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A 2012 Chinese collection of one of our favorite Schefflera species (and Schefflera is a favorite genus!) remarkable for its second layer of leaflets and tendency to be extremely floriferous with globose white flowers aplenty. This was a small multi-trunked tree in the wild and is shaping up to be very similar in our collector's garden where it was knocked back by a particularly cold winter but has excelled since.
While Leopard Plant is nothing new in the garden world this species is definitely not something you see every day. Restricted to a small area of far east Russia and described by the Soviets in 1965 there is little mention of it to be found though it seems to be fairly well represented in European botanic gardens. Despite the KGB style information black out the sunny yellow flower stalks and classic heart shaped leaves make it anything but intimidating.
This species is the wellspring of great cultivars like 'Night Heron' and 'Green Giant' but this classic representation of the wild species, wild collected by Aaron Floden, is no slouch either. Not everyone is willing to give a starring role to a Disporum and this one performs much better as support than the 4-6' tall cultivars. Maintains the same alien new shoots and metallic blue berries but tops out at a manageable 3-4'.
Plants from wild seed of this Himalayan Bergenia species that we seem incapable of having too many different collections of. Its easy to see why when the red flushed new leaves arrive. Those leaves are smaller than other species and form a nice low mat with dark pink flowers in the Spring.
Yet another of diverse and headachingly difficult to identify genus that love but doesn't love us back (at least taxonomically). The dark, opaque, and serrately margined rhizome scales have led us to believe it belongs in the section pseudovittaria where the publication helpfully states species delimitation is particularly difficult. Whatever the species it is an attractive small evergreen species that grows epiphytically in the wild and while spreading by rhizome tends to form a nice tight clump overall. The fronds start off broader and slightly twisted but become thin and much more upright as the sori develop. This has proved hardy for us thus far in the tufa wall housed in our collector's garden and has drawn the particular admiration of a few very knowledgeable local fern fanatics.
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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
An Arizona collection of what seems to be the true plant of this rare-in-cultivation Southwestern Mock Orange which makes an excellent rock garden or low-water subject with its dense shrubby habit and extremely fragrant white flowers that smell like grape soda. The foliage holds its own as well with a mint-green softness provided by the minute pale hairs which coat each leaf that one could in this case call either peach fuzz or mock-orange fuzz, and which require no need of razoring.
We sourced this from Edrom nursery in Scotland amidst our quest to attain Roscoea world dominance. Large soft yellow flowers sub in for the usual dark purple, which in all honesty pairs better with the rosy blush of the peduncle, shame that's one letter too many for Scrabble excellence but learning for the sake of learning I guess.
Let's be honest if you're growing Podophyllums for the flowers you're probably a misses the forest for the trees type, and don't be fooled the huge multi-pointed star leaves of these are still just as flashy as ever. That being said, we here at Far Reaches tend to be of the more is more, por que no los dos persuasion and the large paler-than-usual flowers of this selection are quite the added bonus. Thanks to Jacques Thompson for sharing this beauty with us!
A collection by Iris-king Darrell Probst of the well-named bamboo iris. Not the plants of Van Gogh or your grandma, these grow as a series of stout green stems that hold aloft leaves which would be at home in the hands of an aristocratic lady fighting off a summer-time faint. That faint may well have been elicited by the elegant flowers of the palest lilac imaginable which come in small groups. Proof that even classic genera can offer the strange and wonderful.
This natural hybrid of one of the classic South African bulb genera is endemic to Cape Province, and you'd be hard pressed to find it much further than that native range even in cultivation, luckily we have excellent connections like Michael Wickenden who generously shared it with us. Bladelike foliage, while nice, is unlikely to wow. The flowers however can grow in great spikes of up to 6 1/2 ft tall! Individual florets can come in red or pink and look rather similar to a more trumpeted Hesperantha, corollas flaring out to a star shaped opening. Prefers a Mediterranean climate and very well draining soil, can be pot-grown in a similarly draining mixture for those not living the riviera lifestyle. *THIS DESCRIPTION REFERS TO WATSONIA X LONGIFOLIA AND IS YET TO BE UPDATED TO CONCUR WITH ITS PROPER ID*
Chance variegation is usually a study in false hope with excitement and wonder quickly giving away to disappointment and a sense of betrayal by the universe when reversion takes hold. You find yourself wailing "Plants never change" to your tween bestie over the phone as you flail on your quilted coverlet, makeup streaking down your eyes. Meanwhile your friend at the nursery down the road got his smoking-hot variegated Hellebore to quit its philandering hybridizing ways to settle down into a profitable marriage with his tissue culture lab. Well for once its our chance for the meet-cute romantic comedy of our dreams! The thick stripes of creamy yellow on the leaves of this Heloniopsis have shown no signs of triggering our abandonment issues for years now and we are finally confident enough to introduce it to our parents...I mean customers.
