Sageretia minutiflora Southeastern Native and between the two a

and between the two a practiced collector can have flowers from October through March

Come fall the foliage turns a rich red and burgundy that holds late

Long grown under the name Michelia figo and only lately folded into the genus Magnolia

but built on a grander scale

It is one of the very first shrubs to wake in the garden

Sageretia minutiflora Southeastern Native and between the two aSageretia minutiflora, the shellmound buckthorn, is a rare and little known native shrub of the Southeastern coast, with scandent, half climbing, somewhat spiny branches and small, glossy, faintly triangular leaves. The habit falls between shrub and vine, so the plant can be left to mound and tangle or trained up a fence or arbor, and the fine, dark, semi evergreen foliage gives a handsome year round texture in the mild coastal gardens where the