Magnolia virginiana var. virginiana prophouse-summer-2027 from Nova Scotia and Quebec

from Nova Scotia and Quebec south to Florida and west toward Manitoba and Louisiana

Crossvine was virtually unavailable from nurseries when Woodlanders began offering the plant in the early 1980s

Cistus x corbariensis is a white rockrose

neat and pyramidal when young and rounding with age

a quiet and slightly otherworldly version of the classic bottlebrush

Magnolia virginiana var. virginiana prophouse-summer-2027 from Nova Scotia and QuebecThere is something quietly instructive about the range of Magnolia virginiana. The species runs from the cold, swampy woods of Gloucester, Massachusetts, where a small population clings to the northern edge of the natural territory, all the way down to the Gulf Coast of Texas, a span of climate and geography that would seem to demand two entirely different plants. In the North the sweetbay obliges by turning deciduous, multi stemmed, and compact,