Lobelia cardinalis prophouse-on-the-horizon and his name is 'Southern

and his name is 'Southern Gentleman'

where the early flowers make the buckwheat tree one of the first and most important nectar sources of the southern year

the trees Woodlanders offers are something rarer: not the usual domestic nursery stock but grown from seed a contact in India collected in the western Himalayas

and the red mulberry has stayed a fixture of southern dooryards and fencerows

but only female plants carry that fruit

Lobelia cardinalis prophouse-on-the-horizon and his name is 'SouthernFew native perennials burn as bright as Lobelia cardinalis, the cardinal flower, whose late summer spikes of pure, velvety scarlet stop traffic in any garden. The species ranges across much of North America along stream banks, wet meadows, and ditches, and takes the common name from the vivid red of a cardinal's robes. From a low rosette of broad green leaves rises a stiff, unbranched stem hung with tubular flowers built, as luck would have it,