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GREEN WALL PLANT TYPES

99067 GREEN WALL PLANT COLLECTION STARTER (INDOOR) PRICE: $27.00 .Mainly old Victorian favorites also, but these are plants that often need a bright winter window or a cool to moderate temperature window to perform best. Remember blooming plants do need good light. This collection reflects our choice. If you desire specific plants, order them by stock number from the following list of Winter blooming house plants.

99067 GREEN WALL PLANT COLLECTION STARTER (OUTDOOR) PRICE: $27.00 .Mainly old Victorian favorites also, but these are plants that often need a bright winter window or a cool to moderate temperature window to perform best. Remember blooming plants do need good light. This collection reflects our choice. If you desire specific plants, order them by stock number from the following list of Winter blooming house plants.

41930 ACALYPHA REPENS STRAWBERRY FOXTAIL EUP HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.25 "Strawberry Firetail/Foxtail"--(hispaniola) Trailing slim stems disappear beneath the small leaves and rosy pink velvety "Tails" which mimic their "Chenile" brethern--resembling roseate chenile pendant woolyworms fat on steroids. These terminally cute critters are splendid additions to any urn or windowbox as well as hanging baskets as they spill over the edge with masses of fluffy soft red catkins as long as bright light and warm temperatures assure their formation. Our customers report this to be one of the best choices for a sunny indoor windowsill, lite gardening setup, or hobby greenhouse container as it will be nearly everblooming in such a site. This will not bloom in low light or cool conditions; so chill sensitive we cannot ship during cool periods.

30550 ACORUS GRAMINEUS MASAMUNE ARAC HP HT PRICE: $4.75 Bright white-striped leaves similar to A.g. variegatus--altho considered to be more compact and shorter as matures. An easily grown houseplant, always a star in a terrarium setting, equally happy in a damp area outside in our climate here.

10007 ADIANTUM CAUDATUM POLYP HP CGH PRICE: $ 6.75 Fountains of beautiful cascading shimmering fronds; young ferns form at the tips of each long mature frond, thus called the "Walking Maidenhair Fern"; from Old World tropics. Extremely dramatic when grown as a hanging basket subject in conditions of reliable humidity levels; wonderful as a carpet for your hobby greenhouse and a big favorite as it slowly populates the nooks and corners of your favorite big boned Wardian Case--remember that it prefers sweet soil.

10014 ADIANTUM PERUVIANUM POLYP TERR TGH $ 10.00 "Silver Dollar Maidenhair Fern" Once again available. We hope to have these available again throughout the Fall Season! Large dramatic species with pink toned new foliage hardening into rich green arching fronds. Must have high humidity to perform well--loves a large Wardian Case as its home (this is far too large for a small or narrow terrarium); nonetheless, if given a cool bright windowsill and a pebble tray, it will also become an impressive specimen given time and humidity; always a star in any hobby greenhouse. Always a popular and much sought after dramatic rarer plant!

52015 AECHMEA FOSTER'S FAVORITE [HYB] BRO HP TGH PRICE: $ 6.50 "Red Urn" Rich glossy maroon narrow urns brilliantly display fabulous heads of coral "berries" tipped with blue blossoms. Easy "Lacquered Wine Cup" a hybrid of A. victoriana x racinae quickly forming a colony of glossy elegantly fluted urns... and why not try this as an addition to your summer urns as a dramatic jolt of glossy maroon?

52020 AECHMEA GAMOSEPALA BRO HP TGH PRICE: $5.50 "Bottlebrush Bromo" Compact, rapidly-clustering urns with erect bottlebrush spikes studded with clove-shaped reddish bracts tipped with electric magenta petals. Easy house plant for the windowsill.

52273 AECHMEA GAMOSEPALA LUCKY STRIPES BRO HP TGH PRICE: $15.00The nearly spineless outcurved erect leaves are broadly striped bright white, wonderfully overlapping to form an upright glossy urn like rosette--beautiful with the blue petaled blossoms tighly packed on a "Bottlebrush" inflorescence; certainly a must in any collection of exceptional variegates. Always sought out by Bromelliad lovers and fanciers of extreme variegation as this is an especially undemanding plant, given the drama of its appearance. We finally had enough stock to drmatically reduce the price.

52032 AECHMEA PINELIANA MINIATA BRO HP CGH PRICE: $ 10.00 "Bristle Cone Plant" Copper pink hued silver urn edged in maroon teeth--compact; pinecone inflorescence of red bracts over- whelming the small yellow blossoms, held aloft on stout stem. Erect urns need full sun to maintain brilliant coloration. An heirloom Bromeliad still essential in any collection for its distinctive elegant form and vivid coloration.

52272 AECHMEA RED RIBBON BRO HP TGH PRICE: $8.50 Elegant 'Foster's Favorite' type upright urns of overlapping lacquered glossy rose blushed ochre leaves with dramatic central red bands. Easy to grow despite its flamboyant color and habit. The dense red bracted spikes with red sepaed blossoms with lilac petals emerge from the depths of mature urns. An excellent choice for those desiring astounding color with little fuss other than to locate this out of direct sun.

60726 AEONIUM KIWI-ONIUM [HYB] CRA CGH HP PRICE: $ 4.50 Slim wiry stalks topped with congestions of wide cillate leaves with their variegated broadened tips suggesting fashion conscious nails painted lime cream--this variegation trailing on up the margin of each of the waxy dainty leaves. The beautiful colorations seems always to be especially much more bright in the cooler winter months when new growth flourishes. Usually ( in the category of "This Is The End of Culture As We Know It") this Aeonium cultivar is marketed in the language of terminal cute as "Kiwi Krassula" in California.

20016 AESCHYNANTHUS MICRANTHUS VARIEGATE GES HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.50 "Variegated Himalayan Lipstick Plant" The leathery glossy foliage emerges with ivory-white striations which fades with time into bright lime brushings--striking with the intense small red-purple flowers. Easily grown small statured species prefering cooler temperatures to produce the best variegation. While most Aeschynanthus produce heavy outarching stems gradually elongating until they cascade down (and thus best displayed as an older specimen in a hanging basket), this species is more delicately statured, quite at home in a tall pot on your windowsill or in your lightgarden. Always popular as is easily bloomed and tends to survive the occassional watering (underwatering?) mishap.

43113 AGROSTIS STOLONIFERA [HORT] GRA TGH HH PRICE: $ 4.75Very dramatic, yet undemanding "Hanging Bamboo Grass" given the current marketing "Green Twist" boost as this finely bladed, thickly substanced subtropical grass soon becomes a most dramatic hanging basket subject--obviously a great favorite with the designers of "Green Walls." Never ever allow this to dry out as certain death follows.

11438 ALSOPHILA COOPERII [CYATHEA AUSTRALIS] CYT CGH PRICE: $10.00 "Australian Tree Fern" Young plants present a spreading canopy of metallic deep green arching fronds supported by a cinnamon trunk; eventually a massive stunning specimen. Although we recommend greenhouse culture in our climate, some customers have successfully grown this as a house or large Wardian Case specimen, always keeping constant levels of humidity. We have grown this to a most impressive size on a sunny porch, glass enclosed during the winter.

41845 ALTERNANTHERA FICOIDEA ROSEA NANA AMARA HP PRICE: $ 4.50 Marvelous "Pygmy Parrotleaf" with very delicate-appearing spatulate rose-colored leaves forming a lilac cloud of foliage on the twiggy bushy plantlets; very distinctive lilac tone rendered quite delicate in tone by the filigreed character of the thin leaves closely intersticed--nonetheless an easily grown, quite vigorous Victorian clone unbeaten when you need a showy but easily blending ornamental to beautifully cascade from your urn, basket, or windowbox and make absolutely no fuss about it. Our customers proclaim this to be one of the ultimates in "spill" plants for mixed containers.

54522 ALTERNANTHERA POLYGONOIDES PURPLE SELECTION AMARA CGH TGH PRICE: $ 4.50 "Water Amaranth" Slim purple leaves on branching plant popular in aquatic gardens. Also known as A. sessilis, "Scarlet Hygrophila" Also offered as a. reineckii--as this suggests, a very popular water garden and bedding plant of uncertain origin; most dramatic as a hanging basket item, or (as is quite low statured) a cascading purple carpet in windowboxes or urns especially when the petite white cloverheads of blossoms start to appear.

40026 ALTERNANTHERA VERSICOLOR SNOWBALL AMARA HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.00 Heavily branched stemlets of this "Ocean Froth" plant bear dainty leaves splashed brilliant white. Truly a "White Wonder." Flower inflorescence a froth of white--incredible as house plant, greenhouse showoff, and outdoor summer container accent. (AND: the skirt of Snow White at Disneyworld.)

41548 ANREDERA [BOUSSINGAULTIA] CORDIFOLIA BAS HP TGH PRICE: $ 2.00 "Madeira Vine" or "Mignonette Vine" From tuberous roots rise rapidly growing stems with succulent leaves and racemes of heavily fragrant white flowers. Argentina native, thus the tubers are persistent in subtropical zones if below any frost line; in the north, either dig or bring in the container for winter. Nonetheless, always a favorite as a vigorous intensely fragrant windowgarden plant.

30147 ANTHURIUM RADICANS ARAC HP TERR PRICE: $ 17.50 We now have limited numbers of large plants available. Prostrate creeping dwarf species with metalic pustulate leaves. creating a waffled carpet in a large terrarium or as a low light houseplant grown in a pebble tray; absolutely fabulous in a Wardian Case. This is often in limited availability as is so slow growing; please check.

59233 ARISTOLOCHIA TRILOBATA ARI TGH PRICE: $ 4.25 "Swallowtail Pipes" Leathery three lobed rounded batwing shaped leaves with pale ochre veins--beloved by Swallowtail Butterflies. Upfacing pale tubular flowers with bizarre reddish mahogany twisting tails. Easy to grow vine (indeed, as easy to grow as any Philodendron!) with sturdy foliage so attractive it need never bloom in order to command a select spot in your collection.

65639 ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS NANA LIL HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.25 Wonderful "Horizontal Asparagus" with flat level planes of delicate foliage (cladophylls) rigidly held on wiry erect stems--always popular as pseudo-bonsai, or for the corsage carnation! Traditionally a popular houseplant because survives adverse conditions while maintaining a delicate fragile appearance.

58405 ASYSTASIA GANGETICA IVORY RIBBONS ACAN HP TGH PRICE: $ 5.50 Vigorously cascading "Margined Ganges Primrose" with pale lilac flowers revealing pale mother of pearl throats are perfectly poised over the lacy appearing lance leaf foliage mounds with each leaf brightly margined yellow ivory. Ganges valley.

49461 BARLERIA REPENS ROSEA VIOLET CASCADE ACA CGH PRICE: $ 4.00 Out arching slim stems cascade under the weight of the soft petite leaves; terminal clusters of lovely violet blossoms fading to old rose magenta. This South African reaches a peak of bloom in late fall.

56786 BEGONIA AQUAMARINE [HYB] BEG HP TGH PRICE: $ 5.75(upright rz) Fabulously unique: thick rope rhizomes arch out under the showy lobed leaves with dramatically silver splashed midribs--giving a stained glass window effect when viewed from below. Not for the faint of heart.

56467 BEGONIA ART HODES [HYB] BEG TGH PRICE: $ 5.75 (thick stemmed/scandent] Martin Johnson hybrid with very wide fabuous pebbled leaves with pale branching veins and fine reddish hairs; unusually beautiful & unique sometimes incorrectly seen as 'Antholes.' A spectacular specimen in the conservatory, yet quite a remarkable addition to a shady summer windowbox or urn as well even though the modest clusters of white flowers typically appear only midwinter. Although quite spectacular, this is shamelessly easy to grow, tolerant of less than perfect humidity.

56024 BEGONIA CONVOLVULACEA BEG HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.50 (trailing/scandant) The "Grape Leaf Begonia" with big glossy sharply lobed leaves shingling the scandent stems; enormous pendant flower heads in late winter are most impressive. Easy. Unmatched for a substantial hanging basket statement. Given support (does not need encouragement) this clean cut beauty can easily cover a wall or cloak a moss pole with fabulous shingled glossy foliage.

56037 BEGONIA ERYTHROPHYLLA [HYB] BEG HP GHP PRICE: $ 5.00 (rz) "Beefsteak Beg." Waxy lurtrous kidney shaped rounded leaves reddish beneath. Easy and reliable and beautiful AND the one probably flourishing on your grandmother's windowsill. This most ordered of all the Begonias we offer is an heirloom hybrid of the Mexican species manicata x hydrocotifolia.

56040 BEGONIA FAGIFOLIA BEG HP CGH PRICE: $ 2.50 (trailing/ scandent) Pebbly felted shiny leaves clasp meandering stems are easy to train on sphagnum topiary forms; yet, equally dramatic as a small hanging basket subject as it retains its shingled foliage well. The demure "Beechleaf Begonia" (for the genus Fagus) produces flower clusters of white, typically late winter.

56050 BEGONIA GLABRA BEG HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.00 (trailing/scandent) "Mini Grapeleaf" glossy grass-green leaves on strong scandant vine terminating in clusters of shell pink flowers. Also offered as B. procumbens on West Coast (we do sometimes offer the true rose flowered procumbens/limmingheana in this listing below). This brightly cheerful winner readily forms clinging hair roots along its stems and happily clings to and covers even a concrete wall with shingled waxy leaves accented in late winter with outarched blossom clusters; thus, very popular as a solid cover for mossed topiary forms. Alternately, an interesting small foliaged vine cascading from a hanging basket or windowbox.

56303 BEGONIA PANASOFFKEE [HYB] BEG HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.75 (trailing/scandent) Trailing Michelson hybrid lined with lovely leathery small oval leaves, deep mahogany green blushed purple with lime veins, red beneath; white flower clusters modest. Impressive cascading from a hanging basket; very content clambering up a moss pole to elegantly display its shingled oval foliage. We are keeping this very low price just to tempt you.

52054 BILLBERGIA CHER [HYB] BRO HP CGH PRICE: $ 12.00 Jerry Raack's striking hybrid of `Fantasia' with euphemiae rubra: spotted reddish purple tall slim urns with each leathery leaf arched at the very tip; deeply arching long inflorescence with bracts and blossoms of pink, violet and ochre. A most impressive specimen in time; yet of easy culture.

52053 BILLBERGIA PYRAMIDALIS STRIATA BRO HP TGH PRICE: $ 8.00 Red flowered "Summer Torch"; irregularly yellow-banded stiff leathery leaves tightly overlap into an impressively outflared erect urn of striped foliage. Impressive yet easily grown Bromeliad equally at home as a windowsill or as a hobby greenhouse citizen. Easy and showy, as well as tolerant of considerable exposure to the elements and thus enjoying considerable popularity as the "Thriller" in outdoor summer urns and patio containers.

52308 BILLBERGIA T.L.MEAD [HYB] BRO HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.25 Softly mottled leathery leaves form erect urns; lovely weeping reblooming inflorescence or large rose bracts with blue & lime green petals--exhibiting its "Queen's Tears" parent's habit. Very easy houseplant; willing to bloom without any special fuss.

41344 BRASSAIA ARBORCOLA COPPEL ARAL HP TGH PRICE: $ 8.00 New leaves emerge in wheels of waxy blunt-edged, dimple-tipped leaflets with bright yellow green centers; yellow striped trunks; vigorous dwarf schefflera.

40086 BUDDLEIA INDICA [NICODEMIA DIVERSIFOLIA] LOG HP TGH PRICE: $ 5.75 "Indoor Oak" Low bush thickly foliaged with oak shaped leaves. thickly spaced with lobed undulating margins and thin leathery texture with metallic sheened surface. An old traditional houseplant now undergoing serious consideration by the tropical bonsai tweakers and wirers as the barky stems and willingness to be "containerized" make the "Indoor Oak" a character bonsai. Yet another "newly discovered" houseplant quite popular in Victorian times.

41352 CALATHEA LIETZEI MAR TGH HP PRICE: $ 6.00 Arching undulate oval bottomed lance leaves of dark bronzed velvet with pale midribs and olive stripes. Brazilian species of modest size with the endearing habit of producing plantlets along the bloom clusters creating tuffets of bronzy leaves midair. Does not demand the constant humidity and does not brown as the soil ages with accumulations of salts as do some of its more spectacular brethern.

50502 CALLISIA ELEGANS [SETCREASEA STRIATA] COMM HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.25 "Pinstriped Inch Plant" native to central Mexico. Beautiful dark slate green leaves with trim silvery-tan parallel stripes clasping mat-forming fat stems. Somewhat longer & darker leaves than Ballyii, but also needing the succulent culture of Ballyii & Cyanotis. Flourishes with full light and perfect drainage. Coddling can kill.

