Decumaria barbara Canopy Trees and steadfast in quiet beauty

and steadfast in quiet beauty

upright look that has made Foster hollies a landscape staple

The uncommon white-berried form of coral ardisia

at a doorstep

Decumaria barbara Canopy Trees and steadfast in quiet beautyDecumaria barbara, the native woodvamp or wild climbing hydrangea, is a self clinging woody vine of the southeastern United States, grown for glossy foliage and flat, creamy white flower clusters that echo those of the true hydrangeas in early summer. In the wild the vine belongs to wet bottomland forests and swamp margins, and also climbs in the rich, moist coves of the southern Appalachians, hauling itself up tree trunks on hairy aerial rootlets,