Adina pilulifera Groundcover Shrubs Among Les Jury's introductions

Among Les Jury's introductions

a dry prairie or meadow

and the flowers keep coming for months

where hinoki cypress has been revered for centuries

a fine evergreen for a coastal or Mediterranean-style planting in zones 7 to 9

Adina pilulifera Groundcover Shrubs Among Les Jury's introductionsA medium sized evergreen shrub still little known in cultivation, Adina pilulifera carries small, glossy leaves and, in midsummer, round white flower heads about an inch across, each bristling with protruding styles like a tiny Sputnik. The effect is curious and charming, a pincushion of white set among shining foliage, and the evergreen habit earns the shrub a place where the deciduous buttonbushes leave a winter gap. Native from southern China and