We love plants that look great in the woodland garden in the midst of our summer heat. Below is an image of Rohdea japonica ‘Tamagawa Ryu’, looking absolutely fabulous this week. For those who haven’t yet tried rohdeas yet, think evergreen hostas. Rohdeas are one of our specialty collections, and the JLBG collection includes roughly
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One of the great plants for winter gardens are the sacred lilies of Japan, of the genus Rohdea. Our mass of Rohdea japonica ‘Go Dai Takane’ is looking fabulous in January. Rohdeas do not spread, so these are planted from individual divisions, from a single original clump. Going from a single specimen to a mass
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We’ve just named the third selection of our Rohdea x japensis (Rohdea japonica x Rohdea chinensis) hybrid this winter, this one for its incredible fruit show. We’ve christened this Rohdea x japensis ‘Super Fruit’. Later this winter, we’ll divide our original clump and start down the production pipeline, which should take about 5-6 years to
In 2012 we received a small shipment of plants labeled Rohdea japonica, from the former Chen Yi Nursery in China. Although we grew many cultivated forms of the species from Japan, we were curious what it looked like in the wilds of China, since we’d never been able to study it there. We also ordered
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