Forestiera acuminata Richard Lynch The low evergreen mat runs

The low evergreen mat runs six to twelve inches high and spreads to two or three feet

Site where the silver-blue color and soft texture can be appreciated

almost silver foliage

'Brilliantissima' changed that

the Chinese swamp cypress

Forestiera acuminata Richard Lynch The low evergreen mat runsSwamp privet, Forestiera acuminata, is a native deciduous shrub or small tree of the wet South, at home in the flood prone bottoms and streambanks from Texas east to South Carolina and up the Mississippi Valley as far as Illinois and Indiana. A member of the olive family, Oleaceae, and a distant cousin of the true privets, the plant shrugs off standing water and seasonal flooding with an ease few woody plants can match. Late winter and early spring