Ichang Lemon shrugs off cold to around ten to fifteen degrees Fahrenheit
the plant can grow heavy and tangled over time and rewards a strong support and a yearly tidy
the Lowcountry gardener building a heat-and-humidity-proof border
drifts on the air rather than waiting to be found
a scale that suits a small lawn
Crataegus opaca Size:1 Gallon Ichang Lemon shrugs off coldThis is a tree you harvest from a boat. Crataegus opaca, the western mayhaw, grows wild in the flooded bottoms of the Gulf Coastal Plain, the cypress sloughs and pond margins of east Texas, Louisiana, and the Deep South, and when their fruit ripens in late spring it drops straight into the water and floats. For generations Southern families went out in May with boats, nets, and scoops to gather the bobbing red haws off the surface, a fast three weeks