![]() Lacking roots and leaves and having only a bare-bones vascular system, this ferny plant has travelled amazingly far distances around the world. It's perfect for shallow garden ponds.ĭensely clustered cascading 15 inch narrow leaves will add an elegance and luxuriant feel to your woodland garden or tall glazed planter. This aquatic plant has been offered over the last few years. It is most at home in a wet shaded area, but will travel into full sun if watered. At first glance it might appear to be a weird oxalis. Grows well in a woodland garden setting, in loose pine mulch and well-drained gritty soil.īigfoot water clover is a pretty tough fern - native to the Hill Country. The fronds are very tall new growth is bronze and spores are square. This as yet unnamed species (Nova) of maidenhair fern was collected near Puerto Purificacion, Mexico. Cover with frost cloth to lower preserve the leaves around 20 F. The leaves will burn off at about 22 F, but will regrow in spring. It's a nice bushy looking Cycad that would make a beautiful hedge row or flower bed edging. Prepare yourself for a zamia on steroids! Long pinnate leaves with long narrow leaflets give the impression of a monstrous coontie after shock treatment. The attraction is the many blue green leaflets and yellow male cone. The charming flowers appear during summer usually after thundershowers then rebloom into fall. This highly variable montane rain lily was collected by Yucca Do Nursery on several expeditions to Mexico. This mottled green aroid is consumed around the world cooked like spinach. Each leaf develops a small fold that holds a drop of water. Mouse-cup taro has small somewhat tattered leaves that start off light yellow and green maturing to white, green and silver. Xanthosoma atrovirens 'Variegatum Monstrosum' Plant in well drained soil with an hour or two of morning sun. This cold hardy form collected by Yucca Do Nursery went dormant in 7 F and returned in spring. Its nodding bright red flowers return faithfully every year as long as the bulbs are not disturbed. Rhodophiala is one of those antique hand-me-down plants in the amaryllis family that was much used across the Hill Country and can still be found even where homesteads have long disappeared, a testament to its indestructible nature. Spreads by rhizome and seed but not aggressively. Grow like any philodendron either staked or allowing it to weave through mulch under plants in the garden. ![]() Regular water will result in profuse blooming. Plant in rocky well-drained location with part shade. They will go dormant in summer just before blooming! These plants were grown from seed collected on an expedition to Navasota, Texas with the express purpose of saving them from road construction. This is a riparian species that can take much water and a pretty fair amount of drought because the roots do deep. Many small narrow rather typically shaped spider lily flowers on 3 ft inflorescences. Plant in warm sunny well-drained location. A bulb that should be kept dry in winter.Ī bulb that should be kept warm and dry in winter if you expect to see a bloom. Wildly starry shaped flowers on 12 inch inflorescences rapidly multiplying into a gorgeous clump. Delightful is the best way to describe it.įlowers form on 2 ft inflorescence. During summer, the small but otherwise pretty typical crinum-like flowers pop up on inflorescences. West Indies Mini is a tiny rhizomatous crinum that can be used as a ground cover. inflorescence holds numerous flowers and does not flop. White flowers are trumpet shaped with a cherry stripe on the inside and outside of each petal. It blooms periodically mid-spring through summer. 'Schreck' looks great after a deep freeze (8b). Grows very nicely in aquatic conditions in full sun.Įxpect die back in a hard freeze. Yucca Do Nursery scooped up this striking canna from a waterway in northeastern Mexico. Many thanks to Pat McNeal for this very nice hybrid canna. Tiny leaves and elegant flowers with yellow and light orange sepals. The attraction is large orange flowers set above and among large green and yellow striped leaves with maroon edge. ![]() Yucca Do Nursery collected these southwest of College Station to conserve them prior to their destruction by a road construction project.Īs a greenhouse plant, Alocasia cucullata can become quite large reaching 10 ft tall, but outside subjected to freeze it will only reach about 3 ft. Plant in well-drained soil with infrequent water. It's perfect for the Houston seasons, except protect below 20 F. Plant in well drained soil, sun or part sun. Considered an annual in the Houston area. Heart-shaped fuzzy leaves, red stems and blue flowers.
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