We’ve written several times about our collection of the Southwest North American native sotols, which we love for their year round interest. While their appearance is consistent through the season, they really shine in the winter, when other plants that take attention from them become dormant. Here is our clump of the northern Mexican native,
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The lovely Mexican woody lily, Dasylirion berlandieri, is just finishing a bout of flowering. The flowers are magnets for both native bees as well as honeybees. Unlike their cousin, Agave, Dasylirion don’t die after flowering.
We’ve long been enamored with the Southwest native genus of slow-growing woody lilies belonging to the genus, Dasylirion. Since the early 1990s, we’ve been growing these, trialing as many species as we could obtain to see how well they adapted to our climate here in the colder, wetter Southeast. So, far, we have grown 16
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