Chitalpa tashkentensis Brookgreen Gardens The heavy crop ripens through

The heavy crop ripens through late fall and winter

or simply a bed that stays moist

or thread among ferns

this is a collector's native for the sunny meadow

Perfect for a shaded rock garden

Chitalpa tashkentensis Brookgreen Gardens The heavy crop ripens throughChitalpa tashkentensis is a plant with a passport, an intergeneric hybrid that pairs the American desert willow, Chilopsis linearis, with a catalpa, and carries the frilled trumpet flowers of one parent on the willowy, drought hardy frame of the other. The name itself is a splice, Chilopsis joined to Catalpa, while tashkentensis records the birthplace, the botanical garden at Tashkent, in Uzbekistan, where the cross was raised in the 1960s. From that