Neviusia alabamensis Fred Heutte holding their color and structure

holding their color and structure through the year

and the pliant stems would take just as happily to a low trellis or a wall

for the honey-and-clove perfume

each brushed lengthwise with bands of creamy white over deep glossy green

Like the other leather flowers

Neviusia alabamensis Fred Heutte holding their color and structureAlabama snow wreath is one of the Southeast's rarest native shrubs and one of the easiest to grow, a combination that ought to put the plant in far more gardens than it occupies. In spring the arching, thicket forming branches foam with feathery white flowers, and the trick of them is that there are no petals at all: the show is pure stamen, dozens of white filaments per bloom spraying out against five small greenish sepals, like little bottlebrushes