Callicarpa americana ‘Welch's Pink’ Groundcover Shrubs feeding early bees and butterflies

feeding early bees and butterflies

never upright

for the curious bloom in which petals and sepals look alike

acclimated trees shrug off 10 degrees Fahrenheit without permanent injury

Callicarpa americana ‘Welch's Pink’ Groundcover Shrubs feeding early bees and butterfliesEveryone who grows the native beautyberry knows the plant by the autumn display: those improbable whorls of magenta purple fruit circling every stem like something a florist arranged and forgot to bill for. 'Welch's Pink' is that plant, in a color the species was not supposed to have. Matt Welch found the original while working at the SFA Mast Arboretum and the Pineywoods Native Plant Center in Nacogdoches, a single wild plant fruiting clear, warm