A garden anchor or a gorgeous way to block an undesirable view
lavender-white flowers dotted with gold and purple amid finely-textured minty leaves
These creamy yellow-eyed posies emerge from an unusual light green ruff of surrounding leafy sepals
blooming early spring through mid-late spring at least
despite going past its prime
Quercus vaccinifolia, Huckleberry Oak Size:0.67 qt A garden anchor or aA native from 3,0009,000 feet in Southern Oregon, California, and Nevada, this is an evergreen groundcover shrub oak. The catkins in May are like sprays of beaded filaments in orange and gold; later the light green and then brown acorns are conspicuously ornamentalnot what you were expecting on a low shrub. Leathery, small and wavy, occasionally toothed grey green leaves grow densely. This is a beautiful and very useful plant. Handsome, no doubt, but