Neviusia alabamensis Fred Heutte sweet bubby

sweet bubby

holding their color and structure through the year

Woodlanders first met this plant years ago at Pinewood Estate

The heavy acorns float

and the pliant stems would take just as happily to a low trellis or a wall

Neviusia alabamensis Fred Heutte sweet bubbyAlabama snow wreath is one of the Southeast's rarest native shrubs and one of the easiest to grow, a combination that ought to put the plant in far more gardens than it occupies. In spring the arching, thicket forming branches foam with feathery white flowers, and the trick of them is that there are no petals at all: the show is pure stamen, dozens of white filaments per bloom spraying out against five small greenish sepals, like little bottlebrushes