Dioon merolae Yellow/Gold Flowering Plants Carex howei can be found

Carex howei can be found naturally in boggy meadows and swamp forest stream banks

is one of the most unusual looking canna lilies we've grown

Our offering of Penstemon murrayanus comes from an Aaron Floden seed collection in Winn Parish

but one that is somewhat slow to get started

Because of its height and late season of flowering

Dioon merolae Yellow/Gold Flowering Plants Carex howei can be foundThe endangered Mexican cycad Dioon merolae has been a nice surprise in our winter hardiness trials, surviving 7 degrees F so far. This was quite a surprise since it hails from the more southern provinces of Chiapas and Oaxaca where it can be found on steep sandstone cliffs near waterways in pine oak forests. Dioon merolae, named in 1981 after Italian botanist Aldo Merole, forms a slow growing solitary specimen with 3' long, stiff, upright, green