Quercus virginiana Brookgreen Gardens ideally on the alkaline

ideally on the alkaline

and the genus name

as a security barrier under a window

where the winter-long bloom feeds hummingbirds and butterflies through the dry months when little else is working

red and mildly sweet

Quercus virginiana Brookgreen Gardens ideally on the alkalineFew trees carry the weight of the South the way the live oak does. Quercus virginiana is the massive, broad spreading, long lived evergreen oak of the coastal plain from Virginia to Texas, the tree of avenues and old plantations, of moss hung branches reaching low and wide over generations of the same ground. Given room and time, a live oak grows far wider than tall, the great limbs sweeping out and often down to rest on the earth, and the whole tree