Check out this beauty, the Lespedeza "Gilbralter," finally blooming. I first eyed it at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, a whole hedge of them between a large home and the beach road. There being no one around, I took down the address and wrote them a letter asking what it was and enclosing a SASE. Months went by and I’d concluded these gardeners were atypically unhelpful when finally I got a reply from their landscaper. I should have known.
Anyway, I was happy to get my answer and I’ve been enjoying it and getting beaucoup compliments ever since. You can see its lovely cascading form but what’s particularly interesting is that it’s a nonwoody shrub. In other words, it dies completely to the ground every winter, only to grow five feet tall again the next season. But as a local landscaper once warned me, don’t even think about ever moving one after it’s full grown.
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