Aesculus pavia var. humilis Fred Heutte This is one of the

This is one of the quiet mysteries of the Woodlanders collection

The flowers are the draw: two to three inches wide

Through August and September

explains a great deal about the plant: upright

but few have done more to shape the ones that are

Aesculus pavia var. humilis Fred Heutte This is one of theA low, often half prostrate form of the red buckeye, Aesculus pavia var. humilis keeps to a small, spreading shrub where the typical red buckeye grows into a small tree. The scarlet spring flowers come in smaller panicles, and in every other respect the plant follows the species: lustrous palmate leaves that break early, a love of moist, well drained woodland soil, and the same magnetism for returning hummingbirds. The dwarf habit makes this red