Quercus georgiana 25/3 Restock the summersweet or sweet pepperbush

the summersweet or sweet pepperbush

but adapts happily to ordinary well-drained garden soil given plenty of sun

characterful tree rather than a shade giant

in the ground through zones 8b to 10 or in a large container farther north

Quercus georgiana 25/3 Restock the summersweet or sweet pepperbushGeorgia oak is a rarity in every sense, a small, refined red oak so restricted in the wild that most people have never seen one. The species clings to the granite outcrops of west central Georgia and central Alabama, the flatrock country around Stone Mountain, where thin soil keeps the plant stunted and shrubby; give the same tree good ground and it grows into a shapely small tree of fifteen to thirty feet, clothed in small, glossy, bristle tipped