Polifreda Peach Flambe Mediterranean Islands that struck my fancy when

that struck my fancy when visiting the Ruth Bancroft Garden in California

We have long felt the need for an improved baptisia with large blue-purple flowers and have been breeding toward that goal since 1998

who discovered it as a seedling of Schizachyrium scoparium 'The Blues'

This superb Kurt Bluemel introduction has become our favorite miscanthus to use as a large specimen in the garden

Penstemon tenuis is also a food source for bees

Polifreda Peach Flambe Mediterranean Islands that struck my fancy whenPolifreda 'Peach Flambe' is a 2026 Plant Delights JLBG introduction of our bigeneric cross of Manfreda maculosa and the Mexican tuberose, Polianthes x bundrantii. The result is a fascinating deciduous clump former with rubbery green leaves, flushed with purple spots as they emerge. In summer, the clump is topped with 2' tall stalks of manfreda like, outward facing flowers that open a fleshy peach color, and age to a flambe like reddish orange. This is