Specialocasia vietnamensis Phat Chance Paraguay schmidtii and Thad's own hybrid

schmidtii and Thad's own hybrid

We can think of few better woodland drought-tolerant groundcovers for summer flowering than this amazing gesneriad

5' wide butterfly magnet is laden all summer with a plethora of 10" long branched panicles of soft pink flowers

Spigelia marilandica is an extremely low maintenance plant

Specialocasia vietnamensis Phat Chance Paraguay schmidtii and Thad's own hybridHere's another plant you've never heard of before! In 2005, we were driving through the restricted military region of North Vietnam, along the Southern China border, when we spotted what appeared to be an elephant ear hybrid growing in a wild patch of Leucocasia (Colocasia) gigantea. It would take us years to get a confirmation from Aroid expert Peter Boyce that, indeed, we had discovered the first ever documented hybrid between elephant ear genera