50504 CALLISIA FRAGRANS MELNICKOFF COMM HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.25 Impressive glossy leaves banded in bold ochre-gold. Striking sight as the cascading succulent stems clasped by these bold jade like leaves liven up any urn, windowbox or hanging basket. The species name reflects the unusual scent of the "Spiderwort" flowers occassionally produced mid winter on impressively branched inflorescences.

50511 CALLISIA ITSY BITSY INCH PLANT [SP] COMM HP PRICE: $ 3.50 Dense mats of waxy succulent lime-green leaves & tiny eggshell- blue fls; although this beautiful glossy beauty remains the most commonly grown basket plant of the spiderworts, this species is still unidentified! Quite content grown in full sun and thus a natural for growing as a low cover on moss topiaries and even quite successful on living wreaths. Thus a perfect candidate to fill in the bottoms of and cascade from your summer urns or windowboxes as is easy to grow and with its bright gloss is a complement to any companion plant

80117 CAREX CARYOPHYLLEA THE BEATLES [HYB] CYP HH PRICE: $ 4.50 "Mop-headed Sedge" (Forgive the pun.) Very congested miniature swirled tufts of bright green. Not winter hardy here (although often offered as such in nurseries); but perfect in pots or in mixed summer containers; often used for texture in southern rockeries. We quite simply grow it because we like the wry name--never being able to resist a pun.

60017 CEROPEGIA LINEARIS WOODII ASC HP TGH PRICE: $ 3.50 "Rosary Vine" or "String of Hearts" Thread-like vine with large "rosary bead" tubercles and small pairs of heart-leaves designed with bright silver surfaces. Dependable tried and true houseplant unless you overwater!

60019 CEROPEGIA LINEARIS WOODII HYBRID ASC HP TGH PRICE: $ 5.50 "Spade Leaved Rosary Vine" or "String of Hearts" Thread-like vine with large "rosary bead" tubercles and small pairs of heart-leaves designed with bright silver surfaces. This clone differs from the standard species by having more elongated leaves and different coloring. Most likely a hybrid, but very distinctive!

43117 CHLOROPHYTUM COMOSUM BONNIE PPAF LIL TGH CGH PRICE: $ 4.25 The uniquely fetching "Curly Spider Plant" with centrally striped creamy variegation but each leaf curls and swirls in the Shirley Temple tuffets, sending out abbreviated corkscrew stems with more twisted plantlets suspended in air. Oglesby introduction. This whorled, tostled, and flounced cultivar remains much smaller in stature than the other comosum cultivars.

40118 CHLOROPHYTUM COMOSUM MANDIANUM LIL HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.00 "Yellow Spider " Golden Ribbon Plant" Rather dwarf cultivar with rich yellow center stripes on curling short leaves thickly clustered; low dwarfish growing habit insures its popularity as a pot plant as its rich colors and congested habit will not elbow out its neighbors--This old old compact selection from Manda's Greenhouses has beennewly "rediscovered" as an excellent cultivar for summertime windowboxes.

40119 CHLOROPHYTUM COMOSUM VARIEGATUM LIL HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.00 "White Spider" Unusual low succulent flat outstretched leaves margined ivory; odd cultivar of remarkable endurance. Far more succulent rubbery foliage with more lateral growth habit than the rest of the tribe: thus, emerging as the best form to plant out in bedding, urns, windowboxes, and so on as survives (and even perfers) high sun and wind exposure with minimal damage--and thus by far the most satisfactory cultivar to use in breezy exposed situations.

41059 CISSUS ANTARCTICA VIT HP CGH PRICE: $4.75 "Kangaroo Vine" Leathery toothed leaves on strong wiry stems; rugged Australian surviving difficult cultural conditions--thus a basic houseplant whether in a hanging basket or windowsill pot. Has to be in the top ten of the "I will survive" houseplants!

41064 CISSUS QUINANGULARIS VIT HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.75 Attractive succulent with five-winged stems; dark decidious leaves are thick succulent wedges jutting out from the nodes. Most interesting in any rare vine collection; of easy culture as long as is situated in adequate light--seems unconcerned as to humidity levels as long as the roots are in a perfectly drained mix. As easy to grow as Cissus quadrangularis is difficult, now quite popular with designers of open wire topiary frames.

41072 CISSUS SICYOIDES VIT TGH HP PRICE: $ 2.50 "Curtain Ivy" or "Princess Vine" Brazilian rainforest vine will form a dramatic curtain of aerial 12' long roots if maintained in high humidity--the former sensation at Longwood Gardens and the mainstay of the "tropical look" at the Opryland Hotel (which maintains the largest area under glass east of the Mississippi). Many of our hobby greenhouse friends let this rapid grower with its waxed gloss foliage and busyt tendrils clamber under or over the roof of their greenhouse during the summer--finding it easier to cut down a few vines in the fall to reintroduce full light than either struggling to remove a scrim or to wash off a lime wash, neither of which can be quickly recycled into the compost pile.

69021 CLERODENDRON THOMSONIAE VER TGH HP PRICE: $ 4.25 The dark leaves paired on this attrative vine decorated with terminal clusters of inflorescence of odd "Bag Flower" white calyxes from which emerge brilliant red "Bleeding Heart" corollas. A traditional favorite from the very warm Cameroon, thus will lose foliage if kept cool during the winter; but can bloom throughout the seasons if kept evenly warm, well fertilized, and given adequate access to sunlight.

42354 COLEUS [PLECTRANTHUS] AMBOINICUS OCHRE FLAME LAB CGH HP PRICE: $ 4.75 Arched stems weighed down under the weight of the succulent pelted paired leaves, each with a central pale lime flare on rich avacado green, margined with mint green crenulations; a "Spanish Thyme" with lavender-pink blossoms during the winter. Used to punch up Caribbean cooking and to treat a wide range of symptons in Asian medicine.

20053 COLUMNEA GLORIOSA GOLD HEART (MEDIOPICTA) [HYB] GES HP PRICE: $ 4.25 Pendant stems ranked with pairs of tiny pubescent leaves, each with a central lime blotch. Reddish "Dragon Head" stavenger outfacing blossoms most likely to appear during the winter after a coolish fall helps set buds. This is a more vigorous clone than the 'Hostag' we offered years ago which tolerated no high temperatures; the absolutely pendant stems make this a natural for the hanging basket, although it is also a favorite of designers of moss topiaries as it is easily pinned to the moss surface, rooting along the stem. This is a handsome plant for indoors or even on the porch during the summer.

41488 COPROSMA KIRKII VARIEGATA [HYB] RUB CGH HP PRICE: $ 4.75 "Dwarf Mirror Plant" Dwarf densely branched willowy stems with small waxy lance leaves margined bright white; said to produce nearly translucent flowers dotted scarlet, which are followed by creamy white berries. C. acerosa x repens hybrid demanding full sun to flourish. Wonderful cascading from a hanging basket or from a summer windowbox; very popular with topiary designers as can readily be pinned to the mossed frame to form a wonderful peacock' s tail, or the white stripes of a zebra, and so on.

53009 COSTUS FOSTER GARDENS [SPECIES] ZIN TGH HP PRICE: $ 8.50 Unidentified species with bamboo-like stalks with rich green veined, semi-succulent leaves with glossy purple-maroon under-sides; with maturity, taller stems produce terminal cone-like terminal heads of rich salmon blossoms with curious coral patterns. Related to C. erythrophyllus?

60259 CRASSULA MARGINALIS CRA HP TGH PRICE: $ 3.25"String of Buttons" The opposite oval red-edged button leaves fuse around the stem like some Eucalyptus. Perfect much branching small statured subject for hanging baskets, fine on succulent wreaths.

60262 CRASSULA MULTICAVA CRA HP TGH PRICE: $ 3.50 Pairs of wide flat oval hazy green leaves peppered and dimpled in purple-red on thick stems; mid-winter masses of starry pinkish-white blossoms sometimes in such numbers to often topple these pinkish stems, thus the "Fairy Crassula" in European trade. Very reliable mid-winter blossom sprays are hopelessly charming. If you tend to overwater your succulents, this is the plant for you.

60288 CRASSULA SARMENTOSA MEDIO-PICTA CRA HP CGH PRICE: $ 3.25 Cascading succulent stems punctuated with pairs of rounded coarsely toothed waxed leaves with creamy-greengold central stripes--this sport originated in our greenhouses in the mid seventies and remains popular in the trade today.

52065CRYPTANTHUS BIVITTATUS BRO HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.75 Chocolate markings amid red and pink. Close to the true species.

52303 CRYPTANTHUS BIVITTATUS PINK STARLITE BRO HP TGH PRICE: $ 7.50 A vibrant pink and white to cream striped beauty. As with others in this group, perfect in any terrarium design.

52070 CRYPTANTHUS BLACK MYSTIC [HYB] BRO HP TGH PRICE: $ 15.00 Wide starry rosette of undulating chocolate-purple cardboard leaves (of zonatus blood) with dramatic platinum bars. Showy large hybrid for wardian case.

53362 CRYPTANTHUS BROMELIOIDES [HORT] BRO HP TGH PRICE: $12.00 Bright glossy bronze sheened upright rosettes of elegantly arched leathery fleshy leaves mimic a dwarfed pineapple. Readily offsets to form an impressive large hemisphere as matures. This clone not the spiny Brazilian type.

53374 CRYPTANTHUS SNOW GOOSE BRO HP TGH PRICE: $ 12.50 Wide dramatic big starry rosettes evenly frosted silvery gray--developing a scrufty surface in high light and good exposure.

52093 CRYPTBERGIA MEADII [HYB] BRO HP TGH PRICE: $4.25 Erect rosette with coppery leathery leaves mottled, gray-green reverse; greenish flowers. Cryptanthus beuckeri x Billbergia nutans. An heirloom bromel still sought after for its modest size, good habit and quite unusual colorations. Easy very attractive houseplant tolerating less than perfect levels of humidity.

52092 CRYPTBERGIA RUBRA [HYB] BRO HP TGH PRICE: $ 5.50 Beautiful pot plant of dark maroon-red laquered curved leaves tightly overlapping to form fountains of moderate size, backed with silver tones. Hybrid of Cryptanthus bahianus x Bilbergia nutans. Recommended. Low growing heirloom bromel always reliable as an easily grown houseplant, quite happy on any windowsill. A great plant choice to jump start your investigation of the Bromeliad tribe.

66017 CRYPTOCEREUS ANTHONYANUS CAC HP TGH PRICE: $ 5.50 "Zig Zag Cactus" or "Anthony's Rickrack" Fragrant peachy yellow and red night blooms on the sculpturesque flat fishbone designed stems. This is an epiphyte from Chiapas rainforest so avoid scorching sun and plant in an epiphytic mix--Epiphyllum culture. Smaller statured and far easier to grow and to flower than the massive Epiphyllum chrysocardium.

54342 CTENANTHE PILOSA GOLDEN MOSAIC LAB TGH PRICE: $ 8.00 Fanned clusters of large rigidly oblong leaves, each most dramatically splashed in creamy lime, angled on stiff geometric stalks. Formerly offered as C. glabra 'Giant Splashed'--this can reach considerable dimensions in time.

41927 CUPHEA DAVID VERITY [HYB] LYT HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.00 Marvelous improvement on the traditional "Firecracker Plant" (C. ignea/platycentra) with bright red tubular flowers on dark foliaged vigorous plants. This high performer is the best choice for urns, containers, and large baskets; everblooming in a bright area of the hobby greenhouse.

59195 CYPERUS FERTILIS CYP HP CGH PRICE: $ 7.00 Marvelously cute member of the Papyrus forming small flat rosettes of many wide quilted pastel almond leaves, quite short from which centers arise arched stolons w/ new dangling cute viviparous rosettes--the "Spider Plant" of "Umbrella Sedges"--especially popular as a "darling" terrarium subject with its wee skirt of new viviparus babies encircling mom spidersedge.

10321 DAVALLIA TRICHOMANOIDES POLYP HP PRICE: $ 7.50 The Standard brown rabbit foot fern. Sometimes called Squirrel Foot. We have plan ts with feet creeping over the ground. Foliage is fine and light to medium green. See Thumbnails.

50014 DICLIPTERA [JACOBINIA] SUBERECTA ACAN CGH HP PRICE: $ 3.75 Cupped oval gray leaves, richly velvety haired surfaces giving a silvery tone, on low arching stems; showy brick-red two lipped rust orange designed blossoms in "King's Crown" heads appear during winter. From Uruguay (and thus tolerant of considerable chill), where this is known as the "Hummingbird Plant," this undemanding carpeting or cascading "shrimp" cousin (while traditionally a greenhouse basket or groundcover subject) has recently become popular as an undemanding attractive summer urn and windowbox item adding a soft velvety tone to any combination.

30202 DIEFFENBACHIA MACULATA BARRAQUINIANA ARAC HP PRICE: $4.00 Pointed leaf has bold white midrib and almost randomly scattered creamy dots; the leaf stalks (as well as the striated trunks) are ivory white and thus quite popular in Asia as considered to denote "bringer of good luck." Perhaps identical to 'Sao Antonia' in the Philippine trade. For the collector of seldom available "Dumbcane" species.

60044 DISCHIDIA ALBIDA [HORT] ASC HP TGH PRICE: $ 3.50 "Propeller Vine" Propeller-shaped pairs of attractive gray- green leaves on soft swollen pendant (or climbing if it can find something to twine around) stems make this a great basket subject. Bizarre little clusters of urn shaped blimp blossoms sometimes appear at leaf nodes. A more perfect well behaved vine cannot be imagined for the designer of wire topiaries.

40207 DORSTENIA RADIATA MOR HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.50 Similar to upright purple blushed succulent stalked mannii, but leaves darker & hypanthodium producing a great number of shorter rays; perfect in any child's collection as the necessary "Hand Plant" demanding only high light to succeed.

40223 DRACAENA REFLEXA GRACILIS AGA HP TGH PRICE: $ 3.25 Formerly Pleomele reflexa. Short attractive waxy leathery dark strap leaves in tightly overlapped worls to cover slender upright strong stems. This attractive deep green houseplant will grow where all else fails.

57476 DURANTA PLUMIERII GOLDEN EDGE VER HP CGH PRICE: $ 8.00 Superbly flashy. Limber stems present showy buttery gold leaves, with central gray green flame, & terminate with purple elongated flower clusters, then gold berries. Excellent new Japanese selection of this Caribbean species which is much larger in stature than the Duranta erecta cultivars..

66253 EPIPHYLLUM BLUSH BOB CAC CGH HP PRICE: $ 4.75 Modest upright long lasting greenish white flowers gradually fade to ivory blushed violet -- easily produced on the slim stems which typically branch from the base to form a balanced habit for hanging basket not characteristic of most "Orchid Cactus" hybrids which develop what can, at best, be described as a "free form" habit.. Sent as unrooted cuttings in moss.

66021 EPIPHYLLUM CHRYSOCARDIUM CAC HP CGH PRICE: $ 12.00 "Fernleaf Cactus" Bright glossy green flat stems in wide fish-bone pattern; nightblooming white flowers with masses of golden filaments suggest its native Mexican name, "Golden Heart." Impressive in large hanging baskets--but be reminded that this species is a long term project. We send generous unrooted cuttings in dry moss. Do not confuse this with the easier, smaller statured "Rickrack Cactus" offered above as Cryptocereus anthonyanus.

66023 EPIPHYLLUM OXYPETALUM CAC HP TGH PRICE: $ 3.00 "Night Blooming Cereus" or "Orchid Cactus" Large fragrant white flowers, rose outside, on flat waxy crenate "leaves" (actually the terminal sections of the stems) flaring out at the ends of the lower supporting stiff rounded stems. This is the one Grandma drug out to the open front porch so that every possible neighbor could be collared and brought over to the porch for those several summer nights the giant scented blossoms opened in all their unreal splendor. Maybe I've lived in a small town too long? Sent to you as generous unrooted cuttings in moss.

66193 EPIPHYLLUM SPECIES GRANADA WHITE CAC CGH HP PRICE: $ 3.75 Lovely slim deep green ribbons cascade to present the white winter blossoms. Very effective grown as a cascading specimen of cascading succulent ribbons like upsidedown seaweed--would never even need to bloom in order to deserve a place in any display. An excellent one to start with as a houseplant as it is native to an area without any cool autumn period, and thus does not require the cool (but not chill) fall temperatures required by most the giant flowered hybrids in order to initiate their flower buds. Cheap and easy. The ideal date. Sent as mossed unrooted cuttings.

30229 EPIPREMNUM [SCINDAPSIS] AUREUM ARAC HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.50 "Golden Pothos" Yellow splashed waxy leaved "Devil's Ivy" is sitll unrivaled as dish garden and hanging basket survivor.

