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Yet another plant to make one pine away for South Island shores, like we needed more reason. Low-mounding Asteraceae shrub from New Zealand (I know I know the longing is increasing). Rounded evergreen leaves with a silvery-white midrib, margin, and underside, new leaves emerge fuzzed in the same glowing argent. Cheery yellow and white daisy flowers in late summer. Drought tolerant and desirous of a dry alpine setting, gonna be pushing it on hardiness here and likely even in 8b but stunning enough to be worth a try at the zone-push in a sheltered location or against a warm wall. These are small (owing to their slowness) but healthy plants.
This is one of the original clones collected from the wild population of pure red Roscoea found by the '92 Oxford University Ganesh expedition, shared with us by John Grimshaw. While the original collections varied this particular plant has the desirable red stems as well as flowers. Those initial plants would famously go on to eschew their earthy roots and take the stage name of 'Red Gurkha', long obscuring their origins. To us the thought of such a beauty coming from natural roots is actually more exciting than the expertly packaged and marketed horticultural creation myth. Imagine a field of fiery red-coated soldiers amidst a Nepalese plateau and then moderate that heady dose by adding this gem to your yet-rising mountain of garden delights.
Into the rabid cutthroat world of the Gesneriad convention goes the strongest soldier of rare plant reconnaissance, Steve Hootman, curator of the Rhody garden and out comes a treasured jewelbox of all but unseen Gesner hybrids. Move over Mr. Cage there's a new heist-master, and I guess that makes us the black market dealer and you the faceless, nameless, glitterati of the botanical underworld. Imagine the gasp as the auctioneer brings forth this beauty, all red-bracted and silver-veined. Let the bidding begin
An uncommon New World subtropical blueberry relative native to the Andes. Can be epiphytic and has hanging thin branches up to 5' long but usually shorter with rounded pale green leaves. Just looks like it wants to be on a dripping cliff by a waterfall. Egg-shaped flowers that are white-pink with darker tips followed by translucent violet-tinged edible berries much like Agapetes. No frost. Way nifty.
Hardy as heck variegated currant which has yellow foliage turning more lime-chartreuse as the season moves along. This is a pretty compact little deciduous shrub making a tangle of twigs to eventually 3 feet tall and as wide. We have ours out in full sun - that is coastal Washington sun mind you - and have seen no foliage burn. We've seen references to it being hardy to zone 2 so assume it is as unaffected by cold as a chunk of basalt. Little reddish fruit can be expected but it is the leaves you are after.
An Arizona collection of this cheery columbine from FRBC board member Cody Hinchliff. These have proved unexpectedly easy and rewarding for a Southwestern native in Cody's high rainfall rain garden growing to a lanky 30" and producing masses of up to 20 bright yellow long-spurred flowers well-loved by pollinators in the Spring and Summer.
When you think Hydrangea you mayyyy think climber if you are particularly nutty botanophile, but certainly unlikely. I can all but guarantee you that you aren't thinking both climber and native to Chile, but here we are with one that fits just that bill. Glossy evergreen leaves and plumes of white to pale-yellow flowers composed almost entirely of fertile florets. Rare in the UK and nearly non-existent in the US, this is one to cure those made nauseous by the endless sugar-sweet hybrids churned out by the big nurseries and breeders that represent the genus in common parlance.