Cyrilla racemiflora 'Graniteville' Small & Medium Shrubs John's worts

John's worts

and the speckled foliage brings light and pattern to a shaded bed where plain green would simply recede

summersweet feeds bees and butterflies through midsummer and asks little in return

where a full-sized buckeye would never fit: a woodland edge

bushy evergreen makes a fine early-flowering specimen or a member of a mixed camellia and rhododendron border

Cyrilla racemiflora 'Graniteville' Small & Medium Shrubs John's worts'Graniteville' is a low, ground hugging selection of Cyrilla racemiflora, the native Titi, and one of the more distinctive forms of a plant already known for variability. Where the species can build into a small tree, this Woodlanders introduction stays wide and knee high, and the story behind the plant is a piece of local botanizing: we propagated 'Graniteville' from an almost prostrate individual found years ago on an eroded sandhills seepage slope