Fothergilla gardenii Allen Bush usually prostrate mat

usually prostrate mat

sweetening a porch or a greenhouse in spring

peony-form flowers hold longer

when little else is flowering

or spilling over a low wall

Fothergilla gardenii Allen Bush usually prostrate matThis one is named for a doctor and a place. The epithet gardenii honors Alexander Garden, the Scottish physician who settled in Charleston in 1752 and was first to find this shrub, describe the species, and send a plant across to England, the same Garden the gardenia is named for, though this Carolina native may be the truer monument. (The genus belongs to his English correspondent Dr. John Fothergill, in whose garden the shrub later grew; the species