Gladiolus Old Fort North Carolina Native Plants sits atop a nicely mottled

sits atop a nicely mottled 1-2' tall petiole (stalk)

The top conversation piece in our garden

Trillium foetidissimum is just as hardy in Minnesota

Hosta 'Mishima Fukurin' is a good grower that multiplies well

thick evergreen leaves are dark green and patterned with a large silver streak on each half of the leaf

Gladiolus Old Fort North Carolina Native Plants sits atop a nicely mottledThe year was 2004, the highway, Interstate 40, the exit, Old Fort, NC. Though it isn't advertised, old Ford vans can go from 60 mph to 0 in just a few seconds as I can attest when I saw this long abandoned gladiolus growing by the guardrail just outside Asheville, NC. Upon closer inspection, it was not the Gladiolus dalenii often found in southern gardens, but an old garden hybrid a very winter hardy hybrid. Back in our trial gardens, Gladiolus 'Old