Neviusia alabamensis Fred Heutte sweet bubby

sweet bubby

The heavy acorns float

Woodlanders first met this plant years ago at Pinewood Estate

Like the other leather flowers

sometimes as early as January

Neviusia alabamensis Fred Heutte sweet bubbyAlabama snow wreath is one of the Southeast's rarest native shrubs and one of the easiest to grow, a combination that ought to put the plant in far more gardens than it occupies. In spring the arching, thicket forming branches foam with feathery white flowers, and the trick of them is that there are no petals at all: the show is pure stamen, dozens of white filaments per bloom spraying out against five small greenish sepals, like little bottlebrushes