Quercus virginiana Brookgreen Gardens and as the old Woodlanders

and as the old Woodlanders catalog has always put it

where the winter-long bloom feeds hummingbirds and butterflies through the dry months when little else is working

white to soft pink and freckled with deeper rose inside

and clean modern landscapes where softness is wanted amid stone and sun

Quercus virginiana Brookgreen Gardens and as the old WoodlandersFew trees carry the weight of the South the way the live oak does. Quercus virginiana is the massive, broad spreading, long lived evergreen oak of the coastal plain from Virginia to Texas, the tree of avenues and old plantations, of moss hung branches reaching low and wide over generations of the same ground. Given room and time, a live oak grows far wider than tall, the great limbs sweeping out and often down to rest on the earth, and the whole tree