Ribes curvatum Brookgreen Gardens and a fine foliage plant

and a fine foliage plant in its own right

Rarely offered in the U

sometimes past sixty feet

Callistemon pinifolius usually opens in a soft greenish yellow

a deep rose red warming to a blush of lighter pink at the center

Ribes curvatum Brookgreen Gardens and a fine foliage plantGranite gooseberry is a rare native shrub of the rocky, granitic soils of the Southeast, turning up in widely scattered localities from Georgia to Texas. A low, deciduous plant of two to four feet, the arching branches root where they touch the ground and knit slowly into colonies, and the small, three lobed leaves and purple, red spined stems give the shrub a fine, distinctive texture. The real charm is the bloom. In spring, small but conspicuous