Lycoris incarnata Julyza Diphylleia Perennial hardy hibiscus add an

Perennial hardy hibiscus add an upright garden form to the garden

we retreated through a series of uninteresting back roads until sighting this bizarre form of the common Alocasia macrorrhizos in the front yard of a small home

'Alex Summers' makes a nearly perfect

Agave flexispina and Agave asperrima

Leucocasia gigantea 'Survivor' has also returned in our Zone 7b garden without mulch since 1999

Lycoris incarnata Julyza Diphylleia Perennial hardy hibiscus add anLycoris x incarnata 'Julyza' is a 2024 Plant Delights JLBG introduction of a previously un named hybrid of Lycoris longituba x Lycoris sprengeri that came to us from China's Hangzhou Botanic Garden via plantsman Jim Waddick. The flowers emerge atop 28" tall spikes, in mid July (NC) as a lovely soft pink, next picking up the blue petal tips, followed by a red wash over the pink as the flowers age. For us, the new foliage emerges in late January, but in