Slender tall plant (2 meters) with mottled snake skin patterned stems. Spathe is purple brown with narrow white stripes the elongated hood tapers to a long thread. Single leaf is divided into 12 or so leaflets that too end with long fine points. Makes dime sized corms in its first year.
This smaller Arisaema reaches 40 cm in height, but this doesn't take away from its unique beauty. Its spathe varies in colour from pale purplish red to purplish pink. All have white stripes and pink coloured stems. Up to 20 narrow blade shaped dark green leaves arranged in a whirl top each leaf...
When most of everything is dormant in winter here is this little lovely patch of deep glossy green with white veining or marbleing. Elongated arrow shaped leaves to 20 cm in length are held just above the soil. In mid Spring a creamy flowering spathe appears and by mid summer the leaves die back...
This robust 2 meter perennial emerges early spring from short robust rhizomes, by mid to late spring heavy pendulous sprays of lacy creamy white flowers atop each stem looking very much like Astilbe. Nice foliage. In Autumn, rich brown coloured seed heads on female plants are very...
Lovely semi evergreen ground cover with clear dark green deeply veined kidney shaped leaves. Maroon brown bell shaped flowers are carried under the leaves and its not uncommon for them to lay upon the ground. Shallow rooted and can form large colonies with its spreading rhizomes. Very nice when...
The long whiskered tails of the trilobed marroon flowers distinguish this Asarum from its kin. Evergreen heart shaped leaves are solid green without a trace of mottling. Somewhat hairy stems. Spreads by shallow rhizomes. Can make dense colonies under the bare ground of conifers.
The glossy kidney shaped leaves of this 15 cm tall species makes it an ideal groundcover. A semi evergreen in our garden. In mid spring, reddish brown uniquely shaped bell like flowers lay on the soil surface. One must part the leaves to see them. Slowly spreads by shallow rhizomes.
A lovely evergreen ground cover with heart to kidney shaped dark green leathery leaves with contrasting silver colouring along the main veining creating a series intricate arches. Greenish flowers have dark marron striping like flowers terminate in three long whiskers, but these are often held...
A stunning early spring blooming species with nodding globe like flowers. Blooms range in colour from ivory (with or without carmine marking) to carmine. Each arching stem can carry up to 10 of these incredibly lovely flowers. Co-evolved with our wet winters and dry summers, so becomes naturally...
A show stopping species that deserves a prominant possition in the garden. Sweetly fragrant trumpet shaped blooms are ivory with a redish marroon throat are borne up to 20 per stem for a cascading display that will last for weeks. Heart shaped leaves are the size of platters. Monocarpic. Our...
