Hedychium flavescens Sasquatch Shortia it's just too weird for

it's just too weird for any other explanation

discovered by native plant guru Bob McCartney in a sandhills habitat in central Georgia's Wheeler County

wisteria-like pink flower clusters (6" long) cascade from the tops of the stems in spring and into early summer

bright gold leaves combined with the distinctive

who were so taken after it survived -10 degrees F that they released it under the name 'Arp'

Hedychium flavescens Sasquatch Shortia it's just too weird for(aka: Hedychium Light Yellow) For years, we grew the Himalayan (Nepal, China, and India) Hedychium flavescens, only to watch freezing temperatures turn it to a pile of black plant snot before we ever saw the first flower, so we were thrilled when plantsman Alan Galloway shared his early flowering form, under the name Hedychium 'Light Yellow'. Our clump of the 2014 named Hedychium flavescens 'Sasquatch' has been in the ground here since 1999 and has