Emmenopterys henryi David Geiger Unlike the familiar bigleaf hydrangeas

Unlike the familiar bigleaf hydrangeas

Colocasia esculenta 'Black Magic' rises like a gothic dream from the soil

Standing water is no obstacle

an elegant cascade and a magnet for butterflies and bees

Emmenopterys henryi David Geiger Unlike the familiar bigleaf hydrangeasRare in cultivation and rarer still in bloom, Emmenopterys henryi is a Chinese tree of the coffee family, Rubiaceae, and a close relative of the native fever tree, Pinckneya. Woodlanders was the first nursery to offer the species in the United States, and one of our own trees was the first to display the showy, pink bracted flowers in the Western Hemisphere, a small piece of horticultural history rooted in South Carolina soil. The tree carries the