30233 EPIPREMNUM FALCIFOLIUM AUREUM ARAC HP TG PRICE: $ 6.00 "Golden Pothos" Beautiful scandent vine with closely ranked golden lance leaves; this quite rare cultivar of the vigorous indonesian species creates a spectacular hanging basket curtain of bright lemon gold, but equally beautiful in dishgardens and as a ground cover for taller, more leggy houseplants. Rarely offered, easily grown, always stunning. Recently Martha Stewart suggested adding this to summertime hanging baskets and mixed foliage urns: we tried it and: as usual, she is absolutely on track as all performed beautifully.

20105 EPISCIA COTTON CANDY GES TERR TGH PRICE: $ 5.50 Sea green lvs with silver glow; pink fls with cream centers.

20153 EPISCIA LONGWOOD GARDENS GES TERR TGH PRICE: $ 5.50 Unsure of the identification of this plant at this time. It is a strong grower with rubust habit. Fills a basket nicely and is easy to grow. Deep red flowers and very floriferous.

67035 EUPHORBIA FLAMELEAF (SPECIES) EUP TGH HP PRICE: $ 2.50 "Flameleaf Spurge" Multitudes of slender stems flutter with rounded diamond-shaped leaves of dusky violet fading to emerald green edges. While of delicate appearance, actually a very easy-to-grow houseplant, marvelous under lights. Amazon native. Absolutely excellent when added to outdoor summer urns, windowboxes and even to Hosta beds as the dusky purple small featured foliage makes any companion plant more special--especially successful when paired with Euphorbia 'Diamond Dust'.

40269 FICUS BURTT-DAVYI CANGO MOR HP TGH PRICE: $ 12.00 Leathery smooth oval leaves on low epiphytic species; popular among indoor bonsai trainers as waxy small leaves reduce well, the stems grow laterally quite easily, & (with good humidity) masses of strangler roots give good character especially as trained over coral or other character stones. (Techniques for this procedure are presented in several of the bonsai themed books we offer in the book section of this site.) At times demand outstrips our stock, so patience may be advised when ordering this lovely tiny fruited fig originally shared with us by Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens.

40306 FICUS CRATERSTOMA MOR HP TGH PRICE: $ 6.25 Crinkly deep green leaves are elongated triangles from much- branched trunks; good indoor shrub/tree from Zimbabwe easily forming decorative strangler roots. Most interesting as a standard (soon swallowing up its initial training stake) for when "stooled" on top will send out endless shoots in all directions like a dandelion seed head, most effective with the small featured dark green foliage of pieslice glossy dark leaves. This has swallowed up several areas in our stockhouses as it will produce may aerial roots in a humid atmosphere and soon one observes it growing from the neighbors' pots and baskets--topiary growers love its growing vigor, flexible stems, and deep green tones.

41260 FICUS FRED BOUTIN MOR HP CGH PRICE: $ 5.00 Unique woody, twiggy low growing "character" trunks give this quirky hybrid of F. carica x pumila high marks with cascade bonsai trainers who also value its richly haired, quilted foliage. this selfbranching jewel needs high humidity like its carica parent to maintain good spidermite free foliage; loves a pole or wall to clamber like its pumila parent. Of most interest to collectors as the Moraceae are notoriously difficult to hybridize as the blossoms face the center of the enclosed protofruit available only to the designated wasp species.. Not only prized by moss topiary designers but also now discovered by Wardian Case designers looking for a taller fig which will remain small featured.

54484 FICUS LYRATA COMPACTA MOR HP CGH $ 8.00 "Fiddle Leaf Fig" African species with dramatic dark handsom leathery foliage--an easy indoor plant. These are perfectly beautiful small plants ready to expand into imposing specimens for you. The most distinctive thing about this clone is that the leaves are closely and lightly packed, one on top of the other. Very good habit. It can be kept in a small pot longer than the more lanky species form. We recommend.

94028 FICUS PUMILA [REPENS] MOR HP TGH CGH PRICE: $ 4.00 "Creeping Fig" clasping stems covered by overlapping small dark oval leaves much valued as can be used in topiary, terrariums, wall covers, hanging baskets. Yes, this is the remarkable wall cover used so dramatically and beautifully at Longwood Gardens. The basic dependable plant for covering any moss filled wired topiary form.

42019 FICUS PUMILA [REPENS] CURLY MOR HP TERR PRICE: $ 5.25 "Flame Leaf Creeping Fig" Quilted, irregularly lobed oakleaf with central chartreuse flame design; very open growth habit perfect for your terrarium. Known as 'Dorte' in Europe. Remove reversions immediately.

40289 FICUS PUMILA [REPENS] MINIMA MOR HP CGH TER PRICE: $ 4.25 "Quilted Creeping Fig" lovely tiny puckered leaves; miniatured dimpled form of a miniature species--the clasping stems tend to be utterly plastered against whatever it is busily covering. The best choice for covering the base surface of any tropical bonsai as prefers to flatten itself to the contour of the surface and has very small leaves. This is much prized by topiary designers who do not wish to sheer their mossed frames. Slow to establish and thus seldom offered in the trade.

40290 FICUS PUMILA [REPENS] QUERCIFOLIA MOR HP CGH TER PRICE: $ 10.00 "Miniature Oakleaf Fig" Tiny deep green leaves are deeply lobed. Not only is the individual leaf considerably smaller than the species form but each dimpled leaf is deeply lobed as if a tiny oak shaped cookie cutter was at work overtime. More clumping than running in habit, this is the "to die for" choice for the sophisticated terrarium or the stunningly wee topiary only inches high. The crown jewel of the "Creeping Fig" cultivars.

41881 FICUS PUMILA [REPENS] SNOWFLAKE MOR HP TERR PRICE: $ 4.75 Beautiful "Snowflake Fig" forms an overlapping mat made of irregularly lobed small glossy leaves with showy marginal bands of bright clear white. Show stopper known in Europe for reasons unclear as 'Arina' or 'White Sunny.'

40291 FICUS PUMILA [REPENS] VARIEGATA MOR HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.75 "Variegated Creeping Fig" White mottling best in cool conditions. This "sprinkled" form never reverts as do 'Snowflake' and 'Curly'; amazingly dramatic in its winter growth (in cool, not frosted spots) which emegers nearly white with lime green speckling and then gradually matures to a rich deep green tiny oval leaf sprinkled with white. Some customers in the tip of Florida and the hot spots of Texas inform us that the foliage emerges entirely green during the fryng hot months, but with cooler nights in the fall, start emerging white again. Quite wonderful.

40300 FICUS SAGITATA VARIEGATA MOR HP TGH PRICE: $ 10.00 "Trailing Fig" dark quilted long leaves over wiry often creeping stems which arch to give an open effect. This is the beautiful variegated or marginated form of this old favorite. Not as clingy as the Ficus pumila types, but makes quite a nice ground cover in pots around larger plants. Also if often used as a hanging basket subject and perfect in mossed topiary use as the stems root into the moss.

58329 FITTONIA VERSCHAFFELTII FORTISSIMO ACA HP TERR PRICE: $ 6.75 A brand new variety of the Pink Nerve plant. If you wanted something bigger and more robust that could be grown anywhere, this is your choice. Not as colorfully bright as the other cultivars, but still a fine addition. Can be used to advantage in the Wardian Case..

52107 FOSTERELLA PENDULIFLORA BRO HP TGH PRICE: $ 8.00Also Cottondorfia penduliflora in some reference books. Clumped soft whorls of gray-peppered leaves and arched "Lily-of-the-Valley" flower spikes. Easy.

52108 FOSTERELLA VILLOSULA BRO HP TGHPRICE: $ 5.75 Bolivian with succulent purplish leaves in flattened starburst rosettes from which rise the wands of flowers; a colorful small Bromeliad tolerating lower light while maintaining its sophisticated coloration. Interesting successful windowsill potplant easily transferred to a starring role in any Wardian case.

42170 FUCHSIA MME. CORNELISSEN [HYB] ONA CGH HP HH PRICE: $ 4.75 Beautifully arching woody slender stems with lanceolate leaves, thickly textured with dark reddish veins giving the foliage a blush hue; many delicate dangling single red tubed fls w/ red pointed sepals and white corollas with slim red veins. While the texture is petite, the eventual size of this chill tolerant "Irish Lady's Eardrop" can be considerable. Customers in Key West and in San Antonio report this to be an excellent outdoor hedge.

40326 GYNURA BICOLOR (CREPEOIDES) COMP HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.25 Prostrate stems with deep velour leaves, purple beneath, from swollen root surface; Underated species from the Molluccas excellent in wintertime greenhouse baskets; equally at home cascading from windowboxes or urns in your summertime outdoor plantings. As eager and willing to grow and impress as aurantiaca is willing to disappoint! Too many extra trimmings or cuttings? Don't toss as herbalists consider this species to be a good source of vitamens and "other" nutrients.

40327 GYNURA SARMENTOSA [HORT] COMP HP CGH PRICE: $ 3.50 "Purple Passion Vine" Succulent jagged leaves carpeted with rich purple hair on gracefully arching or (if given a mossed pole) clambering stems; All the sarmentosas need full sun to perform well..

69008 HALLERIA LUCIDA SCR CGH PRICE: $ 6.75 South African "Tree Fuchsia" in Snapdragon family--glossy deep green leaved low shrub with tubular orange fuchsia mimic blossoms over a long period, then edible black berries clustering along the stems. This popular "African Honeysuckle" is good in a cool window, is excellent for a cool greenhouse. And: seems to be passing with flying colors as a tropical bonsai subject with its reduced foliage and pseudo-woody stems.

41149 HEDERA ALGERIENSIS [CANARIENSIS] MACULATA ARA HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.25 "Milky Way [Algerian] Ivy" Large glossy leaves barely lobed and richly splotched and speckled with gold green and ochre-- lovely against the rosy toned stems. Beautiful groundcover in milder climates or dramatic in a large hanging basket or urn. Unsurpassed for subtle foliar beauty combined with ease of culture and thus used in topiary despite its very large leaves.

58312 HEDERA HELIX BIG SHOT ARAL CGH HH PRICE: $ 6.50 Woody stems ranked with wide leathery elongated (and barely lobed) leaves dramatically mottled and splattered with white and bleached wheat variegation, gradually darkening to a somber John Deere green as ages. A big boned ivy with visual impact.

41994 HEDERA HELIX BRAZIL ARAL HP CGH HHPRICE: $ 4.00 Very bright "English Ivy" discovered in Brazil's Rio plant markets by George Johnson: glaucous green leaves variously lobed, unlobed, trilobed with irregular ashy cream splotches and raised veins. Small enough in stature to be quite successful in terrarium and wardian case designs. Variegated but not necessarily margined! Tolerates heat as well as winter chill, remaining unique even in the vast array of Ivy cultivars.

54050 HEDERA HELIX CYRANO DE BERGERAC ARAL HP HH HT PRICE: $ 3.75 Dark large leaves with attractive veining and one very long "Nose" of a central lobe! Fast growing. This photo shows it scaling the side of a Dawn Redwood here at the nursery.

41882 HEDERA HELIX DESIGN ARAL CGH HP PRICE: $ 4.25 Quite distinct and most subtle in colorations, remarkably lovely "Frosted Ivy" with gently cascading stems cloaked with shallowly three-lobed leaves each with pale frosted center. A subtle beauty beautifully self-heading into perfect mounds, and thus popular as a hanging basket subject.

41212 HEDERA HELIX FILIGRAN ARAL HP CGH PRICE: $ 6.50 "Filigree Ivy" Outrageously fluted, lobed foliage of dark glossy green--remarkable appearance. Very dark deeply cut foliage leathery enough not to winterburn here, surviving to cause a sensation in the rockery. Fantastic spilling out of a basket in your hobby greenhouse.

41183 HEDERA HELIX KOLIBRI ARAL HP CGH HH PRICE: $ 4.75 Silver-white and slate-gray flecked with emerald enameled on compact leathery leaves--forming a thick richly textured carpet with remarkably beautiful color saturation. Beautiful "Hummingbird Ivy" noted for unusually strong contrast of dark flecks on snowy white & ochre mosaic leaves of very strong texture. Its popularity as never wavered, as it seems the easiest to grow of the sometimes fussy highly colored cultivars.

41187 HEDERA HELIX MANDA'S CRESTED ARAL HP HH PRICE: $ 5.50 Large very curled, fluted lobes; fast, easy grower quite effective as a large hanging basket subject. A vigorous outdoor carpeter for us in Z6b

54548 HEDERA HELIX SILVER DOLLAR ARAL HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.75 Wide three-lobed leaves of pale gray green tones brushed nearly to the edges of the white margins; keeps contrast well. Strong growing care free cultivar.

41401 HEDERA HELIX TUSSIE MUSSIE ARAL HP CGH PRICE: $ 5.00 Pat Hammer's marvelous find: creamy white splotched and mottled sport of `Shamrock.' Similar to 'Chrysandra' but far more tostled, congested, and rumpled: how more Victorian can a plant be? More successfully presented as a mounding, rather than vining, highly variegated 3-D ivy,

50030 HEMIGRAPHIS (ALTERNATA ?) EXOTICA [HORT] ACA HP TGH PRICE: $ 3.00 "Waffle Plant" Shiny maroon marginally rolled leaves extremely quilted and seriously puckered and paired on red stems rooting at each node. Even flourishes as an aquatic plant!

55654 HETEROCENTRON FLORIBUNDUM [HORT] MEL TGH HP PRICE: $4.75 Strong cascading stems cloaked with dark glossy foliage, richly veined, and bright magenta blossoms late winter throughout early spring. This may possibly be more correct as Heterocentron macrostachyum. Sometimes marketed in the California liner trade as a trailing Tibouchina !

51295 HIPPEASTRUM SAN ANTONIO ROSE AMARYL CGH HP PRICE: $ 8.00 Compactly statured clumping Amaryllis with reddish veined violet blushed strap leaf reverses; violet pink blossom clusters. Likely overwinters in Z8 and higher as hybridizer William Bell crossed Hippeastrum aulicum stenopetalum x traubii doraniae. Thanks to Steve Lowe for sharing this with us--as has proven to be an easily bloomed dependable "Violet Amaryllis" houseplant for us with the added bonus of beautiful highly colored foliage!

40371 HOMALOCLADIUM PLATYCLADUM POL HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.50 "Tapeworm Plant" if you are a kid or of the male persuasion; the lovely "Ribbon Plant" if you wish to put a more delicate feminine spin on this most popular of tropical oddities. Glossy flat-jointed stems with tiny arrow leaves and weird waxy green flowers swelling from the fat sepals, then black berries; Remarkable Solomon Islands native of easy house culture. Most popular for outdoor containers as well because the very distinctive flat stems make any urn look like a post-modern floral arangement! ...and absolutely imperative as the rooster's tail in a moss topiary. Sometimes listed as the genus Muhlenbeckia, another group of Polygonum kin with weird waxy fruit.

60816 HOYA BELLA PAXTONII ASC TGH HP PRICE: $ 10.00 Crinkle-edged leaves on pendant stems with flat umbles of white flowers with cute pink coronas. Indian collection originally distruibuted as H. Paxtonii (Nichols). Usually sent in pots, but when demand is high or during periods of extended warm weather, is safer to send unrooted cuttings in moss.

60063 HOYA BELLA VARIEGATA ASC TGH HP $ 15.00 Variegated leaf pairs on pendant stems with flat umbles of white flowers with cute pink coronas. We love the variegation in the middle of the leaves. Good growing easy plant usually sent as a mossed unrooted cutting.

66847 HOYA CARNOSA KRIMSON PRINCESS ASC HP TGH PRICE: $ 6.25 Umbels of pink waxy blossoms against thick succulent foliage--each leaf with a golden lime center, especially colorful as new foliage emerges shrimp pink with adequate light levels and balanced fertilizer. Typically in pots, but may be shipped as an ample cutting in moss.

60080 HOYA CARNOSA KRIMSON QUEEN ASC HP TGH PRICE: $ 6.25 Umbels of pink waxy blossoms against thick succulent foliage--each leaf with a white edges, especially colorful as new foliage emerges shrimp pink with adequate light levels and balanced fertilizer. Sometimes shipped as an unrooted cutting in moss.

60077 HOYA CARNOSA KRINKLE 8 [HORT] ASC HP TGH PRICE: $ 5.00 "Waffle Hoya" Puckered deep green waxy wide leaves; beautiful showy pink blossom clusters are freely produced. Name given for the (usually) eight distinct "dimples" on each thick jade substanced decorative leaf. May be sent as an unrooted cutting in moss.

60647 HOYA CUMINGIANA ASC HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.75 Overlapping small glossy Carissa-like leaves; short internodes & branching give shrubby effect; odd yellow & maroon blossoms in crayola shades. Very interesting and unique shrubby species of easy culture--for extra vigor add some lime to the mix. If not potted, may be sent as unrooted cuttings in moss.

