Polystichum acrostichoides 4b Salvia microphylla and Salvia x

Salvia microphylla and Salvia x jamensis vary in their vigor

When I first saw Iris laevigata 'Variegata' many years ago in the famed garden of Pennsylvania's Charles Cresson

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

Buddleia lindleyana is our only buddleia that is not cut to the ground each year

but one whose background is mysterious since it has never been seen in the wild

Polystichum acrostichoides 4b Salvia microphylla and Salvia xPolystichum acrostichoides is a wonderful, easy to grow, deer resistant US native (Minnesota south to Florida) with sturdy, dark, evergreen fronds emanating from a central point, making a 2' wide clump particularly effective when used in drifts. The fronds first emerge upright, then flatten with age. Christmas fern (known in PC circles as the Seasonal Holiday Fern) is one of the finest of all evergreen ferns and retains its attractive appearance all