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the Lowcountry gardener building a heat-and-humidity-proof border

sweet almond verbena can be trained as a small multi-stemmed tree in subtropical gardens or grown as a dieback shrub farther north

the plant can grow heavy and tangled over time and rewards a strong support and a yearly tidy

a scale that suits a small lawn

This is a working tree

Crataegus opaca Size:1 Gallon the Lowcountry gardener building aThis is a tree you harvest from a boat. Crataegus opaca, the western mayhaw, grows wild in the flooded bottoms of the Gulf Coastal Plain, the cypress sloughs and pond margins of east Texas, Louisiana, and the Deep South, and when their fruit ripens in late spring it drops straight into the water and floats. For generations Southern families went out in May with boats, nets, and scoops to gather the bobbing red haws off the surface, a fast three weeks