Cryptomeria japonica 'Lemonade' Gulfstream Nursery gray santolina

gray santolina

holds the fruit on short stalks

and they are the good kind

Colonists knew the shrub as fever bush and wild allspice

Cryptomeria japonica 'Lemonade' Gulfstream Nursery gray santolinaA small, slow Japanese cedar that flushes the color of cold lemonade in spring, pale, almost translucent yellow, then settles into soft chartreuse through summer. The foliage stays juvenile throughout, fine and feathery rather than the awl shaped scale of a mature Cryptomeria, which gives 'Lemonade' a softer presence than most gardeners expect of a conifer. This is texture you can run a hand through. 'Lemonade' is dwarf, or close enough to it, growing