Yushania confusa Thujopsis usually at the base of

usually at the base of the flower

After cold weather ends

The tight mats of powder-blue foliage are topped in late April with 8" tall cherry-red (RHS 66A) flowers that nearly obscure the foliage and perfume the garden with a spicy clove-like fragrance

Amorphophallus ongsakulii is an incredibly cute and very easy-to-grow plant

which well-describes a clump in flower

Yushania confusa Thujopsis usually at the base ofYushania confusa is a virtually unknown clumping bamboo, shared with us by our friend, the late garden designer Wolfgang Oehme, from a magnificent clump that grew in his Maryland garden. Yushania confusa, which hails from 3,000' 7,000' elevation in south central China, has thrived in our heat, humidity, and cold since 2004, where it has formed a splendid clump to 3' wide at the base. The 6' tall silvery grey culms arch outward to form a 9' wide