The LSU AgCenter's 2023 fall Louisiana Super Plant selection is Cinnamon Girl distylium (Distylium 'PIIDIST-V'). Distylium hybrids are relatively new to the plant nursery trade, making their debut in ...

What? You’ve never heard of Distylium? You’re not alone. This evergreen plant with small spring red flowers and blue green to dark green foliage is a relative newcomer to the nursery trade and ...

Distylium is my new favorite evergreen shrub for foundation plantings. When I am asked what to use to replace aging and diseased Indian hawthorn or littleleaf boxwood planted around homes as ...

Now that the holidays have passed and we all could stand to shed a few pounds, what better way to get active than tackling some yard work? Winter is a great time to plant trees and shrubs, giving them ...

While visiting the nursery section of a home-supply store, I stopped to admire some three-gallon ‘Cinnamon Girl’ Distylium shrubs. The fine-textured foliage had bronzy new growth on moderately ...

Q: Some of my evergreen shrubs are looking pretty toasty. I don’t think we got below a zone 7 winter though, and these shrubs are supposed to be hardy to that zone. Is something else going on? A: ...