60771 HOYA FUNGII ASC HP TGH PRICE: $ 15.00Fleshy rich green ovate leaves with branching dark veins. Broad leaves especially attractive with a beautiful patina surface. Fragrant carnosa like blossoms. One of the most attractive with an unusual dusky toned shade of green foliage which is far more tolerant of chill than any in the carnosa tribe. If none currently potted, will be shipped as an ample unrooted cutting in moss.

60695 HOYA KENTIANA [HORT] ASC HP TGH PRICE: $ 5.75 Slim succulent leaves with soft pewter green rubbery surface outlined with a dramatic cocco purple margin--forms a thick mound of cascading foliage from which dangle elegant flat umbels of red and soft rose toned elaborate blossoms. A very beautiful undemanding houseplant, especially suited for a small hanging basket so as to perfectly display the blossom clusters. Similar to plants sent to us as H. wayetii as well as Unidentified #70 by our former Athens neighbor, David Silverman when he was in the OU Art Department; Kloppenberg suggest that this is the current designation of the plant originally distributed as Elmer's angustifolia.. Usually shiped as an unrooted cutting in moss.

60090 HOYA KERRII ASC HP TGH PRICE: $ 14.25 "Sweetheart Hoya" or "Wax Hearts" Very thick pairs of large rigid leaves resembling inverted hearts; greenish-ivory flowers with tan-rose tones (tends to drip nectar). Found from Thailand to Fiji. If not currently potted, will be shipped as generous unrooted cuttings in moss.

60110 HOYA NEW GUINEA 355-309 ASC HP TGH PRICE: $ 12.00 Curious somewhat pelted leaves on a slow growing vine. Yellowish flowers. Heirloom. Nomenclature rather muddled, but the plant is always dependable, always popular. Shipped as mossed unrooted cuttings.

60953 HOYA PINK SILVER [HORT.] ASC TGH HP PRICE: $ 5.50 Heavy waxy leaves strewn with silvery pink brushings on vigorous compact vine; clusters of fragrant blossoms not quite as easily produced as those of the H. carnosa tribe. Tolerant of less than ideal conditions; perfect lush decorative focal point on any windowsill; perhaps still the most satisyfing and visually stunning hanging basket subject of any of the "Wax Vines." Usually in pots, but also easily sent as generous unrooted cuttings in moss.

60115 HOYA POLYNEURA ASC HP TGH PRICE: $ 10.00 "Fishtail Hoya" Pairs of thin fishtail-shaped leaves with dark prominent veins on arching stiff stems which soon dramatically cascade downward under the weight of the leaves and the odd umbles of creamy-tan flowers with reddish purple coronas in the center. Himalayan native, thus needs cooler, less sunny conditions than its more tropical cousins. Mossed unrooted cuttings, if none currently potted.

60098 HOYA SHEPHERDI [LONGIFOLIA SHEPHERDI] ASC HP PRICE: $ 7.50 "Stringbean Hoya" Dark scooped beanpod leaves in pairs; interesting clusters of quite waxy ivory blossoms with rose-red crown. Sikkim native a natural cascading from a hanging basket. According to Kloppenburg's photos, our clone is most correct as longifolia. Often shipped as unrooted cuttings in moss.

10484 HUMATA TYERMANII POLYP HP PRICE: $ 6.25 "White Rabbit Foot." The arched, vigorous foot is pure white and very furry. The fronds are lacy and deep, rich green. Excellent as a pot plant, outstanding in a hanging basket for a houseplant.

40388IMPATIENS MINI-HAWAIIAN HAWAII [HYB] BAL PRICE: $ 4.50 Very tight mounds with ivory & rich rose purple bicolor blossoms with elfin spurs in beautiful clusters completely covering the lovely wee leaves so delecately designed. Always a favorite in windowboxes and urns, but also a strong performer indoors with litegardeners.

40384 IMPATIENS REPENS BAL CGH HP PRICE: $ 4.50 "Ceylon Jewelweed" Cascading thick red succulent stems (which self branch to form a mat) populated by masses of tiny coppery kidney shaped leaves dramatically punctuated by occassional impressive cornucopia shaped yellow hooded blossoms. Always popular with indoor litegardeners and with hobby greenhousers as a wonderful color and texture addition to any plant grouping; recently discovered by "Tropicals in Temperate Zone" designers as an excellent performer cascading from summertime urns, baskets, and windowboxes, adding a whole new dimension to an Impatiens grouping.

54427 IMPATIENS WALLERIANA WHITE GARDENIA BAL HP TGH PRICE: $ 5.00 Low mounds of foliage topped with boquets of very double bubbles of bright white tightly pettaled flowers. An old cultivar which we recently started propagating again as will bloom easily in your winter greenhouse.
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55962 IPOMEA BATATAS ACE OF SPADES CONV TGH HP PRICE: $5.00 Striking blackish maroon spade shaped (heart shaped) leaves are thickly set on succulent trailing stems; same habit as 'Blackie' with edible white tubers. Recently has been "re-marketed" on East Coast as 'Purple Heart.' Must reflect a time of war. Fabulous in urns and baskets; very effective when paired with the chartreuse 'Margarita' in large outdoor bedding schemes. Will hold color well even in shady locations.

40403 IPOMEA BATATAS BLACKIE CONV TGH HP PRICE: $ 3.00 "Black Yam" or "Purple-leaved Sweet Potato" Dark palmate leaves overlap to create a starburst lacy effect while firmly anchored on sturdy maroon-stemmed vines; fabulous in hanging baskets. As popular now as when we first offered it some twenty years ago with Carolyn in the Country Hills catalogue.

49451 IPOMEA BATATAS GOLD FINGERS CONV TGH HP PRICE: $ 5.00 A fast growing form bright yellow lime like 'Margarita' but with attractively fingered leaves like 'Blackie'.

55616 IPOMEA BATATAS MARGARITA [CHARTREUSE] CONV HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.75 The "Golden Sweet Potato Vine" produces ranks of bright yellow-ochre heart shaped leaves, becoming more halbert-lobed as the plant expands & matures, even forming a fine purple rim in sun--obviously the perfect companion for 'Ace of Spades' as well as 'Blackie'; if grown during the winter in your greenhouse, will produce sparce violet blushed morning glory blossoms--more curious than decorative flowers.

59194 IPOMEA BATATAS PURPLE TUBER CONV TGH HP PRICE: $ 4.25 "Purple Yam" (although technically a "Sweet Potato" and not even related to the yam gang) Hawaiian clone with purple fleshed tubers (said to be at their most yummy when prepared with your deep pit roast pig); very ornately cut clean-green cookie cutter somewhat palmate foliage on self branching meandering stems. Amazingly popular! Certainly a case of having your 'tater cake and eating it too. We are impressed that this is the most ordered cultivar during some past seasons. Hawaiian cookouts seem to be on the increase. Or perhaps plantsmen simply like to eat their bedding or urn designs after enjoying the summer foliar display?

55564 IPOMEA BATATAS TRICOLOR [PINK POTATO] CONV CGH HH PRICE: $ 5.50 Remarkable slate green sharply lobed "Sweet Potato" leaves with bright pink margins setting to rosy cream. An amazingly beautiful cultivar initially shared with us by Doug Ruhren who had inherited it from Yinger's Asian peregrinations; and indeed, under the original clone name of 'Tricolor' it was a 1980s introduction in the nurseries and gardens of India--where it is pictured in publications from India printed and published in the 1920s.

56564 IPOMEA LADY FINGERS [SPECIES UNIDENTIFIED] CONV HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.00 Extremely vigorous "Fingered Sweet Potato" with vigorous stems holding aloft stunning dark leaves, with seven deep fingered lobes accented with dark purple raised veins on the reverse. Loves aquatic conditions; but thrives equally well cascading dramatically from a windowbox or urn; needs a large basket if grown in a hanging basket for the foliage is quite vigorous and the tubers need room to form. Some have suggested that this may more correctly be Convolvulus althaeoides tenuissimus; others point out that it has the seven lobes of I mauritiana as well as the showy violed eyed winter morning glory blossoms so readily produced. Sometimes we have underestimated the popularity of this astoundingly vigorous showoff--but stock is plentiful currently.

40405 IRESINE HERBSTII AUREO-RETICULATA AMARA HP CGH PRICE: $ 5.50 Very Seasonal, so available againg Spring 2010. "Chicken Gizzard Plant" Bright yellow-veined apple-green rounded leaves, with odd notched tips, accented by red-magenta petioles and stems--due to the delicacy of this foliage, not as vigorous as the other cultivars in bedding designs--for the same color qualities we recommend you use 'Formosa' (offered below) instead. Old fashioned puckered foliage again popular among indoor lightgardeners. We will not ship this until weather is consistently warm for it collapses completely if chilled.

41887 JASMINUM MULTIFLORUM [PUBESCENS] OLE HP TGH PRICE: $ 6.00 "Angel Hair Jasmine" from India to China: Freely spreading shrub with downy cordate leaves and clusters of intensely sweet scented white starlike flowers at the tips and along the stems when given full sun, adequate humidity and a rich medium. This "Downy Jasmine" has long been known as J. pubescens in the Florida trade where its willingness to bloom freely while in a container has made it a basic favorite.

40421 JASMINUM POLYANTHUM OLE CGH HP PRICE: $ 3.00 "French Perfume" Vigorous climber with attractive compound (foliate) leaves in opposite pairs and mid-winter clouds of white richly-scented flower clusters (which have pinkish cast in bright light as the unopened buds are blushed red). Basic to any collection, the Yunnan native is quite vigorous. Very very strongly scented--the one traditionally trained into Christmas season blooming live wreaths.

50091 JUSTICIA BRANDEGEANA JAMBALAYA ACAN HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.00 "Dwarf Shrimp Plant" A cultivar selected for its compact much-branched habit with attractive bronzy red drooping chain of bracts persisting much longer than the species form. Will bloom most seasons if given full sun and adequate fertilizer.

50041 JUSTICIA EXTENSA ACAN HP TGH PRICE: $4.75 "Camouflage Plant" Zaire native with erect stems completely covered by small leaves patterned ash-silver; clusters of tiny weird horned blossoms are quite intriguing. Modest, yet beautiful foliage houseplant deserving more popularity. Properly pruned, this is small statured enough to give height in a larger terrarium or Wardian Case where its lovely foliage designs can be displayed to advantage.
60374 KALANCHOE BEAUVERDII HYBRID CRA HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.00 Gray green noodle leaves in rigid opposite pairs with ridged tips producing adventituous plantlets, on scrambling wiry stems. Clusters of pendant glossy olive calyx bells, each with shiny salmon-pink petals with violet-speckled rims--quite a midwinter show. (Probably constitutes a distinct species as yet unidentified for us.)
60373 KALANCHOE BEAUVERDII SCANDENS CRA HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.00 "False Hoya" The wiry stems and blackish-green narrow curved leaves are Hoya mimics--but the adventituous plantlets on the leaf tips and the nodding maroon-dotted flask flowers strongly indicate the true identity. From Madagascar, where the hooked leaves help in the scramble through the brush and thornshrubs to display the showy clusters of blossoms to potential pollenizers...always a favorite of kids and luckily, only one swathe of lawn need be mowed in order to earn enough to afford this wonderment. Certainly a statement when trained on open wire topiary frames.

60389 KALANCHOE FEDTSCHENKOI CRA HP CGH PRICE: $3.50 "Purple Scallops" Amethyst, flour-dusted scalloped leaves are margined purple with brownish notches producing adventitious buds in sufficient light and humidity; elegant terminal clusters of pendant khaki-pink flowers appearing late winter. Madagascar native. Very attractive; easily grown given good light. Lovely coloration if grown in direct sun.

60390 KALANCHOE FEDTSCHENKOI MARGINATA CRA HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.25 "Aurora Borealis Plant" Scalloped purplish leaves margined in bright ivory, toned pink in high light. Beautiful with the dangling clusters of mid-winter blossoms.

68490 KALANCHOE GNOME SLIPPERS [MANGANII X PORPHYROCALYX] CRA TGH HP PRICE: $ 6.75 Short statured stems thickly covered with elaborate rubbery deeply crennate leaves and topped mid-winter with wide clusters of inflorescenceorescenceated nodding slipper flowers of pale rose tipped gooseberry green. A charmer on any windowsill with possible K. petitana origins. We suspect various names to proliferate once this hits the broader marketplace, especially as the recently past administration may not recognize the existence of gnomes even though gnomes probably exist outside any current evolutionary theories. (And may be the necessary proof of creationism.)

60397 KALANCHOE LACINIATA CRA HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.50 "Lace Leaf Kalanchoe" Overlapping ranks of stiff waxy leaves divided deeply like a lacy fern stuffed with sausage; head of shell-petaled flowers mid-winter. Very beautiful, yet seldom found available. Native to India, Africa, Yemen, Brazil and points between. Certainly considerably underutilized in dishgardens and succulent trough designs as is quite undemanding.

61009 KALANCHOE LAETIVIRENS BIG MOMMA CRA HP TGH PRICE: $ 1.75 Also known at Kalanchoe HBG 73004, from Huntington Botanic Gardens originally. Upright stout short trunks support thick upturned pearly surfaced fleshy leaves (so wide as to be nearly round in outline), each heavily ringed by a margin of cute baby plantlets--every kid needs one. Perhaps the most architecturally pleasing of this category as the foliage is both very compact and very heavily laden with offspring.

60405 KALANCHOE MORTAGEI CRENATA CRA HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.75 "Mother of Hundreds" Impressive ranks of giant fleshy, rubbery appearing thick up-turned elongated triangular leaves with doubly crenate margins and many large adventitious plantlets firmly held on the narrowing leaf tips; the closely stacked leaves (closely ranked on short stout stems) are impressive in baskets; red flowers emerge from the much more dramatically displayed peagreen bracts dangling from the wide candelabra inflorescence. Largest and probably most dramatic of those species with adventituous plantlets on the foliage.

54078 LANTANA CAMARA GREG GRANT VER TGH CGH PRICE: $ 7.50 Distinctive discovery by Grant of a sport of the heirloom 'Flava' with its heads of sulphur yellow flowers fading to saffron pink, quite effective against this sport's leaves slashed with bright gold and splashed with cream. Showy--but be sure to remove all reversions. Greg claims to have scaled the wall of a nunnery to initially retrive and then preserve and perpetuate this distinctive sport of the ubiquitous tropical weed. We believe all plantsmen's stories.

54362 LANTANA CAMARA WHITE DWARF VER CGH PRICE: $ 4.00 LIMITED AVAILABILITY A very compact nearly prostratein habit, small-leaved shrublet freely producing cute heads of rich white minute blossoms closely packed in heavy clusters--thus, the "Silver Mound" Lantana which is noted for lateral growth habit.

65827 LEDEBOURIA SOCIALIS LIL HP TGH PRICE: $ 3.75 Formerly Scilla violacea. "Silver Squill" Rich purple swollen bulblets in thick clusters support small violet- backed leaves whose surfaces are dotted silver. Easy houseplant with small wands of tiny white flowers produced seasonally. If allowed to become a many-headed specimen, the winter blooms can be quite impressive en mass.

11430 LEPISORUS BICOLOR POLYPO CGH PRICE: $ 7.25 Resembles a sophisticated Pyrrosia with very slim surface rhizomes; strap fronds with indented polka-dot spore patches distinguish this "Sechuan Ribbon Fern" which Eco-Gardens has determined to be Zone 8 hardy. Quite beautiful and distinct in pot or basket--even though its initial slow deliberate growth rate may test your patience--slow to start, strong to finish. Grown in Camellia house conditions this creeping fern becomes fantastic, whether as a ground cover, as a hanging moss basket subject, a moss topiary addition, or as a gradually shingling climber on a moist protected wall or moss pole.

80957 LYSIMACHIA CONGESTIFLORA ECO DARK SATIN PRI CGH HH PRICE: $ 4.75 Low spreading dark velvety foliage beautifully foils the clear bright yellow blossoms which appear in tight bouquets; thus "Nosegay Flower" recently renamed " Persian Chocolate"; hanging basket, aquatic, moss standards, and so on.

MICROGRAMMA PALMERII [NITIDA] POLYP TERR TGH $ 25.00 Many semiglossy small elongated-oval fronds held erect over the slim, hairy, slightly flatened rhizomes meandering over cork or treefern; because this fern evolved upon tropical treetrunks, it survives low humidity better than some; but truely thrives when given artifical rain forest (good humidity) conditions in a terrarium where it forms a dense otherworldly groundcover. We ship this miniature gem as divisions in moist moss.

30271 MONSTERA DELICIOSA ARAC HP TGH PRICE: $ 7.75 Vigorous "Splitleaf Ceriman" with stout succulent stems supporting the impresive oblong-perforated leathery shield leaves and impressive cord-like aerial roots. Traditionally called the "Mexican Breadfruit" for its pine-apple scented edible cone fruit. indestructible houseplant; magnificent climbing up a conservatory wall.

