What’s one of the best ways to pay money for a plant? For me, it’s at all times going to be through a plant swap.
Typically new vegetation come to me in actually surprising methods. A fellow volunteer on the group herb backyard requested for recommendation on vegetation for dry shade, and I provided her a chunk of my Aspidistra ‘Asahi’ – a wonderful variegated aspidistra with cream tricks to the leaves. In return, she gave me a leaf from an heirloom Begonia that had been in her household for years, a stalwart plant that had been reduce many occasions to make new vegetation.
She didn’t know the species or cultivar; I used to be anticipating it to be a beefsteak Begonia possibly, or a spotty Lucerna. When it arrived, I rapidly realised after working via my psychological Begonia guidelines (all of us have a type of, proper?) that I had no concept what it was:; simply that it was a magnificence. The big leaves have been darkish olive inexperienced on the highest, maroon crimson under, and softly furry throughout, together with the stems.
