Hibiscus Pink Teacups Dianthus At our Spring Open Nursery

At our Spring Open Nursery and Garden Days

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glaucous green foliage is also on the giant side compared to most crinum lilies

Musa 'Truly Tiny' makes a perfectly formed but shrunken plant with leaves that are nicely blotched in red

this selection of our native Canna glauca was passed around California until spotted by plantsman Herb Kelly who named and introduced it to commerce

Hibiscus Pink Teacups Dianthus At our Spring Open NurseryHibiscus 'Pink Teacups', a 2019 Plant Delights JLBG introduction is one of those lovely surprises that becomes a game changing perennial. In 2014, we visited plantsman Rick Lewandowski at Shangri La Botanical Gardens in southeast Texas. Rick was kind enough to share seed from a patch of dormant hibiscus, whose foliage appeared to be a hybrid swarm of Hibiscus coccineus and Hibiscus laevis. The gem of the resultant seed crop was an 8' tall specimen