Forestiera angustifolia 'Weeping' Medicinal a sweet tea brewed from

a sweet tea brewed from fermented leaves and poured over statues of the Buddha each spring to mark his birthday

or a large container set where the evening fragrance drifts toward a door or a seat

in full sun to part shade and moist

Long valued in East Asian gardens

Williams at Caerhays in Cornwall

Forestiera angustifolia 'Weeping' Medicinal a sweet tea brewed fromForestiera angustifolia 'Weeping' is a distinctive pendulous form of the Texas desert olive, an intricately branched native shrub whose cascading, weeping branches make it a living piece of sculpture. Fine and twiggy, clothed in small narrow leaves, the plant drapes and tumbles in a way the wild shrub never does, and reveals a fine tracery of branches in winter once the leaves have fallen. Tough as the Texas brush country that bore it, this is a plant