Carolina silverbell (Halesia tetraptera) is a beautiful small tree that grows in the wild from West Virginia to northern Florida, mainly in the mountains. Sometimes it is called mountain silverbell.

The ones that stand out in my mind as being truly showy are pink-shell azalea, flame azalea, Pieris (fetterbush), fringe tree (grancy ... with the common name “mountain silverbell.” ...

The Carolina silverbell, H. carolina (syn. H. tetraptera ), was the first Halesia -- much like redbud and dogwood -- is a classic understory tree. In the landscape, though, silverbell functions ...

Q: I have a pair of hairy woodpeckers pecking the trunk of my 6-year-old Carolina silverbell tree. The lower part of the trunk has significant scarring and seems to have healed over. Now the ...