Lomatia myricoides 25/4 Restock but a shaded

but a shaded

The nodding flowers are best appreciated from below

since the vine grows fast and blooms on the previous season's wood

threading the banks of streams and the edges of swamps and floodplains through the Southeastern Coastal Plain and into the Florida Panhandle

giving this shrub real ecological value alongside the good looks

Lomatia myricoides 25/4 Restock but a shadedLomatia myricoides is an Australian rarity that has quietly proven itself in the American Southeast, and that combination is the whole appeal. A member of the Proteaceae, the great Southern Hemisphere family of banksias, grevilleas, and the waratah, this evergreen shrub spreads wide and low, clothed in long, narrow, sharply toothed leaves, and carries sprays of creamy white, spidery flowers in the heat of midsummer, sweetly fragrant at close range. In