Crinum buphanoides SI forms Northern Africa This magnificent and heretofore impossible

This magnificent and heretofore impossible breeding breakthrough comes from Kentucky's plant breeding phenomenon

Dryopteris 'Linearis Polydactyla' is an old English selection of Dryopteris filix-mas

the clumps are topped with 30" spikes of pink bottlebrush-like flowers

Most folks wouldn't recognize it as a butterfly bush

Crinum buphanoides SI forms Northern Africa This magnificent and heretofore impossibleCrinum buphanoides (looks like a boophone not related to a cell phone) comes from the northern regions of South Africa where it can be found growing in areas that are swampy during the summer months and dry in the winter. The large rosettes of fleshy glaucous leaves are often heavily rippled a reason to grow the plant even if it didn't flower. In summer, the huge flower spikes are adorned with up to 50 white, sweetly fragrant, star shaped flowers,