Hydrangea quercifolia 'Alice' 26/7 Restock fall-flowering evergreen with documented winter

fall-flowering evergreen with documented winter survival to fifteen below zero

Every Franklinia alive today

spicy when bruised

or a native garden

and that is the version with staying power

Hydrangea quercifolia 'Alice' 26/7 Restock fall-flowering evergreen with documented winterThe oakleaf hydrangea is the great four season native shrub of the American Southeast, and 'Alice' is one of the grandest selections of the species. Hydrangea quercifolia grows wild in the rich woods and ravines of a small range centered on Alabama and Mississippi, where the naturalist William Bartram found the shrub in the 1770s and called it singular and beautiful. Alabama later made the oakleaf hydrangea the official state wildflower, a rare honor