30284 MONSTERA PITTERII [HORT] ARAC TGH HP PRICE: $5.25 "Swiss Cheese Vine" Oval windows in small leathery leaves; one of the most successful small vines for low light areas. To know it is to love it. Sometimes listed as Monstera obliqua.

30285 MONSTERA SILTEPECANA EL SALVADORE ARAC PRICE: $ 4.25 Small bluish toned twisting javelin shaped leaves of waxy texture with darker mosaic of veins are closely "shingled" along the succulent stem which roots as it wanders--juvenile form, small enough for terrarium display, although as tolerant of exposure as any Philodendron scandens cultivar. A great favorite of topiary designers as perfect coloration for the scales of a moss topiary dragon. (Yes, we do have some very unusual customers.)

40647 MUEHLENBECKIA COMPLEXA POL HP CGH HH PRICE: $ 4.50"Maidenhair Vine" Tiny round leaves on black wiry stems; with strange white bubble flowers followed by purple berries. Easy. Although of delicate fragile appearance, this tolerant vine prefers a very bright situation with well drained soil.

55965 MUEHLENBECKIA COMPLEXA TRILOBA POLYG HP CGH HH PRICE: $ 4.75 "Lobed Maidenhair Vine" Wild mats of wiry maroon stems with waxy white fls & a flutter of trilobed leaflets creates very complex 3-D visuals; if planted in the conservatory ground, this will weave its way to the roof within a year to great effect.

50520 MURDANNIA ACUTIFOLIA VARIEGATA COMM HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.75 "Bamboo Spiderwort" Clumping jointed bamboo-like short stems of this vigorous houseplant hold elegantly arching reed-like boldly white-striped, glossy leaves. Outstanding specimen. After years of being an elusively hard to find greenhouse subject with constant popularity as a windowsill showoff, this "Bamboo Spiderwort" has recently entered the ranks of fab "NEW" plants used by avant designers of trendy patio urns, sophisticated windowboxes and intimately sized aquatic tubs where it continues to dazzle and charm.

20188 NAUTILOCALYX LYNCHII GES HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.50 Erect fleshy stems with brazen glossy purple-bronze leaves, and odd yellowish-cream flowers with maroon hairs tucked at leaf axils. The "Black Alloplectus" is very easy Gesneriad potplant--but completely intolerant of chill.

20201 NEMATANTHUS GREGARIUS GOLDEN WEST GES HP TGH PRICE: $ 6.50 The thick waxed leaves are margined creamy yellow. Striking foliage accented by the ivory-orange guppy-mouthed flowers. Quite fabulous as a house or greenhouse showpiece; perfect when grown under lights.

40664 NEOMARICA GRACILIS IRI HP CGH PRICE: $ 5.25 "Apostle Plant" Fans of leaves with spikes of Iris blossoms of pale lilac with brown, yellow, and blue. After blooming, their supporting spikes deeply arch to touch a nearby surface (thus "Walking Iris") as new plantlets form where earlier the flowers bloomed. Central American species with delicate fragrance.

52138 NEOREGELIA PEPPER [HYB] BRO HP TGH PRICE: $ 15.00 Brightly toned magenta and sienna hybrid richly peppered in purple-brown; beautiful compact vases closely clustered.

53359 NEOREGELIA SCHULTSIANA CREAM FIREBALL BRO HP TG PRICE: $18.00 The fabulous carmine red compact urns of the species form, brilliantly accented with broad ivory cream margins. Needs bright light and good humidity to best form its colony of pert rosettes. Very beautiful; a fantastic visual effect remarkable for the ease of culture in achieving it.

52137 NEOREGELIA SCHULTSIANA FIREBALL BRO HP TGH PRICE: $ 3.75 Tinker-toy stolons support colonies of brilliant red- purple small open vases; famous "Fireball Plant.' A great start to any collection of Bromeliads, or indeed, a grouping of houseplants.

52269 NEOREGELIA SCHULTSIANA VARIEGATED [MEDIO-PICTA] BRO HP TGH PRICE: $12.00 Bold stripes form dramatic starburst patters on the red waxy leaves forming pert compact burnished foliar urns. Very beautiful in outdoor summer patio combinations, yet also easy in a southern windowsill; always splendid in your hobby greenhouse, eventually forming a splendid mound perfect as a groundcover/undercover for taller or leggy specimens.

41644 NEOREGELIA SPECTABILIS SELECTION BRO HP TGH PRICE: $ 15.00 "Painted Fingernail Plant" Offsetting Rio de Janeiro native with bronzy wide waxy vases of richly mottled dark wide leaves ornately tipped oxblood red in full light. Maroon bracts frame the violet blossoms within the cup. Easy and fab.

14002 NEPHROLEPIS BISSERATA FURCANS POLYPO CGH HP $ 6.75 "Fishtail Fern" Large; frond tips fork into sections; this is a very large statured robust fern demanding a considerable space when mature--as tolerates full sun, now also a popular deck subject--but will take some time to achieve its full potential. Jones classifies this ornate cultivar as Nephrolepis falcata forma furcans. Slow to start, but strong to finish--never allow this to chill! For windowsill pots and mixed combination plantings we recommend various of the following tidier (and less agressive) dwarf selection:

14014 NEPHROLEPIS EXALTATA AUREA POLYP HP PRICE: $ 12.00 "Golden Boston Fern" The heavy fronds are solid chartreuse yellow; makes a striking hanging basket subject; yet seems astoundingly similar to the golden variegated cultivar offered below in this listing of exaltata cultivars. Known as 'Delilah' in Australia & South America; as "Blond" in California.

14021 NEPHROLEPIS EXALTATA FRINGED VASE POLYP HP PRICE: $ 12.00 "Fringed Vase Boston" This can take a fair amount of sun. Very congested grower with many "fringed" ruffles all along the rachis of each frond. We highly recommend for those needing a tight growing and slightly upright profiled fern. Sometimes labelled "Emerald Vase" or even (quite incorrectly) as "Floral Fantasy."

11554 NEPHROLEPIS EXALTATA SASSY POLYP HP PRICE: $ 9.25 "Table" fern or small hanging basket...considered to be a quick, reliable, wonderfully improved cross between Compacta and Teddy Jr. This fern really fits its name, "Sassy," appearing fresh and sassy! Easy to grow, all plants in a block exhibit the same growth rate and uniform looks. New introduction from Santa Rosa with nicely ruffled pinnae crowded along modestly sized fronds.

11480 NEPHROLEPIS PECTINATA POLYP HP TGH PRICE: $ 5.75 "Basket Fern" A toothed sword fern species forming enormous fronds reaching 6' with maturity; lacy pinnae. For those ready to go well beyond "Just a Boston" fernwise and wish to impetuously plunge into the realm of the mighty weeds of the fern folk . Imperative when you need the big tropical (and decidedly vertical) expansive effect well beyond the 'Macho Fern' (the N. acuminata tribe) in affectation.

52142 NIDULARIUM MICROPS BICENSE BRO HP CGH PRICE: $ 12.00 Compact glossy vases of very stiff leaves, shiny red-purple beneath, giving effect of maroon laquer. Distinctive in any Bromeliad collection, requiring only high light saturation to form a tight clump of elegant glossy maroon vases with the constitution and general habit of its cousins, the Neoregelias. Never overlook such a salward beauty.

50114 ODONTONEMA STRICTUM [HORT] ACA TGH HP PRICE: $ 4.00 Tropical "Firespike Bush"--strong stalks with rich green, somewhat corrugated foliage topped with bright red-scarlet tubular "Cardinal's Guard" flowers, usually in winter. Best pruned severely after flowering periods as can become a major jungle left on its own, easily reaching six feet or more if given free root run.

52058 ORTHOTANTHUS WHAT BRO HP TGH PRICE: $ 8.75 Beautiful "Copper Swirls" hybrid: small clumping arched rosettes of many softly toothed overlapping rosy bronze leaves. A bromeliad small enough to be a good terrarium subject. This is an intergeneric hybrid not often found in collections.

40708 OXALIS MAROON LEAF [FLORIBUNDA?] OXA HP CGH PRICE: $ 3.00 Extraordinary dark glowing maroon leaves cascade from the central bundle of buried bublets--altho bulbous this easily grown species remains evergreen with sufficient heat & light with cycles of lilac flower clusters blooming throughout the seasons. Perfect choice for those not comfortable with the dormant cycles of the more famous purple leaved Oxalis regnellii atropurpurea (triangularis) which tyically rests during the winter to emerge from its pot until early spring. This deserves to be more popular than it currently is--especially as it is a real trooper in sunny windowboxes and patio urns of summertime, as well as the winter windowsill.

40703 OXALIS REGNELLII OXA HP CGH PRICE: $ 3.00 Obtriangular leaves are most attractive, plus nearly everblooming white flower clusters recommend this as the best Oxalis for the house--the Victorian's favorite. More than likely that rugged soul your grandmother grew in a clay filled coffee can in her sunny kitchen window. Fabulous as a hanging basket display in your hobby greenhouse as well as any number of container combinations outdoors during the milder seasons. While a tuberous species, this one seems to have no dormancy cycle as long as if given good light, well drained soil, and low amounts of fertilizer. If however, during your vacation your very most trusted friend forgets to water it and it drops all foliage, fear not: gradually start watering again and the tubers will send up new life.

40970 OXALIS RUBRA [ROSEA] OXA HP CGH PRICE: $ 6.00 Free-blooming "Old Fashioned Pink Shamrock" grandma grew on her windowsill with its seemingly endless clusters of bright rosy flowers, veined red, over the shamrock foliage. Thick tubers give rise to many succulent stalks--indestructable, does not go dormant unless you forget to water it for a month or so.

40705 OXALIS SILIQUOSA COPPER GLOW OXA HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.25 Striking copper-pink leaves thickly overlapping on the strong succulent stems, which gradually arch over under the weight of the fabulously hued foliage; rare "Copper Velvet Shamrock" This variety does not have tubers, but is a vining subject, a traditional houseplant, with masses of cheerful yellow blossoms, also proven quite good for hanging baskets, urns, and especially windowboxes in summertime plantings.

59405 OXALIS SILIQUOSA ZINFANDEL OXA HP TGH PRICE: $ 5.25 An unusually dark leaved form of the species, seemingly the same as 'Bonfire' and other purple red clones with yellow blossoms occasionally revealing red veining in the winter sun. Has had many names over the years.

50522 PALISOTA PYNAERTII ELIZABETHAE COMM HP TGH PRICE: $ 35.00 Stalked umbles of wide rich green leaves richly zoned with soft ocher feathering, topped by thick cones of white flowers, then purpled berries. Handsome giant sized spiderwort of easy greenhouse culture, and a reliable performer as a houseplant with sufficient light and ambient humidity. A truely fabulous creature with astounding presence; imperative in any serious tropical collection.

40729 PASSIFLORA CUSPIDIFOLIA [WATERMELON LEAF] PAS HP TGH PRICE: $ 12.50 "Watermelon Leaf" with elongated deep purple-green oval leaves with striking straw colored nearly parallel veins giving a striped effect. Small statured, thus a perfect houseplant or light gardening subject as the foliage remains small scaled/statured; popular trained on wire topiaries.

40728 PASSIFLORA TRIFASCIATA PAS HP TGH PRICE: $ 18.00 "Three-banded Passion Vine" Tri-lobed lvs patterned in pink, silver, olive & bronze; fringed yellow & cream fls. lovely, if small. Odd scent glands on underleaf. Delicate appearance.

40748 PELARGONIUM GROSSULARIOIDES ROBERS LEMON ROSE [HYB] GER HP CGH PRICE: $ 3.75 Deeply lobed leaves with rich pungent fragrance on vigorously growing plant--try outside for summer bedding.

42190 PELARGONIUM HORTORUM CRYSTAL PALACE GEMGER HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.75 Soft pastel carmine flower clusters over big golden leaves with milky green center starbursts; wide spreading habit.The name reveals just how heirloom this really is.

56562 PELARGONIUM HORTORUM PLATINUM GER HP CGH PRICE: $ 3.75 Salmon toned scarlet single scarlet flowers arise above the quite odd waffled pale milky green rounded leaves with evenly cut creamy white margins; wide oddly angular mounding habit. A sport of 'Frank Headley' from Heidgen.

40762 PELARGONIUM PELTATUM CROCODILE GER CGH HP PRICE: $ 4.25 Beautiful golden netted "Ivory Geranium" leaves; pink flower heads. One of the traditional "Ivy Leaved" heirloom cascading types quite dramatic cascading from a windowbox, a summer urn, or a hanging basket.

41035 PELLIONIA DAVEAUANA [ELATOSTEMA REPENS] URT HP TGH TERR PRICE: $ 4.00 Reliable "Satin Creeper" from Viet Nam with crisped oval leaves of deep olive marked umber, becoming cupped and dark purple-chocolate with age. Perfect small basket subject or terrarium groundcover. Listed sometimes as "Trailing Watermelon Begonia."

53517 PEPEROMIA ACUMINATA VARIEGATA PIP HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.75 Thick oval waxy leaves, with pointed edges, richly splashed creamy green and yellow ochre, set like pieces of jade on thick cascading stems thus perfect in hanging baskets; nonetheless, as these thick stems are even more scandent (rooting along the nodes as they climb) this is a wonderful plant to cover a mossed pole, rooting as it covers the moss, resulting in a shingling of beautifully variegated jade foliage. Durable constitution even though quite rare. Highly recommended as a houseplant.

53543 PEPEROMIA CLUSIIFOLIA [PERICATTII] PIP HP TGH PRICE: $ 6.25 The dramatic "False Clusia." Thick purplish concave long leaves with purple margins held erect in two ranks by thick stems; the rubbery texture heightened by bright light. A well known West Indies native, yet this is a clone found by Robert Newman in Chinese cultivation. The obvious question: is this used in Chinese medicine?

53618 PEPEROMIA DISTICHIA [SCANDENS] VARIEGATA PIP HP PRICE: $ 3.50 The heart leaved "False Philodendron" with bright ivory white margined waxy leaves on the fleshy cascading stem; a basic for hanging baskets. Very strong grower.

53566 PEPEROMIA FRASERI [RESEDAEFOLIA] NANA PIP HP TGH PRICE: $ 3.50 Miniature "Flowering Peperomia" clone with glossy jade like small leaves on clumping rosettes sprouting lovely erect spikes of fuzzy blossoms. A basic for any terrarium design. Formerly known as P. resedaefolia `Dwarf.'

53521 PEPEROMIA GARDNERIANA [CORDATA?] PIP HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.25 The old horticultural designation of "Argentina" probably indicates habitat origin. Big bronzy-ochre leaves bushed with dull pewter highlights, held in open rosettes achieving the character of a giant P. caperata. Of easy culture, tolerant of low humidity

66880 PEPEROMIA KUANCA BANBA (SP. NOVA) PRICE: $ 3.75 Upright stoutly succulent stem studded with multitudes of basil green slim leaves to resemble a petite bottlebrush, but soon self-branching into an impressive clump of rich foliage; an unnamed native of Peru. Very reliable houseplant of considerable character currently enjoying a wave of popularity well earned.

53607PEPEROMIA OBTUSIFOLIA GOLDEN GATE PIP HP PRICE: $ 4.00 Very wide fleshy leaf with slate green center surrounded by a flamed zone (a halo?) of rich cream-yellow and margined in deep green. Very flashy pot plant.

53609 PEPEROMIA OBTUSIFOLIA HICOLOR PIP HP TGH PRICE: $ 3.00 Similar to the traditional 'Gold Tip' of Hummel, but this selection has rich golden and milky green variegation dramatically slashed throughout the entire leaf of jade like waxy succulent substance; the thick succulent stems gradually descend under the weight of the heavy highly colored leaves, thus an excellent subject for a hanging basket quite tolerant of less than ideal humidity levels..

53639 PEPEROMIA POLYBOTRYA [PERICATII] PIP HP TGH PRICE: $ 6.00 "Coin-leaf P." or "Owl Eye Plant" Stout picturesque stems hold large cupped-shield-shaped, waxed peltate leaves with a center "eye"; Andean species with racemes to one foot long covered with flowers so tiny the naked eye is defeated. Rather succulent in culture--be careful the soil is not compacted or root rot may occur.

53655 PEPEROMIA SILVER BANDIT [SPECIES UNIDENTIFIED] PRICE: $ 5.00 (Catch the pun?) Reclining upright stems hold elegant pebbled leaves with upcurled edges and bright central silver flames--this Andean species needs coolish location to display best colors with perfect drainage. Astoundingly beautiful..

