Sinningia tubiflora Taxus This small hosta from Ran

This small hosta from Ran Lydell

This bizarre aster looks like a clump of arching green pipe cleaners

thanks to plantsman Frank Galloway

allowing us to make it available

Although the leaves emerge chartreuse green

Sinningia tubiflora Taxus This small hosta from Ran(aka: Sinningia longituba) One of the real joys of gardening is finding a plant that you think can't be hardy and then discovering that it becomes an easy to grow staple in your garden. Such is the case with the hardy gloxinia, Sinningia tubiflora. Forming large underground tubers, Sinningia tubiflora not only lives, but spreads nicely in our rock garden. All summer long, the green, felty leaf clumps are topped with 20" tall spikes of 6" long, very