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Add some spice to your food with this Japanese allium! Oh wait that would be Allium togarashi....
I guess that makes sense this is way more sweet than spicy. Ultra kawaii miniature allium with starry pink pom-pom flowers in late summer and early fall, only found on one small island off the coast of Shikoku (one of Japan's major islands) its rarity is only rivalled by its desirability. Likes a sandy soil.
Potentially the first offering of this Taiwanese endemic fairy bells, collected by Pascal Bruggeman. Spindly green stems and narrow bladed leaves serve as the perfect garnish to the large, zesty, lemon-colored, waxen bells that rival even Kirengeshoma and set themselves apart from the more common Disporum uniflorum in their flared open mouth. That final pop of acid necessary for the balanced shade garden so coveted in fine gardening.
A royal fern whose lineage through fern royalty was unspoilt until it graced our worn proletariat hands. The original plant of this form with tripinnate leaves, meaning one extra degree of division resulting in a feathery look, was found in Kerry, Ireland but subsequently lost to cultivation. 90 years later British pterido-maniac Martin Rickard chanced upon another in a ditch in that same county. From there it passed to local fern celebrity Sue Olsen and through her Hardy Fern Foundation to the Elisabeth Miller garden where its current caretaker Richie Steffen graciously bestowed upon me one single frond from which come all of these spore-grown plants. Don't worry if the fronds are not yet fully feathered, its a trait that develops and strengthens with age.
For once the embarrassingly long succession of names appended to this plant before arriving on what we now believe to be the correct one happened before we broadcast them online. Unfortunately that means you all have been kept waiting for far too long! All the time we were haunted by Flora of China keys for Lysimachia, Pseudolysimachion, and Veronicastrum these were gracefully waving their long tails of lavender-blue flowers out in the garden tantalizing. Very similar in appearance to our North American Veronicastrums but with longer and slightly larger flowers in the aforementioned blue-to-purple tones. Seemingly new to cultivation outside of China!
An unusually deeply colored selection of this Eastern US native dwarf Iris. Despite its Yankee origins this one has taken up with the enemy inheriting the name of noted British botanophile Collingwood 'Cherry' Ingram. What can we say the Anglo-saxon can't help but claim credit for what isn't theirs. Grows to just a couple inches high, dark purple flowers as big or bigger than the foliage
Perhaps the most widely grown species of this genus rarely seen in the Northern hemisphere but much beloved by those in the know. This is due to its history of cultivation as an edible substitute to taters, but having seen the tubers myself I think I'll be stickin' to spuds. Also perhaps one of the hardier members with some making claims all the way down to 7b. However the range is large and varied in elevation, this Guatemalan collection as of yet remains untrialled. Ours go winter-dormant in the greenhouses which makes it a good candidate for pot culture anyway, coming out in the warmer months to twine its way upwards until it explodes into a glorious array of bright pink, lime throated flowers.
The myriad of skinny little wimp linguas flee before the broad shouldered chad heteractis with its rippling dimorphic chest hair of stellate boat-shaped rays and rich wooly under layer, so says the Flora of China's arcane key . At least that's how I remember it. All this to say that this exciting little number we collected in Yunnan boasts wider fronds and more uniformly attractive indument than the more commonly offered Pyrrosia lingua. Rare to see this species in cultivation (though it's possible some linguas or "sp."s in the market are actually heteractis) and the elevation of this collection leaves some question as to its hardiness as compared to those finally reaching the mainstream but rarity and risk often go hand in hand.
A Far Reaches Botanical Conservancy Offering
A hybridizing dead end with no hope of winning the Lhasa Zingiberaceae Club Roscoea show and getting its time on the podium with adoring retirees from around the world ooh-ing and ahh-ing from their couches. Nonetheless these are sweet plants with their own appeal, just like your friendly mutt. Short with red stems and green leaves and flowers like that of "Red Gurkha" but with a varying degree of violet tinge.
