Hepatica acutiloba Monroe Shocks Musella The 1' tall clumps of

The 1' tall clumps of bold evergreen foliage are topped in mid-spring with sprays of nice 1" wide

while Calanthe kawakamii adds floral stalk height

like a middle-finger salute

either in a trough garden or a special spot in the woodland

especially the variegated forms

Hepatica acutiloba Monroe Shocks Musella The 1' tall clumps ofWhen we collected a division of this Hepatica acutiloba in Alabama's Monroe County in 2011, we had no idea what we'd just found. After growing it in our garden for several years, we were shocked to notice that it not only thrived in our summer heat and humidity, but it also never went summer or fall dormant like almost all of our other hepatica collections. In fact, when it flowered in spring, the year old leaves still looked great. Hepatica acutiloba