Crataegus opaca Size:1 Gallon drifts on the air rather

drifts on the air rather than waiting to be found

In the wild the plant grows from Hong Kong and the Guangdong islands south to Hainan and into Vietnam

clothed in the deeply cut

Ichang Lemon shrugs off cold to around ten to fifteen degrees Fahrenheit

the Lowcountry gardener building a heat-and-humidity-proof border

Crataegus opaca Size:1 Gallon drifts on the air ratherThis is a tree you harvest from a boat. Crataegus opaca, the western mayhaw, grows wild in the flooded bottoms of the Gulf Coastal Plain, the cypress sloughs and pond margins of east Texas, Louisiana, and the Deep South, and when their fruit ripens in late spring it drops straight into the water and floats. For generations Southern families went out in May with boats, nets, and scoops to gather the bobbing red haws off the surface, a fast three weeks