Dirca palustris 25/5 Restock or desert-style planting

or desert-style planting

treat rockrose as a sun-baked Mediterranean and ask little else

makes immediate sense in bloom: the flowers are essentially all stamens

nutty treasure inside

Dirca palustris 25/5 Restock or desert-style plantingDirca palustris, the leatherwood, is a quiet native shrub with a hidden trick: branches so supple and tough they can be bent, twisted, even tied in a knot without snapping. That remarkable pliability, born of unusually soft, low lignin wood, gave rise to the names leatherwood and ropebark, and made the bark a favorite of Native peoples for cordage. A slow, rounded, understory shrub of rich eastern woodlands, leatherwood is seldom offered and quietly