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'Maui Buttercups' is considered one of the best yellow hostas. It forms a mound 10x14 inches within three years. The leaves are about 5 inches and they are cupped, rounded and corrugated and the tall flower stalks display white blooms. It is considered to be sun tolerant...

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A very nice looking plant with few flowers. This peony is a dud.

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Miniature succulent with tiny, chunky, dark green leaves (to about 1/2" long) bearing white scaly texture. Stems grow to about 6 inches (mostly sideways, sometimes upward). Small whitish flowers. A well behaved container plant, good subject for macro photography.

From San Luis Potosí.

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This one is proving to be an excellent Pod parent. I only set three pods (different pollen parents) last year. Got 15+ seeds in every pod with 100% germination.

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Very early in South Carolina.

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Very attractive blue-gray to blue-green yucca growing up to 6-15 feet tall (occasionally much larger). From southwest Texas (Brewster County) and northern Mexico. Relatively long leaves (up to 2 feet) appear in great numbers (>100) in a healthy rosette. Leaves are smooth, with a terminal spine and very fine marginal teeth. They sometimes have a yellow marginal stripe. Dead leaves are retained below, pointing downward and cloaking the stem. Many/most plants are unbranched, but they may branch sparsely at the base or at the top. White flowers appear in spring on inflorescences to 2 feet or more tall.

The dense, full foliage atop a relatively narrow stem (6-12" wide) makes older plants particularly impressive. Some people choose to remove the dead leaves below the rosette by cutting them off at the base, leaving a sort of nubbly stem exposed. I prefer the natural look.

Provide lots of sun and excellent drainage in containers and in the garden.

Compare to Y. thompsoniana (found further north in Texas; shorter; smaller leaves with a rough texture) and Y. rigida (from northern Mexico; fewer, wider leaves that are rigid and straight; inflorescence partly cloaked by leaves).

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Smallish glaucous blue-gray-green agave from the SW US and NW Mexico. Dry-growing, sun-loving, heat-tolerant, and cold-tolerant (when kept dry). Size reaches about 2-3 feet wide (per rosette), depending on the variety and the conditions. Provide excellent drainage and lots of sun for best color and form.

From southern California, northern Baja California, Arizona and Sonora. Widely distributed and easily viewed in Anza Borrego Desert State Park (CA), where it flowers in vivid yellow during the spring and early summer.

This species is similar to Agave cerulata, which grows further south in Baja California (the dividing line is about 30°N latitude). The latter plant is usually a different color (more yellow-green), slightly smaller, with leaves that are wider for their length. A. deserti does not usually have brown eyelets ringing the base of the teeth.

The type variety Century Plant (Agave deserti var. deserti) from CA and BC usually offsets and may form large clumps. Heavily offsetting plants may produce smaller rosettes because they end up competing with each other. Desert Agave (Agave deserti var. simplex) from further north and east is solitary and may be better represented in cultivation. Century Plant (Agave deserti var. pringlei) occurs only in northern BC and is slightly larger.

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I've had Doc Branch since 2017. It's been a very reliable bloomer for me. It even bloomed last year despite an early drought and not getting any supplemental water. It hasn't increased much for me but it still manages to put on a good show.

I can't remember ever seeing much of any sculpting on the blooms. However, I have some kids from Doc Branch that show more visible sculpting.

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The mascula peonies I am growing are from seed collected by Josef Halda in 2001, notes on which can be found on the internet. I make this comment because as you can see in my pictures, the foliage is a matte dusty rose to start, changing to brownish green and then to a matte bluish-green.

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While I love this daylily it hasn't done well for me. I've had Charmed I'm Sure since 2017. However, I didn't get my first bloom until 2021! I've had to move it around the garden to find a spot that it likes. It likes the spot it is in now (a container) as it even put up a second scape after the first one was broken off in 2022. It did not bloom for me in 2023 but that was likely due to the effects of the early drought we had even though CIS blooms mid-late for me and not early-mid as registered. Many of my potted daylilies went dormant that summer.

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