Fatsia japonica Spiders Web Apios named after the hosta queen

named after the hosta queen herself

From Taiwan comes the amazingly hardy and very easy-to-grow Amorphophallus henryi

great for rock gardens or the front of your perennial border

But these are the exception to the rule in these normally stationary plants

The tidy-minded gardener can cut it to ground as soon as he feels a need to do so once it is done blooming

Fatsia japonica Spiders Web Apios named after the hosta queenThis Japanese selection of the popular, deep shade loving southern landscape shrub, Fatsia japonica, is prized by the few folks who have had the rare opportunity to own one. The shiny green palmate leaves, like a super sized schefflera, are each bordered with a heavy white speckling that often finds its way into the center of the leaf. Fatsia 'Spider's Web' was named by Japanese variegated plant experts, the late Dr. Yokoi and Mr. Hirose, as a