Been There, Killed That…Would like it Back

Most of the 1,500 plants we’ve introduced in the last 40 years remain in the gardens here at JLBG, but a few special ones we’ve lost due either to neglect, or not siting them in the proper location. Prior to building our crevice garden, we sadly lost several plants that we now know would probably have thrived in such a habitat. One of the reasons that it’s so important to share rare plants is that if we do manage to lose/kill them, then they hopefully aren’t gone from cultivation. Below are some of our past introductions that we’re searching for. If you happen to have any of these, we’d love to re-acquire a start, so we’d be thrilled to hear from you.

Meehania montis-koyae is a fabulous small groundcover that we originally received from Belgium plantsman, Guy Gusman. We offered this from 2007-2015, until our original plant died out due to too much shade.

I’m not sure how we managed to lose Alex Summers’ wild ginger, Asarum minus ‘Honeysong’, but we did. We offered this from 2003-2005.

Tricyrtis affinis ‘Lunar Landing’ was a favorite toad lily from the breeding of Darrell Probst. We offered this from 2004-2008.

Tricyrtis affinis ‘Key Lime Pie’ is another of Darrell’s toad lily introductions, we offered between 2003 and 2007.

Dryopteris wallichiana ‘Tucumanji’ is our Argentine collection of Wallich’s wood fern, that we offered only in 2005.

Phanerophlebia umbonata ‘Puerto Purificacion’ is a Mexican holly fern, that we collected in Northern Mexico in 1994, and subseqently offered from 2004-2011. Sadly, we managed to lose our only garden plant, so we’re hoping its still around.

Adiantopsis chlorophylla ‘Tucuman’ was another favorite small-growing fern from our Argentine expedition. It thrived for us for many years, until we allow it to be shaded out by an overgrown holly. We offered this between 2005 and 2015.

Cheilanthes hirta ‘Ellington’ is one of our South African rock ferns that we offered in 2017 and 2018. We’d dearly love to find that this still exists in gardens.

Cheilanthes quadripinnata is another South African rock garden fern that we’d love to reaquire, so we could try it in our crevice garden. We offered this between 2006 and 2012.

Pellaea calomelanos is an amazing South African rock garden fern, that we offered in 2009. Does anyone still grow this? We think this would thrive in our crevice garden.

Pteris actinopteris ‘Silver Illusion’ is a Hans Hansen collection from China, that we offered in 2012, and would dearly love to re-acquire.

Adiantum capillus-veneris ‘Mt Ida’ is our collection of the circumboreal fern, that also native to NC. This was our spore-grown accession from Crete. We offered this between 2011 and 2014.

Fingers crossed that some of these still exist in cultivation. Thank you in advance!