Tripterygium regelii 25/2 Restock Site with care: the roots

Site with care: the roots

and a drift naturalizes slowly into a handsome colony over the years

evergreen to the ground with none of the gapping that lesser shrubs fall into

sword-shaped leaves boldly striped in white and green that stay dense and upright through the season and lend crisp

especially in southern landscapes where gardeners want plants with cultural and ecological integrity

Tripterygium regelii 25/2 Restock Site with care: the rootsTripterygium regelii is a big, rambling, almost vine like shrub from the temperate woodlands of Japan, Korea, and Manchuria, closely related to the celebrated thunder god vine of Chinese medicine. The genus name is a piece of plain description: from the Greek treis, three, and pteryx, a wing, for the papery three winged fruits that hang in pale green clusters after flowering. The species honors Eduard von Regel, the nineteenth century botanist who