Some plants are refinements of existing species. Others are things discovered in the wild by plant hunters, Indiana Jones style. Then there are some created by crazy plantsmen by crossing species nobody imagined were compatible. The resulting plant in this case has dark green basal leaves and unique flowers that look like they walked offContinue reading “Digilexis? No, Digiplexis!”
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A Sausage Vine for Sacramento
A Holboellia coriacea ‘Cathedral Gem’ vine gets tested in Sacramento. Do we have a new favorite plant? WIll it accept our climate, grow well in shade and, most critically, thrive in our typically heavy soil?