Gladiolus Old Fort North Carolina Native Plants Hosta 'Mishima Fukurin' is a

Hosta 'Mishima Fukurin' is a good grower that multiplies well

sits atop a nicely mottled 1-2' tall petiole (stalk)

The drought-tolerant

thanks to a gift from the late fern collector Nancy Swell of Virginia

Gladiolus Old Fort North Carolina Native Plants Hosta 'Mishima Fukurin' is aThe year was 2004, the highway, Interstate 40, the exit, Old Fort, NC. Though it isn't advertised, old Ford vans can go from 60 mph to 0 in just a few seconds as I can attest when I saw this long abandoned gladiolus growing by the guardrail just outside Asheville, NC. Upon closer inspection, it was not the Gladiolus dalenii often found in southern gardens, but an old garden hybrid a very winter hardy hybrid. Back in our trial gardens, Gladiolus 'Old