Crataegus harbisonii prophouse-summer-2027 The century plant is the

The century plant is the great architectural agave

the tree suits the collector of hardy citrus and the gardener who wants a good-looking evergreen that fruits where tender citrus cannot

water-wise tree with real character

so the whole shrub seems to flicker when wind moves through the canes

Crataegus harbisonii prophouse-summer-2027 The century plant is theCrataegus harbisonii is a small, thorny, deciduous hawthorn with unusually large leaves for the genus, white spring flowers, and red fall fruit. Behind that modest description stands one of the rarest trees in North America: Harbison's hawthorn was perhaps once fairly common around central Tennessee, but is now all but extinct in the wild. The hawthorn expert Ron Lance, after intensive searches of the formerly known and likely sites around Nashville,