Then I realized that I'd already done a post about this cool plant here last October.
So instead here a couple of other cool plants that are also favorites this week. First up is Ficus afghanistanica grown by Xera Plants. I found it at Jungle Fever Exotics Nursery, one of Tacoma's best places to find unusual plants. According to the tag, It's hardy to zone 7, drought tolerant, and deciduous.
Probably not the best fig leaf for making dolmas or covering biblical characters' naughty bits but it sure is lovely. Besides I have huge fig leaves growing in another part of the place should Greek cuisine or nudity become an issue.
Second is Trevesia palmata which looks very similar to Trevesia palmata 'Micholitzii' (from Dragonfly Farms two or three years ago) the former has golden brown indumentum on the emerging leaves while T.p. 'Micholitzii' has silvery gray making the emerging and young leaves more closely resemble snowflakes. Leaves on this puppy are about a foot and a half wide. This one is a newbie this year, found at Valley Nursery in Poulsbo. The leaves should become much more deeply incised as the plant gets even larger.
Anyway, one can never have too many Trevesias palmata in his/her collection because carrying tropical plants in huge pots up and down several flights of stairs a couple of times a year allows for the use of much colorful vocabulary reserved just for such special occasions as tripping mid flight of stairs and falling on an agave or watching an accidentally dropped pot of something precious hurl down the staircase spewing potting soil all over the rug. Not that I know anything about this sort of thing mind you.
If you'd like to see this week's favorite plants of people who can make up their minds, click on over to Danger Garden whose author and really wonderful person, Loree, hosts the Favorite Plant meme.
