752 and was first to find this shrub, describe the species, and send a plant across to England, the same Garden the gardenia is named for, though this Carolina native may be the truer monument. (The genus belongs to his English correspondent Dr. John Fothergill, in whose garden the shrub later grew; the species