Fothergilla gardenii Allen Bush and we hope those clones

and we hope those clones survive in cultivation somewhere still

when little else is flowering

peony-form flowers hold longer

and across Asia various parts have been reached for against fever

The showy bracts open white and often blush pink as they age

Fothergilla gardenii Allen Bush and we hope those clonesThis one is named for a doctor and a place. The epithet gardenii honors Alexander Garden, the Scottish physician who settled in Charleston in 1752 and was first to find this shrub, describe the species, and send a plant across to England, the same Garden the gardenia is named for, though this Carolina native may be the truer monument. (The genus belongs to his English correspondent Dr. John Fothergill, in whose garden the shrub later grew; the species