53656 PEPEROMIA SILVER SHEEN [SPECIES] PIP HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.75 "Pewter Waxleaf Plant" Short arching (or scandent) succulent stems lined with thick leaves with a pewter-aluminum patina. Like acuminata, crassicaulis, and disticha this forms a beautiful moss pole specimen. Rare, yet easily grown species for small pots or baskets.

30629 PHILODENDRON BIPENNIFOLIUM GLAUCOUS ARAC HP TGH PRICE: $12.00 "Blue Fiddle-leaf Philo" The small-statured leaves are a waxy bluish-gray, closely spaced. Perhaps a fixed juvenile form. This has proven a handsome & reliable houseplant; if given a moss pole to slowy climb up will beautifully display a design of overlapping shingled foliage.

33107 PHILODENDRON BURLE MARX (SPECIES)ARAC HP TGH PRICE: $ 10.00 Very dependable, semi upright vine with waxy outfacing elongated heart shaped leaves thickly set on thick stems typically dividing in a nearly monstrose knobby art noveau design. Tolerates house conditions well.

30361PHILODENDRON DOMESTICUM ARAC HP PRICE: $ 3.50 "Spade Leaf Philo" Long lobed leaves on rubbery rounded stems; reliable scrambling viner. Easy.

30311 PHILODENDRON FENZLII ARAC HP PRICE: $ 7.50 Shiny trilobed leaves on vigorous vine from Mexico shown to advantage when encouraged to climb a mossed pole. Easily grown mimic of the Syngonium auritum complex. Enduringly popular for its ease of growth in less than ideal conditions.

30312 PHILODENDRON FLORIDA BEAUTY [HYB] ARAC HP PRICE: $ 4.75 (Sold often as P. squamiferum, but actually reported to be a hybrid of P. laciniatum and P. pedatum). Warty petioles stiftly present glossy shield-like leaves with opposite rounded upper lobes, blunt pointed central lobes and a single large lower lobe. Sound too elaborate? Try one to find out that this reliable compact vine is far easier to grow than to describe--especially dramatic when encouraged to clamber up a mossed pole, the best method for achieving stunning foliage.

30324 PHILODENDRON HEDERACEUM [HOFFMANNII] ARAC GH PRICE: $ 5.00 Climber whose leaves mimic the Algerian Ivy. Easy house plant with rubbery foliage able to survive lower humidity levels than most. While judicious pinching will produce a shrubby specimen, it is most successful when embracing a mossed pole or stiftly cascading from a pot. Proof that one can be pretty and "easy" simultaneously and not even command a high price.

30333 PHILODENDRON MEXICANUM ARAC HP CGH PRICE: $ 12.50 Narrow leathery arrow leaves, with unequal basal lobes, are magenta to maroon beneath; very handsome slowly scandent sp. with small green spathes hiding ruby interior. Mexican species full of drama, soon forming an impressive show as grows white rapidly. Looks exotically difficult, while actually easily grown.

42085 PHILODENDRON PRINCE OF ORANGE ARAC HP TGH $ 12.50 Can be in very short supply because often ordered in considerable numbers per order. Inquire as to availability. Wondrous richly glazed heavy leaves of truely shocking waxy orange and sunset tones closely whorled in a self-heading vase shape. Be brave and grow this very unique color (especially in the world of Aroids) with the purple leaved hybrids--Martha will let you. PP#6797

30337 PHILODENDRON SCANDENS AUREUM ARAC HP PRICE: $ 5.50 "Limeleaf Vine" Very showy chartreuse leaves create a glow of sunshine anywhere this is placed in your plant display; reliable sturdy plant equally at home in a pot or cascading dramatically from a hanging basket.

30334 PHILODENDRON SCANDENS MICANS ARAC HP PRICE: $ 5.75 "Velvet Hearts" This is a bronzy velvety toned heart leaved vine very popular as is adaptable to low light as well as imperfect humidity. Adds a rich tone to any combination.

33109 PHILODENDRON XANADU GOLDEN FORM ARA HP TGH PRICE: $ 17.50 Available now. Elongated leathery leaves with many shallow rounded fingered lobes like the hybrid above, however the new foliage emerges a bright golden color. Thickly overlaping golden leaves form a birdsnest shape rather than a clambering vine like P. elegans. A perfect houseplant. Probably will not stand as much sun or bright light as the standard green form.

11424 PHLEBODIUM AUREUM MANDIANUM POLYP HP TGH 4.75 Newly available again for the 2010 SEASON! Manda's "Crisped Blue Fern" still offered as Polypodium 'Mandianum' in the trade. Over stout basal "Hare's Foot" rhizomes clothed with silery blond hair arise graceful glaucous blue fronds with wavy deep lobes. Easy house plant.

65652 PHORMIUM TENAX ATROPURPUREUM LIL HH CGH PRICE: $ 8.50 Dark bronzy purple leathery flat leaves fanned out into dramatic displays--currently quite popular "New Zealand Flax"; dull coppery red inflorescenceorescenceoresence. An imperative addition to any "Current" display of container plants--able to withstand (actually enjoying) considerable winter chill as long as receives a strong saturation of light.

41041 PILEA DEPRESSA URT HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.50 Popularity indicated by multitude of popular names; "Shiny Creeping Charley," "Giant Baby Tears" "Mini Peperomia", by any name an excellent terrarium groundcover easily grown, attractive base for any leggy houseplant.

53150 PILEA GLAUCA URT HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.50 Carpeting "Silver Sprinkles" or gray artillery fern--very prostrate much branching stemlets with multitudes of tiny (barely a pea's width) glaucous oval leaves. A fabulous tiny featured groundcover, perfect for terrariums or for dishgardens--proven in the latter as has proven remarkably tolerant of low humidity,.

41046 PILEA GRANDIFOLIA CORAL URT HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.00 Also Pilea grandis superba. "Copper Pilea" Striking richly quilted pinkish- copper shimmery leaves on erect large spreading Jamaican bush. Easy.

41049 PILEA MICROPHYLLA PROSTRATA URT HP TGH PRICE: $ 3.00 "Waterfall Fern" Prostrate succulent stems with tiny watery leaves create a ferny, weeping effect when used in hanging baskets; perfect for terrarium carpet. Due to waxy surfaced tiny leaves, the most tolerant of any finely lacy appearing plant of lower levels of humidity and of higher levels of direct sun.

53507 PIPER NIGRUM [HORT] PIP HP TGH PRICE: $ 8.00 "Black Pepper Vine" Small leathery deep green heart leaves on strong vines--the source of commercial peppercorns. Quite easily grown low-light houseplant. Used in Asia also to treat food poisoning, to aid digestion. As with most of the Pipers, as the new leaves unfurl a scrufty surface wax (which protects the tender new growth) accumulates: do not decide that you have an outbreak of insects--you only are observing an outbreak of wax produced by the plant itself.

41050 PILEA NUMMULARIIFOLIA URT HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.00 "Creeping Charley" Quilted pebbled leaves overlap trailing prostate stems. Once commonly offered as a bright apple green hanging basket plant--but we would suggest an area with higher humidity. Great in the larger Wardian cases.

53513 PIPER BETEL [HORT] PIP HP TGH PRICE: $ 8.00 Famous clove flavored "Betel-leaf" stimulant (for wraped aound a betel nut--Areca catechu) from India also used treating diphtheria in Asia; this National Botanic Gardens clone has trailing habit of P. nigra, but with larger glossy heart shaped leaves on slightly folded petioles--very attractive vine easily grown on the windowsill; very dependable cascading from a hanging basket, happiest clambering up a moss pole as the aerial rootlets cling happily to the moss, or (for the adventurous tropical herbalists out there) cascading from a summer windowbox. We have not as yet observed the famous red fruits this species produces.

13040 PLATYCERIUM BIFURCATUM NETHERLANDS POLYPO HP PRICE: $ 15.00 While the most commonly found of all the "Staghorn Ferns" in cultivation, still one of the most beautiful off setting types--with the added attraction of thriving indoors.

41657 PLECTRANTHUS GRANDIDENTATUS LAB CGH HP PRICE: $ 3.50 Ernst van Jaarsveld at Kirstenbosch B.G. sent us this very dramatically cascading species with thick prostrate stems hidden by showy wide succulent scalloped leaves with furry haired surfaces; perfect for hanging baskets.

41107 PLECTRANTHUS MADAGASCARIENSIS MARGINATUS LAB CGH PRICE: $ 3.00 "Variegated Mint Leaf" A confusingly identified form sold in the mid-west as "Basket Iboza" with fast-spreading, cascading soft stems covered with white-margined minty, serrate leaves. Formerly offered under the then correct name of P. coleoides marginatus minimus. Hard to keep up with the Mint tribe nomenclature.

41130 PLECTRANTHUS VERTICILLATUS (AUSTRALIS) LAB TGH HP PRICE: $ 3.75 Formerly P. nummularius and P. australis.. The ever popular "Swedish Ivy" vine with waxy crennate leaves in pairs on strong cascading stems eventually tipped with racemes of white flowers--technically the clusters of flowers are in verticillasters a half inch around. This is an old so-called "Victorian Favorite." It is often seen in some areas of the country as a patio hanging basket plant. It works well in the home also.

40836 POLYGONUM CAPITATUM POLYGO CGH HP PRICE: $ 4.25 "Jacob's Ladder" Everblooming white popcorn-clover flower-heads bob over prostrate carpet of red-haired leaves zoned in rich mahogany--foliage turns wine-red if used as a bedding plant in full sun; Himalayan tropical knotweed perfect for hanging baskets. A popular houseplant and outdoor bedding plant since Victorian gardeners first discovered its multiple uses.

50053 PSEUDERANTHEMUM ATROPURPUREUM TRICOLOR ACAN HP PRICE: $ 5.00 Thick irregularly margined lance leaves of rich laquered purple with zones of slate green and pink on upright maroon stems.

50056 PSEUDERANTHEMUM RETICULATUM ELDORADO ACAN HP PRICE: $ 4.75 Slim ochre-yellow lvd "Gold Vein Shrub"; much more limber stems more self- branching than the erect wide-leaved species form. `Eldorado' forms a lush bright mound of foliage.

11662 PTERIS QUADRIAURITA TRICOLOR POLYPO CGH HP PRICE: $ 4.25 One of our favorites. This "Victorian Table Fern" is called Tricolor but is more specifically a rubra-bronze and dark green color. It has fantastic new growth of bright cranberry red toned tripinnate fronds. An easy growing houseplant or even Wardian Case plant. Japanese reference texts place this as a biaurita cultivar.

30632 RAPHIDOPHORA PANAMA [SPECIES] ARAC HP TGH PRICE: $ 15.00 Marvelous corrugated/waffled deep green leaves closely set on scandent vine--unflowered, thus possibly a large statured Epipremnum. "Panama Shingle Plant."

30396 RAPHIDOPHORA PINNATA [HORT/NYBG] ARAC TGH HP PRICE: $ 15.00 Extremely deeply lobed leaves resembling a palm more than its cousin, the Philodendrons, are produced in tight groups along the thick rambling scandent stem. The individual elaborate leaves are far more deeply fingered than any Monstera we offer. Beautiful, quite distinctiive Aroid , somewhat sensitive to chill, is always best presented on a mossed pole.

40863 REINECKIA CARNEA VARIEGATA LIL HP CGH HH PRICE: $ 6.25 Outstanding carpeting "False Lilyturf" with short, ranked leaves striped bright ivory; vigorous Japanese clone with brick red flowers followed by berries. Green species form marginally winter hardy here in Zone 6--this is less hardy. A far more successful and gorgeous citizen of your cool greenhouse (need a groundcover under the bench?) or as a beautiful visual in a bulbpan on or near a bright chill winter window.

66262 RHIPSALLIS CAPILLIFORMIS MOPHEAD CAC HP TGH PRICE: $ 3.75 Fabulous extreme form of this species named "formed like hair" as the very tiny slim stems divide constantly to form arched thick manes of fringed mopheads of foliage shown to advantage in a small basket or adding grace to a succulent wreath; quite tiny cream flowers. Epiphytic soil mix is imperative. Often sent as a mossed unrooted cutting

66108 RHIPSALIS CEREUSCULA CAC HP TGH PRICE: $ 2.25 "Wickerware Cactus" or "Coral Cactus" Stout cylindric stems arch under the multitudes of shorter terminal joints which interarch to form three-dimensional "Art Deco" patterns. This makes a major statement in time. Occassionally sent as an unrooted cutting in moss.

66194 RHIPSALIS CRUCIFORME SPIRALIS CAC TGH PRICE: $ 8.00 "Corkscrew Cactus" The flattened stems twist like an auger. Thrives in bright broken light and barky mix kept barely moist. A perfect piece of flora for the terminally disturbed collector who will never find a perfect peace/piece of mind. Sent as an unrooted cutting in dry moss.

66128 RHIPSALIS MESEMBRYANTHEMOIDES CAC HP TGH PRICE: $ 6.00 "Bottlebrush Cactus" or "Clumpy Mistletoe Cactus" Wonderful irregularly jutting cylindrical branches, with bristled apex areas, are tightly studded with wisk-branchlets. Brazilian epiphyte. Usually sent as unrooted cuttings in moss.

66256 RHIPSALIS RIO CASCADE [SPECIES UNIDENTIFIED] CAC HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.25 A vigorous handsome "Cascade Ribbon Plant" with long very angular succulent segments (some flat two-dimensional, others with three jade green wings) typically branching at each segment - creating an impressive curtain. From Rio de Janero this stiffly outlined one is sent as a mossed unrooted cutting..

66161 RHIPSALIS RIVERO'S RED [SPECIES] CAC HP TG PRICE: $ 4.00Arched then completely pendant flat tapeworm stems turn deep violet red in high light; tiny blossoms are followed by ornamental shell pink berries lining both edges of the ribbon stems most attractively. This unsegmented stemmed Caribbean now considered to possibly be Discocactus ramulosus--a more dramatic cascading member of the epiphytic Cacti cannot be imagined. Equally effective in a modest plant grouping or in a serious visual presentation in a conservatory. Very successfully combined with Bromeliad baskets and pots. Sometimes this is ordered in considerable numbers, depleting our potted stock; at such times we will ship ample cuttings in moss.

66038 RHIPSALIS (HATIORA) SALICORNIOIDES CAC HP TGH PRICE: $ 3.00 "Drunkard's Dream" or "Dancing Bones" Epiphytic Rhipsalis cousin with stiftly arching thickly-branched sprays of bottle-shaped branchlets tipped with yellow flowers fading to salmon; soon makes a wonderful windowsill potplant (or with time, a stunning hanging basket subject) with very regularly dividing bone shaped stem section forming a very symetrical outline. Distinct from and quite unlike its Rhipsalis kin in that the "Drunkard's Dream" has stem segments which are determinate, meaning in botanical terms that each little bottle shaped segment has a predetermined size and shape when it starts to be formed. Usually shipped as unrooted cuttings in dry moss.

50523 RHOEO BERMUDENSIS [SPATHACEA NANA] COMM HP PRICE: $ 3.50 Tight multi-headed mounds of stiff short fleshy leaves blushed pinkish purple beneath, in tight whorls obscuring the stout stems.

58306 RHOEO [TRADESCANTIA] BERMUDENSIS SITAKE'S GOLD COMM TGH HD PRICE: $ 12.00 Very tidy multiheaded mounds of fleshy thickly overlapping blond hued foliage--each with its distinct stripes of amethyst and champagne green--accented beautifully by the violet blushed underleaf.. A truely dramatic and easily grown entry into the "Moses in the Bullrushes" tribe. The habit is larger than and lower profiled than the typical bermudensis cultivars, yet not the stature of spathaceae. Very beautiful.

50570 RHOEO SPATHACEAE [DISCOLOR] COMM TGH HP PRICE: $ 8.25 The large statured traditional "Moses in a Boat" or "Oyster Plant" so called for the open oyster shell shaped bracts from which peep the white spiderflowers--boat shaped bracts tucked between the thickly packed outthrust fleshy green leaves, purpled beneath. This West Indies native is now more correctly named Tradescantia spathaceae, but seldom so identified in any plant book or magazine article. This is the one grandma grew.

55570 RUELLIA MACRANTHA PROSTRATE SELECTION ACAN HP CGH PRICE: $ 2.25 Softly mounding "Mexican Petunia" now used as a groundcover throughout the tropics, readily produces many upward facing rosy purple "Christmas Pride" blossoms on the downy foliage. Recently discovered by "Tropicals Outdoors" designers for summer boxes and urns for its ability to quickly fill in gaps and vigorously cascade over the lip of and container.

50061 RUELLIA MAKOYANA ACAN TGH CGH PRICE: $6.00 "Monkey Plant." Purplish mauve slightly pendant flowers bloom freely on scandent handsome leaved low shrub.Brazil. Soft dark velvet leaves with vibrant silver veins ensure the continuing popularity of this beautiful "Trailing Velvet Plant."

