Fothergilla x intermedia 'Mt. Airy' Richard Lynch but the flowers are the

but the flowers are the event: showy scarlet tubes carried over a long summer season

Cycas revoluta belongs to the cycads

A plant for the gardener building a tea garden beside a Camellia sinensis

especially while young

Lavender-pink flowers with darker throat spotting come in May and June

Fothergilla x intermedia 'Mt. Airy' Richard Lynch but the flowers are theThe native fothergillas were choice but scarcely available garden shrubs when Woodlanders first began to offer them back in 1980. This one, a hybrid of Fothergilla gardenii and F. major, was found by Dr. Michael Dirr at the Mt. Airy Arboretum in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has since become the most widely grown fothergilla of all, and deservedly so. Fothergilla belongs to the witch hazel family, Hamamelidaceae, and shares that family's gift for honey