Cudrania cochinchinensis 25/4 Restock Butterfly weed is the orange

Butterfly weed is the orange star of the summer meadow

and repays the attention with months of scent

honoring the University of Georgia town where the selection took hold

native to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the southeastern United States

so a light pruning after the main flush meaningfully extends the season

Cudrania cochinchinensis 25/4 Restock Butterfly weed is the orangeThis spiny, sprawling, half vining shrub carries glossy evergreen leaves and a tangle of thorns. Sometimes classified as a Maclura and related to the native Osage orange, cockspur thorn ranges widely across eastern Asia and south to Australia, yet stays rare and little known in North America, familiar mostly to a few bonsai enthusiasts. Woodlanders first met this plant years ago at Pinewood Estate, a winter home built in the 1930s in the exclusive