Another native plant that deserves more use is one of the buckeyes, Aesculus parviflora, the bottlebrush buckeye.

Aesculus parviflora: bottlebrush buckeye (eastern North America)

On view, for example, will be the grounds of a 15-acre 1917 Shingle Style mansion in Matunuck, which are planted with espaliered magnolias, rare evergreens, bamboo and bottlebrush buckeye.

They are bottlebrush buckeye (Aesculus parviflora), summersweet (Clethra alnifolia Ruby Spice), Mahonia bealei and Thuja Green Giant.

They played in groves of bottlebrush buckeye and a place they called Ghost Canyon - because of the white paper birches that stood out like skeletons against the dark green curtain of native hemlocks.

The bottlebrush buckeyes, brought as mere root divisions from Longwood, are now great green mounds of palm-shaped leaves; the winter hazels, started as cuttings from Longwood, fill the air with their perfume in February.

The fastigiate oak was an acorn in Innsbruck in 1950; the bottlebrush buckeye chestnut or, more elegantly,Aesculus parviflora, was a birthday present tree for Mrs Hewer, and is decorated with white candle-flowers in mid-summer; the nearby amelanchier, flowering in April, is the Professor's birthday tree.

Among the smaller species, the bottlebrush buckeye Aesculus parviflora also makes a very interesting and unusual flowering shrub.

Aesculus parviflora (bottlebrush buckeye); syn.

Also known as the horse chestnut shrub (Aesculus parviflora), this native plant was first discovered in the 18th century by the American botanist William Bartram.

Aesculus parviflora was introduced to British horticulture through the activities of John Fraser, who made his first botanizing trip through the American South in 1785.

They are bottlebrush buckeye (Aesculus parviflora), summersweet (Clethra alnifolia Ruby Spice), Mahonia bealei and Thuja Green Giant.

The fastigiate oak was an acorn in Innsbruck in 1950; the bottlebrush buckeye chestnut or, more elegantly,Aesculus parviflora, was a birthday present tree for Mrs Hewer, and is decorated with white candle-flowers in mid-summer; the nearby amelanchier, flowering in April, is the Professor's birthday tree.