Dichroa versicolor Fred Heutte a quiet run of color

a quiet run of color across the coldest

and that is the version with staying power

the fern offered here is for the woodland garden

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Buxus balearica is the bold-leaved boxwood: an upright shrub or small tree related to the common boxwood

Dichroa versicolor Fred Heutte a quiet run of colorThe genus name comes from the Greek dichroos, meaning "two colored," and Dichroa versicolor presses the idea further: bloom color shifts with soil chemistry much the way a hydrangea does, swinging from deep cobalt to soft mauve depending on how much aluminum a plant can draw up. The species epithet versicolor only doubles down on the point, promising a shrub that refuses to settle on a single shade. Botanically this is the close cousin of the more