Franklinia altamaha 25/3 Restock and a bay leaf still

and a bay leaf still deepens the stews

is the whole argument for growing the plant

remembers sprigs hung over doorways and holy pictures to guard the house

Every part of the plant is poisonous

Franklinia altamaha 25/3 Restock and a bay leaf stillFew plants carry a story like the Franklin tree. Collected from the banks of the Altamaha River in Georgia by John and William Bartram in the 1760s and named by them for their friend Benjamin Franklin, Franklinia alatamaha was last seen growing wild around 1803 and has never been found in nature since. Every Franklinia alive today, in every garden and arboretum on earth, descends from the seed the Bartrams carried home to Philadelphia. To grow one is