Sabal tamaulipensis San Carlos Caribbean wait until you grow Hosta

wait until you grow Hosta 'Touch of Class'

that arrived as an unknown species

This selection of thujopsis from northern Japan is much more tolerant of heat and sun than the typical species

'Hortensis' is one of those plants that is indispensable not because it is a showstopper but because it is in bloom most months of the frost free growing season (mid spring through summer into mid fall here in zone 7 NC)

so we introduced it as a named seed strain in 2007

Sabal tamaulipensis San Carlos Caribbean wait until you grow HostaSabal sp. Tamaulipas 'San Carlos' is our first offering of a disjunct population of the still unnamed Sabal sp. nov. Tamaulipas, from Villa Mainero, which is nearly 80 miles north of the original location of Sabal sp. Tamaulipas. We think this is probably the first commercial offering of plants from this population, which we grew from seed from our garden specimen, which was seed grown from a Bobby Ward John Fairy John Ignacio expedition to the San