Viburnum ‘Lord Byron’ 25/6 Restock glossy leaves emerge gray-green

glossy leaves emerge gray-green

each a simple five-petaled saucer lit by a central boss of gold stamens

Give Manettia cordifolia a sunny spot with moist but well-drained soil and a fence

became the namesake when Nicaise Auguste Desvaux formally described the species in 1827 as Nephrodium kunthii

Viburnum ‘Lord Byron’ 25/6 Restock glossy leaves emerge gray-greenThe hybrid that earned a name the hard way. Viburnum 'Lord Byron' is a Southern bred cross of Viburnum obovatum, Walter's viburnum, with Viburnum rufidulum, the rusty blackhaw, created by the plantsman Paul Cox of the San Antonio Botanical Garden and named for his son. Now for the Woodlanders chapter. This viburnum lived at the nursery for years like a minor character who keeps stealing the scene: unidentified, a little mysterious, and, in all