Callicarpa americana ‘Welch's Pink’ Groundcover Shrubs feeding early bees and butterflies

feeding early bees and butterflies

or a container plant for a covered porch or a bright room indoors

There is a tradeoff worth knowing

never upright

because she was too good to let slip

Callicarpa americana ‘Welch's Pink’ Groundcover Shrubs feeding early bees and butterfliesEveryone who grows the native beautyberry knows the plant by the autumn display: those improbable whorls of magenta purple fruit circling every stem like something a florist arranged and forgot to bill for. 'Welch's Pink' is that plant, in a color the species was not supposed to have. Matt Welch found the original while working at the SFA Mast Arboretum and the Pineywoods Native Plant Center in Nacogdoches, a single wild plant fruiting clear, warm