Helianthus verticillatus Nuccio's Nurseries and to ginseng itself

and to ginseng itself

Photos by George Mitchell

a hot late-season color that hummingbirds and pollinating insects work eagerly

Woodlanders obtained the Louisiana bluestar years ago from Brookgreen Gardens on the South Carolina coast

Helianthus verticillatus Nuccio's Nurseries and to ginseng itselfHelianthus verticillatus is a sunflower you grow as much for the story as the flower, though the flower holds up on merit. The plainest field mark is the leaves: narrow, lance shaped, and arranged in distinct whorls of three or four around the stem rather than in the usual opposite or alternate pairs, a tidy structural signature that names the plant and sets the species apart from every common sunflower. Tall and strong stemmed, the plant rises six to