Blephilia ciliata Yellow/Gold Flowering Plants Our selection was the best

Our selection was the best performing seedling from a cross by gesneriad expert John Farina

Kees Sahin

Lobelia cardinalis is an easy-to-grow

surrounded by the same blue-green border

orchid-like flowers at ground level in late summer and into fall

Blephilia ciliata Yellow/Gold Flowering Plants Our selection was the bestBlephilia ciliata is a little known clumping mint cousin, native from Vermont south to Georgia and west to Texas, where it occurs in open woods and meadows. In form, Blephilia ciliata is a woodland version of bee balm without the pesky spreading tendency. Downy wood mint forms a 1. 5' tall x 1. 5' wide clump of upright hairy stems, topped, starting for us in mid May with whorls of lavender flowers. Like its cousin, bee balm, Blephilia ciliata is a