Magnolia virginiana var. virginiana prophouse-summer-2027 Cistus x corbariensis is a

Cistus x corbariensis is a white rockrose

Our friend and citrus guru Tom McClendon

a quiet and slightly otherworldly version of the classic bottlebrush

the small purple-maroon spring flowers giving way

sited where the variegation and the pink-and-orange new growth can be read at close range and set against darker evergreens that throw the color forward

Magnolia virginiana var. virginiana prophouse-summer-2027 Cistus x corbariensis is aThere is something quietly instructive about the range of Magnolia virginiana. The species runs from the cold, swampy woods of Gloucester, Massachusetts, where a small population clings to the northern edge of the natural territory, all the way down to the Gulf Coast of Texas, a span of climate and geography that would seem to demand two entirely different plants. In the North the sweetbay obliges by turning deciduous, multi stemmed, and compact,