Oxalis palmifrons Amsonia on Hong Kong's Lantau Island

on Hong Kong's Lantau Island

This Walters Gardens sport of Hosta 'Blue Mouse Ears' puts a creamy yellow center in the midst of the small round blue leaf

To say the fruit from Musa sikkimensis is edible is like saying that most remote Himalayan bathrooms are comfortable

As the breeze blows

but the color quickly fades

Oxalis palmifrons Amsonia on Hong Kong's Lantau IslandIf Oxalis palmifrons isn't the cutest plant that you've ever grown, then you need to re examine your definition of cute. Oxalis palmifrons hails from the deserts of South Africa's Western Karroo. This insanely cool oxalis looks for all the world like a giant green snowflake. The slowly spreading patch of ground hugging rosettes spreads to 2' wide in 10 years. Each symmetrical rosette is composed of glaucous green, three dimensional, miniature palm