Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Rotundifolius' Fred Meyer and can be espaliered against

and can be espaliered against a warm wall to show off its flowering wood

so that from a distance the whole shrub takes on a warm

holding color in the moist and shaded corners just as the rest of the garden tires

comb-like divisions

coastal plain

Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Rotundifolius' Fred Meyer and can be espaliered againstAmong the false hollies, 'Rotundifolius' is the gentle contrarian. Where the species arms the youthful leaves with fierce holly spines, this old form lays them down entirely: the leaves are small, thick, and rounded, nearly circular and spineless, a heavy, puckered dark green that reads more like boxwood or a miniature bergenia than an osmanthus. The oddity is the whole appeal, a curiosity that stops a plantsman mid path. The name heterophyllus, Greek