Sageretia theezans Richard Lynch This plant grows well in

This plant grows well in southern zones and performs best in full sun with support

knitting across a bank or filling the front of a woodland bed

For the native-plant gardener

writing that the few dollars spent on plants produces dividends unparalleled in the New York Stock Exchange

whose fruit swells to the size of a ping-pong ball

Sageretia theezans Richard Lynch This plant grows well inSageretia theezans, the Chinese sweet plum, is a graceful evergreen shrub of the buckthorn family, native to southern China, where the plant grows to some three to eight feet with fine, zigzagging branches, small glossy leaves, and a handsome flaking, multicolored trunk. New growth often emerges bronze before settling to deep green, and in the mild winter gardens that suit the species the foliage holds the year round, giving a dense, fine textured