Viburnum japonicum prophouse-summer-2027 In the South the same

In the South the same species becomes something else entirely

acidic soils of pinewoods

have long been gathered for food

so the coppery flowers read from a distance and draw hummingbirds close

weeks ahead of any leaf

Viburnum japonicum prophouse-summer-2027 In the South the sameCarl Peter Thunberg, the Swedish physician who talked his way onto the Dutch trading island of Dejima in 1775 and used the post to become one of the first Europeans to seriously botanize a closed Japan, was the first to describe this plant to science. Richard Oldham, the last of the great Kew collectors, gathered the shrub again near Nagasaki in 1862 and called the plant, a little dismissively, a small tree on the hills. In a garden the plant never