Agave flexispina Alstroemeria Curcuma elata is a maintenance-free

Curcuma elata is a maintenance-free perennial for us

After the flowers fade

This sport from Wolfgang's garden has the typical growth habit of the North American native (Canada south to Arkansas) Carex muskingumensis forming a semi-evergreen clump of 18" tall stalks which look like miniature palm trees

sounds like one of fancy royal folks with four names and a hyphen

Agave flexispina Alstroemeria Curcuma elata is a maintenance-freeAgave flexispina is a rarely grown century plant, related to Agave palmeri and Agave shrevei, that struck my fancy when visiting the Ruth Bancroft Garden in California. Hailing from 4,500' to 7,500' in the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Durango and Zacatecas, Agave flexispina has shown great winter hardiness in our trials. The powder blue leaves with long red spines form rosettes that are often solitary but will offset occasionally once established. In