Hibiscus paramutabilis x syriacus 'Tosca' Open House who named the agave 'Splendida'

who named the agave 'Splendida' and is credited with the introduction

Genuinely rare and ranked as imperiled

downy pink

A graceful native onion

The flowers are the summer event: long racemose panicles

Hibiscus paramutabilis x syriacus 'Tosca' Open House who named the agave 'Splendida''Tosca' is the offspring of a rare and deliberate cross, a marriage of Hibiscus paramutabilis, the regal, large flowered species of southeastern China, with Hibiscus syriacus, the familiar Rose of Sharon of countless summer gardens. From that union comes a woody shrub that carries the best of both parents: the scale and drama of the Chinese species and the toughness and reliability of the old dooryard favorite. The flowers are the reason to grow