Itea yunnanensis 26/3 Restock Beyond the tinted flowers

Beyond the tinted flowers

and butterflies all work the blooms

easy to place at the front of a border or in a mass

Among his returns was a double-flowered shrub with bright yellow

The upright

Itea yunnanensis 26/3 Restock Beyond the tinted flowersItea, the sweetspires, are graceful shrubs of the family Iteaceae, their name taken from the Greek word for willow. Itea yunnanensis is the Yunnan sweetspire, an evergreen species from southwestern China, close to the Chinese sweetspire but lower and more spreading, with more leathery, darker green leaves that are somewhat holly like and toothed on juvenile plants and smooth edged at maturity. In spring the plant carries slender four inch racemes of