Crataegus opaca Size:1 Gallon the plant can grow heavy

the plant can grow heavy and tangled over time and rewards a strong support and a yearly tidy

The woolly summersweet is the southern face of the clan

drifts on the air rather than waiting to be found

the Lowcountry gardener building a heat-and-humidity-proof border

Crataegus opaca Size:1 Gallon the plant can grow heavyThis is a tree you harvest from a boat. Crataegus opaca, the western mayhaw, grows wild in the flooded bottoms of the Gulf Coastal Plain, the cypress sloughs and pond margins of east Texas, Louisiana, and the Deep South, and when their fruit ripens in late spring it drops straight into the water and floats. For generations Southern families went out in May with boats, nets, and scoops to gather the bobbing red haws off the surface, a fast three weeks