Arisaema lichiangense Brown/Tan Flowering Plants Myosotis 'Southern Blues' is a

Myosotis 'Southern Blues' is a 2001 Plant Delights/JLBG introduction that we first met in the late 1990s on a visit to the late garden writer Pam Harper's coastal Virginia garden

I'll never forget the time I saw my first Cypripedium japonicum orchid at the US National Arboretum

" It was first introduced from Japan in the late '70s (US National Arboretum #62147-D)

a great fall foliage plant

Arisaema lichiangense Brown/Tan Flowering Plants Myosotis 'Southern Blues' is aArisaema lichiangense hails from dry, open areas at 7,000 10,000' elevation in the provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan, China. Arisaema lichiangense is a rarely cultivated Jack in the pulpit species, closely related to the better known Arisaema candidissimum and Arisaema fargesii. The trifoliate (3 lobed) leaves, often with a blue green cast, emerge alongside the flower spikes in early June (NC). Atop the 6" tall flowering stalk (pseudostem) sits a pulpit