Sageretia theezans Richard Lynch knitting across a bank or

knitting across a bank or filling the front of a woodland bed

'Apollo' was bred and released specifically as the male partner for the celebrated female 'Sparkleberry'

Give full sun and moist to wet ground

For the native-plant gardener

feeding hummingbirds

Sageretia theezans Richard Lynch knitting across a bank orSageretia theezans, the Chinese sweet plum, is a graceful evergreen shrub of the buckthorn family, native to southern China, where the plant grows to some three to eight feet with fine, zigzagging branches, small glossy leaves, and a handsome flaking, multicolored trunk. New growth often emerges bronze before settling to deep green, and in the mild winter gardens that suit the species the foliage holds the year round, giving a dense, fine textured