Symphyotrichum georgianum Woodlanders Introduction and for anyone who has

and for anyone who has been looking for an evergreen oak with the texture of a willow and the shimmer of silver leaves in the wind

to fifteen feet and more

place the plant exactly in that open

the mountain hydrangeas still bloom on old wood

and boggy edges this holly has long been a defining presence

Symphyotrichum georgianum Woodlanders Introduction and for anyone who hasIn the open oak hickory woodlands and fire maintained savannas that once covered the upland South, Georgia aster was a fixture, a late season native sending up violet blue flowers in October and November at the precise moment when almost everything else had finished. That landscape is largely gone now, and the aster went with most of it. What remains are scattered populations in Georgia, Alabama, the Carolinas, and a handful of other Piedmont sites,