Specialocasia vietnamensis Phat Chance Paraguay As the flower stalks of

As the flower stalks of Helleborus x hybridus arise just above the evergreen foliage in late winter

We can think of few better woodland drought-tolerant groundcovers for summer flowering than this amazing gesneriad

I fell in love with this 2' tall dwarf while on a trip to Florida

5' wide butterfly magnet is laden all summer with a plethora of 10" long branched panicles of soft pink flowers

so locate it so that it stays very dry during the winter months

Specialocasia vietnamensis Phat Chance Paraguay As the flower stalks ofHere's another plant you've never heard of before! In 2005, we were driving through the restricted military region of North Vietnam, along the Southern China border, when we spotted what appeared to be an elephant ear hybrid growing in a wild patch of Leucocasia (Colocasia) gigantea. It would take us years to get a confirmation from Aroid expert Peter Boyce that, indeed, we had discovered the first ever documented hybrid between elephant ear genera