40904 RUSSELIA EQUISETIFORMIS [JUNCEA] SCR HP CGH HH PRICE: $ 3.75 "Coral Fountain Plant" Gracefully arching fine rush-like glossy stems bear many scarlet red tubular flowers--a living "Firecracker Factory" in constant bloom with bright light. This has nearly endless uses in garden and container designs.

49436 RUSSELIA SARMENTOSA SCR TGH HP 5.50 An unusual "Red Firecracker" plant with tightly whorled bunches of petite bright red tubular flowers at every leafy node on gracefully wide arching stems; the salvia like leaves turn purplish in full sun with cooler temps. Easy in sun. (Although customers inform us that they've observed this species blooming heavily in the shade in Mexico City's windowboxes.)

50111 SANCHEZIA NOBILIS GLAUCOPHYLLA NANA ACAN HP TGH PRICE: $ 3.75 Wonderful dwarf form (compartively speaking) of this popular gold-patterned much branching showstopping plant. Red reduced bracts with yellow fls in terminal spikes. The better choice of the Sanchezia for outside container performance as well as houseplant adaptability; the following "Golden Zebra" is far more dramatic in sheer scale as well as more dramatic in the winter greenhouse blossom sweepstakes.

68270 SANSEVIERIA BALLYI 'MINNIE' [RAUH'S KENYA] AGA HP TGH PRICE: $ 15.00 Bright green spiky "Hedgehog" type with many stolons (even from upper trunk); the fat upper keeled lower third leaves adorned with a papery horned edge. Much shorter and more compacted clusters of leaves than similar larger statured ones from Kenya. A Werner Rauh collection which has undergone many name changes over the years. Certainly among the cutest unfriendly plants we offer.

68096 SANSEVIERIA CYLINDRICA PATULA AGA HP TGH PRICE: $ 12.00 Now ready for shipping again. Please limit your orders to under 5 plants unless you prearrange your order--now that rumors of its medicinal properties are spreading, some orders are reaching unusual proportions. This is the popular "Snake Plant" with recurved terete tapered leaves, with hard tips & darker transverse bands, in handome open fans. Easy BIG fellow, always quite popular with the ladies. Once again available for shipping.

68102 SANSEVIERIA DOONERI [HORT] AGA HP TGH PRICE: $8.50 "Fountain Plant" Arched rosettes similar to S. parva, but with wider pale tannish leaves more strap like and slightly glaucous, becoming low arched for they are far more flexible--thus making it a perfect basket subject. Delicately scented bloom spikes. Underground stolons soon fill pot with glaucous soft strapped whorls. Does best in broken light rather than full sun, thus a perfect subject for a houseplant.

60871 SANSEVIERIA JAVANICA AGA HP TGH PRICE: $ 10.00 Short vertically challenged rosettes out arched in tight extremely abbreviated rotund rosettes. The slight gloss and deep tones these compact sculptures achieve in indirect light can be considerably amplified by growing this under lites where it looks like a miniature hahnii sidetracked by a sausage stuffer. These mahogany tinted dark squat plump recurved rosettes form a mounded carpet of multiple heads in time--'tis a wonder that HBO simply doesn't feature it in a series called FAT HEMP. Certainly one of the prize small statured Sansevieria--we need to be grateful to Alice Waidhoffer for distributing this charmer.

68125 SANSEVIERIA KIRKII PULCHRA AGA HP TGH PRICE: $ 10.00 Known horticulturally as S. metallica; or as the "Star Sansevieria." Wide flattened rosette of thick wide stiftly undulant leaves richly mottled pale green on black-emerald; astonishing cone-shaped inflorescence of greenish-white scented blossoms (we say "scented"; we do not say "fragrant" as do some books and catalogues). Zanzibar native. (Actually they may indeed smell of greenish-white.)

68139 SANSEVIERIA PARVA AGA HP TGH PRICE: $ 5.75 "Kenya Hyacinth" Thick deep green banded leaves in small dense rosettes which send out long pendant runners (stolons) ending in tiny plantlets; thus, excellent choice for growing in baskets. Fragrant palest pink bottlebrush blooms. Also known as S. d'amabilise, in early Sansevieria books, this species is deservedly popular as it always remains small statured, requires less than ideal conditions, tolerates shade and survives neglect.

68154 SANSEVIERIA SENEGAMBICA [CORNUI] AGA HP TGH PRICE: $ 3.50 Short upright curved leaves flattening toward the tip end with a slim point, the surface a matte-green with faint banding. Good compact waxy leaved species with reddish rhizomes & violet-white flowerss. If grown in a moss or coconut fiber basket, it loves to send forth stolons thru the medium to emerge through the fiber to form new plantlets resulting in an amazing "globe" of foliage being achieved--a trick also endearing this very compact grower to designers of succulent wreaths. Very easily grown houseplant with the endearing trick of elevating itself up out of its container--not very fussy about light intensities.

68271 SANSEVIERIA SP. KOKO CRATER AGA HP TGH PRICE: $ 50.00 Originally from the late Ed Eby who collected this from an abandoned USDA planting on this Hawaiian crater. Bright avocado green very rigid leaves with irregular chevrons in rigid fans punctuating a thick stolon. This is a cylindrica form that has runners that zigzag directly over the pot and over the edges. Like a squat short S. cylindrica with ridged indentations up and down the stem. Rather uncommon; unique for being more obviously distichous than other stoloniferous "hedgehog' types.

68157 SANSEVIERIA SPICATA (HORT:CONCINNA?) AGA HP TGH PRICE: $8.50 "Tea Spoon Hemp" Manda's compact houseplant with unique spatulate short leaves of deep green ending in "spoon handle" bottoms; pale fragrant tubular flowers. Certainly one of the most attractive and appealing of the small statured "Hemps" even if its botanic identity remains in limbo .

68162 SANSEVIERIA SUBSPICATA [HORT] AGA HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.75 This clone we have is from Manda's collection, representing the most easily grown form most common in USA--Deep green-black undulate wide leaves on slender petioles, with bright horned edges; the very short leaves overlap in irregular tostled rosettes. Tolerant of much neglect. Some customers enjoy starting this in a mossed wire topiary whereupon it gradually sticks out its meandering stolons to form writhing rosettes of foliage eventually covering the entire surface--quite wonderful, although requiring patience. This stoloniferous trick also endears this very compact plant with succulent wreath designers as well. We hope not to be accused of shameless price gouging on this guy.

68173 SANSEVIERIA TRIFASCIATA HAHNII AGA HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.25 The original "Birdsnest Plant" Cup-shaped tight rosette of broad spiral leaves dark green with paler crossbanding; freely suckers to form a clump. Found in New Orleans in 1939 and considered to be trifasciata trapped in a juvenile form. Common as dirt, but still totally reliable and cute as a button.

68413 SANSEVIERIA TRIFASCIATA HAHNII JADE AGA HP TGH PRICE: $ 10.00 "Jade Birdsnest Plant" One of the most distinctive of the Hahni group as the foliage displays no markings or chevrons on the gorgeous deep jade surfaced thick substanced leaves of deep mahogany green-- the somewhat sheened pointed leaves thickly overlap to form tight upright cups. Very bold. Take a look at the next entry also, for a variegated sport of this beauty.

60980 SANSEVIERIA TRIFASCIATA HAHNII JADE MARGINATA AGA HP TGH PRICE: $22.00 "Rimmed Birdsnest Plant" One of the most distinctive of the Hahni group as the foliage has no markings or chevrons, but rather, a most bold golden margin to contrast with the deep jade green of the main body. The contrast is stunning.

12912 SAXIFRAGA STOLONIFERA [SARMENTOSA] SAX HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.00 "Strawberry Begonia" or "Creeping Sailor" Flat central rosette of silver-veined leaves, reddish beneath, sends out thread-like runners with new plantlets. Versatile plant although neither related botanically to strawberries nor to Begonias.

40913 SAXIFRAGA STOLONIFERA AUREA SAX HP CGH PRICE: $ 5.50 "Golden Magic Carpet" Round, toothed leaves either solid golden chartreuse or with green-flamed centers; very beautiful, tho less vigorous than the species.

30400 SCINDAPSIS PICTUS ARGYRAEUS ARAC TGH HP PRICE: $ 4.75 "Satin Pothos" Beautiful leathery matte-green shimmering leaves are brushed with sugary silver. Good houseplant, although a bit slow to start. Foliage leathery enough to survive variable humidity levels, thus remaining among our favorite indoor plants--but be sure this beauty is proctected from chill. Currently enjoying much popularity as a star in a terrarium designs.

40916 SCIRPUS CERNUUS [ISOLEPIS GRACILIS] CYP HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.25 "Electric Grass" or "Fountain Bullrush" Perfect miniature tufts of translucent pendant green thread leaves tipped with bright straw-white bracts not unlike a mop of fiber optics! Must have constant moisture to thrive. Equally successful as an aquatic tub subject or a tuffet in a terrarium, or a mane in moss topiary; somewhat hardy in the very deep south.

60466 SEDUM LINEARE VARIEGATUM CRA CGH HP HH PRICE: $ 4.25 "Star Sedum" Soft much-branched ascending stems are covered with soft white-margined leaves; Its low mat-forming quality makes this a common cascading basket subject and a natural for succulent wreaths. Cool winters trigger this Japanese species to cover itself with starry yellow flowers late spring. Although listed in various books as Z6 or Z7 winter hardy, it has never survived a winter here outdoors. We list it as a tropical, but it is often used in the south as a perennial.

60469 SEDUM MAKINOI MARGINATUM CRA CGH HH HP PRICE: $ 4.00 "Snow Ladder" General habit and character of S. lineare, but the white-edged shingled spatulate leaves are rounded--overlapping on trailing soft stems to form "stairways"; yellow flowers. Japanese native much used by wreath designers and basic in succulent dish gardens.

60470 SEDUM MEXICANUM CRA HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.00 "Mexican Stonecrop" Mounds of waxy fresh-green soft needle shaped leaves densely packed on hidden fat toppling stems--makes a perfect ground cover for stemmy pot plants; quite basic for decorative small hanging baskets or dish gardens; a basic for succulent wreaths and small moss topiary. Starry yellow flowers usually appear late winter on this amazingly undemanding stonecrop.

11624 SELAGINELLA KRAUSIANA GOLD TIPS SEL CGH TERR PRICE: $ 4.50 OFTEN LIMITED AVAILABILITY Fabulous ferny carpet with all new growth tipped bright yellow against the darker mature clubmoss foliage--not as vigorous or as highly colored as 'aurea.'

11413 SELAGINELLA MARTENSII ALBOLINEATA SEL HP TERR PRICE: $6.75 "Snowy Club Moss" Arched, yet creeping, prostrate brittle, much-divided stems winged with scale-like glossy leaves with irregular patches of pure bright white--astoundingly beautiful--but be warned that this will remain entirely green if grown in constantly warm conditions. Mexican species for the larger terrarium. Rare cultivar yet not difficult to grow if given reliable levels of humidity.

11472 SELAGINELLA PLANA SEL TERR TGH PRICE: $ 4.25 Strong erect stems hold bright branched fans of shimmery foliage. Very distinctive beautiful "Spikemoss Cypress" species achieving more dramatic height than most of the tropical "Clubmosses." Certainly not "creepy." Unmatched for giving an exceptionally elegant vertical effect in a wardian case or larger terrarium; but remember that this is very tropical and thus, unlike various Selaginella species offered here, is not tolerant of chill.

60580 SENECIO IMPLEXUS COMP HP TGH PRICE: $ 3.75 "Maasai Carpet" Lovely fuzzy-velvet avacado-green thick leaves archly dangle on thick cascading stems with swollen roots; makes a handsome carpet groundcover or an extraordinary hanging basket subject. One of the easiest furry creatures for your garden combinations. As the fat stems are willing to root as they roam, this is an ideal furry creature to train around and around your succulent wreath for a knockout result.

60581 SENECIO JACOBSENII [PETRAEUS] COMP HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.00 "Vining / Trailing Jade" Glossy round-edged fleshy overlapping leaves shingle the thick trailing stems; excellent windowbox or hanging basket plant especially with its showy orangy yellow cushion flowers mid-winter. Like S. implexus, the fat succulent stems love to root into any media as they roam about, making this a perfect beautiful vine to wrap around and around your succulent wreath for a fantastic shingled look. A very high performance easily grown fat and sassy vine.

41904SENECIO MACROGLOSSUS MEDIO-PICTUS COM CGH PRICE: $ 6.50 Beautiful "Golden Cape/Natal Ivy" is a selection of this decoratively lobed heavy-substanced "Wax Ivy" with a golden ocher flame down each succulent leaf; Yellow ray flowers reveal it to be a daisy family member, perfect in the cool conservatory.

41471 SENECIO MIKANIOIDES [DELAIREA ODORATA] COMP HP CGH PRICE: $ 3.25 "German Ivy" or "Parlor Ivy" Glossy angled bright green leaves on succulent stems. South African species remaining quite popular as it tolerates a range of conditions. As likely to tumble from a windowbox in today's designs (especially as grows at least three times as fast as true Hedera ivies), as from the ornate urns in Nineteenth Century gardens--but always among the most popular of houseplants. Some plants are never out of fashion (even though their latin names morph into tonguetwisters).

60888 SENECIO PLEISTOCEPHALUS COMP CGH HP PRICE: $5.50 Scandent African shrublet, the "Golden Garland Vine" with broad semi-succulent oval leaves, attractively serrated; tiny bright yellow flowers in astoundingly large masses mid winter in the greenhouse. Fanciers of succulents are drawn to this for its gradually expanding woody base (caudex): by the way, many succulent leaved, and fat stemmed, and caudiform species of Senecio are offered in the SUCCULENTS section of this website. Click Here to go directly to the succulent Senecio listings and take a gander at some very fat dasies.

41472 SENECIO SCANDENS VIVIAN PERRY COMP HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.25 Another "German Ivy" cousin; but actually a ray-flowered Asian species with angled holly like leaves somewhat elongately triangular. This attractive "Charlatan Ivy" produces showy heads of sulphur-yellow daisy flowers typically around Christmas followed by tiny dandelion seed heads; effectively displayed in a hanging baskets year round. Much showier blossoms than those of mikanioides.

50527 SETCREASEA [TRADESCANTIA] PALLIDA [PURPUREA] COMM HP CGH PRICE: $ 3.00 "Purple Heart" Trailing succulent stems clasped by dark purple strap leaves with cobwebby hairs; violet spiderwort flowers. This is the basic.

49431 SETCREASEA [TRADESCANTIA] PALLIDA BILTMORE BIMBO COMM HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.50 . "Giant Purple Heart" A very broad leaved form of the traditional standby, considered somewhat hardy in the South. This new fabulous form is a great dramatic basket plant as well as a showy summertime bedding plant.

20359 SINNINGIA SELLOVII GES HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.75 From soft basal foliage mature stems (eventually as tall as three feet) bear many pendant swollen dark salmon pink fls attractive to every passing hummingbird; seed collector Tim Ross recommends full light to encourage spring to fall bloom for this Brazillian native. Various plant friends store the (eventually) considerably sized tuber during the winter with other tropical bulbs, then plant out directly into their garden beds (sunny spots are best, with rich well drained soil--anywhere glads and dahlias thrive) for an astounding summer display--few visitors to their gardens can even begin to guess what the succulent leaved Gesneriad with an attentant vigilant hummingbird might possibly be (they'll never guess Gesneriad, alone Sinningia)! Since I characteristically neglect to dig most tropical bulbs & tubers, I keep my oldest tubers (some now 15 years old) in giant 15" baskets where they are essentially evergreen.

20230 SINNINGIA TUBIFLORA GES HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.00 Tall stems (studded with pairs of small scalloped leaves) terminate with fragrant white tubed blossoms with flared lobes. Unusual chill tolerant type grown as an outdoor plant in southern California (but tubers must be considerably below frost line in perfectly drained soil). Rather too leggy to be an attractive houseplant--and the dormancy cycles can be perplexing--so just plant in a pot with a Bromeliad, Orchid, or even Oxalis as it is always happiest growing in another plant's pot, especially as tends to be quite stoloniferous with new shoots appearing unexpectedly in other areas of a wide pot. This characteristic has led several horticulturalists to suspect this to actually be the Brazilian Sinningia tuberosa.

42230 SOLANUM SEAFORTHIANUM SOL CGH PRICE: $ 5.25 Vigorous "Brazilian Nightshade" vine with deeply lobed lacy pinnate leaves; bright purple-blue starry flowerss followed by pea-sized red berries--performs well only if give full sun.. Check for availability before ordering as this is typically only seasonally stocked as most of our customers grow this dangerous creature as an annual.

