Crataegus opaca Size:1 Gallon The woolly summersweet is the

The woolly summersweet is the southern face of the clan

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

clothed in the deeply cut

Give full sun and moderately moist

the plant can grow heavy and tangled over time and rewards a strong support and a yearly tidy

Crataegus opaca Size:1 Gallon The woolly summersweet is theThis 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