Woodlanders Glasshouse Hat David Geiger In early to mid spring

In early to mid spring

and let the colony knit slowly into the dependable green backbone of a wetland planting

in part shade or

developed by Eliza Lucas Pinckney around Charleston and made with skill drawn largely from enslaved West Africans

Chionanthus virginicus

Woodlanders Glasshouse Hat David Geiger In early to mid springBefore there were nurseries there were glasshouses, and before glasshouses there was a single cutting kept alive under a bell of glass, carried across an ocean on the chance it might root. The front of this one is a nod to that older instinct, the one that says a plant worth having is a plant worth protecting: a specimen held in a glass vase, lit like it's the only one of its kind. Some days at the nursery, it is. Same cap as the Field Hat, built to