We’ve grown the Asian Sauromatum horsfieldii, and other Sauromatum species, for almost two decades, and the more different accessions we grow, the more we’re convinced that there are more than one species lumped into what’s currently considered Sauromatum horsfieldii. With a purported natural range from India to Sumatra, one can only expect a number of
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Amorphophallus krausii ‘Son of La’ is a giant, winter hardy selection of the non-offsetting Amorphophallus krausii, from an Alan Galloway collection, on our 2005 expedition, when it was discovered in the province of Son La, Vietnam, near Dien Bien Phu, at 4,573′ elevation. Alan had grown this selection outdoors in his Raleigh garden for years,
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Looking superb in the garden in early November is Arum concinnatum ‘Far and Away’. This special selection is a 2024 Plant Delights/JLBG introduction of a superbly patterned form of the Cretan native Arum concinnatum, collected in 2004, by the late aroid specialist, Alan Galloway. Arum ‘Far and Away’ has the most heavily silver patterned leaf
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For those who have followed us for a while, you know we have a fascination for tuberous aroids, particularly those in the genus, Amorphophallus. We’ve spent quite a bit of time making seed selections as well as hybrids, often using the super winter hardy Amorphophallus as a parent. So far, we have 14 species that
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One of the lovely surprises from the aroid collections of the late Alan Galloway, has been the winter hardiness of the “tropical” Arisaema nonghinense. This little-known jack-in-the-pulpit, which was only named in 2014, endemic from 1,500-1,800′ elevation in the Nong Hi district in Thailand’s Loei Province. For those who don’t know Thailand, it’s the last
This week marked our annual flowering of the endangered African aroid, Pseudohydrosme gabunensis ‘Stained Glass’, which we first flowered in 2021. Kew Gardens recently posted that they just flowered it for the first time ever in the UK. This tropical African rain forest genus is comprised of only three species, all from the countries of
Over two weeks behind this winter, the new growth of the Mediterranean native, Dracunculus vulgaris has finally emerged. This lovable monster is now only a few weeks away from showing off its foul-smelling, phallic, but visually fascinating inflorescence, a large maroon spathe with a dark purple spadix. Watching this is sort of like a train
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You would think with 220 new Aspidistra (cast iron plant) species discovered since 1980 that botanists would have found them all, but that seems to be far from the case. This oddity just flowered in our collection this month, and is obviously yet another new species. This is one of the final collections (2018) made
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This spring marked our first flowering of a spectacular form of Helicodiceros muscivorus (pig butt arum) from the Spanish island of Majorca. This was one of the last collections from plantsman Alan Galloway before he passed. This species typically has flesh-colored flowers, but we love this new red-spathe clone that we’ve named Helicodiceros ‘Razorback’.
Flowering in early December, this is our first time to see blooms on a cast iron plant collected for us in 2018, by the late Alan Galloway in northern Vietnam. It didn’t take but a glance to realize that it represents another new, undescribed cast iron plant species. Our taxonomist, Zac Hill, has already been
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