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We just love Rohdea, Japanese sacred lilies, and our collection is a showstopper in the winter garden. The winter fruit display adds yet another attractive element to these evergreen perennials. Here’s a clump of Rohdea japonica ‘Taiyoden’ in late December.
Will you have ‘Taiyoden’ available for sale in the future? Also, do the variegated Tohdea grow and multiply more slowly than all green ones?
Eventually, but unfortunately, it’s not a fast multiplying cultivar.
Lovely. Do you know what ‘Taiyoden’ means? I’d always love to know the translations of the non-English cultivar names, sometimes it is hard to figure them out. Thank you for these wonderful blog posts and photos.
Great question. Since we don’t speak or write Japanese, we turned to Google, which says it means “rented electricty”. Perhaps there’s something lost in the translation.
I love all the fancy Rhodea cultivars! Have you found any fancy cultivars coming true from seed or being different?
The special rohdea clones never come true from seed. That said, we’ve found some very interesting offspring from seed from our many clones.
I have admired this plant every time I visit the garden. I would so like to have some in my own garden. Can’t find it anywhere online. Will you have it for sale anytime soon?
We’re working as fast as we can, but it’s just a slow-growing cultivar.