Monticello Small Batch Hickory Syrup

Monticello Small Batch Hickory SyrupWildwood's Hickory Syrup, made for Monticello, is produced in small batches from select hickory bark and still involves the tradition of foraging in Virginia's forests. Once gathered, the bark is washed, roasted, and extracted to develop its exquisite taste enjoyed the world over. Hickory extract is recognized as being used by Native American Indians for its healing properties. The Iroquois in particular were known to use a decoction of the bark

Habit: Compact shrub to 4 feet high and 2 feet wide

collected by his son William Bartram fifteen years later

The small lavender flowers attract bees and butterflies

Habit: Grows 30 to 50 feet high and 25 feet wide

The image of an estate presided over by a benevolent Thomas Jefferson has given way to a more complex view of Monticello as a working plantation

with its engraved grapevine pattern

2 ½"h x 6 ¼"w

and their flowers attract butterflies

In that sense

Spellberg's revelatory understanding of this radical notion of the Founders is more urgent than ever

In 1798 Thomas Jefferson included this tree in a box of plants sent from Philadelphia to his son-in-law Thomas Mann Randolph

Herbaceous North American perennial