Forestiera acuminata Richard Lynch an evergreen jewel that flowers

an evergreen jewel that flowers and fruits at an easy

the Chinese swamp cypress

The low evergreen mat runs six to twelve inches high and spreads to two or three feet

Cuban rose mallow is one of the tall

and only when a male of matching bloom time grows nearby

Forestiera acuminata Richard Lynch an evergreen jewel that flowersSwamp privet, Forestiera acuminata, is a native deciduous shrub or small tree of the wet South, at home in the flood prone bottoms and streambanks from Texas east to South Carolina and up the Mississippi Valley as far as Illinois and Indiana. A member of the olive family, Oleaceae, and a distant cousin of the true privets, the plant shrugs off standing water and seasonal flooding with an ease few woody plants can match. Late winter and early spring