{"product_id":"leatherwood-dirca-palustris","title":"Leatherwood - Dirca palustris","description":"\u003cp\u003eLeatherwood is an unusual and uncommonly encountered woodland plant perfect for the avid plant collector or shade gardener. Drooping yellow flowers hang like tinsel from the stems early in spring before bright green leaves emerge for the season, giving way to clear yellow fall color. Smooth grey-brown bark on young twigs gives way to a wrinklier, greyer, older bark on – let’s call them more mature – stems. Slow growing but long lived. The young stems are extraordinarily flexible, even more so than willow. They have been used for cordage and basketry. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eConditions:\u003c\/strong\u003e Part sun to medium shade; moist to mesic, slightly acidic soils with loam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 4’-6’ tall, 4'-6' wide \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eZone:\u003c\/strong\u003e 3a – 9b  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWildlife Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e Flowers attract various bees, including carpenter bees; berries feed some birds; larval host for various insects; mildly toxic to mammals, so generally deer and rabbit resistant \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhoto: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fritzflohrreynolds\/\"\u003eLaura Flohr Reynolds\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stoneleigh Plant Sale","offers":[{"title":"1 Gallon","offer_id":44552899297349,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0276\/5592\/9925\/files\/8629400353_193dbdf24d_h.jpg?v=1775132401","url":"https:\/\/natural-lands-plantsale.myshopify.com\/products\/leatherwood-dirca-palustris","provider":"Natural Lands Plant Sale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}