31476 SPATHIPHYLLUM DOMINO [HYB] ARAC HP TGH PRICE: $ 5.00 We have various "Variegated Peace Lily" selections, but this is the most vibrantly streaked, mottled, richly colored one of all--with thick foliage tightly erect forming a compact clumping habit. Super. Our clone is from Milestone Pat#9944

40927 STENOTAPHRUM SECUNDATUM VARIEGATUM GRA HP PRICE: $5.00 "St. Augustine Grass" Stoloniferous basket trailer with Art Deco blunt-tipped blades banded white presented in two-dimensional fans sequencing along the wiry stems. Vigorous. Thriving in a bright window; popular as a dramatic "spiller" in urns and windowboxes; dramatic as a carpeting "lawn" in tropical settings.

20262 STREPTOCARPELLA HOLSTII GES PRICE: $ 3.25 Erect fleshy violet blushed oddly swollen shiny stems with haired heart-leaves present the bright blue flowers--the blue intensified by the white spot on each throat. African native must have moist yet perfectly drained soil. NOT your typical Gesneriad.

20263 STREPTOCARPELLA SAXORUM ALBA {VARIEGATA} GES HP CGH PRICE: $ 5.50 "Variegated Dauphin Violet" Plush-haired succulent leaves emerge white on much-branched cascading stems; azure blue flowers dance on slim stems. Handsome East African native.The pale foliage fades to soft green for a two tone effect.

51736 STROBILANTHES FLACCIDIFOLIUS ACAN TGH HP PRICE: $ 6.75 Impressively statured "Vein Leaf Acanthus" with thickened veins so promnent as to be in relief. Showy plant quickly forming a showy quilted deep vertigris green filler in summer containers with wands of bluish flowers in the fall. The strongly ribbed foliage has proven to make this a successful houseplant as well..

30416 SYNGONIUM AURITUM ARAC HP PRICE: $ 8.00 Thick textured rich waxy green five sectioned leaves. Sturdy deep green fingered foliage on a strong vine eventually reaching (achieving?) substantial size. Usually mistaken to be a Philodendron.

30423 SYNGONIUM PODOPHYLLUM ALBO-VARIEGATUM ARAC HP PRICE: $ 5.75 "French marble" "White Butterfly" Irregular patches of pure paperwhite on deep green arrowhead leaves. Easy and beautiful. The most popular every year.

99611 SYNGONIUM PODOPHYLLUM IVORY ARAC HP TGH PRICE: $ 12.00 Slow growing abbreviated vine with unusually large arrowhead leaves of near white faintly airbrushed with lime. So very pale as to need greenhouse humidity to prevent tip burn--we most certainly cannot recommend this as a houseplant. Remarkable, even if not care free!

71950 SYNGONIUM PODOPHYLLUM MANGO ALLUSION ARAC HP PRICE: $4.75 Very wide puckered heart shaped foliage a rich pinkish bronze with shimmery peach tones and pale violet veins. Ravishing!

30428 SYNGONIUM PODOPHYLLUM MOTTLED ARROWHEAD ARAC HP PRICE: $ 3.00 "Mottled Arrowhead" Very striking irregular yellow ochre slashes and patches over the entire surface--often these raised variegations twist the horned leaves into monstrose puckered shapes. Vigorous selection by the late Gene Calkins. Very vigorous, very flashy. By far one of the most popular cultivars (but totally missing from the plant trade).

99610 SYNGONIUM PODOPHYLLUM NEON ARAC HP TGH PRICE: $6.75 Extremely bright solid pinkish pink (with overtones and undertones of negligee pink)--richly saturated color on each arrowhead leaf. Needs to be seen to be believed--a far more arresting, sharper color saturation than any of the 'Allusion' series, but not as wide a leaf outline.

60607 TALINUM PATENS KINGWOOD GOLD POR CGH HP PRICE: $ 3.25 Marvelous "Golden Fame Flower" selection made at Kingwood Center in Mansfield, Ohio with bright chartreuse-gold foliage creating a very striking contrast with the misty clusters of carmine flowers. This is now quite popular as an outdoor summer bedding subject--to see a sweep of these at Kingwood Center is a true design overload. Equally dramatic as a dependable spot of gold in your winter windowsill.

42348 TECOMARIA CAPENSIS BIG TGH PRICE: $ 7.75 The South African "Cape Honeysuckle," a bushy scandent shrub with attrractive dark pinnate foliage and showy upfaced terminal clusters of brilliantly scarlet trumpet/funnel flowers which appear on new growth in abundance late summer, much to the delight of hmmingbirds. While this Mozambique showoff does perform best outdoors in full sun, this should only encourage you to radically prune back the woody stems after the blooming frenzy and stash the container in a cool spot during the winter.

11401 TECTARIA CICUTARIA [GEMMIFERA, HORT.] POL HP CGH PRICE: $ 5.50 "Button Ball Fern" Upright rhizomes with gracefully arching tripinnate fronds (triangular in overall outline) with a series on rounded button-like bulbils along the top of the central midrib. Caribbean tolerant of indoor conditions. A fern no child can resist and most impressive a a central focus in a wardian case design.

41085 TETRASTIGMA VOINIERIANUM VIT HP TGH PRICE: $ 17.50 "Chestnut Vine" or "Lizard Plant" Enormous fleshy digitate leaves emerge with a cinnamon toned tawny wool supported on fleshy reddish ropelike stems. Handsome Laotian grape vine for the brave of heart. This is large and quickly gets very much larger. An excellent way to start your collection of Laotian natives. The price reflects not so much the rarity of this handsome creature as the rather complicated procedure of packing it for shipping.

54014 THUNBERGIA BATTISCOMBEI ACAN CGH TGH PRICE: $ 5.50 Shrubby vining Kenyan species with beautiful glossy leaves and racemes of electric blue (with a hint of violet) trumpet blossoms with yellow throats; best kept in a warm greenhouse during the winter so can start its big display early on. We've grown many "Clockvine" species, and this remains the most impressive flower--and even more impressively, the flowers are produced readily compared to many of the more famous species. Take a look at the last two thumbnails of this plant, provided to us from Kathy Keller. These were all plants bought from us last year as starter plants. All were grown from a this small size for a Fall Garden Show. We thank Kathy for sharing these photos with us. The plant in the upper right hand corner got First Prize!

53146 THUNBERGIA ERECTA FAIRY MOON GES HP PRICE: $ 8.50 Attractive reliable shrubby "Picottee King's Mantle" with lavender blue trumpet shaped blossoms edged in white and throated yellow. Height of blooming in midwinter for us, although not exclusively. Foliage always beautifully maintained.

51737 THUNBERGIA GRANDIFLORA VARIEGATA ACAN TGH PRICE: $ 12.00 Remarkable "Banded Bengal Trupet" shared by David Biggar with showy broad creamy white borders on each dramatic leaf; same blue violet trumpet flowers as the species form of this most favorite of conservatory vines. We have considerably reduced the original price because this is far easier to grow than we anticipated--if you have limited space in your greenhouse why not grow this clone to achieve beautiful foliage for continued drama between bloom cycles. Again, to successfully bloom this beauty, set up an area where the root base (in a container, or in the ground) will not be disturbed for an extended period.

53341 TILLANDSIA CYANEA ANITA [HYB] BRO HP TGH PRICE: $ 12.75 Highly colored version of the popular cyanea--attractive small tuffets of deeply arched deep green leathery slim leaves (like a very friendly hedgehog) from which arise the dramatic wide violet pink "Pink Feather" comb of bracts along which emerge, over a period of time, the cute blue (cyane) blossoms. Unlike most species, this is semi-terrestial, easily grown in a pot of orchid bark, wonderful in topiary designs; often marketed growing out of an ornamental seashell.

53269 TILLANDSIA JUNCEA BRO HP TGH PRICE: $ 7.00 "Wiskbroom Air Plant" Many compact rushlike leaves held in a upright rosette; the coppery deep green leaves of this selection from Ann Harris reach 12"; the bracts of the inflorescence are bright red, the petals bluish purple.

52172 TILLANDSIA USNEOIDES BRO HP TGH HH PRICE: $ 1.75 "Spanish Moss" Silvery-gray threaded masses of tiny plantlets in dramatic garland famous in subtropical and tropical America for their eventual effect on draped trees; yet the perfect houseplant for compulsive mister-ers. Not collected--this is a bright silvery clone from Guatamala (and thus not needing the chill winter of any collected in the southern USA where most clones are a shade dingy gray in color anyway) which has been growing happily in our Ohio greenhouses for the last 20 years. We notice that our customers are beginning to use this lavishly in their terrarium designs where it thrives.

40938 TOLMIEA MENZIESII VARIEGATA SAX HP CGH HH PRICE: $ 4.25 "Variegated Piggy Back Plant" Fresh green, hairy, lobed leaves with richly yellow-flecked surfaces grow plantlets on the tops of the leaf base. Likes a cool spot with good humidity. Renamed 'Taff's Gold' in England.

40946 TRACHELOSPERMUM JASMINOIDES VARIEGATUM [HORT] APO HP CGH PRICE: $ 6.25 "Variegated Star Jasmine" or "Mottled Confederate Jasmine" Frilled, lobed, fragrant flowers of pure white; oval waxy leaves variegated yellow cream and slate green. Showy and of easy culture.

50539 TRADESCANTIA BLOSSFELDIANA COM HP PRICE: $ 4.50 "Flowering Inch Plant" Emerald green succulent pelted leaves, purple beneath, thickly ranked on short thick stems sheathed with purple-sepaled flowers of white tipped pink. We have offered this in the past and now have it ready again. Easy. This makes a good windowsill plant as well as summertime urn plant.

50542 TRADESCANTIA FLUMINENSIS AUREA COMM HP PRICE: $ 3.75 "Golden Inch Plant" Cascades of bright chartreuse leaves on cascading stems displayed to advantage as a golden addition to windowboxes and hanging baskets. Forms marvelous groundcover--try in as a low surface of glossy lemon ochre under your bed of Impatiens or purple leaved Dahlias to shake up the visuals a bit.

50546 TRADESCANTIA FLUMINENSIS VARIEGATA COMM HP TGH CGH PRICE: $ 3.75 "Speedy Henry" Glossy green & white striped foliage; excellent subject for hanging baskets, for groundcover; try outdoors as a easy quick summertime groundcover. Even though this should be simply dead common, amazing numbers of orders arrive for this every year. Cheap, easy, flashy: these sterling values never fail.

50532 TRIPOGANDRA FALSE BROMELIAD [HORT] COMM HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.25 "Streaked False Bromeliad" Introduced initially as a Callisia but more likely to be Hadrodemas warscewicsiana striata (which sounds rather terminal). Large upright whorled cups of tightly overlapping white-streaked fleshy leaves. A very popular, handsome plant even if of uncertain nomenclature. Showy--your friends will not believe this is a Spiderwort until the branched inflorescence appears with the cute three petaled flowers.

66780 URENA LOBATA [PROCUMBENS] ROSE NEWMAN MAL TGH HP PRICE: $ 5.25 This small shrub collection from China shared with us by Robert Newman (and named for his mother) of a quite special member of the "Asian Snowflake Mallows" sports very beautiful lobed leaves of pale ochre dramatically banded in dark green; demure lilac mini-hibiscus blossoms line the stems early winter. Thus a good winter greenhouse or plantroom candidate; while always an excellent foliage plant for summer beds and containers and enjoying a new spurt of interest as an excellent performer as a staked formal topiary subject. South Florida and Rio Valley Texans have reported this root hardy in their outdoor plantings.

40957 VANILLA PLANIFOLIA [FRAGRANS] ORC HP TGH PRICE: $ 15.00 Always popular vine. Wide leathery waxy leaves line the thick vining stems; important commercial "Vanilla Orchid" source of the vanilla bean--the yellow-green flowers are hard to produce with inadequate light, considerable heat, and considerable patience. Sent as generous unrooted cttings in dry moss. If you wish us to hold this until the new aerial roots have penetrated their mossy pots, please advise and we will work out a schedule.

40971 VIOLA HEDERACEA [ERPETION RENIFORME] VIO HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.00 "Basket Violet" or "Australian Violet" Trailing stems with clumps of rounded leaves and lovely flowers of violet-purple with innocent white eyes. Easy, popular compact candidate for baskets or as a nonaggresive groundcover in your greenhouse; we've even seen it used on large mossed topiaries although a bear blooming with hundreds of violets can be a challenge to the senses! If given a bright location with even moisture and fertilizer, this tropical violet will produce flushes of blooms throughout the year.

52181 VRIESEA BLEHRI BRO HP CGH PRICE: $ 18.00 Closely clustered elegant small maroon-purple vases, often called "Lobster Claw Bromo" for its mid-winter inflorescence which mimics a Heliconia's attempt to attract every nearby hummingbird. as the short stalks are topped with opposite ranks of miniature pale orange claw-like flowers. Excellent in the greenhouse; attractive on the windowsill; very beautiful when grown under lights.

41716 WEDELIA TRILOBATA OUTENREATH GOLD COMP HP CGH PRICE: $ 3.50 "Golden Water Zinnia" A remarkable selection of the very popular hanging basket & groundcover "vine" with striking golden-ocher splashes & slashes on every tri-lobed leaf: most impressive when combined with the yellow daisy fls. Also successful as a groundcover bog plant. This variegated sport was discovered and shared with us by Gary Outenreath. For reasons known only to them, Parks received this from us and now offers this as "Outerreath Gold"!

30444 XANTHOSOMA JACQUINII LINEATUM ARAC TGH CGH PRICE: $ 12.50 Crested leaves with whitish striations raised above the arrowhead leaves' surface; unexpectedly easy to grow as this is as vigorous as any of its similar cousin Colocasias. May we insert information you will never use: this very odd 'Monstrose Elephant Ear' is now included in the "Undipes Complex." So very complex, so very over the top. So imperative to add to your collection.

30440 XANTHOSOMA VIOLACEUM ARAC TGH HP PRICE: $ 12.00 "Blue Taro" Purple stems arch into swooping arrowhead leaves of dusky violet darkening to a rich purple toward the margins; this West Indian semi-aquatic "Blue Ape" must have warm winter conditions to maintain evergreen foliage; easiest to grow as a semi-aquatic in summer (but very successful as a container companion plant or even planted in a bed with some perfect color companion like 'Lime Zinger'): then store like a dormant "Elephant Ear" during the winter. And like all Colocasias and Xanthosomas, most successfully stored by leaving them in their containers so that their ever so slightly moist undisturbed potting mix is around them all winter to prevent drying out and rot. Nonetheless, reliably evergreen [everpurple] in your winter greenhouse or warm plantroom.

40976 XIPHIDIUM CAERULEUM HAE TGH PRICE: $ 10.00 Fans of purple-stained leaves sensitive to extended chill--although survives fine otdoors in the Florida Keys. The fans of iris-mimic leaves are topped with odd cupped white pendant flowers in panicles; and thus this curiosity is known in the West Indies as "Angelhands" from which it easily makes a transition to a sunny windowsill oddity. We have never understood why zoos order this regularly, yet botanic gardens have seldom placed a request. A Noah's Ark complex? Nonetheless: Time for you to grow something so quaintly attractive in the family Haemodoraceae!

30446 ZAMIOCULCAS LANCEOLATA ARAC HP TGH PRICE: $ 8.00 "Aroid Palm" Very thick purpled petioles hold ranks of waxy succulent leaves on outarched thick succulent stems arising from a tuberous root. This elegant plant, now heavily marketed as the "ZZ Palm" is one of the few purely desert aroids. Beware that the leaflets typically shatter when shipped--just tuck them into a rooting mix and each will form a plantlet.

50553 ZEBRINA PENDULA DISCOLOR MULTICOLOR COMM HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.50 "Pink Wandering Jew" Broad pinkish-cream & ochre stripes on the glittery leaves with their opulently hued purple reverses. This has always been one of our most ordered variegated plants.

50556 ZEBRINA PENDULA PURPUSII CIN GO CGG PRICE: $ 3.25 Deep pruple foliage--the darkest we have seen--with slight silvery chevrons giving depth to the darkness. Rather smaller foliage than most cultivars.

59394 ZEBRINA PENDULA SILVER PLUS COMM HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.25 A selection of the "Silver Banded Inch Plant" with very showy broad bands of glittery silver on each succulent leaf if grown in very high light. Appearance will vary radically with different levels of light, ambient humidity and nutrients. We consider this far more dramatic in baskets and urns than the species form.

56544 ZINGIBER MIDNIGHT ZIN TGH HP PRICE: $ 6.50 Marvelous "Black Ginger" with arched stems winged with glossy maroon overlapping leaves; the lovely blossoms open creamy yellow gradually changing to peachy apricot. Wonderful color in any plant combination, or as a solo pot plant. If the roots are slightly chilled, or if (not that this could happen) watering schedules are missed, this small ginger will drop its foliage; but never fear for a new fresh set of stems will emerge from the undersoil bulb/tuber and the color will be better than ever.

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