Viburnum odoratissimum 25/8 Restock and once established the groundcover

and once established the groundcover shrugs off drought and the reflected heat of paving and stone

having learned to distrust Ruellia on account of R

and the spring flowers feed pollinators

The seeds and leaves are poisonous

hammocksweet is the better adapted of the two to the heat and humidity of the Deep South

Viburnum odoratissimum 25/8 Restock and once established the groundcoverFew shrubs wear a name as plainly as this one. Odoratissimum is Latin for the most fragrant, the sweetest scented, and sweet viburnum earns the superlative in late spring, when conical panicles of tiny white flowers open across the canopy and carry a soft, honeyed perfume on warm air. A member of the moschatel family, Adoxaceae, and a cousin of the elders and the arrowwoods, Viburnum odoratissimum ranges as a wild plant from the Himalayan foothills of