close enough to the familiar Japanese holly
feathered seed heads that carry the interest on
summering the pot outdoors and bringing the plant under cover before the cold
the same antimicrobial alkaloid found in goldenseal
'All Summer Beauty' answers the oldest complaint about mophead hydrangeas: that a single hard freeze or an eager pruner can wipe out a whole season of bloom
Styrax americanus prophouse-summer-2026 close enough to the familiarAmerican snowbell is one of the quiet delights of the Southeastern wetlands, usually a graceful multi stemmed deciduous shrub, though the plant can be trained up into a small single trunked tree. Along streamsides and in low, wet ground from the coastal plain through the interior South, the shrub carries slender branches that hang, in spring, with rows of small, bell shaped white flowers, faintly fragrant and nodding on fine stalks so the whole plant