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When you work with plants as long as we have the verdure begins to have a Stockholm-Syndrome-like effect on your brain and you soon begin to demand that even your flowers be green and "viridiflora" sounds like music to your ears. For those in similarly dire straits these South African bulbs and their tall spires of flowers are the cure you're looking for.
The enemies to lovers trope never gets old in my opinion, and we do our part to contribute by growing this twee South African delight. Banish thoughts of weedy wood-sorrel from your fraught gardening mind and simply embrace the saccharine sweet candy stripe flowers of this bulbous species. While unfortunately frost tender these are quite easy and adaptable as a houseplant, where it provides a pop of winter color in Dec-Feb. Goes dormant in Summer but the unique three-finger foliage arrives in Fall.
A superior red seedling that arose here and one that is a bit larger than the other large red selections we grow. It was fun to lay out a table of flowers of all the cultivars and our seedlings for comparative evaluation. It was quickly apparent that it is hard not to love red and might as well go big. Just add water, food and sun. The name refers to Anna Massena, Princess d'Esseling and Duchess of Rivoli of France. Her husband was a serious amateur ornithologist with 12,500 bird specimens including an unidentified hummingbird which he had collected along the west coast of North America. This was later named Calypte anna - Anna's Hummingbird. This is a favorite resident here all year and loves the winter flowers in our greenhouses during spates of freezing weather. The males are little emerald green Jack Russell's, flashing a conspicuous Rivoli Red throat patch.
Tall 3'-4' wiry stems hold pendant and swaying pink bells in June on this evergreen South African bulbous Iris relative. Dierama pendulum was the first species to be found back in 1770 on the Eastern Cape by the busy German botanist Thunberg. This makes a good garden plant and requires minimal attention. Sun and average water,
Fantastic little plant from South Africa which used to be Aster natalensis but is now in the genus Felicia. We got this from a Scottish alpine nursery in Scotland and know of a rock gardener in northern Norway who raves about it. Tight clumps with blue flowers with a yellow button in June-July. Very hardy. First introduced to the US by Far Reaches Farm.