Hemiboea flaccida Velvet Touch Woody Lilies Bumblebees are the main pollinator

Bumblebees are the main pollinator for peonies

juvenile-foliage form of our native white cedar discovered in 1971 by HJ Welch at Tennessee Valley Nursery

The 3' tall stalks are adorned with up to eight downward-facing flowers

This is truly an amazing plant for the woodland garden

Hemiboea flaccida Velvet Touch Woody Lilies Bumblebees are the main pollinatorWe received this lovely hardy gesneriad in 2004 as Hemiboea cavaleri, but after growing it for a few years, we keyed it out instead to the rare, Hemiboea flaccida. This African violet relative hails from up to 4,500' elevation in the alkaline forests of western Guangxi and southern Guizhou, China, where it grows among the rocks. Our nine year old plant of Hemiboea flaccida has made a slowly expanding patch to 18" wide. The luscious, felty green