Aronia arbutifolia 'Brilliantissima' Brookgreen Gardens and a conversation piece for

and a conversation piece for the cook who wants limes off the branch

the vine shows a clear kinship: clusters of soft yellow

globular seed capsules the size of a small orange

the classical horticulture of collecting foliage variants

and underplant with ferns and other shade lovers that will not hide the trunk

Aronia arbutifolia 'Brilliantissima' Brookgreen Gardens and a conversation piece forAronia arbutifolia has grown in the wet woods and pocosins of the eastern United States for a very long time, largely unbothered by the horticultural world's attention. 'Brilliantissima' changed that. Selected for foliage with a deeper gloss and berries of a more saturated, almost lacquered red than the straight species, this is the form that finally made gardeners look twice at a native shrub long overlooked despite centuries of quiet usefulness. The