Vernonia noveboracensis Edible and pairings with azaleas and

and pairings with azaleas and camellias all come easily

or anyone who would like to grow something whose lineage has

then brought the plant into the trade

botanical institutions

though centuries of cultivation have carried Lantana camara into warm gardens and roadsides around the globe until the plant is now genuinely pantropic

Vernonia noveboracensis Edible and pairings with azaleas andIronweed earns the name twice over. The stems are stiff enough to stand through a hurricane season without staking, and the seedheads that follow the flowers rust to the exact color of weathered iron. But the reason to grow Vernonia noveboracensis is the purple: not the tidy lavender of garden asters but a saturated, almost fluorescent violet that arrives in late July and holds into October, riding five to eight feet up on strong green stems above a