and a conversation piece for the cook who wants limes off the branch
this is a magnolia for a medium garden
Like the milkweeds to which the bluestars are related
Close up the bells look almost enameled
for the chestnut-like toothing of the leaves
Pittosporum tobira 'Variegata' prophouse-summer-2026 and a conversation piece forIn Japan they call the shrub tobira, short for tobira no ki, the door tree, because the cut branches were hung in the doorway at Setsubun to turn back demons at the threshold of spring. The broken wood smells rank, which was rather the point: bad spirits, like most of us, would rather not walk through a bad smell. The genus name is kinder and more exact, pitta and sporos, pitch and seed, for the resin that coats the black seeds and glues them to