Aspidistra sichuanensis Rawhide Ruellia so you'll want to protect

so you'll want to protect your plant from pesky neighbors with shovels

Hosta 'Bright Lights' is topped with nice short stalks of white hummingbird-friendly flowers in early summer

or cut to the ground

is topped with 1' spikes of dramatic

Erythrina herbacea

Aspidistra sichuanensis Rawhide Ruellia so you'll want to protectAspidistra 'Rawhide' is one of the most amazing cast iron plants we've ever grown. Plantsman Ted Stephens of Nurseries Caroliniana brought this unusual selection of the Chinese Aspidistra sichuanensis from the garden of the late variegated plant collector author, Dr. Yokoi of Japan. The leaves have the thickness of hard plastic you'll swear it's fake. This is most likely due to a ploidy mutation probably a tetraploid. The 20" tall stalks include 10"