Thujopsis dolabrata 'Nana' prophouse-winter-2027 blue wild indigo

blue wild indigo

and coastal settings where little else stays evergreen

good-looking groundcover

the mountain hydrangeas still bloom on old wood

violet-like scent for which the white Lady Banks is famous

Thujopsis dolabrata 'Nana' prophouse-winter-2027 blue wild indigoA dwarf form of one of Japan's legendary Five Sacred Trees of Kiso, the goboku no kinbatsu, a select group of conifers protected by feudal law for centuries, reserved for imperial residences and temple construction, where commoners caught poaching the wood faced execution. The species, Thujopsis dolabrata, is endemic to Japan and known there as asunaro, a name that translates beautifully and a little wistfully as tomorrow it will become hinoki, a nod