Sambucus Chocolate Marzipan Myosotis Rohdea 'Miyako No Jo' translates

Rohdea 'Miyako No Jo' translates to "rohdea of Kyoto Castle

a 2012 Plant Delights/JLBG introduction is a splendid dwarf form of our native Cheilanthes lanosa that popped up here as a sporeling

Helleborus x hybridus 'First Dance' is a hand pollinated seed strain from our friends at Walters Gardens that produces spikes of double light yellow flowers

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This offering is seed grown from a giant seed head found at 439' elevation in Phetchabun Province

Sambucus Chocolate Marzipan Myosotis Rohdea 'Miyako No Jo' translatesSambucus 'Chocolate Marzipan' is the Kraken of the elderberry world, and a garden designer's dream. We picked up this new, and still virtually unknown Edmund Brown hybrid during our 2020 UK travels, in our search for any dark foliaged sambucus that would survive our heat and humidity. This beast has done far more than survive, forming a massive 12' tall x 12' wide specimen with widely arching woody stems, clothed with large black foliage, and topped,