Fothergilla × intermedia 'Sea Spray' Pollinator valued as bitter and astringent

valued as bitter and astringent

The heavy crop ripens through late fall and winter

the late flowers feed bees when little else blooms

and something with no name in English

'Unraveled' keeps a compact three-to-four-foot scale and asks little beyond well-drained soil

Fothergilla × intermedia 'Sea Spray' Pollinator valued as bitter and astringent'Sea Spray' has long traveled under the name Fothergilla major, a tidy assumption the botanists have since complicated. Run through a flow cytometer, the plant turns out to be a hybrid, F. intermedia, the meeting of mountain witch alder (F. major) and the dwarf coastal F. gardenii, the little shrub Charleston's Alexander Garden sent across to England in the 1760s, in a genus already named for John Fothergill, the London physician who tried to grow