Mukdenia rossii Karasuba Variegated Foliage Plants is an easy-to-grow garden perennial

is an easy-to-grow garden perennial that forms small green basal winter rosettes

was identified by DNA in 2011 as an ancient hybrid between Sabal palmetto (above ground trunk) and Sabal minor (below ground trunk)

When I first saw Iris laevigata 'Variegata' many years ago in the famed garden of Pennsylvania's Charles Cresson

the bright red

Polygonatum 'Green Hankies' is equally happy in either moist or dry soils

Mukdenia rossii Karasuba Variegated Foliage Plants is an easy-to-grow garden perennial(aka: Aceriphyllum rossii) With a name like Mukdenia, it's gotta' be good and it is. I first ran across mukdenia in 1997 while botanizing Korea's Mt. Sorak. There it was on a sheer rock cliff, resembling dozens of hands trying to claw their way up from the crypt sorry, far too many horror movies as a child. In the garden, mukdenia prefers moist, rich soil, where it forms a 2' wide deciduous clump of green foliage, topped in April and May (NC) with 2'