Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’ Propagate dwarf fothergilla shares the family

dwarf fothergilla shares the family gift for honey-scented late-winter and spring bloom on bare or barely-leafed stems

and rewards the patient gardener with a clean

where a limequat stands in for lime with a sweeter

strap-shaped leaves

Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’ Propagate dwarf fothergilla shares the family'Annabelle' is a wild American shrub with a hometown. Around 1910 two sisters, Harriet and Amy Kirkpatrick, spotted an unusually full flowered smooth hydrangea in the woods of Union County, Illinois, dug the plant, and grew it in their garden in the town of Anna. For half a century the shrub passed hand to hand around southern Illinois as a nameless local treasure, until the University of Illinois plantsman Dr. Joseph C. McDaniel traced the trail back