Sporobolus maximus Salta Splendor Aruncus bold-textured

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southwest of Guadalajara (YD77M-44)

Agave 'Mostly Ghostly' is a 2023 Plant Delights/JLBG introduction of a sport of Agave 'Shadow Dancer'

Asplenium platyneuron and the walking fern

starting in February with huge (nearly 4" wide) lovely soft pink flowers with dark veins and petal edges

Sporobolus maximus Salta Splendor Aruncus bold-texturedWe first met the amazing Sporobolus maximus 'Salta Splendor' on a 2002 trip to Northern Argentina, and was instantly in love. There it grew native, only in a narrow band around lakeshores with the native pampas grass (Cortaderia selloana). While giant dropseed lives fine for us in the southeast US, it never thrives or flowers like it does in more desert climates. This stunning, tightly clumping ornamental grass tops out at 8' tall when in plume,