Castanea pumila Richard Lynch pink bottlebrush spikes freely in

pink bottlebrush spikes freely in midsummer

with little competition from neighbors

and edged crisply in white

and you will likely find the fronds growing sideways out of a crevice as if that were the most natural thing in the world

sweet almond verbena can be trained as a small multi-stemmed tree in subtropical gardens or grown as a dieback shrub farther north

Castanea pumila Richard Lynch pink bottlebrush spikes freely inCastanea pumila, the American chinquapin or Allegheny chinkapin, is a deciduous large shrub or small tree native to the eastern and southeastern United States. Long admired by rural foragers and old time orchardists, this relatively rare native once flourished across the South, where children filled their pockets with the spiny burrs and the sweet, nutty treasure inside. Resembling the better known cousin, the American chestnut (Castanea dentata), the