Rhodotypos scandens 25/5 Restock 'Shortwood' was selected in Pennsylvania

'Shortwood' was selected in Pennsylvania by the plantsman Sinclair Adam

sweetly fragrant flowers open in spring

carrying the bloodline of an American icon into gardens that have room for the long view

The genus honors Ernst Ludwig Heim

old-fashioned flourish

Rhodotypos scandens 25/5 Restock 'Shortwood' was selected in PennsylvaniaJetbead is an old fashioned, exceptionally tough deciduous shrub of the rose family, forming an open, multi stemmed mound roughly three to six feet tall and four to nine feet wide on arching gray brown stems. The opposite, sharply toothed leaves break very early in spring, and four petaled white flowers about two inches across open at the shoot tips in May and June. Clusters of three or four glossy black drupes follow in fall and hang on well into