Speirantha gardenii Light Shade 7' wide Hosta fluctuans-like clump

7' wide Hosta fluctuans-like clump

The extremely fragrant flowers make the night garden a wonderful place for a moonlight stroll

lindheimeri A3T-028) During a weekend at Boerne (pronounced "Bernie")

Visitors at our Fall Open House have been asking about this for years

Speirantha gardenii Light Shade 7' wide Hosta fluctuans-like clump(aka: Speirantha convallarioides) Speirantha gardenii is a monotypic (all alone in its genus), closely related to the better known genera of rohdea, reineckia, and convallaria. In the wild Speirantha grows on hilly broadleaf forests up to 3,000' elevation in the Chinese provinces of Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang. In the garden, our 10 year old clump has reached 3' in diameter. The evergreen 10" leaves radiate from a thick, slowly spreading