Aesculus pavia var. humilis Fred Heutte where steady moisture brings out

where steady moisture brings out the fine texture

Through August and September

begged from a neighbor rather than bought

explains a great deal about the plant: upright

but few have done more to shape the ones that are

Aesculus pavia var. humilis Fred Heutte where steady moisture brings outA low, often half prostrate form of the red buckeye, Aesculus pavia var. humilis keeps to a small, spreading shrub where the typical red buckeye grows into a small tree. The scarlet spring flowers come in smaller panicles, and in every other respect the plant follows the species: lustrous palmate leaves that break early, a love of moist, well drained woodland soil, and the same magnetism for returning hummingbirds. The dwarf habit makes this red