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Originally collected as Thymus drucei amidst the limestone barrens of County Clare, Ireland by Far Reaches Botanical Conservancy board member Cody Hinchliff. A hotspot of botanical diversity where unique climate and geology combine to create a pocket of delightful rarities often found in higher elevations. These are limited to far Western Europe more generally and have the usual fragrant rounded leaves of Thyme on creeping red stems. The flowers set them apart however being a good bit larger than the foliage and appearing in such quantities as to almost entirely obscure the latter. Forms a small mat or clambering clump. 

Imagine prizing open the rigid and unrelenting fingers of one Kelly Dodson and wresting from him prized jewels and precious heirlooms. A scenario not far from the one that has finally made this exquisite Central American bulb available to you, our beloved customers, for whom we endure much separation anxiety and grief. The flowers like little flames must be very akin to the will-o-the-wisps in their native cloud forest, luring unwary travelers to an endless curse of botanical lust. Desirous of moist, well draining mix and not amicable to deep frosts. Bulb at or near flowering size.

They don't told us we couldn't bring back any live animals from China, so with bufophilic dreams crushed we settled for the next best thing and brought back this incredibly vigorous toad lily from Anhui province. Quickly growing to form a patch of mighty stems clearing 4ft tall in our collector's garden with large broad leaves irregularly spotted (especially when newly emerged) and followed by delightful pink and white polka-dotted octopi in late summer and early fall. One of the best in our not unsizable Tricyrtis collection and well worth spending some quality time with sitting on your toadstool.

Toad Lily. Our collection from Asia this toadie was found on the lower flanks of the mountain we were exploring where it favored openings in the forest where it got dappled light and a brief bit of direct sun. Distinct softly haired velvety leaves with white flowers ruby spotted on the reflexed tepals curving down below the jester's cap of similarly colored naughty bits.