Itea chinensis Check with George more architectural than romantic

more architectural than romantic

and the variegation stays put rather than reverting to plain green

or in a large pot elsewhere

whose decades of selection gave gardeners the banded

where the early flowers make the buckwheat tree one of the first and most important nectar sources of the southern year

Itea chinensis Check with George more architectural than romanticItea, the sweetspires, are graceful shrubs of the family Iteaceae, their name taken from the Greek word for willow, after leaves that recall a willow's. Itea chinensis is the Chinese sweetspire, an uncommon evergreen member of the group, a medium to tall shrub of neat, compact form with oval, glossy leaves that hold through the year in the warm South. In spring the plant hangs slender four inch spikes of small white flowers, softly fragrant and busy