Forestiera acuminata Richard Lynch attractive choice for the semi-shaded

attractive choice for the semi-shaded garden

almost silver foliage

Yaupon is the small-leaved evergreen holly of the southeastern coastal plain

an evergreen jewel that flowers and fruits at an easy

the Chinese swamp cypress

Forestiera acuminata Richard Lynch attractive choice for the semi-shadedSwamp privet, Forestiera acuminata, is a native deciduous shrub or small tree of the wet South, at home in the flood prone bottoms and streambanks from Texas east to South Carolina and up the Mississippi Valley as far as Illinois and Indiana. A member of the olive family, Oleaceae, and a distant cousin of the true privets, the plant shrugs off standing water and seasonal flooding with an ease few woody plants can match. Late winter and early spring