Shade Gardening: my leopard spot plant, 1 by doss

doss wrote:
It's confusing about farfugium and ligularia. Until recently they were all ligularia. Farfugiums are less cold tolerant than the ligularia. Looks like zone 6b for the Aureomaculata. They are often grown as house plants.

http://www.plantdelights.com/Catalog/Current/page40.html

The farfugium aren't bog plants like the ligularias are either. I have both and I really love them. The aureomaculata grows in pretty dark shade for me under some redwood trees. I have some crispatum too and that is a really cool plant. People are fascinated - looks like gray felt that is crinkled on the edges.

My favoite ligularia is Marie Britt-Crawford.

This photo is two years old - they are much larger now. I'd better get my camera back out there!