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This plant has gone around under several names (chapana, aff. alpina, etc.) but we think it is likely pauciflorum due to its great resemblance to a specimen of that species we are growing from a Wynn-Jones collection that could be the same origin as these. Regardless of what its called this is a real beauty that has been thriving in the Comox, BC garden of our friends Kailey and Nathalie (Wild Oasis Plants!) who shared the seed with us. Rusty fuzzed stems and petioles that are blushed purple-pink closer to the leaves which are an attractively dusty matte-textured dark green. Many of these seedlings show a nice red flush to the emerging foliage as well.
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.
This species is known as the "Silky Camellia" and while not a camellia it is as valuable and coveted as silk and in many ways as finicky to produce. A fine trader indeed is the one willing to travel the route by which seed can be procured, and our botanical Marco Polo in this case is the Stewartia king of Georgia, Jack Johnston. You'll need a bit of woodland shade in your Xanadu and careful handling as these don't like root disturbance but when the large white blossoms embossed with a center of deep purple blue-anthered stamens gets going your garden will become stately pleasure dome the envy of which will spread across continents.
Thanks to Will Johnson for sharing pictures from the parent plants in Jack's garden!
These are seedlings from our much-coveted tree on our border which is a superior selection introduced by the Univeristy of British Columbia. The tree is apomictic which means the seeds are gentically identical to the parent. Blue-green leaves, white flowers and stunning pink fruit in summer.
Seldom available central Oregon to northern California sessile species that is just dynamite. Big white flowers with petals standing straight up from the lightly mottled leaves and producing to varying degrees, a sweet lemon scent. Tubers at or near flowering size.
This diminutive Felt Fern is widely distributed in China and Taiwan and differs quite markedly from the increasingly ubiquitous Pyrrosia lingua with 6" strappy leaves soft as the ears on our friends' new kittens, Oliver and Stanley. This would be found as an epiphyte in trees or shaded rock outcrops or cliffs that are moist, where it grows nearly horizontal. Would make an excellent stumpery groundcover element.
In an effort to make remediances for the recent geographical name flux spurred by one who shall not be named we are gonna call this "Vancouver Sunshine" rather than "Oregon Sunshine". Particularly so because this was discovered by our friend and vaunted Vancouver Island rock gardener Janice Currie from Sooke Hills near Victoria. A particularly low growing form of this variable species which forms a dense flat mat in stony substrate that would make an excellent blanket to keep you warm and safe in these tumultuous times. This is one Canadian import that comes tariff and animosity free, and there are certainly lessons to be learned from its humble but cheery yellow daisy flowers.
A Mexican collection of this tropical begonia by FRBC board member Cody Hinchliff from the exceptionally biodiverse mountains of Oaxaca Mexico. This Begonia will not be hardy to hard freezes but will make a great pot plant for a shadier, more humid area. Found growing in the jungle understory along the roadside, nice big plants up to about 3 feet tall with mature leaves the size of appetizer plates and inflorescences of many small white flowers rising above them.
Tolmie Star-Tulip or Pussy Ears are the colloquial sobriquets for this diminutive Oregon and California native. Historically in Washington but extirpated. This species is very tolerant of winter rains growing from the coast up into the Cascades. Very fuzzy flowers with 3 broadly rounded generally white petals and 3 narrow lavender petals. Freshly dug bulbs - 1 bulb per pot
Begonias like the world of high fashion can boggle your mind when it comes to the myriad expressions of color, form, and pattern. Yet at the end of the day you can still feel reasonably safe in the knowledge that a dress is a dress and a Begonia is a Begonia, confident in your ability to recognize them as such. Then comes a paradigm-shifting renegade that rewires your brain and flips up with down, Lady Gaga strutting in the meat dress, Bjork encircled by a swan, or a Begonia that looks like an Elatostemma crossed with a Fuchsia. Love em or hate em they are sure to strike up a conversation. This arching red-stemmed Begonia with its small leaves and pendulous flowers is one of the most talked about and coveted plants in our warm greenhouse, and the shock that accompanies the revelation of its taxonomic nature always satisfies. Won't tolerate frost but makes a great conservatory or houseplant and does well in mobile containers too.
This was an incidental find as we botanized along a small stream in a rich deciduous forest sprinkled with a remarkable variety of broadleaf evergreen shrubs. We had a hard time looking above the ground as it was a scatter garden of Ophiopogon, Asarum, Reineckea, ferns and more Hepatica henryi than we ever imagined seeing. There was a small Sanicula out of flower but we hoped it would be the blue-flowered Sanicula coerulescens which we have grown for many years, although the leaves on this looked a bit different. Once we flowered the seedlings, we were delighted with the blue flowers and said "Another form of Sanicula coerulescens"! But then it kept growing and eventually was not unlike a foliar basketball in the garden which is so not coerulescens! Far Reaches plant locksmith, Silas, worked the Sanicula key and with ample caveats that there are few good comparative images online, pronounced it may be Sanicula orthacantha. Rare or absent in cultivation despite it ranging from India through China into Vietnam and Cambodia. Shade and moist. Zone 6 or lower.
A collection by plantsman Philip MacDougall from 10,500 feet in Taiwan of this excellent Squirrel's Foot fern which is one of the hardiest species growing up to 11,500 feet. Typically this is epiphytic on trees or epilithic on rocks with the takeaway for cultivation success being good drainage. This has easily handled 10F in a stumpery. Previously sold as Davallia cf. trichomanoides, before ace plant hunter Nick Macer gave us a tip on the correct ID, thanks Nick!