Crataegus opaca Size:1 Gallon the Lowcountry gardener building a

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

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

drifts on the air rather than waiting to be found

Give full sun and moderately moist

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

Crataegus opaca Size:1 Gallon the Lowcountry gardener building aThis 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