Abutilon megapotamicum 25/2 Restock though a fond old story

though a fond old story ties the word to the funeral services held once spring thawed the ground

Spring brings inconspicuous green catkins

As with all aucubas

long-established virus

A pollinator magnet exactly when the season's nectar runs short

Abutilon megapotamicum 25/2 Restock though a fond old storyAbutilon megapotamicum is the trailing one of the flowering maples, a slender, half vining deciduous shrub that drapes and clambers rather than standing stiffly upright. Its species name means "of the big river," for the Rio Grande basin of southern Brazil where it grows wild, and like the rest of its tribe it belongs not to the maples its leaves suggest but to the mallow family, in company with hibiscus and hollyhock. The flowers are its whole charm: