Looking great in our marginal wetland garden this month (November) is the African papyrus, Cyperus alternifolius….an African/Madagascar/Arabian peninsula native. This popular houseplant is also winter hardy outdoors if winter temperatures don’t drop below 10 degree F. Most winters, it remains evergreen or semi-evergreen for us, until late winter. We’ve also found that it will tolerate
The clump of Iris ensata ‘Silverband’ outside our kitchen window has just outdone itself this week. This striped leaf Japanese iris is naturally an aquatic plant, growing in shallow water, but as long as the garden soil isn’t drought stricken long term, it makes a suberb, easy-to-grow garden specimen. Although it grows in a tight
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Back in the early 2000s, I printed out every exchange from the International Bulb Society email list that discussed the bulb genus, hymenocallis (spider lilies). Most conversations originated with Victor Lambou, who was obviously an authority on the genus. It’s now been years since the Bulb Society went defunct and I had lost track of
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