Dirca palustris 25/5 Restock where the plant has been

where the plant has been cultivated for well over a thousand years

after intensive searches of the formerly known and likely sites around Nashville

119 is one of the most refined of the group

or desert-style planting

along a pond or ditch

Dirca palustris 25/5 Restock where the plant has beenDirca palustris, the leatherwood, is a quiet native shrub with a hidden trick: branches so supple and tough they can be bent, twisted, even tied in a knot without snapping. That remarkable pliability, born of unusually soft, low lignin wood, gave rise to the names leatherwood and ropebark, and made the bark a favorite of Native peoples for cordage. A slow, rounded, understory shrub of rich eastern woodlands, leatherwood is seldom offered and quietly