the USDA botanist Charles Bryson had been told that crushed beautyberry leaves
a compact rounded shrub barely knee-high
when it earned an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society
finely streaked and flecked with scarlet and centered on a deep red eye
Aucuba chinensis wants moist
Fragaria virginiana 25/1 Restock the USDA botanist Charles BrysonThis is the wild strawberry of eastern North America, Fragaria virginiana, the modest little groundcover that carpets sunny woodland edges, old fields, and roadside banks across the continent. Trifoliate, serrated leaves rise in low tufts, and slender runners reach out to root new plantlets at their tips, so that a single crown becomes a colony in a season or two. In late spring, white five petaled flowers open just above the leaves, followed by small