Prunus americana 26/7 Restock or a quiet evergreen backbone

or a quiet evergreen backbone among deciduous companions

a tall clipped or informal hedge

Every so often a plant arrives not from a breeder's bench but from a neighbor's yard

In late winter and early spring the vine bursts into wide clusters of small

Prunus americana 26/7 Restock or a quiet evergreen backboneBefore European settlement reshaped the eastern landscape, Prunus americana was a fixture at the forest edge: thicket forming, thorny, and extravagantly beautiful in early spring when the plum covered itself in white flowers before the leaves had even stirred. The Lakota knew the plum as kata, the Cherokee as gunasdv, and across dozens of nations from the Great Plains to the Appalachians the tree was considered a plant of genuine importance. The