Quercus geminata Medicinal in the thick

in the thick

Lonicera fragrantissima and Lonicera standishii

dense enough in leaf to serve as an informal screen once the flowers have passed

and the occasional hummingbird all summer long

smooth-edged

Quercus geminata Medicinal in the thickSand live oak is the live oak of the sandhills, a tough, evergreen cousin of the great Southern live oak scaled for drier, leaner ground. Where Quercus virginiana spreads into a vast shade tree, this species usually stays a small tree or even a shrub, dark and dense and salt proof, holding leathery evergreen leaves through the year on the deep, dry sands of the coastal plain. The two are close kin, long lumped together, and the telling differences are