Sageretia theezans Richard Lynch knitting across a bank or

knitting across a bank or filling the front of a woodland bed

writing that the few dollars spent on plants produces dividends unparalleled in the New York Stock Exchange

Give full sun and moist to wet ground

mulched with pine straw to keep the shallow roots cool

Sageretia theezans Richard Lynch knitting across a bank orSageretia theezans, the Chinese sweet plum, is a graceful evergreen shrub of the buckthorn family, native to southern China, where the plant grows to some three to eight feet with fine, zigzagging branches, small glossy leaves, and a handsome flaking, multicolored trunk. New growth often emerges bronze before settling to deep green, and in the mild winter gardens that suit the species the foliage holds the year round, giving a dense, fine textured