Gladiolus Old Fort North Carolina Native Plants The drought-tolerant

The drought-tolerant

Trillium foetidissimum is just as hardy in Minnesota

so each clone is slightly different

Hosta 'Mishima Fukurin' is a good grower that multiplies well

thanks to a gift from the late fern collector Nancy Swell of Virginia

Gladiolus Old Fort North Carolina Native Plants The drought-tolerantThe year was 2004, the highway, Interstate 40, the exit, Old Fort, NC. Though it isn't advertised, old Ford vans can go from 60 mph to 0 in just a few seconds as I can attest when I saw this long abandoned gladiolus growing by the guardrail just outside Asheville, NC. Upon closer inspection, it was not the Gladiolus dalenii often found in southern gardens, but an old garden hybrid a very winter hardy hybrid. Back in our trial gardens, Gladiolus 'Old