Aronia arbutifolia 'Brilliantissima' Brookgreen Gardens and a conversation piece for

and a conversation piece for the cook who wants limes off the branch

the classical horticulture of collecting foliage variants

globular seed capsules the size of a small orange

callicarpenal worked at roughly 79 percent the strength of DEET

and the samaras ripen red as well before fading to brownish yellow in late summer

Aronia arbutifolia 'Brilliantissima' Brookgreen Gardens and a conversation piece forAronia arbutifolia has grown in the wet woods and pocosins of the eastern United States for a very long time, largely unbothered by the horticultural world's attention. 'Brilliantissima' changed that. Selected for foliage with a deeper gloss and berries of a more saturated, almost lacquered red than the straight species, this is the form that finally made gardeners look twice at a native shrub long overlooked despite centuries of quiet usefulness. The