Remember our Carolina Sweetshrub growing in Meeks Park?  I show it to you every spring.  Well, we were in Murphy earlier in the week, and I saw this bush.  It looked very familiar to me, but I couldn't be sure, so I let my SEEK app identify it for me.  It said Carolina Sweetshrub, Calycanthus floridus, same genus and species as the ones in the park.

 

Funny thing though, these leaves and flowers are about three times bigger than the ones in the park.  Hmmm.  I wonder if it is the difference between native/wild and cultivated.  Maybe this one came from a plant nursery.  It is growing in a prominent place downtown, so it had to have been planted there, not just wild.  Anyway, I will be looking to see if this one is available, and if it is indeed the same thing.  

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!