Clethra tomentosa ‘Woodlander's Sarah’ Allen Bush though the tree was introduced

though the tree was introduced well before the low

Native to China

The spike holds for weeks

bristly-leaved stems carry clusters of intense cobalt-blue flowers

fills the great majority of the spice jars labeled simply cinnamon

Clethra tomentosa ‘Woodlander's Sarah’ Allen Bush though the tree was introducedThe summersweets are among the most fragrant of American shrubs, and the southern woolly summersweet, Clethra tomentosa, carries the whole tribe's gifts: colonies of upright stems in moist, acid ground, and terminal spikes of white flowers that pour a honey and clove perfume across the July garden. Country people knew the plant as Sweet Pepperbush, for the peppercorn seed heads, and the crushed flowers even raise a soft lather once used as a woodland