Gardens Illustrated Magazine

Gesneriads

Exciting houseplant deliveries don’t always come in large boxes; I am equally thrilled by padded envelopes containing clear plastic bags. That’s how my collection of started, in the form of several small, scaly rhizomes sent through the post. These rhizomes may alarm the uninitiated due to their resemblance to the kind of grub you might find nestled under a rotting log, but they

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