Pteris multifida Korean Petticoat North America This splendid selection of winter

This splendid selection of winter flowering iris comes from our friend John Elsley

one of the finest members of the ginger family

We'll also award them the 2004 bad cultivar name award

purple flower spikes of Crinum 'Summer Nocturne' arise from among the lush green foliage starting in mid-July and continuing until frost

but the best feature here is the tropical looking foliage

Pteris multifida Korean Petticoat North America This splendid selection of winterI first saw this delightful crested form of the easy to grow Pteris cretica in 2006 at Harriet and Wade Mahlke's Alabama garden. Wade found the fern growing in the forest near Gyeong Ju, South Korea during a 1997 visit, and was able to gather spores. His find closely resembles the widely cultivated Pteris 'Wilsonii', but has been winter hardy here since 2007, so we have assigned it the cultivar name Pteris 'Korean Petticoat' and it became a 2013 Plant