Viburnum tinus 'Spring Bouquet' Gulfstream Nursery a compacted lawn

a compacted lawn

and for a quiet piece of South Carolina garden history handed down from Edmund Cuthbert

Half of that heritage is pure legend

held out like little trumpets that hummingbirds cannot resist

Viburnum tinus 'Spring Bouquet' Gulfstream Nursery a compacted lawnThey carry their Roman name almost unchanged. Tinus was what the Romans called the shrub two thousand years ago, the name Pliny the Elder set down in his Natural History, and when Linnaeus came to catalogue them he simply kept it. The reason gardeners have held onto Viburnum tinus just as long is that they flower in the cold. While the rest of the garden is shut down for winter, they cover themselves in tight clusters of deep carmine buds that open a