Clethra tomentosa ‘Woodlander's Sarah’ Allen Bush though the tree was introduced

though the tree was introduced well before the low

fringed panicles of pure white

The spike holds for weeks

Native to China

holding form across the seasons and asking little

Clethra tomentosa ‘Woodlander's Sarah’ Allen Bush though the tree was introducedThe summersweets are among the most fragrant of American shrubs, and the southern woolly summersweet, Clethra tomentosa, carries the whole tribe's gifts: colonies of upright stems in moist, acid ground, and terminal spikes of white flowers that pour a honey and clove perfume across the July garden. Country people knew the plant as Sweet Pepperbush, for the peppercorn seed heads, and the crushed flowers even raise a soft lather once used as a woodland