This has been an unusually warm January, and several site-appropriate plants are showing off in the devil garden.
Although these flowers are at ground level and only an inch across, they steal the show for me, both for their intricate strangeness and their name: Scoliopus bigelovii, aka Bigelow's foetid adder tongue.
Next up, Hamamelis 'Carmine Red,' aka carmine witch hazel. Couldn't have an evil garden without a witch. The flowers are so odd, looks as if the branches are covered with fiery red spiders.
Speaking of spiders, this is Ophiopogon japonicus, aka black mondo grass, which is scattered around the devil garden to give the feeling of large black spiders crawling underfoot. The black shiny berries are gorgeous.
This is Iris foetidissima, aka scarlet-seeded iris. This is its first year with seeds, though it was one of the first-planted devil garden plants, back in 2013. "Foetid" commonly appears in the names of my devil garden plants; luckily for me, I haven't noticed any truly bad scents.
Oh those Scoliopus bigelovii blooms are cool!
ReplyDeleteYes, I love them! They are always a January surprise, and each year there are a couple more blooms. I love plants that spread and thrive on their own (vs. the various arisaemas I've planted that are so cool, but have shrunk due to my neglect).
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