{"title":"Buttonbush (Cephalanthus)","description":"\u003cp\u003eButtonbush flowers are perfect spheres, an inch across, white and bristling with protruding styles like a pincushion or a small firework caught mid-burst. The whole shrub goes over in midsummer, and for the two or three weeks the flowers last they are covered in bees, wasps, and swallowtails from morning until the light goes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCephalanthus occidentalis\u003c\/em\u003e is a native of pond margins, ditches, and swamp edges across most of North America, and takes standing water for months at a stretch, which makes the shrub one of the few genuinely reliable answers for the wettest corner of a property. Waterfowl eat the seed heads through winter. Give the plants sun and wet feet, cut hard every few years to keep the frame from going leggy, and otherwise let them be.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cephalanthus-occidentalis","title":"Cephalanthus occidentalis","description":"\u003cp\u003eButtonbush is a rounded, deciduous native shrub, easily trained as a small multi-stemmed tree, grown for the curious globe-shaped flowers that give the plant its name. From early summer into fall, creamy-white pincushion balls about an inch across stud the branches, each a sphere of tiny tubular flowers with projecting styles that lend a fireworks effect, intensely fragrant and alive with bees, butterflies, and other pollinators.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA plant of wet places in the wild, buttonbush thrives along pond edges, in rain gardens, ditches, and seasonally flooded ground, and tolerates standing water that defeats most shrubs, yet takes an ordinary garden bed in stride given sun and steady moisture. The rounded seed heads that follow the flowers persist into winter and feed waterfowl and other birds, a second season of interest after the bloom. Widely native across North America, buttonbush is one of the great pollinator and wetland-wildlife shrubs, and a handsome, easy choice for the damp, sunny corners of a garden.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057829908595,"sku":"CEPH-OCCI-01G","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/CephalanthusoccidentalisSAWWoodlanders.jpg?v=1739843006"}],"url":"https:\/\/woodlanders.net\/collections\/cephalanthus.oembed","provider":"Woodlanders","version":"1.0","type":"link"}