Fothergilla x intermedia 'Mt. Airy' Richard Lynch The plant came to Dirr

The plant came to Dirr from Crathes Castle Garden in Scotland

and deer pass the aromatic leaves by

Glyptostrobus pensilis

Cycas revoluta belongs to the cycads

Fothergilla x intermedia 'Mt. Airy' Richard Lynch The plant came to DirrThe native fothergillas were choice but scarcely available garden shrubs when Woodlanders first began to offer them back in 1980. This one, a hybrid of Fothergilla gardenii and F. major, was found by Dr. Michael Dirr at the Mt. Airy Arboretum in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has since become the most widely grown fothergilla of all, and deservedly so. Fothergilla belongs to the witch hazel family, Hamamelidaceae, and shares that family's gift for honey