Distylium myricoides (Piroche form) Edible and shelter from hard freezes

and shelter from hard freezes at the cold edge of the range

give room for the tall stems

Through the warm season the shrub opens single white flowers

lending a planting a settled sense of place

where the skyrocket flowers and the red-and-blue fruit can carry a planting from midsummer into fall

Distylium myricoides (Piroche form) Edible and shelter from hard freezesDistylium myricoides belongs to the witch hazel family, Hamamelidaceae, an evergreen cousin of the fragrant winter witch hazels, though the kinship shows in the flowers rather than the leaves. The Piroche form is a distinct, low slung selection of the species, chosen for a broad, spreading habit and strong horizontal branching that make the plant read more as living groundwork than as an upright shrub. Where the typical isu tree arches upward into a