Forestiera angustifolia 'Weeping' Medicinal By the 1930s it had

By the 1930s it had reached gardens in Europe and North America and earned an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society

calls "small

in full sun to part shade and moist

a sweet tea brewed from fermented leaves and poured over statues of the Buddha each spring to mark his birthday

Forestiera angustifolia 'Weeping' Medicinal By the 1930s it hadForestiera angustifolia 'Weeping' is a distinctive pendulous form of the Texas desert olive, an intricately branched native shrub whose cascading, weeping branches make it a living piece of sculpture. Fine and twiggy, clothed in small narrow leaves, the plant drapes and tumbles in a way the wild shrub never does, and reveals a fine tracery of branches in winter once the leaves have fallen. Tough as the Texas brush country that bore it, this is a plant