Spiranthes vernalis Wake Up Spotted/Speckled Foliage Plants The 4' tall sturdy stalks

The 4' tall sturdy stalks are topped

humid summers where most snapdragons fear to tread

Ilex 'Adorned' is a Pat McCracken discovery of a sport on the popular Japanese holly Ilex crenata 'Hoogendorn'

hotei-atsumorianum and the European Cypripedium calceolus

The specific epithet commemorates the eccentric English gardener/plantswoman Ellen Ann Willmott (1858-1934)

Spiranthes vernalis Wake Up Spotted/Speckled Foliage Plants The 4' tall sturdy stalksSpiranthes vernalis is a widespread Eastern US native species (New Hampshire southwest to Texas), that is virtually never grown in gardens. We are pleased to offer these from our property here in Wake County, NC, where they pop up in both pastures and lawns. The deciduous short green rosettes emerge in early spring, topped by 18" tall, twisting spiral spikes of up to four dozen tiny white flowers, starting for us in early June. After seed set, it goes