Hydrangea quercifolia 'Alice' 26/7 Restock hop-like clusters that feed birds

hop-like clusters that feed birds and small mammals into fall

or a native garden

and autumn a dependable

variously read as strawberry

Alabama area

Hydrangea quercifolia 'Alice' 26/7 Restock hop-like clusters that feed birdsThe oakleaf hydrangea is the great four season native shrub of the American Southeast, and 'Alice' is one of the grandest selections of the species. Hydrangea quercifolia grows wild in the rich woods and ravines of a small range centered on Alabama and Mississippi, where the naturalist William Bartram found the shrub in the 1770s and called it singular and beautiful. Alabama later made the oakleaf hydrangea the official state wildflower, a rare honor