Sageretia minutiflora Southeastern Native naturalized plantings

naturalized plantings

a trait that has followed oleander through centuries of cautionary lore and that conveniently keeps browsing deer away

undemanding shrub

It is one of the very first shrubs to wake in the garden

also called five-finger fern

Sageretia minutiflora Southeastern Native naturalized plantingsSageretia minutiflora, the shellmound buckthorn, is a rare and little known native shrub of the Southeastern coast, with scandent, half climbing, somewhat spiny branches and small, glossy, faintly triangular leaves. The habit falls between shrub and vine, so the plant can be left to mound and tangle or trained up a fence or arbor, and the fine, dark, semi evergreen foliage gives a handsome year round texture in the mild coastal gardens where the