Aesculus glabra var. nana Conifers a fast-drying oil long prized

a fast-drying oil long prized for paints

'Splashy' earns a place for the eye

for the word hickory itself comes from the Virginia Algonquian pawcohiccora

growing dense and rounded and asking little

Aesculus glabra var. nana Conifers a fast-drying oil long prizedA rare dwarf form of the Ohio buckeye, Aesculus glabra var. nana was found in just a few places in the hills of northern Alabama and northern Georgia, far south of the species' usual range. Where the typical Ohio buckeye climbs to thirty feet or more, this dwarf settles into a rounded shrub of about six feet, carrying the same handsome palmate leaves divided into finger like leaflets that flush early and color in fall. Upright clusters of greenish