Farfugium japonicum Kinbotan Colored Foliage each petal morphing toward yellow

each petal morphing toward yellow near the tips and orange toward the central cone

Salvia koyamae is a delightful Japanese sage that forms a 2' tall x 3' wide clump in the woodland garden

This collection of the rare fern relative hails from El Tabacal in Argentina's northern province of Salta

so we are delighted when we find a particularly showy form

it has shown good winter hardiness in our trials

Farfugium japonicum Kinbotan Colored Foliage each petal morphing toward yellow(aka: Ligularia tussilaginea) 2022 marks our first offering of the rarely offered Japanese Farfugium japonicum 'Kinbotan'. This speckled leaf leopard plant forms a 20" tall x 2' wide clump that's similar to Farfugium 'Kagami Jishi', but with smaller yellow spotted leaves, which also have more sharply angular leaf ruffling. The evergreen clumps are topped with stalks of yellow daisies starting for us in late October.