Dichroa versicolor Fred Heutte with a native range small

with a native range small and specific: the Atlantic Coastal Plain of Virginia and the Carolinas

Rose mallow is sometimes called marsh mallow

and the native American holly

the fern offered here is for the woodland garden

Buxus balearica is the bold-leaved boxwood: an upright shrub or small tree related to the common boxwood

Dichroa versicolor Fred Heutte with a native range smallThe genus name comes from the Greek dichroos, meaning "two colored," and Dichroa versicolor presses the idea further: bloom color shifts with soil chemistry much the way a hydrangea does, swinging from deep cobalt to soft mauve depending on how much aluminum a plant can draw up. The species epithet versicolor only doubles down on the point, promising a shrub that refuses to settle on a single shade. Botanically this is the close cousin of the more