Quercus georgiana 25/3 Restock but adapts happily to ordinary

but adapts happily to ordinary well-drained garden soil given plenty of sun

characterful tree rather than a shade giant

the tree suits the collector of hardy citrus and the gardener who wants a good-looking evergreen that fruits where tender citrus cannot

a warm two-toned glow that reads from across the garden and recalls the wild flame azaleas that bloom beneath longleaf pines

in the ground through zones 8b to 10 or in a large container farther north

Quercus georgiana 25/3 Restock but adapts happily to ordinaryGeorgia oak is a rarity in every sense, a small, refined red oak so restricted in the wild that most people have never seen one. The species clings to the granite outcrops of west central Georgia and central Alabama, the flatrock country around Stone Mountain, where thin soil keeps the plant stunted and shrubby; give the same tree good ground and it grows into a shapely small tree of fifteen to thirty feet, clothed in small, glossy, bristle tipped