{"product_id":"aesculus-parviflora","title":"Aesculus parviflora","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eIn July, when most of the shade garden has settled into a holding pattern of foliage and waiting, \u003cem\u003eAesculus parviflora\u003c\/em\u003e opens its flowers. The timing is the first surprise. The flowers themselves are the second. Each panicle is a foot or more of tightly packed white tubular blooms with conspicuous pink-red anthers projecting beyond the petals, the whole spike held upright above the foliage like something assembled by a botanical committee that could not decide between elegant and extravagant and opted for both. A mature colony in full bloom in midsummer is among the more spectacular events available to the shade gardener, and the hummingbirds and swallowtails find it reliably.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eBottlebrush buckeye is native to a relatively narrow range of rich woodland areas in Alabama, Georgia, and northern Florida, which makes its extraordinary cold hardiness something of a botanical anomaly. It performs without complaint through Zone 4 winters, which means it has traveled considerably further from home than most shrubs of its provenance. The Royal Horticultural Society gave it their Award of Garden Merit, which is their way of saying: this plant does what it is supposed to do, without drama, across a wide range of conditions. They are correct.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe shrub spreads steadily by suckers, forming broad colonies over time that expand with a patience and deliberateness that suits a woodland setting. The large, palmately compound leaves, each with five to seven leaflets, give the planting a lush, tropical-adjacent quality through summer. Fall color is a clear, warm yellow that holds for several weeks before the foliage drops cleanly. In winter the bare architectural framework of a mature colony, with its multiple arching stems and layered horizontal branching, has a presence of its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAesculus parviflora\u003c\/em\u003e is the kind of plant serious gardeners wonder why they waited to acquire. The answer is usually that it looked modest in a one-gallon pot. It does not stay that way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057807069299,"sku":"AESC-PARV-01G","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-5.jpg?v=1720136187","url":"https:\/\/woodlanders.net\/products\/aesculus-parviflora","provider":"Woodlanders","version":"1.0","type":"link"}