Comptonia peregrina Medicinal Plants Since Polystichum acrostichoides holds onto

Since Polystichum acrostichoides holds onto its leaves for several years

Buddleia 'Pink Delight' is topped with large 1' long flower heads delighting both butterflies and hummingbirds from June until frost

gather your neighbors for the fragrant flowering ritual

strap-like

even when they aren't in flower

Comptonia peregrina Medicinal Plants Since Polystichum acrostichoides holds ontoI am not a fern I am a shrub and a fragrant one at that! The common name, sweet fern, sums up its namesake well. Comptonia hails from Canada south to northern Georgia, where it is usually found on sandy dry soils in full sun as well as under an open canopy of sparse pine trees. The thick, fern like, green leaves are deliciously fragrant, as is common in its family, Myricaceae think wax myrtles. Comptonia peregrina spreads by short stolons, so don't