Fothergilla × intermedia 'Sea Spray' Pollinator Deer leave the aromatic leaves

Deer leave the aromatic leaves alone

one male covering a whole mixed planting

A specimen of this tree over 300 feet tall may be the tallest tree in the world

'Unraveled' keeps a compact three-to-four-foot scale and asks little beyond well-drained soil

the late flowers feed bees when little else blooms

Fothergilla × intermedia 'Sea Spray' Pollinator Deer leave the aromatic leaves'Sea Spray' has long traveled under the name Fothergilla major, a tidy assumption the botanists have since complicated. Run through a flow cytometer, the plant turns out to be a hybrid, F. intermedia, the meeting of mountain witch alder (F. major) and the dwarf coastal F. gardenii, the little shrub Charleston's Alexander Garden sent across to England in the 1760s, in a genus already named for John Fothergill, the London physician who tried to grow