Quercus virginiana Brookgreen Gardens or in any bed that

or in any bed that welcomes a tall

and the genus name

ideally on the alkaline

where the winter-long bloom feeds hummingbirds and butterflies through the dry months when little else is working

and standing among the most cold-hardy buddlejas in cultivation

Quercus virginiana Brookgreen Gardens or in any bed thatFew trees carry the weight of the South the way the live oak does. Quercus virginiana is the massive, broad spreading, long lived evergreen oak of the coastal plain from Virginia to Texas, the tree of avenues and old plantations, of moss hung branches reaching low and wide over generations of the same ground. Given room and time, a live oak grows far wider than tall, the great limbs sweeping out and often down to rest on the earth, and the whole tree