Quercus incana Gulfstream Nursery and in fall the purplish-green

and in fall the purplish-green foliage colors up before dropping late

Woodlanders obtained the Louisiana bluestar years ago from Brookgreen Gardens on the South Carolina coast

this summersweet holds sizeable spikes of pure white flowers bolt upright over dark green foliage

the familiar red-maple signal that winter is loosening

the golden clusters opening just as the first Salvia purples deepen and the ornamental grasses begin to catch the light differently

Quercus incana Gulfstream Nursery and in fall the purplish-greenThe name is the whole description: incana means hoary, gray haired, and bluejack oak wears a coat of fine pale hairs that turns the foliage a soft blue gray, almost silver in some lights, unusual in a genus that mostly trades in greens. Quercus incana is another oak of the longleaf sandhills, the dry, open, fire run uplands from the Carolinas to Texas, where the tree grows alongside turkey oak and the pines on the poorest, driest sand in the South.