Aesculus splendens 25/8 Restock founding the Los Angeles Camellia

founding the Los Angeles Camellia Society in 1948 and rising to president of the American Camellia Society by 1957

Use Caesalpinia gilliesii as a xeric specimen

Chelone lyonii grows wild along streambanks and seeps in the high southern Appalachians

and cold-hardy to zone 5

the tea-oil camellia is also the quiet foundation of cold-hardy camellia growing in North America

Aesculus splendens 25/8 Restock founding the Los Angeles CamelliaA red or scarlet flowered buckeye of the Gulf Coast, Aesculus splendens stands close to the red buckeye, Aesculus pavia, and may be no more than a striking form of that species. Dirr, in his Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, notes that Rehder listed this buckeye as a distinct species and that several horticulturists feel strongly about the authenticity, the chief differences being scarlet flowers and leaves felted on the undersides. Native to