Lithocarpus edulis 'Variegata' Check with George on the same dependable

on the same dependable

where the flower serves as the emblem of Chengdu

small ornamental grasses

silvery shrub will bloom for much of the year in mild climates

grown since antiquity for a long summer of bloom

Lithocarpus edulis 'Variegata' Check with George on the same dependableA broadleaf evergreen with a story, this variegated tanbark oak came into the country from Japan through the late Dr. Fred Meyer of the United States National Arboretum, a botanist and tireless plant explorer, and was almost certainly first offered to American gardeners by Woodlanders. The draw is the foliage: dense, leathery, glossy leaves, each dark green blade split by an irregular central streak of gold and cream, so that a whole tree seems lit