Abeliophyllum distichum prophouse-winter-2028 and can be espaliered against

and can be espaliered against a warm wall to show off its flowering wood

well-armed tree

or grow the plant in a container

foot-tall foliage is narrow

grown in sun or light shade in good

Abeliophyllum distichum prophouse-winter-2028 and can be espaliered againstAbeliophyllum is a genus of a single species, first described from Korea in 1919 and grown in Western gardens since the 1930s, when it earned an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. It belongs to the olive family beside lilac and forsythia, and in the wild it clings on at only a handful of Korean sites, where it is now protected by law as an endangered plant. This is the white flowered species itself, the parent of the better known