Bagging the big five; was RE: Gladiolus tristis
Jim McKenney (Thu, 21 May 2009 06:32:56 PDT)

Rogan, I like your choices – those are plants most of us would be proud to
flower. Tecophilaea has flowered here, my Worsleya have years to go before
blooming, my Tropaeolum azureum is balky; I’m not currently growing
Lapageria, but I’m sorely tempted to try again using my protected cold
frame.

But that’s only four: you only listed four, not five.

That gives me the inspiration to ask the rest of you to jump in and name a
fifth to complete this quintuple crown of horticulture.

For me, a suitable fifth would be Paramongaea weberbaueri or one of the
forms of Iris persica or some of the fabulous oncocyclus irises or … there
are too many candidates!

How about the rest of you? For that matter, why not give some other lists of
five trophy plants?

Jim McKenney
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Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, 39.03871º North, 77.09829º West, USDA zone
7, where the darkest peony I've ever seen, Hot Chocolate, is about to bloom
beside the yellow-flowered interdivisional hybrid 'Garden Treasure'.

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